Appendix C
Autodesk Revit Architecture 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 and was current at the time of this book’s press. Autodesk highly recommends (and we agree!) that you schedule regular time to prepare, review the most current exam preparation road map 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 Autodesk® Revit® Architecture 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 C.1 is for the Autodesk Revit Architecture 2017 Certified Exam Sections and Objectives and lists the topics, exam objectives, and chapter where the information for each objective is found.
These Autodesk exam objectives were accurate at publication time. Please refer to www.autodesk.com/certification for the most current exam road map and objectives.
Good luck preparing for your certification!
Table C.1 Autodesk Revit Architecture 2017 Certified User Exam Sections and Objectives
| Topic | Objective | Chapter |
| Collaboration | Copy and monitor elements in a linked file | Chapters 5, 6 |
| Use worksharing | Chapter 5 | |
| Import DWG files into Revit
Use Worksharing Visualization Assess or review warnings in Revit |
Chapter 7
Chapter 5 Appendix B |
|
| Documentation | Create and modify filled regions | Chapter 17 |
| Place detail components and repeating details | Chapter 17 | |
| Tag elements (doors, windows, and so on) by category | Chapter 18 | |
| Use dimension strings | Chapter 18 | |
| Set the colors used in a color-scheme legend | Chapter 20 | |
| Work with phases | Chapter 10 | |
| Elements | Change elements within a curtain wall: grids, panels, mullions | Chapter 12 |
| Create compound walls | Chapter 12 | |
| Create a stacked wall | Chapter 12 | |
| Differentiate system and component families | Chapters 12, 13, 14 | |
| Work with family parameters
Create a new family type |
Chapter 14
Chapter 14 |
|
| Use family creation procedures | Chapter 14 | |
| Modeling | Create a building pad | Chapter 3 |
| Define floors for a mass | Chapter 8 | |
| Create a stair with a landing | Chapter 15 | |
| Create elements such as floors, ceilings, or roofs | Chapter 13 | |
| Generate a toposurface | Chapter 3 | |
| Model railings | Chapter 15 | |
| Edit a model element’s material: door, window, furniture | Chapter 11 | |
| Change a generic floor/ceiling/roof to a specific type | Chapter 12, 13 | |
| Attach walls to a roof or ceiling
Edit room-aware families |
Chapter 12, 13
Chapter 3 |
|
| Views | Define element properties in a schedule | Chapter 17 |
| Control visibility | Chapters 3, 11, 16, 17 | |
| Use levels | Chapters 2, 12, 13, 15 | |
| Create a duplicate view for a plan, section, elevation, drafting view, etc. | Chapter 17 | |
| Create and manage legends | Chapter 17 | |
| Manage the view position on sheets
Organize and sort items in a schedule |
Chapter 19
Chapter 17 |