Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-4

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1. When designing a home for a client, one of the most important pre-design considerations that an architect needs to address is ______________.

How much money the client is willing to spend

The site on which the house is to sit

The nearest grocery store

Whether or not there is a curb and gutter system

2. In the mechanical design process the first step is to ________.

Identify the problem

Prepare a budget

Prepare rough sketches

Brainstorm solutions

3. These breaks are used to shorten the view of an object:

Section breaks

Conventional breaks

Aligned breaks

Full breaks

4. In offset sections, offsets or bends in the cutting plane are all:

30, 60 or 90 degrees

90 degrees

Either 90 or 180 degrees

180 degrees

5. Some of the standard Auto-CAD text styles used in architectural drawings includes _________.

Country Blueprint

Stylus BT

All of these

City Blueprint

6. This practice considers an individual part's dimensions and tolerances and that part's relation to its related parts:

Creating datum references

Applying allowances

Angular dimensioning tolerances

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing

7. The second line of dimensions out from the plan generally includes _________.

The measurement from one outside corner to the opposite outside corner

Centers of doors and windows

The distances between outside walls and interior walls

The measurement from the outside of the brick to the inside of the exterior wall

8. When creating a Cutting Plane line with Auto-CAD it is customary to use a ________ to create the line.

Center line

Polyline

Dashed line

Hatch line

9. Dimension text is generally placed above the ________ line.

Extension

Center

Dimension

Leader

10. When lines intersect on a drawing at angles of this many degrees, it is customary not to dimension the angle:

90

360

180

45

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11. The ________ is a standard element of a section view in a technical drawing.

Cutting Plane line

Material hatch pattern

Section lines

All of these

12. In isometric projection, all distances are approximately this percentage of their true size:

50 percent

80 percent

120 percent

20 percent

13. The text used on a typical detail sheet should be ________.

None of these

Placed horizontally

In an architectural text style

In bold text

14. This is the smallest diameter of a screw thread:

Minor diameter

Internal thread diameter

External thread diameter

Major diameter

15. A ________ section allows the drafter to create a Cutting Plane line which is not in a straight line across the part.

Half

Whole

Offset

Broken out

16. In this type of projection, each of the axes has different ratios of foreshortening:

Dimetric

Trimetric

Parallel

Isometric

17. This is a rounded exterior blend between surfaces:

Chamfer

Round

Fillet

Taper

18. This means that a feature of a finished product contains the maximum amount of material permitted by the tolerance dimensions for that feature:

Machine mark indication

Maximum machined indication

Maximum material condition

Machined material condition

19. In the section view, the areas that would have been in actual contact with the cutting plane are shown with:

Lines and arrows

Section lining

A cutting plane line

Visible lines

20. This is used to indicate that a surface is to be machined:

Roughness indicator

Machining mark

Finish mark

Coordinate mark

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21. The section view drawing in which one fourth of an object has been marked for removal is known as a _________ section.

Half

None of these

Quarter

Full

22. In this type of auxiliary view, a break line is used to indicate the imaginary break in the views:

Primary

Partial

Secondary

Revolved

23. This type of axonometric drawing has equal foreshortening along two axis directions and a different amount on the third axis:

Isometric

Multiview

Trimetric

Dimetric

24. This is the term for the range of tightness or looseness resulting from the allowances and tolerances in mating parts:

Fit

Specifications

Allowance

Limits

25. Lines of an isometric drawing that are not parallel to the isometric axes are called this:

Non-isometric lines

Trimetric lines

Multiview lines

Dimetric lines

26. These are used to attach parts to a cylinder so they won't turn on it:

Key-seats and bearings

Keys and key-ways/key-seats

Knurls and keys

Lugs and bearings

27. A back or backing weld is a type of:

Arc and gas weld

Upset weld

Resistance weld

Groove weld

28. PDM is the acronym for:

Product data management

Project data manipulation

Project drawing management

Product drawing manipulation

29. This is the range of digital or hard copy documents that specify the physical function requirements for a product:

Drawing definition

Engineering design

Product definition

Product design

30. The thread note for a typical bolt will include the _________.

Major diameter of the thread

Offset distance

Material

Center line

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31. The edges of a cube in isometric projection make angles of this many degrees with each other:

90

120

60

30

32. These units are based on inch-foot and yard measurements:

U.S. metric units

International customary units

ISO International units

U.S. customary units

33. Placement of dimensions on a drawing is controlled by ________.

Corporate drafting standards

All of these

ANSI

The design engineer

34. In order to create an accurate assembly drawing the drafter should create the ________ drawings first.

Parts list

Title block

Isometric

Detail

35. In architectural drawing ________ are often used to illustrate and detail structural components.

All of these

Foundation beam detail sections

Wall sections

Building sections

36. This type of section is not in direct projection from the view containing the cutting plane:

Full section

Revolved section

Removed section

Broken-out section

37. The typical parts list should include the _________.

Number of parts needed

All of these

Part number

Manufacturing material

38. Acceptable parts must not extend beyond this:

Boundary limits

Tolerances

Specification

Hole limits

39. This is an angled surface used on cylinders to make them easier to handle:

Taper

Fillet

Chamfer

Lug

40. This is the theoretically exact size from which limits of size are determined:

Production size

Actual Size

Basic size

Dimensioned size

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41. A typical set of mechanical working drawings includes ________.

All of these

Parts list

Exploded assembly

Part details

42. The distance a screw thread advances axially in one turn is the:

Pitch

Lead

Crest

Turn

43. It is customary for the first sheet of a working drawing set to include __________.

Assembled assembly

Exploded assembly

All of these

A parts list

44. This is how axonometric, oblique, and perspective sketches show objects:

Obliquely

Parallel

Pictorially

Orthographically

45. Angles project true size only when the plane containing the angle and plane of projection are this:

Parallel

Aligned

Perpendicular

Adjacent

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