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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:
- English
- Chinese - Simplified & Traditional
- Japanese
- Korean
- Spanish - Latin America
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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