Dreams of becoming an ACE

[amul]

I took the Adobe Certified Expert Exam in September and failed by 2 questions (72%, passing was 75%). By my own calculation, I should have had an 80%, meaning that 10% of the questions were not only incorrect, but I incorrectly thought my answers were right.

When I took the test, I instantly learned the answers to 3 questions which I knew I'd missed, but I've forgotten what 1 of those questions was, and wasn't smart enough to blog about it. Incidentally, the 2 answers I missed: The location of the menu used to re-assign hot keys to menu items, and the location of the preference to save the history states of the file in progress (I didn't even know you could save those).

I have, of course, memorized those two answers, which would put me right at the pass/fail mark, but I'd like a better margin of error than that.

I have found the following website which has the cheapest study aid which I think will be effective for me:
http://www.examaids.com/

Now the question is: should I buy with the CS2 version of this study aid, or should I go for the CS3 (the latest) version of the study aid, and start working with the latest version of Photoshop and the Creative Suite?

Comments

[misteropinion.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, at work pretty much everyone is switching over to CS3.

[amul.livejournal.com]

True, and I'm strongly tempted to buy the CS3 examaid product because it'll help me get up to speed on CS3 super-fast.

Also, I just discovered that I can buy the Adobe CS Master Suite for $525 with my student ID until March 15th. The only drawback is that I'll have to buy the Master Suite upgrades from then on, rather than just the Design Premium upgrade bundles, and that price differential will add up over the coming years -- particularly since I only want the Master Suite so that I can play around with all the other software, even though I rarely use them.