How best to become an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign 5.5?

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Several versions back I studied for and was one point short of becoming an ACE in InDesign. For many reasons I did not retest. I studied with flash cards I purchased somewhere on the Internet.
Don't really want to read the book; I don't learn well that way. Could go through Help or each menu feature, but I know there's more to the test questions than that.
Does anyone know of flash cards available? Any tips to doing well on the test?
Suzan

Steve Werner wrote:
I've never heard of flash cards, but there's a good eBook available from InDesign Secrets:
http://indesignsecrets.com/guide-to-the-indesign-cs5-ace-exam-ebook-av ailable.php
I second this book! I took my CS5 test last year and this book was a great help. I also had CS5 'Classroom in a Book' but didn't find it as effective. I am more of a visual learner and found that giving myself projects helped a lot. It also helped that I was working full-time in the software at the time so was able to try various techniques and 'push buttons' to see what happened.
Practice exams can be helpful as well: http://www.acequestions.com/ , but keep in mind, these are practice and the questions asked are very different, although centered around the same topic.
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