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Basic AutoDesk Maya MCQ

1.

Which among these lets you interactively update portions or all of the scene and get immediate feedback?

Render current frame

Redo previous render

IPR render current frame

All of above

Answer

Correct Answer: IPR render current frame

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Which surface material is used by initial(default) shading group?

Phong

Lambert

Blinn

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Lambert

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In the given Image, which one among the marked options represents anisotropic material?

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: A

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Which among these is not an emitter type?

Surface

Spot

Curve

Volume

Answer

Correct Answer: Spot

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Which keyboard shortcut lets you edit the particle object in edit mode?

Escape

Insert

Spacebar

'E'

Answer

Correct Answer: Insert

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6. Which attribute for a particle per object is set to "Live forever" in order to make the particles live for ever?

LifespanMode

Lifespan

LifespanRandom

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: LifespanMode

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7. Which tool would you use to transform a number of items proportional, based on the distance from the manipulator handle?

Proportional modification tool

Move tool

Move normal tool

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Proportional modification tool

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In the given figure, which Maya utility does the button marked in red points to?

Hypershade

Render globals

Render diagnostics

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Render globals

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9. Render diagnostics can display limitations and recommendations regarding output image file format restrictions?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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10. Which type of attribute is typically used in an expression to control a combination of other attributes?

Static attributes

Dynamic attributes

Custom attributes

All of above

Answer

Correct Answer: Custom attributes

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11.

Which light is used to simulate a combination of direct light and indirect light?

Point light

Directional light

Ambient light

Volume light

Answer

Correct Answer: Ambient light

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12.

Which light has been used for rendering the given image?

Point light

Directional light

Spot light

Area light

Answer

Correct Answer: Spot light

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13. Which editor is used to create, edit, and connect rendering nodes, such as textures, materials, lights, rendering utilities, and special effects?

Hypergraph

Hypershade

Outliner

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Hypershade

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14. Which Move tool option causes the manipulator orientation to reflect the moved surface rather than the original surface and lets you move selected CVs on a NURBS surface in the U or V direction?

Object

Local

World

Normal

Answer

Correct Answer: Normal

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15.

Which utility is shown in the given image?

Multilister

Hypershade

Hypergraph

Visor

Answer

Correct Answer: Multilister

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16. Which material type is used for representing matte surfaces with no specular highlights, such as chalk or unpolished surfaces?

Phong

Lambert

Blinn

Phong E

Answer

Correct Answer: Lambert

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17. In the given image, the area marked in red shows the?

Range slider

Time slider

Playback controls

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Range slider

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18. What would you do to a NURBS surface in order to create a curve on that surface?

Make live

Center pivot

Add attribute

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Make live

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19. "Parameter tool" displays the direction of the curve or surface and the normal to the curve or surface at a specified point?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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20. Which key would you press in order to turn on the pivot point manipulator?

Escape

Insert

End

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Insert

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21. Which of the following lets you edit event and sound synchronization and timing?

Blend shape editor

Curve editor

Dope sheet editor

Expression editor

Answer

Correct Answer: Dope sheet editor

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22. Animating an object using motion path creates a dynamic animation?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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23.
How many CVs at least would you need to complete a degree 5 curve?

Answer

Correct Answer: 6

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24. Which Material type has been used to render the sphere in the given image?

Phong

Lambert

Blinn

Anisotropic

Answer

Correct Answer: Lambert

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25. Displacement mapping does not change the surface by moving its vertices but only changes the surface's normals?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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26. Which type of light Maya automatically creates during render, if there is no light in the scene?

Point light

Directional light

Ambient light

Volume light

Answer

Correct Answer: Directional light

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27. Which among the following materials is a volumetric material?

Ocean shader

Phong

Shading map

Light fog

Answer

Correct Answer: Light fog

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28. Key Ticks are shown as green marks whereas breakdowns are shown as red marks on the time slider?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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29.
While using Move tool, which "Set keys on" option should be selected in order to set the keys on translate x,y & z attributes only?

All keyable attributes

All Manipulator handles

Current Manipulator handle

All manipulator handles & keyable attributes

Answer

Correct Answer: All Manipulator handles

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30.
Color curve attribute is only available for spot light?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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31.
Which among these fog types can cast shadows?

Environment fog

Simple fog

Physical fog

Light fog

Answer

Correct Answer: Light fog

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32.
Which utility node is used to obtain information about the position of a light relative to a texture?

Double-sided shading

Sampler info

Light info

Projection

Answer

Correct Answer: Light info

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33.
Which NURBS element is being represented by the yellow colored line in the given image?

Hull

Isoparm

Normal

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Isoparm

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34. Which animation types can be edited in the graph editor?

Expressions

Animation curves

Inverse Kinematics

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Animation curves

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35. Which animation types can be edited in the graph editor?

Point light

Ambient light

Volume light

Directional light

Answer

Correct Answer: Ambient light

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36. "Hold current keys" sets keys only for the attributes that change value?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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37. Which manipulator is represented by yellow square pointed at with the red arrow in the given image of a spotlight?

Pivot

Cone angle

Penumbra

Decay regions

Answer

Correct Answer: Penumbra

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38. Breakdowns can be converted into keys but keys cannot be converted into breakdowns?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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39. Which is a 3d texture type?

Cloth

File

Brownian

Ramp

Answer

Correct Answer: Brownian

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40. In the given image, which Birail tool has been used to create the surface in graphic 1, using the vertical curves as profile curves and horizontal curves as rail curves in graphic 2?

Birail 1 tool

Birail 2 tool

Birail 3+ tool

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Birail 3+ tool

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41. Which animation editor is shown in the given graphic?

Curve editor

Trax editor

Dope sheet editor

Blend shape editor

Answer

Correct Answer: Trax editor

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42. Which "world up type" in "attach to motion path" tool specifies that the up vector try to aim at the origin of a specified object instead of the world up vector?

Scene up

Object up

Object rotation up

Vector

Answer

Correct Answer: Object up

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43. Which output image file formats can store the depth channels in one file?

Maya IFF

Maya16 IFF

RLA

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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44. In the given image, the particle render type is set to?

Point

Multipoint

Streak

Multistreak

Answer

Correct Answer: Multistreak

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45. State whether True or False:

Keys cannot be set on the transform attributes of particles individually in a particle object.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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46. Which of these is a software render type for particles?

Point

Sphere

Sprite

Cloud

Answer

Correct Answer: Cloud

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47. Which rotation interpolation would be set in order to create curves that have keyframes on sibling curves locked together but the interpolation between keyframes is performed in Euler-space?

Independent Euler-Angle curves

Synchronized Euler-Angle curves

Synchronized Quaternion curves

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Synchronized Euler-Angle curves

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48. Which of the following particle render types allows setting "Line width" attribute for rendering?

Point

Streak

Multipoint

All of above

Answer

Correct Answer: Streak

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49. After duplicating mesh, the rotate trasform affecs on scale. What to do, to fix it?

Delit history

Un-parent (SHIFT+P)

Export the object as an obj and reimport it

Delit all meshes

Parent (P)

Answer

Correct Answer: Un-parent (SHIFT+P)

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50. How to Turn Show Wireframe on/off?

Alt+a

Answer

Correct Answer: Alt+a

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51. How to turn play animation

alt-a

alt-b

alt-v

alt-x

Answer

Correct Answer: alt-v

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52. How to turn on full screan mode?

Spacebar+Enter

Enter

Spacebar

Ctrl+Spacebar

Answer

Correct Answer: Ctrl+Spacebar

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53. Where to set a multi uv tile workflow

UV Texture Editor>View>Grid

Uv texture editor>Polygons>Unfold

Answer

Correct Answer: UV Texture Editor>View>Grid

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54. How to Toggle Reflection on/off?

Alt+p

Alt+r

Answer

Correct Answer: Alt+r

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55. Paint Effects Brush Settings menu.

Ctrl+b

Ctrl+v

Ctrl+c

Ctrl+n

Answer

Correct Answer: Ctrl+b

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56. How to switches between move pivot and move object?

Insert+d

Insert+o

Insert

Insert+c

Answer

Correct Answer: Insert

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57. How to flood with the current value?

Alt+f

Alt+y

Answer

Correct Answer: Alt+f

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58. How to turn on soft selection?

Answer

Correct Answer: b

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59. How to Turn Color Feedback on/off?

Alt+c

Answer

Correct Answer: Alt+c

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60. Snap to grids

Answer

Correct Answer: x

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61. True or False? Blendshapes can work only as long as the target is not deleted.

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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62. True or False? The IK/FK Spring solver is a valid solver in Maya.

False

TRUE

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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63. When modeling with nurbs and using the boundary command, the curves involved in the operation must obligatorily be touching each other in 3D space.

TRUE

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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64. How many assemblyDefinition nodes can a Maya scene contain?

It depends on how many assembly representations you have

One

Unlimited

Ten

Answer

Correct Answer: One

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65. You can choose the wireframe color for your geometry

By selecting the geometry and invoking a color chooser

From a limited pallete

If its renderable

Answer

Correct Answer: From a limited pallete

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66. The "by frame" option in the common tab of the render global settings allows you to:

Render frames in any order

Renders on the specified frames in the range

None of the above

Define a sub-frame sampling factor for rendered frames

Answer

Correct Answer: Define a sub-frame sampling factor for rendered frames

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67. In Maya, what does DAG stand for?

Deeply Accessed Graphics

Dipole Auxilary Graphics

Directed Acyclic Graph

Directly Accessible Graph

Answer

Correct Answer: Directed Acyclic Graph

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68. For some reason I suddenly realize that my camera is tumbling faster than normally. I may have:

Changed my scene scale size

Messed with my tumble scale

Increased my clipping plane

Chosen a pivot that exceeds acceptable boundaries

Answer

Correct Answer: Messed with my tumble scale

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69. What is the best way to translate components along any arbitrary direction?

Object

Along rotation axis

Custom axis orientation

World

Answer

Correct Answer: Custom axis orientation

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70. To edit length of anchor handles in the graph editor, first you must:

Lock tangent weight

unify tangents

Create weighted tangent

Free tangent weights

Break tangent

Answer

Correct Answer: Create weighted tangent

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71. True or False? To eliminate undesirable deformation effects where the mesh loses volume as a bone twists on its axis, you would use the classic linear smooth skinning method.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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72. How many Tris will have sqare Polygon after Triangulation?

Answer

Correct Answer: 2

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73. The object selection mask is used for

Determining what type of object I can select

Making objects selectable but not components

Selecting masked objects

Determining what type of data the selection operation can be performed on in the viewport

Answer

Correct Answer: Determining what type of data the selection operation can be performed on in the viewport

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74. Although you can examine multiple types of blind data at one time in the Blind Data Editor, you are only allowed one type of ______ action

Extrusion

Color/query

Stitching

Light source

Answer

Correct Answer: Color/query

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75. If an object has a positive parallax, when viewed stereoscopically, it will:

Seem further away

Go into the screen

Be darker

Appear to the right

Answer

Correct Answer: Go into the screen

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76. Under what menu is the Normal Map transfer at?

Lighting/Shading>Batch Bake>Transfer Maps

Rendering>lighting>Transfer Maps

Rendering>Transfer Maps

Lighting/Shading>Transfer Maps

Answer

Correct Answer: Lighting/Shading>Transfer Maps

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77. in the graph editor to make an animation curve repeat down the time line from it's LAST set value, you have to follow this list:

Curves > Post Infinity > Cycle

Curves > Post Infinity > Oscillate

Curves > Pre Infinity > Cycle with Offset

Curves > Post Infinity > Cycle with Offset

Curves > Pre Infinity > Cycle

Answer

Correct Answer: Curves > Post Infinity > Cycle with Offset

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78. If you render a nurbs surface with Mental Ray for Maya and it does not look as smooth as in the view port, one of the things you may have to do to fix the problem is:

Neither of these

Check its approximation settings

Both of these

Check its tassellation values

Answer

Correct Answer: Both of these

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79. What material channel controls how glossy a Phong material is?

Specular Color

Glow Intensity

Cosine Power

Eccentricity

Reflectivity

Answer

Correct Answer: Cosine Power

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80. What are the Hotkeys for the various menu groups?

The Number Pad

spacebar

The Function Keys

there are no hotkeys for the menu goups

ctrl/cmd+shift number pad

Answer

Correct Answer: The Function Keys

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81. True or False? The Trax Editor is not allowed to control motion path animation.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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82. A hull is to nurbs as ______ is to polygons

Isoparm

Boundary edge

Edge

Edge loop

Answer

Correct Answer: Edge loop

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83. What material channel controls how glossy a Blinn material is?

Cosine Power

Glow Intensity

Reflectivity

Specular Color

Eccentricity

Answer

Correct Answer: Eccentricity

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84. What button do you hold down to move a joint without moving the children?

Alt

Shift

Answer

Correct Answer: D

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85. What is shortcut you can smooth object with edit cage ?

Answer

Correct Answer: 2

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86. In stereoscopic renderings the ______ defines the zero point of depth of field.

Zero Parallax

Field of Vision

Depth of Field Plane

Red square

Answer

Correct Answer: Zero Parallax

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87. When Gamma correcting an 8bit file for use in a linear workflow, what value should be used for the RGB gamma values, assuming you are correcting a 2.2 gamma?

4.5

.454

1.11

Answer

Correct Answer: .454

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88. The Maya built in renderer will render particles

If you have enough particle count

If you turn on the render particles option on the renderer options

Of All types

if they are meant for software rendering

Answer

Correct Answer: if they are meant for software rendering

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89. The option that defines how far apart the left and right cameras are in a stereo rig is called:

Focal Length

Angle of View

Interaxial Separation

Zero Parallax

Answer

Correct Answer: Interaxial Separation

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90. Which mode allows you to orient joint axis?

Hierarchy

Joint

Object Type

Component

Answer

Correct Answer: Component

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91. True or False? To deform (influence) particles, you can use Deformers like Bend and Twist.

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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92. What is the short command to change the main menu bar to animation ?

Answer

Correct Answer: F2

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93. What is the keyboard shortcut key used to add a shortcut for any tool from mesh, surface, animation, etc to the shelf.

Alt+Shift+Ctrl (Cmd)+click

Alt+Shift+click

Shift+Ctrl (Cmd)+click

Answer

Correct Answer: Shift+Ctrl (Cmd)+click

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94. What is the shortcut to simply change the background viewport colors?

Shift + b

Alt + b

Alt + Shift + b

Answer

Correct Answer: Alt + b

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95. What is the hot-key to add a function or tool to a shelf tab?

Ctrl (Cmd) + Shift + left click it in the menu

Space + right click

Ctrl (Cmd) + middle click

Ctrl (Cmd) + Shift + right click

Answer

Correct Answer: Ctrl (Cmd) + Shift + left click it in the menu

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96. On a rig, what would you use to change the orientation of an IK joint chain directly?

Lattice

Component Editor

Pole Vector

Rotation tool

Answer

Correct Answer: Pole Vector

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97. To adjust the timing of an animation while holding attribute values at points on the animation curve, you would use:

Breakdowns

Geometry caches

Drivers

Motion capturing

Answer

Correct Answer: Breakdowns

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98. For photo-realistic rendering which of these has to be true?

Anti aliasing should be remove by highest setting

Geometry Has to perfect

Light has to have Quadratic decay rate

Polygonal Facet has to be minimum

Answer

Correct Answer: Light has to have Quadratic decay rate

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99. What option brings a skeleton back to its default pose?

Reset skeleton

Joint Tool

Reset joints

Go to bind pose

Answer

Correct Answer: Go to bind pose

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100. What does the term Valency refer to?

The total number of edges on a polygon object

The number of unique objects in a scene

The total number of faces on a polygon object

The number of edges connected to a single vertex

Answer

Correct Answer: The number of edges connected to a single vertex

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101. What tool allows you to blend animation clips

Trax Editor

Attribute Editor

Graph Editor

Hypergraph

Answer

Correct Answer: Trax Editor

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102. What tool will you use to connect sets of edges or faces?

Insert edge loop tool

Bevel tool

Combine tool

Bridge tool

Answer

Correct Answer: Bridge tool

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103. What button makes a selected object a parent of another selected object?

Shift+Right-Click

Shift+P

Alt+P

Answer

Correct Answer: P

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104. The Trax Editor is a animation tool that lets you:

Displays animation curve segments, keys, and key tangents

Control characters and their animation clips, layer and blend animation sequences

Tool to simplify tracking a live-action shot

Create, re-arrange, and manipulate camera shots

Answer

Correct Answer: Control characters and their animation clips, layer and blend animation sequences

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105. Which shading simulates global lighting on an object?

Ambient Occlusion

Phong E

Phong

Surface Shader

Answer

Correct Answer: Ambient Occlusion

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106. Which of these tools will allow you to smooth out geometry?

Smooth Bind

Jiggle Deformer

Lattice

Sculpt Geometry Tool

Answer

Correct Answer: Sculpt Geometry Tool

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107. If you want to save the weights after weighting the rig, the first thing you should do is:

Open a new scene

Make a new UV set

Unbind the skin

Export Weights

Answer

Correct Answer: Export Weights

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108. Animation layers

Are used for non destructively editing animation

Don't give you the option of layering material attributes

Can work only for Characters

Works only if you used IK rigs

Answer

Correct Answer: Are used for non destructively editing animation

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109. In 3D computer graphics, what color is generally used to represent the Y axis as opposed to the X and Z?

Blue

Green

Red

Yellow

Answer

Correct Answer: Green

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110. Maya can import .3ds geometry files by default

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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111. What does the lattice tool create around its selected surface?

Edge loop

Face

Circle

Cage

Answer

Correct Answer: Cage

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112. How can one render an animation project in maya?

animation render

file render

through render menu set, render, batch render

timeline render

all of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: through render menu set, render, batch render

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113. What camera should you create if you want to create a 3D image that you can view with red/blue glasses?

Two cameras manually placed

Stereo

Camera, Aim, and Up

Answer

Correct Answer: Stereo

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114. What are the functions of each light in a Three-Point Lighting system?

Fill Light, Front Light, Side Light

Rear Light, Top Light, Fill Light

Back Light, Front Light, Fill Light

Back Light, Fill Light, Key Light

Answer

Correct Answer: Back Light, Fill Light, Key Light

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115. The Hotbox in Maya is a:

MEL command

Menu navigational tool

Snapping operation

Answer

Correct Answer: Menu navigational tool

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116. I can connect the output of a node from Maya's hypershade to the input of a transform node

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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117. What is a Playblast?

The viewport

A render of each frame based on the render settings

A low-resolution crude render

Answer

Correct Answer: A low-resolution crude render

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118. Which of these allows you to configure the skin weights of multiple vectors at once:

Component Editor

Hypershade

Hypergraph

Graph Editor

Answer

Correct Answer: Component Editor

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119. Where is “Hypershade” located in the menu?

Window>Rendering Editors>Hypershade

Window>General Editors>Hypershade

Window>Animation Editors>Hypershade

Render>Hypershade

Window>Hypershade

Answer

Correct Answer: Window>Rendering Editors>Hypershade

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120. One of the advantages to save a scene in the Maya Ascii file formats (.ma) is:

To move between Maya's previous versions

Takes less disk space when compared with .mb file

Answer

Correct Answer: To move between Maya's previous versions

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121. What key would you hold down to snap to vertices?

Answer

Correct Answer: V

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122. When zooming up close on an object and some of the object disappears, what should you adjust?

The lighting

Near Clip Plane

Far Clip Plane

Nothing to do

Answer

Correct Answer: Near Clip Plane

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123. Which of these is required to bake ambient occlusion maps?

Lambert

Mental Ray

Hypergraph

Answer

Correct Answer: Mental Ray

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124. What deformer lets you change the shape of an object into other shapes?

Transfer Maps

Sculpt Geometry

Smooth Bind

Blend Shapes

Answer

Correct Answer: Blend Shapes

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125. What is Maya's default linear working unit?

Meter

Yard

Centimeter

Inch

Answer

Correct Answer: Centimeter

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126. What is the window called that displays a lists of all polygons,lights,dynamics, groups, and etc in a maya scene?

Outliner

Connection Editor

Hypergraph

Visor

Answer

Correct Answer: Outliner

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127. When setting up a leg or arm rig, you would typically use:

Rigid Bind

Smooth Bind

Answer

Correct Answer: IK

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128. What is the shortcut key to duplicate objects?

Cmd (Ctrl) + D

Cmd (Ctrl) + A

Shift + A

Shift + D

Answer

Correct Answer: Cmd (Ctrl) + D

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129. What channel do you put normal maps into?

Specular

Incandescence

Bump Mapping

Diffuse

Answer

Correct Answer: Bump Mapping

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130. What is the name of Maya's unique, stroke based geometry creation system?

Fluid Effects

GrowFX

Optical Flow

Maya L-System

Paint Effects

Answer

Correct Answer: Paint Effects

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131. What is a vertex?

A data structure that describes a point in 2D or 3D space

The center point of a X-Y Axis

Another name for a polygon

Answer

Correct Answer: A data structure that describes a point in 2D or 3D space

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132. What is the fastest method to create a doughnut?

Create polygon tool

Torus

Cylinder

Cube

Answer

Correct Answer: Torus

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133. Which is NOT a UV projection Method?

Automatic Mapping

Planar Mapping

Spherical Mapping

Cylindrical Mapping

Volume Mapping

Answer

Correct Answer: Volume Mapping

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134. What is a single point in 3D space, defined by X axis, Y axis, and Z axis?

Face

Vertex

Edge

Answer

Correct Answer: Vertex

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135. What is the hotkey to view model in smooth mode?

Answer

Correct Answer: 3

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136. How do you convert a procedural texture or shading network into a file texture?

In the render setting

In the edit menu of the hypershade

In the outliner

Answer

Correct Answer: In the edit menu of the hypershade

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137. Which one of these is not a scripting language you can use in Maya:

Python

Ruby

Mel

Answer

Correct Answer: Ruby

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138. Shortcut to decrease or increase the size of the Pivot Manipulator ?

In the Maya preferences

Right click in the pivot it self

Double click the move tool

The ‘+’ or ‘-’ key

Answer

Correct Answer: The ‘+’ or ‘-’ key

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139. What hot-key focuses your active view on a selected object?

Ctrl + F

Alt + F

TAB

Shift + F

Answer

Correct Answer: F

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140. What does Maya's classic 4-panel layout consist of?

Perspective View (Camera), View from Render Camera, Top View, Side View

Perspective View (Camera), Top View, Front View, Side View

Perspective View (Camera), Hardware texture, Side View, Render View

Perspective View (Camera), View from Light Shape, Render View, Hypershade

Perspective View (Camera), Curve Editor, Hypershade, Outliner

Answer

Correct Answer: Perspective View (Camera), Top View, Front View, Side View

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141. To extend the functionality, Maya provides a scripting language:

MEL or Python

JavaScript

Boo Script

Answer

Correct Answer: MEL or Python

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142. what is the hotkey, to view object in wireframe mode?

Answer

Correct Answer: 4

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143. What is a line that connects two vertices on polygonal mesh?

Line

Face

Mesh

Edge

Curve

Answer

Correct Answer: Edge

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144. What does the Extrude tool do?

Connects two selected faces

Pushes out or in selected component

Finishes the project for you

Nothing

Answer

Correct Answer: Pushes out or in selected component

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145. What is the best way to remove unwanted vertices and edges?

Hit the delete key

Nothing can be done

Delete Edge/Vertex

Hide them

Answer

Correct Answer: Delete Edge/Vertex

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146. Which option allows you to render shadows?

Translucence

Bump Mapping

Raytrace

Incandescence

Answer

Correct Answer: Raytrace

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147. What is the name of the tool used to add additional edge loops to selected geometry?

Slide Edge Tool

Insert Edge Loop Tool

Offset Edge Loop Tool

Merge Edge Tool

Bridge

Answer

Correct Answer: Insert Edge Loop Tool

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148. What Hotkey allows you to jump between viewports

"V"

ctrl/cmd

spacebar

shift

Answer

Correct Answer: spacebar

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149. What are the keyboard shortcuts for Translate, Rotate and Scale?

W, E, R

G, Shift+Alt, Right Mouse Button

G, R, T

T, R, S

Answer

Correct Answer: W, E, R

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150. A collection of faces, vertices, and edges form...what?

Picture

Face

Mesh

Answer

Correct Answer: Mesh

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151. When finished modeling, what needs to be done, before applying custom textures?

Sing a song

Sud-divide the object

Lay out the UVs

Nothing

Answer

Correct Answer: Lay out the UVs

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152. What is the name of the window that allows you to view a list of every item in your scene?

Rendering

History

Show All

Hypershade

Outliner

Answer

Correct Answer: Outliner

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153. The attributes of the default Lambert shader in Maya can be modified

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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154. To extrude edges or faces along a path curve, you can use:

With the help of the wrap deformer

Edit mesh > project curve on mesh > options

Edit mesh > extrude > options

Answer

Correct Answer: Edit mesh > extrude > options

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155. Which camera viewport is not an orthographic viewport?

Perspective

Front

Top

Back

Side

Answer

Correct Answer: Perspective

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156. When ready to render, where in the Rendering menu set is the "batch render" located?

Lighting/Shading

Assets

Render

File

Answer

Correct Answer: Render

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157. If faces are appearing black in the viewport, one sided lighting is on, and there is no black material applied to geometry, what is the solution?

Reverse the edges

Reverse the normals

Delete all work and start over

Smooth the object

Answer

Correct Answer: Reverse the normals

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158. Which shortcut repeats your last action?

Answer

Correct Answer: G

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159. How many edges can the Create Polygon Tool support?

Unlimited

100

Answer

Correct Answer: Unlimited

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160. Which material channel enables an object to appear to have detailed geometry without modeling it?

Diffuse

Specular

Bump Mapping

Translucence

Answer

Correct Answer: Bump Mapping

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161. What material channel does a specular map plug into?

Translucence

Specular Color

Eccentricity

Color

Cosine Power

Answer

Correct Answer: Specular Color

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162. As from Maya 2014, how would you open a newer version file into a previous version of maya ?

Check "ignore version" preference

Its not possible to open a newer version file in older version.

Answer

Correct Answer: Check "ignore version" preference

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163. What type of texture map is a VDM?

Voxel direction map

Value depth map

Vector displacement map

Vertex data map

Answer

Correct Answer: Vector displacement map

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164. Maps which use the RGB channels to encode surface information on geometry at render time are called:

Normal Maps

Phong E

Blinn

Bump Maps

Answer

Correct Answer: Normal Maps

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165. Double click in the Select Tool, will open the:

Channel Box

Tool Setting

Tool Help

Attribute Editor

Answer

Correct Answer: Tool Setting

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166. What is a n-gon?

A cube with more than four edges

A Polygon with more than two vertices

A Polygon with more than three edges

A Polygon with more than four edges

Answer

Correct Answer: A Polygon with more than four edges

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167. What key would you hold down to snap to the grid?

Answer

Correct Answer: X

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168. What shortcut do you use to grow your selection (ie. when working with faces or vertices)?

There is no shortcut

Shift + <

Cmd + ^

Shift + >

Answer

Correct Answer: Shift + >

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169. Dynamic Relationships Editor, is used to control relationships of:

Deformer set editing

Particle objects

Character editing

Light linking

Answer

Correct Answer: Particle objects

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170. what is the frame limit for the maya timeline

time code

unlimited

48frames

timeline length

24frames

Answer

Correct Answer: unlimited

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171. what is the recommended folder for saving .ma or .mb files in maya?

scene folder

all of the above

file export

image folder

file save as

Answer

Correct Answer: scene folder

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172. What is the name of Maya's material editor?

Material Editor

Shader Editor

Hypershade

Material Component Editor

Vipershade

Answer

Correct Answer: Hypershade

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1. Which among these lets you interactively update portions or all of the scene and get immediate feedback?

2. Which surface material is used by initial(default) shading group?

3. In the given Image, which one among the marked options represents anisotropic material?

4. Which among these is not an emitter type?

5. Which keyboard shortcut lets you edit the particle object in edit mode?

6. Which attribute for a particle per object is set to "Live forever" in order to make the particles live for ever?

7. Which tool would you use to transform a number of items proportional, based on the distance from the manipulator handle?

8. In the given figure, which Maya utility does the button marked in red points to?

9. Render diagnostics can display limitations and recommendations regarding output image file format restrictions?

10. Which type of attribute is typically used in an expression to control a combination of other attributes?

11. Which light is used to simulate a combination of direct light and indirect light?

12. Which light has been used for rendering the given image?

13. Which editor is used to create, edit, and connect rendering nodes, such as textures, materials, lights, rendering utilities, and special effects?

14. Which Move tool option causes the manipulator orientation to reflect the moved surface rather than the original surface and lets you move selected CVs on a NURBS surface in the U or V direction?

15. Which utility is shown in the given image?

16. Which material type is used for representing matte surfaces with no specular highlights, such as chalk or unpolished surfaces?

17. In the given image, the area marked in red shows the?

18. What would you do to a NURBS surface in order to create a curve on that surface?

19. "Parameter tool" displays the direction of the curve or surface and the normal to the curve or surface at a specified point?

20. Which key would you press in order to turn on the pivot point manipulator?

21. Which of the following lets you edit event and sound synchronization and timing?

22. Animating an object using motion path creates a dynamic animation?

23. How many CVs at least would you need to complete a degree 5 curve?

24. Which Material type has been used to render the sphere in the given image?

25. Displacement mapping does not change the surface by moving its vertices but only changes the surface's normals?

26. Which type of light Maya automatically creates during render, if there is no light in the scene?

27. Which among the following materials is a volumetric material?

28. Key Ticks are shown as green marks whereas breakdowns are shown as red marks on the time slider?

29. While using Move tool, which "Set keys on" option should be selected in order to set the keys on translate x,y & z attributes only?

30. Color curve attribute is only available for spot light?

31. Which among these fog types can cast shadows?

32. Which utility node is used to obtain information about the position of a light relative to a texture?

33. Which NURBS element is being represented by the yellow colored line in the given image?

34. Which animation types can be edited in the graph editor?

35. Which animation types can be edited in the graph editor?

36. "Hold current keys" sets keys only for the attributes that change value?

37. Which manipulator is represented by yellow square pointed at with the red arrow in the given image of a spotlight?

38. Breakdowns can be converted into keys but keys cannot be converted into breakdowns?

39. Which is a 3d texture type?

40. In the given image, which Birail tool has been used to create the surface in graphic 1, using the vertical curves as profile curves and horizontal curves as rail curves in graphic 2?

41. Which animation editor is shown in the given graphic?

42. Which "world up type" in "attach to motion path" tool specifies that the up vector try to aim at the origin of a specified object instead of the world up vector?

43. Which output image file formats can store the depth channels in one file?

44. In the given image, the particle render type is set to?

45. State whether True or False: Keys cannot be set on the transform attributes of particles individually in a particle object.

46. Which of these is a software render type for particles?

47. Which rotation interpolation would be set in order to create curves that have keyframes on sibling curves locked together but the interpolation between keyframes is performed in Euler-space?

48. Which of the following particle render types allows setting "Line width" attribute for rendering?

49. After duplicating mesh, the rotate trasform affecs on scale. What to do, to fix it?

50. How to Turn Show Wireframe on/off?

51. How to turn play animation

52. How to turn on full screan mode?

53. Where to set a multi uv tile workflow

54. How to Toggle Reflection on/off?

55. Paint Effects Brush Settings menu.

56. How to switches between move pivot and move object?

57. How to flood with the current value?

58. How to turn on soft selection?

59. How to Turn Color Feedback on/off?

60. Snap to grids

61. True or False? Blendshapes can work only as long as the target is not deleted.

62. True or False? The IK/FK Spring solver is a valid solver in Maya.

63. When modeling with nurbs and using the boundary command, the curves involved in the operation must obligatorily be touching each other in 3D space.

64. How many assemblyDefinition nodes can a Maya scene contain?

65. You can choose the wireframe color for your geometry

66. The "by frame" option in the common tab of the render global settings allows you to:

67. In Maya, what does DAG stand for?

68. For some reason I suddenly realize that my camera is tumbling faster than normally. I may have:

69. What is the best way to translate components along any arbitrary direction?

70. To edit length of anchor handles in the graph editor, first you must:

71. True or False? To eliminate undesirable deformation effects where the mesh loses volume as a bone twists on its axis, you would use the classic linear smooth skinning method.

72. How many Tris will have sqare Polygon after Triangulation?

73. The object selection mask is used for

74. Although you can examine multiple types of blind data at one time in the Blind Data Editor, you are only allowed one type of ______ action

75. If an object has a positive parallax, when viewed stereoscopically, it will:

76. Under what menu is the Normal Map transfer at?

77. in the graph editor to make an animation curve repeat down the time line from it's LAST set value, you have to follow this list:

78. If you render a nurbs surface with Mental Ray for Maya and it does not look as smooth as in the view port, one of the things you may have to do to fix the problem is:

79. What material channel controls how glossy a Phong material is?

1.

Which among these lets you interactively update portions or all of the scene and get immediate feedback?

2.
Which surface material is used by initial(default) shading group?

3.
In the given Image, which one among the marked options represents anisotropic material?

4.
Which among these is not an emitter type?

5.
Which keyboard shortcut lets you edit the particle object in edit mode?

8.
In the given figure, which Maya utility does the button marked in red points to?

11.
Which light is used to simulate a combination of direct light and indirect light?

12.
Which light has been used for rendering the given image?

15.
Which utility is shown in the given image?

23.
How many CVs at least would you need to complete a degree 5 curve?

29.
While using Move tool, which "Set keys on" option should be selected in order to set the keys on translate x,y & z attributes only?

30.
Color curve attribute is only available for spot light?

31.
Which among these fog types can cast shadows?

32.
Which utility node is used to obtain information about the position of a light relative to a texture?

33.
Which NURBS element is being represented by the yellow colored line in the given image?

45. State whether True or False:

Keys cannot be set on the transform attributes of particles individually in a particle object.