Civil 3D for Infrastructure Design Professional Certification Prep

Outline

Pre-test

Before you begin this course, test your skills by taking the following assessment to see where you stand.

Keep track of your incorrect answers to know which skills you should study. You'll have a chance to take this same practice test again at the end of the course to see how you've improved.

All questions must be answered to submit your assessment.

Pre-assessment

49 questions

1. What is the most efficient way to resolve variable width corridors with daylighting subassemblies that overlap without leaving any gaps in the daylight areas?

Grip edit the daylight locations.
Use the Clear Corridor Bowties tool.
Create separate regions.
Manually modify the subassembly slopes.

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2. Please refer to the exhibit:

What step or steps should be taken to combine the two feature lines as shown in area (A) to make a single feature line as shown in area (B)?

Use the Trim command and then the Join command.
Use the Fillet command with radius 0.
Use the TrimFeatures command and then the JoinFeatures command.
Use the FilletFeatures command with a radius of 0.

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3. What information is contained in the survey figure prefix database?

The figures that will be created as alignments.
The figures that will be created as pipe networks.
The layer that figures will be drawn on.
The surface figures that will be used for elevations.

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4. For a roadway project that extends across several sheets, how should the bearings and distances be annotated?

Place tag labels with a spiral table.
Place labels with an As Composed dragged state.
Place tag label with a segment table.
Place labels in a dragged state.

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5. What type of point is created when using the Point Creation toolbar?

Survey point
AutoCAD blocks
COGO point
AutoCAD point node

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6. Please refer to the exhibit:

The alignment label set shown in area (A) is imported to the alignment shown in area B. What is the result?

One set each of major station labels, minor station labels, and geometry point labels.
One set of geometry point labels.
One set each of major station labels and minor station labels.
Two sets each of major and minor station labels and one set of geometry point labels.

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7. Please refer to the exhibit:
The point labeled 1 is in a base drawing with UCS set to World. The point labeled 2 is how the point looks on a sheet with a different view rotation. What change should be made in the base drawing so that the COGO point labeled as 2 will match the correct rotation labeled as 1 in all sheet viewport rotations?

Modify the point style marker rotation angle and then save.
Modify the point marker rotation in the Properties palette and then save.
Modify the point style marker Orientation Reference to View and then save.
Modify the fixed marker rotation in the Description Key Set and then save.

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8. After creating different grading objects for two portions of a feature line, what type of grading object should be created to connect the two grading objects?

Conflict resolution
Transition
Infill
Slope to surface

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9. A drawing contains a long linear project with a polyline representing the alignment. What should be used to create multiple plan only sheets?

Create Alignment from Object, Create View Frames, Create Sheets
Create View Frames, Create Alignment from Object, Create Sheets
Create View Frames, Create Sheets, Create Alignment from Object
Create Alignment from Object, Create Sheets, Create View Frames

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10. A drawing contains an existing ground surface, a feature line representing the centerline of a drainage ditch, and a drainage ditch assembly that includes daylight subassemblies. Which of these steps in the order shown will result in a corridor that represents the proposed drainage ditch?

Use the Create Alignment From Objects command to create an alignment from the feature line. Then create a corridor using the alignment as a baseline with the drainage ditch assembly and assign the existing ground surface as a target.
Use the Corridor command to create a corridor using the feature line as a baseline with the drainage ditch assembly. Then assign the existing ground surface as a target.
Use the Create Corridor From Objects command to apply the drainage ditch assembly along the feature line at specified intervals with the existing ground surface as a target.
Use the Create Profile From Objects command to create a profile from the feature line. Then create a corridor with the feature line as a baseline and using the profile with the drainage ditch assembly and existing ground surface as a target.

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11. A proposed utility line crosses from within a public right-of-way into a public utility easement. Which of these workflows will include a label at this location in the profile view?

Place a COGO point at the crossing and then project it onto a profile view.
Add a vertex to the alignment at the crossing and then show geometry grid lines onto the profile view.
Place an AutoCAD point at the crossing and then project it onto a profile view.
Add a polyline perpendicular to the utility alignment at the crossing and then project it onto the profile view.

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12. A proposed surface is being created. The design requires that the edge of an existing sidewalk remain as built. A feature line will be created from the polyline that represents the existing sidewalk. Which of these workflows will provide existing elevations that need to be matched in the proposed design?

During feature line creation enable Weed Points in the Create Feature Lines dialog and choose the existing ground surface for reference.
After feature line creation, use the Insert Elevation command to assign elevations from the existing ground surface.
After feature line creation, use the Stepped Offset command to assign elevations from the existing ground surface.
During feature line creation enable Assign Elevations in the Create Feature Lines dialog and choose the existing ground surface for reference.

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13. To automatically size tree blocks based on diameter, which point parameter would be used?

apply to Z
scale parameter
fixed scale factor
use drawing scale

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14. Please refer to the exhibit:

A feature line for the proposed curb edge of asphalt (A) has been created. Feature lines for the rest of the curb (B, C, and D) need to be created. The new feature lines need to have appropriate elevations assigned based on the exhibit. Which feature line command should be used?

Create Feature Line
Create Feature Line from Stepped Offset
Create Feature Line from Alignment
Create Feature Line from Objects

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15. A large linear project contains an alignment than spans multiple sheets. How should you annotate where the multiple sheets have been divided?

Select Insert Match Lines in the Create View Frames wizard.
Use the Insert Match Lines command on the Home ribbon tab in the Alignment drop-down menu.
Use the Insert Match Lines command on the Home ribbon tab in the Create Design panel drop-down menu.
Select the alignment and use the Insert Match Lines command in the contextual ribbon.

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16. Please refer to the exhibit:

What is the most efficient way to add major and minor station labels at specified intervals along an alignment?

Use match properties to copy a label set from one alignment to another.
Place labels between two points using the Add Labels dialog.
Place multiple labels and types along an alignment using a label set.
Place labels using station and offset in the Add Labels dialog.

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17. Please refer to the exhibit:

What changes should be made to allow the profile view to fit inside the sheet viewport extent as outlined by the red polyline?

Profile View Style > Vertical Axes > Split profile views
Profile View Properties > Profiles > Split profile views
Profile View Properties > Elevations > Split profile views
Profile View Style > Display > Split profile views

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18. If surface content is shown outside of an established surface boundary, what should be done to resolve the issue?

Drag and drop the order of surface edits in Toolspace > Prospector.
Move the outer boundary to the top of the surface definitions list.
Move the outer boundary to the bottom of the surface definitions list.
Drag and drop the order of boundaries in Toolspace > Prospector.

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19. What objects can be created from a corridor?

alignments, surfaces, pipe networks
feature lines, surfaces, point groups
profiles, alignments, grading group
alignments, feature lines, profiles

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20. What is unique about feature lines created from a corridor?

They can remain dynamically linked to a surface.
They can remain dynamically linked to the original corridor.
They cannot be used as corridor targets.
They can't be added to a corridor surface.

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21. When a design profile between two existing roads creates too much cut or fill, which of these workflows should resolve the issue?

Run a cut fill analysis on the corridor surface to balance the cut and fill of the design profile.
Insert additional points of intersection or vertical curves to more closely match the existing surface.
Raise or lower all vertices of the design profile to more closely match the existing surface.
Add spirals to the vertical curves to more closely match the existing surface.

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22. A bend is what type of Civil 3D Pressure Pipe object?

Appurtenance
Pressure pipe
Structure
Fitting

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23. A single drawing contains multiple Civil 3D elements including alignments, surfaces, and pipe networks. To reduce the amount of time needed to open the drawing and to provide edit access to multiple team members, what should be done?

Create separate drawing and use view frames and a sheet set to access each Civil 3D element.
Create separate drawings and then attach externals references for each Civil 3D element.
Create separate drawing with data shortcuts for each Civil 3D element needed in the other drawings.
Create separate drawing with datalinks to an external database of Civil 3D element definitions.

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24. When creating multiple section views, what is required in the specified production template?

A border, north arrow, and viewport extents outlined in model space.
A border and north arrow in model space.
An initialized layout with a viewport and type set to Undefined and annotation scale set to match the current drawing.
An initialized layout with a viewport and type set to Section and annotation scale set to match the current drawing.

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25. A drawing contains back of curb feature lines with elevations based on a rough grading surface. Which of these workflows will create a corridor with curbs?

Add the feature lines as baselines in the corridor and assign a curb assembly to each baseline.
Create alignments from the feature lines, add these alignments as baselines, add the feature lines as elevations, and then assign a curb assembly to each baseline.
Create sample lines and apply a curb assembly to each frequency along the baselines.
Use stepped offset to create feature lines for the curb then add each feature line to the corridor as a baseline.

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26. Please refer to the exhibit:

After adding a crossing pipe to a profile view, where should the display settings be modified so that the red pipe appears as shown in the exhibit?

Network Properties
Profile View Properties
Geometry Editor