SANITATION, DESIGN AND INSTALLATION 10.

PE plastic tubing is a material used for water service

connection. What is the meaning of PE?
1. A seepage is defined as a sewage terminal A. Plastic Expander
A. Receiving both liquid and solid waste B. Poly Enzyme
B. Receiving only liquid waste C. Plastic Extrusion
C. Receiving only solid waste D. Poly Ethelene
D. Receiving direct human excrement
11. What fitting is needed in a cleanout if the pipe is 6"
2. Construction of septic tank should be located at a distance diameter?
away from the pressure public main to prevent sanitation A. Nipple
A. 15.2 meters B. Reducer
B. 1.5 meters C. Elbow
C. 3 meters D. Long sweep
D. 1 meter
12. What produces when magnesium salt is present in water?
3. Pour index horsepower is how many foot lbs per minutes A. Mineral hardness
A. 30,000 B. Permanent hardness
B. 33,000 C. Total hardness
C. 33,333 D. Temporary hardness
D. 32,564
13. What is the name of the process in which steel and
4. Bacteria which has no function in sewage treatment wrought iron pipe rust?
A. Non-aerobic bacteria A. Sand blast
B. Pathogenic bacteria B. Electrolysis
C. Facultative bacteria C. Tuberculation
D. Aerobic bacteria D. Percolation

5. What is the minimum pressure outlet to operate a flush valve 14. Which of these stages is not one among cycle of water?
in water closet and urinal? A. Saturation
A. 10 psi B. Precipitation
B. 25 psi C. Evaporation
C. 15 psi D. Condensation
D. 20 psi
15. What is the minimum retention period of waste water in a
6. The appropriate type of material for vent pipes in an acid septic tank which will settle and stabilize solids suspended in
waste system is, water?
A. Malleable iron A. 12 hrs
B. Galvanize iron B. 48 hrs
C. DWV copper C. 24 hrs
D. Plastic D. 30 hrs

7. Where is surface water for domestic use collected? 16. What water is a portion of rainwater which percolate into
A. Seas the earth to form underground deposit?
B. Streams A. Dew
C. Mountains B. Surface
D. Oceans C. Spring surface
D. Ground water
8. What is the least method to lay a PB or PE tube on
trenches? 17. What should be done before working with lead that is wet?
A. Stretched A. Pre-heat
B. Straight line B. Use blower
C. On steel sleeves C. Wipe it
D. Snake line D. Use drier

9. What really seals a caulked joint? 18. Water is many times heavier than air by?
A. Epoxy A. 803
B. Pig lead B. 830
C. Cement C. 308
D. Oakum D. 300
19. When should pipe be reamed to remove burrs? 28. What is the device or fitting used to provide a liquid seal to
A. After threading keep sewer gases out of the house without affecting the flow of
B. Before cutting waste water sewage?
C. Before threading A. Running trap
D. After cutting B. Plumbing trap
C. Trap seal
20. Iron in the form of ferrous bicarbonate can be removed D. Backwater valve
from water by means of
A. Aeration 29. Which of these joints is adaptable to assemble cast iron
B. Limestone filtration pipe hub and spigot type?
C. Activated charcoal filtration A. Compression joints
D. Sedimentation B. Screwed joints
C. Brazed joints
21. What kind of lubricant is use during operation for threading D. Mortar joints
machine?
A. Animal oil 30. What pressure is loss caused by water flowing thru the
B. Vegetable oil pipe in a system?
C. Water soluble oil A. Dynamic
D. Engine oil B. Friction loss
C. Static water pressure
22. What should be used in supporting suspended horizontal D. Water pressure
single run plumbing pipe?
A. Clevis hanger 31. What system uses an assembly of mechanical device
B. Clamp hanger which raise water using compressed air as delivery method.
C. Bracket hanger A. (pneumatic) air pressure system
D. Trapege hanger B. Downfeed system
C. Overhead feed system
23. What is the partner of the gate valve in the g.i. pipe system D. Deepwell system
of installation?
A. Union patente 32. Which of these maintenance procedures maybe performed
B. Check valve on a pump while it is running?
C. Coupling A. Lubricating the impeller fins
D. Hub and spigot B. Tightening the packing nut
C. Replacing the seal parts
24. What is the test used in determining if a newly installed D. Replacing the packing
water system is leak free?
A. Pressure test 33. What is the distance between the faucet outlet and the
B. Hydraulic test flood rim of the basin into which it discharges?
C. Hydrostatic test A. Air chamber
D. Leak test B. Air gap
C. Air valve
25. One of the first steps in the selection of suitable water D. Air bubble
supply source is
A. Water demand 34. Where is rainwater for domestic use collected?
B. Budgetary cost A. Lakes
C. Water potability B. Grounds
D. Topography C. Plants
D. Roofs
26. Which of these pipes is measured on the outside diameter
A. Galvanized iron pipe 35. A urinal stall type should have a minimum water supply
B. Asbestos size
C. Concrete pipe A. 3/4"
D. Copper pipe B. 5/8"
C. 1 1/4"
27. How can acidity of water be neutralized? D. 3/8"
A. Crushed stone filtration
B. White sand filtration 36. How many lavatories shall be installed in an office with 160
C. Marble stone filtration female employee.
D. Green and filtration A. 3
B. 4
C. 2 A. 8
D. 5 B. 11 1/2
C. 14
37. What is the recommended size of service pipe approved by D. 15 1/2
MWSS for a 2 storey residential house?
A. 1 1/4" diam. - 31mm diam. 46. Water is collected from spring and well as source of water
B. 1" diam. - 25mm diam. for domestic water supply is called
C. 1/2" diam. - 12mm diam. A. Underground water
D. 3/4" diam. - 19mm diam. B. Natural water
C. Surface water
38. What is the minimum size of water supply for water closet D. Ground water
flush valve type?
A. 1/2" 47. What is meant by PE plastic tube , material used for
B. 1" service connection?
C. 1 1/4" A. Plastic extruscion
D. 3/4" B. Polyethelene
C. Polyenzyme
39. How can sulphur in the form of hydrogen sulphates be D. Plastic expander
removed from water?
A. Aeration 48. How does the safely feature of a service hot water system
B. Evaporation work?
C. Filtration A. Mechanically
D. Sedimentation B. Automatically
C. Manually
40. What is joining compound is used to assemble poly vinyl D. Electrically
chloride pipe and fitting together
A. Epoxy 49. Where does the Level III type of water service referred?
B. Solvent cement A. Individual shallow well handpump installation
C. Rugby B. Public faucets
D. Glue C. Individual house pipe in connection with meter
D. Artesian well
41. What is the common pipe material use for in house water
system? 50. What is the minimum horizontal clear distance of water well
A. BI pipe supply to building sewer, as per UPC?
B. CI pipe A. 5' (1.50 m)
C. GI pipe B. 10' (3.0 m)
D. AC Pipe C. 3' (0.90 m)
D. 50' (15.2 m)
42. What is the common pipe material use for in house water
system? 51. An automatic safety device of a hot water supply system is
A. BI pipe always provided in order to eliminate
B. CI pipe A. Human error
C. GI pipe B. Bursting
D. AC Pipe C. Underheating
D. Overheating
43. What is required when cast iron pipe and fittings of different
size are to be joined or connected? 52. How do you measure the rainfall intensity?
A. Gasket A. Inches / hr
B. Nipple B. Inches/ min
C. An increaser or reducer C. Inches/ sec
D. Union patente D. Inches/ day

44. What is the standard size of cleanout for a 4" diam. pipe? 53. The minimum size of water supply to bathtub
A. 3" diam. A. 1/4" diam.
B. 2" diam. B. 3/8" diam.
C. 4" diam. C. 1/2" diam.
D. 3 1/2" diam. D. 1" diam.

45. What is the number of thread of 1" diam. to 2" diam. for 54. What is the meaning of "u" placed before PVC pipe, a
effective joints? material used for water system.
A. Under 63. The property of a fluid whereby its own molecule are united
B. Universal or attracted to each other is:
C. Unplasticized A. Ideal fluid
D. Ultra B. Pilot tube
C. Cohesion
55. What do you call the vertical distance of a column of water D. Adhesion
from the pump discharge?
A. Head loss 64. A state of complete physical mental and social well-being
B. Friction head and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
C. Gravity head A. Health
D. Pressure head B. Vital Statistics
C. Fitness
56. A seepage is defined as a sewage terminal D. Statics
A. Receiving both liquid and solid waste
B. Receiving only liquid waste 65. Study of the distribution of the disease or condition in a
C. Receiving only solid waste population
D. Receiving direct human excrement A. Public Health
B. Environmental Sanitation
57. Construction of septic tank should be located at a distance C. Epidemiology
away from the pressure public main to prevent sanitation D. Environmental Heath
A. 15.2 meters
B. 1.5 meters 66. It includes the discharge from latrine, urinals, bathrooms,
C. 3 meters kitchens and stables is called
D. 1 meter A. Refuse
B. Wet refuse
58. A septic tank is a water tight receptacle for which the C. Sewage
sewage is digested than a biological action mainly by D. Waste water
microorganism
A. Facultative bacteria 67. Bacteria which has no function in sewage treatment
B. Aerobic bacteria A. Non-aerobic bacteria
C. Anaerobic bacteria B. Pathogenic bacteria
D. Enzymes C. Facultative bacteria
D. Aerobic bacteria
59. The soil branch must be slope at a grade so that waste
content is given a flow of pipe velocity to assure a self-scouring 68. Disinfection of drinking water is done to remove
condition A. Bacteria
A. 1 % B. Color
B. 2% C. Odor
C. 3% D. Turbidity
D. 4%
69. Instrument used to measure the water flow
60. Pour index horsepower is how many foot lbs per minutes A. Venture meter
A. 30,000 B. Pressure gauge
B. 33,000 C. Dynamometer
C. 33,333 D. Pitot tube
D. 32,564
70. The volume of a liquid passing through a cross section of a
61. A positive displacement pump is stream in unit time is called
A. Rotary pump A. Steady flow
B. Centrifugal pump B. Uniform flow
C. Turbine pump C. Continuous flow
D. Piston pump D. Discharge

62. A pump used in uderground 71. Vertical drainage lines connecting with horizontal drainage
A. Surface pump lines shall enter through
B. Submersible pump A. 90 degree branches
C. Piston pump B. 45 degree branches
D. Centrifugal pump C. Coupling
D. Tee
72. Horizontal drainage lines connecting with horizontal installed on the top of riser of the highest fixture level to absorb
drainage lines shall enter through air pressure
A. 90 degree wye branches A. 0.3 - 0.9 m
B. Combination wye and 1/8 bend B. 0.4 - 1 m
C. wye C. 1 - 1.5 m
D. None of the above D. 0.6 - 1.2 m

73. Horizontal drainage branch lines, connecting with a vertical 81. What is the minimum horizontal distance required between
stack shall enter through vent terminal and window opening of a building?
A. 45 or 60 degree wye branches A. 1.5 m
B. Combination wye and 1/8 bend branches B. 3 m
C. Sanitary tee or sanitary tapped tee C. 1 m
D. All of these D. 0.5 m

74. Each horizontal drainage pipe shall be provided with a 82. What should be the minimum clearance that should be
cleanout at its upper terminal and each run piping which is made with respect to the floor line to allow convenient opening
more than or closing of a clean out?
A. 15 meters A. 100 mm
B. 10 meters B. 200 mm
C. 5 meters C. 50 mm
D. 3 meters D. 300 mm

75. Sink used as a rule for janitorial services in a building is 83. What do you call the undesirable type of vegetation formed
called when water reservoir is exposed to light?
A. Pantry sink A. Septic scum
B. Scullery sink B. Sledge
C. Wash-up sink C. Pond scum
D. Slop sink D. Floe

76. The non-soluble materials which is the end product after 84. Which does not apply in the removal of suspended
biological action of bacteria in waste and what settles at the materials and color in the water supply?
bottom of the septic tank is called A. Sedimentation
A. Scum B. Coagulation
B. Sledge C. Filtration
C. Sludge D. Chlorination
D. Smudge
85. The pipe or shaft which is used to remove foul or
77. What is that appurtenant structure installed at the congested air from a fixture or a room and convey the same to
basement floor of a building which waste water are drained? the atmosphere is called
A. Sump pit A. Local Vent
B. Septic tank B. Crown vent
C. Catch basin C. Back Vent
D. Floor drain D. Venting pipe

78. What is water that diminishes the capacity of water to form 86. What is the process of water supply purification which
lather with soap? consists of applying certain chemicals in particles too small to
A. Bacteria be removed by plain sedimentation?
B. Suspended materials A. Coagulation
C. Mineral that makes water hard B. Sedimentation
D. Presence of sodium ions C. Filtration
D. Screening
79. A well that penetrates the earth to depths of not more than
100 ft 87. What is the type of water closet prescribed for public toilet?
A. Flowing well A. Elongated bowl type
B. Shallow well B. Oval Bowl type
C. Deep well C. Round type
D. Artesian well D. Egg shaped type
80. To reduce the excessive pressure that produces a
hammering sound, how long, a pipe should be added and
88. What is the process of exposing water in their films to the 96. What is the vertical distance between the dip and crown
oxygen of the atmosphere in order to remove neutralize the weir of the trap?
taste, odor and dissolved oxygen? A. Trap seal
A. Filtration B. Crown air
B. Screening C. Leader
C. Aeration D. Bleeder
D. Sedimentation
97. What is that fittings so installed in a plumbing system to
89. What is the pipe fitting with outside thread and projecting prevent the passage of air, gas and some vermin through the
square head used for closing the edge of another fitting? pipe?
A. Plug A. Trap
B. Cap B. Check Valve
C. Knot C. Flap Valve
D. Bushing D. Gate valve

90. The jelly liked substance being formed in the process of 98. What is the type of wrench used in working with plated
coagulation? finish and in place with too small to admit pipe wrench?
A. Scum A. Strap wrench
B. Slegde B. Closed wrench
C. Floe C. Open wrench
D. Alum D. Pipe tong

91. What is the prescribed distance of vent from trap seal in 99. That pipe which conveys waste water and water carried
plumbing installation waste without fecal matter
A. 1.5 m A. Waste Pipe
B. 0.6 m B. Wet stand pipe
C. 2 m C. Vent Pipe
D. 1 m D. Wet Vent

92. What is that vent pipe system on plumbing which liquid 100. What is that device use to prevent backflow whereby air is
waste flow through? admitted to the supply pipe whenever a vacuum occur?
A. Wet vent A. Gate valve
B. Yoke vent B. Air relief valve
C. Stack Vent C. Float valve
D. Back Vent D. Vacuum breaker

93. What is that receptacle attached to the plumbing system

other than trap on which water or waste may be collected or
retained for ultimate discharge into the drainage?
A. Catch basin
B. Manhole
C. Fixture
D. Scupper drain

94. How far should be the distance of a septic tank from a well
to prevent contamination of water?
A. 20 m
B. 50 m
C. 15 m
D. 40 m

95. In plumbing, the unobstructed vertical distance through the

free atmosphere, between faucet supplying water and the flood
level rim of a fixture is called
A. Air gap
B. Air break
C. Trap seal
D. Free height