Adobe illustrator ACE exam

Question

Hello I need your help.
I am Italian and I do not understand some of the test questions ACE.
I tried the demo examaids, I would like to have answers to the following questions:
1 -  is essential demo examaids?
2 - is the question of the demo Examaids the same as the question of the original text Adobe ACE?
this question for me is very important!
3 - have you tried to use the test?
thanks

Answer 1

1. No. The Examaids are good for getting accustomed to how questions are asked.
First of all, I am from Examaids, so make what you will of my replies. They are as unbiased as I can make them.
I agree with Scott that our exam aids are good for getting accustomed to how questions are asked.
But examaids are not good study materials for actual test content.
I don't agree with this statement. The study material is based on the topics Adobe themselves recommend for study. It has been carefully crafted. We have many testimonials from users (all unsolicitated) who have used our exam aids over the years to prepare for the official corresponding exam. See http://www.examaids.com/pages/Testimonials.html
To prepare for the actual test, the Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book is
a better study source because the ACE test will cover anything and
everything contained in the Classroom in a Book. If a topic is not in
the Classroom in a Book, it will not be on the ACE test.
The CIAB series is designed to help you to learn to use the corresponding application. While they do cover, more or less, the same basic ground, they are NOT specifially written to help you prepare for the exam. The exam aids, on the other hand, are written with just the intention of helping you prepare and, hence, are NOT good for learning to use the application.
The topics we cover will be in the actual test because, as stated previously, we base the questions on the topics recommended by Adobe in their Prep Guides.
However, our questions will NOT be in the actual exam (though the odd one will be because we cover the same ground) but that is NOT intentional and we state this on our website and in the documentation that accompanies each exam aid.
2. No. Examaids questions are merely sample questions. They are never
the same questions that will be on the test.
They can never be the same questions if people wishing to study stopped and thought about it for a second or two (or read the product descrptions on our website). It's sheer wishful thinking, I have to say.
Examaids is not an Adobe
company. It's a thrid party company that has no direct knowledge of the
actual test that is given by Adobe.
That's not quite true. While Examaids is not associated in any way with Adobe, we do have some direct knowledge of the actual test. However, each person who sits the exam has to sign an agreement that they will NOT disclose the content.
So, though we have direct knowledge of the actual test, we cannot reproduce the content. There is nothing in the agreement that prevents us writing "original" questions to test the very same areas of the application that Adobe themselves will test (for example, working with Illustrator documents, drawing and transforming, etc, etc, and so forth).
We test and then show you where you went wrong (assuming you answered question incorrectly) or underline your knowledge (assuming you answered correctly) and then provide explanations or steps on how to use a command, tool, or feature and also point you to relevant pages in the application's Help file.
CIAB teach you how to do X, Y, Z and then test you to see how much you absorbed (this technique is used by many books and not just the CIAB series). It's a different technique altogether. That is NOT to say CIAB will not help to prepare you.
Which study method is suitable depends entirely on the individual, their grasp of the application (I know people who have used an Adobe application for 10 years, failed, used our exam aid and then passed) approach to self study, ability to recall (not the same as using an application on a daily basis), absorb new knowledge, shed habits, fill the holes in their knowledge, etc, etc, and so forth.
By the same token that we cannot use actual questions from the test, neither can the CIAB series. That would undermine the actual test and make the certification worthless.