Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

Perspective

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

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

3. 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"

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

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

One yard or over

One inch or over

One foot or over

One rod or over

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

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

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

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Horizontally

8. 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

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Diameter

Arc Radius

Radius

Arc Length

10. 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

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

Right side view

All of these

Front view

Top view

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

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

Inside

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

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

14. 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 Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance 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

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

As an oblique surface

True size

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

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

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

Centerline

Extension line

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

Checker

Client

Receptionist

CAD trainee

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

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

Cone

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

All of these

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

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

Mechanical

Civil

Electrical

Architectural

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

Architectural

Mechanical

Process piping

Civil

22. 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

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

Architect's

Engineer's

Metric

None of these

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

Frontal

Horizontal

Profile

Base

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

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

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Closed relays

Operating relays

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

Linear

Angle

Aligned

Radial

28. 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

Quick Dimension

Linear

Continue

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

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Angular

Datum

30. 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

Specification

Difference

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

Phantom

Center

Hidden

Object

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

Triangles

Technical pens

Lettering guides

Circle templates

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

Technical illustrator

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Artist

35. 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

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

Actual size

LMC

MMC

Smallest

37. 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

38. 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 eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

Leader

Dimension line

Specification

Extension line

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

180

360

270

310

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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.

14.6844

1.906

4.7625

5.958

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

Line

Edge

Vertex

Oblique

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

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Engineering Graphics

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

Planar solid

Warped solid

Revolved solid

Extruded solid

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

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cylinder

Cone

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

Foreshortened

Oblique

Orthographic

Parallel

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