SAMPLE QUESTIONs

Prepared by Arch. Angelo Amor

Macayana UAP

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
1. The process of removing calcium
and magnesium deposits in water is
called:
a. Laundering
b. Softening
c. Filtration
d. fluoridation

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
2. Water containing water closet
or urinal waste is
a. Grey water
b. Black water
c. Effluent
d. Potable water

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
3. The most common individual
sewage treatment system
a. Septic tank
b. Seepage pit
c. Treatment plant
d. Sewer line

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
4. Treated or partially treated
sewage flowing out of a sewage
treatment equipment.
a. Effluent

b. Affluent
c. Black water
d. Influent

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
5. The vertical main of a
plumbing system of soil, waste,
or vent piping extending through
one or more storeys.
a. Main pipe
b. Main Sewer
c. Stack Pipe
d. Main branch

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
6. A sewer used for convents rain
or surface or subsurface water.

a. House sewer
b. Storm sewer
c. Sewer Pipe
d. Main branch

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
7.

A plumbing fitting or device designed

to provide a liquid seal that will prevent a
fluid from passing back to where it came
from
a. Sewage Ejection
b. Check valve
c. Floor drain
d. Trap

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
8. Vertical pipes which receive
the discharge from water closet
a. Branch pipe
b. Soil pipe
c. Soil Stack Pipe
d. Below grade tank

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
9. A pipe in a plumbing system
where it is open to the
atmosphere
a. Stub-out
b. Vent
c. Trap
d. Stack

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
10.

The ideal Slope of a horizontal

drain pipe is from 1% to

a. 2%
b. 3%
c. 4%
d. 5%

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
11. It is the universal fire
fighting medium
a. Water
b. Fire extinguisher
c. Sprinkler
d. Fire Dept.

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
12. In the figure 1 identify the
building Cutoff Valve.
a. Figure A
b. Figure B
c. Figure C
d. Figure D
e. Figure E

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
13. What type of UPVC pipe would
you recommend for downspouts to
cut down on costs?
a. Series 600
b. Series 1000
c. Series 300
d. All of these

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
14. One of the first steps in the
selection of a suitable water
supply source is:
a. water (potability)
b. topography
c. budgetary cost
d. water (demand)

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
15. Sump pump is for:
a. Pumping special mine tailings
b. Pumping sumptuous liquid materials
c. Pumping up effluent and waste
water to a higher level
d. Pumping abrasive liquid material

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
16. Shallow water well, when
excavated by hand is called:
a. Dug wells
b. Drilled wells
c. Driven wells
d. Deep wells

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
17. The location of water well to
nearest septic vault should at
least be:
a. 5 meters or more
b. 10 meters or more
c. 15 feet or more
d. 15 meters or more

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
18. Also called as back-pressure
valve, reflux valve: a valve that
automatically closes to prevent the
flow of liquid or gas in a reverse
direction.
a. Key Valve

b. Compression Valve
c. Check Valve
d. Ball Valve

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
19. Hose bibb has a mouth that is:

a. Welded on
b. Multi-directional
c. Flexible
d. Projecting by 2 longer

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
20. The usual life-span for Galvanized
Iron Pipes is
a. 15-20 years
b. 5-10 years
c. 50 years
d. None of these

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
21. The standard/commercial length
for UPVC pipes is:
a. 50 feet
b. 3 feet
c. 8 feet
d. 10 feet

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
22. According to the National
Plumbing Code, a septic tank will not
be required when there is a:
a. Existing canal at roadside
b. Public Sewerage Line
c. Public Sewer Line
d. All of the above

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
23. Which of the following is not a
method of water distribution for
buildings
a. Aeration system
b. Upfeed system
c. Downfeed speed system
d. Pneumatic tank System

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
24. The commercial length for
galvanized iron pipes
a. 6000 mm
b. 600 mm
c. 18 feet
d. 3000 mm

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
25. The size of a PVC pipe is based on
its
a. Radius
b. outer diameter
c. inner diameter
d. perimeter

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
26. The end of a pipe which fits into a
hub
a. Seal
b. spigot
c. bell
d. flange

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
27. A 1/8 bend PVC fitting is how
many degrees?
a. 90
b. 30
c. 25
d. 45

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
28. An opening or space to
accommodate a group of pipes:
a. Duct
b. chase
c. Pipe Chase
d. Chute

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
29. Which of the following fittings is
not allowed by the National Plumbing
Code for changes in direction of
horizontal soil or waste lines:
a. Cross tee
b. reducing wye
c. 45 degree elbow
d. garage traps

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
30. A type of trap required for
kitchens of hotels, restaurants, or
similar public eating places:
a. P-trap
b. S-trap
c. grease trap
d. drum traps

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
31. UPVC potable water pipes are
use-joined using:
a. Solvent cement
b. contact cement
c. marine epoxy
d. Vulcaseal
e. Lead and oakum

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
32. In figure A. what fitting is item 1

a. Extension piece
b. Nipple
c. Bushing
d. Union

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
33. Identify item 2 in figure A.

a. Bushing
b. Nipple
c. Union
d. Coupling

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
34.

Wastes from laundries, wash

basins, sinks, showers and bath tubs:
a. black water
b. sludge
c. storm water
d. gray water

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
35.

The lowest horizontal piping

system which receives the discharge
from soil, waste and other drainage
pipes inside of a building:
a. House trap
b. House drain
c. Public Sewer
d. all the above

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
36. . The vertical distance between
the dip and the crown wire of a trap:

a. spigot
b. trap
c. seal
d. duct

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
37. A type of valve used to prevent
overflow of liquid in tanks

a. gate valve
b. float valve
c. check valve
d. all of these

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
38. In figure B. Identify the fitting for
this type of G.I. pipe connection

a. elbow
b. union
c. straight elbow
d. Street elbow

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
39. A type of sewage disposal system
that is a hole in the ground with stones
and bricks laid in such a manner that
allow raw contaminated sewage to
leach into the undersurface of the
ground:
a. Privy
b. cesspool
c. catch basin
d. manhole

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
40. A fitting for closing the end of a
pipe

a. cap
b. plug
c. male adapter
d. None of these

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
41. A portion of a pipe which, for a
short distance is sufficiently enlarged
to receive the end of another pipe of
the same diameter for the purpose of
a. hub joint:
making
b. union
c. spigot
d. coupling

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
42. The design, construction and
operation of deepwells for abstraction
of groundwater
a. National Plumbing Code of the Phils.
b. Philippine water code
c. Sanitary Water Code of the Philippines
d. Water Code of the Philippines

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
43. The quality of Galvanized iron
Pipes are rated by:

a. Class
b. Schedule
c. Thickness
d. Gauge

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
44. A covered trench to dispose the
final discharge from the septic vault by
absorption to the ground:
a. Grease trap Canal
b. Absorption trench
c. Discharge distribution Trench
d. none of these

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
45. The quality of drinking water form
meteoric surface and underground
sources shall conform to the criteria set
by:
a. mineral water distribution association
b. Department of Health
c. National Pollution control Commission
d. National Standard for drinking water

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
46. The surface around a sink:

a. Sink lip
b. Draining board
c. Sink Apron
d. Duct

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
47. A term used for a pipe extension of
not more than 2 feet in length,
installed at any stack or branch of a
plumbing roughing-in for the purpose
of future tap:
a. clean out

b. tail piece
c. Stub-out
d. None of these

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
48. The size of this kind of pipe is
determined by its inside diameter:

a. C.I. pipe
b. Asbestos pipe
c. PVC pipe
d. None of these

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
49. In an upfeed water distribution
system, the distribution of water
depends on:
a. normal water pressure
b. tail piece
c. humidity
d. weight of pipes

SAMPLE QUESTIONs
50. It is the equipment needed for the
joining of various lengths of pipes:

a. gooseneck
b. fittings
c. fixtures
d. None of these