Becoming an Adobe Certified Expert

[Jarrod]

Hello all,

Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but I can't seem to find any information about becoming an Adobe Certified Expert. I someday aspire to be one in all things CS, but I'm not there yet. I was hoping there were some resources I could review that would put me on the right path to becoming one. I'm also curious to know the costs associated with becoming one including testing fees, etc.

Your help is appreciated!

[Scott Weichert]

Hi Jarrod,

Here's the info at Adobe.

http://www.adobe.com/support/certification/ace.html

If you have specific questions, I'd be happy to answer what I can.

[Phats57]

Scott, I know this may be a silly question, but how difficult are the tests? Is this basically something you should be able to prepare for easily with the online study guides you can purchase from Adobe? Is this the route you went through to prepaire yourself? I wonder what the standard is for how many times the average person takes the test before passing, hopefully it's one if you are prepaired. Is the information covered in the tests more on the mechanics of the programs or the application of the functions? Sorry to bombard you with questions, but I have started to look into this and it looks like a pretty good feauture for the resume when I finish school here in the next few months. :cool:

[Scott Weichert]

Hi Phats57,

The tests aren't really that difficult, provided you know the application. The test doesn't cover EVERY aspect of Illustrator. The questions rotate and you, most likely, will not be asked the same questions I was. In general, you either know the answer or you don't. The questions, in general, were along the lines of.. "If you wanted to do this... would you.." or "if you needed to output this... which of these would you use ..."

The difficult part of the test is actually reading the questions. They are not worded in a clear and concise manner. You should read each and every question very carefully before answering. The exam preps will show you this clearly. You think the answer is one thing, but after re-reading the question you realize it's something else. Then you read it two more times and you're uncertain what the answer it. It's very easy to over or under think them.

I've been an Illustrator user for quite some time. I'm sure that helped me with the testing, but I did get a Classroom in a Book to leaf through. I didn't find the CIB a great deal of help. It covers the tools and features. If you don't know the application well then the CIB would be a must-have. I found the exam aid at www.examaids.com more helpful because it prepared me for how the questions were asked. I knew the answers, just needed to figure out how the special language of the questions.

You're allotted an hour and a half for the test. Use it. Take your time.

I don't think there's any statistics, at least publicly, about how many attempts the average user makes before passing. I was lucky enough to pass on my first attempt.

[Phats57]

Thanks for the info and the site reference. I will be sure to check it out more in depth soon. By the way, I like the Werewolf pic you did. I saw that on the Random gallery before and really liked it. I checked out your website too. You have some cool things on there.
:D

[Jarrod]

Good advice Scott. Thanks for the information!


Hi Phats57,

The tests aren't really that difficult, provided you know the application. The test doesn't cover EVERY aspect of Illustrator. The questions rotate and you, most likely, will not be asked the same questions I was. In general, you either know the answer or you don't. The questions, in general, were along the lines of.. "If you wanted to do this... would you.." or "if you needed to output this... which of these would you use ..."

The difficult part of the test is actually reading the questions. They are not worded in a clear and concise manner. You should read each and every question very carefully before answering. The exam preps will show you this clearly. You think the answer is one thing, but after re-reading the question you realize it's something else. Then you read it two more times and you're uncertain what the answer it. It's very easy to over or under think them.

I've been an Illustrator user for quite some time. I'm sure that helped me with the testing, but I did get a Classroom in a Book to leaf through. I didn't find the CIB a great deal of help. It covers the tools and features. If you don't know the application well then the CIB would be a must-have. I found the exam aid at www.examaids.com more helpful because it prepared me for how the questions were asked. I knew the answers, just needed to figure out how the special language of the questions.

You're allotted an hour and a half for the test. Use it. Take your time.

I don't think there's any statistics, at least publicly, about how many attempts the average user makes before passing. I was lucky enough to pass on my first attempt.

[Scott Weichert]

Thanks Phats ;)

[prophet]

I have my photoshop cs and cs2 ace but i havnt been able to pass illustrator..

there is overviews on the adobe website.