Adobe Illustrator CS5 Extended Test Answers

oDesk Adobe Illustrator CS5 Extended Test Questions and Answers

Question: 1

This question is based upon the figure shown below

Identify the points highlighted in the image above.

a. Show Ruler, Show Grid

b. Station Point, Changed Ruler Origin

c. Show Grid, Changed Ruler Origin

d. Changed Ruler Origin, Station Point (Answer)

Question: 2

This question is based upon the figure shown below

Which option under the Envelope Distort command in the Object menu would you use to get the result shown in figure B from the original figure A?

a. Make With Warp

b. Make With Mesh

c. Make With Top Object (Answer)

d. None of the above

Question: 3

A path is made up of one or more _________ or ___________

a. dots, lines

b. fills, strokes

c. anchor points, pixels

d. straight, curved segments (Answer)

Question: 4

___________ effects sharply define a selection by clumping pixels of similar color values.

a. SVG

b. Sketch

c. Pixelate (Answer)

d. Warp

Question: 5

This question is based upon the figure shown below

What does it indicate when the cursor changes its shape, to that shown in the image above, while using pen tool?

a. It indicates that you are adding new anchor point

b. It indicates that you are drawing a freeform path

c. It indicates that the pointer is positioned correctly to close the path (Answer)

d. It indicates that the pointer is ready to convert the point into a curve

Question: 6

Which of the following acts as a cookie cutter or stencil, using a selected object to cut through other objects, discarding the original selection?

a. Split Into Grid command (Answer)

b. Knife tool

c. Divide Objects Below command

d. Clipping masks

Question: 7

___________ modifies an object or layer permanently.

a. Filter

b. Effect

c. Appearance

d. All the above three options modify the object permanently (Answer)

Question: 8

The ___________ attribute of the Perspective Grid determines the grid cell size.

a. Third Vanishing Point

b. Units

c. Viewing Angle

d. Gridline every (Answer)

Question: 9

This question is based upon the figure shown below

What does the toggle option on the Control panel of artboard, shown in the image above, allows you to do when it is in an active state?

a. It adds a new artboard to the document

b. It takes you to the Artboard Options dialog box where you can change various settings of the artboard (Answer) *

c. It copies the artboard with the artwork (Answer)

d. It allows you to change the orientation of the artboard

Question: 10

This question is based upon the figure shown below

Identify the option circled in red in the image above.

a. Break Link To Symbol

b. Place Symbol Instance (Answer)

c. Symbol Options

d. New Symbol

Question: 11

The __________ option applies a fill to pencil strokes drawn by you.

a. Edit Selected Paths

b. Fidelity

c. Smoothness

d. Fill New Pencil Strokes (Answer)

Question: 12

Perspective Grid automatically adjusts the _________ to match the height of the top face of the cube with automatic plane positioning on.

a. Left grid plane

b. Horizontal grid plane (Answer)

c. Right Ail Objects

d. All of the above

Question: 13

___________ lets you combine multiple objects and specify how you want each object to interact with the other objects.

a. Compound shapes

b. Compound paths

c. Pathfinder effects

d. None of the above (Answer)

Question: 14

The __________ option of the Polar Grid tool specifies the number of circular concentric dividers you want to appear in the grid.

a. Radial Dividers (Answer)

b. Create Compound Path from Ellipses

c. Fill Grid

d. Concentric Dividers

Question: 15

Which option lets you choose between already defined dimensions in the Artboards Options?

a. Orientations

b. Presets (Answer)

c. Artboards

d. Update While Dragging

Question: 16

This question is based upon the figure shown below

Which option gives you the result shown in the image above while using the Envelope Distort command in the Object menu?

a. Make with Warp (Answer)

b. Make with Mesh

c. Make with Top Object (Answer) *

d. None of the above

Question: 17

The anchor points of the connecting segments display ___________.

a. direction points

b. direction lines

c. direction handles (Answer)

d. segments

Question: 18

This question is based upon the figure shown below

Identify the Draw Normal drawing mode out of the three drawing modes, marked as A, B and C, in image above.

a. A (Answer)

b. B

c. C

d. None of the above

Question: 19

Which option will you choose in the Shape Builder tool dialog box to convert an open path into a region?

a. Gap Detection

b. In Merge Mode, Clicking the Stroke Splits the Path

c. Consider Open Filled Paths as Closed

d. Highlight Stroke When Editable (Answer)

Question: 20

This question is based upon the shown below

How does checking the "Align New Objects to Pixel Grid" option, highlighted in red in the image above, affect the new objects?

a. It enables an object to have its vertical and horizontal paths aligned to the pixel grid (Answer)

b. It enables an object to have its curved paths aligned to the pixel grid

c. It provides a crisp appearance to the curved path aligned to the pixel grid even in the raster output

d. a and b *

Question: 21

__________effects generate pixels, whereas __________ of the vector graphic are converted to pixels.

a. Vector, Anti-Alias

b. Raster, Background (Answer)

c. Raster Color Mode!

d. Vector Add Around Object

Question: 22

On the graphics tablet that can detect how dose to vertical the pen is, the _________ option of the Eraser tool varies in  angle, roundness, or diameter based on the pressure of a drawing stylus.

a. Stylus Wheel

b. Bearing (Answer)

c. Rotation

d. Angle

Question: 23

The _________ option in the Define Perspective Grid dialog box determines thepositions of the left and righting points from the observer.

a. Viewing Angle (Answer)

b. Scale

c. Third Vanishing Point 

d. Horizon Height

Question: 24

The ___________ option in the Define Perspective Grid dialog box is enabled when you select the three-point perspective.                                                                                      

a. Viewing Angle (Answer)

b. Scale

c. Third Vanishing Point

d. Horizon Height

Question: 25

What does the Decay option of the Spiral tool do?

a. It specifies the distance from the center to the outermost point in the spiral (Answer)

b. It specifies the amount by which each wind of the spiral should decrease relative to the previous wind

c. It specifies how many segments the spiral has

d. It specifies the direction of the spiral

Question: 26

Which option in the Control panel of the Pen tool converts an edge point into a smooth curve?

a. Cut Path At Selected Anchor Points

b. Isolate Selected Object

c. Convert Selected Anchor Points to Smooth (Answer)

d. Reference point

Question: 27

Which of the following options will help you make the object movement stationaryalong with the grid movement in the active Vanishing Plane dialog box?

a. Do Not Move

b. Move All Objects (Answer)

c. Copy AH Objects

d. None of the above

Question: 28

Which option in the stylize sub-menu of the Effect menu controls the amount the scribble lines curve before they reverse direction?

a. Angle

b. Path Overlap

c. Variation

d. Curviness (Answer)

Question: 29

Which option in the FXG dialog box gives you better re-editability when you import FXG files in Illustrator?

a. Show Code

b. Include Unused Symbols

c. Save Illustrator Private Data (Answer)

d. Down sample Linked Images

Question: 30

This question is based the figure shown

Identify the tools shown in the image above.

a. Wrap Tool, Bloat Tool

b. Symbol Sprayer Tool, Blend Tool

c. Perspective Grid Tool, Perspective Selection Tool (Answer)

d. Smooth Tool, Blob Brush Tool

Question: 31

The ___________ option, in the Object Mosaic dialog box under the Object menu, makes the tiles square, using the number of tiles specified in Number Of Tiles.

a. Constrain Ratio

b. Resize Using Percentages

c. Use Ratio (Answer)

d. Delete Raster

Question: 32

This question is based the figure shown

What is the tool shown in the image above called and what does it do?

a. Direct Selection tool; selects points or path segments within objects (Answer)

b. Lasso tool; selects points or path segments within objects

c. Group Selection tool; selects objects and groups within groups *

d. Selection tool; selects entire objects

Question: 33

Which of the following Pathfinder effects are available on the Pathfinder panel?

a. Divide

b. Trim

c. Minus Back

d. All of the above (Answer)

Question: 34

Which of the following tools performs different tasks related to symbols?

a. Symbol Shifter tool (Answer)

b. Symbol Scruncher tool

c. Symbol Stainer tool

d. a and b

e. All of the above

Question: 35

The _________ option of the Envelope Options specifies how precisely you want the object to fit the envelope mold.

a. Preserve Shape Using

b. Fidelity (Answer)

c. Distort Pattern Fills *

d. Anti-Alias

Question: 36

Why do we use the Appearance panel?

a. To view the position of the selected object

b. To view and adjust the appearance attributes of an object, group, or layer (Answer)

c. To view masking effects

d. None of the above

Question: 37

This question is based upon the figure shown below

What does the letter “B” indicate in the image above?

a. Horizontal Grid Plane

b. No Active Grid Plane (Answer)

c. Left Grid Plane

d. None of the above

Question: 38

Which of the following tools CANNOT be used with the Perspective Grid tool?

a. Flare Tool

b. Star Tool

c. Spiral Tool

d. Polar Grid Tool (Answer)

Question: 39

What is the icon shown above called, as found under the Control panel of the Pen tool?

a. Convert selected anchor point to corner

b. Isolate Selected Object (Answer)

c. Cut paths at selected anchor points

d. Align to Selection

Question: 40

What does the Edit Artboards option, outlined in red in the image above, do?

a. It lets you change units of measure, transparency grid options, background color, and type settings in the Document Setup dialog box.

b. It closes the Document Setup dialog box and activates the Artboard tool.

c. It activates the Simulate Colored Paper option to print the document on colored paper.

d. None of the above. (Answer)

Question: 41

What does the icon, shown in the image above, indicate as it appears in the Layers panel?

a. It indicates that the item is not targeted and has no appearance attributes beyond a single fill and a single stroke.

b. It indicates that the item is targeted and has appearance attributes. (Answer)

c. It indicates that the item is targeted but has no appearance attributes beyond a single fill and a single stroke.

d. It indicates that the item is not targeted but has appearance attributes.

Question: 42

Which option of Smart Guides identifies the anchor points and paths as you hover your mouse over them?

a. Measurement Labels

b. Object Highlighting (Answer)

c. Anchor/Path Labels

d. Snapping Tolerance

Question: 43

____________________ effects generate pixels, whereas _______________________determines how transparent areas of the vector graphic are converted to pixels.

a. Vector, Anti-Alias

b. Raster, Background (Answer)

c. Raster, Color Model

d. Vector, Add Around Object

Question: 44

The higher value of the Fidelity option of the Pencil tool options makes ______________ and less ____________ paths.

a. smoother, complex (Answer)

b. sharp, irregular

c. complex, smooth

d. None of the above

Question: 45

Which of the following arranges multiple artboards in a single row?

a. Grid by Row (Answer)

b. Arrange by Row

c. Both a and b.

d. There is no such option available.

Question: 46

Any change in the stacking order of the attributes in the Appearance panel does NOT affect the visual look of the object.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 47

Symbols can be reused in a document.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 48

Adobe illustrator allows creating multiple grids in a document.

a. True

b. False (Answer)

Question: 49

The Transform Both option in the Transform panel lets you transform the pattern along with the object.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 50

You can transform graphs, guides, or linked objects using envelopes.

a. True **

b. False (Answer)

Question: 51

Nonzero winding fill rule is the default rule to determine if a point is outside or inside ashape.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 52

A symbol set is a group of symbol instances that you create with the Symbol Sprayer tool.

a. True (Answer)

b. False *

Question: 53

The Transform Again command in the Object menu allows you to repeat a move,scale, rotate, reflect, or shear operation in till you perform a different proportion.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 54

The Crop Marks option in the Effect menu is a raster effect

a. True

b. False (Answer)

Question: 55

A scaled symbol may not produce crisp paths although it is pixel-aligned by property.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 56

Negative value for the slope of an arc creates a concave slope.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 57

It is possible to share your computer screen, send chat messages, and communicate with Connect Now in Adobe Illustrator.

a.   True

b.   False (Answer)

Question: 58

The Blend tool command lets you create blends, which are a series of intermediate objects and colors between two or more selected objects.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 59

The 9-slice scaling grid is visible only in isolation mode and you can scale the content of each grid independently.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 60

Stylize effect adds XML-based graphic properties such as drop shadows to your artwork.

a. True

b. False (Answer)

Question: 61

Extruding and Revolving are the two ways to convert 2-dimensional objects into 3-dimensional objects.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 62

The Transform Again command in the Object menu allows you to repeat a move, scale, rotate, reflect, or shear operation in the same proportions till you perform a different proportion.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 63

You can create animation in Illustrator.

a. True (Answer)

b. False

Question: 64

Artboards specify the printable boundaries of artwork, whereas crop marks don’t affect the printed area.

a. True

b. False (Answer)