Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

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

Phantom

Object

Center

Hidden

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

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Switches

Signal relays

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

Piping drafters

All of these

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

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

Engineer's

Architect's

None of these

Metric

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

All of these

45 degree triangle

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

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

According to the planar views

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

180

310

270

360

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

Frontal

Horizontal

Profile

Base

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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 select a color for their carpet

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

Vertex

Edge

Line

Oblique

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

Horizontal

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Planar

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

Cone

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

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

Angle

Radial

Aligned

Linear

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

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Radius

Diameter

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

To locate center marks

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Hidden lines

Center lines

None of these

Plane

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

Perspective

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

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

25 or 30 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

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

Operating relays

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

22. 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"

23. 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

24. 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

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

True size

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

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

All of these

Front view

Top view

Right side view

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

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

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

Torus

Cone

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

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

Architectural

Mechanical

Electrical

Civil

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

Actual size

Smallest

LMC

MMC

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

Receptionist

Client

CAD trainee

Checker

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

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

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

Architectural

Mechanical

Process piping

Civil

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

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

Centerline

Extension line

35. 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

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

Leader

Dimension line

Extension line

Specification

37. 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

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

Foreshortened

Parallel

Oblique

Orthographic

39. 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 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

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

40. 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

Linear

Quick Dimension

Baseline

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

Tolerance

Datum

Angular

Sheet metal

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

Outside

Radial

Inside

Isoplane

43. 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 bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

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

Artist

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Drafter

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

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

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