Pen Tool settings question; Line art; Photoshop CC 2014.

Hello, and thanks for your help.
I am following a tutorial about Line Art.
I have to achieve the highlighted (yellow) settings in this image from the tutorial.
http://i.imgur.com/uXxCgWG.png
Here is how my settings look.
http://i.imgur.com/VmDsh1b.png
Path Operations and Auto Add/Delete are the only ones I can find.
The other two I cannot.
Also, what do you think about these settings from making HQ Line art? Would you recommend other settings? Why? 
Thanks.

Maybe this helps:
As you can see both of these are from two different versions of photoshop.
The tools can be found in the left toolbar. the two pens are in the same pen group and the remaining are in the shapes group. Press mouse button on the icon in the left tool bar and wait a few seconds then the flyout will appear. Any icon with a triangle in its corner has a flyout selection  of tools.
For a beginner, I would recommend using shapes instead of paths (unless they are required) for learning. As you will be less discouraged when trying to change simple settings like its stroke or fill. Both shapes and paths will give you a vector shape, one is a bit easier to use and the other is a true path instead of a mask. But both will give you a clean edge and are scalable.

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