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AUTODESK - MAYA: CERTIFICATION EXAM REVIEW


NOTE: A Maya student license is available to be downloaded to your personal computer for free here. Also, there is a program called Blender that is available for free and is in many ways similar to Maya; you can download Blender here.​

30 QUESTIONS
50 MINUTES
​PASS = 700/1000

TOPICS COVERED:

Listed by question:
  1. Camera clipping plane
  2. Dollied or Jibbed camera
  3. Selecting Objects
  4. Duplicating (using hotkey)
  5. Change last translation
  6. Creating image plane
  7. Interactive creation
  8. Smoothing Level hotkeys
  9. Polygons verses NURBS
  10. Frame Rate types and implications
  11. Creating polygons
  12. Display polygon count
  13. F8 switching
  14. Polygon components
  15. Texture terms
  16. Graph materials
  17. Projection Width & Height
  18. User Interface vocabulary/elements
  19. Wireframe coloring definitions
  20. Display types
  21. Depth Map resolution
  22. Manipulating light quality
  23. Frame range and cutting & pasting key frames
  24. Key framing
  25. Time slider navigating
  26. Key frames
  27. Navigating in 3D
  28. Rotate plane IK solver
  29. Quality value of sampling
  30. Rendering setup dialog box

SAMPLE QUESTIONS: