Graphic Design Practice Exam

About Graphic Design
Graphic design is a craft where professionals create visual content to communicate messages. By applying visual hierarchy and page layout techniques, designers use typography and pictures to meet users’ specific needs and focus on the logic of displaying elements in interactive designs, to optimize the user experience.

Graphic design can be used by companies to promote and sell products through advertising, by websites to convey complicated information in a digestible way through infographics, or by businesses to develop an identity through branding, among other things.
Elements are used in conjunction or opposition with each other to create visually striking and impactful designs.
These graphic design elements include:
•    Color
•    Form
•    Line
•    Shape
•    Size
•    Space
•    Texture
Graphic designers also adhere to the principles of design, which are essentially a set of guidelines that help a design achieve effective composition. These basic principles aid in creating balance and stability for the piece of work.

Graphic Design has gained immense popularity across the globe resulting in huge demand for certified professionals.

Why is Graphic Design important?
The clear communication of value, benefits, and reasons to believe in a brand's product, service, or technology. Graphic Design is the development of visual communications that resonate with a specific target audience with an objective to create awareness, shape perceptions, increase market share, and elevate brands.

There are many benefits of graphic design for businesses when used efficiently, graphic design can help boost your marketing and advertising campaign with the help of effective visual communication. It can help inform, educate, or persuade your target audience and convert them into sales.

Benefits of graphic design are
•    Positive First Impression - A professional and experienced graphic designer can design and create a logo which is a true representation of your business values, which is attractive and unique and which can help create a positive first impression in the minds of the consumers.
•    Professional image - Well planned and executed graphic design offers visual consistency all through the marketing efforts, which helps in building company’s identity and improve its brand recognition.
•    Brand Recognition - The major benefit of Graphic design for businesses is that it helps in establishing a visual identity of the brand which is a reflection of the company’s values and goals.
•    Communication - Graphic designs help in effective communication with the viewers as visual aids are better at communicating ideas.
•    Building Trust and Goodwill - Graphic designing helps to create a professional brand image. This professional image helps in building trust and credibility in the minds of the consumers.
•    Higher conversions - Graphic design can help gain high visibility, which in turn can result in higher conversions.

Graphic Design certified professionals, executives and managers are in high demand in companies across the globe.

Important Concepts for Graphic Design Practice Exam

• Design Principles and Elements
• Color Theory
• Graphic Design  Elements
• CorelDraw
• Photoshop
• PageMaker
  
  

Who should take the Graphic Design Exam?
•    Design or advertising or DTP professionals
•    Anyone who wants to assess their graphic design skills
•    Graphic Designers or Illustrators
•    Graphic Design managers and senior executives
•    Design consultants
•    Professionals working in outsourced companies responsible for graphic design
•    Anyone interested in graphic design

Graphic Design Practice Exam Objectives

Graphic Design exam focuses on assessing your skills and knowledge in concepts and application of software for graphic design.

Graphic Design Practice Exam Pre-requisite

There are no prerequisites for the Graphic Design exam. Candidate should be well versed  in software for graphic design to clear the exam.

Graphic Design Certification Course Outline

1. Design Principles and Elements
1.1 Design Elements
1.2 Principles of Design

2. Color Theory
2.1 Historical Background
2.2 Color Abstractions
2.3 Complementary Colors
2.4 Warm vs. cool colors
2.5 Achromatic Colors
2.6 Tints and shades
2.7 Split Primary Colors
2.8 Color Harmony
2.9 Current Status
2.10 Basic Techniques for Creating Color Schemes

3. Graphic Design  Elements
3.1 Raster and vector graphics
3.2 Fonts
3.3 Font formatting

4. Publishing Elements
4.1 Half tone images
4.2 Spot and process colors

5. CorelDraw 10
5.1 Interface and components
5.2 Create, open and save files
5.3 Cartesian coordinates and property bar
5.4 Page and document setup
5.5 Artistic text
5.6 Object arrangement

6. Photoshop 7
6.1 Interface and components
6.2 Create, open and save files
6.3 Layers
6.4 Work path and color picker
6.5 Filters

7. PageMaker 7
7.1 Interface and components
7.2 Create, open and save files
7.3 Text Formatting and text blocks
7.4 Paragraph Formatting
7.5 Page Formatting
7.6 Story Editor, styles and master pages

Exam Format and Information
Certification name – Graphic Design Certification
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199