The official Vue.js certification is a great way to prove your competency with Vue.js to potential employers, your current managers, and even yourself. But what does it take to become officially “officially certified”.

What should you know? What resources are available to help you prepare?

The Vue.js Certification Official Prep Guide

Once you create a free account there is an official prep guide to help you understand what topics will be covered on the exam. It is a list of covered topics along with links to learn more about said topics from official documentation. For example, here are a couple of topics listed in the official prep guide:

• Creating a Vue Application
  Know your different options for creating a Vue.js application and how to initialize the app.
  • Vue SPA’s
  • From a CDN
  • The Application Instance
• Reactivity Fundamentals
  Know how to declare reactive and computed data in both the Options API and the Composition API. (Make sure to use the API Preference Toggle in the docs to see content for both APIs). Also know how the Options API differs from the Composition API, and why you might choose one over the other.
  • Declaring Reactive State
  • Reactive Function
  • Composition API FAQ
  • Computed Props

Self-Guided Training

On top of the prep guide, you can also purchase a bundle with the self-guided training included. Much like the prep guide, the self-guided training includes topics and links but it also levels up your study process with:

• multiple choice pop-quizzes
• and hands on coding challenges

This training is totally self-paced so you can do it as slowly or as quickly as you’d like. Also, the quizzes and challenges are included in order along with the topics that you study up on so that you can immediately put what you just learned into practiced.

Practice Pop Quizzes

Multiple choice questions are answered directly in the browser much like they would be during the actual exam and you get immediate feedback on whether you got the question right or wrong (unlike during the exam).

Practice Coding Challenges

Unlike during the real exam, coding challenges in the self-guided training are downloadable and meant to be completed locally in your IDE of choice. They also include a download of the solution code so that you can check your own code against that of the experts (no worries if your’s is a little bit different! The point is that you can effectively use Vue and achieve the desired outcome of the requirements, even if you take a different but just as valid approach).

Trial Exam

Also available at the end of the self-guided training is an abbreviated trial exam. It is much shorter than the real exam (only 10 multiple choice questions and 1 coding challenge) but it happens completely in the platform. This enables you to get a feel for what the exam platform is like. For example, it helps you get a feel for the embedded code editor, how to reference code challenge instructions during the challenge, and how to reference the Vue docs during the coding challenge.

Live Virtual Bootcamp

Finally, if you’d like live expert help you can also sign-up for the official certification bootcamp. This bootcamp happens once a quarter and is a virtual 3 day long presentation of all the topics on the exam, along with hands on challenges to help you practice the topics.

The bootcamp consists of about 16 different sections all of which include:

• A presentation from a Vue.js expert teaching an exam topic
• A Question and Answer time with the Vue.js expert
• A hands on coding exercise to practice the topic taught during the section
• And a live presentation of the exercise solution by the expert

Conclusion

There are plenty of ways to prepare for the official Vue.js Certification exam. Head on over to the exam website today to pickup the material you think will help you most!