MASTER PLUMBER REVIEW

DAY 1 PRE TEST PM

BY: IVAN DIOSO

Test I. DEFINITION OF TERMS

Directions: Provide the correct answer on the space provided before the questions.
1. A pipe or opening used for ensuring the circulation of air in a plumbing system and for relieving the negative
pressure exerted on trap seals
2. Consists of the water service pipe, water supply line, water distributing pipe, fittings, valves and all
appurtenances required for the supply of potable water.
3. The portion of a vent pipe through where waste water also flows.
4. A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and waste water
5. A vertical opening through a building for elevators, dumbwaiters, lights, ventilation and similar purposes
6. A structure used for the deposition of excrement.
7. Water satisfactory for drinking.
8. The normal force exerted by a homogenous liquid or gas, per unit of area on the wall of a container.
9. The art and technique of installing pipes, fixtures, and other apparatuses in buildings for bringing in the
supply, liquids or substances and/or ingredients and removing them.
10. A large opening in a sewer line or part of a plumbing system constructed with sufficient size for a man to gain
access therein for maintenance and purposes and facility for changes of line and/or grade pipeline.
11. A return bend of a small-sized pipe. It is commonly used as a faucet for a pantry sink.
12. A device design to retain grease from one to a maximum of four fixtures
13. The water that stands in or passes through the ground
14. A metallic sleeve, caulked or joined to an opening in a pipe, into which plug is screwed that can be removed
for cleaning or examining the interior pipe.
15. Define Figure shown in B.
16. A vertical vent that is a continuation of the drain to which the vent connects.
17. An impairment of the quality of potable water which creates an actual hazard to the public health through
poisoning or spread of disease. Also considered as High Hazard.
18. A type of pipe connection in which a ball-shaped end is held in a cuplike-shell and allows movement in every
direction.
19. Any two or more similar adjacent fixtures which discharges into a common horizontal waste branch.
20. A flange that closes the end of a pipe. There is no opening for the passage of liquid or gas.
21. Minimum distance of a soil or waste stack corresponding in general to a story height.
22. The pipe carrying a potable water from the water meter or other source of water supply to a building or other
point of use of distribution on the lot.
23. A valve that automatically closes to prevent the flow of liquid or gas in a reverse direction.
24. Minimum provision for percentage slope of pipe.
25. A person technically and legally qualified and licensed to practice the profession of Master Plumbing
26. Also known as faucet, cock, tap or plug.
27. The unobstructed vertical distance between the lowest openings from any pipe to the flood level rim of the
receptor.

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DAY 1 PRE TEST PM
BY: IVAN DIOSO

28. A physical separation, which may be a low inlet into the indirect waste receptor from the fixture, appliance or
device indirectly connected.
29. Any public space or thoroughfare less than three (3) meters but not less than two (2) meters in which
dedicated for public use.
30. A receptacle which receives the discharge of a drainage system or part thereof,
And is designed and so constructed to separate solids from liquids to discharge into the soil through a System
of open-joint or perforated piping, or into a disposal pit.
31. Any part of the piping system other than a main, riser or stack.
32. A non-watertight lined excavation in the ground which receives the discharge of a sanitary drainage systems.
33. A vertical shaft for installation of different pipe stacks
34. The vertical portion of a rainwater conductor.
35. A vent that does not carry liquid of water-borne wastes.
36. Designed to discharge a predetermined quantity of water into fixtures for flushing purposes.
37. A device which discharges a predetermined amount of water into fixtures for flushing purposes
38. It is that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a plumbing system which receives the discharges from soil,
waste and other drainage pipes inside of a house.
39. Define the figure shown in A.
40. A fixture designed for washing the hands or face
41. NAMPAP
42. Are devices, receptacles, or appliances supplied with water or receive liquid or water-borne wastes and
discharge such wastes into drainage system to which they may be directly or indirectly connected.
43. A water supply pipe which extends vertically to one full story or more, to convey water into pipe branches or
plumbing fixtures
44. A suction created by the flow of liquids in pipes.
45. A negative pressure.
46. Any pipe which conveys the discharge of water closet, urinal or fixtures having similar functions.
47. A tee with a branched tapped to receive a threaded pipe or fittings.
48. A portion of a fixture drain between a trap and the vent
49. The minimum vertical depth of liquid that a trap will retain, measured between the crown weir and the top of
the dip of the trap
50. A fitting of device designed and constructed to provide, when properly vented, a liquid seal.

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