Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. The foundation contractor will work with the following architectural plans.

Floor plan

Foundation

Site plan

All of these

2. When creating your own blocks it is important to avoid drawing any portion of the block in the ________ layer.

Zero

Hidden line

Hatch

Center line

3. When only a small section of an interior area needs to be revealed the drafter can use a ________ section.

Full

Half

Broken out

Quarter

4. The title block used on working drawings should include the _________.

All of these

Sheet number

Layer set

Line type

5. Dimensions are used on the elevation plan to describe ________.

Finished floor elevations

All of these

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

6. This type of drawing shows two lines representing the pipe diameter:

Single-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

Double-line

7. To avoid having to dimension to a hidden feature the drafter can utilize a ________ section.

Whole

All of these

Broken out

Half

8. A full scale technical drawing will have a scale factor of ________.

1 : 1

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 2

9. The UCS icon represents the intersection of the __________.

Z-axis

All of these

Y-axis

X-axis

10. If designs require changes, they should be documented with:

Product proposals

Document reviews

Development plans

Engineering change orders

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11. This type of thread is a thread on the inside of a member:

Internal thread

Basic thread

Major diameter thread

External thread

12. One critical issue drafters need to pay close attention to is the ________.

Designer's intent

None of these

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

13. The Auto-CAD command used to combine two or more primitive shapes into a single complex 3-dimensional model is ________.

Form

Union

Attach

Add

14. The architectural and construction industries use the United States National CAD standard (NCS) system on many ________ projects.

Residential

Commercial

Publicly funded

Aerospace

15. When setting up a mechanical drawing in Auto-CAD the drafter should set the units to ________.

Fractional

Architectural

Metric

Decimal

16. The building construction industry relies on sets of ________ drawings to construct homes and commercial buildings.

All of the above

Mechanical

Architectural working

Isometric

17. This is the bottom surface joining the sides of two adjacent threads:

Pitch

Crest

Root

Lead

18. Objects that are symmetric can be shown effectively using this type of section:

Symmetric section

Full section

Quarter section

Half section

19. In an assembly section, these parts should have their section lines left out or shown solid black:

Bolts

Rivets

All fasteners

Thin parts

20. When dimensioning architectural drawings architects will utilize both ________ and ________ options.

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

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21. A line with a tapering width can be easily created by using the ________ tool.

Circle

Ellipse

Polyline

Line

22. When filling an area with a hatch pattern in Auto-CAD the drafter needs to be able to ________.

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set Ortho on

Turn ISO grid off

23. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Roof pitch

Window style

All of these

24. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Feet only

25. In this type of section, one quarter of the object is removed:

Revolved section

Quarter section

Half section

Removed section

26. The standard number of threads per inch for various diameters is the:

Lead

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Series of thread

27. This type of rapid prototyping system uses a laser to fuse powdered metals, plastics, or ceramics:

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

28. There should be a visible gap between the wall and the _________ line.

Dimension

Leader

Extension

Center

29. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

30. When using versions of Auto-CAD prior to Release 2006 it may be necessary to ________ a block in order to edit it.

Explode

None of these

Copy

Offset

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31. Architectural dimensioning standards allow for the placement of dimensions inside the floor plan. These inside dimensions locate interior __________.

Door openings and walls

Centers of cabinets

All of these

Windows

32. In an exploded assembly drawing it is customary for the drafter to use a ________ line to illustrate how parts fit together.

Dashed

Center

Phantom

Hidden

33. This type of section is limited by a break line:

Removed section

Broken-out section

Half section

Revolved section

34. This is the measured size of a finished part:

Production size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Actual size

35. These types of pipes are generally connected with bell and spigot joints or flanged joints:

Water and gas

Water and steam

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

36. When dimensioning piping drawings, you give the lengths of all runs of this type:

Transverse

Straight

Filleted

Angular

37. This allows the performance of structures to be analyzed and tested efficiently, accurately, and quickly:

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

38. The architectural drafter usually begins a set of working drawings by creating the ________ plan first.

Elevations

Building section

Floor plan

Foundation

39. When using the direct entry method to create a horizontal line exactly three inches long the drafter should ________ first.

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Insure that Ortho is on

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

40. Understanding the Cartesian coordinate system will help the beginning drafter __________.

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

Produce a visible grid system

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41. Drafters should use a ________ in a section view of a mechanical part that includes the cylindrical view of a threaded hole.

Dimension line

Center line

Poly line

Hatch line

42. On a floor plan the dashed line that appears approximately 24" outside the exterior wall represents the ________.

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

None of the above

Roof overhang

43. The dimension text size is determined by what the architect deems necessary in _________.

The Finished plot

Paper space

Model space

The PDF file

44. By using a ________ section of a cylindrical mechanical part the drafter should be able to show only one view of the part.

Broken out

Whole

Half

Revolved

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