Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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

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

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Horizontally

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

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

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

45 or 60 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

All of these

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

Aligned

Angle

Linear

Radial

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

Smallest

Actual size

LMC

MMC

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

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

Switches

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

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

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

Inside

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

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

Profile

Horizontal

Frontal

Base

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

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

14. 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

15. 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 understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Angular

Datum

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

180

270

360

310

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

Architect's

Metric

None of these

Engineer's

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

None of these

Hidden lines

Center lines

Plane

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

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

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

Cone

Prism

Pyramid

Torus

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

Engineering Graphics

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

23. 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

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Specification

Leader

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Artist

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

Drafter

27. 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

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

Foreshortened

True size

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

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

Top view

Front view

All of these

Right side view

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

Horizontal

Planar

Orthographic

Auxiliary

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31. 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

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

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

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

Torus

Cylinder

Cone

Ellipsoid

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

Vertex

Edge

Oblique

Line

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

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

Perspective

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

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

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

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

38. 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

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

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

Centerline

Dimension line

Extension line

Arrowhead line

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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

Receptionist

Client

42. 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 stretch 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 Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

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

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Piping drafters

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

Technical pens

Triangles

Circle templates

Lettering guides

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

To locate center marks

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

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