AutoCad Skills Assessment - Test

Name:______

Position Applied for:______

Date: ______Previous AutoCAD experience: None ___ 1-5 years ___ 5-10 ___

  1. 15.50 is an example of what type of drawing units: ____
  1. Architectural
  2. Decimal
  3. Engineering
  4. Scientific
  1. 1’-3 ½” is an example of what type of drawing units: ____
  1. Architectural
  2. Decimal
  3. Engineering
  4. Scientific
  1. The command that places a pattern of dots on the screen is ____
  1. Aspect
  2. Grid
  3. Ortho
  4. Snap
  1. The command that sets an invisible pattern for precise cursor movement is ____
  1. Coords
  2. Grid
  3. Ortho
  4. Snap
  1. The command that is used to access an existing drawing is ____

A.Open

  1. New
  2. Recover
  3. Utility
  1. When you are in PaperSpace (layout) what do you draw to see your model? ____
  1. A window
  2. A box
  3. A rectangle
  4. A viewport

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  1. What’s the easiest way to know if you are in PaperSpace mode? ____
  1. Zoom Out
  2. Ask Someone
  3. Look at the layout Tab
  4. Try Printing
  1. How do you Scale a Viewport? ____
  1. Select and use the Properties Palette
  2. Select and use the Properties Toolbar
  3. Zoom Command
  4. All of the Above
  1. Tiled viewports are used in? ____
  1. Model Space
  2. Paper Space
  3. In both
  4. In neither
  1. When you are working in multiple viewports you can move to another by? ____
  1. Pressing F1
  2. Using the Zoom command
  3. Pressing Control +Z
  4. Picking inside the viewport
  1. Points located using the _____ coordinate system are measured from the previous

position with X and Y values.

  1. Absolute
  2. Cartesian
  3. Polar
  4. Relative
  1. Points located using the _____ coordinate system are measured from the previous

Point at a given angle.

  1. Absolute
  2. Cartesian
  3. Polar
  4. Relative
  1. ______is the polar coordinate display of 2.750 units at an angle of 90 from the last

point.

  1. @90>2.750
  2. @90<2.750
  3. @2.750<90
  4. @2.750>90

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  1. Saving the drawing a second time, AutoCAD automatically ______.
  1. Deletes the ".bak" of the last drawing you were in.
  2. Creates another ".dwg" in a new location.
  3. Creates a ".bak" of your current drawing.
  4. Creates a ".sav" of your current drawing.
  1. What is the command that is used to clean the drawing database of unused objects and entities? ______
  1. Clean
  2. Filter
  3. Purge
  4. Compact
  5. Resolve
  1. The text justification option that prompts the user for two endpoints and then automatically adjusts the size of the characters to be proportion to their height is. ______
  1. Centered
  2. Fully Centered
  3. Right Justified
  4. Align
  5. Fit

  1. You are working on the drawing "floorplan" and accidentally select the OPEN command. What part of the AutoCAD ‘Select File’ dialog illustrated above would you click to dismiss the dialog box and return back to the present drawing. ______
  1. The OPEN button
  2. The FIND FILE button
  3. The LOCATE button
  4. The CANCEL button
  5. Enter the drawing name
  1. What command do you use to write a block to a separate file? ______
  1. Blockwrite
  2. Wblock
  3. You can’t write a block to a separate file
  4. Writers Block

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  1. What is a Block Attribute? ______
  1. Plain text
  2. A number that identifies each block
  3. Non-graphical information attached to the object
  4. A random number generated by Autocad
  1. What can you use a Block with Attributes for? ______
  1. Door and Window symbols
  2. Room numbers
  3. Titles
  4. All of the above
  1. Attributes are created using the ______command.
  1. ATTREQ
  2. ATTDIA
  3. ATTDISP
  4. ATTDEF

  1. In the illustration above, what area of the Plot dialog box allows the creation of a .PLT file. ____
  1. PLOTTER NAME list box
  2. PROPERTIES button
  3. PLOT TO FILE check box
  4. LAYOUT name check box
  5. PAGE SETUP list box

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  1. What command sets the scale factor for all dimension style setting that specify size, distance, or spacing, including text and arrowhead size? ______
  1. scale
  2. psltscale
  3. dimscale
  4. ltscale
  5. plotscale
  1. Valid grip modes include: ______
  1. Move, Break, and Extend
  2. Trim, Mirror, and Erase
  3. Rotate, Scale, and Move
  4. Break, Stretch, and Trim
  5. Extend, Rotate, and Stretch

  1. In the figure above, the polar coordinates of Point "B" to Point "A" are ______.
  1. @2<360
  2. @2<270
  3. @2<180
  4. @2<90
  5. @2<0
  1. One of the commands used to view a different portion of a drawing without changing it's magnification is: ______
  1. Zoom
  2. Mirror
  3. Pan
  4. Rotate
  5. Scale
  1. Valid object selection set modes include: ______
  1. Window, Extents, and View
  2. Extents, All and Limits
  3. Limits, Box, and Crossing
  4. Last, Limits, and Window
  5. Fence, Window Polygon, and Last

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  1. Objects that may be used as valid boundary edges when using the EXTEND command
    include: ______
  1. Blocks, circles, and lines
  2. Circles, lines, and arcs
  3. Polylines, unexploded hatch patterns, and circles
  4. Blocks, arcs, and lines
  5. Text, blocks, and lines
  1. Starting the ARC command, if you enter [CE] instead of picking a start point, the [CE] stands for: ______
  1. clockwise
  2. circumference
  3. chord
  4. center
  5. counterclockwise
  1. In the illustration above, the control code string that causes text to be underlined when inserting text with the DTEXT command is: ______
  1. #U
  2. %%U
  3. ##U
  4. **U
  5. %U
  1. The command that allows you to make multiple copies of existing objects in a rectangular or circular pattern is: _____
  1. Copy
  2. Copy Multiple
  3. Paste
  4. Array
  5. Mirror
  1. If an Xref in your drawing gets changed, what should you do?: _____
  1. Detach it
  2. Bind it
  3. Reload it
  4. Unload it
  1. What is the benefit of using Xrefs? ______
  1. Keeps the file size down
  2. Multiple designers can work on a set of drawings
  3. All drawings in a set will have the latest updates
  4. You don’t have to revise each sheet when there is a change
  5. All of the above

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  1. What is the first step in working with Xrefs? ____
  1. Detach
  2. Attach
  3. Unload
  4. Reload
  1. Which Xref command option permanently attaches a reference drawing to the master drawing?

______

  1. Bind
  2. Reload
  3. Attach
  4. Overlay
  1. Why would you use Relative Pathing when inserting Xrefs?: _____
  1. So I wouldn’t have to find my Xref path again
  2. So that my Xref would always come in at the same location
  3. It is not necessary for Xrefs
  4. So it plots in the same place every time
  1. A layer that is turned-off will be: ____
  1. Seen but not plotted
  2. Plotted but not seen
  3. The current layer
  4. Neither seen nor plotted
  5. Both plotted and seen
  1. Selecting a true ellipse with grip mode enabled displays grips: ______
  1. At all vertice endpoints of the ellipse
  2. At the center of the ellipse
  3. At the center and vertice endpoints of the ellipse
  4. At the center and quadrants of the ellipse
  5. At the quadrants of the ellipse
  1. Objects that can be successfully exploded include: ______
  1. Lines
  2. Circles
  3. Arcs
  4. Text
  5. Blocks

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  1. In the illustration above, the mode of the FILLET command that places the fillet and leaves the line segments untrimmed is: ______
  1. No Trim
  2. Leave Edge
  3. No Edit
  4. Add Curve
  5. Trim
  1. In the above illustration, the command used to place a block along an object equally spaced from each other is: ______
  1. Dist
  2. Ddinsert
  3. Space
  4. Point
  5. Divide
  1. After starting the LINE command, you have drawn three lines connected to each other. While still in the LINE command, you enter "C" at the "To point;" prompt which: ______
  1. Cancels the operation and returns the user back to the command prompt
  2. Continues the LINE command by displaying another "To point:" prompt
  3. Places the user in the OsnapCenter mode
  4. Connects the end of the last line drawn with the beginning point of the first line and exits the command
  5. Creates a new line at anoffset distance from the last line
  1. The command used to obtain the absolute coordinate value of a specific point is: ______
  1. Inquire
  2. Find
  3. Analysis
  4. Status
  5. ID

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  1. The Object Snap Quadrant mode is use for: ______
  1. Snapping to the closest quadrant of a rectangle or polygon
  2. Snapping to the closest quadrant point of a circle, arc, or true ellipse
  3. Finding certain Cartesian coordinates
  4. Snapping to the center of an arc, circle, or true ellipse
  1. ______refers to the cursor's ability to snap to specific point on an object.
  1. Snap
  2. Object snap
  3. Osnap
  4. Aperature
  1. The ______command lets you alter the location, style, height of existing text.
  1. Style
  2. Properties
  3. DDedit
  4. Change
  1. ______is the default selection method that AutoCAD uses when the 'Stretch' command is selected:
  1. Auto
  2. Box
  3. Crossing
  4. Window
  1. The ______option and ______sub-option lets you change the start and end widths of a polyline.
  1. Edit Vertex, Width
  2. Vertex, Width
  3. Edit, Width
  4. Width, Vertex
  1. The ______control code is used to display the + symbol.
  1. %%C
  2. %%D
  3. %%P
  4. %%U
  1. The ______control code is used display the diameter symbol.
  1. %%C

B.%%D

C.%%P

  1. %%U

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  1. The ______command lets you automatically hatch an enclosed area by picking inside the area.
  1. Hatch
  2. Bhatch
  3. Solid
  4. Fill
  1. ln the Array command the ______is the sub-option used to create a circular arrangement of objects.
  1. Rotate
  2. Rectangular
  3. Polar
  4. Linear
  1. Blocks drawn on layer 0 will ______.
  1. Assume the characteristics of the layer they are inserted on
  2. Assume only the color of the layer they are inserted on
  3. Assume only the linetype of the layer they are inserted on
  4. Retain the characteristics of the layer they were drawn on

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