V-Ray Professional

Exam guide
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This document provides information on what to expect when you attend a V-Ray Professional Exam.

Prior requirements

For V-Ray Professional certification, we recommend that you have at least one or two years of working experience
with V-Ray as your preferred 3D platform.

Exam Process

The V-Ray Professional Exam is hosted on the Class Marker platform. Your answers to a series of true/false or
multiple-choice questions will be used to estimate your V-Ray proficiency. You will be given a special link to
access the V-Ray Professional test. You will have 60 minutes to answer 80 questions and you must get at
least 70% of them right to pass the exam.

Here’s an example of the V-Ray Professional Exam welcome screen when you click on the exam link: You will
need to enter your email and click on the Continue button. This will forward you to a page where you will need
to verify your identity.

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When you click on the Start button, you will see final instructions before starting the test:

V-Ray Professional Exam - English

For the V-Ray Professional exam, it is recommended that you have at least 1–2 years ofworking experience with V-Ray in your
preferred 3D platform.

The V-Ray Professional Certification is designed to estimate your level of proficiency with V-Ray. This is done trough answering a
serios of true/false or multiple choice questions. You will have 60 minutes to answer 80 questions and must get at least 70% of
them right to pass the exam.

Chaos Education team wish you luck!

Continue

Please note that the timer cannot be stopped or paused. Once the test begins you will see the remaining time
above the questions listed on the page.

At the bottom of the certification exam page, you can select the question you wish to answer or review.

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Display previously viewed questions

Here are some examples of a multiple choice question. You will need to evaluate the question and pick only
one of the available answers. Once you have the correct answer click Next to save your choice.

Question 1 of 11

MIS - Multiple Importance Sampling:

splits samples to contribute more in bright areas and less in dark ones
splits light contribution between Direct and Indirect illumination

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Question 4 of 11

VRayLightSelect render element can store:

Direct illumination and direct specular

Question 9 of 11

Which of the following best describes ray tracing?

A rendering method that creates an image by tracing ray paths throughout an entire scene
A rendering algorithm that determines the visibility of a surface row by row
A rendering algorithm used only for calculating indirect illumination
An obsolete rendering method not usable by today’s standards

The same is valid for the true or false questions, an example of which you can see below:

Question 2 of 11

Can you start Resumable rendering with Buckets and then continue with Progressive.

True
False

Question 3 of 11

The V-Ray Fur geometry is generated only during render time.

True
False

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Question 5 of 11

The V-Ray material is a PBR material.

True
False

Question 6 of 11

To use Distributed rendering/Swarm, you need a Render node.

True
False

At any point, you can go back to questions and change your answer. Once you are ready with the test click
Finish now then Confirm finish now and you’ll be able to get your test results immediately:

Confirm finish now

Recommended training materials

The Chaos Help Portal is a great resource to help you prepare for the V-Ray Professional Exam for the following
products:

▪ V-Ray for 3ds Max ▪ V-Ray for SketchUp

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All the questions that you will need to answer fall within one of the categories listed below:

VFB – These questions cover the options of the V-Ray Camera – The questions in this category cover the
Frame Buffer, rendering and saving to .vrimg files, settings of the V-Ray Physical Camera as well as the
adding color corrections in VFB and setting up Lens Camera settings in the Render Settings window. This
Effects. includes all the settings that control exposure cor-
rections, depth of field and motion blur.
Render Engines – These general questions cover your
understanding of the V-Ray CPU and GPU rendering. Shading – These questions are related to the V-Ray
specific materials and textures. This includes V-Ray
Sampling – These questions cover all the settings Material, V-Ray Blend Material, V-Ray Two Sided Mate-
related to sampling and manipulating the quality rial, V-Ray Car Paint, V-Ray Fast SSS2 materials, V-Ray
of the final image and the time it takes to render it. Light Material, V-Ray Hair Material, V-Ray Wrapper
This includes all the options of the Antialiasing, the Material, V-Ray Dirt Texture and V-Ray Edges Texture.
settings of the Image Sampler (Bucket and Progres-
sive) and how they work together. Environment effects – Including V-Ray Aerial Per-
spective and Environment Fog.
Lights – The questions in this category cover all
V-Ray lights, including V-Ray Sun and Sky and their Dynamic Geometry – These questions cover the
settings. Additionally, you will need to demonstrate different types of dynamic geometry – V-Ray Proxy,
knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of V-Ray Fur, V-Ray Displacement, as well as the Sys-
lights in certain rendering scenarios. tem Settings that allow us to optimize memory usage
when working with dynamic geometry.
GI – The questions here cover everything related to
properly setting up Global Illumination. You will need DR/Swarm/Cloud/Standalone – These cover your un-
to demonstrate an understanding of the settings and derstanding of the Swarm, Chaos Cloud, Standalone.
how they work together as well as knowledge of how
to combine different GI methods in different rendering
scenarios. The quiz includes questions from the
General GI settings, Light Cache, Brute Force, Caustics
and Irradiance Map Viewer tool.

Another source for you to help you prepare for the V-Ray Professional Exam is our official V-Ray Courseware,
separated by product:

▪ V-Ray for 3ds Max ▪ V-Ray for SketchUp

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Step-by-step video walkthroughs for some of the most common V-Ray rendering workflows and latest
advancements can be found on our youtube channel ChaosTV.

View our website’s What’s New sections for the latest information on each product:

▪ V-Ray for 3ds Max ▪ V-Ray for SketchUp

If you have additional questions, email [email protected]

Chaos Education
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1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
O. +359 2 422 422 1

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