Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

Horizontally

According to the planar views

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

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

3. 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

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

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

Dimension line

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

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

All of these

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

Orthographic

Perspective

Parallel

Oblique

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

Diameter

Radius

Arc Radius

Arc Length

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

Process piping

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

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

270

310

360

180

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

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

Edge

Oblique

Line

Vertex

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

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

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

Extension line

Leader

Dimension line

Specification

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

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

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

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Warped solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

17. 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

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

Cone

Torus

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

Circle templates

Technical pens

Lettering guides

Triangles

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

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

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

Allowance

Difference

Tolerance

Specification

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

Radial

Outside

Isoplane

Inside

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

One inch or over

One yard or over

One rod or over

One foot or over

25. 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 Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

True size

As a line or edge

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

None of these

Architect's

Engineer's

Metric

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

Hidden

Center

Phantom

Object

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

MMC

Smallest

LMC

Actual size

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

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

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Angular

Datum

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

33. 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

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

Horizontal

Auxiliary

Orthographic

Planar

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

Pyramid

Prism

Torus

Cone

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

Construction superintendent

Drafter

Technical illustrator

Artist

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

Baseline

Linear

Quick Dimension

Continue

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

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Signal relays

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

Horizontal

Frontal

Base

Profile

40. 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.

14.6844

5.958

4.7625

1.906

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

Receptionist

Client

CAD trainee

Checker

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

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

All of these

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

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Front view

Top view

Right side view

All of these

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

Center lines

Plane

Hidden lines

None of these

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

Aligned

Angle

Radial

Linear

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