Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

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

Architect's

Metric

Engineer's

None of these

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

Warped solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

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

25 or 30 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

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

Radial

Isoplane

Outside

Inside

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

Oblique

Orthographic

Parallel

Perspective

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

Radius

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Diameter

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

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Construction superintendent

Drafter

Artist

Technical illustrator

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

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Switches

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

Triangles

Circle templates

Technical pens

Lettering guides

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

Oblique

Edge

Vertex

Line

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

270

360

310

180

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

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

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

Mechanical

Civil

Process piping

Architectural

17. 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

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

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cone

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

Profile

Horizontal

Base

Frontal

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

Aligned

Linear

Angle

Radial

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21. 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 inch or over

One rod or over

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

Dimension line

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

All of these

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

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

Plane

None of these

Hidden lines

Center lines

26. 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

Allowance

Tolerance

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

Mechanical

Civil

Electrical

Architectural

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

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

Cone

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

Orthographic

Oblique

Parallel

Foreshortened

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

Baseline

Continue

Linear

Quick Dimension

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31. 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 top to bottom

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Tolerance

Datum

Angular

Sheet metal

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

All of these

Right side view

Front view

Top view

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

Center

Hidden

Object

Phantom

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

Client

CAD trainee

Receptionist

Checker

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

Auxiliary

Planar

Orthographic

Horizontal

37. 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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

38. 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

5.958

1.906

14.6844

39. 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 Modify 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

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Leader

Specification

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

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

Vertically

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

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

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

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

Smallest

MMC

LMC

Actual size

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

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

True size

Foreshortened

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

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

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