Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

Cone

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

Right side view

Front view

All of these

Top view

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

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

Specification

Dimension line

Extension line

Leader

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

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

Angle

Linear

Radial

Aligned

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

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

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

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

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

Lettering guides

Triangles

Technical pens

Circle templates

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

Radius

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

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

Edge

Line

Oblique

Vertex

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

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

To locate center marks

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

Engineer's

None of these

Metric

Architect's

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

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cone

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

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Piping drafters

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

Difference

Specification

Tolerance

Allowance

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

Outside

Isoplane

Inside

Radial

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

Switches

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

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

Process piping

Architectural

Mechanical

Civil

22. 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.

4.7625

14.6844

5.958

1.906

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

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Terminal circles

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

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

Oblique

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

Actual size

MMC

Smallest

LMC

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

Phantom

Hidden

Object

Center

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

One rod or over

One inch or over

One yard or over

One foot or over

29. 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 Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Parallel

Foreshortened

Orthographic

Oblique

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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 right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Angular

Datum

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

270

180

310

360

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

Horizontal

Auxiliary

Orthographic

Planar

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

Continue

Baseline

Quick Dimension

Linear

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

Plane

Center lines

Hidden lines

None of these

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

CAD trainee

Checker

Client

Receptionist

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

Frontal

Horizontal

Base

Profile

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

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

True size

As an oblique surface

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

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

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

According to the planar views

Vertically

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

Artist

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

Dimension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Extension line

45. 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 bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Planar solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

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