Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Standard piping

Single-line

Centerline piping

Double-line

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

Full

Quarter

Broken out

Half

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

Layer set

All of these

Line type

Sheet number

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

Production size

Actual size

Basic size

Dimensioned size

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

Removed section

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Half section

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

Broken out

Revolved

Whole

Half

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

Commercial

Publicly funded

Residential

Aerospace

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

Basic thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

External thread

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

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

Development plans

Product proposals

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

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

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

Floor plan

All of these

Site plan

Foundation

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

Soil and waste

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Water and gas

13. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

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

Transverse

Filleted

Angular

Straight

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

Pitch

Lead

Crest

Root

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

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

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

All of the above

Architectural working

Isometric

Mechanical

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

Extension

Center

Dimension

Leader

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

1 : 2

1 : 1

1 : 4

2 : 1

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21. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Window style

Roof pitch

Siding

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

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

The PDF file

Paper space

Model space

The Finished plot

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

Y-axis

X-axis

Z-axis

All of these

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

Dimension line

Center line

Poly line

Hatch line

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

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

Architectural

Metric

Fractional

Decimal

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

Zero

Center line

Hidden line

Hatch

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

Hidden

Center

Phantom

Dashed

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

Full section

Quarter section

Half section

Symmetric section

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31. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Feet only

Inches only

Even numbers

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

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

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

Rivets

Bolts

Thin parts

All fasteners

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

Elevations

Building section

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Major diameter

Lead

Thread pitch

Series of thread

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

Centers of cabinets

Windows

All of these

Door openings and walls

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

Form

Add

Union

Attach

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

Removed section

Quarter section

Revolved section

Half section

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

Explode

Copy

Offset

None of these

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

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

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

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

None of the above

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

Half

Broken out

All of these

Whole

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

Circle

Polyline

Ellipse

Line

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

Designer's intent

None of these

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

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