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Building Utilities - Plumbing Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When is a circuit considered closed?
Conduit
Height of Building
When it is complete
Main

2. Change - addition or modification in construction/occupancy.
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
Grounding
Alter or Alteration
Administrative Authority

3. Why is it important for you to determine the ampacity of a wire?
Plumbing System
To size the wire
To achieve polarity
Outside of he building - providing

4. Structure built - erected and of framed component structural parts.
Building
Fixture Supply
Fixture Vent
Armor

5. The total length of a pipeline measured along the center line and the fittings of the pipe.
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Flood Level
Development Length
Armor

6. Which is better option in considering the placement of building utilities of a building - given that building is with an ample size of lot?
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
When it is complete
Main
Outside of he building - providing

7. What type of ventilation is appropriate for a T&B located in a hotel accommodation unit?
Flood Level
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Building

8. The nominal commercial designation - normally the inside diameter of the pipe.
Height of Building
Stack Vent
Diameter
Grounding

9. What is the characteristic of a device?
Alter or Alteration
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
1 1/2'
Ohm's Law

10. Vertical distance from the 'grade line' to the highest point of the coping.
Conduit
Height of Building
Outside of he building - providing
Diameter

11. The principal vent pipe of a system to which vent connections can be made.
Main Vent
Building
Stack Vent
Roughing-in

12. What is the purpose of the sheat in a Romex Cable?
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
4'
Armor
Combustible Construction

13. A designed fitting normally shaped with a U-Type part that continuously retains a liquid seal and prevents the back passage of air without affecting the flow of liquids in the system.
Plumbing System
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
P-Trap
To achieve polarity

14. What is the purpose of a raceway?
Fixture Vent
P-Trap
Conduit
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch

15. All water supply - drainage - and venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connections.
Sewerage Ejector
Plumbing System
Outside of he building - providing
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building

16. The vertical extension of a soil - wastes - or vent system above the highest horizontal drain connected to a stack.
Grounding
Stack Vent
1 1/2'
Use of exhaust fan to control odor

17. Relationship of EMF - Current - and Resistance?

18. An installed pipe or fitting that forms an angle of less than 45 degrees with the horizontal.
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
Horizontal Pipe
Diameter
When it is already pulsating

19. Why is it important for you to determine the ampacity of a wire?
P-Trap
Sewerage System
Main
To size the wire

20. What are the purposes of circuit protective devices?
Development Length
Main
Outside of he building - providing
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload

21. What makes DC fluctuate?
1 1/2'
When it is already pulsating
When it is complete
Development Length

22. A flow of waste - used for sizing plumbing jobs in a plumbing system - equal to one cubic foot per minute.
Grounding
Fixture Vent
Plumbing System
Outside of he building - providing

23. A water supply source connecting the fixture and water supply pipe.
Alter or Alteration
Fixture Supply
Horizontal Pipe
Fixture Vent

24. In a battery set-up - why are protons and electrons positioned on opposite sides?
Alley
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
To achieve polarity

25. Why is a rigid steel conduit used for feeders?
Armor
To size the wire
Armor
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)

26. The total length of a pipeline measured along the center line and the fittings of the pipe.
To achieve polarity
Development Length
4'
Building

27. More than 3.00m but less than 2.00m
Main
Alley
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
Armor

28. Why is a rigid steel conduit used for feeders?
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
When it is already pulsating
Building

29. Waste outlet size of a lavatory

30. Change - addition or modification in construction/occupancy.
Fixture Supply
Alter or Alteration
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
When it is complete

31. When is a circuit considered closed?
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
When it is complete
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)

32. The level at which water begins to overflow the top or rim of a plumbing fixture.
Stack Vent
Flood Level
4'
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building

33. In a battery set-up - why are protons and electrons positioned on opposite sides?
P-Trap
To achieve polarity
1 1/2'
Plumbing Unit

34. The principal pipe of a system of continuous piping to which branch connections can be made.
Ohm's Law
Development Length
P-Trap
Main

35. A water supply source connecting the fixture and water supply pipe.
Armor
Fixture Supply
Combustible Construction
Alter or Alteration

36. What is the purpose of a raceway?
Conduit
Sewerage System
Main
Diameter

37. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
When it is already pulsating
Armor
When it is already pulsating
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building

38. What type of circuit is applicable to a factory?
Parallel Series
P-Trap
To size the wire
Administrative Authority

39. What is the purpose of the third wire in an electrical system?
Alter or Alteration
Grounding
1 1/2'
Height of Building

40. What is the purpose of the sheat in a Romex Cable?
Armor
Main
Parallel Series
Main Vent

41. All of the drainage piping within a building that conveys sewage - rainwater - and other liquid wastes to a legal point of disposal exclusive of public and private exterior pipe lines or systems.
To size the wire
Sewerage System
Height of Building
Diameter

42. Which is better option in considering the placement of building utilities of a building - given that building is with an ample size of lot?
Main Vent
Outside of he building - providing
To size the wire
Administrative Authority

43. What type of ventilation is appropriate for a T&B located in a hotel accommodation unit?
Roughing-in
Plumbing System
Development Length
Use of exhaust fan to control odor

44. A flow of waste - used for sizing plumbing jobs in a plumbing system - equal to one cubic foot per minute.
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Stack Vent
Fixture Vent
Use of exhaust fan to control odor

45. The nominal commercial designation - normally the inside diameter of the pipe.
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
To achieve polarity
Main Vent
Diameter

46. Pipe cleanout size requirements shall be of a size corresponding to the pipe size into which they are installed up to a diameter.

47. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
Height of Building
Sewerage System
Diameter
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building

48. What are the purposes of circuit protective devices?
Parallel Series
P-Trap
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Outside of he building - providing

49. The vertical extension of a soil - wastes - or vent system above the highest horizontal drain connected to a stack.
Parallel Series
When it is complete
Administrative Authority
Stack Vent

50. How do you differentiate a panel board from a service switch?
Roughing-in
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Grounding
Sewerage System