Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Center lines

Hidden lines

None of these

Plane

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

Radial

Angle

Linear

Aligned

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

One foot or over

One yard or over

One rod or over

One inch or over

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

Oblique

Line

Vertex

Edge

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

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

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

Torus

Pyramid

Cone

Prism

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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.

Continue

Baseline

Quick Dimension

Linear

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

Planar solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

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

Oblique

Foreshortened

Parallel

Orthographic

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

LMC

MMC

Actual size

Smallest

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

Horizontal

Profile

Base

Frontal

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

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

To locate center marks

14. 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

14.6844

4.7625

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

Angular

Datum

Sheet metal

Tolerance

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

Radial

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

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

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

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

All of these

Front view

Right side view

Top view

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

Oblique

Perspective

Parallel

Orthographic

20. 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

Lettering guides

Technical pens

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

Difference

Tolerance

Allowance

Specification

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

310

180

360

270

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

Process piping

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

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

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Mechanical engineers

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

Vertically

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

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

Extension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

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

Construction superintendent

Artist

Drafter

Technical illustrator

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

Engineer's

Architect's

Metric

None of these

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

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

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

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

33. 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 top to bottom

Left to right and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Extension line

Leader

Specification

Dimension line

35. 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 Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cone

Cylinder

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

Civil

Electrical

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

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

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Closed relays

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

Checker

CAD trainee

Client

Receptionist

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

3/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

43. 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

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

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Phantom

Hidden

Center

Object

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

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

True size

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