Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Smallest

LMC

Actual size

MMC

2. 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

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

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

4. 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

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

Cone

Pyramid

Prism

Torus

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

Extension line

Specification

Leader

Dimension line

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

Cone

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

Torus

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

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Artist

Drafter

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

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Closed relays

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

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

Inside

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

Top view

Front view

All of these

Right side view

12. 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

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

Base

Frontal

Profile

Horizontal

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

Vertically

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

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

310

180

270

360

16. 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Drafting

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

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

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Dimension line

Centerline

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

Circle templates

Lettering guides

Technical pens

Triangles

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

CAD trainee

Client

Receptionist

Checker

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

All of these

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

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

Angular

Tolerance

Datum

Sheet metal

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

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

24. 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

Specification

Allowance

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

Arc Radius

Radius

Arc Length

Diameter

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

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

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

Phantom

Hidden

Object

Center

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

Warped solid

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

One inch or over

One rod or over

One yard or over

One foot or over

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

Angle

Aligned

Linear

Radial

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

33. 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

Plane

Center lines

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

Electrical

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Line

Oblique

Edge

Vertex

36. 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

4.7625

14.6844

1.906

37. 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

38. 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

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

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

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Metric

Engineer's

None of these

Architect's

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

Planar

Orthographic

Horizontal

Auxiliary

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

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

True size

Foreshortened

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

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

Perspective

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

To locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

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

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

Electron tubes

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

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

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

Process piping

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