Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

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

Construction superintendent

Drafter

Technical illustrator

Artist

3. 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

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

All of these

Front view

Right side view

Top view

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

Civil

Architectural

Mechanical

Electrical

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

Isoplane

Radial

Inside

Outside

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

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

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

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

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

One inch or over

One yard or over

One rod or over

One foot or over

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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 understand the overall design concept

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

Frontal

Base

Profile

Horizontal

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

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

True size

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

Cylinder

Cone

Torus

Ellipsoid

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

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Angle

Aligned

Radial

Linear

18. 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

Baseline

Linear

Continue

19. 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

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

Warped solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

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

Prism

Cone

Torus

Pyramid

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

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

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Horizontally

Vertically

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

Smallest

Actual size

MMC

LMC

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

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Datum

Angular

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

Mechanical

Process piping

Architectural

Civil

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

Lettering guides

Circle templates

Triangles

Technical pens

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

Oblique

Edge

Line

Vertex

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31. 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

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

Allowance

Tolerance

Difference

Specification

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

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

Perspective

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

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

Switches

Signal relays

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

Client

CAD trainee

Checker

Receptionist

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

310

360

180

270

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

Extension line

Dimension line

Leader

Specification

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

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

All of these

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

40. 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

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41. 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

1.906

5.958

42. 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

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

Metric

Engineer's

Architect's

None of these

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

Foreshortened

Parallel

Oblique

Orthographic

45. 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

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

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

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