MAYA12-A Online Practice Questions and Answers

What does the Search and Replace Names option help you rename?

A. One object at a time,

B. Multiple objects at a time.

C. Multiple objects and hierarchies

D. Objects and Attribute names

What modes can you work in when modeling with Subdivision surfaces?

A. Polygon mode and NURBS mode

B. Standard mode and Polygon mode.

C. Standard mode and Coarser mode.

D. NURBS mode and Component mode.

To control a Soft Body simula-tion that is out of hand, you can...

A. use Springs to control the simulation if it gets erratic

B. use a Pin Constraint to 'pin down' the particles that act erratically during the simulation

C. use an nDynamics solver to control the simulation

D. use rigid bodies and converts them to soft bodies.

Which file format lets you exchange complex data between Maya and other software while preserving the data's overall behavior?

A. OBJ

B. FBX

C. DXF

D. None of the above

What is the syntax to add a single-line comment in a script?

A.//

B. <>

C. "

D. ==

Which light(s) can be positioned using Look Through Selected Camera?

A. Spot Lights.

B. Directional Lights.

C. Area Lights.

D. All Maya Lights

The shading network in a Normal 2DTexture Map is made up of which of the following?

A. One file texture node and a projection node that defines the texture's placement

B. One file texture node and the place2DTexture node that defines the texture's placement.

C. Two place 2DTexture nodes.

D. One place 2DTexture node and one place 3Dtexture node

Which of the following BEST describes the Blend Shape deformer? The Blend Shape deformer...

A. creates a joint system based on the topology of the surface

B. Blend shape deformers let you change the shape of one object into the shapes of other objects.

C. is a special object you use to control the deformation effects of rigid skinning.

D. lets you manually sculpt NURBS, polygons, or Subdivision surfaces quickly with the stroke of a brush

What effect does the Break Tangent action have on a selected animation tangent?

A. Allows manipulation of the in and out tangent handles individually so you can edit the curve segment entering or exiting the key without affecting its opposite handle.

B. Causes the manipulation of an in or out tangent handle to affect its opposite handle equally

C. Specifies that when you move a tangent, only its angle can be changed.

D. Specifies that when you move a tangent its angle and weight can be changed.

What will a Dmap shadow do that a Raytrace Shadow will not?

A Dmap shadow will...

A. be visible in an IPR

B. create volumetric shadows through a light fog

C. produces correct shadows from transparent colored surfaces

D. produces correct shadows from Cloud Render Type particles

What is meant by 'sampling'?

A. The amount of Rendering Layers to be calculated in an image

B. The amount of times the software will examine different areas of a pixel

C. The number of photons that get emitted into the scene.

D. None of the above

What does the nConstraint Membership Tool for nCloth allows users to do?

A. Add vertices to a selected dynamic constraint

B. Remove vertices from a selected dynamic constraint

C. Both of the above.

D. Neither of the above.

When choosing an NISC Video Image preset, in addition to image width and height, which other setting is changed

A. Pixel Aspect Ratio

B. Renderable Camera

C. File format becomes TGA

D. Device Aspect Ratio

How is a Soft Body different from a Rigid Body?

A. Afield can't be connected to Soft Body particles.

B. Rigid Bodies can't be affected by a Dynamic constraint.

C. A Soft Body can be keyframed using the Set Active Key command.

D. Rigid Bodies don't deform.

Which is the correct method to make the current transformations on the selected object be the object's zero position

A. Edit>Delete option

B. Modify>Freeze Transformations option.

C. Modify>Delete Attribute Transformations option.

D. Skeleton>OrientJoint>Freeze Transformations option