ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND ALLIED SUBJECTS REE APRIL 2019

1.) What is the MOST nearly effective annual interest rate of a loan if the nominal interest
rate is 9% compounded quarterly?
A.) 9.10%
B.) 9%
C.) 9.31%
D.) 8.93%
2.) Which of the following corresponds to the meaning of annuity?
A.) A lump sum at the end of the year.
B.) An annual repayment of the loan.
C.) A series of uniform amounts over a period of time.
D.) The future worth of a present amount.
3.) RA 9136 is ____________.
A.) Electric Power Installation Reform Act
B.) Energy Power Isolation Reform Act
C.) Electric Power Industry Reform Act
D.) Energy Power Institution Reliability Act
4.) When using net present worth calculation in comparing two projects, which of the
following could invalidate the calculation?
ANS: evaluating over a different period of time
5.) What is a borrower of a particular loan almost always required to do during repayment?
ANS: repay the loan over an agreed-upon period of time
6.) Under a very slow deformation and a high temperature, it is possible to have some plastic
to form in a crystal at a shear stress lower than the critical shear stress. What is the
phenomenon called?
A.) slip
B.) twinning
C.) creep
D.) bending
7.) The ability to convert assets to cash quickly is known as _________.
A.) Solvency
B.) Liquidity
C.) Leverage
D.) Insolvency
8.) Who is the current chairman of the Board of EE?
A.) Jaime V. Mendoza
B.) Francis V. Mapile
C.) Gregorio T. Cayetano
D.) Rodolfo B. Peñalosa
9.) Which of the following does not threaten the operation of a computer?
A.) Trojan Horse
B.) Worm
 C.) Firewall
D.) Hacking
10.) Protection of workers from impact penetration from falling and flying objects, blows,
and from limited electric shock and burns shall be provided where there is reasonable
probability of exposure to such hazards.
A.) Hard Hat
B.) Toe Board
C.) Harness
D.) Belt
11.) Also known as PRC Renewal Law
A.) RA 8189
B.) RA 8981
C.) RA 7920
D.) RA 184
12.) Which of the following are NOT examples of nonvolatile memory in the computer
system?
A.) Flash drives
B.) RAMs
C.) Optical disk
D.) Hard drives
13.) What is the term for a deadlock situation that occurs when a program references a
different page for almost every instruction and there is NOT even enough real memory to
hold MOST of the virtual memory?
ANS: thrashing
14.) Which of the following fluorescent luminaires CANNOT be directly mounted?
ANS: framing members
15.) Which of the following does NOT affect owner’s equity?
A.) Dividends paid
B.) Invested Capital
C.) Expense to get license of start business
D.) License to start business
16.) The president of an engineering firm wishes to give each of 50 employees a holiday
bonus. How much is needed to invest monthly for a year in a 12% nominal interest
compounded monthly if every employee will receive a P1000 bonus?
ANS: P3942.44
17.) What is the present worth of a P100 annuity starting on the end of year 3 and
continuing to the end of year 4 if the annual interest rate is 8%?
A.) 120
B.) 153
C.) 122
D.) 160
18.) What metal is used to recover copper from a solution of copper sulphate?
A.) Na
 B.) Ag
C.) Hg
D.) Fe
19.) BIOS stands for
A.) Basic Input Output Society
B.) Basic Input Output System
C.) Base Input Output Society
D.) Base Input Output System
20.) Rule used to determine the sizing and rating of circuit conductors and devices.
A.) manufacturing rule
B.) construction rule
C.) wiring design rule
D.) installation rule
21.) Which of the following is very reactive in its pure form?
A.) Na
B.) He
C.) HCl
D.) CO2
22.) What refers to a system in which there is a flow of mass across its boundaries?
A.) Open system
B.) Closed system
C.) Isolated System
D.) Non flow system
ANS: Open system
23.) What do you call a system in which there is a flow of matter through its boundaries?
This system usually encloses the device involving mass flow like compressor, turbine, or
nozzle.
A.) Closed System
B.) Open System
C.) Isolated System
D.) All of these
24.) An open system first law should be utilized on all of the following except
A.) compressor
B.) a turbine
C.) piston-cylinder device with no inlet/exhaust valves
D.) a nozzle
25.) A thin homogenous metallic plate containing a hole is heated sufficiently to cause
expansion. If the coefficient of surface expansion is linear, the area of the hole will
A.) Increase at twice the rate as the area of the metal increases
B.) Increases at the same rate as the area of the metal increases
C.) Stay the same
D.) Decrease at the same rate as the area of the metal decreases
26.) Combination of laminar and turbulent flow.
A.) critical
B.) continuous
C.) laminar
D.) turbulent
27.) A 40kg-boy walks on a 60kg-log with the speed of 1.5m/s. What is the speed of the
log with respect to the shore?
A.) 1 m/s
B.) 0.36 m/s
C.) 0.4 m/s
D.) 0.6 m/s
28.) A byte is composed of how many bits?
A.) 2
B.) 4
C.) 6
D.) 8
29.) An object that has momentum must also have
A.) acceleration
B.) impulse
C.) kinetic energy
D.) potential energy
30.) In how many years will an investment double in value at 5% simple interest?
A.) 10
B.) 14
C.) 20
D.) 15
31.) A laboratory room keeps a differential vacuum of 0.1kPa. How much force is acting
on a 1m x 2m door?
A.) 400 N
B.) 200 N
C.) 300 N
D.) 150 N
32.) The mathematical expression (1+i) ^ n refers to?
ANS: compound amount factor
33.) What does UPS stand for?
ANS: Uninterruptible Power Supply
34.) Which of the following is the Ideal Gas Law?
A.) V/T = k
B.) P1/T1 = P2/T2
C.) PV = nRT
D.) V = k x 1/P
35.) The binary representation 10101 corresponds to which base ten number?
ANS: 21
36.) How is material usage variance defined?
ANS: (quantity issued – standard quantity) (standard price)
37.) For a fully developed laminar flow of fluids in a pipe, the average velocity is what
fraction of the maximum velocity?
ANS: ½
38.) A Carnot engine operates between 250˚F and 1200˚F. What is the thermal efficiency?
A.) 79.17%
B.) 20.83%
C.) 42.77%
D.) 57.23%
39.) Which of the statements about area moment of inertia is false?
ANS: the areas closest to the axis of interest are the most significant
40.) Ceramics are mostly ______.
A.) carbide
B.) oxides
C.) nitrides
D.) all of the above
41.) In molecules of the same composition, what are the variations of atomic arrangements
known as?
A.) polymers
B.) monomers
C.) isomers
D.) crystal systems
42.) Which of the following statements is false?
ANS: Cold work decreases yield point of the metal
43.) For a completely corrosion-resistant stainless shell, what minimum percentage of
chromium in the alloy is required?
ANS: 11%
44.) What is the definition of normal strain ε? (δ is the elongation, L is the length of the
specimen)
δ
ANS: ε = 𝐿
45.) The vector which represents the sum of a group of force vectors is called the
A.) magnitude
B.) resultant
C.) sum
D.) force polygon
46.) Which of the following is a quasi-equilibrium process?
ANS: Compression of air in a cylinder
47.) Which of the following statements about work for a quasi-equilibrium process is
incorrect?
A.) The differential work is inexact
B.) Work is area under a P-T diagram
 C.) Work is a path function
D.) Work is always zero for a constant-volume process
48.) Air in a conference room is to be conditioned from its present state of 18˚C and 40%
humidity. Select the appropriate conditioning strategy.
ANS: Heat and Humidify
49.) In a certain experiment, argon effuses from a porous cup at 4.0mmol/min. How fast
would chlorine effuse under the same conditions?
A.) 3 mmol/min
B.) 4 mmol/min
C.) 6 mmol/min
D.) 7 mmol/min
50.) What is BASIC stands for?
A.) Basic All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
B.) Basic All-Purpose System Instruction Code
C.) Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
D.) Beginner’s All-Purpose System Instruction Code
ANS: Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
51.) The test used to determine the chemical composition of coal
ANS: ultimate analysis
52.) What law of nature underpins the composition balance of chemical equations
A.) Faraday’s Law
B.) Gay-Lussac’s Law
C.) Second Law of Thermodynamics
D.) First Law of Thermodynamics
ANS: Law of Conservation of Mass
53.) What is true about current flow in multiple paths?
It will only flow in the least value of resistance path.
A.) TRUE
B.) FALSE
C.) Either TRUE or FALSE
D.) Neither TRUE nor FALSE
54.) What is the standard color for Hazardous Safety from Radiation?
ANS: purple with yellow
55.) Creating a reverse chronological text diary that comment on a present every day.
ANS: Blogging
56.) What does PRBEE stands for?
A.) Philippine Regulating Board of Electrical Engineering
B.) Professional Regulatory Board of Electrical Engineering
C.) Philippine Regulatory Board of Electrical Engineering
D.) Professional Regulating Board of Electrical Engineering
57.) Who can become chairperson of CPD counsel?
ANS: member of PRBEE
58.) When an electric circuit controls another electric circuit through a relay, the first
circuit is called
ANS: remote control circuit
59.) Which of the following is not a hazardous practice?
ANS: use of proper tools
60.) All of the following are grounds for revocation of PRC license except
ANS: non-payment of debt
61.) Which of the following is not a requirement for one to be a member of the BEE?
ANS: Person with final conviction by the court of an offense involving moral turpitude
62.) The severity of an electric shock depends on
A.) path of current flow
B.) amount of current flow
C.) duration of current flow
D.) all of the above
63.) What is the process used to eliminate redundancy in database systems?
ANS: normalization
64.) Which are NOT included in the duties and responsibilities of PRBEE?
A.) Supervise and regulate the practice of electrical engineering in the Philippines
B.) Issue special permit to individual foreign electrical engineer and electrician for
specific projects
C.) All of these
D.) Perform such other functions and duties as may be necessary to implement effectivity
of this Act.
65.) What color is used to designate caution limited to warning against starting, use of, or
movement of equipment which are under repair or being worked upon?
A.) Blue
B.) Orange
C.) Red
D.) Yellow
66.) Equation for converting temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit.
9
ANS: 𝑇𝐹 = 5
𝑇𝐶 + 32
67.) Convert 26˚Celsius to Fahrenheit.
ANS: 78.8
68.) Water is pumped at a rate of 10 lps (liters per second) to a height of 10m with an exit
pressure of 137kPa. What is the power of the pump?
ANS: 4 hp
69.) A 100kg-box is raised to a height of 10m in 10 minutes. What is the work done in
raising the box?
ANS: 9800 J
70.) What is the unique state at which solid, liquid, and gaseous phase can coexist in
equilibrium?
ANS: Triple Point
71.) A surfer floats on quiet water (n = 1.33) waiting for a big wave. A shark swims
toward him at a depth of 4m. How close (horizontally) can the shark approach before the
surfer can spot him? The surfer is lying on his board with his eyes close to the water
surface.
A.) 3.5
B.) 5.3
C.) 4.6
D.) 6.4
72.) You accumulated P50,000 is debt. The credit card company charges 18% nominal
annual interest compounded monthly. You can only afford to pay P1,000 per month. How
much will you have to pay as interest?
ANS: P43,111
73.) Consider a project involving an investment of $100,000 now and $100,000 after a
year. Revenues of $150,000 will be generated at the end of year 1 and 2. What is the
present worth of the project if the annual interest rate is 10%?
ANS: $69,420
74.) What annuity of ten-year period at 8% interest rate is equivalent to a present worth of
P100?
ANS: P14.90
75.) What is the effective annual interest rate of a loan if the nominal interest rate is 12%
compounded quarterly?
ANS: 12.55%
76.) How is material purchase variance defined?
ANS: (quantity purchased x actual price) – (quantity purchased x standard price)
77.) What is the minimum branch circuit rating with continuous and non-continuous load?
ANS: 125%, 100%
78.) Circuit breaker derating factor if installed inside an enclosed switchgear.
ANS: 80%