Adobe InDesign Certification Exam

You are designing the layout of a product page for a clothing website and you're trying to decide which products you should display on this page. Which of the following options will help you decide which products are best to use? (Choose two)

Target audience
Purpose of the website

Which of the following is an effective way of gathering unbiased feedback for a brochure design?

Send draft samples to a random selection of people

Master page

Page that contains repeating elements for each page of the document

Facing pages

Option that arranges the document pages in a spread
When disabled,
will allow the page to stand alone, instead of in a spread

Spread

A set of pages viewed together, side by side

Frame

A container that is used to edit and manipulate objects in the document

Which of the following are poor techniques for establishing strong visual hierarchy in a design? (Choose two)

Random variation
One size for all page elements

Which of the following correctly describes the term readability as used in design?

The ease with which a reader can understand a written text

Which of the following is the process of adjusting the space between specific pairs of characters?

Kerning

You are preparing your business card design to be printed at a commercial printer. Which main ink type's exact color appearance is determined by the printer and requires a printing plate for each color?

Spot color

Resizing

Increase or decrease the size of an object

Cropping

Removes designated parts of an image to get a new width and height

Resampling

Changes the number of pixels in an image

Scaling

Changes the size of an image to be printed on paper

Which of the following terms are associated with print publications and not digital publications? (Choose three)

Process color
Scaling
Dpi

Character Styles Panel

Used to apply a collection of character formatting to selected text

Paragraph Styles Panel

Used to apply a collection of character and paragraph formatting to an entire paragraph

Paragraph Panel

Sets the options for entire paragraphs

Character Panel

Sets the options for selected text

Which of the following correctly describes the Direct Selection tool?

It allows you to select the contents of a frame or work directly with editable objects

Which of the following terms are associated with digital publications and not print publications? (Choose two)

RGB value
Pixel

What is the advantage of locking or hiding a layer?

It ensures that any objects in that layer cannot be edited

When designing a document, you can place content into an existing frame, with different kinds of content requiring specific frame types. Which of the following are frame types in Adobe InDesign? (Choose three)

Graphic
Text
Unassigned

Which of the following correctly describes the Content Collector tool?

It allows you to duplicate and link content within the same document or across different documents

Which of the following InDesign features will check the document for problems in real-time and display any found errors?

Live Preflight

You are preparing a document to be exported as an interactive PDF. Which option in the Export to Interactive PDF window sets the initial layout of the PDF when it's first opened?

Layout

How many states can a button have?

3 - Normal, Rollover, Click

You have a client who wants you to get images for a project you are working on. How can you legitimately get free images for their project?

Find images marked as Fair Use for Commercial Purposes

Before starting to work on the pamphlet you want to make a Project Plan. Which of the following are essential parts of creating a Project Plan? (Choose two.)

Establishing a budget
Determining deliverables

Which of the following panels alerts the user to any errors that might prevent the document from being printed as desired?

Preflight

What must you know to understand the scope of the project?

Total deliverables

You and two team members are designing a webpage that displays your company mission statement. As you are making design choices, which of the following should be considered? (Choose two)

Organization's goals
Target audience

What does Fair Use mean in regards to images and copyright?

The image can be used for a limited and "transformative" purpose

You want to feature some new gear in the latest publication of the magazine, but you're not sure which items to feature. Which of the following are good methods for gathering unbiased user feedback?

Show draft copies at a convention to random people

Slug

An area outside the page content that contains printer instructions

Bleed

The area outside the page content that accounts for inaccuracies with printing or trimming

Gutter

The space between column guides

Crop Marks

Marks that define where a page should be trimmed after printing

Your project manager wants you to make sure to use emphasis in the text for the website homepage. Which of the following are benefits of using emphasis in text? (Choose two)

It helps readers identify important elements
It can create a clear focal point

Which of the following can improve the readability of your design project? (Choose two.)

Using spacing and proximity
Creating contrast with font styles

Which of the following terms is described as the vertical space between lines of type?

Leading

In regards to design, which of the following correctly describes a typeface conflict?

Using two typefaces that are too visually similar

Which of the following is a printed color that uses a combination of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK)?

Process color

Which of the following file formats can include both vector and bitmap data and can be opened by most graphic design programs?

.eps

TIF

Uses lossless compression and is considered to be the highest quality and most versatile image file type

JPG

The most used image file format that uses lossy compression that creates much smaller files

PNG

Uses lossless compression that supports RGB transparency

EPS

Vector based format that can contain text as well as graphics

Which of the following InDesign tools allows you to change an anchor point from a smooth point to a corner point?

Convert Direction Point tool

Rectangle Frame tool

Creates a resizable container for text or graphics

Color Theme tool

Gathers and organizes different color elements in your document

Scissors tool

Cuts a path at a specified point

Shear tool

Skew objects around a fixed point

Which of the following features allows you to quickly format graphics and frames across a document?

Object styles

When working with the text wrap, what does the offset option do?

It slightly adjusts the space between the text and the object

Which of the following correctly describes the purpose of the Content Collector and Content Placer tools?

They allow you to duplicate page items and place them in open documents

When working with multimedia assets, 'On page load', and 'Click' are both examples of what?

Triggers

When exporting a document as an interactive PDF, which of the following correctly describes the Page Transitions option?

It specifies a page transition to apply to all pages during export