MASTERY TEST 1 - DEFINITION OF TERMS - REVISED NATIONAL PLUMBING CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Branch

Any part of the piping system other than a main, riser, or stack.

a. Branch

b. Lateral

c. Primary

d.Drain

Rim

an unobstructed top open edge of a fixture.

a. Critical Level Marking

b. Rim

c. Overflow

d. Flood Level Rim

Group Vent

a branch vent that performs its functions for two (2) or more traps.

a. Branch Vent

b. Group Vent

c. Dual Vent

d. Unit Vent

All of These.

Grey, Brown, Orange

Per Plumbing Code, PVC Drainpipes with toxic components are colored.

a. All of these

b. Brown

c. Grey

d. Orange

Pipe

a cylindrical conduit or conductor conforming to the particular dimensions commonly known as 'pipe size" and is denoted by its interior diameter or I.D

a. Pipe

b. Drain

c. Sewer

d. Tube

Bidet

Also called a sitz bath

a. Bidet

b. Water closet

c. Bathtub

c. Handheld Spray

Supports

supports, hangers, anchors, brackets, cradles are devices for holding and securing pipes and fixtures to walls, ceiling, floors or structural members.

a. Supports

b. Accessories

c. Appliances

d. Appurtenances

Regulating Equipment

include all valves and controls used in plumbing systems which are accessible.

a. Plumbing Appliance

b. Readily Accessible

c. Regulating Equipment

d. Pressure Reducing Equipments

Dry Standpipe

A standpipe having no permanent water inside the pipe.

a. Wet Standpipe

b. Standpipe

c. Dry Standpipe

d. Automatic Standpipe System

Blow- off

a controlled outlet of a pipeline to discharge liquid or detritus

a. Outlet

b. Drain

c. Vent

d. Blow Off

Waste Pipe

A pipe which conveys only liquid waste, free of fecal matter

a. Drain Pipe

b. Waste Pipe

c. Subsoil Drain

d. Sewer Pipe

Hubless Pipes

are cast iron soil pipes with plain ends connected together with bolted stainless steel bands and neoprene gaskets.

a. Hubless Pipes

b. Threaded Pipes

c. Flanged Pipes

d. Welded Pipes

Chase

a vertical shaft for installation of different pipe stacks

a. Group Vent

b. Chase

c. Waste Stack

d. Pipe Shaft

Length of Pipe

is measured along its centerline.

a. Length of Pipe

b. Diameter of Pipe

c. Thickness of Pipe

d. Developed Length

Fixture Branch

The water supply pipe between the fixture supply pipe and the water-distributing pipe

a. Service Pipe

b. Branch

c. Faucet

d. Fixture Branch

Continuous Waste

a drain connecting the compartments of a set of fixtures to a trap or connecting other permitted fixtures to a common trap.

a. Wet Vent

b. Combination Waste & Vent System

c. Continuous Vent

d. Continuous Waste

Branch Vent

a horizontal vent connecting one or more individual vertical back vents with the vent stack or stack vent.

a. Circuit Vent

b. Loop Vent

c. Branch Vent

d. Group Vent

756 degrees centigrade or less.

Combustible Construction is any structure which any part of its structural framework will ignite and burn at a temperature of _______

a. 339 degrees centigrade or more

b. 756 degrees centigrade or less.

c. 339 degrees centigrade or less

d. 756 degrees centigrade or more

Vacuum

an air pressure less than atmospheric. Also, implies siphonage in piping system.

a. Backpressure

b. Vacuum

c.Backflow

d.Negative Pressure

Readily Accessible

Shall mean direct access without the necessity of removing any panel, door or similar obstruction.

a. Readily Accessible

b. Accessible

c. Common

d. Approved

Fixture Unit

is an arbitrary quantity in terms of which the load-producing effects or water requirements on the plumbing system of different kinds of plumbing fixtures are expressed in some arbitrary chosen scale. One fixture unit is equivalent to a rate flow at 28.3 liters per minute (1 cu ft/m)

a. Demand Load

b. PSI

c. Fixture Unit

d. Plumbing Unit

Confined Space

a room or space having a volume less than 14 cu.m with 250 kilogram calorie of the aggregate input rating of all fuel burning appliances installed in that space.

a. Chase

b. Shaft

c. Confined Space

d. Unconfined Space

Tailpiece

the pipe or tubing that connects the outlet of a plumbing fixture to the trap.

a. Tailpiece

b. Trap Arm

c. Tapped Tap

d. Fixture Drain

Sewage

any waste water containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution and may include liquids containing chemicals in solution

a. Liquid Waste

b. Waste

c. Sewage

d. Domestic Sewage

Contamination

an impairment of the quality of the potable water which creates an actual hazard to the public health through poisoning or spread of disease by sewage, industrial fluids or waste. Also, defined as High Hazard.

a. Cross Connection

b. Pollution

c. Contamination

d. Epidemic

Backflow Preventer

device or means to prevent flow of liquid from returning to the source of supply. Also called vacuum breaker .

a. Pressure Relief Valve

b. Backflow Preventer

c. Check Valve

d. Backwater Valve

1 septic tank

Not included in a Plumbing Unit

a. 4 faucets/hose bibb

b. 1 septic tank

c. 1 water close

d. 3 floor drains

Flush Tank

a tank located above or integral with water closet, urinal or similar fixtures for flushing or removing excrements in the fixture.

a. Flush Valve

b. Flush Tank

c. Flushometer Tank

d. Flushometer Valve

Master Plumber

a person technically and legally qualified and licensed to practice the profession of Master Plumbing without limitations in accordance with Republic Act 13 78. having passed the examination conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission, has received a Certificate of Registration from the Board of Master Plumbing and possesses the current license to practice.

a. Apprentice

b. Master Plumber

c. Plumber

d. Journeyman

Water Main

_____ or street main is the water-supply pipe for public or community use.

a. Water Distributing Pipe

b. Main Line

c. Water Main

d. Service Pipe

Primary Branch

part of the building drain is the single sloping drain from the base of a stack to its junction with the main building drain.

a. Primary

b. Primary Branch

c. Lateral

d. Branch Drain

Downspout

the vertical portion of a rainwater conductor.

a. Leader

b. Downspout

c. Drain Pipe

d. Gutter

Pipeline Welder

a person who specializes in the welding of pipes and holds a valid certificate of competency from a recognized testing agency, based on the requirements of the regulating authority.

a. Pipefitter

b. Pipeline Welder

c. Steamfitter

d. Journeyman

Listing Agency

is an agency accepted by the Administrative Authority in the business of listing or labeling and which maintains a periodic inspection program on current production of listed models, and makes available a published report of such listing where specific information is included tint the product has been tested against approved standards and found safe for use in a specific manner.

a. Certified

b. Listed

c. Listing Agency

d. Listed Agency

Plumbing Fixtures

are approved-type installed receptacles. devices or appliances supplied with water or receive liquid or liquid-borne wastes and discharge such wastes into the drainage system to which they may be directly or indirectly connected. Industrial or commercial tanks, vats and similar processing equipment are not plumbing fixtures, but may be connected to or discharged into approved traps or plumbing fixtures as provided for in this Code.

a. Plumbing Appurtenance

b. Plumbing Appliance

c. Plumbing System

d. Plumbing Fixtures

Bell and Spigot

B&S means Brown and Sharpe (Specification) or ____ (Ends of Pipes)

a. Board and Sink

b. Bell and Sink

c. Bell and Spigot

d. None

Bathroom

a room with a bath and/or shower and often a toilet

a. Restroom

b. Powder Room

c. Bathroom

d. Comfort Room

Pollution

In Plumbing Code, referred to as Low Hazard

a. Insanitary

b. Contamination

c. Pollution

d. Nuisance

Vent System

pipes installed to provide flow of air to or from a drainage system or to provide circulation of air within such system to protect trap seals from siphonage and backpressure.

a. Plumbing System

b. Vent Pipe

c. Water Supply System

d. Vent System

Flushometer Valve

is a device, which discharges a predetermined quantity of water into fixtures for flushing purposes and is actuated by direct water pressure.

a. Flushometer Valve

b. Flush Valve

c. Flush Tank

d. Flushometer Tank

Lateral

In sewerage, a common sewer to which no other branch sewer is connected. It receives sewage from building sewer service connections only.

a. Branch

b. Branch Line

c. Secondary

d. Lateral

Lavatory

Sometimes called a wash basin.

a. Lavatory

b. Kitchen Sink

c. Basin

d. Font

Siamese Connection

a hose fitting with clapper valves for combining the flow from two or more lines of hose into a single stream. The inlet fitting of a fire standpipe located above ground level.

a. Check Valve

b. Wye

c. Siamese Connection

d. Tee

Air Gap, Water Distribution

an unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet conveying potable water to the flood-level rim of any tank, vat or fixture.

a. Air Break

b. Air Gap, Water Distribution

c. Air Gap, Drainage

d. Air Gap

Building Supply

the pipe carrying potable water from the water meter or other source of water supply to a building or other point of use or distribution on the lot. Building supply shall also mean water service connection.

a. Service Pipe

b. Water Main

c. Water Distributing Pipe

d. Building Supply

Alley

any public space. public park or thoroughfare less than three (3) meters but not less than two (2) meters in width dedicated or deeded for public use.

a. Corridor

b. Alley

c. Park

d. Street

Drainage System

includes all the piping's within public or private premises which convey sewage or other liquid wastes to a legal point of disposal but does not include the mains of a public sewer system or a public sewage treatment or disposal plant.

a. Combinations Waste and Vent System

b. Durham System

c. Drainage System

d. Plumbing System

Department Having Jurisdiction

the Administrative Authority and includes any other law enforcement agency concerned by any provision of this Code, whether such agency is specifically named or not.

a. Dept. Having Jurisdiction

b. Board

c. NAMPAP

d. Commission

Industrial Waste

any and all liquid or water-borne waste from industrial or commercial processes, except domestic sewage.

a. Chemical Waste

b. Industrial Waste

c. Sanitary Waste

d. Liquid Waste

Nuisance

Whenever any work regulated by this code is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health and property and inadequate or unsafe water supply and or sewage disposal system.

a. Insanitary

b. Contamination

c. Nuisance

d. Cross- connection

Sanitary Sewer

a sewer intended to receive sanitary sewage with or without pre-treated industrial wastes and without the admixture of rain or ground water.

a. Public Sewer

b. Sanitary Sewer

c. Sewer

d. Domestic Sewer

0.6

Building sewer begins ____ meters outside the building wall.

a. 0.4

b. 0.3

c. 0.5

d. 0.6

Static Pressure

the pressure existing without any flow motion.

a. Static Pressure

b. Pressure

c. Residual Pressure

d. Pressure Relief

Seepage Pit

A loosely lined excavation in the ground, which receives the discharge of a septic tank and designed to permit the effluent from the septic tank to seep through pit bottom and sides

a. Leaching Cesspool

b. Privy Vault

c. Cesspool

d. Seepage Pit

Code

This word, when used alone, shall mean these regulations, subsequent amendments thereto or any emergency rule or regulation which the Administrative Authority jurisdiction may lawfully adopt.

a. Board

b. Code

c. Law

d. Rule

Flood Level Rim

is the top edge of a receptacle from where water overflows.

a. Critical Level

b. Flood Level

c. Flood Level Rim

d. Flood Area

Polybutylene (PB)

Colored black. The cross-sectional shape is normally OVAL and is denoted by its O.D.

a. cross linked polyethylene ( PEX)

b. Polyvinyl Chloride ( PVC)

c. Polyethylene ( PE )

d. Polybutylene ( PB )

Backvent Pipe

the part of a vent line, which connects directly with an individual trap underneath or behind the fixture and extends to the branch or main vent pipe at any point higher than the fixture or fixture traps it serves. This is sometimes called an individual vent.

a. Dry Vent

b. Backvent Pipe

c. Tailpiece

d. Main Vent

Interceptor ( clarifier)

is a device designed and installed to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous or undesirable matters from normal wastes and permits normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.

a. Interceptor ( clarifier 0

b. Septic Tank

c. Drain field

d. Catch Basin

Gooseneck

This term means the flexible tubing connection between a service pipe and a water main.

a. Corporation Cock

b. Gooseneck

c. Curb Stop

d. Fixture Supply

Single Family Dwelling

a building designed as a home by the owner of such building, and shall be the only dwelling located on a parcel of ground with the usual accessory building.

a. Multi Family Dwelling

b. Single Family Dwelling

c. Structure

d. Building

2.43

Minimum Branch Interval

a. 2.41

b. 2.42

c. 2.43

d. 2.40

Domestic Sewage

"The liquid and water borne waste derived form the ordinary living process, free from industrial wastes, and of such character as to permit satisfactory disposal without special treatment into the public sewer or by means of private disposal system."

a. Sewage

b. Sanitary Sewage

c. Domestic Sewage

d. Liquid Waste

Trap Arm

that portion of a fixture drain between a trap and the vent

a. Trap Seal

b. Tailpiece

c. Trap Arm

d. Bend

Shaft

a vertical opening through a building for elevators, dumbwaiters, lights. ventilation or similar purposes.

a. Shaft

b. Standpipe

c. Stack

d. Chase

Special Wastes

wastes which require some special methods of handling such as the use of indirect waste piping and receptors; corrosion resistant piping, sand, oil or grease interceptors, condensers or other pretreatment facilities.

a. Domestic Waste

b. Special Waste

c. Industrial Waste

d. Chemical Waste

Lateral

In plumbing, a secondary pipeline. In sewerage, a common sewer to which no other branch sewer is connected. It receives sewage from building sewer service connections only.

a. Lateral

b. Branch Pipe

c. Secondary

d. Branch

Unconfined Space

a room space having a volume equal to at least 1.4 c.u . m. of the aggregate input rating of the fuel-burning appliance installed in that space. Rooms adjacent and open to the space where the appliance is installed, through openings not furnished with doors, are considered a part of this.

a. Unconfined Space

b. Confined Space

c. Sump

d. Interior Room

Private Sewer

a building sewer, which receives the discharge from more than one building drain and conveys it to a public sewer, private sewage disposal system, or other points of disposal

a. House Sewer

b. Private Sewer

c. Public Sewer

d. Mobile Home Park Sewer

House Storm Sewer

is the pipeline from the building to the public or street storm drainage system.

a. Sewer

b. House Storm Sewer

c. Combination Sewer

d. Storm Sewer

Wet Standpipe

A standpipe where water pressure is maintained at all times.

a. Automatic Standpipe System

b. Standpipe

c. Manually Operated Standpipe System

d. Wet Standpipe

Sand Interceptor

______ are in-ground tanks designed to capture dirt, sand, to keep these substances out of our wastewater system.

a. Catch Basin

b. Grease Interceptor

c. Sand Interceptor

d. Grease Trap

Subsoil Drain

an underground drainpipe that receives only sub-surface or seepage water and convey it to a sump for disposal by gravity flow or by lift pump.

a. Subsoil Drain

b. Building Drain

c. Building Subdrain

d. Building Sewer

3 cu. m

Grease interceptor min. capacity

a. 3 cu. m

b. 1 cu. m

c. 5 cu. m

d. 4 cu. m

Backflow

the flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances into the distributing pipes of a potable supply of water from any source other than from its intended source.

a. Vacuum

b. Back-Siphonage

c. Backflow

d. Backpressure Backflow

Yard

an open. unoccupied space, other than a court, unobstructed from the ground to the sky, except where specifically provided in this Code.

a. Setback

b. Court

c. Atrium

d. Yard

Horizontal Pipe

It is any pipe or fitting installed in a horizontal position or which forms an angle of not more than forty-five (45) degrees with the horizontal plane.

a. Lateral

b. Horizontal Pipe

c. Horizontal Branch

d. Vertical Branch

Offset

in a line of piping is a combination of elbows or bends, which brings one section of the pipe out of line but into a line parallel with the original section

a. Parallel

b. Offset

c. Eccentric

d. Centerline

Effective Opening

_________is the minimum cross-sectional area at the point of water supply discharge measured or expressed in terms of (l) diameter of a circle; (2) if the opening is not circular, the diameter of a circle of equivalent cross-sectional area

a. Orifice

b. Centerline

c. Effective Opening

d. Diameter

Repair

The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing structure or device.

a. Maintenance

b. Renovation

c. Alteration

d. Repair

Soil Pipe

any pipe, which conveys the discharge of water closet, urinal or fixtures having similar functions, with or without the discharges from other fixtures to the building drain or building sewer.

a. Soil Stack Pipe

b. Waste Pipe

c. Soil Pipe

d. Drain Pipe

Catch Basin

receptacle in which liquids are retained for a sufficient period of time to allow settleable material to deposit.

a. Scupper Drain

b. Sump Pit

c. Catch Basin

d. Septic Tank

Court

an open, unoccupied space, bounded on two (2) or more sides by the walls of the building. An inner court is a court entirely within the exterior walls of a building. All other courts are outer courts.

a. Yard

b. Court

c. Alley

d. Atrium

Wet Vent

that portion of a vent pipe through where waste water also flows through.

a. Dry Vent

b. Bypass Vent

c. Revent Pipe

d. Wet Vent

Public

________ shall mean all buildings or structures that are NOT defined as private or private use.

a. Private

b. Confined Space

c. Public

d. Public Space

Plumbing Appliance

any one of a special class of device or equipment intended to perform a special plumbing function. Its operation and/or control may be dependent upon one or more energized components, such as motors, controls, heating elements and pressure-temperature-sensing elements. Such device or equipment may operate automatically through one or more of the following actions: a time cycle, a temperature range, a pressure range, a measured volume or weight~ or the device or equipment may be manually adjusted or controlled by the user or operator.

a. Plumbing System

b. Plumbing Fixtures

c. Plumbing Appurtenance

d. Plumbing Appliance

Testing Laboratory

Who establishes the Critical Level Marking on Backflow Prevention devices

a. Administrative Authority

b. Manufacturer

c. NAMPAP

d. Testing Laboratory

Gooseneck

a return bend of a small sized pipe, one end of which is about 30cm long & the other end is about 7.5cm long. It is commonly used as a faucet for a pantry sink. Also, the term means the flexible tubing connection between the service pipe & the water main.

a. Gooseneck

b. Faucet

c. Bibb

d. Offset

Faucet

a valve located at the end of a water pipe through of which water can be drawn from or held within the pipe.

a. Faucet

b. Fixture

c. Spigot

d. Fixture Supply

Bending Pin ( or Iron )

a tool for straightening or bending lead pipe.

a. Bending pin or iron

b. Propane

c. Spring Bender

d. Tube Bender