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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.

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

The paths do not have a fill attribute.

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

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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

Adobe Color Themes

Color Guide

Color Groups

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

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.

Decrease the Word Spacing in the justification options.

Turn off Hyphenate Capitalized Words in the Paragraph panel.

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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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What happens when you click an existing anchor point with the Pen tool?

Any control handles are removed, converting the point into a corner point.

The path is split at that point.

The point is selected.

The point is deleted.

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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

Colors

Noise

Paths

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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?

CSS Properties

SVG Interactivity

Links

Attributes

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

In the Window menu, click Window > Tools.

Turn on the tool in the preferences.

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

Click the ellipsis at the bottom of the toolbar.

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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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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 Viewing Angle in the Define Grid dialog box.

Choose View > Perspective Grid > Lock Station Point

Enable Perspective Warp.

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

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

It allows you to see the mesh more clearly.

It allows you to modify disjointed objects together

It allows you to make greater modifications to an object.

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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.

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

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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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?

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.

The color mode of the fill is set to Grayscale.

The Luminosity blend mode is applied to the fill.

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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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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?

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

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

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

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

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

Use the Transform Each command.

Use the Transform Again command.

Use the Global Edit command.

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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.

Use the Appearance panel to add a second black fill.

Select the circle and apply the Multiply blending mode.

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

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

to print all artboards on one piece of paper

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

to prevent Illustrator from printing the names of artboards

to scale each artboard to the media size

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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?

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.

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

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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 cut an object into equal pieces

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

Select Object > Path > Reverse Path Direction

Select Effect > 3D > Rotate

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

Drag the path with the Reshape tool

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

Tints and Shades

Hue Shift

None

Tints

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

Convert it to a smooth point.

Remove it.

Cut the path at the anchor point.

Convert it to a corner point.

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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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