Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-2

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1. Technical drawings typically serve one of three purposes:

Communication, Documentation, or Installation

Visualization, Dimensioning, or Documentation

Documentation, Installation, or Engineering

Visualization, Communication, or Documentation

2. Students can complete an associate's degree in drafting which normally takes about __________ years to complete.

Two

Four

One

Three

3. These are accurately drawn maps of cities and towns showing property lines and other features that control property ownership:

Topographic maps

Cadastral maps

City maps

Monument maps

4. A projection weld is a type of

Fillet weld

Gas weld

Resistance weld

Arc weld

5. In a CAD system, you can draw an ellipse by specifying these

The center and radius

The midpoint and end points

The center and major and minor axes

The bounding lines

6. These are vertical distances above a common datum, reference plane, or point:

Plats

Traverse

Profiles

Elevations

7. In oblique projection, important shapes should be in this position relative to the viewing plane:

Parallel

Rotated

Perpendicular

Adjacent

8. These are joined together in the field to build a structure:

Steel fabrications

Riveted members

Assembled fabrications

Main members

9. This type of drawing is created to calculate areas, locate property lines, and locate building projects and facilities:

City map

Traverse

Plat

Contour

10. This type of surface may be a plane, a single curved surface, or a warped surface

Edge surface

Ruled surface

Auxiliary surface

Developed surface

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11. This is used in drawings to represent the edge of a solid object:

Vertex

Surface

Line

Angle

12. Approximately this much of the cost of product development and manufacture is determined at the design stage

60-75 %

40-50 %

75-85 %

70-80 %

13. A secondary auxiliary view is a projection off of the __________.

Top view

Front view

None of these

Primary auxiliary view

14. In this type of concrete, the steel is pre-tensioned before the superimposed load is applied:

Aggregate

Preloaded

Pre-stressed

Reinforced

15. CAD programs which incorporate parametric modeling utilize a system in which the dimensions control the ________.

All of the above

Perspective of the model

Shading used to render the model

Size and shape of the model features

16. The MASSPROP shortcut will provide the following information.

Bounding box

All of these

Mass

Volume

17. The Free Orbit tool is found on the ________ toolbar.

Modify

Move

3-D Move

Rotate

18. EDM is the acronym for:

Engineering drawing management

Enterprise data management

Enterprise drawing manipulation

Engineering data manipulation

19. These maps are used in planning installations of trees, shrubbery, drives, and other garden features:

Topographic maps

Engineering maps

Landscape maps

Cadastral maps

20. The offset distance for the width (front to back) distance of the auxiliary view is the same distance of the ________ in the top view.

Length

None of these

Width

Height

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21. This is the most common application for developments and intersections:

Piping

Sheet metal construction

Architecture

Mechanical engineering

22. These are special installations of stone or concrete marking the locations of points accurately determined by precise surveying:

Pillars

Monuments

Hatches

Topographic marks

23. Perspective drawings are classified according to their number of these features:

Vanishing points

Station points

Picture planes

Ground lines

24. This type of structural steel drawing shows all dimensions necessary for fabrication:

Design drawings

Weldment drawings

Application drawings

Shop drawings

25. These are lines drawn on a map to locate, in the plan view, points of equal ground elevation:

Profiles

Elevations

Contours

Hatches

26. This is a systematic approach that integrates the design and manufacture of products with the goal of optimizing the process

Concurrent design

Design for recycling

The manufacturing process

Traditional engineering design

27. The View toolbar will position the view of the 3-D solid toward the ________.

All of these

Front

SE isometric

Left side

28. This is a common method for connecting steel members of buildings and bridges:

Fabricating

Assembly

Welding

Riveting

29. A partial auxiliary view is used to show only the __________ in the auxiliary view.

The projected side view

The projected top view

Projected inclined plane

None of these

30. Baseline dimensions are referenced from a common geometric feature known as a ________.

Point of reference

Corner

Edge

Datum

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31. These maps are used to plan construction projects that locate construction features so they fit the topography of the area:

Structural topography maps

Structure location plans

Subdivision plats

Landscape maps

32. An oil refinery relies on which type of drafter to maintain and update the technical piping drawings used for the construction and maintenance of the facility.

Electrical

Civil

Architectural

Process piping

33. This type of auxiliary view is projected onto a plane that is perpendicular to one of the principal planes of projection:

Secondary

Primary

Revolved

Successive

34. Oblique sections are useful to show this

Oblique lines

Projected features

Foreshortened features

Interior shapes

35. The Press-Pull tool will ________ the face of a solid model in the direction it faces.

Spiral

Taper

None of these

Extrude

36. Welding drawings are a special type of this kind of drawing:

Assembly

Isometric

Symbol

Perspective

37. These weld symbols have no arrow-side or other-side significance:

Back or backing weld

Flash and upset weld

Surface or groove weld

Projection or seam weld

38. This type of solid has two bases that are parallel equal polygons:

Torus

Pyramid

Prism

Cone

39. These plans, made by the steel fabricator, are assembly drawings for the steel structure

Assembly plans

Erection plans

Welding plans

Construction plans

40. A circular arc is dimensioned in the view where you see its true shape by giving the value for its

Radius

Chord length

Diameter

Arc length

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41. The 3-D commands on the Modeling toolbar include __________.

All of these

Sphere

Extrude

Box

42. Circular shapes appear in this fashion when viewed at an angle other than 90 degrees:

Circular

Lengthened

Angular

Elliptical

43. Switches and relays should be shown in this position with no operating force or applied energy:

Normal

Offset

Application

Closed

44. The maximum and minimum sizes of a feature are identified by a ________ tolerance.

Reference

GD&T

Allowance

Limits

45. This material is used in masonry construction, most commonly for ornamental facing:

Clay tile

Face brick

Aggregate

Natural stone

46. Architectural drafters generally prefer to use ________ drawings to help illustrate 3-dimensional views of a structure.

Isometric

Perspective

Auxiliary

Orthographic

47. This allows the designer to conceptualize objects more easily without having to make costly illustrations, models, or prototypes:

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

48. In this type of view, the cutting plane line indicates both the location of the cutting plane and the direction of sight:

Removed section

Revolved section

Partial section

Auxiliary section

49. This type of weld is the most common in structural steel fabrication:

Fillet weld

Beam weld

Structural weld

Rivet weld

50. One way to evenly space dimensions on a drawing is to use the __________.

Continue tool

Linear tool

Dimension Space tool

Baseline tool

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