Practice Test: Question Set - 02
1. Time proportioning control:
- (A) Can
be used on a PM550 programmable process controller
- (B) Is
less efficient than normal PID control
- (C) Cannot
use a TM990 microcomputer
- (D) Both
(a) and (b) above
2. FORTRAN is:
- (A) Machine
dependent
- (B) A
medium-level language
- (C) A
mathematically oriented language
- (D) All
of the above
3. What two disciplines are usually tied by a common data base?
- (A) Documentation
and geometric modeling
- (B) Computer-aided
design and computer-aided manufacturing
- (C) Testing
and analysis
- (D) Drafting
and documentation
4. A common way to take x, y coordinates off a drawing is to use a
- (A) Light pen
- (B) Digitiser
- (C) Direct view
storage tube (DVST)
- (D) Tablet
5. One of the major benefits of using CAD in tool design is that:
- (A) Product
design represents approximately one-half the engineering costs
- (B) Tool
motions can be checked to see if there is interference between the tool and the
object
- (C) There
is better coordination in the materials-handling area
- (D) It
simplifies the trial-and-error method
6. Which of the following are kinds of instructions?
- (A) Input
- (B) Arithmetic
- (C) Conditional
branching
- (D) All
of the above
7. A process controller:
- (A) Can
interface to digital and analog I/O
- (B) Is
useful in a continuous process control application
- (C) Can
solve a PID process control equation easily
- (D) All
of the above
8. How is the integral mode implemented on a digital controller?
- (A) The
digital controller cannot handle integral mode
- (B) The
error is divided into discrete amounts
- (C) The
error signal is summed over a discrete time interval and accumulated by the
controller
- (D) All
of the above
9. Standard computer control products:
- (A) Are
available off the shelf
- (B) Are
very expensive and not cost effective
- (C) Do
not exist yet
- (D) All
of the above
10. What is proportional control?
- (A) It
has a discrete output for each error value
- (B) The
controller output varies continuously over a range
- (C) The
gain is independent of offset error
- (D) None
of the above
11. In order to combat foreign competition, U.S. companies are:
- (A) Automating
- (B) Ignoring
the situation
- (C) Seeking
import tariffs
- (D) Decreasing
the salaries
12. Most data transmission in the future will be:
- (A) Digital
bit stream encoded data
- (B) Analog
in nature
- (C) Carried
over metallic telephone lines
- (D) All of the
above
13. Light sensors:
- (A) Cannot
be used a s limit switches
- (B) Come
in a wide variety of mounting styles
- (C) Work in
direct sunlight
- (D) Never use
infrared light as light source
14. One of the following is not considered a method of input control in a CAD system.
- (A) Joystick
- (B) Programmable
function box
- (C) Plotter
- (D) Touch
terminal
15. The insect type robot Attila is a more competent version of the robot Genghis an weights 1.7 kg. What is the number of microprocessors carried by its body?
- (A) 10
- (B) 15
- (C) 25
- (D) 33
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