Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. Understanding the Cartesian coordinate system will help the beginning drafter __________.

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

2. Architectural dimensioning standards allow for the placement of dimensions inside the floor plan. These inside dimensions locate interior __________.

Door openings and walls

Windows

All of these

Centers of cabinets

3. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Feet only

Inches only

Even numbers

4. This type of thread is a thread on the inside of a member:

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

External thread

5. To avoid having to dimension to a hidden feature the drafter can utilize a ________ section.

Half

All of these

Broken out

Whole

6. There should be a visible gap between the wall and the _________ line.

Extension

Dimension

Center

Leader

7. On a floor plan the dashed line that appears approximately 24" outside the exterior wall represents the ________.

Sidewalk

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

Roof overhang

8. Objects that are symmetric can be shown effectively using this type of section:

Symmetric section

Half section

Quarter section

Full section

9. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Siding

Window style

Roof pitch

10. The architectural and construction industries use the United States National CAD standard (NCS) system on many ________ projects.

Residential

Aerospace

Publicly funded

Commercial

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11. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

12. When setting up a mechanical drawing in Auto-CAD the drafter should set the units to ________.

Fractional

Decimal

Metric

Architectural

13. In an exploded assembly drawing it is customary for the drafter to use a ________ line to illustrate how parts fit together.

Center

Hidden

Phantom

Dashed

14. The foundation contractor will work with the following architectural plans.

Floor plan

Site plan

All of these

Foundation

15. If designs require changes, they should be documented with:

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Document reviews

Product proposals

16. One critical issue drafters need to pay close attention to is the ________.

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

Scale factor

None of these

17. When creating your own blocks it is important to avoid drawing any portion of the block in the ________ layer.

Zero

Hidden line

Hatch

Center line

18. By using a ________ section of a cylindrical mechanical part the drafter should be able to show only one view of the part.

Whole

Broken out

Revolved

Half

19. Drafters should use a ________ in a section view of a mechanical part that includes the cylindrical view of a threaded hole.

Hatch line

Center line

Poly line

Dimension line

20. When dimensioning architectural drawings architects will utilize both ________ and ________ options.

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

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21. The building construction industry relies on sets of ________ drawings to construct homes and commercial buildings.

Architectural working

All of the above

Mechanical

Isometric

22. This allows the performance of structures to be analyzed and tested efficiently, accurately, and quickly:

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

23. When using the direct entry method to create a horizontal line exactly three inches long the drafter should ________ first.

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Insure that Ortho is on

24. The standard number of threads per inch for various diameters is the:

Series of thread

Lead

Thread pitch

Major diameter

25. When only a small section of an interior area needs to be revealed the drafter can use a ________ section.

Half

Full

Broken out

Quarter

26. When using versions of Auto-CAD prior to Release 2006 it may be necessary to ________ a block in order to edit it.

Explode

None of these

Copy

Offset

27. When filling an area with a hatch pattern in Auto-CAD the drafter needs to be able to ________.

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set Ortho on

Turn ISO grid off

28. Dimensions are used on the elevation plan to describe ________.

Roof overhangs

All of these

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

29. This is the bottom surface joining the sides of two adjacent threads:

Pitch

Root

Crest

Lead

30. The title block used on working drawings should include the _________.

Layer set

Sheet number

Line type

All of these

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31. This type of section is limited by a break line:

Broken-out section

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

32. When dimensioning piping drawings, you give the lengths of all runs of this type:

Transverse

Straight

Filleted

Angular

33. This type of rapid prototyping system uses a laser to fuse powdered metals, plastics, or ceramics:

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

34. The architectural drafter usually begins a set of working drawings by creating the ________ plan first.

Foundation

Floor plan

Building section

Elevations

35. In an assembly section, these parts should have their section lines left out or shown solid black:

All fasteners

Thin parts

Rivets

Bolts

36. The UCS icon represents the intersection of the __________.

Y-axis

X-axis

All of these

Z-axis

37. This is the measured size of a finished part:

Basic size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Production size

38. The Auto-CAD command used to combine two or more primitive shapes into a single complex 3-dimensional model is ________.

Add

Attach

Form

Union

39. A line with a tapering width can be easily created by using the ________ tool.

Ellipse

Polyline

Circle

Line

40. This type of drawing shows two lines representing the pipe diameter:

Single-line

Centerline piping

Double-line

Standard piping

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41. In this type of section, one quarter of the object is removed:

Removed section

Quarter section

Half section

Revolved section

42. A full scale technical drawing will have a scale factor of ________.

1 : 1

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 2

43. The dimension text size is determined by what the architect deems necessary in _________.

Model space

Paper space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

44. These types of pipes are generally connected with bell and spigot joints or flanged joints:

Water and gas

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

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