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These 10 free ACA questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Adobe Certified Professional in Graphic Design and Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A venue's online evacuation graphic uses solid green lines for usable routes and solid red lines of the same weight for closed routes. In a grayscale proof, the two become indistinguishable. The approved route information must remain unchanged. Which revision most directly removes this safety-critical ambiguity?
Correct answer: B - Retain the colors; add distinct line patterns and direct route-status labels.
A freelance designer with an active Adobe Fonts subscription creates an approved client wordmark. The client has no license for that font and requests outlined vector artwork, not editable text. Which statement correctly describes the licensing requirements for this delivery?
Correct answer: A - The client may use the outlined wordmark without a separate font license; no font files should be transferred.
On a printed Illustrator poster, the photograph and vector lettering are sharp, but the lettering's live drop shadow has visibly blocky edges. The photograph has sufficient effective resolution, and the PDF was saved without image downsampling. Which setting is the most likely source of the defect?
Correct answer: A - A low resolution in Document Raster Effects Settings.
A photograph contains 3000 × 2400 pixels, although its file metadata says 72 PPI. In Illustrator, the full image is placed at 10 × 8 inches without cropping or resampling. The printer requires at least 250 effective PPI. Which assessment should guide the handoff?
Correct answer: D - 300 PPI; the existing source meets the requirement at 10 × 8 inches.
A packaging designer is setting up a brand color for dozens of objects in one Illustrator document. Editing its swatch later must update every object using it, but the printer requires process CMYK output with no additional spot-ink plate. The appropriate swatch configuration is:
Correct answer: D - A global CMYK process-color swatch.
A decorative border must repeat along paths of different lengths. Its artwork includes a repeating side tile, specially drawn inner and outer corners, and separate designs for the two ends of an open path. Which reusable asset supports these distinct roles?
Correct answer: C - A Pattern Brush.
Two curved segments in a logo currently meet at a smooth anchor with two direction handles. The illustrator needs a sharp join at the same location without altering the incoming curve; only the outgoing curve may change direction. How should the anchor be edited?
Correct answer: C - Drag the outgoing direction handle independently with the Anchor Point tool.
A logo scan has broad pale-gray strokes on white paper. In black-and-white Image Trace, those strokes disappear because they fall on the white side of the current Threshold. The designer needs black vector shapes, no white background shapes, and individually editable paths. Select the appropriate sequence.
Correct answer: A - Raise Threshold, set Ignore Color to white, then Expand the trace.
Using a gradient-filled rectangle as a clipping mask crops a photograph but does not make it fade. The photograph must remain fully visible on the left and become transparent on the right, revealing any background underneath. Which replacement will create that continuous fade?
Correct answer: B - Use a white-left, black-right gradient as an opacity mask, with Invert Mask off.
"Keep the leftmost logo exactly where it is, but make every gap 8 mm." Four grouped sponsor logos of different widths are already top-aligned. They have no strokes or effects, and meeting the request will make the row narrower. Which Align panel workflow fulfills the instruction?
Correct answer: D - Use the leftmost logo as key object; distribute horizontal spacing at 8 mm.
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