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Master Plumber 7
Master Plumber 7
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Q.1) Of the four board subjects given for Master Plumbers examination, which of this subject was
originally split into two subjects?
A. Plumbing Code
B. Design and Installations
C. Plumbing Arithmetic (Your Answer)
D. Practical Problems (Correct Answer)
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Q.2) Copper tube and fittings used for drainage and vent piping installed aboveground shall be at
least ____.
Q.4) Unions shall be installed in a water supply system within ____ to a water heater
A. 36 inches
B. 12 inches (Your Answer)
C. 24 inches
D. 48 inches
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Q.5) A branch line serving a trap in a combination waste and vent system is required to be separately
vented when the length of the branch exceeds ____.
A. 15 (Your Answer)
B. 10
C. 5
D. 25
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Q.6) Three-inch horizontal drainage piping shall be run in practical alignment and at a uniform slope
of not less than ____.
Q.7) The minimum requirement for the slope of horizontal drainage pipes between manholes is
A. 4%
B. 2-1/2 %
C. 2% (Your Answer)
D. 3%
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Q.8) A drain connecting the compartments of a set of fixtures to its trap is called a(an) ____.
Q.9) The maximum number of lavatories on a 2-1/2 inch horizontal waste line is ____.
A. 10
B. 14 (Correct Answer)
C. 20
D. 6
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Q.10) The maximum distance a gas shutoff valve may be from a gas appliance (except for range and
dryer connectors) is ____.
Q.12) In the water test of the entire plumbing system all openings should be tightly closed except at
A. protruding cleanouts
B. bleeders
C. stack vent
D. highest opening (Your Answer)
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Q.13) Because of structural conditions, a 4-inch house drain is installed with a slope of 1/8 inch per
foot. This installation will result in a(an) ____.
A. increased scouring and cleansing action
B. reduction in fixture unit loading allowance (Correct Answer)
C. separation of solids and liquid (Your Answer)
D. increased allowance in fixture unit loading
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A. water closet
B. domestic kitchen sink
C. drinking fountain (Your Answer)
D. lavatory
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A. plaster
B. cast-iron
C. bell
D. grease (Your Answer)
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Q.16) Chemical or industrial liquid wastes that are likely to damage the public sanitary sewer system
shall ____.
Q.18) Hub and spigot cast-iron piping in 10-foot lengths, installed horizontally, shall be supported at
intervals of not more than ____.
Q.19) Water heater vents terminate above a roof surface at least ____ from a vertical wall.
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A. 12 inches (Correct Answer)
B. 6 inches (Your Answer)
C. 8 feet
D. 3 feet
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Q.20) The distance from the center of a water closet to any side wall or partition shall not be closer
than ____.
A. steel pipe
B. indirect wastes (Your Answer)
C. yoke venting
D. bell traps
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Q.22) Joints at the roof around pipes shall be made watertight by the use of ____.
A. epoxy glue
B. flashings (Your Answer)
C. waterproof paint
D. tar and paper
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Q.23) A device to prevent backflow into the potable water system is called a ____.
A. backflow connection
B. siphon leg
C. backflow preventer (Your Answer)
D. back-siphonage
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Q.24) Building sewers shall be tested by completely filling the sewer with water from the ____.
Q.26) Cleanouts may be omitted on a horizontal drain line less than 5 feet except for ____.
A. bathtubs
B. water closets (Your Answer)
C. sinks (Correct Answer)
D. showers
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Q.27) Except for plastic piping systems, hot and cold water piping may be tested with ____.
Q.28) The depth of the finished dam of threshold for any shower, measured from the top of the drain,
shall not be less than ____.
Q.29) The vent for a kitchen sink serves as a drain for a laundry tub. The size of the wet-vented section
is ____.
Q.30) Gas piping with pressure less than 1/4-inch water column shall stand an air test of ____.
A. 50 psi
B. 30 psi
C. 15 psi (Your Answer)
D. not less than 3 psi (Correct Answer)
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Q.31) Under no circumstances may gas appliance pressure regulators be vented ____.
Q.32) A water heater vent may have one offset of not more than 60 degrees from the ____.
A. heater
B. horizontal (Your Answer)
C. roof
D. vertical (Correct Answer)
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Q.33) The aggregate cross-sectional area of all vents for a system with a required 4-inch sewer shall be
at least ____.
Q.34) That portion of a venting system that connects a water heater to a vent is a ____.
A. chimney connector
B. vent connector (Correct Answer)
C. Type B vent (Your Answer)
D. vent
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Q.35) The minimum size of gas piping supply to a mobile home is ____.
Q.36) Pilots and burners of gas-fired water heaters (except sealed combustion chambers) in residential
garages shall be ____ above the floor level.
A. 24 inches
B. 12 inches
C. 18 inches (Correct Answer)
D. 6 inches (Your Answer)
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Q.37) PEX piping installed horizontally must be supported every ____ inches.
A. 48
B. 24
C. 36 (Your Answer)
D. 32 (Correct Answer)
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Q.38) One trap may serve a set of not more than ____.
Q.40) The minimum size waste pipe for a residential kitchen sink is ____.
A. 3 inches
B. 2-1/2 inches
C. 2 inches (Correct Answer)
D. 1-1/2 inches (Your Answer)
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Q.41) Each drainage stack that extends 10 or more stories above the building drain shall be served by ____.
Q.42) All trenches deeper than the footing of any building or structure and paralleling the same must be at
least ____.
A. 2 feet deep
B. 45 degrees therefrom (Your Answer)
C. 4 feet thereon
D. 2 feet wide
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Q.43) Above ground schedule 40 PVC and ABS DWV plastic piping installed horizontally shall be
supported at intervals of no to exceed ____.
A. 10 feet
B. 6 feet
C. 2 feet (Your Answer)
D. 4 feet (Correct Answer)
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Q.44) Three-quarter inch or 1-inch gas piping installed horizontally shall be supported at intervals not to
exceed ____.
A. 6 feet
B. 4 feet
C. 8 feet (Correct Answer)
D. 5 feet
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Q.45) The terminal end of the drain for a pressure-relief valve shall not be ____.
A. painted
B. reamed
C. threaded (Correct Answer)
D. open (Your Answer)
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Q.46) One material not approved for the installation of an external trap for a urinal is ____.
A. ABS
B. cast brass
C. drawn-brass tubing traps (Correct Answer)
D. cast iron (Your Answer)
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Q.47) The minimum common horizontal waste pipe serving a bathtub, a lavatory, and a kitchen sink shall be
at least ____.
A. 3 inches
B. 1 -1/2 inches (Your Answer)
C. 2 - 1/2 inches
D. 2 inches (Correct Answer)
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A. welded
B. bell and spigot
C. threaded (Your Answer)
D. soldered
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Q.50) The tailpiece for a lavatory shall not be less than ____.
Q.51) Unless serving sinks or urinals, cleanouts may be omitted on a horizontal drain line that is
Q.52) What kind of concealed connections on fixtures that it is required to provide an access panel or
utility at least 0.3 meter in its least dimension for easy inspection and repair?
Q.53) The sizing of gas vents for category II, III and IV shall be in accordance with ____.
Q.54) For a vertical drainage line that is installed to be truly in vertical position, what is the allowed
degree of the branch to be used?
A. 15
B. 60 (Your Answer)
C. 45
D. 22.5
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Q.55) The developed length between the trap of a water closet and its vent shall not exceed ____.
A. 4 feet
B. 12 inches (Your Answer)
C. 30 inches
D. 6 feet (Correct Answer)
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Q.56) Single-wall metal pipe shall terminate at least 5 feet in vertical height above the highest connected
equipment ____.
Q.57) When sizing a copper fuel-gas piping system that has an inlet pressure of less than 2 psi with a
pressure drop of 0.3 inch w.c., the maximum cubic feet per hour of gas flow allowed through a 5/8-
inch O.D. ACR tube 75 feet in developed length is ____.
A. 13
B. 48 (Your Answer)
C. 27 (Correct Answer)
D. 68
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Q.58) No trap for any clothes washer standpipe shall be installed ____.
A. 50 feet
B. 60 feet (Correct Answer)
C. 20 feet (Your Answer)
D. 30 feet
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Q.61) What is the minimum age requirement for an appointee to become a member of the Board of Master
Plumbers?
Q.62) The minimum horizontal distance between a water supply well and the building sewer is ____.
Q.63) Fixture traps shall have a water seal of not less than ____.
A. 12 inches
B. 2 inches (Your Answer)
C. 6 inches
D. 4 inches
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Q.65) A refrigerator used to store food and that requires drainage shall be drained by means of ____.
Q.66) No water heater (except direct vent water heaters and fuel burning water heaters installed in a
closet with a listed, gasketed door assembly and listed self-closing device) that depends on the
combustion of fuel for heat shall be installed in any ____.
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A. garage
B. kitchen
C. basement (Your Answer)
D. bedroom (Correct Answer)
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Q.67) The building sewer shall be determined on the basis of the total number of fixture units drained by
such sewer in accordance with ____.
Q.68) Soil and drain pipes located above food-handling establishments shall be subjected to a standing
water test of not less than ____ feet.
A. 12
B. 25
C. 10 (Correct Answer)
D. 15
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Q.69) A vent in a combination waste and vent system shall be approximately equal in area to one-half the
____.
A. 8 x 12 access panel
B. 10 x 12 access panel
C. 12 x 12 access panel (Your Answer)
D. 18 x 18 access panel
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Q.71) Water service pipes, or any underground water pipes, shall not be run or laid in the same trench with
____.
Q.72) Sewer or other drainage piping that shall no be installed under or within 2 feet of any building or
structure is ____.
A. ABS
B. cast iron
C. asbestos cement (Correct Answer)
D. copper (Your Answer)
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Q.73) In each run of horizontal drain piping, the distance between cleanouts shall not exceed ____.
Q.74) A type B-W gas vent shall terminate at least ____ feet in vertical height above the bottom of the
wall furnace
A. 6 (Your Answer)
B. 12 (Correct Answer)
C. 8
D. 4
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Q.75) The minimum size trap and trap arm for a kitchen sink is ____.
Q.76) Sleeves shall be provided to protect all piping through ____ and ____ walls.
A. used belowground
B. painted
C. used for drain lines
D. threaded (Correct Answer)
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Q.78) Single-wall metal pipe shall be constructed of ____ not less than 0.0304 inch thick.
Q.79) The maximum horizontal distance of a trap arm is measured from the inner edge of the vent to the
____.
A. outlet
B. weir of the trap (Your Answer)
C. dip
D. inlet
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Q.80) The vertical distance between a fixture outlet and the trap weir shall not exceed ____.
A. 18 inches
B. 36 inches
C. 12 inches (Correct Answer)
D. 24 inches (Your Answer)
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Q.81) Nonmetallic shower sub-pans or linings may be built up on the job site of not less than ____.
Q.82) The developed length of 1-1/2-inch trap arms shall not exceed ____.
A. 2 feet, 8 inches
B. 5 feet
C. 6 feet
D. 3 feet, 6 inches (Your Answer)
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Q.83) A water system containing storage water-heating equipment will require a ____.
Q.85) Water closet tank ballcocks shall be installed with the vacuum breaker critical level at least ____.
Q.87) Ferrous gas piping installed underground in exterior locations shall have at least ____.
Q.88) Minimum clearance of listed appliances to any combustible wall or partition is ____.
A. 8 inches
B. 1 inch
C. specified in listing or rating plate and NFPA 211 Standard (Your Answer)
D. 3 inches
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Q.90) A fixture vent pipe increased one pipe size its entire length ____.
A. may exceed the maximum horizontal length limited by code (Your Answer)
B. will be a better workmanship job
C. will increase the venting efficiency
D. will reduce the cost of installation
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Q.91) Vitrified clay building sewer pipe and fittings are ____.
Q.92) Sheet metal, constituting a part of any vent connector, shall be at least ____.