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Building Utilities - Plumbing Basics
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Subjects
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industries
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plumbing
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What type of ventilation is appropriate for a T&B located in a hotel accommodation unit?
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
Diameter
Fixture Supply
Fixture Supply
2. Minimum standard quantity of plumbing fixtures that discharges wastes into a plumbing installation: 1 water meter - 1 water closet - 1 lavatory - 1 shower head and drain for a bathtub or shower stall - 1 kitchen sink - 1 laundry tray - 3 floor drains
Plumbing Unit
Horizontal Pipe
When it is complete
Plumbing System
3. Individual official - board - department or agency established or authorized by the office of the president (RA1378): administer and enforce the NPCP.
Conduit
Administrative Authority
Ohm's Law
P-Trap
4. Relationship of EMF - Current - and Resistance?
5. Why is it important for you to determine the ampacity of a wire?
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
To size the wire
Diameter
Horizontal Pipe
6. A water supply source connecting the fixture and water supply pipe.
Conduit
Fixture Supply
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
Armor
7. 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.
P-Trap
Combustible Construction
Sewerage Ejector
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
8. Structure with any part of its structural framework will ignite/burn at 750
Combustible Construction
Main Vent
Diameter
Ohm's Law
9. What type of circuit is applicable to a factory?
Conduit
Building
Outside of he building - providing
Parallel Series
10. Change - addition or modification in construction/occupancy.
Alter or Alteration
Height of Building
Main Vent
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
11. The level at which water begins to overflow the top or rim of a plumbing fixture.
Ohm's Law
Grounding
Combustible Construction
Flood Level
12. Relationship of EMF - Current - and Resistance?
13. What are the purposes of circuit protective devices?
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Plumbing Unit
4'
14. What is the purpose of a raceway?
Conduit
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Plumbing System
Administrative Authority
15. The installation of certain parts of the plumbing system that can be done before installation of the fixtures including drainage - venting - and water supply
Roughing-in
Combustible Construction
Parallel Series
Armor
16. What is the characteristic of a device?
Armor
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
4'
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
17. Waste outlet size of a lavatory
18. Structure built - erected and of framed component structural parts.
Main
Plumbing Unit
Building
To achieve polarity
19. What type of circuit is applicable to a factory?
Parallel Series
Diameter
Sewerage Ejector
4'
20. What type of ventilation is appropriate for a T&B located in a hotel accommodation unit?
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
Building
Fixture Supply
21. Individual official - board - department or agency established or authorized by the office of the president (RA1378): administer and enforce the NPCP.
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
To size the wire
Administrative Authority
P-Trap
22. An electrically or mechanically operated device used to elevate sewage and liquid wastes from a lower level to a point of discharge.
Ohm's Law
Sewerage Ejector
Parallel Series
Fixture Supply
23. 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.
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
Fixture Supply
Alter or Alteration
P-Trap
24. 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.
Sewerage System
4'
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
To size the wire
25. The principal vent pipe of a system to which vent connections can be made.
Height of Building
4'
Main Vent
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
26. The vertical extension of a soil - wastes - or vent system above the highest horizontal drain connected to a stack.
When it is already pulsating
Development Length
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Stack Vent
27. Why is a rigid steel conduit used for feeders?
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
1 1/2'
To size the wire
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
28. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Fixture Supply
Diameter
29. The nominal commercial designation - normally the inside diameter of the pipe.
Diameter
Grounding
Ohm's Law
When it is complete
30. The total length of a pipeline measured along the center line and the fittings of the pipe.
Outside of he building - providing
To achieve polarity
Sewerage System
Development Length
31. What is the characteristic of a device?
Plumbing Unit
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Main
32. A flow of waste - used for sizing plumbing jobs in a plumbing system - equal to one cubic foot per minute.
Outside of he building - providing
Flood Level
Main
Fixture Vent
33. What are the purposes of circuit protective devices?
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
When it is already pulsating
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Outside of he building - providing
34. What makes DC fluctuate?
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Grounding
When it is already pulsating
35. Which is better option in considering the placement of building utilities of a building - given that building is with an ample size of lot?
Alter or Alteration
Outside of he building - providing
P-Trap
Main Vent
36. In a battery set-up - why are protons and electrons positioned on opposite sides?
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
Plumbing Unit
To achieve polarity
37. An installed pipe or fitting that forms an angle of less than 45 degrees with the horizontal.
Development Length
Horizontal Pipe
Alley
P-Trap
38. Waste outlet size of a lavatory
39. An electrically or mechanically operated device used to elevate sewage and liquid wastes from a lower level to a point of discharge.
Sewerage Ejector
Alter or Alteration
Plumbing System
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
40. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
Conduit
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Flood Level
Height of Building
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.
Fixture Supply
Height of Building
Main Vent
Sewerage System
42. What is the purpose of the third wire in an electrical system?
Fixture Supply
Grounding
Flood Level
Diameter
43. All water supply - drainage - and venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connections.
Alley
Main
Outside of he building - providing
Plumbing System
44. Vertical distance from the 'grade line' to the highest point of the coping.
P-Trap
Height of Building
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Building
45. The installation of certain parts of the plumbing system that can be done before installation of the fixtures including drainage - venting - and water supply
Plumbing System
Main
Roughing-in
Ohm's Law
46. When is a circuit considered closed?
To size the wire
To achieve polarity
When it is complete
Conduit
47. What is the purpose of a raceway?
Conduit
Alley
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Plumbing System
48. Pipe cleanout size requirements shall be of a size corresponding to the pipe size into which they are installed up to a diameter.
49. Change - addition or modification in construction/occupancy.
When it is complete
Flood Level
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Alter or Alteration
50. What makes DC fluctuate?
Grounding
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Outside of he building - providing
When it is already pulsating