Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. This is a thin solid line directing attention to a note or dimension and starting with an arrowhead or dot:

Dimension line

Specification

Leader

Extension line

2. Schematic and single-line diagrams should be arranged so that signal or transmission path from input to output proceeds in this fashion:

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and bottom to top

3. A drafter who develops technical drawings of a highway overpass would most likely be a ________ drafter.

Process piping

Civil

Architectural

Mechanical

4. If a plane is parallel to the plane of projection, it appears:

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

True size

Foreshortened

5. In U.S. structural and architectural drafting, all dimensions of this length are usually expressed in feet and inches:

One yard or over

One foot or over

One rod or over

One inch or over

6. A ___________ is the person responsible for verifying that the drawings in a project set are free of mistakes.

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Checker

Client

7. Some of the common terms used to describe technical drawing include:

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

All of these

8. Referring to the fractional inches to decimal inches to millimeter conversion chart on page 55 what is the equivalent mm measurement of ³/₁₆ inch.

1.906

4.7625

5.958

14.6844

9. Given a situation in which the drafter has crossed extension lines in a drawing what can be done to clean up the point of crossing?

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

10. A civil engineer working on a bridge design would probably rely on his ________ scale for checking printed drawings.

Metric

None of these

Engineer's

Architect's

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11. This type of solid has a polygon for a base and triangular lateral faces that intersect at a vertex:

Torus

Pyramid

Cone

Prism

12. This is formed where three or more surfaces intersect:

Line

Vertex

Edge

Oblique

13. On typical electronic diagrams, these items need not be shown unless they are needed for clarification:

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Closed relays

14. When using the descriptive geometry method to create an auxiliary view the drafter should _____________.

Rotate the snap grid to the same angle of the inclined plane

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

15. The principle reason for using an auxiliary view is _________________.

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

To create a true projection plane from an inclined plane in one of the primary views

To locate center marks

16. An advantage of this type of view is that each view shows the object all the way through as if it were transparent:

Auxiliary

Planar

Orthographic

Horizontal

17. Several of the tools used in traditional drafting include the following:

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

18. This type of solid is formed by sweeping a shape along a linear path:

Revolved solid

Extruded solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

19. A partial auxiliary view usually shows only features on the _________ of the inclined line and not any projection of other planes.

None of these

Plane

Hidden lines

Center lines

20. This type of surface is tipped to all principal planes of projection and does not appear true size in any standard view:

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

Foreshortened

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21. This type of circuit is a semiconductor wafer or chip:

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

22. A half-moon protractor is divided into how many degrees?

180

360

310

270

23. This type of solid is egg-shaped and can be created by revolving an ellipse around one of its axes:

Cone

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

Torus

24. The condition of a part when it contains the least amount of material is referred to as ________.

LMC

MMC

Actual size

Smallest

25. The daily workload of a ________ drafter would generally include technical drawings of machine parts.

Architectural

Mechanical

Civil

Electrical

26. In oblique sketches, the most commonly used angles for receding lines are:

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

27. In this type of dimensioning, allowance must be made for bends:

Datum

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Angular

28. The ____________ dimension tool will place the length of an angled line.

Radial

Linear

Angle

Aligned

29. Three dimensional models are often used in the design process to ______________.

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Provide the client with a model which they can use to impress their friends

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

30. Some traditional board drafters preferred the drafting machine over the parallel straight edge because it could be used without the need for_____________.

Circle templates

Lettering guides

Triangles

Technical pens

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31. The ____________ tool on the Dimension tool bar will place several dimensions at one time by using a selection box placed over several part features.

Linear

Baseline

Quick Dimension

Continue

32. This is the plane upon which the top view is projected:

Horizontal

Profile

Frontal

Base

33. This is a line terminated by arrowheads, indicating the direction and extent of a dimension:

Centerline

Extension line

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

34. An engineer's scale would be used to measure lines on a drawing where the scale factor reads ________.

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

35. The ________ tool on the Dimension tool bar places the length of an arch on a drawing.

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

36. An architect often relies on a _________ to complete the set of technical drawings used in the design of an office building.

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Artist

Drafter

37. This line pattern is composed of three dashes, one long dash on each end with a short dash in the middle:

Hidden

Center

Object

Phantom

38. These items typically are not used in new designs, but are still common in high-power amplifiers:

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Switches

39. This is the total amount that the feature on the actual part is allowed to vary from what is specified by the dimension:

Difference

Tolerance

Allowance

Specification

40. These types of projectors converge at a vanishing point:

Orthographic

Oblique

Perspective

Parallel

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41. A round is a rounded surface on the ________ corner of a part.

Outside

Isoplane

Radial

Inside

42. The top, front, and bottom views align in this manner:

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

Horizontally

43. The lines used to create the auxiliary view should appear as ________ in the finished view.

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

44. Isometric drawings are often used by ________ to help illustrate complex designs.

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

Aerospace engineers

45. The principle views associated with orthographic projection are ________.

Top view

Front view

All of these

Right side view

46. When adding dimensions to an auxiliary view it will be necessary to use the ________ tool.

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

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