Illustrator Practice Exam

About Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a software application for creating drawings, illustrations, and artwork using a Windows or MacOS computer. Illustrator was initially released in 1987 and it continues to be updated at regular intervals, and is now included as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Illustrator is widely used by graphic designers, web designers, visual artists, and professional illustrators throughout the world to create high quality artwork. Illustrator includes many sophisticated drawing tools that can reduce the time need to create illustrations.

Adobe Illustrator is used to create a variety of digital and printed images, including cartoons, charts, diagrams, graphs, logos, and illustrations. Illustrator allows a user to import a photograph and use it as a guide to trace an object in the photograph. This can be used to re-color or create a sketch-like appearance of a photograph. Illustrator also makes it possible to manipulate text in many ways, making Illustrator a useful tool for creating postcards, posters, and other visual designs which use text and images together. Illustrator’s ability to place text around a curve is especially useful for artists creating logos. Illustrator is also used in designing mock-ups which show what the website will look like when it’s completed, and creating icons used within apps or websites.

Why is Illustrator important?
The importance to Adobe Illustrator to be used in graphic designing, are

•    Freely Express Ideas - We can mold our ideas and express our creativity in any way we want which can be drawn with the help of tools on the artboard and they will always turn out well.
•    Creating Aesthetic Logos - Illustrator is meant for making art forms using the vector images which put logo designing first in line.
•    Drawing Any Objects - With the help of mesh tool and gradient tool any image can be look as real objects.
•    Cartoons Characters Can Be Drawn - Cartoon characters can be created with the help of pen tool and they can be decorated and color filled by the gradient tool and the color palette.
•    Resize any Image without Compromising Quality - Since we make vector images in Illustrator which allow re-sizing and scaling without losing the quality of the picture.
•    Draw Information Graphics - Information graphics that show statistics and figures which are published in newspapers, magazines, posters and websites are perfectly made.
•    Creating 3D Graphics - An infinite number of cool shapes and elements that can add a whole new dimension can be generated by using 3D functions available in Illustrator.
•    Vector EPS Files - Adobe Illustrator has the ability to the file as EPS.
•    Printing with Colors Separations - You can manage overprinting and various other color cutting requirements in this software.
•    Export as Portable Document Format or PDF For the Print and Web

Who should take the Illustrator Exam?
•    Graphic Design  professionals
•    Innovators
•    Anyone who wants to assess their Adobe Illustrator skills
•    Design or Advertising or creative managers and senior executives
•    Design or Creative consultants
•    Any professional with skills and knowledge on Adobe Illustrator

Knowledge and Skills required for the Illustrator Practice Exam

• Good knowledge of Illustrator tools
• Creative bent of mind
• Innovative designing ability
  

Illustrator Practice Exam Objectives

Illustrator exam focuses on assessing your skills and knowledge in using Illustrator for developing graphics and images.

Illustrator Practice Exam Pre-requisite

There are no prerequisites for the Illustrator exam.

Illustrator Certification Course Outline

1. Adobe Illustrator Workspace
1.1 Exploring the Illustrator interface
1.2 Choosing a workspace
1.3 Opening a file
1.4 Using artboards
1.5 Changing your view
1.6 Zooming and scrolling
1.7 Using tools and panels
1.8 Exploring the Control panel
1.9 Working with panels and the dock
1.10 Saving workspaces and shortcuts

2. Adobe Illustrator Basics
2.1 Using Illustrator's shape tools
2.2 Repositioning and visually resizing the shapes
2.3 Putting the Transform panel to work
2.4 Constraining a shape
2.5 Entering exact dimensions
2.6 Selecting artwork
2.7 Using the shape and transform tools
2.8 Introducing layers
2.9 Cutting and pasting objects
2.10 Repeating transformations

3. Adding Color in Illustrator
3.1 Exploring the Appearance panel
3.2 Changing colors in Illustrator
3.3 Adding effects
3.4 Using Live Paint
3.5 Adding a symbol
3.6 Saving swatches
3.7 Selecting the same color
3.8 Creating a color group
3.9 Using the Color panel
3.10 Adding Pantone colors

4. Adobe Illustrator Drawing Tools
4.1 Understanding the Pen tool
4.2 Drawing straight, curved and hinged lines
4.3 Tracing images
4.4 Creating a tracing template
4.5 Working with Image Trace
4.6 Using the Line, Pencil and Eraser tools
4.7 Editing existing paths
4.8 Adding and removing points
4.9 Cutting and joining paths
4.10 Combining shapes with the Shape Builder

5. Additional Adobe Illustrator Color Options
5.1 Adding tonal values with gradients
5.2 Customizing an existing gradient
5.3 Saving the gradient
5.4 Applying a second instance of the gradient
5.5 Using the Gradient panel
5.6 Updating a gradient
5.7 Creating and using patterns
5.8 Creating a bounding box
5.9 Applying the pattern
5.10 Editing a pattern fill
5.11 Locating existing patterns
5.12 Finishing up the illustration
5.13 Creating a Color Group
5.14 Using the Color Guide

6. Formatting Text using Illustrator
6.1 Formatting text
6.2 Paragraph formatting
6.3 Using paragraph and character styles
6.4 Editing styles
6.5 Putting text on a path
6.6 Warping text
6.7 Putting text in a shape
6.8 Creating outlines
6.9 Checking spelling
6.10 Using Find and Replace

7. Adobe Illustrator's Layers
7.1 Getting to know the Layers panel
7.2 Using layers to organize your illustrations
7.3 Using the Layers panel to make selections
7.4 Creating new layers
7.5 Showing and hiding layers
7.6 Locking and unlocking layers
7.7 Rearranging layers
7.8 Moving items between layers
7.9 Remembering layers when pasting
7.10 Creating a template layer


Exam Format and Information
Certification name – Illustrator Certification
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199