BPI Practice Exam Questions with Correct Answers
What type of appliance venting system utilizes air piped in from outside for intake and directly exhausts combustion gasses outside as well. - Answer Sealed Combustion
A burning log, light from a flashlight, or a car in motion are all examples ...
BPI Practice Exam Questions with
Correct Answers
What type of appliance venting system utilizes air piped in from outside for intake and
directly exhausts combustion gasses outside as well. - Answer ✅ Sealed Combustion
A burning log, light from a flashlight, or a car in motion are all examples of what type of
energy? - Answer ✅ Kinetic Energy
According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics - Answer ✅ Wet moves to dry
Stack Effect occurs when the air inside a building is heated and becomes less dense
than the air outside. The result is that the taller the building... - Answer ✅ The stronger
the effect becomes
The instrument used in building diagnostics to measure air flow and air pressure? -
Answer ✅ Manometer
The process by which moisture vapor changes to liquid form? - Answer ✅
Condensation
What is C F M n? - Answer ✅ Cubic feet per minute at natural pressure
Air leakage leaving a building is called - Answer ✅ Exfiltration
What is it called when a combustion appliance is warmed up and ready to be tested? -
Answer ✅ Steady state efficiency
The transfer of heat by circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas is
called... - Answer ✅ Convection
The two main components of indoor comfort are... - Answer ✅ Air Temperature,
Radiant Temperature (the temp of walls, floors, ceilings etc.)
If the air inside of a building is extremely dry in the winter months, the most likely reason
is... - Answer ✅ Air leakage of the building shell
, What scientific instrument is used to measure "Dew Point?" - Answer ✅ Sling
Psychrometer
The amount of energy (electric and fuel) used to operate lighting and appliances year
round. - Answer ✅ Baseload
CFM 50 - Answer ✅ Cubic feet per minute at 50 Pascals pressure differential
Areas or zones within a house or building that are heated or cooled for comfort. -
Answer ✅ Conditioned Space
Odorless Tasteless poisonous combustion by-product that is lighter than air - Answer ✅
Carbon Monoxide
While conducting a combustion safety test, the CO testing device gives a reading of
between 100 and 400 PPM under natural conditions, what should the response be? -
Answer ✅ Stop work: Work my not proceed until the system is serviced and the
problem is corrected
The collective name of all the insulation in the building envelope is called the? - Answer
✅ Thermal Boundary
Moisture transfer where water is drawn into tiny spaces or in between building materials
is called - Answer ✅ Capillary Action
Any part of the building that creates a boundary between indoor air and outdoor air -
Answer ✅ Pressure Boundary
1/R =? - Answer ✅ U
Water that passes through a wall is called - Answer ✅ Diffusion
Vapor Diffusion Retarders (VDR's) only work when - Answer ✅ Used in conjunction with
a good Air Barrier
B T U (British thermal unit) = - Answer ✅ The amount of heat required to raise a pound
of water 1 degree Fahrenheit
Air leakage entering a building is called? - Answer ✅ Infiltration
Which offers the best Thermal Resistance? - Answer ✅ High R-value
Heat passing through solid objects that are in contact with one another, do so through...
- Answer ✅ Conduction
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