EN304 (Engineering Materials) Reviewer 10. Which of the following is an example of fluorocarbon?

A. Nylon
B. Acrylic
1. What are considered as the "building blocks" for C. Styrene
engineering materials? D. Teflon
A. Atoms
B. Elements 11. What is a combination of two or more metals that has
C. Matters properties that the components materials do not have
D. Compounds by themselves?
A. Compound
2. What are the major classes of engineering materials? B. Composite
A. Metals, ceramics and semiconductors C. Mixture
B. Polymers, metals and composites D. Matrix
C. Metals, ceramics, polymers and semiconductors
D. Metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors and 12. What is a reference sheet for the elements that can be
composites used to form engineering materials?
A. Periodic table
3. What types of materials behave like iron when placed B. Truth table
in a magnetic field? C. Building blocks of Materials
A. Crystals D. Structure of Materials
B. Amorphous materials
C. Ferromagnetic materials 13. What physical property of a material that refers to the
D. Metalloids point at which a material liquefies on heating or
solidifies on cooling?
4. What do you call metals reinforced by ceramics or A. Melting point
other materials, usually in fiber form? B. Curie point
A. Metalloids C. Refractive index
B. Matrix alloys D. Specific heat
C. Metal lattices
D. Metal matrix composites 14. What physical property of a material that refers to the
temperature at which ferromagnetic materials can no
5. What is a combination of one or more metals with a longer be magnetized by outside forces?
nonmetallic element? A. Melting point
A. Metalloids B. Thermal conductivity
B. Matrix composites C. Thermal expansion
C. Inert D. Curie point
D. Metal matrix composites
15. What refers to the temperature at which a
6. Polymer comes from the Greek words "poly" which ferromagnetic material reverts to being a paramagnetic
means many and "meros" which means __________. material?
A. metal A. Ferromagnetic temperature
B. material B. Paramagnetic temperature
C. part C. Curie temperature
D. plastic D. Tri-point temperature

7. The engineering materials known as "plastics" are 16. What physical property of a material refers to the
more correctly called: amount of weight gain (%) experienced in a polymer
A. Polyvinyl chloride after immersion in water for a specified length of under
B. Polymers a controlled environment?
C. Polyethylene A. Dielectric strength
D. Mers B. Electric resistivity
C. Water absorption
8. Which of the following plastics does not burn but D. Thermal conductivity
rather extinguishes itself?
A. Polyester 17. What physical property of a material that refers the
B. Acrylic rate of heat flow per unit time in a homogenous
C. Nylon material under steady-state conditions, per unit area,
D. Propylene per unit temperature gradient in a direction
perpendicular to area?
9. Which of the following plastics does not burn? A. Thermal expansion
A. Carbonates B. Thermal conductivity
B. Acetals C. Heat distortion temperature
C. Polyester D. Water absorption
D. Fluorocarbons
18. What refers to the ratio of thermal conductivity of a 26. What refers to an interatomic and intermolecular bond
material to the product of electrical conductivity and that are relatively weak and for which bonding
temperature? energies are relatively small?
A. Conductivity ratio A. Primary bond
B. Matthiessens' ratio B. Double bond
C. Wiedemann's-Frantz ratio C. Secondary bond
D. Maxwell's ratio D. Covalent bond

19. What states that "the total electrical resistivity is the 27. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an
sum of the thermal resistivity and the residual ionic compound?
resistivity? A. They have high melting point.
A. Matthiessens' Rule B. They are normally brittle crystalline solids.
B. Nordheim's Rule c. They have low boiling point.
C. Wiedemann's Rule D. They are poor conductor of electricity when in the
D. Frantz Rule solid phase.

20. What is caused by the local melting of a constituent or 28. What physical property of a material refers to the
an impurity in the grain or randomly oriented metal highest potential difference (voltage) that an insulating
crystals boundary at a temperature below the melting material of given thickness can withstand for specified
point of a metal itself? time without occurrence of electrical breakdown
A. Slip-sliding through its bulk?
B. Hot-shortness A. Thermal expansion
C. Inclusion B. Conductivity
D. Tempering C. Dielectric strength
D. Electric resistivity
21. Which of the following elements has the highest
thermal conductivity? 29. What is the percentage of copper content of copper
A. Zinc used for electrical wires, switches and terminally
B. Copper normally supplied as ETP?
C. Gold A. 90.95%
D. Aluminum B. 95.95%
C. 98.95%
22. Which of the following has the lowest electrical D. 99.95%
conductivity?
A. Quartz 30. What physical property of a material refers to the ratio
B. Graphite of the amount of heat required to raise the
C. Glass temperature of a unit mass of a substance 1 degree to
D. Ceramics the heat required to raise the same mass of water to 1
degree?
23. What type of bond in metallic compounds will enable A. Specific heat
them to possess electrical conductivity property? B. Latent heat
A. Crystalline bond C. Heat of fusion
B. Covalent bond D. Heat of fISsion
C. Ionic bond
D. All of the above 31. Which of the following materials has the highest
specific heat?
24. What refers to a covalent bond formed by between A. Copper
two p-orbitals on different atoms? B. Aluminum
A. Pi bond C. Iron
B. Omega bond D. Lead
C. Delta bond
D. Sigma bond 32. What physical property of a material refers to the
temperature at which a polymer under a specified load
25. The superimposition of pi bonds on sigma bonds shows a specified amount of declaration?
results in the formation of what type of bonds? A. Curie temperature
A. Beta-sigma bonds B. Specific heat
B. Sigma-pi bonds C. Heat distortion temperature
C. Pi-alpha bonds D. Thermal conductivity
D. Double bonds or triple bonds
33. What mechanical property of a material refers to the
nominal stress at fracture in a tension test at constant
load and constant temperature?
A. Creep strength
B. Stress rapture strength
C. Compressive yield strength
D. Hardness
34. What mechanical property of a material refers to the 42. What refers to a polymer having a molecular structure
resistance to plastic deformation? of secondary chains that extend from the primary main
A. Rigidity chains?
B. Plasticity A. Branched polymer
C. Ductility B. Block polymer
D. Hardness C. Secondary polymer
D. Extended polymer
35. What parameter is defined as the temperature at
which the toughness of the material drops below some 43. A polymer in which two different repeat units are
predetermined value, usually 15 ft-lb? randomly distributed along the molecular chain is
A. Nil ductility temperature called ________.
B. Curie temperature A. uneven copolymer
C. Thermal conductivity B. random copolymer
D. Heat distortion temperature C. specific copolymer
D. even copolymer
36. What is obtained by repeatedly loading a specimen at
given stress levels until it fails? 44. What is the generic name of a class of polymer which is
A. Elastic limit commercially known as "nylon"?
B. Endurance limit or fatigue strength of material A. Polyacetals
C. Creep B. Polyamide
D. All of the choices C. Cellulose
D. Polyester
37. What dimensional property of a material refers to the
deviation from edge straightness? 45. What is defined as a material being capable of
A. Lay recovering from large deformations quickly?
B. Out of flat A. Elastomer
C. Camber B. Rubber
D. Waviness C. Cellulose
D. Polyester
38. What dimensional property of a material refers
wavelike variation from a perfect surface, generally 46. For a natural rubber, what refers to its base which is a
much wider in spacing and higher in amplitude than milky-sap obtained from the inner dark of a tropical
surface roughness? tree?
A. Lay A. Elastomer
B. Waviness B. Vulcanizer
C. Surface finish C. Gum
D. Out of flat D. Latex

39. Wood is composed of chain of cellulose molecules 47. By definition, a rubber is a substance that has at least
bonded together by another natural polymer called: _______ elongation in tensile test and is capable of
A. plastic returning rapidly and forcibly to its original dimensions
B. lignin when load is removed.
C. mer A. 100%
D. additive B. 150%
C. 200%
40. What is a polymer production process that involves D. 250%
forming a polymer chain containing two different
monomers? 48. What is a method of forming polymer sheets or films
A. Copolymerization into three-dimensional shapes, in which the sheet is
B. Blending clamped on the edge, heated until it softens and sags,
C. Alloying drawn in contact with the mold by vacuum, and cool
D. Cross-linking while still in contact with the mold?
A. Calendering
41. What refers to a linear copolymer in which identical B. Blow molding
repeat units are clustered in blocks along a molecular C. Thermoforming
chain? D. Solid phase forming
A. Branched copolymer
B. Block copolymer 49. What is a process of forming continuous shapes by
C. Clustered copolymer forcing a molten polymer through a metal die?
D. Moleculed copolymer A. Calendering
B. Thermoforming
C. Lithugraphy
D. Extrusion
50. What does the word "refractory" mean when used to 59. The combination of slip-plane and its direction of slip is
classify metals? known as a slip-system. Which crystal has 3 slip
A. It is oxidation resistant systems?
B. It is sun rays resistant A. Body-centered cubic crystal
C. It is corrosion resistant B. Phase-centered crystal
D. It is heat resistant C. Phase-body cubic crystal
D. Hexagonal close-packed crystal
51. The following are classified as refractory metals except
one. Which one? 60. Which of the following metals is NOT in body-centered
A. Beryllium cubic (bcc) atomic arrangement?
B. Niobium A. Alpha iron
C. Tantalum B. Aluminum
D. Molybdenum C. Molybdenum
D. Vanadium
52. What of the following metals is NOT a refractory
metal? 61. Which of the following ferromagnets has body-
A. Lead centered cubic (bcc) crystalline structure?
B. Tungsten A. Cd
C. Molybdenum B. Fe
D. Niobium C. Cu
D. Ni
53. What chemical property of a material which refers to
its ability to resist deterioration by chemical or 62. What is the basic atomic crystalline structure of
electrochemical reactions with environment? chromium?
A. Stereospecify A. Hexagonal close-packed
B. Corrosion resistance B. Body-centered cubic
C. Conductivity C. Face-centered cubic
D. Electrical resistance D. Cubic lattice-closed

54. Corrosion refers to deteriorative loss of a metal as a 63. What refers to a crystalline defect associated with one
result of __________. or at most several atomic sites?
A. too much applied force A. Point defect
B. calcinations B. Line defect
C. dissolution environment reactions C. Structure defect
D. all of the above D. Frenkel defect

55. Corrosion refers to the deterioration of metals and 64. What is the common crystal defect?
ceramics. It plastics, corrosion is usually called A. Smoothness defect
_________. B. Grain structure defect
A. oxidation C. Line defect
B. deformation D. Point defect
C. degradation
D. deterioration 65. What refers to a cation-vacancy and cation-interstitial
pair in an ionic solid?
56. What refers to the tendency for polymers and A. Line defect
molecular materials to form with an ordered, special, B. Point defect
three-dimensional arrangement of monomer C. Dislocation defect
molecules? D. Frenkel defect
A. Stereospecify
B. Conductivity 66. What refers to a defect consisting of a cation vacancy
C. Retentivity and anion vacancy pair in ionic solid?
D. Spatial configuration A. Line defect
B. Point defect
57. Which of the metals used as engineering materials C. Frenkel defect
uses face-centered cubic (fcc) atomic arrangement? D. Schottky defect
A. Zirconium
B. Gold 67. What refers to a linear crystalline defect around which
C. Alpha-iron there is atomic misalignment?
D. Cadmium A. Line defect
B. Point defect
58. Which of the following metals use hexagonal close- C. Alignment defect
packed (hcp) atomic arrangement? D. Dislocation defect
A. Cobalt
B. Cronium
C. Platinum
D. Tantalum
68. Which material below possesses the property of having 77. The greatest stress which material is capable of
very high conductivity but with very low electrical withstanding without deviation from acceptable of
conductivity? stress and strain is called _______.
A. Beryllia A. elongation
B. Magnesia B. proportional limit
C. Graphite C. yield point
D. All of the above D. elastic limit

69. The atomic structure of silicon, in which each atom has 78. What is the maximum stress below which a material
four nearest neighbors in a tetrahedral configuration is can theoretically endure an infinite number of stress
called _______ lattice. cycles?
A. ordinary A. Endurance state
B. cubic B. Endurance test
C. diamond C. Endurance limit
D. graphite D. Endurance strength

70. What refers to a two lattice structure identical to the 79. What is a substance that attracts piece of iron?
diamond lattice except that there are two times of A. Conductor
atoms instead of one? B. Semiconductor
A. Graphite lattice C. Magnet
B. Dual lattice D. Semimagnet
C. Zincblende lattice
D. Mixed lattice 80. Which of the following is a natural magnet?
A. Steel
71. What is the smallest unit cell that can be repeated to B. Magnesia
form a lattice? C. Lodestone
A. Primitive cell D. Soft iron
B. Tiny cell
C. Finite cell 81. Of the materials listed below, which one ranked third
D. Micro cell as good conductor of electric current?
A. Silver
72. What refers to the small volume of crystal that can be B. Copper
used to reproduce the entire crystal? C. Gold
A. Mini cell D. Aluminum
B. Micro cell
C. Unit cell 82. What silver is an alloy of silver and copper?
D. Finite cell A. White silver
B. Nordic silver
73. The set of integers used to describe crystal plane is C. Sterling silver
called ______. D. Red silver
A. lattice indices
B. crystal indices 83. Sterling silver is composed of _____ copper and _____
C. Miller indices silver.
D. Cell indices A. 7.5%, 92.5%
B. 8.5, 91.5%
74. What amount of energy required to fracture a given C. 10%, 90%
volume of material? D. 5%, 95%
A. Impact strength
B. Endurance limit 84. Which of the following is an arrangement of good
C. Creep strength conductors of electricity from best to least?
D. Stress rupture strength A. Silver, Copper, Gold, Aluminum
B. Aluminum, Gold, Silver, Copper
75. What mechanical property of a material which is a C. Gold, Silver, Copper, Aluminum
time-dependent permanent strain under stress? D. Aluminum, Silver, Gold, Copper
A. Elongation
B. Elasticity 85. Which of the following engineering materials has the
C. Creep highest electrical conductivity at room temperature?
D. Rupture A. Copper
B. Nickel
76. What refers to the stress at which a material exhibits a C. Silver
specified deviation from proportionality of stress and D. Cadmium
strain?
A. Tensile strength
B. Shear strength
C. Yield strength
D. Flexural strength
86. What is the electrical conductivity of aluminum m- 95. What is defined by ASTM as a material that contains as
ohm/m? an essential ingredient an organic substance of large
A. 2.57 x 10^7 molecular weight, is solid in its finished state, and at
B. 3.57 x 10^7 some stage in its manufactured or in its processing into
C. 4.57 x 10^7 finished articles, can be shaped by flow?
D. 5.57 x 10^7 A. Metal
B. Metalloid
87. What is the resistance of the material to plastic C. Plastic
deformation? D. Ceramic
A. Hardness
B. Stiffness 96. Cermet is a composite material consisting of a
C. Creep age combination of ceramic and ________.
D. Rigidity A. non-metallic material
B. polymer
88. Hardness is the measure of a material's resistance to C. metallic material
deformation by________. D. elastic material
A. surface indention
B. abrasion 97. Abrasive materials are hard and wear-resistant
C. tensile and compressive forces materials that is used to _______ other materials.
D. surface indention or by abrasion A. wear
B. grind
89. Heat distortion is what property of plastics? C. cut-away
A. Physical Property D. all of the above
B. Mechanical Property
C. Chemical Property 98. What type of substance that bonds together the
D. Structural Property surfaces of two other materials?
A. Abrasive
90. Which of the following materials has permeability B. Adhesive
slightly less than that of free space? C. Amorphous
A. Paramagnetic materials D. Anistropic
B. Non-Magnetic materials
C. Ferromagnetic materials 99. Some polymetric materials such as epoxies are formed
D. Diamagnetic materials by strong primary chemical bonds called _______.
A. Metallic bond
91. What materials have permeabilities slightly greater B. Van der Waals bond
than that of free space? C. Cross linking
A. Paramagnetic materials D. Covalent bond
B. Non-Magnetic materials
C. Ferromagnetic materials 100. What do you call a polymer without additives and
D. Diamagnetic materials without blending with another polymer?
A. Homopolymer
92. What materials have very high permeabilities? B. Ethenic polymer
A. Paramagnetic materials C. Polyethylene
B. Non-Magnetic materials D. Copolymer
C. Ferromagnetic materials
D. Diamagnetic materials 101. A large molecule with two alternating mers is called
as________.
93. What refers to the weak formed of induced or non A. monomer
permanent magnetism for which the magnetic B. elastomer
susceptibility is negative? C. mers
A. Ferromagnetism D. copolymer or interpolymer
B. Paramagnetism
C. Diamagnetism 102. A polymer that consists of two or more dissimilar
D. Antimagnetism repeat units in combination along its molecular chains
is called ______.
94. What refers to a relatively weak form of magnetism A. elastomer
that results from the independent alignment of atomic B. branched polymer
dipoles with an applied magnetic field? C. copolymer
A. Paramagnetism D. crosslinked polymer
B. Ferromagnetism
C. Diamagnetism
D. Antimagnetism
103. A polymer in which adjacent linear molecular chains 111. In what special refining process of steel was molten
are joined at various positions by covalent bonds is metal is poured down a tundish (chute) into ingot
called ______. mold?
A. elastomer A. Electroslad refining
B. branched polymer B. Vacuum remelting
C. copolymer C. Vacuum induction melting
D. crosslinked polymer D. Electron beam refining

104. A stable molecule from which a polymer is synthesized 112. What type of steel has carbon as its principal hardening
is called _________. agent?
A. monomer A. Alloy steel
B. high polymer B. Stainless steel
C. elstomer C. Galvanized steel
D. copolymer D. Carbon steel

105. What refers to the ability of a solid material to exist in 113. What type of steel has 0.8% carbon and 100% pearlite?
more than one form of crystal structure? A. Austenite
A. Polycrystallination B. Eutectoid
B. Polymorphism C. Hyper-eutectoid
C. Polyamorphism D. Stainless steel
D. Coexistence
114. Which type of steel does not contain nickel and can be
106. What term is used to describe a polymer that has hardened by heat treatment?
rubberlike properties? A. Precipitation-hardening steel
A. Vulcanizer B. Austentic steel (200 and 300 series)
B. Elasticmer C. Marstensitic (400 and 500 series)
C. Polychloroprene D. Ferritic steel (400 series)
D. Elastomer
115. What group of steels are water-hardened tool steels?
107. What is defined as an alloy of iron or carbon, with the A. Group S
carbon being restricted with certain concentration B. Group w
limits? C. Group O
A. Steel D. Group T
B. Wrhought iron
C. Cast iron 116. What group of steels are molybdenum high-sped
D. Tendons steels?
A. Group A
108. Ordinary steel at high temperature has only one B. Group D
constituent which is iron holding carbon in solid C. Group M
solution. What is this constituent? D. Group H
A. Cementite
B. Austenite 117. Steels that are used for axles, gears and similar parts
C. Ferrite requiring medium to high hardness and high strength
D. Pearlite are known as?
A. Medium-carbon steel
109. The carbon content of cemetite is approximately how B. Low-carbon steel
many percent of its compound? C. Very high-carbon steel
A. 4.7% D. High-carbon steel
B. 5.7%
C. 6.7% 118. Galvanized steel products coated with ______.
D. 7.7% A. Carbon
B. Sulfur
110. What is the most popular steel refining process or C. Zinc
technique which involves casting from the BOf or D. Nickel
electric furnace into cylindrical ingots?
A. Vacuum are remelting (VAR) 119. What is the most utilized metal for industry next to
B. Vauum induction melting (VIM) iron, aluminum and magnesium?
C. Electron bean refining A. Zinc
D. Electroslag refining B. Tin
C. Nickel
D. Lead
120. What ASTM test for tension is designated for plastics? 129. What prefix in steel identification means it is made in
A. A370 an electric furnace?
B. D638 A. E
C. E292 B. H
D. C674 C. X
D. B
121. What ASTM test for compression designated for
plastics? 130. What letter suffix in steel identification means that it is
A. D638 steel with boron as an alloying element?
B. D790 A. xxLxx
C. D695 B. xxBxx
D. D638 C. xxHxx
D. xxKxx
122. What ASTM test for shear strength is designated for
plastics? 131. What refers to the tin mill steel without a coating?
A. D732 A. White plate
B. D790 B. Tin steel free
C. D695 C. Black plate
D. D638 D. Dichromate tin

123. What is the ASTM tension testing designation standard 132. What combination of elements has high electrical
method for steel products? resistance, high corrosion resistance, and high strength
A. A370 at red heat temperatures, making it useful in resistance
B. E345 heating?
C. E8 A. Aluminum bronze
D. C674 B. Nichrome
C. Hastelloy
124. Low-quality steels with an M suffix on the designation D. Alnico
intended for nonstructural application is classified as
_______. 133. A steel cannot qualify for stainless prefix until it has at
A. Merchant quality least how many percent of chromium?
B. Commercial quality A. 10%
C. Drawing quality B. 20%
D. Special quality C. 25%
D. 5%
125. The use of acids to remove oxides and scaled on hot-
worked steels is known as __________. 134. What do you add to compensate for the remaining
A. Tempering high iron oxide content of the steel?
B. Pickling A. Deorizers
C. Machining B. Deoxidizers
D. Galvanizing C. Deterrent
D. Detoxifiers
126. What is the purpose of molybdenum in steel alloying?
A. To increase brittleness 135. What graphite exists largely in the form of flakes?
B. To increase dynamic and high-temperature strength A. Gray cast iron
and hardness B. White cast iron
C. To increase brittleness, combine with sulfur C. Wrought iron
D. To increase corrosion and resistance D. Malleable cast iron

127. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. About 10% of Earth's crust is iron.
B. Pure iron does not have significant industrial use
because it is too weak and soft.
C. Steel is an alloy of carbon and iron with limits on the
amount of carbon(less than 2%).
D. Steel is made by reducing oxide ore of iron by
thermochemical reactions in a blast furnace or direct
reduction vessel.
136. What is the reason of the name "gray" cast iron?
A. When it is broken the fractured path is along
graphite path and has a gray softly appearance
B. It is just called gray to differentiate with the white
cast iron.
C. Because the outside appearance is gray even though
its inner part is white.
D. Because it was the name given by the one who
discovered this iron.

128. What prefix in steel identification means composition 137. Which of the following gray irons is called "fully-gray
varies from normal limits? iron"?
A. E A. Perlistic gray iron
B. H B. Masteritic gray iron
C. X C. Flabby gray iron
D. B D. Ferritic gray iron
138. Which of the following cast irons is a high-carbon, iron- 147. Ductility is expressed in terms of _________.
carbon-silicon alloy? A. Percent elongation
A. Gray iron B. Percent area reduction from a tensile test
B. Malleable iron C. Percent elongation or percent area reduction from a
C. White iron tensile test
D. Alloy iron D. Percent strain

139. Which of the following cast irons is heat-treated for 148. What is the effect of silicon in cast iron?
ductility? A. reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below
A. Gray iron 0.5% and increase hardness above 0.5%
B. Malleable iron B. increase fluidivity and lowers melting temperature
C. White iron C. softens iron and increases ductility below 3.25%
D. Ductile iron hardens iron above 3.25% and increase acid and
corrosion resistance above 13%
140. Which cast iron is hard and wear resistant? D. deoxidizes molten cast iron
A. Gray iron
B. Ductile iron 149. Iron is said to be abundant in nature. About how many
C. White iron percent of the earth's crust is iron?
D. Malleable iron A. 10%
B. 5%
141. What is considered as the general purpose, oldest type C. 20%
and widely used cast iron? D. 8%
A. Gray iron
B. Ductile iron 150. What is the lowest-temperature diffusion-hardening
C. Alloy iron process and does not require a quench?
D. Malleable iron A. Carburizing
B. Tempering
142. What is another term for nodular iron? C. Nitriding
A. Malleable iron D. Heat-treating
B. Ductile iron
C. Wrought iron 151. The following statements are true except one. Which
D. White iron one?
A. Carburizing does not harden a steel.
143. What is the effect of manganese in cast iron? B. Flame and induction hardening require the use of
A. To affect the machinability, ductility and shrinkage hardenable steels.
depending on form C. Quench-hardened steel does not require tempering
B. To reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below to prevent brittleness.
0.5% and increase hardness above 0.5% D. Induction hardening is usually most efficient on
C. To deoxidize molten cast iron small parts.
D. To increase fluidivity and lowers melting
temperature 152. Which of the following is a characteristic of breaking of
brittle materials?
144. What is the effect of aluminum in cast iron? A. Splinters in various forms will be produced.
A. To increase hardness above 0.5% B. Breaking takes place in perpendicular and parallel
B. To deoxidize molten cast iron lines.
C. To affect the machinability, ductility and shrinkage C. Breaking takes place in an oblique plane.
depending on form D. The cross-sectional area size
D. To reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below
0.5% 153. What arbitrary strain value is used to differentiate
ductile materials from brittle materials?
145. What is added to nickel to improve its ductility? A. 0.05 inch per inch
A. Zinc B. 0.025 inch per inch
B. Copper C. 0.50 inch per inch
C. Iron D. 0.25 inch per inch
D. Manganese
154. For ductile materials, the material strength used is the
146. What refers to a measure of a material's ability to ________.
undergo appreciable plastic deformation before A. nominal strength
fracture? B. average allowable strength
A. Ductility C. ultimate strength
B. Malleability D. yield strength
C. Elasticity
D. Plasticity
155. Which of the following is a requirement for hardening a 164. What is the process of heating hardened steel to any
steel? temperature below the lower critical temperature,
A. Heating to the proper temperature followed by any desired rate of cooling?
B. Sufficient carbon content A. Normalizing
C. Adequate quench B. Spheroidizing
D. All of the choices C. Carburizing
D. Tempering
156. What is the average hardening temperature for steel in
degree Fahrenheit? 165. What refers to the heat treatment done in materials
A. 1470 to 1580 that improve its strength and machinability and
B. 1670 to 1870 hardens it resulting to loss of ductility?
C. 1375 to 1575 A. Normalizing
D. 1575 to 1875 B. Tempering
C. Carburizing
157. What field of study encompasses the pronouncement D. Annealing
and production of metals?
A. Metallurgy 166. Brazing is a metal joining technique that uses a molten
B. Geology filler metal alloy having a melting temperature greater
C. Material Science than _______.
D. Metalgraphy A. 400 degress Celcius
B. 425 degress Celcius
158. What do you call earth and stone missed with the iron C. 450 degrees Celcius
oxides? D. 475 degrees Celcius
A. Hematic
B. Magnetite 167. What is defined as an intimate mechanical mixture of
C. Gangue two or more phases having a definite temperature of
D. Ore transformation within a solid state?
159. What is a coal that has been previously burned in an A. Pearlite
oxygen-poor environment? B. Eutectoid
A. Tuyere C. Austernite
B. Coke D. Delta solid solution
C. Diamond 168. What is the method of casehardening involving
D. Hematite diffusion in which the steel to be casehardened is
machined, heat-treated, placed in an air-tight box
160. What is the most common alloying ingredient in heated to about 100 degree Fahrenheit?
copper? A. Annealing
A. Brass B. Normalizing
B. Zinc C. Carburizing
C. Nickel D. Nitriding
D. Aluminum
169. What typical penetrator is used in Brinell hardness
161. What refers to the hardening of the outer surface of a test?
steel component by a carburizing or nitriding process? A. 10mm ball
A. Case hardening B. 120 degree diamond (brale)
B. Case annealing C. 1.6 mm diameter ball
C. Case nitriding D. 20 degree needle
D. Case calcination
170. What is defined as the ratio of the load P to the curves
162. What is the main purpose of case hardening? surface area of the indention in a certain hardness
A. To improve machinability test?
B. To improve ductility A. Brinell hardness number
C. To improve corrosion resistance B. Moh's hardness number
D. To improve wear and fatigue resistance C. Vicker hardness number
D. Rockwell's hardness number
163. What refers to the case hardening process by which
the carbon content of the steel near the surface of a 171. In measuring the hardness of materials using Brinell's
part is increased? test, what is the recommended load to obtain accurate
A. Carburizing measurement?
B. Annealing A. 1500 kg or 3000 kg
C. Normalizing B. 500 kg or 1000 kg
D. Martempering C. 1000 kg or 2000 kg
D. 500 kg or 3000 kg
172. What is the ratio of the maximum load in a tension test 181. Which of the following fluids conducts electricity?
to the original cross-sectional area of the test bar? A. Electrolyte
A. Tensile strength B. Water
B. Yield strength C. Solution
C. Shear strength D. Acid
D. Flexural strength
182. What is defined as a local corrosion damaged
173. What is the ratio of stress to strain in a material loaded characterized by surface cavities?
within its elastic range? A. Cracking
A. Poisson's ratio B. Pitting
B. Refractive index C. Cavitation
C. Modulus of elasticity D. Erosion
D. Percent elongation
183. What refers to the removal of zinc from brasses?
174. What is a measure of rigidity? A. Dezincification
A. Stiffness B. Graphitization
B. Hardness C. Stabilization
C. Strength D. Dealloying
D. Modulus of elasticity
184. What is the scaling off the surface in flakes or layers as
175. In tensile, the increase in the gage length measured the result of corrosion?
after the specimen fractures within the gage length is A. Expoliation
called _____. B. Corrosion fatigue
A. percent elongation C. Seaping
B. creep D. Fretting
C. elasticity
D. elongation 185. What type of failure results from the simultaneous
action of cyclic stress and chemical attack?
176. What impurity steel can cause "red shortness", which A. Coercive fatigue
means the steel becomes unworkable at high B. Corrosion fatigue
temperature? C. Coulombic fatigue
A. Sulfur D. Creep
B. Silicon
C. Manganese 186. What corrosion occurs under organic coatings on
D. Phosporous metals as fine, wavy hairlines?
A. Stray current corrosion
177. What is a process of producing a hard surface in a steel B. Microbiological corrosion
having a sufficiently high carbon content to respond to C. Filiform corrosion
hardening by a rapid cooling of the surface? D. Fretting corrosion
A. Cyaniding
B. Nitriding 187. What refers to the deterioration of material by
C. Flame hardening oscillatory relative motion of small amplitude (20 to
D. Induction hardening 100 um) between two solid surfaces in a corrosive
environment?
178. What is the most common reinforcement for polymer A. Stray current corrosion
composites? B. Microbiological corrosion
A. Boron C. Filiform corrosion
B. Ceramic D. Fretting corrosion
C. Graphite
D. Glass fiber 188. Indicate the false statement about corrosion.
A. Plastics and ceramics are immune to many cause of
179. A fine-crystalline ceramic material that was that was corrosion because they are not good conductors of
formed as a glass and subsequently crystallized is electricity.
known as _____. B. The corroded member in a corrosion cell is the
A. glass-polymer cathode.
B. glass-ceramic C. Passivity is a prerequisite for the corrosion
C. glass-plastic protection of many metals.
D. glass-fiber D. Corrosion of metals usually electrochemical in
nature.
180. What kind of composite in which carbon is used in the
fiber as well as in the matrix? 189. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with limits on the
A. Carbonic composite amount of carbon to less than _______ percent.
B. Homogenous carbon composite A. 2
C. Carbon-carbon composite B. 3
D. Pure carbon composite C. 4
D. 1
190. Indicate false statement about stainless steel?
A. The density of stainless steel is about the same as 199. What cast iron has nodular or spheroidal graphite?
carbon or low-alloy steels. A. Ductile iron
B. Stainless steels are poor conductors of heat. B. Wrought iron
C. Stainless steels are poor conductors of electricity. C. Gray iron
D. Stainless steels have tensile moduli greater than D. White iron
those of carbon and alloy steels.
200. What is a proess for making glass-reinforced shapes
191. What are the four major alloying elements of austenitic that can be generated by pulling resin-impregnated
stainless steels? glass strands through a die?
A. Iron, chromium, carbon and nickel A. Continuous pultrusion
B. Iron, chromium, zinc and nickel B. Bulk molding
C. Iron, chromium, carbon and zinc C. Vacuum bag forming
D. Iron, chromium, carbon and copper D. Resin transfer moulding

192. The electrical resistance of stainless steels can be as 201. What term is used to denote a family of thermosetting
much as times _________ that of carbon steel. polymers that are reaction products of alcohols and
A. 5 acids?
B. 6 A. Alkaline
C. 10 B. Alkydes
D. 15 C. Alcocids
D. Aldehyde
193. Two identical electrical wires of equal length are made 202. What is the AISI-SAE steel designation for nickel 3.50
from the same material. What is the ratio of their alloy?
resistances of the radius of one wire is twice that of the A. 13 XX
other? B. 23 XX
A. 1:2 C. 25 XX
B. 1:4 D. 31 XX
C. 1:8
D. 1:16 203. What is the AISI-SAE designation for resulfurized and
rephosphorized carbon steel?
194. What is the range of the specific gravity of carbon steel A. 13 XX
(rolled)? B. 31 XX
A. 9.11 to 9.81 C. 23 XX
B. 8.31to 8.61 D. 12 XX
C. 7.81to 7.85
D. 6.71to 6.81 204. What is the AISI-SAE designation for nickel steel?
A. 21 XX
195. What refers to a shape achieved by allowing a liquid to B. 22 XX
solidify in a mold? C. 23 XX
A. Casting D. 24 XX
B. Molding
C. Forming 205. What does AISI stands for?
D. All of the choices A. Asian Institute of Steel Industries
B. American Institute of Steel Industries
196. What refers to the process by which a raw material is C. Association of Architects and Engineers
shaped by heating and squeezing into the desired D. American Iron and And Steel Institute
shape, between two platens that act as a mold?
A. Heat molding 206. What does SAE stands for?
B. Cold molding A. Society of Automotive Engineers
C. Compression molding B. Society of American Engineers
D. Tension molding C. Society of Architects and Engineers
D. Society of Alloy Engineers
197. Which of the following is NOT a hardware requirement
for die casting? 207. What does ASTM stands for?
A. Water-cooled metal cavities A. Association of Steel Testing and Materials
B. Machined metal holding blocks B. American Society for Testing and Materials
C. Ejection mechanism C. Asian Society for Testing and Materials
D. Metal mold (matching halves) D. Allied Society for Testing and Materials

198. Which of the following materials is the easiest to die 208. What is the approximate chromium range of a terrific
cast? stainless steel?
A. Aluminum A. 12% to 18%
B. Zinc B. 10% to 12%
C. Titanium C. 16% to 20%
D. Vanadium D. 20% to 24%
 218. What refers to the ability of steel to be hardened
209. Stainless steels are iron-based alloys that contain 12% through to its center is large section?
or more ________. A. Malleabilty
A. tin B. Hardenability
B. cadmium C. Spehiodability
C. lead D. Rigidity
D. chromium
219. What is the equilibrium temperature of transformation
210. The Group H steels can be used in what temperature of austernite to pearlite?
range? A. 1000 degree Fahrenheit
A. 600 deg.C to 1100 deg.C B. 1333 degree Fahrenheit
B. 1000 deg.C to 1500 deg.C C. 1666 degree Fahrenheit
C. 1100 deg.C to 2000 deg.C D. 1222 degree Fahrenheit
D. 200 deg.C to 800 deg.C
220. The alpha iron will become paramagnetic at
211. The following are primary alloying ingredients of Group temperature above ______.
H steels except: A. 700 degree Celcius
A. Molybdenum B. 550 degree Celcius
B. Tungsten C. 660 degree Celcius
C. Cobalt D. 440 degree Celcius
D. Chromium
221. What structure is formed when transformation occurs
212. The chrome-molybdenum steel contains how many at temperatures down to the knee of the curve?
percent of molybdenum? A. Pearlite
A. 0.10 B. Bainite
B. 0.20 C. Austenite
C. 0.30 D. Marstenite
D. 0.40
222. What refers to the possibility of the existence of two or
213. The chrome-vanadium steels contain how many more different crystal structures for a substance,
percent of vanadium? generally an elemental solid?
A. 0.15 to 0.30 A. Allotrophy
B. 0.05 to 0.15 B. Calcination
C. 0.30 to 0.45 C. Anisotrophy
D. 0.45 to 0.60 D. Amorphoustropy

214. Manganese steel usually contains how many percent of 223. What allotropic form of iron refers to iron that has a
manganese? temperature range of room temperature to 1670oF?
A. 1 to 5 A. Beta iron
B. 5 to 10 B. Gamma iron
C. 11 to 14 C. Delta iron
D. 14 to 18 D. Alpha iron

215. The wear-resistance of this material is attributed to its 224. What steel surface hardening process requires heating
ability to _________, that is, the hardness is increased at 1000*F for up to 100 hours in an ammonia
greatly when the steel is cold-worked. atmosphere, followed by slow cooling?
A. cold harden A. Nitriding
B. stress harden B. Flame hardening
C. cool-temperature resistant C. Precipitation hardening
D. strain harden D. Carburizing

216. The special chrome steels of the stainless variety 225. The approximate temperatures of heated metals such
contain how many percent of chromium? as steel and copper as it undergo heating process are
A. 4 to 8 determined by what physical property?
B. 9 to 10 A. By its density
C. 11 to 17 B. By its length
D. 17 to 21 C. By its color
D. By its volume
217. What refers to the application of a any process
whereby the surface of steel is altered so that it will 226. A metal undergoes a heating process. What is the
become hard? approximate temperature if the color of the metal is
A. Carburizing dull white?
B. Case hardening A. 1000 degree Celcius
C. Annealing B. 1300 degree Celcius
D. Surface-hardening C. 1600 degree Celcius
D. 2000 degree Celcius
227. Austenite is transformed into bainite when subjected 236. In a system of designating wrought aluminum alloys,
to what cooling process? what does the second digit represents?
A. Very slow cooling process A. The purity of aluminum
B. Moderate cooling process B. The identity of the alloy
C. Rapid cooling process C. The modification of the alloy group or impurity limits
D. Quenching cooling process D. The alloy group

228. Some engineering materials are called PH alloys. What 237. In the system of designating wrought aluminum aloys,
does PH stands for? the letter F that follows the number indicates what
A. Percent hydroxide condition of the alloy?
B. Percent hardening A. As fabricated
C. Precipitation hardening B. Strain hardened
D. Percent hydrides C. Annealed
D. Artificially aged
229. What is the chief ore of tin?
A. Cassiterite 238. The following alloys are the chief alloys that are die-
B. Bauxite cast except:
C. Ilmanite A. Zinc alloys
D. Galena B. Magnesium alloys
C. Manganese alloys
230. What is the chief ore of zinc? D. Aluminum alloys
A. Cassiterite
B. Bauxite 239. What is considered as the most used material in
C. Sphalerite aircraft turbine component because of its properties?
D. Ilmanite A. Super alloy
B. Carbon nanotubes
C. Carbon fiber
231. What is the chief ore of titanium? D. Titanium
A. Sphalerite
B. Ilmanite 240. What is the most important property of super alloy
C. Bauxite when used for aircraft turbine component?
D. Cassiterite A. Density
B. Air resistance
232. What is the mixture of gibbsite and diaspore, of which C. Strength
aluminum is derived? D. Thermal conductivity
A. Bauxite
B. Rutile 241. What is the minimum tensile strength of Gray Cast Iron
C. Galena class 50?
D. Sphalerite A. 25000 lbf/inches with exponent 2
B. 35000 lbf/inches with exponent 2
233. The term "brass" is very commonly used to designate C. 50000 lbf/inches with exponent 2
any alloy primarily of: D. 100000 lbf/inches with exponent 2
A. copper and zinc
B. aluminum and iron 242. What is the carbon content of wrought iron?
C. copper and aluminum A. less than 0.1 percent
D. zinc and nickel B. exactly 0.1 percent
C. more than 0.1 percent
234. The term "bronze" is used to designate any alloy D. ranges from 0.1 to 0.2 percent
containing:
A. copper and zinc 243. Alnico is an alloy containing how many percent nickel?
B. copper and aluminum A. 10%
C. copper and nickel B. 14%
D. copper and tin C. 18%
D. 22%
235. In a system of designating wrought aluminum alloys, a
four digit number is used. What does the first digit 244. The most common beta brass with a composition of
indicates? 60% copper and 40% zinc is called _______.
A. The purity of iron A. yellow brass
B. The identity of the alloy B. red brass
C. The alloy group C. Muntz brass
D. The strength of the alloy D. white brass
245. The optimum combination of strength and ductility of 255. Which of the following are two well known nickel alloys
alpha-beta brass is offered as an alloy known as with magnetic properties ideal for permanent
_______. magnets?
A. Muntz A. Invar and Nilvar
B. Strirling B. Nichrome and Constantan
C. Fornicate C. Elinvar and Invar
D. Invar D. Alnico and Cunife

246. What type of brass is usually used in conduits, sockets, 256. The Portland cement is manufacture from the
condensers and heat-exchangher tubings? following elements except:
A. Red brass A. lime
B. Yellow brass B. silica
C. White brass C. alumina
D. Blue brass D. asphalt

247. Red brass is also known as _______. 257. That refers to a substance that by chemical reaction
A. softmetal blinds particulate aggregates into a cohesive structure?
B. gunmetal A. Concrete
C. pewter B. Cement
D. solid brass C. Adhesive
D. Glue
248. Red brass contains how many percent copper?
A. 70% 258. What gives the average ratio of stress to strain for
B. 75% materials operating in the nonlinear region in the
C. 80% stress-strain diagram?
D. 85% A. Modulus of elasticity
249. Yellow brass contains approximately how many percent B. Proportionality limit
of zinc? C. Secant modulus
A. 20% D. Tangent modulus
B. 50%
C. 30% 259. Specific modulus is the ratio of _____ of a material.
D. 40% A. tensile strength to specific gravity
250. Indicate the false statement. B. elastic modulus to specific gravity
A. Aluminum bronzes contain no tin. C. strain to specific gravity
B. Silicon bronzes are usually used for marine D. tangent modulus to specific gravity
application and high strength fasteners.
C. Bronze is copper-tin alloy. 260. Specific strength is the ratio of ________ of a material.
D. Tin is relatively soluble in copper. A. tensile strength to specific gravity
B. elastic modulus to specific gravity
251. What is the most abundant metal in nature? C. strain to specific gravity
A. Aluminum D. tangent modulus to specific gravity
B. Steel
C. Iron 261. What is the reciprocal of the coefficient o volume
D. Copper elasticity/
A. Compressibility
252. Indicate the false statement about aluminum. B. Coefficient of rigidity
A. It has 1/3 the weight of steel c. Bulk modulus
B. It has 1/3 of the stifness of steel D. Young modulus
C. It has high strength to weight ratio
D. It has poor thermal and electrical conductivity 262. What test determines the hardenability of a steel
specimen?
253. What is the effect to aluminum with the iron as the A. Jominy end-quench test
alloying element? B. The lever rule
A. Reduce hot-cracking tendencies in casting C. Gibb's phase test
B. Improving conductivity D. Stress relief test
C. Lower castability
D. Improves machinability 263. What steel relief process is used with hypoeutetoid
steels to change martenite into pearlite?
254. What is the effect to aluminum with copper as alloying A. Temperizing
element? B. Normalizing
A. Icreases strength up to about 12% c. Annealing
B. Reduces shrinkage D. Spheroidizing
C. Improves machinability
D. Increases fluidity in casting
264. What is another term for tempering? 273. The presence of what type of bond in metallic
A. Recrystaliation compound enables then to posses electrical
B. Annealing conductivity property?
c. Sphereoidizing A. Covalent bond
D. Drawing or toughening B. Ionic bond
C. Crystalline bond
265. All are steel surface hardening processes except one. D. Metallic bond
Which one?
A. Carburizing 274. What type of copper alloy is used as collectors for
B. Flame hardening electric generators?
C. Nitriding A. Yellow brass
D. Annealing B. Beryllium copper
C. Tin bronze
266. In annealing, what refers to the ratio of the working D. Phosphor bronze
temperature to that of the temperature of the melting
point when carrying out plastic deformation process? 275. What is the electrical resistivity of pure copper in
A. Homogenous temperature micro-ohms-centimeter?
B. Cold-working temperature A. 1.76
C. Hot-working temperature B. 1.71
D. Homologous temperature C. 1.67
D. 3.10
267. For metric wire gage, the no. 2 wire is _____ in
diameter. 276. What should be the resistivity in micro-ohms-
A. 0.1 mm centimeter of a resistor material?
B. 0.2 mm A. 200-300
C. 0.3 mm B. 100-200
D. 0.4 mm C. 50-150
D. 10-50
268. Bus bars of rectangular cross sectionare generally used
or carrying _______. 277. Resistivity ratio of a conductor is the ratio of the
A. high electric currents electrical resistivity at 298 K to that of _____.
B. low electric currents A. 4.2 K
C. high voltage B. 5.2 K
D. low voltage C. 6.2 K
D. 7.2 K
269. What are used for interconnection on printed-circuit
boards? 278. What material is usually used for some electrical and
A. Unlaminated flat conductors electronics applications, especially for those that
B. Insulated conductors require higher resistivity and lower eddy-current
C. Rounded flexible conductors losses?
D. Flat flexile conductors A. Silicon-iron
B. Silicon-copper
270. Yellow brass is a copper alloy with improved C. Germanium-iron
mechanical properties but reduced corrosion D. Germanium-copper
resistance and electrical conductivity. How many
percent of yellow brass is copper? 279. How much silicon is present in silicon-iron?
A. 65% A. 1% to 3%
B. 35% B. 2% to 4%
C. 55% C. 3% to 5%
D. 45% D. 4% to 6%

271. How does the electrical conductivity of copper be 280. What is the most widely used dielectronic material in
reduced significantly? the electrical and electronics industry?
A. By reducing the copper's electronegativity A. Polymer
B. By removing impurities B. Plastic
C. By adding impurities and alloying components C. Rubber
D. By chemical treatment using enamel D. all of the above

272. The state of having exactly the same number of 281. What refers to dielectric materials, such as Rochelle
positive and negative electrical charges is known as salt, with domain structure containing dipole and are
____. aligned spontaneously?
A. electrobalance A. Dieletric materials
B. electroneutrality B. Photo-electric materials
C. electrically stable C. Ferro-electric materials
D. stable state D. Ferro-magnetic materials
282. What are natural or synthetic rubberlike materials 291. What refers to the quantity of mass diffusing through
which have outstanding elastic characteristics? and perpendicular to a unit cross-sectional area of
A. Thermosettting plastics material per unit time?
B. Polymers A. Diffusion coefficient
C. Elastomers B. Diffusion flux
D. Thermoplastic plastics C. Dielectric displacement
D. Diffraction coefficient
283. What refers to an additive that imparts a specific color
to a polymer? 292. What refers to the ratio of the permittivity of a medium
A. colorant to that of a vacuum?
B. Component A. Dielectric constant
C. Profiler B. Magnetic constant
D. Changer C. Relative permeability
D. Diffusion coefficient
284. What refers to an inert foreign substance added to a
polymer to improve or modify its properties? 293. Class I capacitors have dielectric constants are up to
A. Component ____.
B. Catalyst A. 100
C. Filter B. 200
D. Profiler C. 300
D. 500
285. What refers to a polymer that has been made porous
or sponge-like by the incorporation of gas bubbles? 294. What are the typical dielectric constants of class II
A. Suds capacitors?
B. Smog A. 500 to 10,000
C. Fog B. 1,000 to 10,000
D. Foam C. 500 to 5000
D. 100 to 1,000
286. What are cellular forms of urathenes, polystreams,
vinyls, polythylenes, polyproplenes, phenolics, epoxies
and a variety of other plastics? 295. What class of ceramic capacitor is best suited for
A. Thermoplastic plastics oscillator circuit where capacitance stability is
B. Plastic foams necessary?
C. Polymers A. Class I
D. Thermosetting plastics B. Class II
C. Class III
287. What is the widely used electrical insulator? D. Class IV
A. Plastic
B. Polymer 296. What is the maximum dielectric constant of class I
c. Epoxy ceramic capacitor?
D. Paper A. 500
B. 600
288. What is the dielectric strength of an unimpregnated C. 700
cellulose paper or kraft paper? D. 800
A. 6 to 12 MV/m
B. 8 to 14 MV/m 297. What are the most widely used general-purpose
C. 10 to 16 MV/m coatings?
D. 12 to 18 MV/m A. Alkyds
B. Acrylics
289. What is the most widely known carbide? C. Epoxies
A. Carbon carbide D. Vinyls
B. Lead carbide
C. Germanium carbide 298. What is most widely used in electronic industry as a
D. Silicon carbide structural member, such as the envelopes, hermetic
seals to metals or ceramics, protective coating on
290. Which of the following carbides has a good resistance hybrid and integrated circuits, etc?
to wear, thermal shock and corrosion? A. Glass
A. Tungsten carbide B. Plastics
B. Titanium carbide C. Silica
c. Silicon carbide D. Film
D. Nitric carbide
299. The thin conducting films used for semiconductor is 307. The change in electrical resistance due to the
made of what metal? application of magnetic field is called _____.
A. Gold A. magnetic anistropy
B. Tin B. magnetoresistance
C. Aluminum C. magnetostriction
D. Silver D. magnetizing factor

300. What refers to a two-element compound 308. Which material is used for dc application such as
semiconductor such as Gallium-Arsenide? electromagnetic cores and relays?
A. Duo semiconductor A. Iron
B. Binary semiconductor B. Copper
C. Twin semiconductor C. Steel
D. Pair semiconductor D. Aluminum

301. What refers to a three-element compound 309. Which of the following is known as "electrical steel"?
semiconductor such as aluminum gallium arsenide A. Silicon steel
semiconductor? B. Stainless steel
A. Tri semiconductor C. Carbon steel
B. Trio semiconductor D. Cast steel
C. Tetra semiconductor
D. Ternary semiconductor 310. What is the highest frequency ferrite?
A. Garnet
302. A semiconductor composed of a single specie of atom B. Spinel
such as silicon or germanium is called _____ C. Mumetal
semiconductor. D. Superinvar
A. elemental
B. unit 311. Which material is used for Schottky barrier diodes, light
C. primary emitting diodes, Gunn diodes and injection lasers?
D. ordinary A. Gallium Arsenide
B. Silicon Carbide
303. A semiconductor wafer or other material used as the C. Selenium
starting material for further semiconductor processing, D. Gallium Phosphide
such as epitaxial growth or diffusion?
A. Substrate 312. What material is used for electroluminescent diodes
B. Layer which can emit either green or red light?
C. Lattice A. Gallium Arsenide
D. Crystal B. Silicon Carbide
C. Selenium
304. What refers to glasses which are devitrified about 100 D. Gallium Phosphide
degree celsius below their softening point to form a
very fine network of crystalline phase? 313. Lead compounds such as lead sulfide, selenide and
A. fused silica telluride may be used for which application?
B. Glass ceramics A. Diodes and transistors at low temperatures
C. Fused quartz B. Infrared detectors
D. Fiber glass C. Thermoelectric applications
D. All of the above
305. What type of motion is produced when crystalline
solids are strained? 314. For hardness penetration test, the Rockwell test uses
A. Amorphic motion what type of penetrator?
B. Molecular motion A. Sphere
C. Structural motion B. Square pyramid
D. Dislocation motion C. Asymmetrical pyramid
D. Cube
306. The percentage change in magnetic properties of
materials resulting from temperature aging is called 315. What is the combination of cutting and scratch test of a
the ____. material?
A. aging box A. Knoop test
B. aging factor B. Vickers test
C. aging coefficient C. File hardness test
D. aging point D. Toughness test

316. What method of determining hardness of materials

that users a small diamond pyramid (136 degrees),
 with a square base and using a much lighter load, A. Graphite
permitting its use on thinner specimens? B. Diamond
A. Brinnel hardness number method C. Glass
B. Vickers pyramid hadness method D. Reinforced plastic
C. Shore scleroscope method
D. Knoop hardness number method 326. The most important mechanical property of ceramics
which is the measure of its resistance to crack
317. Using Moh's scale, which of the following materials is propagation is ________.
the hardest? A. ductility
A. Iron B. plasticity
B. Topaz C. elasticity
C. Brass D. toughness
D. Corundum
327. Which of the following has the highest thermal
318. A hardness scale that is used to show the different conductivity at room temperature?
hardness of materials is the Moh's scale. What type of A. Diamond
scale is the Moh's scale? B. Glass
A. Scratch-based scale C. Porcelain
B. Imbedded-based scale D. Graphite
C. Penetration-based scale
D. Impact-based scale 328. Which of the following is NOT a property of carbon
graphite products?
319. What is the Moh's hardness number for aluminum A. Melt when heated
oxide used for cutting tools? B. Brittle
A. 7 C. Used as electrical conductors
B. 8 D. Very low tensile strength
C. 9
D. 10 329. Which of the following engineering materials has the
highest density?
320. What refers to the strain energy per unit volume A. Magnesium
required to reach the yield point? B. Lead
A. Elastic toughness C. Steel
B. Fatigue D. Tantalum
C. Hardness
D. Creep strain 330. What refers to the average number of mers in the
molecule, typically several hundred to several
321. What type of failure wherein the cyclic stresses are thousand?
introduced by fluctuating thermal stresses? A. Polymerization constant
A. Thermal conductivity B. Polymerization factor
B. Thermal fatigue C. Degree of polymerization
C. Thermal shock D. Polymerization index
D. Thermal tempering
331. What nickel alloy has high electrical and corrosion
322. The fracture of a brittle material as a result of stresses resistance and high strength at red heat temperature
is introduced by a rapid temperature change is called and contains 15 to 20% chromium?
___________. A. Alnico
A. thermal fatigue B. Nichrome
B. thermal shock C. Invar
C. thermal conductivity D. Nilvar
D. thermal tempering
332. Due to their unique properties, invar and upper invar
323. The following are typical properties of ceramic except are commonly used in which of the following
one. Which one? applications?
A. High melting point A. Shado mast in CRTs
B. High compressive strength B. Bimetallic strips
C. High corrosion resistance C. Piping for liquefied natural gas
D. High thermal conductivity D. All of the above

324. Which of the following refers to ceramic used in 333. What element is used to replace the nickel content of
engineering? an alloy to produce a super invar alloy?
A. Materials that posses plastic properties A. Zinc
B. Non-metallic, non-crystalline materials B. Cobalt
C. Oxides, nitrides and carbides C. Tin
D. Materials that conduct heat easily D. Cobalt
325. Which of the following engineering materials is NOT 334. Silicon bronze contains how many percent of silicon?
classified as ceramics? A. 96%
 B. 3% B. Stainless steel
C. 1% C. Beryllium
D. 69% D. Too-and-die steel

335. What element is added to copper to increase its 344. In the manufacturing of engineering materials, what
strength and fatigue properties? refers to the major computer application which adjusts
A. Silicon automatically the manufacturing parameters such as
B. Aluminum forces, temperature, surface finish and dimensions of
C. Berylllium parts, to fall within the acceptable range?
D. Zinc A. Automated handing control
B. Industrial Robotics
336. Which of the following metals in their alloy form has C. Computer Numerical Control
the greatest strength at room temperature? D. Adaptive Control
A. Graphite fibers
B. Steels 345. Which of the elements is NOT harmful to solders?
C. Kevlar fibers A. Antimony
D. Carbides B. Zinc
C. Cadmium
337. What element is added to copper to make it extremely D. Aluminum
hard?
A. Aluminum 346. What alloy is usually used for minting of coins?
B. Zinc A. Nordic gold
C. Lead B. Plated gold
D. Silicon C. Chinese gold
D. Alloyed gold
338. What element constitutes a major component of most
bronzes? 347. Nordic gold contains how many percent copper?
A. Zinc A. 85%
B. Tin B. 87%
C. Lead C. 89%
D. Aluminum D. 91%

339. What is the most common alloying ingredient in 348. What component of smart metals performs a
copper? responsive and adaptive function?
A. Tin A. Actuator
B. Lead B. Retention
C. Zinc C. Memory
D. Aluminum D. Magneto fiber

340. What is the lightest metal currently available for 349. Which of the following is used as actuators or smart
engineering applications? metals?
A. Magnesium A. Piezo-electric ceramics
B. Copper B. Nanocarbon polymers
C. Tungsten C. Magnetic resistance materials
D. Chromium D. Shape-memory alloys

341. What is the heaviest material currently available for 350. What refers to the ability of a material to permit it to
engineering applications? be permanently bent or twisted into various shapes
A. Vanadium without shapes without breaking?
B. Molybdenum A. Ductility
C. Chromium B. Elasticity
D. Tungsten C. Plasticity
D. Malleability
342. Aluminum is lighter than all materials below except
one? Which one?
A. Magnesium 351. Copper is the most commonly used material for
B. Ferrous materials electrical wires. What is its modulus of elasticity in
C. Zinc pascals?
D. Tin A. 9 x 10 to 10th power
B. 10 x 10 to 10th power
C. 11 x 10 to 10th power
D. 12 x 10 to 10th power

352. What abundant materials refer to the product of the

343. Which of the following is NOT a ferrous metal? weathering of complex silicates, particularly of
A. Carbon feldspar?
 A. Sand C. 4.0
B. Clay D. 5.2
C. Gravel
D. Limestone 362. Steel is normally described in gauges, such as 16 gauge
BG, what does BG stands for?
353. Which of the following materials is normally found in A. Burmingham Gauge
small microwave tubes? B. Buckingham Gauge
A. steatite C. British Gauge
B. Carbides D. Brinell Gauge
C. Forsterite
D. Cordierite 363. Perforated materials are not usually used for structural
members. If used however, what factors must be
354. What term is used to describe the technology of considered in the calculation taking into the account
treating a mined ore, to obtain a product higher on the effect of the perforation on the strength of the
concentration of a wanted material from the unwanted material?
rock mass in which it occurs? A. Stiffness and strength
A. Ore dressing B. Stiffness and resistance to creep
B. Ore mining C. Strength and resistance to fatigue
C. Ore drawing D. Resistance to fatigue and resistance to creep
D. Ore alloying
364. What type of solder is used in an intermediate
355. What refers to the fabrication step in semiconductor temperature solder but not suitable for brass?
manufacturing in which proper interconnection is A. Aluminum-silver solder
made? B. Tin-antinomy solder
A. Metallization C. Aluminum-zine solder
B. Mineralization D. Lead-silver solder
C. Oxidation process
D. Lithography 365. What type of integrated circuit constructed on a glass
or ceramic substrate, used only for passive elements?
356. What is the usual specific gravity of the mineral oil A. Ceramic IC
used for transformers? B. Planar IC
A. 0.68 C. Film IC
B. 0.98 D. Semiconductor subtrate IC
C. 0.78
D. 0.88 366. What refers to the ability of a material to withstand
shatter?
357. Which of the materials below will be used when high A. Shear resistance
compressive ultimate strength is necessary? B. Plasticity
A. Aluminum C. Elasticity
B. Granite D. Impact resistance
C. Concrete
D. Copper 367. An "Oxygen Free High Conductivity" copper refers to
the one that contains ____ copper.
358. What material is usually used in cellphone relays? A. 99.95%
A. Titanium B. 99.399%
B. Aluminum C. 99.90%
C. Palladium D. 99.00%
D. Platinum
368. What gold alloy is usually used for low-current electric
359. Which is not a property of palladium? contacts?
A. It cannot be electroplated A. Au-Tn alloy
B. It is less resistant to corrosion B. Au-Ag alloy
C. It resembles a platinum C. Au-Fe alloy
D. It is normally used for contacts in relays D. Au-Si alloy

360. What type of resin is usually used for manufacturing 369. At the maximum temperature can a nickel-coated
plumbing pipe? copper conductor be used?
A. High density polyethylene A. 340 degree Celsius
B. Low density polyethylene B. 320 degree Celsius
C. Polypropylene C. 360 degree Celsius
D. Polyvinyl chloride D. 300 degree Celsius

361. What is the dielectric constant of the ceramic dielectric 370. What abundant materials refer to the product of the
material, porcelain? weathering of complex silicate4s, particularly of
A. 6.0 feldspars?
B. 6.9 A. Sand
 B. Clay B. The modulus of elasticity range of metals is slightly
C. Gravel higher than that of ceramics.
D. Limestone C. The modulus of elasticity of polymers is lower than
that of ceramics.
371. Which of the following arrangements have their D. Steel and Nickel has almost the same value of
corresponding strength in descending order? modulus of elasticity.
A. Carbides, Steel, Tantalum, Titanium
B. Steel, Carbides, Titanium, Tantalum 380. Aside from Gold, Silver, and Platinum, which of the
C. Titanium, Steel, Carbide, Tantalum following is considered as noble metal?
D. Tantalum, Titanium, Steel, Carbide A. Niobium
B. Vanadium
372. Which of the following arrangements have their C. Iridium
corresponding toughness in descending order? D. Zirconium

A. Wood, Thermoset, Ceramic, Thermoplastic 381. Because of their unique properties, invar and super-
B. Thermoplastic, Wood, Thermoset, Ceramic invar are commonly used in all the following except
C. Thermoset. Ceramic, Wood, Thermoplastic one. Which one?
D. Ceramic, Wood, Thermoset, Thermoplastic A. Shadow mast on cathode ray tubes
B. Bimetallic strips
373. Which of the following arrangements have their C. Piping for qualified natural gas
corresponding stiffness in descending order? D. Coinage
A. Copper, Tungsten, Titanium, Thermoset
B. Titanium, Thermoset, Copper, Tungsten 382. _____ have superlative combinations of properties and
C. Thermoset, Titanium, Tungsten, Copper mostly used in aircraft turbine components.
D. Tungsten, Copper, Titanium, Thermoset A. Invars
B. Superalloys
374. Which of the following arrangements have their C. Titanium and palladium
corresponding hardness in descending order? D. Alloys
A. Magnesium, Thermoplastic, Thermoset, Copper
B. Thermoset, Copper, Magnesium, Thermoplastic 383. What is the most important consideration for
C. Copper, Thermoset, Magnesium, Thermoplastic superalloys?
D. Thermoplastic, Copper, Thermoset, Magnesium A. Density
B. Strength
375. Arrange the following metals from greatest to least C. Thermal Capacity
electrical conductivity at room temperature. D. Air resistance
A. Brass, Iron, Platinum, Carbon Steel
B. Iron, Platinum, Brass, Carbon Steel 384. What process is involved in the transformation of
C. Platinum, Iron, Carbon Steel. Brass austenite into bainite?
D. Carbon. Steel, Iron, Platinum, Brass A. Rapid quenching
B. Reheat
376. Arrange the following materials in accordance from C. Moderate cooling
greatest modulus of elasticity to the least. D. Slow cooling
A. Nickel, Titanium, Copper, Brass
B. Titanium, Copper, Brass, Nickel 385. To produce a super-invar alloy, some of the nickel
C. Copper, Nickel, Titanium, Brass content is replaced by what element?
D. Nickel, Copper, Titanium, Brass A. Cobalt
B. Copper
377. What is the electrical conductivity per ohm-meter of C. Tin
aluminum used as electrical conductor? D. Lead
A. 5.08x 10 raise to the power of 7
B. 6.47x 10 raise to the power of 7 386. What type of laser is used for line-of-sight
C. 7.32x 10 raise to the power of 7 communication, recording/playback of holograms?
D. 3.57x 10 raise to the power of 7 A. He-Ne laser
B. Argon Laser
378. Piezoelectric materials are usually utilized as: C. Ruby Laser
A. Inductors D. Diode Laser
B. Capacitors
C. Transducers
D. Resistors
387. For the pure metal and all the copper-nickel alloys, the
resistivity rises linearly with temperature above about
379. Indicate the false statement about modulus of ____ degree Celsius.
elasticity? A. -100
A. The modulus of elasticity of polymers is lower than B. -150
that of metals. C. -200
 D. -250
397. Hardening of steel is accomplished by raising the
388. Which of the following is NOT a diamagnetic material? temperature until the steel becomes austenitic in form
and the quick-cooling it at a rate faster than the critical
A. Diamond state. What is the average hardening temperature of
B. Alkalihalides steel?
C. Ag A. 1475 to 1675 degrees Fahrenheit
D. Gd B. 1275 to 1475 degrees Fahrenheit
C. 1375 to 1575 degrees Fahrenheit
389. Nichrome is the widely used as a heater wire in D. 1375 to 1675 degrees Fahrenheit
household appliances and industrial furnaces. What is
the composition of nichrome? 398. What important semiempirical equation which is used
A. 80& Nickel and 20% Chromium to predict the resistivity of an alloy?
B. 85% Nickel and 15% Chromium A. Nordheim's Rule
C. 75% Nickel and 25% Chromium B. Schrodinger's Rule
D. 90% Nickel and 10% Chromium C. Stefan's Rule
D. Hall's Rule
390. Which ferromagnet has a BBC crystal structure?
A. Gd 399. What soft magnetic materials are used for high
B. Cu permeability applications and for low-loss electric
C. Ni devices?
D. Fe A. Silicon iron
B. Super alloy
391. Which semiconductor material has a green LED? C. Commercial grade iron
A. GaP (N) D. Ferrites
B. GaP (Zn-O)
C. SiC
D. InGan alloys (430- 460 nm)

392. Which semiconductor material has a blue LED?

A. InGan alloys (500- 530nm)
B. GaP (Zn-O)
C. SiC
D. Gap (N)

393. Which of the following is NOT a standard load for

Brinell Hardness Testing?
A. 500 kg
B. 1500 kg
C. 2500 kg
D. 3000 kg

394. Which is NOT a property of the common plastic known

as mylar?
A. It has high dielectric strength
B. Is is chemical resistance
C. It is moisture resistance
D. It embrittles with age

395. To determine the approximate temperature of heated

metals such as heated metals such as steel and copper,
a color scale for metal temperature is used. When the
color of metal is dull white, what is the approximate
temperature of metal in degree Celsius?
A. 1300
B. 1400
C. 1500
D. 1600

396. Which of the following is NOT true about electrical

conductors?
A. Oxides and salts of silver are also conductors.
B. Oxides of copper are good conductors.
C. Gold does not normally oxidize.
D. Oxides of aluminum are not good conductors.