Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Water and steam

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

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

Half section

Symmetric section

Full section

Quarter section

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

Half

Whole

Broken out

All of these

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

Layer set

All of these

Line type

Sheet number

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

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

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

Z-axis

All of these

Y-axis

X-axis

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

2 : 1

1 : 1

8. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

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

Decimal

Architectural

Metric

Fractional

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

External thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

Internal thread

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

Attach

Union

Add

Form

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

Paper space

The Finished plot

Model space

The PDF file

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

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

Broken out

Half

Full

Quarter

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

All of these

Floor plan

Site plan

Foundation

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

Filleted

Angular

Transverse

Straight

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

Bolts

All fasteners

Rivets

Thin parts

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

Half section

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Removed section

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

Quarter section

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

20. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Inches only

Feet and inches

Feet only

Even numbers

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

Residential

Commercial

Aerospace

Publicly funded

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set Ortho on

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

All of these

Windows

Door openings and walls

Centers of cabinets

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

Extension

Leader

Dimension

Center

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

Standard piping

Single-line

Centerline piping

Double-line

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

Series of thread

Thread pitch

Major diameter

Lead

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

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

Ellipse

Circle

Line

Polyline

29. 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

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

None of these

Designer's intent

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

All of these

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

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

All of the above

Architectural working

Isometric

Mechanical

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

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

None of the above

Sidewalk

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

Poly line

Hatch line

Center line

Dimension line

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

Hatch

Center line

Zero

Hidden line

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

Development plans

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

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

Elevations

Foundation

Building section

Floor plan

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

Center

Phantom

Hidden

Dashed

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

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Half

Broken out

Revolved

Whole

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

None of these

Offset

Copy

Explode

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

Crest

Lead

Pitch

Root

43. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Window style

Roof pitch

All of these

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

Production size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Actual size

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