Illustrator

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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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Why would you choose Enable Guides for 9-slice scaling when creating a symbol?

to allow portions of the symbol to be exported as separate graphics

to ensure that each instance of the symbol always maintains its original proportions when scaled

to allow instances of the symbol to be scaled without distorting the corners

to include custom guides with the symbol so each instance is placed in the same position relative to the artboard

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You select a new color in the Color Picker and want to see several variations in different shades and tints. Which feature allows you to do this?

Recolor Artwork

Color Guide

Color Groups

Adobe Color Themes

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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?

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

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

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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You have drawn a five-pointed star in a design and want to change the inner radius. How would you achieve this?

Use the Scale tool while holding down Option+Shift (Mac) or Alt+Shift (Windows).

An Inner Radius of a Star cannot be modified and would have to be redrawn.

Double-click the Star tool and change the Inner Radius option.

Select the inner points, then use the Scale tool to uniformly change the radius.

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

Select Effect > 3D > Rotate

Select Object > Path > Reverse Path Direction

Drag the path with the Reshape tool

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

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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?

Open the library and save a custom workspace.

Select Show Pattern Brushes from the Brushes panel menu.

Select Persistent from the library's panel menu.

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

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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 place a highlight at the edge of 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

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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?

Noise

Colors

Paths

Corners

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What would happen to the fill color of the object shown below if you copied and pasted it into another Illustrator file where the Document Color Mode was set to CMYK?

The fill color would be converted to CMYK values

The fill color would be unchanged.

Illustrator would display an error because you can't paste an object with RGB colors into a CMYK file.

The fill color would remain RGB but its appearance would change.

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Why would you use the Save Selection command?

to save selected objects in a Creative Cloud library

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

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Your boss likes the new logo you've designed but would like to see some variations using different color schemes. Which feature could you use to generate these variations quickly?

Variables

Recolor Artwork

Live Paint

Proof Colors

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The four flowers shown in the image below were created by applying an art brush to paths of different lengths. How can you prevent the distortion seen in flowers 2, 3, and 4 while keeping the size of the leaves and the width of the stem the same in all the flowers?

Expand the appearance of the distorted flowers and drag the flowers with the Selection tool.

Use the Pen tool to add points at the top and bottom of the stem, and then drag the points with the Direct Selection tool to remove the distortion.

Open the Art Brush Options dialog box and select Scale Proportionally.

Open the Art Brush Options dialog box, select Stretch Between Guides, and then place the guides so only the stem is between them.

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You have drawn objects on planes using the perspective grid, but now want to change the angles of the grid to new vanishing points and have the artwork update automatically. What option should be enabled to achieve this result?

Enable Perspective Warp.

Choose View > Perspective Grid > Lock Station Point

Enable Viewing Angle in the Define Grid dialog box.

Enable 3D Transform.

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

Turn on the tool in the preferences.

Click the ellipsis at the bottom of the toolbar.

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

In the Window menu, click Window > Tools.

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What can you do to edit the text in just one placed instance of a symbol?

Click the Edit Symbol button in the Control panel or Properties panel.

Edit the symbol instance name.

Click the Break Link button in the Control panel or Properties panel.

Double-click the instance with the Type tool.

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

The Alana fonts are for web-only use.

Not all the fonts in the Alana family are activated.

The Alana fonts are deactivated.

The Alana fonts are currently being activated.

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You have just one object on your artboard. You want to change its fill color from black to yellow, so you open the Color Picker and select a yellow color. But when you click OK, the fill of the object changes to gray, not yellow. Why is this happening?

The color mode of the fill is set to Grayscale.

The Luminosity blend mode is applied to the fill.

Overprint Preview is turned on in the Separations Preview panel.

One of the Color Blindness options is chosen under Proof Setup in the View menu.

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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?

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

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

Use the Overlap buttons in the Pattern Options dialog box.

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

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Why use the Simplify command before exporting a web graphic to SVG format?

to reduce the output resolution so it's appropriate for web graphics

to reduce the number of points that must be represented in the code

to combine redundant objects

to remove invisible points and lines

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In the gift card shown below, the magenta flower petals need to be printed with a varnish. How would you set up the file so the varnish is applied over the magenta color of the petals?

Create copies of the petals on top of the original artwork and fill the petals with a new spot color swatch set to overprint.

Use File Info to leave instructions for your print service provider.

Duplicate the petals to a new layer called "Varnish."

Make sure that the magenta color is from a spot color swatch.

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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?

Relative Colorimetric

Saturation

Perceptual

Absolute Colorimetric

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What is the purpose of the Make Pixel Perfect command?

to ensure graphics use only web-safe colors

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

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

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

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The fill colors of several instances of a dynamic symbol have been modified. What is the fastest way to return the fill color in every instance to its original appearance?

set the Export Type to Movie Clip

convert the symbol to a static symbol

break the link to the symbol

delete the symbol and expand all instances

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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?

The paths do not have a fill attribute.

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.

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