Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-2

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

Elevations

Profiles

Traverse

Plats

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

Angular

Lengthened

Elliptical

Circular

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

Taper

None of these

Extrude

Spiral

4. 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

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

Developed surface

Auxiliary surface

Ruled surface

Edge surface

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

70-80 %

60-75 %

40-50 %

75-85 %

7. The MASSPROP shortcut will provide the following information.

Mass

Volume

All of these

Bounding box

8. EDM is the acronym for:

Enterprise drawing manipulation

Enterprise data management

Engineering data manipulation

Engineering drawing management

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

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

Ground lines

Picture planes

Station points

Vanishing points

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

Diameter

Arc length

Radius

Chord length

12. A projection weld is a type of

Resistance weld

Fillet weld

Gas weld

Arc weld

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

Isometric

Symbol

Perspective

Assembly

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

Reinforced

Pre-stressed

Preloaded

Aggregate

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

Natural stone

Face brick

Clay tile

Aggregate

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

Sheet metal construction

Architecture

Piping

Mechanical engineering

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

Perpendicular

Adjacent

Parallel

Rotated

18. Technical drawings typically serve one of three purposes:

Communication, Documentation, or Installation

Visualization, Dimensioning, or Documentation

Documentation, Installation, or Engineering

Visualization, Communication, or Documentation

19. 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

Height

None of these

Width

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

Reference

Limits

Allowance

GD&T

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

Structural weld

Rivet weld

Beam weld

Fillet weld

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

Hatches

Pillars

Monuments

Topographic marks

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

Isometric

Auxiliary

Orthographic

Perspective

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

Engineering maps

Landscape maps

Topographic maps

Cadastral maps

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

Welding plans

Assembly plans

Construction plans

Erection plans

26. 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

Process piping

Electrical

Architectural

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

Riveted members

Main members

Assembled fabrications

Steel fabrications

28. Oblique sections are useful to show this

Projected features

Foreshortened features

Interior shapes

Oblique lines

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

None of these

Projected inclined plane

The projected top view

The projected side view

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

Line

Vertex

Surface

Angle

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

Assembly

Fabricating

Welding

Riveting

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

The midpoint and end points

The center and radius

The center and major and minor axes

The bounding lines

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

Application drawings

Shop drawings

Weldment drawings

Design drawings

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

Surface or groove weld

Flash and upset weld

Back or backing weld

Projection or seam weld

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

All of these

SE isometric

Left side

Front

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

Datum

Edge

Point of reference

Corner

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

Four

Two

Three

One

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

City maps

Topographic maps

Monument maps

Cadastral maps

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

Application

Offset

Normal

Closed

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

Removed section

Auxiliary section

Revolved section

Partial section

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

3-D Move

Rotate

Move

Modify

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

Traditional engineering design

Design for recycling

Concurrent design

The manufacturing process

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

Torus

Cone

Pyramid

Prism

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

Shading used to render the model

Size and shape of the model features

All of the above

Perspective of the model

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

None of these

Top view

Primary auxiliary view

Front view

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

Elevations

Profiles

Contours

Hatches

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

Structure location plans

Landscape maps

Subdivision plats

Structural topography maps

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

Dimension Space tool

Baseline tool

Linear tool

Continue tool

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

Box

All of these

Sphere

Extrude

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

Traverse

Plat

City map

Contour

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