Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Profile

Horizontal

Base

Frontal

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

310

180

360

270

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

Hidden lines

None of these

Plane

Center lines

4. 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

5. 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 show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

All of these

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

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

Arc Radius

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

MMC

Smallest

Actual size

LMC

9. 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"

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

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

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11. 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 inch or over

One yard or over

12. 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

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

Orthographic

Foreshortened

Oblique

Parallel

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

Line

Vertex

Oblique

Edge

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

Hidden

Phantom

Object

Center

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

Closed relays

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

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

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

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

Arrowhead line

Centerline

Dimension line

Extension line

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

20. 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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21. 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

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

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

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

Perspective

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

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

Switches

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

25. 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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

All of these

Engineering Drawing

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

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

Process piping

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

According to the planar views

Vertically

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

29. 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

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

Torus

Cone

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

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

Checker

CAD trainee

Receptionist

Client

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

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

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

True size

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

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

Cone

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

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

Isoplane

Radial

Inside

Outside

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

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

Sheet metal

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

Right side view

Top view

Front view

All of these

38. 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

Technical pens

Triangles

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

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

40. 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

14.6844

5.958

4.7625

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

Aligned

Linear

Radial

Angle

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

43. 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

Linear

Quick Dimension

Continue

44. 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 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

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

Leader

Extension line

Specification

Dimension line

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

Mechanical

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

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