Appendix C
The Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2014 Certification
Autodesk certifications are industry-recognized credentials that can help you succeed in your design career, providing benefits to both you and your employer. Getting certified is a reliable validation of skills and knowledge, and it can lead to accelerated professional development, improved productivity, and enhanced credibility.
This Autodesk® Official Training Guide can be an effective component of your exam preparation. Autodesk highly recommends (and we agree!) that you schedule regular time to prepare, review the most current exam preparation road map available at www.autodesk.com/certification, use Autodesk Official Training Guides, take a class at an Authorized Training Center (find ATCs near you here: www.autodesk.com/atc), and use a variety of resources to prepare for your certification—including plenty of actual hands-on experience.
To help you focus your studies on the skills you’ll need for these exams, the following tables show objectives that could potentially appear on an exam and in which chapter you can find information on the corresponding topic—and when you go to that chapter, you’ll find certification icons like the one in the margin here.
Table C-1 is for the Autodesk Certified User Exam and lists the section, exam objectives, and chapter where the information is found. Table C-2 is for the Autodesk Certified Professional Exam. The sections and exam objectives listed in the table are from the Autodesk Certification Exam Guide.
These Autodesk exam objectives were accurate at press time; please refer to www.autodesk.com/certification for the most current exam road map and objectives.
Good luck preparing for your certification!
Table C-1: Certified User Exam sections and objectives
| Topic | Learning Objective | Chapter |
| User Interface: UI Navigation/Interaction | Access various tools on the application menu to create, open, and publish a file. | Chapters 1, 2, 8, and 27 |
| Identify and state the purpose of the main interface elements: Ribbon ⇒ panels ⇒ tabs, context (right-click) menus, menus. | Chapter 1 | |
| Demonstrate the use of the tools on the Quick Access toolbar. | Chapters 1 and 2 | |
| Define and set the workspace. | Chapters 21 and 26 | |
| Describe the functions of InfoCenter. | Chapter 2 | |
| Use the Application menu or Quick Access toolbar to open an existing file. | Chapter 1 | |
| Describe the two primary spaces in AutoCAD. | Chapters 1, 8, and 16 | |
| Use the Zoom and Pan commands to view different areas of the drawing. | Chapters 1, 2, 6, and 7 | |
| Creating Drawings: Coordinate Entry | Describe the two coordinate systems. | Chapters 2 and 22 |
| Use dynamic input, direct distance, and shortcut menus. | Chapters 1 and 2 | |
| Creating Drawings: Draw Tools and Settings | Use the Line, Circle, Arc, Erase, Rectangle, and Polygon commands to create and erase geometry in the drawing. | Chapters 1 and 2 |
| Use object snaps to accurately place and create objects in the drawing. | Chapter 3 | |
| Activate and use the Polar Tracking and PolarSnap modes to more accurately create geometry at different angles in the drawing. | Chapter 3 | |
| Explain, enable, and use object snap tracking to position geometry in the drawing. | Chapter 3 | |
| Describe the process of setting length and angle units | Chapter 3 | |
| Describe the Snap and Grid, Polar Tracking, and Object Snap settings. | Chapter 3 | |
| Manipulating Objects: Grips | Use grip modes to stretch, move, scale, rotate, or mirror an object. | Chapter 2 |
| Manipulating Objects: Object Selection | Use single clicks to add and remove objects from a selection set. | Chapter 2 |
| Use a window to select only objects that are entirely enclosed by the rectangular area. | Chapter 2 | |
| Use a window to select objects that the rectangular window encloses or crosses. | Chapter 2 | |
| Manipulating Objects: Move Objects | Use coordinates, grid snap, object snaps, and other tools to move objects with precision. | Chapters 2 and 3 |
| Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands: Layers | Use layers and the Layer Properties Manager to organize objects in your drawing. | Chapter 5 |
| Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands: Object Properties | Use the Quick Properties palette to display and change the most commonly used properties. | Chapter 5 |
| Use the Properties palette to display and change the properties of the selected object or set of objects. | Chapters 2, 5, 7, 9, and 13 | |
| Use the Match Properties command to apply the properties from a source object to destination objects. | Chapter 7 | |
| Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands: Linetypes | Use linetypes to distinguish objects in the drawing. | Chapter 5 |
| Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands: Inquiry | Use the Inquiry commands (Distance, Radius, Angle, Area, List, and ID) to obtain geometric information. | Chapters 2, 5, and 20 |
| Altering Objects: Modify Tools | Change the length of objects using the Trim and Extend commands. | Chapters 3, 6 |
| Create parallel and offset geometry in your drawing by using the Offset command. | Chapters 3 and 19 | |
| Use the Join command to combine multiple objects into a single object. | Chapters 3, 6, and 19 | |
| Break objects into two or more independent objects. | Chapters 5 and 6 | |
| Apply a radius corner to two objects in the drawing. | Chapters 3, 6, and 19 | |
| Apply an angled corner to two objects in the drawing. | Chapter 6 | |
| Use the Stretch command to alter the shape of objects in the drawing. | Chapters 2, 12, and 25 | |
| Working with Layouts: Layouts and Viewports | Identify the environments in which you can plot data and create a new layout. | Chapters 1, 8, and 16 |
| Create and manipulate viewports. | Chapters 16 and 24 | |
| Annotating the Drawing | Use the Mtext command to create multiline text. | Chapter 10 |
| Create single-line text. | Chapter 10 | |
| Use different methods to edit text. | Chapter 10 | |
| Create text styles to manage text. | Chapter 10 | |
| Dimensioning | Create dimensions using different options: Linear, Angular, Aligned, Radius, Diameter, and Center Mark. | Chapters 12 and 24 and Bonus Chapter 4 |
| Use dimension styles to manage dimensions. | Chapter 12 and Bonus Chapter 4 | |
| Create and edit multileader styles and multileaders. | Chapter 12 | |
| Use different commands and methods to edit dimensions. | Chapter 12 | |
| Hatching Objects | Add a hatch pattern to a defined boundary. | Chapter 7 |
| Hatching Objects: Fills and Gradients | Add a fill pattern or gradient to a defined boundary. | Chapter 7 |
| Hatching Objects: Edit Hatch Patterns and Fills | Modify an existing hatch or fill. | Chapter 7 |
| Working with Reusable Content: Blocks | Define and name a block. | Chapters 4 and 18 |
| Specify the name and position of a block or drawing to insert in a drawing. | Chapter 4 | |
| Working with Reusable Content: DesignCenter | Use DesignCenter to reuse the data in a drawing. | Chapter 27 |
| Working with Reusable Content: Tool Palettes | Access tool palettes and use their tools. | Chapters 1 and 27 |
| Creating Additional Drawing Objects: Shapes | Create and edit polylines with the Polyline command. | Chapter 19 |
| Create smooth curves with the Spline command. | Chapter 19 | |
| Create ellipses and elliptical arcs with the Ellipse command. | Chapter 3 | |
| Plotting Your Drawing: Output | Create and activate page setups. | Chapter 8 |
| Plot design geometry from model space or from a layout. | Chapters 8, 23, and 24 |
Table C-2: Certified Professional Exam sections and objectives
| Topic | Learning Objective | Chapter |
| Altering Objects | Stretch objects. | Chapters 2, 12, and 25 |
| Offset objects. | Chapters 3 and 19 | |
| Create a radius between objects. | Chapters 3, 6, and 19 | |
| Trim and extend objects. | Chapters 3 and 6 | |
| Break and join objects. | Chapters 3, 5, 6, and 19 | |
| Annotations | Work with text: text styles, text justification, and multiline text. | Chapter 10 |
| Set the Annotative property for objects. | Chapters 4, 10, and 12 | |
| Create and use multileaders. | Chapter 12 | |
| Create Template Content | Create and use templates. | Chapter 6 |
| Creating Additional Drawing Objects | Hide and isolate objects. | Chapter 15 |
| Create polylines. | Chapter 19 | |
| Edit polylines. | Chapter 19 | |
| Dimensioning | Create dimensions. | Chapter 12 |
| Edit dimensions. | Chapter 12 | |
| Work with dimension styles. | Chapter 12 and Bonus Chapter 4 | |
| Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands | Calculate the area of objects. | Chapter 20 |
| Change object properties. | Chapters 2, 5, 7, 9, and 13 | |
| Use layers. | Chapter 5 | |
| Hatching Objects | Use hatching. | Chapter 7 |
| Insert and Manage External References | Apply external references. | Chapter 7 |
| Isolate or Hide Displayed Objects | Isolate and hide objects. | Chapter 15 |
| Manipulating Objects | Use Grips. | Chapter 2 |
| Copy, move, mirror, and rotate objects. | Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 22 | |
| Use selection set methods. | Chapter 2 | |
| Describe and use arrays. | Chapters 6 and 22 | |
| Use rotation reference angles. | Chapter 2 | |
| Layouts and Visibility | Create and use viewports. | Chapters 16 and 24 |
| Create and use layouts. | Chapters 8, 16, and 24 | |
| Create and manage layers. | Chapter 5 | |
| Printing and Plotting | Use page setup for plotting. | Chapter 8 |
| Reusable Content | Create, insert, and edit blocks. | Chapters 4 and 18 |