Programmer

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Highlight your programming skills to employers

Demonstrate core skills and competencies across programming, UI, debugging and asset management to help you obtain your first professional programming role with Unity.

Prerequisites

2-3 semesters of post-secondary Unity classwork or equivalent independent study
Experience with a diverse range of Unity projects
Importing assets or code, including from the Unity Asset Store or Unity Package Manager, and addressing conflicts that arise as a result
Performing debugging of non-complex problems

Interpreting pre-existing, well-documented code
Integrating and modifying pre-existing well-documented code
Building basic scene management, including loading scenes
Creating, editing, and using Prefabs
Deploying a basic build

Exam details

The exam is based on Unity 2019 LTS.

This exam is available in the following languages:

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What’s on the exam?

Download the full list of what’s covered on the exam for “Unity Certified Associate: Programmer” here. You can expect to see questions covering these tasks:

Unity Programming

Evaluate code for integration into an existing system created/architected by a lead
Make decisions required to prototype new concepts
Determine code that would accomplish a specified interaction or programming logic
Decide how to implement scene management and transitions
Apply basic data persistence within a runtime session
Given a situation, determine proper usage and application of the Unity API
Decide the appropriate properties, scripts, and components of GameObjects for required tasks
Apply concepts required to write code with basic inheritance and interfaces
Choose the appropriate data structures for a specific situation
Choose the appropriate data types for a specific situation
Identify the steps required to deploy a basic build

UI

Apply concepts required to lay out a user interface
Identify the process required to bind data on the UI to application data
Decide how to capture and respond to UI input using the Event System
Decide how to create the menu flow in an application state

Debugging

Troubleshoot code that fails to perform as expected
Troubleshoot common compilation bugs
Troubleshoot runtime exceptions
Determine techniques required to refactor and improve code
Determine techniques required to profile and debug trivial performance issues

Asset Management

Identify the process required to create a prefab from art and code
Identify properties of nested prefabs and prefab variants
Identify the primary purposes of version control when working with Unity

Learn and practice

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Practice

Prepare for your exam with an official practice test to help you understand the types of questions you’ll encounter and increase your confidence on test day. The practice test explains the rationale and thought process needed to arrive at the correct answer, and includes links to Unity documentation for additional preparation and targeted study.

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