Illustrator

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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?

Choose View > Perspective Grid > Lock Station Point

Enable Perspective Warp.

Enable 3D Transform.

Enable Viewing Angle in the Define Grid dialog box.

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Why would you turn on the Ignore Artboards option in the Print dialog box?

to scale each artboard to the media size

to print all artboards on one piece of paper

to prevent Illustrator from printing the names of artboards

to prevent Illustrator from printing marks showing the borders of the artboard

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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?

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

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

Select the Screen blending mode before you brush.

Add a fixed spacing value in the Scatter Brush options.

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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?

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

Use the Overlap buttons in the Pattern Options dialog box.

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

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

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When multiple objects are selected, how do you deselect just one of them?

Press Command+Shift+A (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+A (Windows) and click the object you want to deselect.

Hold down the Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) key and click the object you want to deselect.

Use the Lasso tool to deselect the unwanted object.

Shift-click the object you want to deselect

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How could you quickly change all the hexagons to triangles in the image below?

In the Control panel, click the button to start editing similar shapes, then select Object > Path > Simplify.

In the Properties panel, click Start Global Edit and then use the Transform controls to reduce the Polygon Side Count to 3.

In the Properties panel, click Expand Shape. Then click Start Global Edit and use the Transform controls to reduce the Polygon Side Count to 3.

In the Control panel, click the button to start editing similar shapes, then select Object > Transform > Transform Each.

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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.

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

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

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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

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.

The fill color would be unchanged.

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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.

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

Double-click the instance with the Type tool.

Edit the symbol instance name.

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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 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 equally spaced intervals within the object

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

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You have designed the product label shown below. Your client wants the black circle to print as dark as possible and requires that none of the colorful logo elements show through the circle when the label is printed. What should you do?

Select the circle and turn on Overprint Fill in the Attributes panel.

Select the circle and apply the Multiply blending mode.

Use the Appearance panel to add a second black fill.

Fill the circle with a rich black color made up of all four process inks.

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What command would you apply to make objects beneath the selected artwork visible inside the circle?

A yellow rectangle has a circular selection in the center.

Make Clipping Mask

Make Live Paint Group

Make Compound Path

Make Pattern

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When do you use the Knife tool?

when you want to cut an object into equal pieces

when you want to crop an embedded or linked image

when you want to cut an object at existing anchor points

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

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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.

The paths do not have a fill attribute.

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

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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?

Links

SVG Interactivity

CSS Properties

Attributes

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

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

Select Effect > 3D > Rotate

Drag the path with the Reshape tool

Select Object > Path > Reverse Path Direction

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What is the purpose of the Make Pixel Perfect command?

to ensure graphics use only web-safe colors

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

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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?

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.

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

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

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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?

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

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, select Stretch Between Guides, and then place the guides so only the stem is between them.

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

The Alana fonts are currently being activated.

Not all the fonts in the Alana family are activated.

The Alana fonts are deactivated.

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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 Close Gaps with Paths.

Select Small Gaps.

Select Large Gaps.

Turn off Gap Detection.

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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?

Recolor Artwork

Variables

Proof Colors

Live Paint

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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?

Adobe Color Themes

Color Guide

Recolor Artwork

Color Groups

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You need to process a large batch of Illustrator files, applying the same sequence of transformations to each one. What is the most efficient way to do this?

Use the Transform Each command.

Use the Actions panel to record and play back the sequence of steps.

Use the Global Edit command.

Use the Transform Again command.

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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?

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

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

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

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

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