Capability Building Course on Environmental Planning

May 11 – 13, 2009, Leyte Park Hotel

May 14 – 15, 2009, University of the Philippines
Tacloban City

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING MOCK EXAMINATION

1. The main plaza and smaller plazas should be surrounded by these principal building:
i. principal church; ii. Royal and Town Council House; iii. Custom-House; iv. Arsenal;
v. Lodging house

a. i, ii, & iii

b. ii, iii & iv
c. iii, iv & v
d. iv, v, & i
e. iv, v & ii

2. The following can be considered as the contribution of the Spanish Period to Philippine planning
knowledge:
i. Intramuros ii. The Plaza Complex iii. The Grid Layout iv. Churches v. Friar lands

a. ii & iii
b. i, ii, iii & iv
c. iii, iv & v
d. iv, v & I
e. iv, v & ii

3. It is the division of the locality into districts to regulate land use in accordance with the
Comprehensive Land Use Plan.
a. Community planning
b. District planning
c. Zoning
d. Area planning

4. Some of the benefits of zoning are as follows:

i. Maximum/optimum use of land based on suitability/capability
ii. Segregation of land uses thereby increasing transport mobility
iii. Facilitation of community planning
iv. Promotion of public health and safety through compatible arrangement of various land uses
v. Promotion of the rational and orderly growth of the community

a. i, ii & iii
b. ii, iii & iv
c. iv, v & I
d. iv, v and ii
e. v, iv, & ii

5. Article XII, Section 6 of the Philippine Constitution provides that, “the use of property bears a social
function and all economic agents shall contribute to the common good, individuals and private
groups, including corporations, cooperatives and similar collective organizations shall have the
right to own, establish and operate economic enterprises subject to the duty of the State to...
a. Promulgate legislative action to mitigate the effects of unbalanced distribution and inequity
b. Promote distributive justice and to intervene when the common good so demands
c. Promote the general welfare of the marginalized groups
d. Implement its own programs of redistribution and social justice

6. Article XIII, Section 1 of the Philippine Constitution states that, “ Congress shall give the highest
priority to the enactment of measures that protect and enhance the right of all people to human
dignity, reduce social and economic inequalities by equitably diffusing wealth and political power
for the common good. To this end, the State shall:
a. Lead the acquisition, ownership use and disposition of property and its increments
b. Empower the disadvantaged community to collectively harness its property resources
c. Regulate the acquisition, ownership, use and disposition of property and its increments
d. Generate opportunities for all sectors to have equal access to land resource
7. The authority to approve and adopt the comprehensive development plan rests on:
a. Office of the Mayor
b. Sangguniang Bayan
c. Planning and Development Office
d. Sangguniang Panlalawigan Secretary

8. PD 1308 defines “environmental planning” as:

a. Activities concerned with the planning and regulation for the management and development of land, as
well as the preservation, conservation, rehabilitation of human settlements, habitats and their natural
environment
b. Activities concerned with the management and development of land, as well as the preservation,
conservation, and rehabilitation of the human environment
c. Act of planning, designing, specifying, supervising and giving general administration and responsible
direction for the growth and development of towns and cities through appropriate land use
d. The art, science and profession of planning, designing and establishing communities in their totality

9. PD 1308 provides that a consulting firm, partnership, company, corporation, or association may
engage in the practice of environmental planning in the Philippines, provided that:
a. At least 75% of the entire Board membership of the entity shall be registered environmental planners
b. At least 70% of the capitalization of the entity is owned by registered environmental planners
c. At least 70% of the entire Board membership of the entity shall be registered environmental planners
and 75% of the total capitalization of the entity is owned by them
d. At least 75% of the entire Board membership of the entity shall be registered environmental planners
and 75% of the total capitalization of the entity is owned by them

10. It is considered one of the local government unit:

a. Barangays
b. ARMM
c. Regional Development Council
d. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority

11. The Plan with which cities and municipalities promotes the general welfare of its inhabitants and
ensures the delivery of basic services and facilities in its capacity as a corporate entity is:
a. Poverty Reduction Action Plan
b. Comprehensive Development Plan
c. Plan for the Youth and the Elderly
d. None of the Above
e. All of the Above

12. The Local Government Code of 1991 mandates that the planning process be:
i. Technocratic ii. Participatory iii. Inclusive iv. Consultative v. Politically-motivated

a. i, ii & iii
b. ii, iii & iv
c. iii, iv & v
d. ii, iv, & v
e. All of the above

13. It is a concept of spatial development that well-articulated and integrated system of growth centers
of different sizes and functional characteristics can play an important role in facilitating more
widespread regional development.
a. Growth pole concept
b. Decentralized territorial approach
c. Functional-spatial integration
d. Smart growth concept

14. In local development planning, it is also called a “term-based Plan”

a. Local Development Investment Program

b. Executive and Legislative Agenda
c. Annual Investment Program
d. 7-Point Executive Agenda
15. Some methods for selecting the preferred spatial strategy or urban form are:
i. Cost-Benefit Analysis ii. Planning Balance Sheet iii. Goal Achievement Matrix
iv. SWOT Analysis

a. i, ii & iii
b. ii, iii & iv
c. iii, iv & v
d. ii, iv & v

15. If the location quotient of an industry in a municipality vis-a-vis the province is more than one (1), it
shows that:
a. the municipality is more specialized than the province as a whole in that type of economic activity
b. the municipality is less specialized in that activity or sector than the province as a whole
c. the activity is equally important in both the municipality and the province

16. HLURB is the sole regulatory body of land use and housing development as provided for under:
a. EO 72
b. RA 7160
c. EO 90
d. None of the above

17. Perroux is to Growth Pole Theory as Dioxiades is to:

a. Industrial Location Theory
b. Patterns of Human Settlements
c. Short-Run Regional Change
d. None of the above

18. The pattern of urban settlement of man is as follows:

a. Urban region, megalopolis, metropolis
b. Village, megalopolis, town
c. Village, city, urban region
d. None of the above

19. Which of the following cities is considered a global city?

a. New York
b. Taiwan
c. Seoul
d. None of the above

20. The City of Manila was a “Plaza Complex” during the:

a. Commonwealth Period
b. Japanese Occupation
c. Spanish Colonization
d. American Era
e. None of the above

21. Planning at the local level:

a. Is multi-objective and tends to be economic in content
b. Deals with problems of communities with its area
c. Deals with fundamental physical problems of the region
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

22. PD 1216 is the law pertaining to:

a. Fisheries Code of 1998
b. PRC Modernization Law
c. Solid Waste Management Act
d. Defining “Open Spaces” in Residential Subdivision
e. None of the above
23. Which of the following force/s contribute/s to changes in the global system of cities:
a. Competition among cities; technical change
b. Globalization; informational economy
c. Environment; demography
d. Privatization; deregulation
e. All the above
f. None of the above

24. What is meant by “Growth Corridors”?

a. A particular form of de-concentration
b. Cities immediately below the global level
c. Global cities

25. What are the type/s of Regions?

a. Allocative and innovative
b. Formal and functional
c. Basic and non-basic
d. None of the above

26. Inter-regional growth may be analyzed using which the following?

a. Input-Output Analysis
b. Regional Accounts
c. Economic Base Theory
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

27. Which of the following is/are important factor/s in regional development?

a. Housing
b. Transportation
c. Education
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

28. What is/are the elements of Human Settlements?

a. Micro-space, middle-scale, macro-scale
b. Nature, man, society, shells, networks
c. Production, mobility, communication
d. None of the above

29. Which of the following may be considered “Political communities”?

a. Territorial communities
b. Cultural associations
c. People of a collective entity
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

30. The Central Place Theory was authored by:

a. Leontieff
b. Weber
c. Christaller
d. Hall
e. None of the above

31. A limitation of Growth Pole Theory is:

a. No “trickling down” effect
b. The leading industry may decline
c. Concentration of investment in specific growth points
d. None of the above

32. What is the growth factor of industrial towns?

a. Population change b. Expanding commercial activity
d. Economic change d. None of the above e. All of the above
33. RA 7586 is otherwise known as the:
a. Comprehensive and Integrated Shelter Financing Act of 1994
b. Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law
c. National Integrated Protected Areas System
d. None of the above

34. Indigenous People’s Rights Act is the title of which legal issuance?
a. PD 957
b. EO 71
c. RA 7279
d. RA 8371
e. None of the above

36. Which of the following is not a component of the Rationalized Local Planning System?
a. Local Planning Structure
b. Planning Process
c. CLUP and CDP
d. Tools/ Authority Levers for Plan Implementation
e. Provincial/Local Planning and Expenditure Management

37. One of characteristic of the current planning system is the weakness or absence of plan-to-budget
linkage. Under the Rationalized Local Planning System, it is a list of projects, projects and activities
for planned financing:
a. Local Expenditure Program
b. Local Development Investment Program
c. Synchronized Local Planning and Budgeting Calendar
d. None of the above

38. What section of RA 7160 may be used as a template for determining “ownership” of programs and
projects for local financing?
a. Section 106 – Local Development Council
b. Section 17 – Basic Services and Facilities
c. Section 111 – Executive Committee
d. Section 16 – General Welfare

39. The functions of the Local Development Council include the following:
i. Formulate long-term, medium-term, and annual socio-economic development plans and policies
ii. Appraise and prioritize socio-economic development programs and projects
iii. Coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the implementation of development programs and projects
iv. Prepare the executive budget for the ensuing fiscal year

a. i, ii, & iii b. ii, iii & iv c. iii, iv & I d. iv, ii & i

40. Section 106 of the Local Government Code provides that, “(e)ach local government unit shall have a
comprehensive multi-sectoral development plan to be initiated by its development council and
approved by its sanggunian. For this purpose, the development council at the provincial, city,
municipal, or barangay level, shall assist the corresponding sanggunian in setting the direction of
economic and social development, and coordinating development efforts within its territorial
jurisdiction. This local government body is the highest policy-making body in the LGU.
a. Local Development Council
b. Local Sanggunian (Bayan, Panlalawigan or Panglungsod)
c. Local Planning and Development Office
d. Local Finance Committee

41. The territorial jurisdiction of any local government territory may be classified into three major
“divisions”. These are:
a. Ancestral Domain, Strategic Agricultural and Fisheries Development Zone and Timberlands
b. Ancestral Domain, Lands of the Public Domain, Coastal Management Zone
c. Lands of the Private Domain, Ancestral Domain and Lands of the Public Domain
d. Forest Lands, Settlement Areas and Infrastructure Areas
42. What are some of the tools/authority levers for implementing the CLUP?
a. Building Code
b. Local Development Investment Program
c. Water Code
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

43. Planning is a cyclical and iterative process. What step in the multi-sectoral planning process serves
as the link between a “successor” and “predecessor” plan, or the link between two planning cycles:
a. Investment Programming
b. Determining the Vision- Reality Gap
c. Plan Monitoring and Evaluation
d. Budgeting

44. Along with the Network of Protected Areas for Agriculture and Agro – Industrial Development
(NPAAAD), it provides the physical basis for the proper planning of sustainable agriculture and
fishery development and in the identification of suitable crops, livestock and fish that can be
economically grown and commercially developed for local and international markets without
creating irreversible environmental and human health problems.
a. Watershed Areas
b. Integrated Area Development
c. Comprehensive Land Use Plan
d. Strategic Agriculture and Fishery Development Zone

45. Input – output Analysis describes the flow of goods from:

a. the consumers to manufacturers
b. the manufacturers to the consumers
c. the primary suppliers to manufactures to the consumers
d. the primary suppliers to the consumers

46. The structure of the local economy is divided into the following sectors:
a. Primary, secondary and economic development sectors
b. Agricultural, fisheries and manufacturing
c. Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors
d. Secondary, insurance and services sectors

47. This is derived from the police power of the state which vests in the legislative body the power to
make, ordain and establish reasonable laws, statues or ordinances to promote the general welfare.
a. power to plan
b. power to tax
c. power to zone
d. power to the people
e. power to serve

51. The Philippine Constitution states that, “Congress shall give the highest priority to the enactment of
measures that protect and enhance the right of all people to human dignity, reduce social and
economic inequalities by equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good. To
this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition, ownership, use and disposition of property and its
increments. Which of the regulatory powers is devolved to the local government units?
a. Acquisition
b. Ownership
c. Use
d. disposition

52. The reclassification of land from agricultural to other urban use is allowed under Section 20 of the Local
Government Code of 1991 under the following conditions:
i. when the land ceases to be economically feasible and sound for agricultural purposes as determined by
the Department of Agriculture;
ii. where the land shall have substantially greater economic value for residential, commercial, or industrial
purposes, as determined by the sanggunian;
iii. when the Provincial Governor so desires;
 iv. when the President of the Philippines declares such reclassification
a. i & ii
b. ii &iii
c. iii & iv
d. i & iv

51. Reclassification of agricultural land shall be limited to the following percentage of the total
agricultural land area in highly urbanized and independent component cities at the time of the
passage of the ordinance:
a. 20%
b. 25%
c. 15%
d. 30%

52. These are dwelling units completely surrounded by yards.

a. single – detached units
b. single – attached units
c. duplexes
d. townhouses
e. medium – rise units

53. This refers to land occupied, possessed and utilized by individuals, families and clans who are
members of the Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial, by
themselves or through their predecessors-in-interest, under claims of individual or traditional group
ownership to the present except when interrupted by war, force majeure or displacement by force,
deceit, stealth, or as a consequence of government projects and other voluntary dealings entered
into by government and private individuals/corporations, including, but not limited to, residential
lots, rice terraces or paddies, private forests, swidden farms and tree lots
a. Ancestral lands
b. Ancestral domain
c. Cultural and Heritage Zones
d. Historical Sites

54. It is the classification and administration of all designated protected areas to maintain essential
ecological processes and life-support systems, to preserve genetic diversity, to ensure sustainable
use of resources found therein, and to maintain their natural conditions to the greatest extent
possible.
a. Philippine Agenda 21
b. National Integrated Protected Areas Systems (NIPAS)
c. Sustainable Land Use Development Plan
d. Ecological Profile

55. They are areas of national significance which are characterized by the harmonious interaction of
man and land while providing opportunities for public enjoyment through recreation and tourism
within the normal lifestyle and economic activity of these areas.
a. Protected landscapes/seascapes
b. Ecotourism Development Zones
c. Coastal and Tourism Development Areas
d. None of the above

56. The agency responsible for the housing program that caters to the lowest 30% income level of the
Philippine population is the:
a. Local Housing Board
b. Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board
c. Housing and Urban Development Council
d. National Housing Authority

57. How many administrative regions does the Philippines have?

a. 12
b. 13
c. 15
d. 17
58. It is an approach to understanding the Environment and Natural Resources Sector adopts the
organizational structure of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) wherein
one bureau corresponds to one sector:
a. Parametric approach
b. Sectoral Approach
c. Ecosystem Approach
d. None of the above

59. Which of the following are not ecosystems?

i. Coastal/Marine ii. Forest iii. Biodiversity iv. Mines v. Lowland

a. i & ii
b. ii & iii
c. iii & iv
d. iv & v

60. It means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the
instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities,
groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage”.
a. Museum development
b. Intangible heritage
c. Eco-cultural tourism
d. All of the above

61. It is the modification, including adaptive re-use, of resource to meet various functional
requirements such as safety, property protection and access while preserving the historic
character of the structure.
a. Reconstruction
b. Restoration
c. Rehabilitation
d. Redevelopment

62. The Philippines boasts of a number of World Heritage Sites. Identify from among the list below
one that is not.
a. Banaue Rice Terraces
b. Baroque Churches
c. Tubbataha Reef Marine Park
d. Fort Santiago

63. A type of ecozone that is nearby ports of entry, such as seaports and airports. Imported goods
may be unloaded, repacked, sorted and manipulated without being subjected to import duties.
a. Tourism and Commercial Zones
b. Export Processing Zones
c. Freeport
d. None of the above

64. Sex ratio is defined as:

a. The number of females divided by the number of males times 100
b. The number of males divided by the number of females times 1,000
c. The number of males divided by the number females times 100
d. The number of females divided by the number of males time 1,000

65. RA 7356 created this body to oversee the protection, preservation and enhancement of Philippine
cultural heritage.
a. National Commission on Culture and Heritage Conservation
b. National Committee on Historical and Cultural Preservation
c. National Historical Institute
d. National Commission on Culture and Arts

66. Ekistics as developed by Doxiadis refers to the science of:

a. Urban planning
b. Regional planning
c. Comprehensive land use planning
d. Human settlements
 67. The following are the elements of ekistics in order of priority after nature:
a. Society, man, networks
b. Man, society, shells, networks
c. Land, man, shells, networks
d. Society, land, networks

68. It is the largest unit in the political structure of the Philippines

a. Metro Manila
b. Region
c. Province
d. Municipality

69. The location quotient of a locality may be measured using these variables:
a. Number of teachers, medical personnel and firemen
b. Number of establishments with locational clearance
c. Number of employment, number of establishments, investments
d. All of the above

70. RA 7160 refers to:

a. The National Building Code
b. The Administrative Code of the Philippines
c. The Local Government Code of 1991
d. The Revenue Code

71. The Neocolonial-Dependence Model refers to:

a. Inappropriate advise of foreign experts

b. Divergence between the rich and the poor
c. Unequal power relationship between developed countries and the LDCs
d. All of the above

72. On the other hand, the Dualistic-Development Thesis refers to:

a. Divergence between the rich and the poor

b. Unequal power relationship between developed countries and the LDCs
c. Relationship between urban and rural areas on the overall development of the economy
d. All of the above

73. The Neo-Classical Counter Revolution refers to:

a. Incorrect pricing policies

b. Too much state intervention
c. Corruption
d. Government inefficiencies
e. All of the above

74. The formula Pt (1 + r/100)n is used to calculate what population formula?

a. Birth rate
b. Population growth rate
c. Population projection in target future year
d. All of the above

75. Determine the primary school-age population (6-10) using the interpolation method

Age Bracket Population

5-9 3,650
10-14 5,897
15-19 4,337
20-24 6,949