Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Extension line

Arrowhead line

Centerline

Dimension line

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

Receptionist

Checker

Client

CAD trainee

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

Front view

Right side view

All of these

Top view

4. 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 foot or over

One rod or over

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

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

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

Vertically

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

7. 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

Circle templates

Technical pens

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

Allowance

Difference

Specification

Tolerance

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

Vertex

Line

Oblique

Edge

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

360

310

180

270

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11. 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 top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Object

Hidden

Center

Phantom

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

Perspective

Oblique

Parallel

Orthographic

15. 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

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

Datum

Angular

Sheet metal

Tolerance

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

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

Process piping

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

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Aligned

Radial

Linear

Angle

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

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

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

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

Aerospace engineers

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

Actual size

LMC

MMC

Smallest

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

Cone

Pyramid

Torus

Prism

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

Electrical

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

25. 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

Quick Dimension

Linear

Baseline

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

Radial

Outside

Isoplane

Inside

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

Torus

Cone

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

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

Hidden lines

Plane

None of these

Center lines

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

30. 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 stretch 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

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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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Specification

Extension line

Leader

Dimension line

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

Metric

Architect's

Engineer's

None of these

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

Profile

Base

Frontal

Horizontal

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

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

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

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Closed relays

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

Orthographic

Horizontal

Planar

Auxiliary

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

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

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

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Revolved solid

43. 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

5.958

1.906

4.7625

44. 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

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

As a line or edge

True size

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

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

Artist

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

Drafter

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