NCCER Construction Drawings

Plans used for work that has to do with construction in or on the earth are called _____.

• a. civil plans

• b. architectural renderings

• c. structural foundations

• d. exterior views

The material to be used for the walls would be found in the _____.

• a. plumbing plan

• b. structural plan

• c. civil plan

• d. mechanical plan

What information in a drawing's title block identifies the project?

• a. Sheet title

• b. Company logo

• c. Drawing number

• d. Revision block

5. Break lines are used to show that _____.

• a. an object will appear in a separate drawing

• b. an object is hidden

• c. only part of an object is represented to save space

• d. an object is not included on the cutting line view

6. In the alphabet of lines, an area not included in the cutting line view is shown with _____.

• a. break lines

• b. object lines

• c. section cuts

• d. dimension lines

7. Gridlines are used to _____.

• a. show changes in topography within a building structure

• b. indicate that an object has been broken off

• c. indicate land boundaries on a site plan

• d. make it easy to refer to specific locations on a plan

8. A dimension is a measurement written as a _____.

• a. range

• b. number

• c. letter

• d. symbol

One way that an engineer's scale differs from an architectural scale is that the engineer's scale _____.

• a. uses fractional values

• b. is based on units of 10

• c. cannot be used to scale long distances

• d. is only used for drawings of machinery

If 1 inch equals 10 feet, the arrow on the engineer's scale in the figure above indicates a length of _____.

• a. 5 feet

• b. 6 inches

• c. 50 feet

• d. 1/2 inch

The information needed to identify lines and other symbols on a construction drawing can be found in the

_____.

• a. index

• b. title block

• c. legend

• d. scale