BUILDING UTILITIES REVIEWER d.

Is less than
Obligar, Renee Marie M.
8. Which of the following is not a component of a hydraulic
elevator?

1. Mho as used in electrical systems calculation is defined as a. Plunger

_______. b. Oil reservoir
c. Gate valve
a. the reciprocal of ohm d. counterweight
b. A unit of inductance
c. A unit of resistance 9. A bathroom containing a water closet, a lavatory, and a
d. The reciprocal of Siemen bathtub.
 OHM - is a unit of resistance
a. Full bath
2. A unit of mechanical power is horsepower. What is electrical b. Half bath
power? c. Three quarter bath
d. Quarter bath
a. Watt
b. Volt-ampere 10. The following are elements of centralized air-conditioning
c. Ampere system except _______.
d. Both a and b
a. Air handling unit
• Volt-ampere: volt-electrical potential b. Control equipment
c. Method of cooling
• Ampere: electrical current d. All of these

3. The following are basic component parts of an escalator 11. Acoustics is a science that concerns with ______.
except____. a. Transmission of sound
b. Effect of sound waves
a. Balustrade assembly c. Generation of sound
b. Continuous belt d. All of the above
c. Step assembly
12. A valve in which the flow of water is cut off by means of a
d. Governor
circular disk that fits against the valve seat. The plane of
movement of the disk is parallel to the normal direction of flow
4. In lighting and illumination calculation, what is the unit for
of water, which is turned through a tortuous passage to direct
lux?
the flow normal to the face of the disk.
a. 1/ candela per sq.m. a. Gate valve
b. 1 lumen per sq.m. b. Check valve
c. 1/ candela per sq.ft. c. Globe valve
d. 1 lumen per sq.ft. d. Angle valve
 Candela - SI unit of light intensity
 SI unit - one of the basic units of the International
System of Units 13. A transformer is ______.
 1 lumen per square foot - foot candle
a. An ac device
5. The first section of water supply piping in a building after the b. A dc device
water meter. c. A mechanical device used to step up or step down
voltage in ac
a. Water main d. Both a and c
b. Water distributing pipe
14. A factor used in calculating cooling load that includes heat
c. Building supply pipe
transferred from walls, doors, ceilings, etc. is
d. Water service pipe
known as _____.

 Water service pipe - comes before the service a. Solar load

meter. b. Infiltration and ventilation load
c. Thermal load
d. Internal load

6. Tesla is the unit of____. 15. A receptacle attached to a plumbing system other than a
trap in which water or wastes may be collected
a. Magnetic flux or obtained for ultimate into the plumbing
b. Magnetic induction system.
c. Both a and b
d. None of these a. Valve
b. Waste pipe
7. In Inverse Square Law, it states that: “sound intensity ______ c. fitting
the square of the distance from the source.” d. fixture

a. Varies inversely with 16. The following are examples of pre-fabricated acoustical
b. Varies proportionally with units except ______.
c. Is equal to
 a. Slotted tile or panel d. Drainage, waste and vent
b. Fissured tile panel
c. Shredded wood foamboard 25. Creep is the phenomenon whereby sound travels in a
d. Hardwood panel ______.

 Fissure: narrow line or opening made by cracking or a. Straight line direction inside an anechoic chamber
splitting,especially in rock or earth b. Rectangular shaped cavity
c. Flat surface
17. The following are ways in which heat may be transferred d. Curve surface
except____.
a. Conduction 26. What is / are the advantage/s of a circuit breaker over a
b. Convection fuse?
c. Polarization
d. Radiation a. It can act as a switch
b. Its position can be easily detected (close/open)
c. It can be used again after fault has been corrected
18. Who said these prophetic words: “Let the future tell the truth d. All of these
and evaluate each one according to his work and
accomplishment. The present is theirs, the future for which I 27. Which is the following characterizes centralized air-
really worked for is mine.”? conditioning system?

a. Nikola Tesla a. It uses ducts

b. James Watt b. Has cooling tower
c. Andre Marie Ampere c. Provided with air handling unit
d. George Westinghouse d. All of these

19. Which material would effectively reduce reflected noise 28. A p-shaped trap commonly used on most plumbing fixtures
and reverberation time to produce safe and enjoyable except for fixture have integral trap.
surrounding? a. Gooseneck
b. Drum trap
a. Polyurethane foam sound absorber c. Bag trap
b. Melamine foam linear wedges d. Running trap
c. Acoustical baffles
d. Vinyl encapsulate acoustical baffles 29. Sound Transmission Loss (STL) is/are affected by the following
____.
20. A type of raceway specially constructed for the purpose of a. Intensity of sound from source
pulling in or the withdrawing of wires or cables after the conduit b. Material density
is in place. c. Medium
d. All of the above
a. Intermediate metal conduit (IMC)
b. Rigid metal conduit (RMC) 30. What switch combination may be used in order to control a
c. Surface metal raceway (SMR) lamp or group of lamps in three different locations?
d. Electrical metallic tubing (EMT)
a. 2-s4w and 1-s3w
 IMC or intermediate metal conduit - outside house b. 3 single pole switches
service drop. c. 3-s3w
d. 2-s3w and 1-s4w
21. The typical truss configuration used in the installation of an
escalator. 31. The total cooling output of an air conditioner during its
a. 2 section truss annual usage, in BTU/hr. divided by the energy input during the
b. 3 section truss same period, in watt-hours is known as_____.
c. 4 section truss
d. 5 section truss a. Integrated part load value
b. Annual fuel utilization efficiency
22. Any group of two or more similar adjacent fixtures which c. Energy efficiency ratio
discharge into a common horizontal waste or soil branch. d. Seasonal energy efficiency ratio

a. Battery of fixtures  BTU - British Thermal Unit: the quantity of heat

b. Multiple fixtures required to raise the temperature of one pound
c. Series of fixtures (0.4kg) of water 1°F.
d. Fixture group  Integrated part load value: weighted operation
 Energy efficiency ratio: designated operating hours
23. The trade name for an insulated conductor with type letter
THHN is ______. 32. This acoustical material is manufactured from rock wool,
glass fibers, wood fibers, hair felt, etc. generally installed on
a. Moisture resistant thermoplastic wood or metal framing system.
b. Thermoplastic a. Acoustical tile
c. Heat resistant thermoplastic b. Acoustical plaster
d. None of these c. Acoustical (isolation) blanket
d. Acoustical foam
24. The abbreviation DWV stands for ______.
33. An outhouse or structure used for the deposition of
a. drainage, water and vent excrement.
b. Drainage, waste and valve a. Septic tank
c. Durham, water and vent b. Privy
 c. Drainage pit  Point source- all directions
d. Privy vault  Lambert (L)- a unit of luminance or brightness equal
to 0.32 candela per square centimeter.
34. Acoustical cotton fiber composite board is manufactured
using BAP. What does BAP stand for? 44. The water supply pipe provided by the water utility
a. Boarded acoustical panel company where local individual connection is done.
b. Beaded and pressed a. Water supply source
c. Bent and polished b. Water main
d. Bonded acoustical panel c. Water service pipe
d. Building supply pipe
35. Which type of refrigerant is recommended for residential,
commercial, and industrial application using split type air- 45. The term impedance is used in transformers and other
conditioning system? devices in ac is a combination of _______.
a. R-11 a. Resistance and reactance
b. R-12 b. Inductance and capacitance
c. R-22 c. Resistivity and conductivity
d. R-23 d. None of these

36. It characterizes short circuit

a. High resistance, high current
b. Low resistance, low current 46. A type of gypsum board available in 1 1/2 inches or 5/8 inch
c. Low resistance, high current thickness and has improved fire resistance through the use of
d. High resistance, low current fibers mixed with gypsum core.
a. Type x
37. A water supply pipe that extends vertically one full storey or b. Type c
more to convey water to fixture branches or group of fixtures. c. Regular
a. Up pipe d. Water resistant board
b. Riser
c. Stack pipe 47. It is also known as electric panel or load center.
d. Water stack pipe
a. Convenience outlet
38. A unit or assembly units or sections and associated fittings b. Panelboard
forming a rigid structural system used to support cables. c. Outlet
a. Cable bus d. Branch circuit
b. Cable tray
c. Busway 48. It is the product of surface area (sq.ft.) and sound
d. wireway absorption coefficient (SAC). It has the unit sabin.

39. Fusible material in a fuse may be made of any of the a. Sound attenuation
following except___. b. Sound absorption
a. Lead c. Sound amplification
b. Silver d. Noise reduction
c. Iron
d. Tin 49. A cylindrical conduit or conductor, the wall thickness is
sufficient to receive a standard pipe.
40. Which of the following factors affect/s room acoustics?
a. Shape and proportion of room a. Conduit
b. Room cavity b. Pipe
c. Seating and other furnishings c. Fitting
d. All of the above d. leader

41. A general term used for any vertical line of soil, waste or 50. Wallace Clement Sabine, an American physicist who
vent piping. pioneered work on sound is said to be the father of ____?
a. Vent pipe
b. Waste pipe a. Environmental acoustics
c. Stack b. Room acoustics
d. Soil pipe c. Architectural acoustics
d. Acoustical science
42. It affects the resistance of a conductor.
a. Length 51. A loosely lined excavation in the ground which receives the
b. Area discharge of a septic tank and designed to permit the effluent
c. Temperature from the septic tank to seep through the bottom and sides of
d. All of these the pit.

43. A condition characterized as vertically downward directly a. Privy

below the luminaire. What is that term? b. Drain pit
a. Lumen c. Septic tank
b. Point source d. cesspool
c. Nadir
d. lambert

 Lumen (lm)- the SI unit of luminous flux, equal to the

light emitted in a solid angle of one steradian by a
unifor point source having an intensity of one
candela; zonal cavity method
52. A factory assembly of one or more conductors, each
individually insulated and enclosed in a metallic sheath of 61. A valve in which the flow of liquid is controlled by a rotating
interlocking metal tape, or a smooth corrugated metallic tube. drilled ball that fits tightly against a resilient (flexible) seat in the
valve body.
a. metal clad cable (type MC)
b. Shielded non-metallic sheathed cable (type SNM) a. Angle valve
c. Armored cable (type AC) b. Check valve
d. Mineral insulated, metal sheathed cable (type MI) c. Float valve
d. Ball valve
53. It is analogous to pressure in water flow.
62. Pyramid is a type of commercially produced acoustical tile.
a. Resistance Which of the following is not a characteristic of this material?
b. Voltage
c. Current a. Made of open celled polyurethane acoustical foam
d. power b. Available in 2,3, & 4inch thickness
c. Tetrahedral in shape
54. When sound impinges on a surface such as walls, floor, d. Ideal for audio room application
ceiling, etc. It is referred to as _____.
63. A vertical length of soil or waste stack at least 8 feet in
a. Liquidborne sound height (a storey high), within which the horizontal branches
b. Solidborne sound from one storey or floor of the building or structure are
c. Airborne sound connected to the stack.
d. Structureborne sound a. Fixture branch
b. Branch drain
55. The art and science of installing in buildings the pipes, c. Branch pipe
fixtures and other apparatus for bringing in water supply and d. Branch interval
removing water and waterborne waste.

a. Plumbing system
b. Sanitary drainage system
c. Drainage system 64. A pipe connecting upward from a soil or waste stack below
d. plumbing the floor and below the horizontal connection to an adjacent
vent stack at a point above the floor and higher than the
56. Any of a variety of soft floor finishes made of synthetic highest spill level of fixtures for preventing pressure changes in
materials such as nylon or natural material such as wool. It is the stack.
either glued directly to the floor or installed over an a. Vent stack
underlayment of hair felt or foam rubber. What is it? b. Yoke vent
a. Panel absorber c. Unit vent
b. Carpet d. Individual vent
c. Curtain and fabrics
d. Volume resonator 65. This material is so named in honor of a German physicist,
consista of a holllow material with a small hole on one side. This
57. Which of the following is a violation of all the provisions in is used to detect individual frequency of complex acoustic
the mechanical code on elevator design and installation? wave configuration.
a. 30mm is the diameter of hoisting and counterweight a. Transondent
cables b. Hermholtz resonator
b. 600mm is the depth of elevator pit measured from c. Pyramid
the bottom of pit to the underside of the car d. Panel absorber
platform
c. 3 ropes are required for traction type elevator 66. A kind of return bend of small-sized faucet, one end of
d. 4 ropes are required for drum type elevator 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
58. That part of the drainage system that extends from the end service pipe and the water main. Also a p-trap.
of the building drain and conveys its discharge to the public a. Spigot
sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or b. Faucet
other appropriate point of disposal. c. Tailpiece
a. Building sewer d. gooseneck
b. Building drain
c. Building storm drain 67. A continuous belt (chain) attached to the handrail and
d. Building sewage pipe directly connected to the steps is known as _____.
a. Endless belt
59. A branch of acoustics that involves the control of noise b. Balustrade assembly
pollution, environmental noise, which include motor vehicles, c. Sprocket assembly
aircraft noise, etc. d. handrail
a. Environmental acoustics
b. Musical acoustics 68. What is the minimum distance between the handrails of
c. Architectural acoustics escalators?
d. Psychological acoustics a. 600mm
b. 558mm
60. Alternating current is characterized as having _____. c. 658mm
a. Positive and negative polarity d. 650mm
b. Average value is zero
c. Has frequency 69. A watertight receptacle which the discharge of sanitary
d. All of these plumbing system or part thereof, designed and constructed to
retain solids, digest organic matter through a period of 77. A fitting or device designed and constructed to provide,
detention and to allow the liquids to discharge into the soil when properly vented, a liquid seal which prevents backflow
outside of the tank through a system of open jointed subsurface and passage of foul air and gases without materially affecting
piping or seepage pit. the flow of sewage or wastewater through it.
a. Trap
a. Seepage pit b. Fitting
b. Septic tank c. Pipe
c. Privy vault d. valve
d. cesspool
78. The rustling of leaves in breeze is said to be within the ____.
70. Which material would exhibit the highest sound absorption a. Threshold of hearing
coefficient (SAC) value? b. Threshold of hearing loss
a. Marble c. Threshold of inaudibility
b. Wood d. Threshold of feeling
c. Plastic
d. Carpet 79. Unit of capacitance is _____.
a. Henry
71. A common measure of the probable discharge into the b. Coulomb
drainage system by various types of plumbing fixtures on the c. Farad
basis of one unit of this being equal to a discarge rate of 7.5 d. weber
gallons per minute or one cubic foot of water per minute.
a. Flow rate 80. A suction created by the flow of liquids in pipe, a pressure
b. Drainage fixture unit less than the atmospheric pressure.
c. Flow pressure a. Backflow
d. Drainage flow b. Backpressure
c. Siphonage
72. A type of resonator made from empty clay vessels of d. Flow pressure
different sizes. Their absorption ranges from 100-400 hertz.
a. Individual resonator 81. The basic elements of an electric circuit are the following
b. Slit resonator except ____.
c. Perforated resonator a. Source
d. None of the above b. Switch
c. Conducting path
73. A circuit type where components are electrically d. Electrical load
connected end to end.
82. A vertical pipe which conveys only wastewater or liquid
a. Series circuit waste free of fecal matter.
b. Parallel circuit a. Waste pipe
c. Series parallel circuit b. Soil pipe
d. None of these c. Soil stack
d. Waste stack
74. 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. Roughing-in
b. Mock-up installation
c. Pre-installation 83. A factory assembly of two or more insulated conductors
d. setting having an outer sheath of moisture-resistant, flame retardant,
non metallic material.
75. These consist of loose fibers or granules and is made from
cellulose, fiberglass, rock wool, cotton or other materials. These a. Service entrance cable (type SE and USE)
materials come in bags and are usually blown into cavities b. Shielded non metallic sheathed cable (type SNM )
using special equipment. What are these? c. Non metallic sheathed cable (type NM and NMC)
d. Mineral insulated metal sheathed cable (type MI)
a. Acoustical foams
b. Foam panels 84. A pipe which conveys potable water from the building
c. Loose fill insulations supply pipe to the plumbing fixtures and other outlets.
d. Fireflexes a. Water service pipe
b. Water main
c. Water distributing pipe
d. Building and water supply pipe

85. Cables are conductors that are ____.

a. Larger than wires
76. The over-all covering of underground feeder and branch b. Stranded (no.6 AWG and larger)
circuit cables shall be ____. c. Both a and b
d. None of these
a. Fungus resistant
b. Corrosion resistant 86. The following statements are true with regards to sound
c. Both a and b except ___.
d. None of these
a. That sound is an aural sensation
 b. That sound is caused by oscillation in an elastic b. 130-180fpm
medium c. 165-180fpm
c. That sound travels in a vacuum d. 60-80fpm
d. That sound is caused by the vibration of particles
which move in an infinitesimal amount causing 96. A type of surface flush raceway designed to receive
particles to impart motion and energy to them conductors and receptacles assembled in the field or in the
factory.
87. Any pipe which conveys the discharge of water closet,
urinal or fixtures having similar function, with or without the a. Underfloor raceway
discharges from other fixtures to the building drain or building b. Multi-outlet assembly
sewer. c. Cellular metal floor raceway
a. Soil pipe d. Surface metal raceway (SMR)
b. Waste pipe
c. Building drain
d. Building sewer 97. Transondent facings are those transparent facings
with holes. Which facing will reflect more sound?
88. Copper as a conductor has the property/properties of
being ____.
a. 10% opening
a. Ductile b. 20% opening
b. Malleable c. 30% opening
c. A only d. 40% opening
d. A and b
98. A type of switch used for transferring one or more
load conductor connections from one power source to
another.
89. In a building consists of the water service pipe, water supply a. Transfer switch
line, water distributing pipes and the essential branch pipes, b. Isolating switch
valves and all other appurtenances for the supply of potable c. General use switch
water. d. General snap switch

a. Water supply system 89. Which of the following sources of sound produces
b. Water pipe system
c. Water distribution system
the highest sound pressure level (SPL)?
d. Building water service and sewage piping system a. Loud street noise
b. Accelerating motorcycle 50ft away
90. The velocity of sound is affected by _____. c. Office activities
d. Cafeteria with people in it
a. Temperature
b. Kind of medium
100. What are the property(ies) of concrete as an
c. Material density
d. All of the above acoustical material which are/is important?

91. Which of the following metallic materials is considered as a. Aerated concrete is fairly absorptive
the best conductor of electricity? b. Concrete provides virtually no absorption
a. Copper c. Concrete accepts and transmits impact
b.
sound
c. Aluminum
d. Iron d. All of the above
e. Gold

92. What aspect/s of environment or surroundings is/are

considered in air-conditioning system for human comfort?

a. Temperature of the surrounding air

b. Motion of air
c. Both a and b
d. None of these

93. Example/s of conductors-on-insulator wiring is are ______.

a. Concealed knob and tube

b. Open wiring on insulators
c. Both a and b
d. None of these

94. What is the refrigerant name of R-12?

a. Monochlorotrifluoromethane
b. Dichlorodifluormethane
c. Monochlorodifluormethane
d. Trichloromonofluoromethane

95. The recommended speed for escalators ranges from____.

a. 90-120fpm