Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Client

Receptionist

Checker

CAD trainee

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

One foot or over

One rod or over

One yard or over

One inch or over

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

4. 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

Allowance

Tolerance

5. 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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

6. 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

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

Quick Dimension

Baseline

Continue

Linear

8. 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.

1.906

5.958

4.7625

14.6844

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

Parallel

Foreshortened

Oblique

Orthographic

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

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

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

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cone

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

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Closed relays

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

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

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

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Technical pens

Lettering guides

Triangles

Circle templates

16. 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

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

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Horizontal

Planar

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

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

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

MMC

LMC

Smallest

Actual size

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

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

Linear

Aligned

Angle

Radial

24. 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

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

Frontal

Base

Horizontal

Profile

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

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

Radial

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

To eliminate hidden lines

To locate center marks

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

Dimension line

Leader

Specification

Extension line

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

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

Vertically

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

Center

Phantom

Object

Hidden

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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:

Right to left and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

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

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

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

Mechanical

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

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

Parallel

Oblique

Orthographic

Perspective

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

Mechanical

Process piping

Civil

Architectural

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

Metric

Architect's

None of these

Engineer's

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

Extension line

Dimension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

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

Cone

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

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

310

180

360

270

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

Top view

Right side view

Front view

All of these

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Datum

Angular

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

Switches

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

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

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Artist

Technical illustrator

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

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

True size

45. 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

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

Edge

Oblique

Line

Vertex

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