Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-2

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1. 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.

Process piping

Architectural

Electrical

Civil

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

Normal

Application

Closed

Offset

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

Piping

Mechanical engineering

Sheet metal construction

Architecture

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

Surface

Vertex

Angle

Line

5. A projection weld is a type of

Gas weld

Resistance weld

Arc weld

Fillet weld

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

Shading used to render the model

All of the above

Perspective of the model

Size and shape of the model features

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

Contours

Hatches

Elevations

Profiles

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

Topographic maps

Monument maps

Cadastral maps

City maps

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

Prism

Cone

Torus

Pyramid

10. 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 manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

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

The projected side view

Projected inclined plane

None of these

The projected top view

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

Preloaded

Reinforced

Aggregate

Pre-stressed

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

Isometric

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Perspective

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

Sphere

Extrude

Box

All of these

15. Technical drawings typically serve one of three purposes:

Visualization, Dimensioning, or Documentation

Documentation, Installation, or Engineering

Visualization, Communication, or Documentation

Communication, Documentation, or Installation

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

Parallel

Rotated

Perpendicular

Adjacent

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

Riveted members

Assembled fabrications

Steel fabrications

Main members

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

Landscape maps

Engineering maps

Topographic maps

Cadastral maps

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

Extrude

Spiral

None of these

Taper

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

Topographic marks

Pillars

Hatches

Monuments

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

Edge

Point of reference

Datum

Corner

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

Removed section

Partial section

Auxiliary section

Revolved section

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

Shop drawings

Application drawings

Weldment drawings

Design drawings

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

Isometric

Assembly

Symbol

Perspective

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

Fabricating

Riveting

Welding

Assembly

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

Continue tool

Baseline tool

Linear tool

Dimension Space tool

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

Traverse

Profiles

Elevations

Plats

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

City map

Traverse

Contour

Plat

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

Back or backing weld

Flash and upset weld

Projection or seam weld

Surface or groove weld

30. The MASSPROP shortcut will provide the following information.

Mass

Volume

Bounding box

All of these

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31. EDM is the acronym for:

Engineering drawing management

Enterprise data management

Enterprise drawing manipulation

Engineering data manipulation

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

Two

Four

One

Three

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

Structural weld

Beam weld

Rivet weld

Fillet weld

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

Diameter

Chord length

Radius

Arc length

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

Limits

Reference

GD&T

Allowance

36. Oblique sections are useful to show this

Oblique lines

Interior shapes

Foreshortened features

Projected features

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

Ground lines

Station points

Vanishing points

Picture planes

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

3-D Move

Move

Rotate

Modify

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

Natural stone

Clay tile

Face brick

Aggregate

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

Subdivision plats

Landscape maps

Structural topography maps

Structure location plans

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

Auxiliary surface

Edge surface

Ruled surface

Developed surface

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

Top view

Primary auxiliary view

Front view

None of these

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

Front

All of these

SE isometric

Left side

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

The midpoint and end points

The bounding lines

The center and major and minor axes

The center and radius

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

Circular

Angular

Elliptical

Lengthened

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

Successive

Primary

Secondary

Revolved

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

40-50 %

70-80 %

75-85 %

60-75 %

48. 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

Length

Width

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

Construction plans

Erection plans

Assembly plans

Welding plans

50. 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

Traditional engineering design

The manufacturing process

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