Appendix
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2015 Certification
Autodesk® certifications are industry-recognized credentials that can help you succeed in your career, providing benefits to both you and your employer. Getting certified is a reliable validation of skills and knowledge, and it can lead to accelerated professional development, improved productivity, and enhanced credibility.
This Autodesk Official Press guide can be an effective component of your exam preparation. Autodesk highly recommends (and we agree!) that you schedule regular time to prepare, review the most current exam preparation roadmap available at www.autodesk.com/certification, use Autodesk Official Press guides, take a class at an Authorized Training Center (find ATCs near you here: www.autodesk.com/atc), and use a variety of resources to prepare for your certification—including plenty of actual hands-on experience.
To help you focus your studies on the skills you’ll need for these exams, the following table shows objectives that could potentially appear on an exam and in what chapter you can find information on that topic—and when you go to that chapter, you’ll find certification icons like the one in the margin here.
Table A-1 is for the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Certified Professional Exam and lists the topics, exam objectives, and (where possible) chapter where the information for each objective is found. This book will give you a foundation for the certification, but you will need further study and hands-on practice to complete and pass the exam.
These Autodesk exam objectives were accurate at publication time. Please refer to www.autodesk.com/certification for the most current exam roadmap and objectives.
Good luck preparing for your certification!
Table A-1: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Certification Exam sections and objectives
| Topic | Learning Objective | Chapter |
| User Interface | Navigate the user interface Use the functions on Prospector Use functions on the Settings Tab | 1 1 1 |
| Styles | Create and use object styles Create and use label styles | 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18 |
| Lines & Curves | Use the line and curve commands Use the Transparent Commands toolbar | 1 1 |
| Points | Create points using the Point Creation command Create points by importing point data Use point groups to control the display of points | 3 3 3 |
| Surfaces | Create and edit surfaces Use styles and settings to display surface information Create a surface by assembling fundamental data Use styles to analyze surface display results | 4, 17 4, 17 4, 17 4, 17 18 |
| Parcels | Create parcels using parcel layout tools Design a parcel layout Select parcel styles to change the display of parcels Select styles to annotate parcels | 12 12 13 13 |
| Alignments | Create alignments Design a geometric layout | 5 5 |
| Profiles & Profile Views | Create a surface profile Design a profile Create a layout profile Create a profile view style Create a profile view | 7 7 7 8 8 |
| Corridors | Design and create a corridor Derive information and data from a corridor Design and create an intersection | 9 Online bunus chapter 9 |
| Sections & Section Views | Create and analyze sections and section views | 10 |
| Pipe Networks | Design and create a pipe network | 14, 15 |
| Grading | Design and create a grading model Create a grading model feature line | 17 17 |
| Managing and Sharing Data | Use data shortcuts to share/manage data Create a data sharing setup | 2 2 |
| Plan Production | Generate a sheet set using Plan Production Create a sheet set | Online bunus chapter Online bunus chapter |
| Survey | Use description keys to control the display of points created from survey data Use figure prefixes to control the display of linework generated from survey data Create a topographic/boundary drawing from field data | 3 3 3 |