BUILDING UTILITIES
BUILDING UTILITIES REFRESHER Situation 2: Situation 3: You were tasked to design a call center office. Situation 3:
Situation 1: Given a Residence housing a family compose 3. Which is an illegal thing to do... The manager specifically told you that he wanted to keep a 3. What type of device will you use to amplify the wifi
of a Couple, their 2 Teenage Kids and 2 House Helpers a. Booster pump directly getting water directly from water close watch on his staff. connection coming from the main server?
1. What is the size of the Supply Pipe from Distributing main then distributed to the Townhouse units 1. Modular cubicles are installed in the office. How many a. LAN
Main to Primary Branch? b. Tap directly from water main then directly to the fixture outlets per cubicle would you recommend if the office uses b. Router
a. 75mm b. 50mm c. 100mm d. 65mm. units UPS? c. PABX
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c. Provide a cistern then provide water to the townhouse a. 0 d. CCTV
units b. 1
d. c. 2
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d. 3
1.
6. 9.
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c. 2 b. Router
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4. What would you install if the manager wants a local
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) connection as well as an outside line?
b. 50mm a. LAN
Power Distribution Unit (PDU)
Situation 1: c. PABX
a. Booster pump directly getting water directly from water
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2. What is the minimum size of T&B for b. Router
main then distributed to the Townhouse units Note: Verify Answer! (b. 1) ?
this family d. CCTV
a. 1.20sqm (Small Situation 2: Situation 3:
2. a. 1.20sqm
side: 0.9 m) 4. Where would you least place a PVC Pipe? 2. What type of wall for the cubicles would you recommend
b. 1.50sqm
a. Under the carport taking into consideration acoustics and the manager's
c. 1.80sqm
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b. Underneath a tree instruction for visual acuity?
d. 2.00sqm
a. low wall modular partition with glass strips at the middle
Situation 1:
b. glass
3. Which is NOT installed underground?
c. dry wall partition
a. Septic Tank 12.
d. CHB
b. Cistern 7.
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c. Manhole
d. Downspout
3.
ct 10.
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b. Underneath a tree
Situation 2:
5. Which of the following lamps has the filament?
d. Downspout 8 a. Incandescent
b. LED c. PABX (Private automatic branch exchange)
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Situation 2: In a Townhouse
development project... c. Fluorescent
1. Who is in-charge of "roughing in" of
the sanitary pipes
4. d. Plumber
a. Mason
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b. Labor
c. Foreman a. low wall modular partition with glass strips at the middle
d. Plumber
Situation 2:
A
2. Who is in-charge of plotting points
a. Architect (check
5. and staking at the site?
permit works)
a. Architect b. Owner
c. Engineer d. Foreman
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5. What type of local data sharing device is appropriate for 2. Where is the highest pressure? 3. Where will you locate the ACCU of the convenience 3. What inexpensive yet effective wall treatment will you
the office? a. 2nd Floor store? suggest?
a. LAN 16. b. Underground b. Underground
a. on the ceiling a. Sawali
c. PABX c. Ground Floor c. in front of the store b. Egg crate
b. Router d. At the Vertical Pipe b. outside the store c. Bamboo
d. CCTV 3. What Fitting is used when there is a change in direction?
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a. LAN 90 deg. Elbow or 1/4 Bend b. Egg crate
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6. What type of device should be installed for surveillance? Situation 5: In a convenience store... questions regarding 4. What flooring finish is the best to use?
a. LAN air-conditioning system... a. Carpet tiles
c. Two 3-tonner
b. Router 1.How many tonners will you use (several choices are b. Wood planks
plus one 4-tonner
c. PABX given) the required is 12- 13tons based on computations... c. Vinyl Tiles
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18. b. outside the store
d. CCTV a. 1 10-tonner d. Linoleum
Solution: (Area of b. FHU
b. Three 4-tonners
room x 25BTU)
4. Which is not needed in the
c. Two 3-tonner plus one 4-tonner
14. d. said system? Note:
C
2. What will you provide in the entrance door to control air 21. a. ACCU ACCU - Outside 25.
from coming in and out c. AHU AHU - Inside
a. Air Curtain b. FHU Split Type (Condenser Drain
b. Exhaust Fan d. Condenser Drain Pipe Pipe) - 3m max. length,
c. Dehumidifier copper tube
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Situation 6: a home theatre
d. CCTV is to be renovated...
Situation 4: Given a Water Supply Plan & Isometric Layout 1. What will you use on the
19.
of Ground Floor & Second Floor...
1. Locate the Angle Valve ct 22. walls to minimize sound
transmission.
a. CHB
b. Gypsum Board on studs
b. Gypsum Board on studs
2. What part of the wall will you cover?
b. Wood planks
5. What type Of door Will you use?
a. Flush with hollow core
b. Panel type
c. PVC Door
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a. Upper panel
c. Edges of the Door
a. Air Curtain b. Lower Panel
d. Face of the Door
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15.
23.
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b. Panel type
Angle Valve - 90 deg. turn
Used for Lavatory, Kitchen, W.C, etc.
c. Edges of the Door (Rubber Seal)
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Situation 7: Bunso is watching Cartoons inside the Movie 2. What material should be used at the front facing the 3. What communication system is used to link one office to 2. What type of elevator would you
Room constructed with Drywall Partitions. Ate is studying road? another for a private dialogue? suggest?
at the room adjacent the Movie Room... a. Intercom a. Electric c. Either traction or
36.
1. Will ate hear what Bunso is watching? c. Telephone Door Entry System c. Either traction or hydraulic hydraulic
a. Yes b. PABX b. Machine room-less
b. No d. Fax d.
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c. Definitely not 3. A vertical-pipe extending from a
d. Ate will slightly hear the Cartoons water supply, especially one
connecting a temporary tap to the
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27. main.
29. 37. b. Standpipe
a. Siamese Connection
b. Standpipe
32. c. Vent
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d.
4. Which fire suppression system is not
integrated in the building structure?
a. Wet Standpipe
38. b. Dry Standpipe
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b. Dry Standpipe
d. Ate will slightly hear the Cartoons c. Fire Extinguisher
Situation 8: A client wants to open a Dance Studio on the d. Sprinkler
Bricks
ground floor of a building. The existing room for the studio 5. How many dry standpipe will you
is fronting the road and the floor above is an office area. Situation 9: A client awarded you to design a medium-end
use?
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1. What materials should be used on the flooring and on BPO Office to be in an existing residential house of 1000
sq.m. It will be a renovation project. a. 3
the ceiling? 39. c. 0
1. In consideration of the cables, what system will you use b. 2
a. Intercom
to conceal them? c. 0
4. If data need to be amplified from the d. 1
a. Raised Floor Systems
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main server, what system is needed?
c. Dry Walls 6 Where is the best location for a Dry
a. Router
b. On the Ceilings 33. a. Router Standpipe
28. b. LAN
d. a. Stairway
c. PABx 40. a. Stairway
b. Pipe Chase
d.
c.
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Situation 10: You were asked to design d.
the parking lot for a mall and a hotel.
Situation 12: You were commissioned
Among your concern will be the safe
to erect a 9-Storey residential
Suspended Acoustical Tiles (Ceiling)
Wood planks (Flooring)
30.
ct 34.
vertical height for vehicles to pass.
1. What is the highest point from which
vertical clearances are based?
a. Slab
b. Beams
d. Pipe Supports
41.
condominium along C5 road.
1. How many elevators would you
recommend?
a. One Traction Type
b. Minimum of Two
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b. Minimum of Two
c. Pipes
c. One Hydraulic Type
d. Pipe Supports
d. None of the above
Situation 11: Your architectural team is
designing a 3-storey Hospital...
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1. How many elevators would you b. One, but it is
suggest? ideal to have one
a. Three, one for every floor for passengers
35.
b. One, but it is ideal to have one for and one for the
a. Raised Floor Systems
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passengers and one for the patients in patients in
2. If data are needed to be shared with stretchers stretchers
others. what system is appropriate? c. Only one for passengers
a. LAN d. Only one for patients
31. a. LAN
b. Router
A
c.
d.
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2. The last habitable storey of the condo is the 9th floor, but Situation 13: Owner A decides to hire Situation 14: At a Textile Factory, the Manager has a Surface Mounted Compact Flourescent Lamp (CFL)
it has a rooftop with garden open for all occupants. The an electrician to work for him instead of picture drawn by his son. He wants to hang it on the wall of
elevator's machine room is 1.20hgt. from the headroom of a professional electrical engineer. his office.
the rooftop. Where would you locate the last stop of the Upon roughing-in and installation, the 1. What would you recommend he should use to
elevator? electrician proposed to the Owner to emphasize/illuminate his son's drawing on his wall without
c. At the 8th floor alter the specified wires into bigger consuming too much power?
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a. At the rooftop sizes in order to accommodate larger a. LPS Track Light
d. There is no need for an elevator electrical loads. The Owner agrees as c. Recessed Incandescent Lamp
b. At the ninth floor it seems to be reasonable and he was b. HPS spot Light
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confident because his house was d. Surface Mounted CFL
equipped by circuit breakers. Several
days later, Owner A's house burned a. The Circuit
46. down. After inspection by the Bureau Breakers did not
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of Fire Protection, it was learned that "trip" due to the 49.
42. the fire was caused by faulty electrical over-sized wires
connection.
1. Why didn't the circuit breakers
function as designed?
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a. The Circuit Breakers did not "trip" 2. For the Production Area, which lighting is best?
due to the over-sized wires a. Troffer Lighting
b. The Circuit Breakers were not c. Pendant Lighting
installed properly b. Industrial Lighting
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c. The Circuit Breakers were poor in
quality
d.
2. Who should be blamed for the a. Low Power Sodium (LPS) Track Light 53.
C
incident? Recessed Incandescent Lamp
a. The Architect, for not supervising
the work done
b. At the ninth floor
47. b. The Owner, for not hiring a d. All of the Above
3. Which of the following would you Professional Electrical Engineer
least locate adjacent a lobby?
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c. The Electrician, for not following the
c. Elevator entrance Specifications 50.
43. b. Garbage chute
a. Service stairs d. All of the Above a. Troffer Lighting
d. Lounge
b. Garbage chute
4. Using an illustration (provided), how
many (0.60m x 0.60m) floor tiles will be
used at the kitchen, dining area, and
ct
3. Who should make the first move to
settle the problem?
a. The Architect, Arbitration is part of
his services
a. The Architect,
Situation 15: You hired a Master
Electrician to do the Electrical Works
for your newly built house. You asked
the electrician to install the materials
te
b. The Owner, he was the one who High Pressure Sodium (HPS) spot Light you recommended. After a year,
living area with allowance? 48. Arbitration is part
gave the authorization problems in the electrical works a. Electrician,
On the floor plan, the exact size per of his services
c. The Electrician, he was the one who surfaced. because he knew
area was given in square meters. For installed the incorrect wiring
44. example: Kitchen (12.50 sqm), Dining 138 1. Who is responsible for this? from the start that
d. The Bureau of Fire Protection, it is
hi
(14.20 sqm), Living Area (16.50 sqm). 54. a. Electrician, because he knew from he is installing
within their mandate the start that he is installing defective defective or
Disregard other sections merging with
the required areas like the foyer and or inappropriate materials. inappropriate
hallway. The figures won't tally but get b. You, because you were the one that materials.
the closest answer using 15% 51. recommended the materials used by
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allowance. the electrician
5. Which Fire Assembly is NOT c. None, because it is only normal for
necessarily integrated in the building these thing to happen.
a. Dry Standpipe d.
45. a. Dry Standpipe
A
b. Wet Standpipe
c. Fire Sprinkler System
d. Fire Extinguisher
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BUILDING UTILITIES REFRESHER Situation 2: Situation 3: You were tasked to design a call center office. Situation 3:
Situation 1: Given a Residence housing a family compose 3. Which is an illegal thing to do... The manager specifically told you that he wanted to keep a 3. What type of device will you use to amplify the wifi
of a Couple, their 2 Teenage Kids and 2 House Helpers a. Booster pump directly getting water directly from water close watch on his staff. connection coming from the main server?
1. What is the size of the Supply Pipe from Distributing main then distributed to the Townhouse units 1. Modular cubicles are installed in the office. How many a. LAN
Main to Primary Branch? b. Tap directly from water main then directly to the fixture outlets per cubicle would you recommend if the office uses b. Router
a. 75mm b. 50mm c. 100mm d. 65mm. units UPS? c. PABX
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c. Provide a cistern then provide water to the townhouse a. 0 d. CCTV
units b. 1
d. c. 2
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d. 3
1.
6. 9.
ct
c. 2 b. Router
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4. What would you install if the manager wants a local
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) connection as well as an outside line?
b. 50mm a. LAN
Power Distribution Unit (PDU)
Situation 1: c. PABX
a. Booster pump directly getting water directly from water
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2. What is the minimum size of T&B for b. Router
main then distributed to the Townhouse units Note: Verify Answer! (b. 1) ?
this family d. CCTV
a. 1.20sqm (Small Situation 2: Situation 3:
2. a. 1.20sqm
side: 0.9 m) 4. Where would you least place a PVC Pipe? 2. What type of wall for the cubicles would you recommend
b. 1.50sqm
a. Under the carport taking into consideration acoustics and the manager's
c. 1.80sqm
C
b. Underneath a tree instruction for visual acuity?
d. 2.00sqm
a. low wall modular partition with glass strips at the middle
Situation 1:
b. glass
3. Which is NOT installed underground?
c. dry wall partition
a. Septic Tank 12.
d. CHB
b. Cistern 7.
s
c. Manhole
d. Downspout
3.
ct 10.
te
b. Underneath a tree
Situation 2:
5. Which of the following lamps has the filament?
d. Downspout 8 a. Incandescent
b. LED c. PABX (Private automatic branch exchange)
hi
Situation 2: In a Townhouse
development project... c. Fluorescent
1. Who is in-charge of "roughing in" of
the sanitary pipes
4. d. Plumber
a. Mason
rc
b. Labor
c. Foreman a. low wall modular partition with glass strips at the middle
d. Plumber
Situation 2:
A
2. Who is in-charge of plotting points
a. Architect (check
5. and staking at the site?
permit works)
a. Architect b. Owner
c. Engineer d. Foreman
1
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5. What type of local data sharing device is appropriate for 2. Where is the highest pressure? 3. Where will you locate the ACCU of the convenience 3. What inexpensive yet effective wall treatment will you
the office? a. 2nd Floor store? suggest?
a. LAN 16. b. Underground b. Underground
a. on the ceiling a. Sawali
c. PABX c. Ground Floor c. in front of the store b. Egg crate
b. Router d. At the Vertical Pipe b. outside the store c. Bamboo
d. CCTV 3. What Fitting is used when there is a change in direction?
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13. 24.
17. 20.
ct
a. LAN 90 deg. Elbow or 1/4 Bend b. Egg crate
le
6. What type of device should be installed for surveillance? Situation 5: In a convenience store... questions regarding 4. What flooring finish is the best to use?
a. LAN air-conditioning system... a. Carpet tiles
c. Two 3-tonner
b. Router 1.How many tonners will you use (several choices are b. Wood planks
plus one 4-tonner
c. PABX given) the required is 12- 13tons based on computations... c. Vinyl Tiles
ol
18. b. outside the store
d. CCTV a. 1 10-tonner d. Linoleum
Solution: (Area of b. FHU
b. Three 4-tonners
room x 25BTU)
4. Which is not needed in the
c. Two 3-tonner plus one 4-tonner
14. d. said system? Note:
C
2. What will you provide in the entrance door to control air 21. a. ACCU ACCU - Outside 25.
from coming in and out c. AHU AHU - Inside
a. Air Curtain b. FHU Split Type (Condenser Drain
b. Exhaust Fan d. Condenser Drain Pipe Pipe) - 3m max. length,
c. Dehumidifier copper tube
s
Situation 6: a home theatre
d. CCTV is to be renovated...
Situation 4: Given a Water Supply Plan & Isometric Layout 1. What will you use on the
19.
of Ground Floor & Second Floor...
1. Locate the Angle Valve ct 22. walls to minimize sound
transmission.
a. CHB
b. Gypsum Board on studs
b. Gypsum Board on studs
2. What part of the wall will you cover?
b. Wood planks
5. What type Of door Will you use?
a. Flush with hollow core
b. Panel type
c. PVC Door
te
a. Upper panel
c. Edges of the Door
a. Air Curtain b. Lower Panel
d. Face of the Door
hi
26.
15.
23.
rc
A
b. Panel type
Angle Valve - 90 deg. turn
Used for Lavatory, Kitchen, W.C, etc.
c. Edges of the Door (Rubber Seal)
2
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Situation 7: Bunso is watching Cartoons inside the Movie 2. What material should be used at the front facing the 3. What communication system is used to link one office to 2. What type of elevator would you
Room constructed with Drywall Partitions. Ate is studying road? another for a private dialogue? suggest?
at the room adjacent the Movie Room... a. Intercom a. Electric c. Either traction or
36.
1. Will ate hear what Bunso is watching? c. Telephone Door Entry System c. Either traction or hydraulic hydraulic
a. Yes b. PABX b. Machine room-less
b. No d. Fax d.
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c. Definitely not 3. A vertical-pipe extending from a
d. Ate will slightly hear the Cartoons water supply, especially one
connecting a temporary tap to the
io
27. main.
29. 37. b. Standpipe
a. Siamese Connection
b. Standpipe
32. c. Vent
ct
d.
4. Which fire suppression system is not
integrated in the building structure?
a. Wet Standpipe
38. b. Dry Standpipe
le
b. Dry Standpipe
d. Ate will slightly hear the Cartoons c. Fire Extinguisher
Situation 8: A client wants to open a Dance Studio on the d. Sprinkler
Bricks
ground floor of a building. The existing room for the studio 5. How many dry standpipe will you
is fronting the road and the floor above is an office area. Situation 9: A client awarded you to design a medium-end
use?
ol
1. What materials should be used on the flooring and on BPO Office to be in an existing residential house of 1000
sq.m. It will be a renovation project. a. 3
the ceiling? 39. c. 0
1. In consideration of the cables, what system will you use b. 2
a. Intercom
to conceal them? c. 0
4. If data need to be amplified from the d. 1
a. Raised Floor Systems
C
main server, what system is needed?
c. Dry Walls 6 Where is the best location for a Dry
a. Router
b. On the Ceilings 33. a. Router Standpipe
28. b. LAN
d. a. Stairway
c. PABx 40. a. Stairway
b. Pipe Chase
d.
c.
s
Situation 10: You were asked to design d.
the parking lot for a mall and a hotel.
Situation 12: You were commissioned
Among your concern will be the safe
to erect a 9-Storey residential
Suspended Acoustical Tiles (Ceiling)
Wood planks (Flooring)
30.
ct 34.
vertical height for vehicles to pass.
1. What is the highest point from which
vertical clearances are based?
a. Slab
b. Beams
d. Pipe Supports
41.
condominium along C5 road.
1. How many elevators would you
recommend?
a. One Traction Type
b. Minimum of Two
te
b. Minimum of Two
c. Pipes
c. One Hydraulic Type
d. Pipe Supports
d. None of the above
Situation 11: Your architectural team is
designing a 3-storey Hospital...
hi
1. How many elevators would you b. One, but it is
suggest? ideal to have one
a. Three, one for every floor for passengers
35.
b. One, but it is ideal to have one for and one for the
a. Raised Floor Systems
rc
passengers and one for the patients in patients in
2. If data are needed to be shared with stretchers stretchers
others. what system is appropriate? c. Only one for passengers
a. LAN d. Only one for patients
31. a. LAN
b. Router
A
c.
d.
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2. The last habitable storey of the condo is the 9th floor, but Situation 13: Owner A decides to hire Situation 14: At a Textile Factory, the Manager has a Surface Mounted Compact Flourescent Lamp (CFL)
it has a rooftop with garden open for all occupants. The an electrician to work for him instead of picture drawn by his son. He wants to hang it on the wall of
elevator's machine room is 1.20hgt. from the headroom of a professional electrical engineer. his office.
the rooftop. Where would you locate the last stop of the Upon roughing-in and installation, the 1. What would you recommend he should use to
elevator? electrician proposed to the Owner to emphasize/illuminate his son's drawing on his wall without
c. At the 8th floor alter the specified wires into bigger consuming too much power?
n
a. At the rooftop sizes in order to accommodate larger a. LPS Track Light
d. There is no need for an elevator electrical loads. The Owner agrees as c. Recessed Incandescent Lamp
b. At the ninth floor it seems to be reasonable and he was b. HPS spot Light
io
52.
confident because his house was d. Surface Mounted CFL
equipped by circuit breakers. Several
days later, Owner A's house burned a. The Circuit
46. down. After inspection by the Bureau Breakers did not
ct
of Fire Protection, it was learned that "trip" due to the 49.
42. the fire was caused by faulty electrical over-sized wires
connection.
1. Why didn't the circuit breakers
function as designed?
le
a. The Circuit Breakers did not "trip" 2. For the Production Area, which lighting is best?
due to the over-sized wires a. Troffer Lighting
b. The Circuit Breakers were not c. Pendant Lighting
installed properly b. Industrial Lighting
ol
c. The Circuit Breakers were poor in
quality
d.
2. Who should be blamed for the a. Low Power Sodium (LPS) Track Light 53.
C
incident? Recessed Incandescent Lamp
a. The Architect, for not supervising
the work done
b. At the ninth floor
47. b. The Owner, for not hiring a d. All of the Above
3. Which of the following would you Professional Electrical Engineer
least locate adjacent a lobby?
s
c. The Electrician, for not following the
c. Elevator entrance Specifications 50.
43. b. Garbage chute
a. Service stairs d. All of the Above a. Troffer Lighting
d. Lounge
b. Garbage chute
4. Using an illustration (provided), how
many (0.60m x 0.60m) floor tiles will be
used at the kitchen, dining area, and
ct
3. Who should make the first move to
settle the problem?
a. The Architect, Arbitration is part of
his services
a. The Architect,
Situation 15: You hired a Master
Electrician to do the Electrical Works
for your newly built house. You asked
the electrician to install the materials
te
b. The Owner, he was the one who High Pressure Sodium (HPS) spot Light you recommended. After a year,
living area with allowance? 48. Arbitration is part
gave the authorization problems in the electrical works a. Electrician,
On the floor plan, the exact size per of his services
c. The Electrician, he was the one who surfaced. because he knew
area was given in square meters. For installed the incorrect wiring
44. example: Kitchen (12.50 sqm), Dining 138 1. Who is responsible for this? from the start that
d. The Bureau of Fire Protection, it is
hi
(14.20 sqm), Living Area (16.50 sqm). 54. a. Electrician, because he knew from he is installing
within their mandate the start that he is installing defective defective or
Disregard other sections merging with
the required areas like the foyer and or inappropriate materials. inappropriate
hallway. The figures won't tally but get b. You, because you were the one that materials.
the closest answer using 15% 51. recommended the materials used by
rc
allowance. the electrician
5. Which Fire Assembly is NOT c. None, because it is only normal for
necessarily integrated in the building these thing to happen.
a. Dry Standpipe d.
45. a. Dry Standpipe
A
b. Wet Standpipe
c. Fire Sprinkler System
d. Fire Extinguisher
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