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

Use the Lasso tool to deselect the unwanted object.

Shift-click the object you want to deselect

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

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

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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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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?

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

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.

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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 cut an object at existing anchor points

when you want to crop an embedded or linked image

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

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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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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?

Give the object a name in the Layers panel.

Drag the object into the Asset Export panel.

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

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

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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?

Live Paint

Recolor Artwork

Select > Same > Appearance

Edit Colors

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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 be unchanged.

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

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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?

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.

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

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

Remove it.

Convert it to a corner point.

Cut the path at the anchor point.

Convert it to a smooth point.

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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

Perceptual

Saturation

Absolute Colorimetric

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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 3D Transform.

Enable Perspective Warp.

Choose View > Perspective Grid > Lock Station Point

Enable Viewing Angle in the Define Grid dialog box.

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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.

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 Screen blending mode before you brush.

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

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.

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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 Compound Path

Make Live Paint Group

Make Pattern

Make Clipping Mask

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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?

Proof Colors

Variables

Live Paint

Recolor Artwork

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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?

Color Groups

Recolor Artwork

Adobe Color Themes

Color Guide

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

The Alana fonts are currently being activated.

Not all the fonts in the Alana family are activated.

The Alana fonts are deactivated.

The Alana fonts are for web-only use.

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Which colorization method should you choose when using an art, scatter, or pattern brush to apply a spot color?

Tints

None

Tints and Shades

Hue Shift

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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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Why would you use the Save Selection command?

to preserve a selection of objects you may use again

to save selected objects in a Creative Cloud library

to save copies of selected objects in a new file

to preserve vector copies of objects you plan to rasterize

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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?

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

Select the circle and apply the Multiply blending mode.

Use the Appearance panel to add a second black fill.

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

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When viewing the artwork shown below in Outline mode, what can you tell about the word "backpack"?

It has been converted to outlines.

It is a compound path.

It has a fill color of black.

It is live text.

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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.

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

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

Quit and relaunch Illustrator.

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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?

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

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

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

The paths do not have a fill attribute.

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

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

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?

When do you use the Knife tool?

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?

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?

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?

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 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?

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

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?

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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

Which colorization method should you choose when using an art, scatter, or pattern brush to apply a spot color?

What is the purpose of the Make Pixel Perfect command?

Why would you use the Save Selection command?

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?

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?

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?

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