Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-2

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

Two

Four

One

Three

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

Modify

3-D Move

Move

Rotate

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

Traverse

Elevations

Profiles

Plats

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

None of these

Height

Width

Length

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

Piping

Architecture

Sheet metal construction

Mechanical engineering

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

Perspective of the model

Size and shape of the model features

All of the above

Shading used to render the model

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

Circular

Angular

Elliptical

Lengthened

9. 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.

Civil

Electrical

Process piping

Architectural

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

Spiral

Extrude

None of these

Taper

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

City maps

Cadastral maps

Monument maps

Topographic maps

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

Contour

City map

Plat

Traverse

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

Shop drawings

Design drawings

Application drawings

Weldment drawings

14. Oblique sections are useful to show this

Oblique lines

Projected features

Interior shapes

Foreshortened features

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

Isometric

Perspective

Assembly

Symbol

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

40-50 %

60-75 %

75-85 %

70-80 %

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

Hatches

Contours

Profiles

Elevations

18. EDM is the acronym for:

Engineering drawing management

Enterprise data management

Enterprise drawing manipulation

Engineering data manipulation

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

Linear tool

Baseline tool

Dimension Space tool

Continue tool

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

Vertex

Angle

Surface

Line

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21. Technical drawings typically serve one of three purposes:

Documentation, Installation, or Engineering

Visualization, Communication, or Documentation

Communication, Documentation, or Installation

Visualization, Dimensioning, or Documentation

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

Design for recycling

The manufacturing process

Traditional engineering design

Concurrent design

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

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Isometric

Perspective

24. The MASSPROP shortcut will provide the following information.

Bounding box

All of these

Volume

Mass

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

Cadastral maps

Topographic maps

Engineering maps

Landscape maps

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

Limits

Allowance

Reference

GD&T

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

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

Cone

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

Pillars

Hatches

Monuments

Topographic marks

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

Welding plans

Construction plans

Erection plans

Assembly plans

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

Sphere

Box

Extrude

All of these

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

Beam weld

Fillet weld

Structural weld

Rivet weld

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

Secondary

Revolved

Primary

Successive

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

Riveting

Welding

Assembly

Fabricating

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

Main members

Riveted members

Assembled fabrications

Steel fabrications

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

Rotated

Parallel

Perpendicular

Adjacent

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

Projection or seam weld

Back or backing weld

Flash and upset weld

Surface or groove weld

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

Projected inclined plane

None of these

The projected side view

The projected top view

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

The bounding lines

The center and major and minor axes

The midpoint and end points

The center and radius

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

Picture planes

Station points

Vanishing points

Ground lines

40. A projection weld is a type of

Resistance weld

Gas weld

Fillet weld

Arc weld

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

Front view

Primary auxiliary view

None of these

Top view

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

Preloaded

Reinforced

Pre-stressed

Aggregate

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

Structure location plans

Subdivision plats

Landscape maps

Structural topography maps

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

Partial section

Removed section

Auxiliary section

Revolved section

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

Chord length

Radius

Diameter

Arc length

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

Ruled surface

Edge surface

Developed surface

Auxiliary surface

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

Aggregate

Clay tile

Face brick

Natural stone

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

Datum

Corner

Edge

Point of reference

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

All of these

Left side

SE isometric

Front

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

Application

Normal

Closed

Offset

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