Planning

and
Professional Practice
Taken from UST Architecture Undergraduate Assessment Test (USAT)
by Arch. Jonathan V. Manalad
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1. It is a group of people living in the
same place with the same privileges
under the same rules.
a. Neighborhood
b. Community
c. District
2. It is the art and science of designing,
planning, and structuring elements
and dimensions within the local area.
a. Community architecture
b. Barangay initiative
c. Regional planning
3. Orientation in the community based on
unconsciously memorized sense of
impressions.
a. False
b. Probably
c. True
4. An individual’s capacity to orient
himself to what he feels, smells and
tastes.
a. Sense of place
b. Common sense
c. Sense of belongingness
5. It is the art and science of arranging
and organizing the external physical
environment to accommodate and
support a variety of human behavior.
a. Site planning
b. Site selection
c. Site orientation
6. Item number 5 above, lies along the
boundaries of architecture,
engineering and ____.
a. Surveying
b. City planning
c. Geography
7. The site is not simply a collection of
buildings and streets but a system of
structures, surfaces, spaces, living
things, climates and details.
a. I do not agree
b. I have no idea
c. I agree
8. The site planning process has three
basic stages, which among the
process below is the third stage?
a. Design and implementation
b. User definition/ identification
c. Analysis
9. The site planning process has three
basic stages, which among the
process below is the second stage?
a. Analysis
b. User definition/ identification
c. Design and implementation
10. The site planning process has three
basic stages, which among the
process below is the first stage?
a. Design and implementation
b. Analysis
c. User definition/ identification
11. The scope of site planning does not
include dealing with the environs of a
structure in a lot.
a. I agree
b. I don’t agree
c. I have no idea
12. The scope of site planning deals with
the environs of building complexes.
a. I don’t agree
b. I agree
c. I have no idea
13. The scope of site planning does not
deal anymore with the environs of
housing subdivisions, industrial
estates and the like.
a. I have no idea
b. I agree
c. I don’t agree
14. The scope of site planning deals with
the environs of the urban centers, in
towns, cities and regions in varying
degrees.
a. I don’t agree
b. I agree
c. I have no idea
15. General planning instrument
undertaken within a short or limited
period of time and is usually non-
continuing.
a. project/action plan
b. Long range plan
c. Annual plan
16. General planning instrument
undertaken within a immediate, one-
year period usually undertaken as
provided in the yearly budget of public
or private agencies.
a. project/action plan
b. Long range plan
c. Annual plan
17. General planning instrument
undertaken within 4 to 5 years time
frame, programmed with annual
targets.
a. Long range plan
b. Medium range plan
c. Annual plan
18. General planning instrument
undertaken in 20-30 years span. It
looks beyond the foreground of
pressing current issues to the
perspective of problems in the future.
a. Long range plan
b. Medium range plan
c. Annual plan
19. In procedural steps in site planning,
classification and analysis of data is
done first before surveying and
collecting basic data.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I have no idea
20. In procedural steps in site planning,
classification and analysis of data is
done first before designing and
drawing up of a program.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I have no idea
21. In procedural steps in site planning,
designing or drawing up of a program
is done first before implementation or
execution.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I have no idea
22. In procedural steps in site planning,
feedback and adjustment of the
program is done first before
implementation or execution.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I have no idea
23. Initial personal reconnaissance is an
activity in _____.
a. Data gathering
b. Analysis of data
c. Implementation
24. Analysis of population records,
statistical data and gathered site info
are activities in:
a. Implementation
b. Data gathering
c. Analysis of data
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• Source: USAT 2006 Surveying and Structural Design
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