Welcome to section 1 Introduction lecture where I'm gonna describe what you'll get in this course and
why you'd want it.
But first off just a few things about me.
My name is Dave Valentine.
I'm a Yuma instructor and I have more than 21 years of experience in I.T. working for some of the largest
computer companies in the world.
I hold a Bachelor of computer science and graduated with distinction and have several different industry
certifications.
I currently work for the province of Manitoba in Canada where I'm part of the digital transformation
team and work to bring innovative technologies and techniques to the provincial government.
I'm immensely passionate about enabling everyday people to be successful in leveraging exciting new
technologies and frankly I love teaching.
In fact I've been a Udemy instructor since November of 2016 and what's been really remarkable about
that is just the amount of global reach that I've enjoyed at this point.
My courses have reached more than fifty five thousand students in a hundred and sixty seven different
countries now.
Enough about that.
What about what this course has.
Well first off there's over 30 lectures and five hours worth of content.
You'll get access to two practice exams that contain hundreds of questions in them.
A resource kit contains eight reference documents totaling 19 pages and all the source code that's created
in this course you'll be able to follow along solving to practice practical exams.
And finally I share all of my tips and tricks and even my mistakes to help you along your certification
journey.
Now what's not included.
Well first off table stakes.
I'm expecting that you've completed successfully and fully understand the prerequisite courses Level
1 foundation training level to orchestrate a train well with three advanced training and those courses
are freely available in UI pass Academy.
So I'm looking for you to have mastery of those or whatever their current equivalents are.
Another thing that isn't included well as any costs or fees with the UI pass certification platform
right now as I'm publishing this.
The UI path exam is still free but that may have changed and I'm not on the hook for that.
You are.
And finally also test taking.
You had to pass and test.
You have to take and pass the exam for yourself.
And while I can't guarantee you a result I can promise you that your chances of successfully passing
are substantially improved if you successfully work through this course.
Now importantly you will get a Udemy certificate for this course.
But this is of course to help prepare you for the UI path Academy the advanced developer certification
and not the UI path certification exam itself.
And within that in mind you're not going to find exam or question dumps in this course.
This is really about helping you develop your mastery so that at the end of the day you can demonstrate
not only in the certification exam but in your ability to create effective robots for employers that
are looking for that exam.
Certification is a signal to say yes you can do these things in UI path.
Now how is that.
Over 30 lecturers structured well there's a total of five sections and first off there's the introduction
section where I describe well this lecture what would you get in the course and why would you want it.
Also describe why you would want to get certified and go through a certification overview which is what
certification involves at a high level and we sign up for the certification platform together.
In the second section we prepare for part one of the certification exam which is the online quiz portion
and I get into what to expect in terms of the kind of questions being asked how long you have to answer
them.
The exam is open book or not.
How you can become a question generating machine.
My thoughts about my real world experience and finally the two practice exams that have hundreds of
questions that highlight areas that you should focus on your studying before you take the exam yourself
in the third section will began preparing for part to the practical exam and we're gonna discuss what
to expect in terms of common project themes common activity themes how you can become a sample exam
generating machine yourself.
My seven step preparation plan as well as the resources package and how to access it.
And then after that we're going to go through a practice practical exam no one where I work through
and solve a practice exam using the ref framework and then practice exams sample number two and I broke
it down.
There's two major themes so we do one of each theme and finally there's a bonus section which I don't
really talk about in terms of its own section but that's an area where I might put additional videos
over the life of the course or make special offers about other courses that you might be interested
so be sure to check out the bonus section if there's one at the time that you complete the course.
Now quickly just about a few different things about parts of this exam.
There are two practice exams and those happen to be timed but you can take as much time as you need
and the duration is based on the real exam which is 2 minutes per question so that's a substantial time
period.
But guess what.
You can posit and resume it whenever you want which is unlike the actual exam itself.
So this is really about your ability to practice it.
Now there is a sample exams and there's multiple select multiple choice as I just mentioned.
You can posit and return to it at any time and at the end you'll receive a personal breakdown by knowledge
area so you know exactly what to hone in on and what you need to review.
You can take it and retake it as often as you like and it's included in this course and it's completely
free.
So this is about your ability to develop and test your mastery and knowing that you're in a position
to then take that exam.
Also included is the resources kit which has several different documents in it but you've got the advanced
grading advanced certification grading scheme.
My study notes in regards the notes on scenarios from the UI path level three advanced course additional
notes on the robotic enterprise framework you end up with the UI path strings Cheat Sheet miscellaneous.
Best Coast code practices and cheat sheet a certification checklist which is used to verify.
Have you checked everything before you submitted to the certification platform.
And my notes on each of the sample exams that we end up going through on in this course.
Now in regards to that there's a hands on lectures for all those sample exams but my intent here is
for you to be an active participant.
Pause the course work through those.
Then follow along with me if you should get stuck.
Finally I also mentioned with that that there are times that I make a slip up in those practice practical
exams.
I might make a coding error or something along those lines but I've decided to deliberately leave those
in because you can edit making those mistakes yourself and you should be able to notice diagnose and
remediate those problems as well.
So I've deliberately decided to leave those in for you as part of the warning experience because at
the end of the day success really is a journey and a key part of this exam or the sorry key part of
the course and the way that I'm delivering it to you is that it's my intent not just to give you the
fish as the old adage says but to demonstrate how to go about fishing.
So that's the way that this exam is built.
Even if the course updates over time you can use the ways that I prepared and the methodology that I
developed in order to adapt and be successful in the court in the course now finally with all of that
being said let's begin.
I'll see you in the next lecture.