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Adobe Illustrator ACA Exam Guide
2025 Questions With All Correct
Answers.
What essential information should you get from a client before you begin a project? -
✔✔Client's business, the project's purpose, the target audience and their needs
What is intellectual property? - ✔✔Someone's original work. Creations of the mind,
such as inventions, symbols, images, text, and images.
What are derivative works? - ✔✔Work based off of someone else's original, copyrighted
work.
When can you use work to make a derivative work? - ✔✔Must have permission from
the copyright owner, or the original work must be in the public domain.
When must you obtain permission before using an image? - ✔✔If the image has a
copyright notice.
If the image does not have a copyright notice.
If you find the image with a regular web search.
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What are the five phases of a design project? - ✔✔Designing, Planning, Building,
Testing, Publishing or Launch
Why is it important to update a client regularly throughout the design process? - ✔✔So
that the client can give you information as it comes, as well as being able to make sure
the client is satisfied.(Regular Feedback.)
What is the Gestalt principle of design? - ✔✔The idea that the sum is greater than its
parts in design
When using the Rule of Thirds, where should the focal point of the image be aligned? -
✔✔Along points where lines cross.
Explain the concept of hierarchy. - ✔✔Making more important information stand out
among the design.
What is the purpose of the Color Guide panel in Illustrator? - ✔✔Recommends colors
that would work well with colors currently in your design
What are Harmony Rules? - ✔✔Sets of colors that would work well with colors in your
design based on relationships on the color wheel
What is the difference between ppi and dpi? - ✔✔PPI-Pixels Per Inch=Resolution of
your display
DPI-Dots Per Inch=Resolution of your printer
What resolution is recommended for a printed graphic? Displayed? - ✔✔300 dpi
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72 ppi
What are some common raster file types? - ✔✔Photographs jpg/jpeg, psd, png, tiff,
bmp and gif
What are some common vector file types? - ✔✔Fonts,eps, ai and pdf
What are some common video file types? - ✔✔.avi .mov .asf .avi .mp4
Wrap text around an object. - ✔✔Choose Object>Text Wrap>Make.
Create point type. - ✔✔Text Tool>Type
Point type is when the type goes straight
Create paragraph type. - ✔✔Text tool>Click and drag>Type
Paragraph type is when it follows the text box set previously.
Change the paragraph alignment or spacing. - ✔✔Characters Panel>alignment/spacing
(type tool active)
Change the kerning, leading, or horizontal scale. - ✔✔Characters
Panel>kerning/leading/horizontal scale (type tool active)
What is kerning? - ✔✔Adjusting the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of
text to be printed.
What is leading? - ✔✔The vertical lines of spacing between type
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
Adobe Illustrator ACA Exam Guide
2025 Questions With All Correct
Answers.
What essential information should you get from a client before you begin a project? -
✔✔Client's business, the project's purpose, the target audience and their needs
What is intellectual property? - ✔✔Someone's original work. Creations of the mind,
such as inventions, symbols, images, text, and images.
What are derivative works? - ✔✔Work based off of someone else's original, copyrighted
work.
When can you use work to make a derivative work? - ✔✔Must have permission from
the copyright owner, or the original work must be in the public domain.
When must you obtain permission before using an image? - ✔✔If the image has a
copyright notice.
If the image does not have a copyright notice.
If you find the image with a regular web search.
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
,2|Page
What are the five phases of a design project? - ✔✔Designing, Planning, Building,
Testing, Publishing or Launch
Why is it important to update a client regularly throughout the design process? - ✔✔So
that the client can give you information as it comes, as well as being able to make sure
the client is satisfied.(Regular Feedback.)
What is the Gestalt principle of design? - ✔✔The idea that the sum is greater than its
parts in design
When using the Rule of Thirds, where should the focal point of the image be aligned? -
✔✔Along points where lines cross.
Explain the concept of hierarchy. - ✔✔Making more important information stand out
among the design.
What is the purpose of the Color Guide panel in Illustrator? - ✔✔Recommends colors
that would work well with colors currently in your design
What are Harmony Rules? - ✔✔Sets of colors that would work well with colors in your
design based on relationships on the color wheel
What is the difference between ppi and dpi? - ✔✔PPI-Pixels Per Inch=Resolution of
your display
DPI-Dots Per Inch=Resolution of your printer
What resolution is recommended for a printed graphic? Displayed? - ✔✔300 dpi
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
, 3|Page
72 ppi
What are some common raster file types? - ✔✔Photographs jpg/jpeg, psd, png, tiff,
bmp and gif
What are some common vector file types? - ✔✔Fonts,eps, ai and pdf
What are some common video file types? - ✔✔.avi .mov .asf .avi .mp4
Wrap text around an object. - ✔✔Choose Object>Text Wrap>Make.
Create point type. - ✔✔Text Tool>Type
Point type is when the type goes straight
Create paragraph type. - ✔✔Text tool>Click and drag>Type
Paragraph type is when it follows the text box set previously.
Change the paragraph alignment or spacing. - ✔✔Characters Panel>alignment/spacing
(type tool active)
Change the kerning, leading, or horizontal scale. - ✔✔Characters
Panel>kerning/leading/horizontal scale (type tool active)
What is kerning? - ✔✔Adjusting the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of
text to be printed.
What is leading? - ✔✔The vertical lines of spacing between type
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
