Plumbing - Session 3 Part 2

A drainage pipe for conveying storm water from a roof or gutter drains to an approved means of disposal:

A. Leader.

B. stack.

C. Main.

D. Riser. ```

A vertical pipe to which connections are made from the fixture side of traps and through which vapor or foul air is removed from the fixture or device utilized on bedpan washers.:

A. Vent stack.

B. local vent stack.

C. Riser.

D. Stack vented.

An assembly consisting of a water closet and sump with a macerating pump that is designed to collect, grind and pump waste from the water closet and up to two other fixtures connected to the sump:

A. Sewer ejector.

B. pneumatic ejector.

C. Macerating toilet system.

D. Sump pump system.

The principal artery to which branches are connected:

A. Service pipe.

B. flared joint.

C. Putty joint.

D. Glued joint.

A connection between pipes, fittings, or pipes and fittings that is not screwed, caulked, threaded soldered, solvent cemented, brazed or welded. A joint in which compression is applied along the centerline of the pieces being joined. In some applications, the joint is part of a coupling, fitting or adapter:

A. Mechanical joint.

B. flared joint.

C. Putty joint.

D. Glued joint.

The complete system to convey medical gases for direct patient application from central supply systems (bulk tanks, manifolds, and medical air compressors), with pressure and operating controls, alarm warning systems, related components and piping networks extending to station outlet valves at patient use points:

A. Gas system.

B. medical gas system.

C. Medical vacuum systems.

D. Hospital system.

A system consisting of central-vacuum-producing equipment with pressure and operating controls, shut off valves, alarm-warning systems, gauges and a network of piping extending to and terminating with suitable station inlets at locations where patient suction may be required:

A. Medical gas system.

B. medical vacuum systems.

C. Vacuum system.

D. Gas system.

Water not safe for drinking, personal or culinary utilization:

A. Potable water.

B. non-potable water.

C. Putrid water.

D. Purified water.

The purpose for which a building or portion thereof is utilized or occupied:

A. C of O.

B. occupancy.

C. Zoned.

D. Residential.

A combination of approved bends that makes two changes in direction bringing one section of the pipe out of line but into line parallel with the other section:

A. Parallel lines.

B. offset.

C. Return lines.

D. Changes of direction.

Outside the structure:

A. Open air.

B. fresh air.

C above the roof.

D. driveway.

A practice, materials and fixtures utilized in the installation, maintenance, extension and alteration of all piping, fixtures, plumbing appliances, plumbing appurtenances, gas piping and limited fire protection as defined in section 28-201.3, within or adjacent to any structure, in connection with sanitary drainage or storm drainage facilities, venting systems; and public or private water supply systems:

A. Plumbing.

B. pipe fitter work.

C. Fire suppression.

D. Maintenance Plb.

Any one of a special class of a plumbing fixtures intended to perform a special function. Included are fixtures having the operation or control dependent on one or more energized components, such as motors, controls, heating, elements, or pressure-or-temperature-sensing elements. Such as manually adjusted or controlled by the owner or operator, or are operated automatically through one or more of the following actions:! a time cycle, a temperature range, a pressure range, a measured volume or weight:

A. Plumbing appliance.

B. plumbing

C. Plumbing appurtenance.

D. Plumbing fixture.

A manufactured device, prefabricated assembly or an on-the-job assembly of components parts that is an adjunct to the basic piping system and plumbing fixtures. An appurtenance demands no additional water and does not add any discharge load to a fixture or to the drainage system:

A. Plumbing.

B. plumbing appliance.

C. Plumbing appurtenance.

D. Plumbing fixture.

A receptacle or a device that is either permanently or temporarily connected to the water distribution system of the premises and demands a supply of water therefrom; discharges waste water, liquid-borne waste materials or sewage either directly or indirectly to the drainage system of the premises; or requires both a water supply connection and a discharge to the drainage system of the premises:

A. Plumbing appliance.

B. plumbing appurtenance.

C. Plumbing fixture

D. Plumbing system.

Includes the water supply and distribution pipes; plumbing fixtures and traps; water-treating or water using equipment; soil, wast and vent pipes; and sanitary storm sewers and building drains; in addition to their respective connections, devices and appurtenances within a structure or premises:

A. Plumbing appliances.

B. plumbing appurtenance

C. Plumbing fixture.

D. Plumbing system.

Water free from impurities resent in the amounts sufficient to cause disease or harmful physiological effects and conforming to the bacteriological and chemical quality requirements of the public health service drinking water standards or the regulations of the public health authority having jurisdiction:

A. Non-potable water.

B. water not used for human consumption.

C. Water that when drank will cause ill effects.

D. Potable water.

In classification of plumbing fixtures, "..." applies to fixtures in residences and apartments, and to fixtures in nonpublic toilet rooms of hotels and motels and similar installations in buildings where the plumbing fixtures are intended for utilization by a family or an individual:

A. Private.

B. public.

C. Non-private.

D. Toilets used for theater goers.

In the classification of plumbing fixtures, "..." Applies to fixtures in general toilet rooms of schools, gymnasiums, hotels, airports, bus and railroad stations, public buildings, bars, public comfort stations, office buildings, stadiums, stores, restaurants and other installations where a number of fixtures are installed so that their utilization is similarly unrestricted:

A. Private.

B. public or public utilization.

C. non-public.

D. Toilets in residential homes.

A water supply for public utilization controlled by public authority:

A. Private water main.

B. a water distribution piping system.

C. Public water main.

D. Water main.

A valve or faucet that closes automatically when released manually or that is controlled by a mechanical means for fast-action closing:

A. Manually closed valves.

B. quick-closing valve.

C. Slow-closing valve.

D. A valve that takes 10 seconds to close.

That which enables a fixture, appliance or equipment to be directly reached without requiring the removal or movement of any panel, door or similar obstruction and without the use of a portable ladder, step stool or similar device:

A. Ready access.

B. non-accessible.

C. Un-accessible.

D. Access not readily accessible.

A backflow prevention device consisting of two independently acting check valves, internally forced-loaded to a normally closed position and separated by an intermediate chamber (or zone) in which.there is an automatic relief means of venting to the atmosphere, internally loaded to a normally opened position between two tightly closing shutoff valves and with a means for testing for tightness of the checks and opening of the relief means:

A. Double check valve with two gate valves.

B. pressure temperature and relief valve.

C. Double pressure temperature and relief valve.

D. Reduced pressure principle backflow preventer.

An architect or engineers defined in section 28-101.

5 of the plumbing code, NYC:

A. Registered.

B. graduate engineer.

C. Graduate architect.

D. Registered design professional.

A pressure-actuated valve held close by a spring or other means and designed to relieve pressure automatically at the pressure at which such valve is set:

A. Check valve.

B. backwater valve.

C. Pressure relief valve

D. T&P valve.

A combination relief valve designed to function as both a temperature relief and a pressure relief valve:

A. Temperature relief valve.

B. pressure relief valve.

C. Temperature and pressure relief (T&P) valve

D. Altitude, pressure and temperature relief valve.

A temperature-actuated valve designed to discharge automatically at the temperature at which such valve is set:

A. Pressure and temperature relief valve.

B. temperature relief valve.

C. Pressure valve.

D. Flushometer valve.

A vent whose primary function is to provide circulation of air between drainage and vent systems:

A. Waste pipe.

B. soil pipe.

C. Vent through roof.

D. Relief vent.

An unobstructed open edge of a fixture:

A. Fixture overflow.

B. overflow pipe in a roof tank.

C. Fixture splash back.

D. Rim.

A water supply pipe that extends one full story or more to convey water to branches or to a group of fixtures:

A. Branch.

B. water supply pipe.

C. Riser.

D. Croten.

A drain installed to receive water collecting on the surface of a roof and to discharge such water into a leader or conductor:

A. Area drain.

B. roof drain.

C. Surface drain.

D. Zipper drain.

Parts of a plumbing system that are installed prior to the installation of fixtures. This includes drainage, water supply, vent piping and the necessary fixture supports and any fixtures that are built into the structure:

A. Rough-in-out.

B. rough-in.

C. Underground.

D. Finish or final.

A faucet containing a valve that automatically closes upon deactivation of the opening:

A. Manual-closing faucet.

B. self-closing faucet.

C. Semi-manual closing faucet.

D. Any shower body.

Any liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution, including liquids containing chemicals in solution:

A. Waste water.

B. soil pipe.

C. Sewage.

D. Silt pump.

Mechanical device used to pump or eject sewer:

A. Sump pump.

B. foot pump.

C. Sewage ejector.

D. Silt pump

A common sewer directly controlled by public authority:

A. Public sewer.

B. private sewer.

C. City sewer.

D. State sewer.

A sewer that carries sewage and excludes storm, surface and ground water:

A. Sanitary sewer.

B. storm sewer.

C. Public sewer.

D. Combination.

A sewer that conveys rainwater, surface water, subsurface water and similar liquid waste:

A. Public sewer.

B. storm sewer.

C. Private sewer.

D. Combination.

The fall (pitch) of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal plane. In drainage, the slope is expressed as the fall in units vertical per units horizontal (percent) for a length of pipe ( inch per feet):

A. Rise.

B offset.

C. Advance.

D. Slope.

A pipe that conveys sewage containing fecal matter to the building drain or building sewer:

A. Soil pipe.

B. waste pipe.

C. Stack.

D. Sewage line.

A general term for any line of soil, waste, vent or inside conductor piping that extends through at least one story with or without offsets:

A. Stack vent.

B. stack.

C. Soil stack.

D. Leader.

The extension of a soil or waste stack above the highest horizontal drain connected to the stack:

A. Stack.

B. soil stack.

C. Stack vent.

D. Waste stack.

A method of venting a fixture or fixtures through the soil or waste stack:

A. Stack.

B. soil vent.

C. Stack vent.

D. Stack venting.

A ... Is a fixture of non-pressure type utilizes for boiling instruments, utensils or other equipment for disinfection. These devices are portable or are connected to the plumbing system:

A. Boiling-type sterilizer.

B. instrument-type sterilizer.

C. Utensil-type sterilizer.

D. Water-type sterilizer.

A device for sterilization of various instruments:

A. Instrument sterilizer.

B. pressure (autoclave).

C. Water-type sterilizer.

D. Utensil sterilizer.

A pressure vessel fixture designed to utilize steam under pressure for sterilization:

A. Boiling type sterilizer.

B. pressure (autoclave).

C. Pressure instrument washer sterilizer.

D. Utensil sterilizer.

A … Is a pressure vessel fixture designed to both wash and sterilize instruments during the operating cycle of the fixture:

A. Boiling type sterilizer.

B. pressure (autoclave).

C. Instrument sterilizer.

D. Pressure instrument washer sterilizer.

A device for sterilization of utensils as utilized in health care services:

A. Instrument sterilizer.

B. utensil sterilizer.

C. Water sterilizer.

D. Boiling type sterilizer.

A device for sterilizing water and storing sterile water:

A. Water sterilizer.

B. instrument sterilizer.

C. Utensil sterilizer.

D. Instrument (autoclave) sterilizer.

A separate pipe or stack, indirectly connected to the building drainage system at the lower terminal, that receives the vapors from non-pressure sterilizers and conducts the vapor directly to the open air. Also called vapor, steam, atmospheric or exhaust vent:

A. Vent pipe.

B. local vent.

C. Steam vent.

D. Sterilizer vent.

An impairment of the quality of the potable water that creates an actual hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease by sewage, industrial fluids or waste:

A. High bacteria potable water.

B. waste water.

C. Hazardous bacteria.

D. Contamination.

A waste from two or more fixtures on one trap. Distance between trap and fixture outlet should not exceed

30 inches, this type of installation is called:

A. Continuous waste.

B. dual waste.

C. Combined waste.

D. Combination waste.

A branch leading from a soil, waste or vent pipe; a building drain; or a building sewer, and terminating at a developed length of

2 feet or more by means of a plug, cap or other closed fitting:

A. Continuous waste.

B. dead end.

C. Plugged end.

D. Capped end.

An elevation (height) reference point that determines the minimum height a backflow preventer or vacuum breaker is installed above the flood level rim of the fixture or receptor served by the device. The ... Is elevation level below which there is a potential for backflow to occur. If the ... Marking is not indicated on the device, the bottom of the device shall constitute the:

A. Water mark.

B. air gap.

C. Air break.

D. Critical level (C-L).

Any physical connection or arrangement between two otherwise separate piping systems, one of which contains potable water and the other either of unknown or questionable safety or steam, gas or chemical, whereby there exists the possibility for flow from one system to the other, with the direction of flow depending on the pressure differential between the two systems is called:

A. Siphonic action.

B. contamination.

C. Noxious.

D. Cross connection.

The depth of the water that would have to be removed from a full trap before air could pass through the trap is called the:

A. The width of the water seal.

B. the length of the water seal.

C. A seal that is real deep.

D. Depth of water seal.

The elevation of the "design flood" including wave height, relative to the datum specified on the city's legal designated flood hazard map is called the:

A. Flood design.

B. elevated storm water.

C. Flood hazard height.

D. Design flood elevation.

The length of a pipeline measured along the centerline of the pipe and fittings is called:

A. Developed pipeline.

B. measured pipeline.

C. End-to-end measurements.

D. Developed length.

A pipe that conveys the discharges from plumbing fixtures or appliances:

A. Water pipe.

B. discharge pipe.

C. Receiving pipe.

D. Used pipe.

Any pipe that carries waste water or water-borne waste in a building drainage system:

A. Drain.

B. pipe.

C. Water.

D. Vent.

Type of fitting or fittings utilized in the drainage systems:

A. Drainage fittings.

B. pressure fittings.

C. Soil fittings.

D. Non- pressure fittings.

A measure of the probable discharge into the drainage system by various types of plumbing fixtures. The drainage ... Value for a particular fixture depends on its volume rate of drainage discharge, on the time duration of a single drainage operation and on the average time between successive operations:

A. Fixture unit (DFU).

B. gallons per hour.

C. Gallons per minute.

D. 15 gallons per minute.

Piping within a public or private premise that conveys sewage, rainwater, or other liquid wastes to appoint of disposal. A drainage system does not include the main of a public sewer system or a private or public sewage treatment or disposal plant:

A. Drainage system.

B. venting system.

C. Water distribution system.

D. Gas system.

A drainage system that drains by gravity into the building sewer:

A. Sewage ejector drainage system.

B. sump pump drainage system.

C. Controlled flow drainage system.

D. Building gravity drainage system.

A drainage system that carries sewage and excludes storm, surface and ground water:

A. Sewage ejector.

B. sump pump.

C. Controlled flow.

D. Sanitary.

A drainage system that carries rainwater, surface water, subsurface water and similar liquid waste:

A. Building gravity.

B. sanitary.

C. Storm.

D. Force fed.

The minimum cross sectional area at the point of water supply discharge, measured or expressed in terms of the diameter of a circle or. If the opening is not circular, the diameter of a circle of equivalent cross- sectional area. For faucets and similar fittings, the effective opening shall be measured at the smallest orifice in the fitting body or in the supply to the fitting:

A. Orifice opening.

B. weir of the spout.

C. Effective opening.

D. Maximum flow.

The floor drain that does not receive the discharge of any drain or indirect waste pipe, and that protects against damage from accidental spills, fixture overflows and leakage:

A. Floor drain.

B. useful drain.

C. Emergency floor drain.

D. Quick drain.

Fluids having a Gosselin rating of 1, including propylene glycol; mineral oil; polydimethylsiloxance; hydrochlorofluorocarbon; chlorofluorocarbon and carbon refrigerants; and FDA-approved boiler water additives for steam boilers are:

A. Essentially toxic transfer fluids.

B. essentially nontoxic transfer fluids.

C. Toxic transfer fluids.

D. Essentially extremely toxic transfer fluids.

Soil wast or gray water and fluids having a Gosselin rating* of 2or more including ethylene glycol, hydrocarbon oils, ammonia refrigerants and hydrazine:

A. Essentially toxic transfer fluids.

B. essentially nontoxic transfer fluids.

C. Toxic transfer fluids.

D. Essentially extremely toxic transfer fluids.

Any plumbing system regulated by this code that was legally installed prior to the effective date of this code, or for which a permit to install has been issued:

A. Past installations.

B. future installations.

C. Existing installations.

D. Present installations.

A valve end of a water pipe through which water is drawn from or held within the pipe:

A. Outlet pipe.

B. faucet.

C. Orifice.

D. Weir of pipe.

A water supply valve, opened or closed by means of a float or similar device, utilized to supply water to a tank. An anti siphon fill valve contains an anti siphon device in the form of an approved air gap or vacuum breaker that is an integral part of the fill valve unit and that is positioned on the discharge side of the water supply control valve:

A. Drain valve.

B. gate valve.

C. Fill valve.

D. Siphon valve.

A drain serving two or more fixtures that discharges to another drain or to a stack:

A. Common branch.

B. house drain.

C. Fixture branch.

D. Lateral line.

The drain from the trap of a fixture to a junction with any other drain pipe:

A. Fixture branch.

B. fixture outlet.

C. Fixture waste.

D. Fixture drain.