| Post Name | Draftsman Grade II (Mechanical) |
|---|---|
| Department | Harbour Engineering/ Kerala Electrical and Allied Engineering Company Limited |
| Question Paper Code | 136/2026/OL |
| Category Code | 549/2025, 758/2025 |
| Date of Test | 30 July 2026 |
| Exam Type | Online Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
Which of the following statements are correct about DIVIDERS? (i) Dividing curved or straight lines into any number of equal parts. (ii) Transforming dimensions from one part of the drawing into another part (iii) Setting dimensions from the scale to the drawings.
Answer
D. All of the above (i, ii & iii)
2
What is the Trimmed size of an A3 Drawing sheet in mm?
Answer
B. 297 Ć 420
3
Which of the following is the hardest pencil?
Answer
D. 9H
4
What is the name of an angle greater than 180 degree?
Answer
D. Reļ¬ex angle
5
What is the part of a circle bounded by an arc and its chord called?
Answer
A. Segment of the circle
6
What is the angle of inclination towards right side in Italic Lettering?
Answer
A. 15 degree
7
What is the Eccentricity of an ellipse?
Answer
B. Less than One
8
What are two or more circles with a common center called?
Answer
C. Concentric circles
9
Which of the following DIMENSIONS is essential to the function of the component or space?
Answer
A. Functional dimension
10
Which of the following is the recommended method of dimensioning a sphere with a diameter 80 mm?
Answer
D. S f 80
11
If the actual length of a room is 5 m and is represented by a 25 mm length on a drawing, What is the R.F (Representative Fraction)?
Answer
B. 1:200
12
In an isometric projection, What is the angle between any two of the three isometric axes?
Answer
C. 120 degree
13
Which of the following method is used for the development of a cylinder?
Answer
D. Parallel line method
14
How is a cutting planes represented in an Engineering Drawing?
Answer
C. Chain thin, thick at ends and changes of direction
15
In the First angle projection method, Which of the following statements are CORRECT regarding the position of the views? (i) The Left hand side view is projected to the Right of the Front view (ii) The Left hand side view is projected to the left of the Front view (iii) The Top view is placed directly below the Front view (iv) The Top view is placed directly above the Front view
Answer
A. Only (i & iii)
16
Which is the property of a materials to resist scratching, abrasion, or penetration?
Answer
B. Hardness
17
What is the Ore of Aluminium?
Answer
D. Bauxite
18
The surface that connects crest and root of a screw thread is
Answer
B. Flank
19
Which method is not used to join two parts permanently?
Answer
C. Screwed Bolt
20
Which of the following is used to cut internal threads in metals
Answer
A. Tap
21
Which tool is used in a foundry to smooth over or ļ¬nish moulding sand surfaces?
Answer
D. Trowel
22
What is the unit of electric power?
Answer
D. Watt
23
What is used in mass production to hold the workpiece accurately?
Answer
A. Fixture
24
Which of the following is not an Internal Combustion (IC) engine?
Answer
A. Steam Engine
25
What is known as the diļ¬erence between the maximum limit of size and the minimum limit of size of a component?
Answer
D. Tolerance
26
Which fastener is used to prevent nuts from loosening by themselves in areas prone to vibrations?
Answer
B. Castle Nut
27
What is the ļ¬tting hand tool āScraperā primarily used for?
Answer
B. Removing high spots to achieve high ļ¬atness accuracy
28
Which device is used to support long workpieces on a lathe while turning?
Answer
C. Steady Rest
29
Which instrument is used to measure the value of resistance directly?
Answer
C. Ohmmeter
30
How is the high temperature required for combustion achieved in a diesel engine?
Answer
B. By high compression of air
31
Which standard limit system is followed in India to achieve mass production standardization?
Answer
B. BIS System
32
What happens to the weight of an object when it is taken from the Earth to the Moon?
Answer
A. It decreases
33
Which operation is performed on a riveted joint to make it leak-proof by pressing the plate edges down?
Answer
B. Caulking
34
Which foundation bolt has a jagged or tapered body that is ļ¬xed into concrete foundations using molten lead for heavy structural installations?
Answer
B. Rag Foundation Bolt
35
What type of joint failure occurs if the pitch of the rivets is too small in a riveted structure?
Answer
A. Tearing of plate between rivets
36
Which special scale is used by a pattern maker in foundry shops to compensate for the contraction of cast iron during cooling?
Answer
B. Shrink Rule
37
What is the primary reasons why the thermal eļ¬iciency of a 4-stroke Diesel engine is higher than that of a Petrol engine?
Answer
B. Higher Compression Ratio
38
Which type key is especially useful for tapered ļ¬tting of shaft?
Answer
D. Woodruļ¬ key
39
Which statement is correct? 1. Connecting rod big end bearings are shell bearing 2. Connecting rod big end bearings are bush bearing 3. Connecting rod small end bearings are bush bearing 4. Connecting rod big end bearings are needle bearing
Answer
A. Statement both 1 and 3
40
A shaft is an integral part of the machine is called
Answer
C. Machine shaft
41
Which coupling is suitable to connect two parallel oļ¬set shaft?
Answer
B. Old hams coupling
42
Which statement is correct? 1. Straight spur gears used in sliding mesh gear box 2. Helical gears used in synchromesh gear box 3. Worm and wheel type gear is used in diļ¬erential unit 4. Rack and pinion mechanism used in steering gear box
Answer
C. Statement 1, 2 and 4
43
Which type belt drive mechanism driver and driven pulleys will rotate in opposite direction?
Answer
A. Cross belt drive
44
Inverted tooth chain is especially used for which purpose?
Answer
D. High speed power transmission
45
Which statement is correct? 1. Slip is the relative motion between the belt and the pulley surface 2. Creep is the phenomenon caused by the elastic property of the belt material 3. Belt slip is expressed in percentage 4. All of the above
Answer
B. Statement 4 only
46
What is the process of shaping a pulleyās face so it is slightly convex or thicker in the centre and tapers toward the edges?
Answer
C. Crowning
47
What is spread in shell bearing?
Answer
D. Diameter of shell bearing is slightly larger than parent bore
48
Which is physically deļ¬ned as Power?
Answer
A. Work done Time
49
What is the value of one metric horse power?
Answer
B. 735.5 Watt
50
What is convection?
Answer
D. Heat transfer through ļ¬uids
51
What is 0Ā° celsius is equal to in Kelvin?
Answer
B. 273 K
52
Which valve is commonly used to prevent the reverse ļ¬ow of ļ¬uid in a pipeline?
Answer
C. Check Valve
53
What is the primary function of a follower in a cam and follower mechanism?
Answer
B. To transmit motion from the cam
54
Which type of pump is most commonly used for lifting water from wells?
Answer
A. Centrifugal Pump
55
What is the main purpose of a boiler in a steam power plant?
Answer
B. To generate steam
56
Which boiler mounting is used to indicate the water level inside a boiler?
Answer
C. Water Level Indicator
57
Which law states that pressure applied to a conļ¬ned ļ¬uid is transmitted equally in all directions?
Answer
C. Pascal's Law
58
What is the primary purpose of a pressure vessel?
Answer
B. To contain ļ¬uids under pressure
59
Which pneumatic component is primarily used to convert compressed air energy into mechanical motion?
Answer
C. Pneumatic Cylinder
60
Which ļ¬tting is used to connect two pipes of diļ¬erent diameters?
Answer
D. Reducer
61
What is the function of a super heater in a boiler system?
Answer
D. To increase the temperature of steam above saturation temperature
62
Which one of the following polygon contains equilateral triangle?
Answer
A. Hexagon
63
Longest chord in a circle is called
Answer
B. Diameter
64
Area of right angled triangle?
Answer
B. 1/2 bh
65
Which type of quadrilateral has all sides and all diagonals are equal?
Answer
C. Square
66
In a simple machine, the ratio of load to the eļ¬ort is called?
Answer
A. Mechanical advantage
67
Which is the example of third order liver?
Answer
D. Human force arm
68
The ratio of distance moved by eļ¬ort to the distance moved by load?
Answer
B. Velocity ratio
69
The unit of velocity ratio is
Answer
D. No unit
70
The value of Cos 60Ā°?
Answer
B. 1/2
71
Answer
A. tan q
72
Which one of the following acts in between the road and wheels if vehicles are able to run on roads?
Answer
B. Friction
73
Which force is directly proportional to the normal reaction between the contacting surfaces?
Answer
C. Frictional force
74
What is the name of the point at which all the weight of the body concentrated?
Answer
B. Centre of gravity
75
2a + 5 = 7, then the value of a?
Answer
D. 1
76
Answer
Question Cancelled
77
The internal opposite force to the external loading per unit area is known as?
Answer
A. Stress
78
The ratio of lateral strain to the lenier strain?
Answer
B. Poissonās ratio
79
In which one of the following Heat treatment process, Hyper eutectoid steel is heated above Upper critical Temperature?
Answer
D. Normalizing
80
What is the lower critical temperature of Eutectoid steel?
Answer
A. 723Ā°C
81
Which one of the following is the structure of steel having zero percentage of carbon?
Answer
B. Ferrite
82
Which one of the following gas is used in Gas Nitriding process?
Answer
B. Ammonia
83
Which one of the following heat treatment process is suitable for surface hardening of small components in mass production?
Answer
C. Induction Hardening
84
Which of the following is a primary memory?
Answer
C. RAM
85
Which technology was used in ļ¬rst generation of computers?
Answer
B. Vacuum tubes
86
What are the three components of a CAD package?
Answer
C. Design Analysis Visualization
87
In AUTOCAD, the TTR option in circle command stands for what?
Answer
C. Tangent, Tangent, Radius
88
How the polar co-ordinate format is written in AUTOCAD?
Answer
B. @X,Y
89
Which command is used to create a new object at a speciļ¬ed distance from an existing object or through a speciļ¬ed point?
Answer
D. OFFSET
90
Which short cut key is used to toggle Command line in AUTOCAD?
Answer
A. Ctrl+9
91
Which short cut key is used to toggle Polar mode in AUTOCAD?
Answer
A. F9
92
Which of the following is NOT a type of 3D modeling?
Answer
C. Plan modeling
93
What is Mesh modeling?
Answer
C. Creating a 3D shape using vertices, edges and faces
94
A bicycle marked at Rs. 1,500 is sold for Rs. 1,350. What is the percentage of discount?
Answer
A. 10%
95
The price, at which an article purchased is called?
Answer
B. Cost price
96
A fruit seller bought 8 boxes of grapes at Rs.150 each. One box Was damaged. He sold the remaining boxes at Rs.190 each. Find the proļ¬t?
Answer
C. Rs. 130
97
The method of calculating the various quantities and the expenditure to be incurred on a particular job or process is called?
Answer
D. Estimation
98
What is the total volume of M.S rod of dia 50 mm and length 500 mm?
Answer
A. 981.875 cm3
99
What is the native ļ¬le extension of sketchUp projects?
Answer
D. .skp
100
Which tool is used to rotate the viewing angle in the 3D space?
Answer
C. ORBIT TOOL
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