Building Utilities - Plumbing Basics

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1. Which is a better option in the ventilation of a comfort room placed in a public building?
Development Length
Grounding
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Alley


2. Relationship of EMF - Current - and Resistance?

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3. Why is it important for you to determine the ampacity of a wire?
Armor
To size the wire
Plumbing System
Ohm's Law


4. In a battery set-up - why are protons and electrons positioned on opposite sides?
Plumbing Unit
To achieve polarity
P-Trap
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)


5. Why is a rigid steel conduit used for feeders?
To achieve polarity
Main Vent
Sewerage System
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)


6. What is the characteristic of a device?
Main
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Grounding
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)


7. The installation of certain parts of the plumbing system that can be done before installation of the fixtures including drainage - venting - and water supply
When it is complete
Roughing-in
Combustible Construction
4'


8. Why is a rigid steel conduit used for feeders?
Plumbing System
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
To achieve polarity
Roughing-in


9. Individual official - board - department or agency established or authorized by the office of the president (RA1378): administer and enforce the NPCP.
Administrative Authority
Plumbing System
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
Alley


10. What are the purposes of circuit protective devices?
Fixture Supply
To achieve polarity
1. To detect short circuit 2. To detect overload
To size the wire


11. All water supply - drainage - and venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connections.
Plumbing System
Diameter
Alley
Outside of he building - providing


12. Waste outlet size of a lavatory

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13. What is the purpose of the third wire in an electrical system?
Grounding
Plumbing System
Diameter
Outside of he building - providing


14. What is the purpose of a raceway?
Height of Building
Sewerage Ejector
Sewerage System
Conduit


15. In building automation systems - where surveillance architecture is utilized - what is the most basic solution that should be considered?
Flood Level
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Building
Alley


16. Change - addition or modification in construction/occupancy.
4'
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
Plumbing System
Alter or Alteration


17. Waste outlet size of a lavatory

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18. Vertical distance from the 'grade line' to the highest point of the coping.
Height of Building
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
1 1/2'


19. The vertical extension of a soil - wastes - or vent system above the highest horizontal drain connected to a stack.
Stack Vent
To achieve polarity
To size the wire
Parallel Series


20. In a battery set-up - why are protons and electrons positioned on opposite sides?
Combustible Construction
To achieve polarity
When it is complete
Roughing-in


21. A flow of waste - used for sizing plumbing jobs in a plumbing system - equal to one cubic foot per minute.
Sewerage Ejector
Alter or Alteration
To achieve polarity
Fixture Vent


22. Which is better option in considering the placement of building utilities of a building - given that building is with an ample size of lot?
Combustible Construction
Parallel Series
Outside of he building - providing
Sewerage Ejector


23. Structure built - erected and of framed component structural parts.
Administrative Authority
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
Building
Alter or Alteration


24. The principal vent pipe of a system to which vent connections can be made.
Main Vent
Fixture Vent
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Grounding


25. What type of circuit is applicable to a factory?
Combustible Construction
Parallel Series
Diameter
Grounding


26. 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.
Main
P-Trap
Plumbing Unit
Main Vent


27. What is the purpose of the third wire in an electrical system?
Diameter
Main Vent
Grounding
Ohm's Law


28. When is a circuit considered closed?
1 1/2'
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
To achieve polarity
When it is complete


29. Which is better option in considering the placement of building utilities of a building - given that building is with an ample size of lot?
Horizontal Pipe
P-Trap
Outside of he building - providing
When it is complete


30. How do you differentiate a panel board from a service switch?
When it is complete
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch
Fixture Vent
Alter or Alteration


31. What is the characteristic of a device?
Flood Level
Does not consume electricity (ie. switch - convenience outlet)
Development Length
Panel board has limited circuitry compared to a service switch


32. Structure with any part of its structural framework will ignite/burn at 750
The use of security personnel stationed in the entry/exit of the building
To achieve polarity
Combustible Construction
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building


33. The vertical extension of a soil - wastes - or vent system above the highest horizontal drain connected to a stack.
Stack Vent
Plumbing Unit
Main Vent
Height of Building


34. An installed pipe or fitting that forms an angle of less than 45 degrees with the horizontal.
4'
Use of exhaust fan to control odor
Horizontal Pipe
Alter or Alteration


35. The total length of a pipeline measured along the center line and the fittings of the pipe.
To size the wire
Development Length
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)
Horizontal Pipe


36. All water supply - drainage - and venting system and all fixtures and their traps complete with their connections.
Plumbing System
Fixture Vent
Diameter
High quality and specified in PEC (Philippine Electrical Code)


37. What makes DC fluctuate?
Combustible Construction
Administrative Authority
Combustible Construction
When it is already pulsating


38. 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.
Plumbing Unit
Sewerage System
Fixture Supply
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building


39. The nominal commercial designation - normally the inside diameter of the pipe.
Sewerage System
P-Trap
Diameter
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building


40. An electrically or mechanically operated device used to elevate sewage and liquid wastes from a lower level to a point of discharge.
Armor
4'
Sewerage Ejector
Alley


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

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42. Which is a better option in the ventilation of a comfort room placed in a public building?
Providing natural ventilation by placing T&B on external envelope of the building
Sewerage Ejector
Roughing-in
Plumbing System


43. The installation of certain parts of the plumbing system that can be done before installation of the fixtures including drainage - venting - and water supply
Conduit
Roughing-in
P-Trap
Alley


44. A water supply source connecting the fixture and water supply pipe.
Outside of he building - providing
Ohm's Law
Height of Building
Fixture Supply


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

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46. The level at which water begins to overflow the top or rim of a plumbing fixture.
Sewerage Ejector
Flood Level
Alter or Alteration
Conduit


47. More than 3.00m but less than 2.00m
Conduit
Height of Building
Alley
To size the wire


48. 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
4'
Height of Building
Plumbing System
Plumbing Unit


49. The principal vent pipe of a system to which vent connections can be made.
Sewerage Ejector
Plumbing Unit
Main Vent
Fixture Vent


50. 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
Ohm's Law
Development Length
When it is already pulsating
Plumbing Unit