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Adobe Illustrator Certification Study Guide
Questions with Correct Answers | Updated
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What is Kerning? Answer: Space between characters
What is Leading? Answer: Distance between the lines
What is Tracking? Answer: Inserting or removing uniform spaces
What file type are bitmap images? Answer: JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF
Describe the Rule of Thirds? Answer: Creating nine equal parts with
two horizontal and two vertical lines and creates three equal
columns or rows
What illustrator native file format preserves all illustrator data?
Answer: EPS
What do you need to understand to make optimum decisions about
printing a project? Answer: How the printer's resolution effects the
artwork when printed
What do you have to do first before modifying individual
components of a symbol? Answer: Ungroup
What is the area of work that extends beyond the actual panel
called? Answer: Bleed
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When creating a new document set to profile: Web, what are the
default color mode and raster effect settings? Answer: RGB and 72
What happens to a brush stroke set to 5 points when you click Type
on a Path? Answer: Stroke goes back to one
Which panel would you use to edit the width and height of an
existing shape? Answer: Transform panel
How do you create a rectangle with rounded corners? Answer:
Rounded rectangle tool
Describe linking and embedding placed digital images in Illustrator.
Answer: Linked image is independent from the document and
embedded image is within the document in full resolution
What should be identified to effectively create a flyer for a
neighborhood fundraiser? Answer: Target audience and what the
fundraiser is for
Discuss what you might present to a client to specify all aspects and
details of the project. Answer: Scope of the project
Which panel provides the ability to edit both the stroke and fill?
Answer: Color panel
What is a bezier curve? Answer: A curved line or path that is
defined by a mathematical equation (has any size scale)
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Adobe Illustrator Certification Study Guide
Questions with Correct Answers | Updated
(100% Correct Answers)
What is Kerning? Answer: Space between characters
What is Leading? Answer: Distance between the lines
What is Tracking? Answer: Inserting or removing uniform spaces
What file type are bitmap images? Answer: JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF
Describe the Rule of Thirds? Answer: Creating nine equal parts with
two horizontal and two vertical lines and creates three equal
columns or rows
What illustrator native file format preserves all illustrator data?
Answer: EPS
What do you need to understand to make optimum decisions about
printing a project? Answer: How the printer's resolution effects the
artwork when printed
What do you have to do first before modifying individual
components of a symbol? Answer: Ungroup
What is the area of work that extends beyond the actual panel
called? Answer: Bleed
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When creating a new document set to profile: Web, what are the
default color mode and raster effect settings? Answer: RGB and 72
What happens to a brush stroke set to 5 points when you click Type
on a Path? Answer: Stroke goes back to one
Which panel would you use to edit the width and height of an
existing shape? Answer: Transform panel
How do you create a rectangle with rounded corners? Answer:
Rounded rectangle tool
Describe linking and embedding placed digital images in Illustrator.
Answer: Linked image is independent from the document and
embedded image is within the document in full resolution
What should be identified to effectively create a flyer for a
neighborhood fundraiser? Answer: Target audience and what the
fundraiser is for
Discuss what you might present to a client to specify all aspects and
details of the project. Answer: Scope of the project
Which panel provides the ability to edit both the stroke and fill?
Answer: Color panel
What is a bezier curve? Answer: A curved line or path that is
defined by a mathematical equation (has any size scale)
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