I am considering trying the Accessdata Ace Certification process. I was wondering if anyone has completed it and if so could provide some tips on how / what to study to pass the KBA and PSA portions.
Thank you
Do you have any other certifications? Is this going to be your examination software of choice that you will be submitting reports from? Are you paying for the training out of pocket or is an employer compensating? I do not mean to Tommy Gun questions, just what is the reason you would consider that product certification?
we currently use FTK and that is all we having funding to purchase. I currently have no other certifications and from reading the Accessdata website ACE certification is now free of charge. So that is why I'm considering trying to get certified. The training I've gotten so far is Accessdata's bootcamp, NW3C's basic and intermediate data recovery. So I was wondering if that is enough to give the certification a shot.
ACE used to require (or at least highly recommend) the BootCamp and Windows Forensics classes, I do not see that requirement any longer.
Are you pretty comfortable working with FTK? If not there are a couple of 1 day online ACE prep classes coming up on 7/1 and 10/2.
Just remember - NOTHING is really free. They will certify you now, but you have to take THEIR classes later to keep your cert.
thanks for all of the replies. I agree that nothing is really free and Accessdata will probably require classes to stay certified, but I'm willing to take the risk to at least say that I was certified, but could maintain it based on cost. In regards to how well I know the program, I hope I'm doing well. I've processed several cases, and watched all of the webinars and on most of the cases, I've found evidence items that I was looking for.
I am very curious as well. Let me ask Rayp's question again is anyone ACE certified and does anyone have any tips on training?
Beside BitHead ty for the information.
Donven,
I took the ACE test last night and passed it with a score of 91%. Some people I talked to thought it was hard. I thought it was fairly easy. I went to Access Data's web site watched their ACE webinars and downloaded the ACE Prep questions. I answered all the questions and then took my chances on the test. The test is 37 questions. 30 of them deal with Access Data products, so if you know the products or have them available when you take the test the questions are not that hard. The last 7 questions are practical based off the image you download. Those questions are really straight forward. The first time you certify it is valid for 1 year. In order to re-cert you need to take two Access data classes. I hope this helps you.
Ray
ACE
Sounds like they made the testing much easier. When I took it, you had two exams, a KBA and a practical. I guess too many people were failing.
I don't think you have the re-cert process correct…from the AccessData website, the re-cert requirements are 1 class and a practical exam.
Greetings,
Here is my cynical take on Access Data's reason for making it simpler to get the certification - they can now say something like "There are far more ACE certified examiners than EnCE/CCE/<whatever>." or something similar.
It is a marketing ploy.
-David