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In the image below, you are attempting to use the Join tool to remove the overlapping portions of two paths (highlighted in yellow), but nothing seems to be happening. Why is this?

One of the paths is selected but the Join tool works only with unselected paths.

Endpoints need to be selected in both paths before they can be trimmed and joined.

Only one of the paths is selected, but both need to be selected.

The paths do not have a fill attribute.

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You need to change the fill color of all the info circles in the map. The circles were not created from a symbol. Other than Global Edit, which command would help you accomplish this task efficiently?

Recolor Artwork

Live Paint

Select > Same > Appearance

Edit Colors

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What is the meaning of the three dots on the cloud icon in the image below?

Not all the fonts in the Alana family are activated.

The Alana fonts are currently being activated.

The Alana fonts are deactivated.

The Alana fonts are for web-only use.

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What would you do to the left anchor point to make the object symmetrical?

Convert it to a corner point.

Cut the path at the anchor point.

Convert it to a smooth point.

Remove it.

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You have a full-color RGB document and you need to create a grayscale version that will print only on the black plate. How can you accomplish this?

Apply the Convert to Grayscale command and change the Document Color Mode to CMYK.

Delete all the color swatches from the Swatches panel except for Black and White.

Select everything in the document and then apply the Convert to Grayscale command.

Use the Recolor Artwork command and select the 1-Color Job preset.

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Why would you use the Save Selection command?

to save copies of selected objects in a new file

to preserve a selection of objects you may use again

to preserve vector copies of objects you plan to rasterize

to save selected objects in a Creative Cloud library

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How can you reverse the direction of all the arrows on the spiral?

Drag the path with the Reshape tool

Select Effect > 3D > Rotate

Select Object > Path > Reverse Path Direction

Use the Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical commands in the Transform panel menu

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What is the purpose of the Make Pixel Perfect command?

to create responsive web graphics that can resize with no loss of quality

to create sharp web graphics with no anti-aliasing of straight lines

to have Illustrator automatically choose the right export file format based on the contents of the graphic

to ensure graphics use only web-safe colors

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You often use brushes from the Pattern Arrows brush library. How can you make it so this library automatically opens when you start Illustrator?

Select all the brushes in the Pattern Arrows brush library and choose Add to Brushes from the library's panel menu.

Open the library and save a custom workspace.

Select Persistent from the library's panel menu.

Select Show Pattern Brushes from the Brushes panel menu.

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You have been working in the Essentials workspace and have changed the arrangement of panels, closing some that were open by default and opening others from the Window menu. How can you get back to the default arrangement of panels?

Quit Illustrator, press and hold Command+Shift+Option (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+Alt (Windows), and relaunch Illustrator.

Quit and relaunch Illustrator.

Switch to any other workspace, and then switch back to Essentials.

Choose Reset Essentials from the Workspace menu or the Workspace switcher.

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What is the fastest and most efficient way to ensure that all the objects are placed precisely next to one another with no space between them?

Choose the Move command and in the dialog box set the Distance value to 0.

Turn on Smart Guides and drag each object until it snaps to the one next to it.

Select the objects with the Selection tool, then drag from the side of the selection bounding box until the objects snap together.

Specify a key object, then use the Horizontal Distribute Space command in the Align panel with a Spacing value of 0

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When using the Image Trace feature, which option has the most impact on the number of paths that are created in the tracing result?

Corners

Paths

Colors

Noise

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When printing an image with many out-of-gamut colors, which rendering intent would you choose to best preserve the visual relationship between colors—not the specific color values?

Absolute Colorimetric

Saturation

Perceptual

Relative Colorimetric

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Why would you change the Expand Mesh value when using the Puppet Warp tool?

It allows you to see the mesh more clearly.

It allows you to work faster because modifying a larger mesh requires fewer calculations.

It allows you to make greater modifications to an object.

It allows you to modify disjointed objects together

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When do you use the Knife tool?

when you want to crop an embedded or linked image

When you want to quickly divide an object by drawing closed, freehand paths

when you want to cut an object into equal pieces

when you want to cut an object at existing anchor points

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You want to add some stars to the circular background object in the image below, using a scatter brush. How can you ensure that the stars appear only inside the circle?

Add a fixed spacing value in the Scatter Brush options.

Select the circle and click the Draw Inside button on the toolbar before you brush.

Select the brush stroke and the circle and make a compound path.

Select the Screen blending mode before you brush.

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You would like the columns in a chart to cover the whole length of the category axis. What option would you choose?

In the Graph Type dialog, choose Category Axis and set the Tick Marks option to Full Width.

In the Graph Type dialog, under Graph Options, set the cluster width to 100 in the Options section.

In the first row of data, type 100% in each cell corresponding to the category columns.

Select the columns with the Direct Selection tool and use the Scale tool to modify the width.

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If you want to create an image map, which panel would you use to make an object into a clickable region?

Attributes

CSS Properties

Links

SVG Interactivity

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Your client likes the pattern fill in the text below but wants the flowers to overlap more so there are smaller gaps. How could you accomplish that?

Use the Overlap buttons in the Pattern Options dialog box.

Reduce the width and height in the Pattern Options dialog box.

Increase the number of copies of the flower used to make the pattern.

Select Size Tile to Art in the Pattern Options dialog box.

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When using the Live Paint Bucket tool to fill artwork with colors, you are unable to fill some areas due to the size of gaps between paths. What can you do in the Gap Options dialog box to fix this problem?

Select Large Gaps.

Select Small Gaps.

Select Close Gaps with Paths.

Turn off Gap Detection.

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When creating a mesh object, when should you use the Mesh tool instead of the Create Gradient Mesh command in the Object menu?

when you want to create mesh lines at equally spaced intervals within the object

when you want to create simpler meshes so the performance of Illustrator is not negatively affected

when you want to create mesh lines at one or more specific locations within the object

when you want to place a highlight at the edge of the object

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Which action closes a path when you are actively drawing with the Pen tool?

choosing Object > Path > Join

pressing Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows)

switching to a different tool

clicking or dragging the first point in the path

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How can you ensure that proper nouns are not hyphenated in the document you're working on?

Turn off Hyphenate Capitalized Words in the Paragraph panel.

Decrease the Word Spacing in the justification options.

Select Justify All Lines in the Paragraph panel.

Increase the Hyphenation Zone value in the Paragraph panel so it is greater than the point size of the text.

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If you are looking for a tool in the toolbar and it is not visible, what should you do?

Click the ellipsis at the bottom of the toolbar.

Turn on the tool in the preferences.

With nothing selected, click the More Tools button in the Properties panel.

In the Window menu, click Window > Tools.

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Your colleague has asked you to provide the CSS code for an object in your document. What must you do to make Illustrator auto-generate the code for that particular object?

Drag the object into the Asset Export panel.

Select the object and choose Generate CSS from the CSS Properties panel.

Select the object and choose Copy Selected Style from the CSS Properties panel.

Give the object a name in the Layers panel.

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