Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Triangles

Lettering guides

Circle templates

Technical pens

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

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

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

Center

Object

Phantom

Hidden

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

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

According to the planar views

Vertically

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

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

All of these

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

360

270

180

310

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

Electrical

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

Orthographic

Perspective

Parallel

Oblique

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

Dimension line

Specification

Extension line

Leader

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

Oblique

Vertex

Edge

Line

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

12. 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

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

As a line or edge

True size

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

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

Oblique

Orthographic

Foreshortened

Parallel

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

Planar solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

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

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

18. 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

19. 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.

5.958

4.7625

14.6844

1.906

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

Engineer's

None of these

Architect's

Metric

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

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

Sheet metal

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

Orthographic

Horizontal

Planar

Auxiliary

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

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Client

Checker

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

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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

Profile

Frontal

Base

Horizontal

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

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

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

To locate center marks

To eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

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

Center lines

Hidden lines

None of these

Plane

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

MMC

Actual size

LMC

Smallest

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

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

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

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

Dimension line

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

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

Operating relays

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

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

Radial

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

Torus

Cone

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

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

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

Cone

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

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

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

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

All of these

Right side view

Front view

Top view

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

Technical illustrator

Artist

Construction superintendent

Drafter

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

Radial

Aligned

Angle

Linear

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

Amplifier tubes

Switches

Signal relays

Electron tubes

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

Allowance

Tolerance

Difference

Specification

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

One foot or over

One inch or over

One yard or over

One rod or over

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

Parallel straight edge

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

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

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

Quick Dimension

Linear

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