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 

What’s on the exam?

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