BBUILDING UTILITIES QUESTIONNAIRE

Q.1) A kind of return bend of small-sized faucet, one end of which is about one foot long and
the other end is about three inches. It is commonly used as a faucet for pantry sink and
drinking fountain. Also the lead connection between the service pipe and the water main.
Also a p-trap.
A. Spigot
B. Faucet
C. Tailpiece (your answer)
D. gooseneck (correct answer)
 
Q.2) A fitting or device designed and constructed to provide, when properly vented, a liquid
seal which prevents backflow and passage of foul air and gases without materially
affecting the flow of sewage or wastewater through it.
A. Trap (your answer)
B. Fitting
C. Pipe
D. valve
 
Q.3) Copper as a conductor has the property/properties of being ____.

A. Ductile
B. Malleable
C. A only
D. A and b (your answer)
 
Q.4) Unit of capacitance is _____.
A. Henry
B. Coulomb
C. Farad (your answer)
D. weber
  
Q.5) A factory assembly of two or more insulated conductors having an outer sheath of
moisture-resistant, flame retardant, non metallic material.
A. Service entrance cable (type SE and USE)
B. Shielded non metallic sheathed cable (type SNM )
C. Non metallic sheathed cable (type NM and NMC) (correct answer)
D. Mineral insulated metal sheathed cable (type MI) (your answer)
 
Q.6) A watertight receptacle which the discharge of sanitary plumbing system or part thereof,
designed and constructed to retain solids, digest organic matter through a period of
detention and to allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank through a
system of open jointed subsurface piping or seepage pit.
A. Seepage pit
B. Septic tank (your answer)
 C. Privy vault
D. cesspool
 
Q.7) A continuous belt (chain) attached to the handrail and directly connected to the steps is
known as _____.
A. Endless belt (your answer)
B. Balustrade assembly
C. Sprocket assembly
D. handrail
 
Q.8) These consist of loose fibers or granules and is made from cellulose, fiberglass, rock wool,
cotton or other materials. These materials come in bags and are usually blown into cavities
using special equipment. What are these?
A. Acoustical foams
B. Foam panels
C. Loose fill insulations (your answer)
D. Fireflexes
 
Q.9) A pipe which conveys potable water from the building supply pipe to the plumbing
fixtures and other outlets.
A. Water service pipe
B. Water main
C. Water distributing pipe (your answer)
D. Building and water supply pipe
  
Q.10) A vertical pipe which conveys only wastewater or liquid waste free of fecal matter.
A. Waste pipe
B. Soil pipe (your answer)
C. Soil stack
D. Waste stack (correct answer)
 
Q.11) The over-all covering of underground feeder and branch circuit cables shall be ____.
A. Fungus resistant
B. Corrosion resistant
C. Both a and b (your answer)
D. None of these
 
Q.12) The installation of parts of the plumbing system which can be completed prior to
installation of fixtures or finishing. This includes drainage, water supply and vent piping
and necessary fixture supports.
A. a. Roughing-in (your answer)
B. b. Mock-up installation
C. c. Pre-installation
D. d. setting
 
Q.13) Any pipe which conveys the discharge of water closet, urinal or fixtures having similar
function, with or without the discharges from other fixtures to the building drain or
building sewer.
A. a. Soil pipe (your answer)
 B. b. Waste pipe
C. c. Building drain
D. d. Building sewer
 
Q.14) A common measure of the probable discharge into the drainage system by various types
of plumbing fixtures on the basis of one unit of this being equal to a discarge rate of 7.5
gallons per minute or one cubic foot of water per minute.
A. Flow rate
B. Drainage fixture unit (your answer)
C. Flow pressure
D. Drainage flow
  
Q.15) A vertical length of soil or waste stack at least 8 feet in height (a storey high), within
which the horizontal branches from one storey or floor of the building or structure are
connected to the stack.
A. Fixture branch
B. Branch drain
C. Branch pipe (your answer)
D. Branch interval (correct answer)
 
Q.16) The velocity of sound is affected by _____.
A. Temperature
B. Kind of medium
C. Material density
D. All of the above (your answer)
 
Q.17) Which material would exhibit the highest sound absorption coefficient (SAC) value?
A. Marble
B. Wood
C. Plastic
D. carpet (your answer)
  
Q.18) A circuit type where components are electrically connected end to end.
A. Series circuit (correct answer)
B. Parallel circuit (your answer)
C. Series parallel circuit
D. None of these

Q.19) A pipe connecting upward from a soil or waste stack below the floor and below the
horizontal connection to an adjacent vent stack at a point above the floor and higher than
the highest spill level of fixtures for preventing pressure changes in the stack.
A. Vent stack
B. Yoke vent (your answer)
C. Unit vent
D. Individual vent
 
Q.20) The rustling of leaves in breeze is said to be within the ____.
A. Threshold of hearing (your answer)
B. Threshold of hearing loss
 C. Threshold of inaudibility
D. Threshold of feeling
 
Q.21) The following statements are true with regards to sound except ___.
A. That sound is an aural sensation
B. That sound is caused by oscillation in an elastic medium
C. That sound travels in a vacuum (your answer)
That sound is caused by the vibration of particles which move in an infinitesimal
D.
amount causing particles to impart motion and energy to them
 
Q.22) A suction created by the flow of liquids in pipe, a pressure less than the atmospheric
pressure.
A. Backflow (your answer)
B. Backpressure (correct answer)
C. Siphonage
D. Flow pressure
 
Q.23) A type of resonator made from empty clay vessels of different sizes. Their absorption
ranges from 100-400 hertz.
A. Individual resonator (your answer)
B. Slit resonator
C. Perforated resonator
D. None of the above

Q.24) Light originating from sources not facing each other, as from windows in adjacent walls.
A. Cross Light (your answer)
B. Fan Light
C. Clerestory Light
D. Light Well

Q.25) Minimum vertical distance of VSTR from above of any openable window or opening.
A. 0.30 mtr.
B. 0.40 mtr.
C. 0.60 mtr.
D. 0.90 mtr. (your answer)

Q.26) Minimum horizontal distance of any VSTR from a roofdeck used for other purposes aside
from protection from weather.
A. 2.00 mts.
B. 3.00 mts. (your answer)
C. 4.00 mts.
D. 6.00 mts.

Q.27) A means of producing light from gaseous discharge.

A. Fluorescense (your answer)
B. Phosphoresence
C. Luminance
D. Gas Discharge
  Q.28) Type of lighting system where 90-100% of light output is directed to the ceiling and
 upper
walls of the room.
A. Cove Lighting
B. Indirect Lighting (your answer)
C. Ceiling Accent Lighting
D. Dramatic Lighting

Q.29) An automatic device used for converting high, fluctuating inlet water pressure to a lower
constant pressure.
A. Pressure Regulating Valve (your answer)
B. Relief Valve
C. Release Valve
D. Ball Valve

Q.30) The luminous intensity of any surface in a given direction per unit of projected area.
A. Luminous Flux
B. Luminance (your answer)
C. Foot-Candle
D. Lux

Q.31) Resistance in alternating current system.

A. Conductance (your answer)
B. Impedance (correct answer)
C. Resistivity
D. Capacitance

Q.32) The process of removing calcium and magnesium deposits in water.

A. Distillation
B. Desalination
C. Softening (your answer)
D. Hardening

Q.33) A unit of illumination equivalent to 1 lumen per square foot.

A. Luminous Flux
B. Luminance
C. Foot-Candle (your answer)
D. Lux
 Q.34) The equivalent of filament in a fluorescent lamp.
A. Cathode (your answer)
B. Tungsten
C. Zeolite
D. Burr
 Q.35) A lighting unit consisting of one or more electrical lamps.
A. Flourescent Bulb
B. Incandescent Bulb
C. Luminaire (your answer)
D. Chandelier

Q.36) Lighting used primarily to draw attention to particular points of interest.

 A. Local Lighting (your answer)
B. Accent Lighting (correct answer)
C. Indirect Lighting
D. Cove Lighting

Q.37) The reciprocal of conductance.

A. Conductance
B. Impedance
C. Resistance (your answer)
D. Capacitance

Q.38) Sound system input device that reacts to and converts variable sound pressure into
variable electrical current.
A. Microphone (your answer)
B. Speaker
C. Amplifier
D. Tuner

Q.39) The effective room temperature in air-conditioning.

A. 68-74 ˚F (your answer)
B. 69-77 ˚F
C. 64-78 ˚F
D. 67-78 ˚F

 Q.40) Minimum vertical extension of VSTR from any roofdeck where it is protruded.
A. 1.20 mts.
B. 2.00 mts.
C. 2.10 mts. (your answer)
D. 4.20 mts.

  Q.41) A unit of illumination equivalent to 1 lumen per square meter.

A. Luminous Flux (your answer)
B. Luminance
C. Foot-Candle
D. Lux (correct answer)

Q.42) The rate of flow of sound energy

A. Wavelength
B. Sound Wave
C. Sound Intensity (your answer)
D. Sine Wave

Q.43) A louvered construction divided into cell-like areas and used for redirecting the light
emitted by an overhead source.
A. Box-type
B. Canopy
C. Diffuser
D. Eggcrate (your answer)
Q.44) Minimum extension of a vent stack through roof above the roof.
A. 10 cms.
B. 15 cms. (your answer)
C. 20 cms.
D. 25 cms

Q.45) Under NBC, the minimum width between balusters in an escalator.

A. 558 mm (your answer)
B. 562 mm
C. 585 mm
D. 586 mm
Q.46) Under NBC, the clearance between the underside of the car and the bottom of the pit
shall not be less than ___.
A. 200 mm
B. 300 mm
C. 400 mm
D. 600 mm (your answer)

Q.47) An air-operated device used to open or close a damper or valve.

A. Air Motor (your answer)
B. Air Curtain
C. Air Damper
D. Air Valve

 Q.48) The rate of flow of light through a surface.

A. Luminous Flux (your answer)
B. Luminance
C. Foot-Candle
D. Lux

Q.49) Minimum extension of a vent stack through roof above any other vertical surface.
A. 300 mm (your answer)
B. 400 mm
C. 600 mm
D. 800 mm

Q.50) A type of High-Intensity-Discharge lamp (HID).

A. High-Pressure-Sodium (your answer)
B. Mercury Vapor Lamp
C. Sodium Vapor Lamp
D. High-Pressure Mercury
Q.51) Cables are conductors that are ____.
A. Larger than wires
B. Stranded (no.6 AWG and larger)
C. Both a and b (your answer)
D. None of these
Q.52) The basic elements of an electric circuit are the following except ____.
A. Source
B. Switch (your answer)
 C. Conducting path
D. Electrical load
 
Q.53) It prevents passengers from falling into the hoistway when they try to get out of the car
which is stopped between the floors.
A. Weighing Device
B. Handrail Guard Switches
C. Fascia Plate (your answer)
D. Sheave
 
Q.54) An assembly consisting of a pulley wheel, side plates, shaft, and bearings over which a
cable or roped is passed.
A. Governor
B. Sheave (your answer)
C. Weighing Device
D. Fascia Plate
  
Q.55) A high intensity discharge lamp in which the light is produced by the radiation from a
mixture of a metallic vapor, similar to that of a mercury lamp in construction.
A. Mercury Lamp (your answer)
B. Metal Halide Lamp (correct answer)
C. Tungsten Halogen Lamp
D. High-Pressure-Sodium (HPS)
 
Q.56) Which statement is not true?
A. number of fixture unit is one parameter in sizing a drainage pipe.
B. brass and cast iron body cleanouts shall not be used as a reducer or adapter.
C. 60˚ branches or offsets may be used only when installed in a true vertical positio
D. Wooden septic tanks are allowed. (your answer)
 
Q.57) Collection line of a plumbing system is sometimes referred to as.
A. House Drain (correct answer)
B. House Sewer
C. House Sanitary Drainage
D. House Plumbing System
 Q.58) This switch cuts off all current supply to the escalator for inspection, maintenance, or
repairs.
A. Disconnect Switch (your answer)
B. Knife Switch (correct answer)
C. Limit Switches
D. Current Overload Safety Switch
 
Q.59) One of the earlier plastic to be developed in 1938, a du pont trade name for the white,
soft, waxy, and non-adhesive polymer of tetrafluoroethylene.
A. Teflon (your answer)
B. Solvent
C. O-ring
D. Adhesive
 
Q.60) XHHN in wire specification means.
A. Moisture and Heat Resistant- Cross-Linked Thermosetting (your answer)
B. Moisture resistant, in wet and dry location
C. Heat Resistant in wet and dry location
D. Moisture Resistant Cross-Linked Thermosetting
 
Q.61) This type of perimeter detector detects a change in capacitance of the area covered, caused
by intrusion.
A. Microwave
B. Passive Infrared with Ultrasonic (or Microwave)
C. Proximity / Capacitance (your answer)
D. Ultrasonic
 
Q.62) In a lightning protection system, the combination of a metal rod and its brace or footing,
on the upper part of a structure.
A. Ground Rod
B. Air Terminal (your answer)
C. Lightning Rod
D. Protective Assembly
 
Q.63) This type of perimeter detector uses both the Passive infrared and Ultrasonic or
Microwave system.
A. Microwave
B. Passive Infrared with Ultrasonic (or Microwave) (your answer)
C. Proximity / Capacitance
D. Ultrasonic
Q.64) Of a partition, the number of decibels by which sound is reduced in transmission through
it; a measure of the sound insulation value of the partition, the higher the number, the
greater the insulation value.
A. Transmission Loss (correct answer)
B. Audible Transmission
C. Sabin
D. Decibel Drop (your answer)
 
Q.65) Which statement is not true?
Cleanouts may be omitted on a horizontal drain less than 1.5 meters in length unless
A.
such line is serving sinks or urinals.
no galvanized wrought iron or galvanized steel pipe shall be used underground and
B.
shall be kept at least 15 cms above ground.
C. 1 3/4" diameter is 'not' a commercial size of G.I. Pipe for water supply.
D. 3" diameter is 'not' a commercial size of G.I. Pipe for water supply. (your answer)
 
Q.66) In elevator, it protects the equipment from over current.
A. Circuit Breaker (your answer)
B. Handrail Guard Switches
C. Limit Switches
D. Disconnect Switch
 
Q.67) The cooling effect obtained when 1 ton of ice at 32 oF (0 oC) melts to water at the same
 tmeperature in 24 hrs. (equivalent to 12,000 Btu/hr)
A. Ton of Refrigeration (your answer)
B. HP of Refrigeration
C. Ton of Ventilation
D. HP of Ventilation
 
Q.68) In elevator, it detects the obstacles during the door closing, and reopens the door if there is
something. Photocell can be used together with this.
A. Safety Shoe (your answer)
B. Weighing Device
C. Fascia Plate
D. Handrail Guard
 

Q.69) A type of lamp which produces light by means of the reaction of halogen additive in the
bulb reacts with chemically with tungsten.
A. Mercury Lamp
B. Metal Halide Lamp
C. Tungsten Halogen Lamp (your answer)
D. High-Pressure-Sodium (HPS)
 

Q.70) In escalators, this is located at the bottom truss of the escalator and provided with on and
off positions to stop or prevents the escalator from starting during maintenance service.
A. Circuit Breaker
B. Handrail Guard Switches
C. Limit Switches
D. Disconnect Switch (your answer)
 
Q.71) TW in electrical wire specification means.
A. Moisture and Heat Resistant- Cross-Linked Thermosetting
B. Moisture resistant, in wet and dry location (your answer)
C. Heat Resistant in wet and dry location
D. Moisture Resistant Cross-Linked Thermosetting
 

Q.72) A type of lamp popular for lighting commercial interiors, uses argon gas to ease starting,
it produces light by means of an electric discharge in mercury vapor.
A. Mercury Lamp (your answer)
B. Metal Halide Lamp
C. Tungsten Halogen Lamp
D. High-Pressure-Sodium (HPS)
 
Q.73) The number of cycles per unit time of a wave or oscillations expressed in hertz of cycles
per second.
A. Wavelength
B. Frequency (your answer)
C. Sine Wave
 D. Sound Wave

Q.74) A type of perimeter detector which is subject to false alarm from aircraft radar and from
movement outside building through window, wood doors, and the like. It uses radio
waves.
A. Microwave (your answer)
B. Passive Infrared with Ultrasonic (or Microwave)
C. Proximity / Capacitance
D. Ultrasonic
 

Q.75) This shows the vertical relationships of all panels, feeders, switches, switchboards, and
major components are shown up to, but not including, branch circuiting, it is an electrical
version of a vertical section taken through the building.
A. Panel Diagram
B. Riser Diagram (your answer)
C. Isometric Diagram
D. Load Diagram
 
Q.76) In elevator, it makes the buzzer alarm when the car is overloaded and the door remains
open until overloading is eliminated.
A. Weighing Device (your answer)
B. Handrail Guard Switches
C. Fascia Plate
D. Sheave
 
Q.77) Color code for pipes containing acid.
A. orange
B. yellow
C. red
D. black (your answer)
 
Q.78) This device, in escalators, stops the escalator automatically if an abnormal current is
supplied to the motor.
A. Disconnect Switch
B. Knife Switch
C. Limit Switches
D. Current Overload Safety Switch (your answer)

 
Q.79) The interior bottom surface of a pipe.
A. Crown
B. Spring
C. Dip
D. Invert (your answer)
 
Q.80) A water closet that is sanitary, efficient, and very quiet. Water enters through the rim and
through the down leg.
A. Washdown
B. Reverse Trap
C. Siphon Jet (your answer)
D. Siphon Vortex
 
Q.81) A type of perimeter detector which detects change in sound wave pattern.
A. Light Beam
B. Passive Infrared
C. Ultrasonic (your answer)
D. Laser Zoom
 
Q.82) Women's urinal fixture.
A. Washdown (your answer)
B. Blowout
C. Wash Lavatory
D. Siphon Jet
 
Q.83) Heat that raises air temperature.
A. Latent Heat
B. Sensible Heat (your answer)
C. Anthropomorphic Heat
D. Solar Heat
 
Q.84) A lamp designed to project and diffuse a uniform level of illumination over a large area.
A. Spotlight
B. Floodlight (your answer)
C. Laser Light
D. Uplight
Q.85) A toilet bowl in which the flushing water enters through the rim and a siphonic action
initiated by a water jet draws the contents of the bowl through the trapway.
A. Washdown
B. Reverse Trap
C. Siphon Jet (correct answer)
D. Siphon Vortex (your answer)
 
Q.86) The interior top surface of a pipe.
A. Crown (your answer)
B. Spring
C. Dip
D. Invert
 
Q.87) The concussion and banging noise that results when a volume of water moving in a pipe
suddenly stops or loses momentum.
A. Air Stack
B. Water Hammer (your answer)
C. Water Level
D. Water Flange
 
Q.88) A type of perimeter detector which detects object in heat range of body temperature.
A. Light Beam
B. Passive Infrared (your answer)
C. Ultrasonic
D. Laser Zoom

Q.89) A box with a blank cover which serves the purpose of joining one different runs of
raceways or cables and provided with sufficient space for connection and branching of the
enclosed conductors.
A. Junction Box
B. Pull Box (your answer)
C. Connector Box
D. Octagonal Box
 
Q.90) A valve closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
A. Check Valve
B. Gate Valve
C. Angle Valve
D. Globe Valve (your answer)
Q.91) A type of perimeter detector which detects interruption of light beam.
A. Light Beam
B. Passive Infrared (your answer)
C. Ultrasonic
D. Laser Zoom
 
Q.92) A toilet bowl similar to the siphon-jet, but having the flushing water directed to the rim to
create circular motion or vortex which scours the bowl.
A. Washdown
B. Reverse Trap
C. Siphon Jet
D. Siphon Vortex (your answer)
 
Q.93) What mechanical equipment, coupled with a central air-conditioning system, is used to to
dehumidify and cool the air stream injected to a conditioned space.
A. Condenser
B. Air Handling Unit
C. Fan Coil Unit (your answer)
D. Chiller
 
Q.94) A graph used in air-conditioning and showing the properties of air-system mixtures.
A. Humidity Graph
B. Temperature Grid
C. Psychrometric Chart (your answer)
D. Hydrograph
 
Q.95) An approved assembly of insulated conductors with fitting and conductor terminations in
completely enclosed ventilated protective metal housing where the assembly is designed
to carry fault current and to withstand the magnetic forces of such current.
 A. Raceway
B. Runway
C. Busbar
D. Busway (your answer)
 
Q.96) This type of water closet is similar to that of the siphon-jet except that it has a smaller
trap passageway and smaller water surface area, moderately noisy.
A. Washdown
B. Reverse Trap (your answer)
C. Blowout
D. Siphon Vortex
Q.97) Water closet that is quiet, extremely sanitary, water is directed through the rim. It scours
bowl, folds over into jet; siphon.
A. Washdown
B. Reverse Trap
C. Siphon Jet (your answer)
D. Siphon Vortex (correct answer)
 
Q.98) The transmission of heat energy from one place to another by circulatory movement of a
mass of fluid.
A. Convection (your answer)
B. Radiation
C. Conduction
D. Evaporation
 
Q.99) The centerline of pipe.
A. Crown Weir
B. Spring Line (your answer)
C. Top Dip
D. Invert Line
 
Q.100) A type of water closet that is noisy but highly efficient. Strong jet into up leg forces
contents out. Use only with flush valve, requires higher pressure.
A. Siphon Jet
B. Reverse Trap
C. Blowout (your answer)
D. Siphon Vortex
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