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:

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

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

Parallel

Orthographic

Foreshortened

Oblique

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

Oblique

Perspective

Parallel

Orthographic

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

All of these

Top view

Front view

Right side view

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

Specification

Leader

Extension line

Dimension line

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

Hidden

Center

Phantom

Object

7. 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

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

Linear

Quick Dimension

Continue

Baseline

9. 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

1.906

5.958

14.6844

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

Line

Edge

Vertex

Oblique

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

Aligned

Radial

Linear

Angle

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

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

True size

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

360

180

270

310

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

Radial

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

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

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Switches

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

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

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

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

Vertically

18. 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 Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Piping drafters

All of these

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

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

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Frontal

Base

Profile

Horizontal

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

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Client

Checker

Receptionist

CAD trainee

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

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

Cone

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

Civil

Electrical

Architectural

Mechanical

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Datum

Angular

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

MMC

Actual size

LMC

Smallest

29. 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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Artist

Technical illustrator

Drafter

Construction superintendent

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

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Closed relays

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

To eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

To locate center marks

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

Engineer's

Metric

Architect's

None of these

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

Specification

Difference

Tolerance

Allowance

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

Circle templates

Technical pens

Lettering guides

Triangles

36. 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

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

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

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

One yard or over

One rod or over

One foot or over

One inch or over

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

Planar

Horizontal

Orthographic

Auxiliary

40. 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

Center lines

Hidden lines

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

Cone

Pyramid

Prism

Torus

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

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

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

Diameter

Radius

Arc Length

Arc Radius

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

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

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