Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. The top, front, and bottom views align in this manner:

Horizontally

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

2. These items typically are not used in new designs, but are still common in high-power amplifiers:

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

Switches

Electron tubes

3. A round is a rounded surface on the ________ corner of a part.

Outside

Inside

Radial

Isoplane

4. This is the plane upon which the top view is projected:

Horizontal

Base

Profile

Frontal

5. Schematic and single-line diagrams should be arranged so that signal or transmission path from input to output proceeds in this fashion:

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

6. An advantage of this type of view is that each view shows the object all the way through as if it were transparent:

Planar

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Horizontal

7. An architect often relies on a _________ to complete the set of technical drawings used in the design of an office building.

Technical illustrator

Artist

Drafter

Construction superintendent

8. On typical electronic diagrams, these items need not be shown unless they are needed for clarification:

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Closed relays

9. The condition of a part when it contains the least amount of material is referred to as ________.

Actual size

LMC

Smallest

MMC

10. In this type of dimensioning, allowance must be made for bends:

Datum

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Angular

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11. Several of the tools used in traditional drafting include the following:

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

12. The ____________ tool on the Dimension tool bar will place several dimensions at one time by using a selection box placed over several part features.

Quick Dimension

Linear

Baseline

Continue

13. The ____________ dimension tool will place the length of an angled line.

Aligned

Linear

Angle

Radial

14. A ___________ is the person responsible for verifying that the drawings in a project set are free of mistakes.

Checker

Receptionist

Client

CAD trainee

15. This is the total amount that the feature on the actual part is allowed to vary from what is specified by the dimension:

Allowance

Specification

Tolerance

Difference

16. Some of the common terms used to describe technical drawing include:

Engineering Graphics

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

17. Three dimensional models are often used in the design process to ______________.

Provide the client with a model which they can use to impress their friends

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

18. This type of solid has a polygon for a base and triangular lateral faces that intersect at a vertex:

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

Cone

19. Given a situation in which the drafter has crossed extension lines in a drawing what can be done to clean up the point of crossing?

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

20. Referring to the fractional inches to decimal inches to millimeter conversion chart on page 55 what is the equivalent mm measurement of ³/₁₆ inch.

14.6844

4.7625

1.906

5.958

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21. The principle views associated with orthographic projection are ________.

Front view

All of these

Right side view

Top view

22. This type of surface is tipped to all principal planes of projection and does not appear true size in any standard view:

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

Foreshortened

23. This type of solid is formed by sweeping a shape along a linear path:

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

24. In U.S. structural and architectural drafting, all dimensions of this length are usually expressed in feet and inches:

One yard or over

One foot or over

One rod or over

One inch or over

25. A drafter who develops technical drawings of a highway overpass would most likely be a ________ drafter.

Process piping

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

26. This is a line terminated by arrowheads, indicating the direction and extent of a dimension:

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

Dimension line

27. This type of circuit is a semiconductor wafer or chip:

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

28. Some traditional board drafters preferred the drafting machine over the parallel straight edge because it could be used without the need for_____________.

Triangles

Technical pens

Circle templates

Lettering guides

29. In oblique sketches, the most commonly used angles for receding lines are:

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

30. The lines used to create the auxiliary view should appear as ________ in the finished view.

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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31. When using the descriptive geometry method to create an auxiliary view the drafter should _____________.

Rotate the snap grid to the same angle of the inclined plane

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

32. This is formed where three or more surfaces intersect:

Line

Edge

Oblique

Vertex

33. A partial auxiliary view usually shows only features on the _________ of the inclined line and not any projection of other planes.

Center lines

None of these

Plane

Hidden lines

34. A civil engineer working on a bridge design would probably rely on his ________ scale for checking printed drawings.

Metric

Architect's

None of these

Engineer's

35. The principle reason for using an auxiliary view is _________________.

To locate center marks

To create a true projection plane from an inclined plane in one of the primary views

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

36. These types of projectors converge at a vanishing point:

Oblique

Perspective

Parallel

Orthographic

37. An engineer's scale would be used to measure lines on a drawing where the scale factor reads ________.

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

38. This type of solid is egg-shaped and can be created by revolving an ellipse around one of its axes:

Cone

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

39. The daily workload of a ________ drafter would generally include technical drawings of machine parts.

Mechanical

Architectural

Electrical

Civil

40. This line pattern is composed of three dashes, one long dash on each end with a short dash in the middle:

Center

Phantom

Object

Hidden

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41. This is a thin solid line directing attention to a note or dimension and starting with an arrowhead or dot:

Specification

Extension line

Dimension line

Leader

42. The ________ tool on the Dimension tool bar places the length of an arch on a drawing.

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

43. When adding dimensions to an auxiliary view it will be necessary to use the ________ tool.

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

44. A half-moon protractor is divided into how many degrees?

360

310

270

180

45. If a plane is parallel to the plane of projection, it appears:

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

True size

As an oblique surface

46. Isometric drawings are often used by ________ to help illustrate complex designs.

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

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