Q.

1) The Filipino term for collar plate is

A. Hardinera
B. Guililan
C. Sinturon (Your Answer)
D. Soliya
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Q.2) Rough plaster finish obtained by flinging plaster on a wall with a
hand operated machine is
A. Tryolean finish (Your Answer)
B. Trowel finish
C. Broom stripped finish
D. Smooth finish
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Q.3) A wall (bearing or non-bearing) designed to resist lateral forces
parallel to the wall
A. Non-bearing
B. Prefabricated
C. Shear (Your Answer)
D. Grade wall
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Q.4) The boxing in of covering a joist, beam or girder to give the
appearance of a larger beam is known as
A. Beam formworks
B. Beam blocking (Your Answer)
C. Grade beam
D. Girder beam
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Q.5) A system of framing a building on which floor joists of each storey
rest on the top plates of the storey below and the bearing walls and
partitions rest on the subfloor of each storey is known as
A. Balloon framing
B. Flank framing (Your Answer)
C. Western framing (Correct Answer)
D. Floor framing
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Q.6) A roofing tile which has the shape of an S laid on its side is a
A. Mission tile
B. Pantile (Correct Answer)
C. French tile (Your Answer)
D. None of the above
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Q.7) That part of the building foundation which forms the permanent
retaining wall of the structure below grade is a
A. Foundation course
B. Grade beam
C. Foundation wall (Your Answer)
D. Shear wall
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Q.8) The dimension of commercial acoustic boards for aluminum Trunners used for dropped-ceiling in offices is
A. 30 x 60 x 1
B. 24 x 50 x 7/8
C. 24 x 48 x (Correct Answer)
D. 24" x 60" x 1/2" (Your Answer)
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Q.9) Identify which figure is flemish (double stretcher) brickwork.

A. A
B. B
C. C (Your Answer)
D. D (Correct Answer)
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Q.10) Identify which letter in the target is a valley jack rafter?

A. A
B. B (Your Answer)
C. C
D. D
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Q.11) The part of a foundation system which supports the exterior walls of
a superstructure and bears directly on the column footing is a
A. Foundation course
B. Grade wall
C. Foundation wall
D. Grade beam (Your Answer)
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Q.12) A principal member of the truss which extends from one end to the
other primarily to resist bending is a
A. Web member
B. Girt
C. Chord (Your Answer)
D. King post
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Q.13) Dry walls do not require appreciable amount of moisture and they
are customarily finished with
A. Mortar and cement
B. Plywood on studs (Your Answer)
C. Lath and plaster (Correct Answer)
D. Plastering
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Q.14) Identify the miter joint from the following.

A. A (Correct Answer)
B. B (Your Answer)
C. C
D. D
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Q.15) It is necessary to provide _______ to turn back water whenever
joints occur in which dissimilar materials come together.
A. Flashing material (Your Answer)
B. Binding material
C. Counter flushing
D. Covering material
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Q.16) A narrow strip of wood applied to cover a joint along the edges of
two parallel boards in the same plane is a
A. Fillet
B. Cant strip (Your Answer)
C. Batten (Correct Answer)
D. None of the above
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Q.17) Identify which figure is a dado wood joint.

A. A
B. B (Your Answer)
C. C
D. D
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Q.18) The stressing of unbounded tendons after concrete has cured is

A. Pre-tensioning
B. Pre-casting
C. Lift slab
D. Post-tensioning (Your Answer)
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Q.19) The Filipino term for riser
A. Muldura (Your Answer)
B. Takip silipan (Correct Answer)
C. Planehuelda
D. Baytang
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Q.20) The total floor area 16 feet wide by 60 feet deep needs one inch (1)
x 4(commercial size) T & G flooring. Assuming that the available
T & G is 1 x 4 x 16 and the effective width is 3.5 , the total
board feet needed is
A. 1,280 bf (Your Answer)
B. 1,098 bf (Correct Answer)
C. 1,330 bf
D. 1,298 bf
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Q.21) Heat gain through the structure of a habitable room occur in tropical
regions at walls and roofs by conduction. This can be minimized by
the use of
A. Wood (Your Answer)
B. Concrete
C. Steel
D. Plastic
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Q.22) The Filipino term for temper (metal work)
A. Subhan/Subo (Your Answer)
B. Espolon
C. Poleva
D. None of the above
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Q.23) Humidification and condensation in exterior walls can be

minimized by
A. Providing stud space between exterior finish and interior finish
B. Providing building paper sheathing
C. Providing building paper sheathing and space filled(Your Answer)
D. None of the above
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Q.24) A system of framing a building in which the studs are continuous to
roof supporting second floor joints is known as
A. Post and beam (Your Answer)
B. Western framing
C. Balloon framing (Correct Answer)
D. Post and lintel
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Q.25) The horizontal distance from the face of a lock or latch to the center
of the knob or lock cylinder
A. Backset (Your Answer)
B. Backfill
C. Built-up
D. Lockset
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Q.26) A modern method of installing wood parquet flooring on wooden
boards sub-flooring is by
A. Gluing/pasting (Your Answer)
B. Nailing into battens
C. Wainscoting
D. Drilling
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Q.27) Identify which figure is a dado wood joint.

A. A
B. B (Your Answer)
C. C
D. D
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Q.28) a composition of two or more metals fused together usually to
obtain a desired property
A. Annealing
B. Alloy (Your Answer)
C. Built-up
D. None of the above
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Q.29) The Filipino term for plumb line is
A. Pantilya
B. Asintada (Your Answer)
C. Plumbo
D. Hulog (Correct Answer)
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Q.30) In the design of a large shopping centers where space is required,
intervals of columns can be wider than the ordinary by adopting a
structural method of construction called
A. Compressioning
B. Post-tensioning (Your Answer)
C. Pre-casting
D. Pre-tensioning
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Q.31) Using stair tread-riser proportion formula RT = 75, given riser
equals 6 how many risers will there be between two floors
having floor line to floor line distance of 7.8125 feet?

A. 15 (Correct Answer)
B. 17 (Your Answer)
C. 19
D. 20
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Q.32) The standard height of window sills for office rooms in upper floors
is
A. 1.2 meters
B. 0.60 meters (Your Answer)
C. 1.00 meters
D. 0.90 meters (Correct Answer)
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Q.33) A beam that projects beyond one or both its support
A. Continuous
B. Cantiliver (Your Answer)
C. Tie
D. Projecting beam
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Q.34) The Filipino term for horizontal stud is
A. Pabalagbag (Correct Answer)
B. Tahilan (Your Answer)
C. Pilareta
D. Pamakuan
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Q.35) Joint employed to reduce restraint by accommodating movement of
masonry walls are known as
A. Cold joints
B. Control joints (Correct Answer)
C. Block outs
D. Expansion joints (Your Answer)
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Q.36) Wallboards or plywood maybe applied over studs. They can also be
applied over CHB masonry wall by using

A. Wood battens
B. Studs (Your Answer)
C. Sheathing
D. Furring (Correct Answer)
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Q.37) A commercially pure iron of fibrous nature, valued for its corrosion
resistance and ductility is
A. Cast iron
B. Black iron
C. Wrought iron (Your Answer)
D. Heavy iron
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Q.38) Identify which figure is a blind and sub-mortise and tenon joint.

A. A
B. B
C. C (Your Answer)
D. D
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Q.39) A protein: the chief nitrogenous ingredient in milk is
A. Lactose
B. Tempera
C. Alabaster
D. Casein (Your Answer)
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Q.40) A material used to remedy vapor flow
A. Glossy surfaced asphalt saturated paper, 50 lbs or more(Your
Answer)

B. Wall paper
C. Asbestos cement board

D. Cement plaster