Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

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

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

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

Client

CAD trainee

Checker

Receptionist

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

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 select a color for their carpet

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

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

Electron tubes

Switches

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

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

Parallel

Oblique

Orthographic

Perspective

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

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

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

Terminal circles

Operating relays

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

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Architect's

Engineer's

None of these

Metric

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

Difference

Allowance

Specification

Tolerance

13. 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

Baseline

Continue

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

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

Sheet metal

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

Horizontally

Vertically

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

16. 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

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

Construction superintendent

Artist

Technical illustrator

Drafter

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

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

True size

Foreshortened

19. 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.

5.958

14.6844

4.7625

1.906

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

Arc Radius

Radius

Diameter

Arc Length

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

Centerline

Extension line

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

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

Torus

Pyramid

Cone

Prism

23. 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

Hidden lines

Plane

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

Actual size

LMC

MMC

Smallest

25. 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 top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

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

Oblique

Vertex

Line

Edge

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

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Isoplane

Inside

Outside

Radial

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

Cylinder

Cone

Torus

Ellipsoid

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

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

Linear

Angle

Radial

Aligned

33. 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

34. 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"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

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

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

All of these

36. 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

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

All of these

Front view

Right side view

Top view

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

Object

Center

Phantom

Hidden

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

Auxiliary

Orthographic

Planar

Horizontal

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

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

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41. 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

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

One rod or over

One yard or over

One inch or over

One foot or over

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

30 or 45 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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

Base

Profile

Horizontal

Frontal

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

360

310

180

270

46. 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 Modify 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

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