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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. Vertical distance from the 'grade line' to the highest point of the coping.
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
Height of Building
Diameter
Main Vent
2. The vertical extension of a soil - wastes - or vent system above the highest horizontal drain connected to a stack.
Sewerage System
Stack Vent
4'
Conduit
3. How do you differentiate a panel board from a service switch?
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Ohm's Law
To size the wire
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
4. The vertical extension of a soil - wastes - or vent system above the highest horizontal drain connected to a stack.
Horizontal Pipe
Combustible Construction
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
Stack Vent
5. When is a circuit considered closed?
To size the wire
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
When it is complete
To achieve polarity
6. When is a circuit considered closed?
When it is complete
Flood Level
Armor
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
7. 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
Stack Vent
P-Trap
Building
Plumbing Unit
8. Which is a better option in the ventilation of a comfort room placed in a public building?
Development Length
Plumbing System
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Conduit
9. 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
Development Length
Development Length
P-Trap
10. What makes DC fluctuate?
Diameter
When it is already pulsating
Main Vent
Fixture Supply
11. The nominal commercial designation - normally the inside diameter of the pipe.
Diameter
4'
To achieve polarity
Development Length
12. Waste outlet size of a lavatory
13. What is the purpose of the sheat in a Romex Cable?
Main Vent
Armor
Horizontal Pipe
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
14. Vertical distance from the 'grade line' to the highest point of the coping.
Combustible Construction
Height of Building
Alley
Grounding
15. What is the purpose of a raceway?
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Main Vent
Conduit
Roughing-in
16. What type of circuit is applicable to a factory?
Parallel Series
Height of Building
Plumbing Unit
Roughing-in
17. Individual official - board - department or agency established or authorized by the office of the president (RA1378): administer and enforce the NPCP.
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
1 1/2'
Plumbing Unit
Administrative Authority
18. What is the characteristic of a device?
Grounding
Grounding
Ohm's Law
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
19. 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
Alter or Alteration
Stack Vent
Main Vent
20. How do you differentiate a panel board from a service switch?
Height of Building
When it is complete
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
21. The level at which water begins to overflow the top or rim of a plumbing fixture.
Flood Level
P-Trap
Combustible Construction
P-Trap
22. Which is a better option in the ventilation of a comfort room placed in a public building?
To achieve polarity
Flood Level
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Horizontal Pipe
23. Why is it important for you to determine the ampacity of a wire?
Building
To size the wire
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Armor
24. All water supply - drainage - and venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connections.
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Conduit
Building
Plumbing System
25. What is the purpose of the third wire in an electrical system?
Combustible Construction
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Grounding
Roughing-in
26. What are the purposes of circuit protective devices?
To size the wire
Fixture Supply
Armor
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
27. The principal vent pipe of a system to which vent connections can be made.
Main Vent
Grounding
Administrative Authority
Height of Building
28. An installed pipe or fitting that forms an angle of less than 45 degrees with the horizontal.
Alley
Horizontal Pipe
Administrative Authority
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
29. Relationship of EMF - Current - and Resistance?
30. The total length of a pipeline measured along the center line and the fittings of the pipe.
Alley
Development Length
When it is already pulsating
Fixture Vent
31. What are the purposes of circuit protective devices?
Sewerage Ejector
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Conduit
32. More than 3.00m but less than 2.00m
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
Alley
Fixture Supply
Grounding
33. 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
Diameter
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Main
34. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
Stack Vent
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Fixture Supply
35. More than 3.00m but less than 2.00m
When it is already pulsating
When it is complete
Alley
Plumbing Unit
36. An electrically or mechanically operated device used to elevate sewage and liquid wastes from a lower level to a point of discharge.
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Fixture Supply
Combustible Construction
Sewerage Ejector
37. Structure built - erected and of framed component structural parts.
Alter or Alteration
Sewerage System
Parallel Series
Building
38. All water supply - drainage - and venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connections.
Grounding
Ohm's Law
Plumbing System
Sewerage System
39. Change - addition or modification in construction/occupancy.
Ohm's Law
Diameter
To achieve polarity
Alter or Alteration
40. The total length of a pipeline measured along the center line and the fittings of the pipe.
Building
Development Length
Building
Fixture Supply
41. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Main
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
4'
42. An installed pipe or fitting that forms an angle of less than 45 degrees with the horizontal.
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
Horizontal Pipe
Diameter
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
43. The principal pipe of a system of continuous piping to which branch connections can be made.
Main
Alley
Sewerage System
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
44. In a battery set-up - why are protons and electrons positioned on opposite sides?
To achieve polarity
Alley
Height of Building
Grounding
45. What makes DC fluctuate?
Ohm's Law
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
When it is already pulsating
Plumbing System
46. 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
Main
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
To size the wire
47. Waste outlet size of a lavatory
48. The principal pipe of a system of continuous piping to which branch connections can be made.
Administrative Authority
To achieve polarity
Main
Parallel Series
49. What is the purpose of the third wire in an electrical system?
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Ohm's Law
Grounding
P-Trap
50. The principal vent pipe of a system to which vent connections can be made.
Grounding
Fixture Supply
Main Vent
Outside of he building - providing