What is the fastest and most efficient way to ensure that all the objects shown in the figure below are placed precisely next to one another with no space between them?
Your boss likes the new logo you’ve designed but would like to see some variations using different color schemes. Which feature could you use to generate these variations quickly?
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?
You have been working in the Essentials workspace and have changed the arrangement of panels, closing some that were open by default and opening others from the Window menu. How can you get back to the default arrangement of panels?
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?
You need to change the fill color of all the info circles in the map below. The circles were not created from a symbol. Other than Global Edit, which command would help you accomplish this task efficiently?
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?
What would happen to the fill color of the object shown below if you copied and pasted it into another Illustrator file where the Document Color Mode was set to CMYK?
The Symbol Sprayer tool has been used to apply a number of symbol instances to an illustration. You would like to modify the appearance of some instances using graphic styles. How would this be achieved?
You have drawn a five-pointed star in a design and want to change the inner radius. How would you achieve this?
Which colorization method should you choose when using an art, scatter, or pattern brush to apply a spot color?
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?
When creating a mesh object, when should you use the Mesh tool instead of the Create Gradient Mesh command in the Object menu?
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?
You often use brushes from the Pattern Arrows brush library. How can you make it so this library automatically opens when you start Illustrator?
You’re working with a pen tablet and find that using the Ellipse, Rectangle, and Polygon tools to create objects is somewhat awkward. Which tool would allow you to draw, move, and edit these shapes with intuitive gestures?
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?
Your client likes the pattern fill in the text below but wants the flowers to overlap more so there are smaller gaps. How could you accomplish that?
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?
The fill colors of several instances of a dynamic symbol have been modified. What is the fastest way to return the fill color in every instance to its original appearance?
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?
If you want to create an image map, which panel would you use to make an object into a clickable region?
When using the Image Trace feature, which option has the most impact on the number of paths that are created in the tracing result?
When printing an image with many out-of-gamut colors, which rendering intent would you choose to best preserve the visual relationship between colors—not the specific color values?
You would like the columns in a chart to cover the whole length of the category axis. What option would you choose?
The four flowers shown in the image below were created by applying an art brush to paths of different lengths. How can you prevent the distortion seen in flowers 2, 3, and 4 while keeping the size of the leaves and the width of the stem the same in all the flowers?
You are working with an Illustrator file that includes a linked Photoshop file. Your client sends a new Photoshop file with a different name and asks you to replace the old one in the Illustrator file. Which command in the Links panel would you use to accomplish this?
