Argus Certification

Hi all,

Working on getting an ARGUS Enterprise certification at the moment. Currently taking a 2 day training course with an ARGUS representative. Working for roughly 6-7 hours per day.

Was wondering how hard the AE exam is. Has anyone taken this? I feel like after working nonstop for 2 days, I could have a pretty good shot at passing. Any info would be helpful.

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It's pretty easy if you were doing ight during the practice stuff. Just gotta be able to google, ha 

 

A bunch of multiple choice and then a case study. The case will include debt financing, tenant specific reimbursement structures, other basic stuff. Pretty easy honestly

 

Got mine this summer, if you can get through the practice cases in the manual the case study should be a piece of cake. Likely will be a mixed use asset with pretty basic debt. Double check your expenses (grouping, recovery amounts, etc), those are probably the easiest to trip up on.

Multiple choice isn’t bad, knock out the practice MC test in the book and you’ll be good to go

 

Pretty difficult test imo. Class was super easy and the case study’s weren’t too bad, but time crunch on the exam is rough and some of the multiple choice was really odd. I’d recommend doing case study’s until you don’t get anything wrong on them and going through multiple choice. Recommend using 2 screens for the exam and I started with the case study first and did the multiple choice after.

 

who paid for your certifications? Company, school, personally? curious, don't have mine and wondering if its worth receiving just for resume or future opportunities.

 
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No it is not worth it, most of what they teach in the cert isn’t how AE is actually used in the real world on the development & PE side. The only way I could see it being worth something is just to have the Argus “brand” on your resume. But personally, as an interviewer reviewing someone’s resume who had just the cert and no professional experience, I would not assume that the candidate has a strong working knowledge level of Argus. Others might feel differently but I feel like that’s the consensus I’ve heard from other folks as well.

If it’s free through your school or work, then yes no reason to not do it… more so referring to if you’re paying out of pocket.

 

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