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Building Utilities - Plumbing Basics
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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. All water supply - drainage - and venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connections.
Plumbing System
To size the wire
Armor
Building
2. Why is it important for you to determine the ampacity of a wire?
Armor
To size the wire
Conduit
Building
3. What type of ventilation is appropriate for a T&B located in a hotel accommodation unit?
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Sewerage Ejector
Alley
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
4. Change - addition or modification in construction/occupancy.
1 1/2'
Alter or Alteration
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
Flood Level
5. The nominal commercial designation - normally the inside diameter of the pipe.
Parallel Series
Conduit
Diameter
Administrative Authority
6. What is the characteristic of a device?
Height of Building
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
Alley
To size the wire
7. In a battery set-up - why are protons and electrons positioned on opposite sides?
Main Vent
To achieve polarity
Roughing-in
1 1/2'
8. 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.
Conduit
P-Trap
Ohm's Law
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
9. What is the purpose of the third wire in an electrical system?
Grounding
Sewerage Ejector
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
10. An installed pipe or fitting that forms an angle of less than 45 degrees with the horizontal.
Height of Building
Horizontal Pipe
Fixture Vent
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
11. Structure built - erected and of framed component structural parts.
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Conduit
Building
To achieve polarity
12. 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
Alter or Alteration
Plumbing System
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
13. Which is better option in considering the placement of building utilities of a building - given that building is with an ample size of lot?
Outside of he building - providing
Roughing-in
Grounding
4'
14. The nominal commercial designation - normally the inside diameter of the pipe.
Height of Building
Fixture Supply
Diameter
Ohm's Law
15. A water supply source connecting the fixture and water supply pipe.
Fixture Supply
Administrative Authority
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
16. When is a circuit considered closed?
Sewerage System
Fixture Vent
Parallel Series
When it is complete
17. Pipe cleanout size requirements shall be of a size corresponding to the pipe size into which they are installed up to a diameter.
18. 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
Alley
Conduit
Sewerage Ejector
19. What is the purpose of a raceway?
Conduit
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Fixture Supply
When it is already pulsating
20. What are the purposes of circuit protective devices?
Outside of he building - providing
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
To size the wire
Alter or Alteration
21. An electrically or mechanically operated device used to elevate sewage and liquid wastes from a lower level to a point of discharge.
Sewerage System
Sewerage Ejector
Height of Building
When it is already pulsating
22. Vertical distance from the 'grade line' to the highest point of the coping.
Building
Conduit
Height of Building
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
23. Structure with any part of its structural framework will ignite/burn at 750
Plumbing Unit
Fixture Vent
Combustible Construction
When it is complete
24. When is a circuit considered closed?
Main
Armor
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
When it is complete
25. Pipe cleanout size requirements shall be of a size corresponding to the pipe size into which they are installed up to a diameter.
26. The level at which water begins to overflow the top or rim of a plumbing fixture.
Flood Level
Main Vent
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
4'
27. Structure built - erected and of framed component structural parts.
Building
When it is already pulsating
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Parallel Series
28. All water supply - drainage - and venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connections.
Main
Plumbing System
When it is already pulsating
Development Length
29. What type of circuit is applicable to a factory?
Plumbing System
Parallel Series
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
To size the wire
30. Change - addition or modification in construction/occupancy.
Alley
4'
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
Alter or Alteration
31. Waste outlet size of a lavatory
32. 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
Alley
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
Main Vent
33. The total length of a pipeline measured along the center line and the fittings of the pipe.
Diameter
P-Trap
Development Length
To achieve polarity
34. Which is a better option in the ventilation of a comfort room placed in a public building?
Flood Level
Plumbing Unit
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
To achieve polarity
35. 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
P-Trap
P-Trap
4'
Plumbing Unit
36. 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
Roughing-in
Outside of he building - providing
Fixture Supply
37. Individual official - board - department or agency established or authorized by the office of the president (RA1378): administer and enforce the NPCP.
Fixture Supply
Administrative Authority
Outside of he building - providing
Stack Vent
38. What type of circuit is applicable to a factory?
P-Trap
Building
Parallel Series
Fixture Supply
39. 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.
Combustible Construction
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Sewerage System
Development Length
40. How do you differentiate a panel board from a service switch?
Flood Level
Ohm's Law
Building
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
41. A flow of waste - used for sizing plumbing jobs in a plumbing system - equal to one cubic foot per minute.
Height of Building
P-Trap
To achieve polarity
Fixture Vent
42. The principal vent pipe of a system to which vent connections can be made.
Sewerage System
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
Main Vent
43. What is the purpose of the third wire in an electrical system?
Grounding
Development Length
Sewerage Ejector
To size the wire
44. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
Plumbing System
Alter or Alteration
Horizontal Pipe
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
45. The total length of a pipeline measured along the center line and the fittings of the pipe.
1 1/2'
Development Length
Main Vent
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
46. In a battery set-up - why are protons and electrons positioned on opposite sides?
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Alter or Alteration
Grounding
To achieve polarity
47. A water supply source connecting the fixture and water supply pipe.
Roughing-in
Fixture Supply
Diameter
Plumbing System
48. What makes DC fluctuate?
Combustible Construction
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Sewerage Ejector
When it is already pulsating
49. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
Plumbing Unit
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Outside of he building - providing
50. The principal vent pipe of a system to which vent connections can be made.
Outside of he building - providing
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
1 1/2'
Main Vent