ESAS FINAL PREBOARD SET ONLINE 9.

An asset is purchase for P 120,

000.00 Its estimated life is 10
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct years, after which it will be sold
answer for each of the following for P 12, 000.00 find the
questions. ANSWER HONESTLY depreciation for the second year
using the sum-of-the-years-digit
MULTIPLE CHOICE method.
A. P18,400 C. P17,673
1. What acid is added to carbonated B. P18,200 D. P17,763
drinks to produce a tart test?
A. Citric acid 10. ________ is an act of sending e-
B. sulfuric acid mails or creating web pages that
C. Phosphoric acid are designed to collect an
D. Nitric acid individual’s online bank, credit
card or other login information?
2. What is another term for modulus A. Malware C. Trashing
of elasticity? B. Hacking D. Phishing
A. Bulk modulus
B. constant of elongation 11. An object is dropped from an
C. Shear strain original height h hitting the
D. Young’s modulus ground with velocity v. How much
greater will speed hitting the
3. A loan of P4,000 is made for a ground be if the object is dropped
period of 16 months at a simple from a height 4 times the original
discount rate od 7 percent, what height?
future amount is due at the end of A. 4 times C. √2 times
the loan period? B. 2 times D. 16 times
A. P3,635.18 C. P4446.22
B. P3,598.57 D. P4,411.76 12. The Board of Electrical
Engineering is composed of one
4. The leaning tower of Pisa is 54.5 chairman and how many members?
m tall. Supposedly Galileo A. 2 C. 4
investigated the behavior of B. 3 D. 5
falling objects by dropping them
from the top of this tower and 13. What is the present worth of two
timing their descent. How long P 100 payments at the end of the
would it take an object to fall third and fourth years of the
54.5 m if air effects are annual interest rate is 8%?
negligible? A. P 120 C. P 122
A. 3.33 s C. 5.54 s B. P 153 D. P 160
B. 6.66 s D. 4.31 s
14. What is the primary purpose of
5. If the velocity of the flow in a 20 PEC?
cm radius hose in a 1.2 m/s, what A. To serve as guide for the
is the output velocity in a 0.5 cm untrained personnel
radius issuing from a nozzle B. Is to conserve electrical energy
attached at the end of the pipe? C. Is the practical safeguarding of
A. 0.192 m/s C. 0.3 m/s personal and property
B. 4.8 m/s D. 0.075 m/s D. To serve as manual guide for
design
6. What do you call the removal of
zinc from brasses? 15. A cube of Jell-O 6 cm on a side
A. Dezincification sits on your plate. You exert a
B. Stabilization horizontal force of 0.20 N on the
C. Graphitization top surface parallel to the surface
D. Dealloying and observe a sideways
displacement of 5 mm. What is the
7. What is the principle works in the shear modulus of the Jell-O?
hydraulic breaks of an A. 600 N/m C. 670 N/m
automobiles? B. 520 N/m D. 720 N/m
A. Bernculli`s law
B. Archimede`s principles 16. A 20-g piece of aluminum (c = 0.21
C. Pascal`s law cal/g-deg C) at 90 deg C is dropped
D. Posieuille`s law into a cavity in a large block of
ice at 0 deg C. How much ice does
8. A computer ____ is self-replicating the aluminum melt?
computer program. A. 6.3 g C. 7.4 g
A. viruses C. spyware B. 3.6 g D. 4.7 g
B. worms D. malware
17. Fine in violation of RA 7920 is 26. The New Electrical Engineering Law
not less than ____ but not more 7920 originated from House Bill No
than _____. & Senate Bill No .
A. P10,000 ; P50,000 A. 11063 & 1766 C. 11070 & 1871
B. P20,000; P40,000 B. 11063 & 1870 D. 11070 & 1875
C. P5,000 ; P20,000
D. P15,000 ; P60,000 27. Mercury cannot wet a glass tube.
This is due to:
18. Determine the moment of inertia of A. Cohesion
an equilateral triangle 6 in on a B. surface tension
side about an axis through its C. adhesion
side. D. viscosity
A. 70.1 in 4 C. 35 in 4
B. 23.4 in 4 D. 46.8 in 4 28. The simplex method is extremely
efficient in solving which of the
19. An adiabatic process with no work following classic problems?
done is A. the transportation problem
A. Isometric C. isobaric B. the assignment problem
B. throttling D. polytropic C. the transhipment problem
D. the allocation problem
20. A 4.0-g lead bullet traveling at
350 m/s strikes a block of ice at 29. A 2 m long aluminum bar (modulus
08C. If all of the heat generated of elasticity = 70 GPa) is
goes into melting the ice, how much subjected to a tensile stress of
ice is melted? The latent heat of 175 MPa. Find the elongation.
fusion of ice is 80 kcal/kg, and A. 3.5 mm C. 7.5 mm
its specific heat is 0:50 kcal=kg B. 5.0 mm D. 9.0 mm
8C.
A. 0.12 g C. 0.21 g 30. For a fluid, viscosity is defines
B. 0.17 g D. 0.27 g as the constant of proportionality
between shear stress and what other
21. Which of the following relations variable?
defines enthalpy? A. the spatial derivative of velocity
𝑃
A. H = u + 𝑇
𝑃
C. h = u + 𝑉 B. the time derivative of pressure
C. the time derivative of density
B. h = u + pV D. h = pV + T D. the spatial derivative of density
22. The president of an 31. Defects seen by optical or
engineering firm wishes to give electron microscope.
of each of his 50 employees a A. alteration C. atomization
holiday bonus of P10, 000. How B. aberration D. deformation
much should he invest monthly
for a year at 12 percent normal 32. It is known as the reversed Joule
interest rate to be able to give cycle.
that bonus? A. Belt – Coleman
A. P44,424.39 C.P24,444.93 B. Stirling cycle
B. P39,424.39 D. P29,344.93 C. Rankine cycle
D. Carnot cycle
23. What is the amount of heat needed
to turn 1 kg of the substance at 33. VIRUS means,
its melting point from the solid to A. Vital Information Resource Under
the liquid state? Siege
A. Heat of fusion B. Very Important Resource Under
B. Heat of condensation Siege
C. Heat of vaporization C. Vulnerable Information Reserved
D. Heat of fission Under State
D. Vital Information Reserved Under
24. What is the MOST nearly effective Siege
annual interest rate on a loan if
the nominal interest rate is 9% per 34. A is a group of bits, that may be
year compounded quarterly? manipulated or stored at one time
A. 9.52% C. 9.68% by the CPU
B. 9.84% D. 9.31% A. programs C. word
B. address D. software
25. Which of the following DO
statements counts J from 1 to 11 in 35. A train whose speed is 60 mph
increments of 2? rounds a curve whose radius of
A. DO 5 J=1,2,11 curvature is 484 ft. What is its
B. DO 5, J=1,11,2 acceleration?
C. DO 5 J=1.11.2 A. 12 ft/sec2 C. 14 ft/sec2
D. DO 5 J=1,11,2 B. 16 ft/sec 2 D. 10 ft/sec2
36. What is the speed of sound through 45. Approximately how much power is
a compressed water (100kpa),If required to isothermally compress
it's volume decreased by 0.007 % of 23 m3/min of air from 101.5 kPa to
its original volume? 828.5 kPa?
A. 1244.55m/s C. 1195.23m/s A. 64 kW C. 92 kW
B. 1414.23m/s D. 1395.11 m/s B. 82 kW D. 98 kW

37. A square steel bar is 2 inches on 46. Which of the following describes
a side and 10 inches long. It is a streamline?
loaded by an axial tensile force of I. It is a mathematical concept.
40,000 lb. If E = 30 x 106 psi and II. It cannot be crossed by the flow.
μ= 0.3, determine the change of III. It is a line of constant entropy.
volume per unit volume.
A. 0.000133 C. 0.000122 A I only C. I and II
B. 0.00133 D. 0.00122 B. II only D. I and III

38. An electrical equipment is 47. What is molarity of the solution

purchased at a cost of P 10, 000. if 150g of KCI is dissolved in
It has a 10-year life and a salvage water to make 800ml solution?
value of P 500. What is the book A. 2.51 moles/L C. 2.87 moles/L
value of the equipment after 3 B. 2.25 moles/L D. 1.53 moles/L
years using straight line
depreciation? 48. Which conduit is not suitable for
A. P 7,100 C. P 7,150 wet location?
B. P 7,200 D. P 7,250 A. RMC C. RNMC
B. IMC D. FMC
39. As the simplex algorithm
progresses from one solution to the 49. What is the class of fire for
next in a linear programming burning woods, papers, and steels?
maximization problem, what will A. Class A C. Class C
happen to the value of the B. Class B D. Class D
objective function?
A. It will increase and then decrease. 50. Using an allowable shearing stress
B. It will decrease and then increase. of 30 MPa, design a solid steel
C. It will increase or stay the same. shaft to transmit 9kW at speed of
D. It will decrease or stay the same. 1200 rpm.
A. 32 mm C. 46 mm
40. The shape of the bending moment B. 23 mm D. 64 mm
diagram over the length of a beam,
carrying a uniformly distributed 51. An archer aims his bow upwards and
load is always pulls the string of his arrow with
A. Parabolic C. cubical a force of 80N. The strings make an
B. linear D. circular angle of 25 degrees with vertical.
Find the tension in the string.
41. A pitot tube is used to measure: A. 88 N C. 22 N
A. Discharge B. 44 N D. 33 N
B. Total energy of the fluid
C. Velocity of the fluid 52. The formula of EER in relation to
D. all of these COP is,
A. EER=COP x 3.42
42. What is the resulting pressure B. EER=COP x 342
when one pound of air at 15 psia C. EER=COP x 4.32
and 200 deg F is heated at D. EER=COP x 3.24
constant volume to 800 deg F?
A. 15 psia C. 36.4 psia 53. Pluto travels from perihelion to
B. 28.6 psia D. 52.1 psia aphelion. What is the work done by
gravity on Pluto?
43. Which is also called stranger gas? A. Zero C. positive
A. Xenon C. Argon B. negative D. undetermined
B. Neon D. Nitrous oxide
54. A sports car is traveling at 50kph
44. A man paid a 10% down payment of when it applies full brakes. It
P 2, 000,000 for a house and lot travels 15 ft. before coming to a
and agreed to pay the balance on full stop. If it now travels at
monthly installments for 5 years at 150kph and applies brakes the same
an interest’s rate of 15% way, how far does it travel before
compounded monthly. What are the it stop?
monthly installments in pesos? A. 35ft C. 145ft
A. 44, 528.34 C. 43, 625.92 B. 41ft D. 135 ft.
B. 42, 821.87 D. 45, 825.65
55. Cavitation is the result of 63. Which of the following is a
A. Static pressure in a fluid becoming variable renewable source of
less than fluid vapor pressure energy?
B. Exposure of concrete to salt water A. Hydro-power
C. Heat treatment of a low carbon B. Geothermal Energy
steel C. Biomass Energy
D. Improper welding technique D. Solar Energy

56. A company must relocate one of its 64. Which of the following statements
factories in 3 yr. Equipment for about a streamline is most
the loading dock is being accurate?
considered for purchase. The A. It is a path of a fluid particle.
original cost is $20,000, and the B. It is a line normal to the velocity
salvage value after 3 yr is $8000. vector everywhere.
The company's rate of return on C. It is fixed in space in steady
money invested is 10%. The capital flow.
recovery rate per year is most D. It is defined for nonuniform flow
nearly only.
A. $4810/yr C. $5120/yr
B. $4950/yr D. $5630/yr 65. What is true about the polytropic
exponent, n, for a perfect gas
57. The circuit conductors between the undergoing an isobaric process?
final overcurrent device A. n > 0 C. n → ∞
protecting the circuit and the B. n < 0 D. n = 0
outlet(s).
A. Feeder 66. A man borrowed P2,000 from a bank
B. Branch Circuit and promised to pay the amount for
C. Service lateral one year. He received only the
D. Service Conductor amount of P1,920 after the bank
collected an advance interest of
58. What is the area under the curve P80.00. What is the rate of
on a temperature-entropy diagram? discount?
A. Heat C. Entropy A. 4.17 C. 3.67
B. Work D. Volume B. 4.00 D. 4.50

59. Which of the following statements 67. The number 1010 base 2 is
is FALSE? equivalent to decimal number_____
A. Both copper and aluminum have a A. 6 C. 8
face-centered cubic crystal B. 10 D. 12
structure.
B. Both magnesium and zinc have a 68. In cold working of metals
hexagonal close-packed crystal A. Close dimensional tolerance cannot
structure. be maintained
C. Iron can have either a face- B. Poor surface finish is obtained
centered or a body-centered cubic C. Recrystallization temperature for
crystal structure. steel is reduced
D. Both lead and cadmium have a D. Strength and hardness of steel is
hexagonal close-packed crystal increased
structure.
69. Which of the following cycle is
60. What interest rate compounded used in vapor cycle power plant?
monthly is equivalent to an A. Brayton cycle
interest rate of 9 percent B. Diesel cycle
compounded quarterly? C. Rankine cycle
A. 9.10 % C. 9.31% D. Ericson cycle
B. 9 % D. 8.93%
70. Structural steel elements
61. A price tag of ₱1,200 is payable subjected to torsion develop
in 60 days but if paid within 30 A. tensile stress
days it will have a 3 percent B. shearing stress
discount. Find the rate of C. compressive stress
interest. D. bending stress
A. 36.33 % C. 37.66 %
B. 36.12 % D. 37.11 % 71. An iceberg having a S.G. = 0.92
floats in salt water having a
62. A 4-wire system has a high-leg S.G. = 1.03. if the volume of the
voltage that is indicated by a wire ice above the water surface is
of color ______. 1000 cu. m., what is the total
A. black C. brown volume of the iceberg?
B. orange D. red A. 8634 cu. m C. 9634 cu. m
B. 8364 cu. m D. 9364 cu .m
72. Which language is used to create 82. A thin homogeneous metallic plate
macros in MS Excel? containing a hole is heated
A. Visual basic C. Visual C++ sufficiently to cause expansion.
B. C D. Java If the coefficient of surface
expansion is linear, the area of
73. What does PRBEE stands for? the hole will
A. Philippine Regulating Board of A. Increase at twice the rate as the
Electrical Engineering area of the metal increases
B. Professional Regulatory Board of B. Increases as the same rate as the
electrical Engineering area of the metal increases
C. Philippine Regulatory Board of C. Stay the same
Electrical Engineering D. Decrease at the same rate as the
D. Professional Regulating Board of area of the metal decreases
Electrical Engineering
83. What do you call earth and stone
74. A reservoir dam holds an 8. 00- mixed with the iron oxides?
km2 lake behind it. Just behind the A. Hematite C. Gangue
lake is 12.0 m deep. What is water B. Magnetite D. Ore
pressure at a point 3.0 m down from
the lake’s surface? 84. A user has to download 800 KB
A. 27 C. 25 file using 28.8 modem. How long
B. 29 D. 24 will the file be downloaded?
A. 3.2 min C. 3.7 min
75. Find the amount of P30,000 at 6 B. 3.6 min D. 3.9 min
simple interest after 5 years.
A. P39,000 C. P41,000 85. The hardest form of carbon is
B. P40,000 D. P42,000 A. Coke C. diamond
B. graphite D. Charcoal
76. A system or circuit conductor
that is intentionally grounded. 86. If all variables in a linear
A. Grounded Conductor programming problem are restricted
B. Equipment Grounding Conductor to be integers, which, if any,
C. Grounding Conductor basic assumption of linear
D. Grounding Electrode Conductor programming is violated?
A. certainty C. divisibility
77. Which light contains wavelength of B. additivity D. proportionality
all or nearly all colors?
A. White light C. X-rays 87. Which of the following is not a
B. Laser D. Gamma rays part of the requirements to take
RME?
78. What is a set of instructions that A. Taken 1-year electrician’s course
resides on a storage device, such and 3-years apprenticeship
as hard drive, and can loaded into B. Taken 2-years electrician’s
memory and executive called? course and 2-years apprenticeship
A. Stored program C. Taken 3-years of BSEE with
B. Operating program apprenticeship
C. Device program D. Graduate of BSEE
D. Memory-resident program
88. Under very slow deformation and
79. Which of the following is usually high temperature, it is possible to
a temporary connection? have some plastic flow in a crystal
A. Bus C. Jumper at a shear stress lower than a
B. Tie Wire D. Feeder critical shear stress. What is the
phenomenon called?
80. The cylinder is made from steel A. Slip C. creep
and has an aluminum core. If its B. twinning D. bending
end are subjected to the axial
force of 300 KN, determine the 89. A carnot engine operates between
average normal stress in the reservoirs at 20 deg C and 200 deg
steel. The cylinder has an outer C, if 10 kW of power is produced,
diameter of 100 mm and an inner the rejected heat rate is nearest:
diameter of 80 mm. E = 73.1 GPa A. 26.3 kJ/s C. 16.3 kJ/s
A. 82.5 MPa C. 64.3 MPa B. 20.2 kJ/s D. 12 kJ/s
B. 85.2 MPa D. 63.4 MPa
90. Which of the following computer
81. Subtract (1010) base 2 from (20) language is used for artificial
base 8. Express the answer in intelligence?
decimal. A. FORTAN C. C
A. 7 C. 4 B. PROLOG D. COBOL
B. 5 D. 6
91. A man borrowed P2,000 from a bank 100. You need P40,000 per year for
and promised to pay the amount for four years to go to college. Your
one year. He received only the father invested P50,000 in a 7%
amount of P1,920 after the bank account for your education when you
collected an advance interest of were born. If you withdraw the
P80.00. What was the rate of P40,000 at the end of your 17th,
discount? 18th, 19th, and 20th years, how
A. 4.17 C. 3.67 much money will be left in the
B. 4.00 D. 4.50 account at the end of your 21st
year?
92. Calculate the volume at STP of A. P17,000 C. P34,000
26.7 g of oxygen gas. B. P25,000 D. P40,000
A. 17.8L C. 18.7L
B. 87.1L D. 78.1L

93. The 160-lb man stands on a spring

scale resting on the floor of an
elevator. Find the scale reading if
the elevator accelerates upward at
8.0 ft/s2
A 160 lb C. 220 lb
B.120 lb D. 200 lb

94. The maximum bending moment of a

beam simply supported at both end
and subject to a total load W
uniformly distributed over its
length L is expressed by the
formula.
A. WL/8 C. WL/2
B. WL2/8 D. WL/4

95. The ideal, reversible Carnot cycle

involve four basic processes. What
type of processes are they?
A. All isothermal
B. two adiabatic and two isentropic
C. All adiabatic
D. two isothermal and two isentropic

96. Accumulate P6,000 at the end of 12

years at an interest rate of 10
percent.
A. P1,931.84 C. P1,911.78
B. P18,830.57 D. P18,635.09

97. For which of the following is the

Program Evaluation and Review
Technique (PERT) NOT used?
A. construction projects
B. computer programming assignments
C. preparation of bids and proposals
D. queuing problems

98. In a stress-strain diagram, what

is the correct term for the stress
level at e = 0.2% offset?
A. the elastic limit
B. the plastic limit
C. the offset rupture stress
D. the offset yield stress

99. Suppose you are capable of

carrying a weight of 400 N (about
90 lb). What size cube of gold
could you carry? The density of
gold is 19,300 kg/m3.
A. 9 cm C. 13 cm
B. 11 cm D. 15 cm