Preparing for your Certification Exam
It is a good idea to take the Motion course to help you prepare for the exam. Use the book provided to you in class. You will want to be very conscientious about doing all the exercises and working through the question and answer section at the end of each chapter. Below, you will find flash cards to help you study the questions at the end of each chapter.
You are required to have an Apple Tech ID number before registering for any Apple exam. You can apply for a Tech ID by following the instructions at certifications.apple.com.
Certification Test Sections
- 3D
- Behaviors/Filters
- Groups, Layers & Keyframes/Retiming
- Interface/Importing
- Particle/Replicator Systems
- Text
Test Preparation Flash Cards
To use these cards effectively, you should also look up the how and why related to each question. Don’t just know the answer to the question; but also know about the tool, how the interface looks and works, why you would do such a thing, how you would go about accomplishing the task, and anything else relating to the how and why.
Virtual Cards
I created the flash cards in iFlash. You may download these Motion 3 Flash cards, but they must be used with the iFlash software. Be sure to control-click or right click so you can download the files. They may download and save as something other than .card You will want to change the file extension to .card
Printable Cards
Below are PDF files of flash cards. These flash cards contain the questions and answers at the end of each chapter. Both the front and back of each card is printed on one side of each paper. For best results, fold the paper in half along the solid line, use glue to merge the paper together, then cut along the dashed lines to make individual flash cards.
- Motion 3 Chapter 1 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 2 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 3 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 4 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 5 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 6 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 7 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 8 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 9 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 10 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 11 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 12 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 13 Study Cards
- Motion 3 Chapter 14 Study Cards
Note: I worked hard on preparing these flash cards. Please do not post these files on your own web site, email the files, or share the files somehow. Please send your students and others to this blog post (http://www.edtechblog.org/?p=603); I would like as many people visiting my blog so they can benefit from my other posts and so I can get more traffic. 
4 Comments
Thanks for posting these flash card pdfs!
I took my certification test tonight and passed! I’m now a Apple Motion Certified pro!
For those looking to take/retake the test: the book is good, but you’re not tested on much processes. It’s more interface/shortcut based. Be able to recognize the keyframe interpolation types, EVERYTHING about the 3D Camera navigation (local view vs. global view), and all the slang Apple uses. Frankly, you should read the Motion software manual. It’s clearer than the book on a lot of points. All the same, Do the book, and then play with the software. That’s your only hope. One time through the book won’t do it. (So those paying $1500 for a class then test…. wait a week or two for the test and save the $150 retest fee. Or just do the book and save on the class. They are teaching off the book! You can do it yourself if you’re very patient and don’t skip any chapters or steps…)
Again, Thanks for the flash cards! They helped me hone in on areas I didn’t know, which in turn helped me out on the test (though it’s a 50 question test, with 3-4 multiple “right” answers…. Know what a sparkler is… Behavior or filter?)
Anthony,
Congratulations! I am so glad I was able to help in a small way.
Laura
Very helpful. Suggestion: list the name of the chapter headings above the cards, so one can keep track. That would be especially useful, if you’re reviewing the card groups out of sequence.
Sorry, but you will not learn as well if your cards are not mixed up while you study. This is important so you are not dependent on subject headings to act as cues. If you need cues while you study, then you will need cues while you test. But you cannot have those cues with you while you take the test.