)

What is the minimum pipe size of the standpipe if the highest outlet is located more
than 23 meters above the Fire Service connection?

A. 3 inches
B. 6 inches (Correct Answer)
C. 5 inches (Your Answer)
D. 4 inches
Incorrect
2)

For how many days shall the REvised National Plumbing Code will take effect
following its complete publication in the Official Gazette?

A. 100 days (Correct Answer)

B. 60 days (Your Answer)
C. 50 days
D. 30 days
Incorrect
3)

What is the minimum diameter of vent pipe is allowed in the revised Code?

A. 1 inch (Your Answer)

B. 1 1/4 inch (Correct Answer)
C. 2 inch
D. 1 1/2 inch
Incorrect
4)

What is the PRC Resolution Number is issued by the Board of Master Plumbing for
the adoption and promulgation of the Revised National Plumbing Code of the
Philippines?

A. Res. No. 2
B. Res. No. 1378 (Your Answer)
C. Res. No. 4 (Correct Answer)
D. Res. No. 962
Incorrect
5)

What is the minimum pipe size of the standpipe if the highest outlet is located 23
meters or less above the Fire Service connection?

A. 3 inches
B. 6 inches (Your Answer)
C. 5 inches
D. 4 inches (Correct Answer)
Correct

6)

What is the minimum horizontal clear dsitance from the septic tank to the property
line of the adjoining private property?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
7)

1.0 m
1.2 m
1.5 m (Your Answer)
1.8 m

The minimum requirement for the slope of horizontal drainage pipes between
manholes is

A. 2% (Your Answer)
B. 2 1/2%
C. 3%
D. 4%
Incorrect
8)

Of the four board subjects given for Master Plumbers examination, which of this
subject was originally split into two subject?

A. Practical Problems (Correct Answer)

B. Design And Installations (Your Answer)
C. Plumbing Code
D. Plumbing Arithmetic
Incorrect
9)

Within how many meters away shall unions be installed from regulating equipment,
water heater, conditioning tank and similar equipment which require removal for
servicing or replacement?

A. 2 ft (Your Answer)
B. 1 m
C. 5 ft
D. 0.3 m (Correct Answer)
Incorrect
10)

Under the Accessibilty Law, what is the minimum area of water closet stalls?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct

1.7 x 1.8 meters (Correct Answer)

2.0 x 2.0 meters
1.5 x 1.8 meters
1.2 x 2.0 meters (Your Answer)

11)

What type of PVC female screws for water piping is prohibited under the code?

A. Tapped
B. Job fabricated (Your Answer)
C. Seamless
D. Schedule 20 screws
Incorrect
12)

What is the shape for the signage for women's comfort room in order to aid visually
impaired women readilty determine whether a washroom is for men or women?

A. CIRCLE (Correct Answer)

B. RECTANGLE
C. TRIANGLE (Your Answer)
D. SQUARE
Incorrect
13)

According to the Fire Code of the Philippines what is the required slope of all
horizontal runs of dry standpipes system for purpose of drawing?

A. 10%
B. 20% (Correct Answer)
C. 5%
D. 2% (Your Answer)
Correct
14)

What is the minimum total net inlet area of roof deck drains on roof deck used as sun
decks and parking decks?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
15)

Equal to the area of outlet pipe

Equal to 4 times the area of outlet pipe
Equal to 2 times the area of outlet pipe (Your Answer)
Equal to 1 1/2 times the area of outlet pipe

Aside from galvanized steel, what is the other material for dry standpipe that the
Building Code allows?

A. PVC pipe
B. Wrought iron (Your Answer)
C. PE pipe
D. Brass
Correct
16)

For new, additional or altered plumbing installation not exceeding 20 units, the

Building Code stated that a Licensed Master Plumber could sign and affix his seal on
the follwing engineering documents except
A. Plumbing plan and layout
B. Design analysis and plans of the original installation (Your Answer)
C. Isometric drawing
D. Guide specifications and bill of materials
Incorrect
17)

With what standard specification must all pipe materials must conform to?

A. Product Strandard of the Philippines (Correct Answer)

B. Interational Producers Standard
C. Philippine Standard Council (Your Answer)
D. Department of Trade and Industry
Incorrect
18)

How does a pneumatic tank be designed to supply adequate water pressure in all
floors of a building that will be in accordance with the Building Code?

A. Twice the maximum total dynamic pressure required (Correct Answer)

B. Equal to the total water supply fixture units
C. Twice the total demand per capita
D. Equal to the total dynamic head and minus all the head losses (Your Answer)
Incorrect
19)

When shall the installation of plumbing equipment to supply building or structures

from existing water supply system only be allowed to?

A. If the water demand is inadequate (Your Answer)

B. Whenever the water supply is scantity availbale
C. When there is always water in the main (Correct Answer)
D. When water is not available in the vicinity
Incorrect
20)

One of the Code of Ethics for Master Plumber states "Take advantage of a salaried
____ position to complete unfairly with a practicing Master Plumber." What is the
missing word?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct

HIGHER
GOVERNMENT (Correct Answer)
PRIVATE
COMPETENT (Your Answer)

21)

According to Rep. Act 1378 for at leasrt how many years must the appointee to the
Board of Master Plumbers must have been actively engaged in the trade of plumbing?

A. Ten years
B. Eight years
C. Two years
D. Five years (Your Answer)
Incorrect
22)

What is not needed to be installed when a combination standpipe system is installed in

accordance with the Fire Code?

A. Dry standpipe (Correct Answer)

B. Wet standpipe
C. Sprinkler system (Your Answer)
D. Siamese connection
Incorrect
23)

Where practical, all pipes from fixtures shall be run in what direction with respect to
the nearest wall or building line?

A. Offset (Your Answer)

B. Parallel (Correct Answer)
C. Across
D. Perpendicular
Incorrect
24)

The following are grounds for non-issuance of the certificate of registration by the
Board of Master Plumbers EXCEPT

A. Convicted by court for any criminal offense

B. Of unsound mind (Your Answer)
C. Guilty of immoral or dishonorable conduct
D. Failure to pay the required fees (Correct Answer)
Incorrect
25)

If a septic tank has a compartment that exceed 3.7 m in length, what should be the
additional requirement?

A. An additional manhole (Correct Answer)

B. Increase the size of the leaching chamber
C. Increase the number of compartments
D. Baffle wall is added (Your Answer)
Incorrect

26)

Under what law did plumbing became a duly recognized profession by the Philppine
government?

A. Nat'l Plumbing Code of the Phil of 1959

B. Tydings McDuffie Act of 1905
C. Jones Law of 1907 (Correct Answer)
D. Republic Act 1378 (Your Answer)
Incorrect
27)

Building sewers shall be tested by completely filling the sewer with water from the
___

A. Lowest to the highest point (Correct Answer)

B. Lowest to at least ground level
C. Lowest to at least a 10-foot head (Your Answer)
D. Lowest to at least a 5-foot head
Incorrect
28)

Within how many days upon the approval of Rep. Act No. 1378 does it require to have
a Board Examiners for Master Plumbers formed?

A. Thirty days (Correct Answer)

B. Fortyfive days
C. Sixty days (Your Answer)
D. Fifteen days
Incorrect
29)

What is the nimimum floor area in every storey which is used for habitation,
recreation, dining, study of work and which has an occupiped load of not more than
20, wherein a standard automatic extinguishing system is a

A. 300 sq.m (Your Answer)

B. 200 sq.m (Correct Answer)
C. 400 sq.m
D. 500 sq.m
Correct
30)

What is the fee if an expired plumbing permit is renewed?

A. P 150.00
B. Equal to the original fee
C. Double of the original fee
D. 1/2 of the original fee (Your Answer)
Incorrect

31)

What is the minimum dimension for a turning space in a water closet stall intended for
disabled persons?

A. 2.00 m
B. 1.20 m (Your Answer)
C. 1.00 m
D. 1.50 m (Correct Answer)
Correct
32)

A kind of cleanout plugs that will be installed in case where raised heads may cause
hazards to passing personnel or vehicles.

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
33)

Depressed
Countersunk (Your Answer)
Embedded
Recessed

What is the maximum allowable lead content of pipe and fitting for potable piping
system?

A. 0%
B. 2%
C. 5%
D. 8% (Your Answer)
Incorrect
34)

What is the maximum height should a water closet have if it is intended for a disabled
person.

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
35)

0.40m
0.50m * (Your Answer)
0.45m (Correct Answer)
0.35m

For the hot and cold water distribution system, on what side should the hot water
supply be placed in combination fittings?

A. Left (Your Answer)

B. Right
C. Center
D. None of these
Correct

36)

The following are the data required whenever a Registered Master Plumber sign the
blueprint of the building plan EXCEPT

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
37)

Date of PRC registration

PTR date
Registration expiry date (Your Answer)
None of these

What institution standart used as a reference for joining pipes?

A. ASSE
B. ASPE
C. ANSI
D. IAPMO (Your Answer)
Correct
38)

To what provision does the design, construction and operation of deep wells for the
abstraction of ground water will have to follow?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
39)

National Plumbing Code of the Philippines

National Standards for Drinking Water
Water Code of the Philippines (Your Answer)
Code of Sanitation

How many units do the controversial Article 3.2.2.2 of PD 1096 otherwise known as
the National Building Code limits the practice of Master Plumber?

A. 20 (Your Answer)
B. 10
C. 5
D. 50
Incorrect
40)

Accordingto Batas Pambansa Blg. 344, what type of urinal should be provided for
disabled persons?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
41)

WALL-HUNG TYPE (Your Answer)

PEDESTAL TYPE
TROUGH TYPE (Correct Answer)
NONE OF THESE

What kind of septic tank is prohibited?

A. CONCRETE
B. STEEL
C. PLASTIC
D. WOODEN (Your Answer)
Correct
42)

To allow cleaning of the soil and waste line each cleanout should be installed

A. In the direction of flow (Your Answer)

B. Opening upward
C. Vertically above flow line
D. All of these
Incorrect
43)

Who has the power to remove any member of the Board of Master Plumbers for
neglect of duty, incompetence, malpratice and unprofessional or dishonorable
conduct?

A. President of the Philippines (Correct Answer)

B. Civil Service Commisioner
C. Chairman of PRC Commisioners (Your Answer)
D. Commision on Appointments
Incorrect
44)

What is the minimum number of years of experience must a Registered Master

Plumber be before he can be a technical staff of a Building Office?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
45)

One year
Three years (Correct Answer)
Two years
Five years (Your Answer)

Who was the first Charter President of NAMPAP?

A. Antonio Mansueto Sr.

B. Comelio G. Odvina
C. Jesus Tanghal Dera
D. Catalino C. Casupanan (Your Answer)
Correct
46)

Aside from Bell and Spigot, B & S in the code means

A. Ball and Socket

B. Browning and Smith

C. Butt and Soldered
D. Brown and Sharp (Your Answer)
Correct
47)

What installation standard is followed in joining plastic pipe and fittings by solvent
cement?

A. ISO
B. ANSI
C. IAPMO (Your Answer)
D. ASHRAE
Incorrect
48)

Aside from the number of fixture units connected to it, the size of the vent piping is
determined by its

A. Number of inlets
B. Length (Correct Answer)
C. Discharge (Your Answer)
D. Loading
Incorrect
49)

The cover of gravity tanks shall be vented using a screened

A. Return bend pipe (Correct Answer)

B. Upright pipe
C. Horizontal nipple (Your Answer)
D. All of these
Incorrect
50)

Who is empowered to administer the provision of Rep. Act 1378?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
51)

Office of the President

Congress of the Philippines
The Board of Examiners for Master Plumbers (Correct Answer)
Professional Regulation Commision (Your Answer)

In sizing the grease interceptors, four elements are being used. Two of these elements
are number of meals per peak hour and the waste flow rate. Whta are the other two
elemets?
A. Slope and retention time
B. Storage factor and time of concentration

C. Retention time and storage factor (Your Answer)

D. Percolation rate and time of concentration
Incorrect
52)

What is the masimum length of the fire hose that shall be equipped on wet standpipes?

A. 12 meters
B. 23 meters (Correct Answer)
C. 17 meters
D. 25 meters (Your Answer)
Incorrect
53)

What should be done whenever a partition contains some piping and runs parallel to
the floor joist underneath?

A. Notching should be introduced into the joist

B. Adjust the joist to make it perpendicular with the direction of pipe (Your Answer)
C. Space the joist wider to accommodate the pipe
D. Double the joist (Correct Answer)
Incorrect
54)

In accordance to the Building Code, what must be provided in addition to septic tanks
by building located in areas where there is no sanitary sewerage system whenever they
will dispose their waste?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
55)

Baffle plate
Subsurface absorption filed (Correct Answer)
Imhoff tank
Settling chamber (Your Answer)

According to the Building Code of the Philippines what is the range in height above
grade should the Siamese fire department conncetion be installed?

A. 30 cm to 1.2 m (Your Answer)

B. 60 cm to 1.5 m
C. 80 cm to 1.8 m
D. 50 cm to 1.0 m
Incorrect
56)

What portion of the trap should the vent pipe opening will not go below from a soil or
waste pipe?
A. Slip joint
B. Weir (Correct Answer)

C. Sleeve
D. Seal (Your Answer)
Incorrect
57)

Whenever the piping is pressurized by a pump or ejector, what kind of pipe should not
be used in the excreta drainage system?

A. Vitrified clay pipe (Correct Answer)

B. Hubless cast iron (Your Answer)
C. Galvanized wrought iron
D. None of these
Incorrect
58)

The appropriate sealant that will be used to cover void spaces between pipes and
sleeves through concrete floors in the ground

A. Bitumen (Correct Answer)

B. Epoxy (Your Answer)
C. Grease
D. Putty
Incorrect
59)

The Building Code stated that all dry standpipe outlets shall be equipped with valves
having substantial chains. What kind of valve is this?

A. Check valve
B. Globe valve (Your Answer)
C. Gate valve (Correct Answer)
D. Ball valve
Incorrect
60)

What kind of joint is not allowed in cast iron pipe?

A. Welded
B. Threaded (Correct Answer)
C. Soldered
D. Ball and Spigot (Your Answer)
Incorrect
61)

Unless prohibited by structural conditions, what is the reference of each vertical vent
pipes before offsetting horizontally to join the stack vent or vent stack?
A. Invert of trap
B. Air gap of fixture (Your Answer)
C. Water level inside the trap

D. Highest flood level rim of fixture (Correct Answer)

Incorrect
62)

When permitted by DENR, which of the following below is NOT used as a basis in
determining the type of the private sewage disposal system to be used?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
63)

SOIL POROSITY
GROUND WATER LEVEL (Your Answer)
NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS (Correct Answer)
LOCATION

According to the Code, the desgign of roof gutters is based on the maximum roof area.
What is the shape of the gutter does the desgn table for storm sewer is being based to?

A. Circular
B. Restangular
C. Ovate
D. Semi-circular (Your Answer)
Incorrect
64)

Which of the following is not included in a plumbing unit?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
65)

Water Meter
Floor Drain
Urinal (Correct Answer)
Laundry Tray (Your Answer)

For at least how many working days shall a required for inspection of the plumbing
works be filed before such inspection be intended?

A. 7 working days
B. 5 working days
C. 3 working days (Your Answer)
D. 10 working days
Incorrect
66)

Drainage piping serving fixtures located below the crown level of the main sewer
shall discharge into an approved water tight
A.
B.
C.
D.

Septic tank
Sump (Correct Answer)
Cesspool
Leaching tank (Your Answer)

Incorrect
67)

Who is authorized to issue rules and regulations to carry into effect the objectives of
Rep. Act 1378?

A. Board of Master Plumbers

B. Congress of the Philippines (Your Answer)
C. President of the Philippines (Correct Answer)
D. Professional Regulation Commision
Incorrect
68)

What is the minimum age requirement for an appointee to become a member of the
Board of Master Plumbers?

A. Thirty years old (Correct Answer)

B. Twenty eight years old
C. Thirty two years old (Your Answer)
D. Thirty five years old
Incorrect
69)

What is the maximum distance as where supports of vertical cast iron soil pipes are
made?

A. Every 3.0 m (Your Answer)

B. Every meter
C. Every storey (Correct Answer)
D. Every joint
Correct
70)

Which of the following is a prohibited fixture inside a public toilet room?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
71)

Faucet
Drinking fountain (Your Answer)
Slop sink
Bidet

What shall be issued by the Administrative Authority for the construction of a part of a
large and/or complicated plumbing system before the entire plans and specifications
for the whole system have been submitted or approved?
A. Restraining order
B. Partial permit (Your Answer)
C. Summon
D. Evaluation sheet

Incorrect
72)

Wet venting is applied whenever

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
73)

There are 1 or 2 fixtures at every level (Your Answer)

Fixtures are of the same level (Correct Answer)
Fixtures are not vented individually
None of these

What is the minimum allowable interval for the support of plastic pipes when installed
vertically

A. 2ft
B. 5ft
C. 1 meter (Your Answer)
D. 1.5 meter
Incorrect
74)

NAMPAP is a professional organization of Registered Master Plumber under PRC.

What is the PRC accreditation number of NAMPAP?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
75)

10
14 (Correct Answer)
18
12 (Your Answer)

According to Art 3.2.2.2 of PD 1096 what scope of work in plan preparation for new
sanitary installations with more than 20 units does a sanitary engineer differs with a
Registered Master Plumber?

A. Det. all drawings of septic tanks in the absence of disposal field (Your Answer)
B. Sanitary plan, layout and details
C. Cost estimate
D. Isometric drawings of roughing in.
Incorrect
76)

What is the minimum number of water closet in a floor level wherein you have to
provide 1 water closet for disabled persons as provided by Batas Pambansa Blg. 344?
in excess of this number you have to provide 2.
A. 12 (Your Answer)
B. 15
C. 20 (Correct Answer)

D. 10
Incorrect
77)

Who among the Board Examiners is not a signatory to PRC Resolution 04 that request
for the adoption and promulgation of the Revised National Plumbing Code of the
Philippines in 1999?

A. Imelda Perez (Correct Answer)

B. Aida Emely Luz
C. Fortunato Amosco (Your Answer)
D. Jesus Pacheco
Incorrect
78)

Unless serving sinks or urinals, cleanouts may be omitted on a horizontal drain line
that is

A. Equal to 2.0 meters (Your Answer)

B. Greater than 2.0 meters
C. Less than 1.5 meters (Correct Answer)
D. None of these
Incorrect
79)

Article 3.2.2.2 of PD 1096 actually allows a Registered Master Plumber to sign and
seal plans for new sanitary installations of more than twenty (20) plumbing units.
Aside from being a Registered Master Plumber what is the other requirement that you
must have before you can sign and seal it?

A. A registered engineer (Correct Answer)

B. An engineering graduate
C. Having a minimum experience of 5 years
D. A member of NAMPAP (Your Answer)
Incorrect
80)

Who shall set the criteria for the quality of drinking water from meteoric, surface or
underground sources?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
81)

National Water Resources Board (Your Answer)

Department of Health
National Standards for Drinking Water (Correct Answer)
Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Which of the following could be omitted if the trap arm changes direction that does
not exceed 90 degrees?

A. Wye
B. Cleanout (Your Answer)
C. Long sweep
D. Combination of 1/8 bend and wye
Incorrect
82)

What government agency is tasked to set the criteria in the discharge of sanitary
sewage from buildings or pretreated industrial wastewater directly into the nearest
sanitary sewer main?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
83)

National Pollution Control Commission

Dept of Environment and Natural Resources (Correct Answer)
Department of Health
Department of Public Works (Your Answer)

What is the minimum height of raised letters on an iron or bronze sign that will read
"CONNECTION TO DRY STANDPIPE"?

A. 20mm
B. 1/4inch
C. 25mm (Your Answer)
D. 30mm
Incorrect
84)

A stack, as defined in the code, is ___

A.
B.
C.
D.

The main vent

Any vertical vent (Your Answer)
The horizontal main of soil, waste, or vent stack
The vertical main of soil, waste, or vent piping that extends one or more
stories (Correct Answer)
Incorrect
85)

Where should the overflow pipe lead for overhead tank installed on buildings?

A. Soil stack
B. Scuppers (Your Answer)
C. Storm drain (Correct Answer)
D. Gutter
Correct
86)

Which of the following is the primary basics for sizing vertical rainwater piping in the
Revised National Plumbing Code?

A. Intensity of rainfall (Your Answer)

B. Wind direction
C. Slope of roof
D. Roof area
Incorrect
87)

If ever pipes are to pass through masonry by using pipe sleeves, how far must each
pipe be from each other?

A. Minimum of three diameters, center to center (Correct Answer)

B. Minimum of three diameters flushed from each hole
C. Minimum of 0.15 m on centers (Your Answer)
D. Maximum of two diameters flushed from each hole
Incorrect
88)

A type of drainage and venting system with universal branch line that is prohibited

A. Single (Correct Answer)

B. Dual (Your Answer)
C. Dependent
D. Alternate
Incorrect
89)

Except for plastic piping system, hot and cold water piping may be tested wtih ___

A. 50 psi of the working pressure of the water in the system for at least 15
minutes(Correct Answer)
B. 100 psi air for at least 10 minutes
C. 35 psi air for at least 15 minutes (Your Answer)
D. 40 psi air or 150 psi water for 10 minutes
Correct
90)

Except on what fixture does the vent pipe opening from the soil or waste pipe must
not be below the weir of the trap?

A. Lavatory
B. Kitchen sink
C. Bath tub
D. Water closet (Your Answer)
Incorrect
91)

In the water test of the entire plumbing system all openings should be tightly closed
except at

A. Producing cleanouts
B. Highest opening (Correct Answer)
C. Stack vent
D. Bleeders (Your Answer)
Correct
92)

A plumbing permit shall expire and become null and void if the plumbing work
authorized therein if not started for how many days?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
93)

30 days
45 days
100 days
365 days (Your Answer)

What is the name of the professional orginazation for the Registered Master Plumbers
here in the Philippines?

A. National Association of Master Plumbing of the Philippines

B. National Association of Master Plumbers of the Phillipines
C. National Master Plumbers Association of the Philippines (Your Answer)
D. National Master Plumbing Association of the Philippines
Incorrect
94)

What shape of signage is shown for mens showroom?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
95)

SQUARE
CIRCLE (Your Answer)
TRIANGLE (Correct Answer)
RECTANGLE

If the discharge of a fixture or drain may contain solids or semisolids heavier than
water that would be harmful to the drainage system or cause stopaage within the
system, where the discharge must pass first?

A. Sand interceptor (Your Answer)

B. Screen wire mesh
C. Wooden baffle
Correct
96)

In the excreta drainage system, which of the following pipe materials should not be
used underground?
A. Vitrified clay pipe

B. Hubless cast iron

C. Galvanized wrought iron (Your Answer)
D. None of the above
Correct
97)

PD No. 1185 is another law that Master Plumbers used as their guide in the practice of
the plumbing profession.What is PD No. 1185?

A. Accessibilty Law
B. Fire Code of the Philippines (Your Answer)
C. Water Code of the Philippines
D. Code of Sanitation
Incorrect
98)

What is the minimum number of approved slip joints fittings may be used on the
putlet side of the trap?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
99)

Three
Two (Your Answer)
None
One (Correct Answer)

Which of the following plumbing code in USA does the National Plumbing Code of
the Philippines was being patterned for?

A. Standard Plumbing Code

B. ASPE Code
C. Uniform Plumbing Code (Your Answer)
D. International Plumbing Code
Incorrect
100) For a vertical drainage line that is installed to be truly in vertical position, what is the
allowed degeree of the branch to be used?
A. 10
B. 45 (Your Answer)
C. 30
D. 60 (Correct Answer)
Incorrect
101) Who is the current chairman of the Board of Examiners for Master Plumber?
A. Fortunato Amosco
B. Virgilio Simbulan (Correct Answer)

C. Jessie Mariano
D. Valerin Maogila (Your Answer)
Correct
102) What Congress of the Republic of the Philippines approved after the third reading
Rep. Act 1378 otherwise known as the Plumbing Law of the Philippines?
A. Third Congress (Your Answer)
B. Sixth Congress
C. Second Congress
D. Fifth Congress
Incorrect
103) Where the number of water closets in a floor level exceeds 20, how many of these
shall be provided to the disabled persons?
A. 1
B. 2 (Correct Answer)
C. 3
D. 4 (Your Answer)
Incorrect
104) What is the type of Siamese connection that all 125-millimeter dry standpipes shall be
equipped with?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct

Three-way (Correct Answer)

Two-way (Your Answer)
Four-way
One-way

105) In what year did NAMPAP was incorporated as a professional organization?

A. 1935 (Your Answer)
B. 1956
C. 1946
D. 1968
Incorrect
106) Who was awarded as the most outstanding Registered Master Plumber for the Year
2011?
A. Dave Vela (Correct Answer)
B. Alberto Azarcon
C. Alberto Cabael (Your Answer)

D. Thelma Cardente
Incorrect
107) A fitting for lead-caulked joint that is prohibited when in vertical position
A. Single hub
B. Double hub (Correct Answer)
C. Double tapped tee (Your Answer)
D. All of these
Correct
108) In 1966- 1969, the Board of Master Plumbers and NAMPAP prepared a curriculum
for Plumbing Engineering and approved by the Department of Education. What was
the first school that introduced the Plumbing Engineering curriculum?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct

Feati University (Your Answer)

University of the Philippines
Mapua Institute of Technology
National University

109) What kind of concealed connections on fixtures that it is required to provide an access
panel or utility at least 0.30 meter in its least dimension for easy inspection and repair?
A. Slip joint (Your Answer)
B. Ball and socket
C. Hubless
D. Flanged
Correct
110) What is the maximum water pressure must standpipe fittings and connections must
withstand to when ready for service?
A. 21 kg/cm (Your Answer)
B. 34 kg/cm
C. 15 kg/cm
D. 8 kg/cm
Incorrect
111) When can a vertical piping be considered to be wet vented?
A. Between openings of vent pipes
B. Between any two consecutive inlet levels (Correct Answer)
C. On stack vent
D. When serving two water closets at different levels (Your Answer)

Incorrect
112) Which of the following is not considered as suds-producing fixture?
A. Kitchen sink
B. Bath tub
C. Washing machine (Your Answer)
D. Bidet (Correct Answer)
Incorrect
113) In order as not to impede the movement of a person in wheel chair and to have a
convenient access on the lavatory, what is the allowable knee recess vertical clearance
that will be provided?
A.
B.
C.
D.

0.50 m to 0.80 m (Your Answer)

0.60 m to 0.80 m
0.40 m to 0.70 m
0.60 m to 0.70 m (Correct Answer)

What is the minimum pipe size of the standpipe if the highest outlet is located more
than 23 meters above the Fire Service connection?

A. 3 inches
B. 6 inches (Correct Answer)
C. 5 inches (Your Answer)
D. 4 inches
Incorrect
2)

For how many days shall the REvised National Plumbing Code will take effect
following its complete publication in the Official Gazette?

A. 100 days (Correct Answer)

B. 60 days (Your Answer)
C. 50 days
D. 30 days
Incorrect
3)

What is the minimum diameter of vent pipe is allowed in the revised Code?

A. 1 inch (Your Answer)

B. 1 1/4 inch (Correct Answer)
C. 2 inch
D. 1 1/2 inch
Incorrect
4)

What is the PRC Resolution Number is issued by the Board of Master Plumbing for
the adoption and promulgation of the Revised National Plumbing Code of the
Philippines?

A. Res. No. 2
B. Res. No. 1378 (Your Answer)
C. Res. No. 4 (Correct Answer)
D. Res. No. 962
Incorrect
5)

What is the minimum pipe size of the standpipe if the highest outlet is located 23
meters or less above the Fire Service connection?

A. 3 inches
B. 6 inches (Your Answer)
C. 5 inches
D. 4 inches (Correct Answer)
Correct
6)

What is the minimum horizontal clear dsitance from the septic tank to the property
line of the adjoining private property?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
7)

1.0 m
1.2 m
1.5 m (Your Answer)
1.8 m

The minimum requirement for the slope of horizontal drainage pipes between
manholes is

A. 2% (Your Answer)
B. 2 1/2%
C. 3%
D. 4%
Incorrect
8)

Of the four board subjects given for Master Plumbers examination, which of this
subject was originally split into two subject?

A. Practical Problems (Correct Answer)

B. Design And Installations (Your Answer)
C. Plumbing Code
D. Plumbing Arithmetic
Incorrect
9)

Within how many meters away shall unions be installed from regulating equipment,
water heater, conditioning tank and similar equipment which require removal for
servicing or replacement?

A. 2 ft (Your Answer)
B. 1 m
C. 5 ft
D. 0.3 m (Correct Answer)
Incorrect
10)

Under the Accessibilty Law, what is the minimum area of water closet stalls?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
11)

1.7 x 1.8 meters (Correct Answer)

2.0 x 2.0 meters
1.5 x 1.8 meters
1.2 x 2.0 meters (Your Answer)

What type of PVC female screws for water piping is prohibited under the code?

A. Tapped
B. Job fabricated (Your Answer)
C. Seamless
D. Schedule 20 screws
Incorrect
12)

What is the shape for the signage for women's comfort room in order to aid visually
impaired women readilty determine whether a washroom is for men or women?
A. CIRCLE (Correct Answer)

B. RECTANGLE
C. TRIANGLE (Your Answer)
D. SQUARE
Incorrect
13)

According to the Fire Code of the Philippines what is the required slope of all
horizontal runs of dry standpipes system for purpose of drawing?

A. 10%
B. 20% (Correct Answer)
C. 5%
D. 2% (Your Answer)
Correct
14)

What is the minimum total net inlet area of roof deck drains on roof deck used as sun
decks and parking decks?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
15)

Equal to the area of outlet pipe

Equal to 4 times the area of outlet pipe
Equal to 2 times the area of outlet pipe (Your Answer)
Equal to 1 1/2 times the area of outlet pipe

Aside from galvanized steel, what is the other material for dry standpipe that the
Building Code allows?

A. PVC pipe
B. Wrought iron (Your Answer)
C. PE pipe
D. Brass
Correct
16)

For new, additional or altered plumbing installation not exceeding 20 units, the
Building Code stated that a Licensed Master Plumber could sign and affix his seal on
the follwing engineering documents except

A. Plumbing plan and layout

B. Design analysis and plans of the original installation (Your Answer)
C. Isometric drawing
D. Guide specifications and bill of materials
Incorrect
17)

With what standard specification must all pipe materials must conform to?
A. Product Strandard of the Philippines (Correct Answer)

B. Interational Producers Standard

C. Philippine Standard Council (Your Answer)
D. Department of Trade and Industry
Incorrect
18)

How does a pneumatic tank be designed to supply adequate water pressure in all
floors of a building that will be in accordance with the Building Code?

A. Twice the maximum total dynamic pressure required (Correct Answer)

B. Equal to the total water supply fixture units
C. Twice the total demand per capita
D. Equal to the total dynamic head and minus all the head losses (Your Answer)
Incorrect
19)

When shall the installation of plumbing equipment to supply building or structures

from existing water supply system only be allowed to?

A. If the water demand is inadequate (Your Answer)

B. Whenever the water supply is scantity availbale
C. When there is always water in the main (Correct Answer)
D. When water is not available in the vicinity
Incorrect
20)

One of the Code of Ethics for Master Plumber states "Take advantage of a salaried
____ position to complete unfairly with a practicing Master Plumber." What is the
missing word?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
21)

HIGHER
GOVERNMENT (Correct Answer)
PRIVATE
COMPETENT (Your Answer)

According to Rep. Act 1378 for at leasrt how many years must the appointee to the
Board of Master Plumbers must have been actively engaged in the trade of plumbing?

A. Ten years
B. Eight years
C. Two years
D. Five years (Your Answer)
Incorrect
22)

What is not needed to be installed when a combination standpipe system is installed in

accordance with the Fire Code?

A. Dry standpipe (Correct Answer)

B. Wet standpipe
C. Sprinkler system (Your Answer)
D. Siamese connection
Incorrect
23)

Where practical, all pipes from fixtures shall be run in what direction with respect to
the nearest wall or building line?

A. Offset (Your Answer)

B. Parallel (Correct Answer)
C. Across
D. Perpendicular
Incorrect
24)

The following are grounds for non-issuance of the certificate of registration by the
Board of Master Plumbers EXCEPT

A. Convicted by court for any criminal offense

B. Of unsound mind (Your Answer)
C. Guilty of immoral or dishonorable conduct
D. Failure to pay the required fees (Correct Answer)
Incorrect
25)

If a septic tank has a compartment that exceed 3.7 m in length, what should be the
additional requirement?

A. An additional manhole (Correct Answer)

B. Increase the size of the leaching chamber
C. Increase the number of compartments
D. Baffle wall is added (Your Answer)
Incorrect
26)

Under what law did plumbing became a duly recognized profession by the Philppine
government?

A. Nat'l Plumbing Code of the Phil of 1959

B. Tydings McDuffie Act of 1905
C. Jones Law of 1907 (Correct Answer)
D. Republic Act 1378 (Your Answer)
Incorrect
27)

Building sewers shall be tested by completely filling the sewer with water from the
___

A. Lowest to the highest point (Correct Answer)

B. Lowest to at least ground level
C. Lowest to at least a 10-foot head (Your Answer)
D. Lowest to at least a 5-foot head
Incorrect
28)

Within how many days upon the approval of Rep. Act No. 1378 does it require to have
a Board Examiners for Master Plumbers formed?

A. Thirty days (Correct Answer)

B. Fortyfive days
C. Sixty days (Your Answer)
D. Fifteen days
Incorrect
29)

What is the nimimum floor area in every storey which is used for habitation,
recreation, dining, study of work and which has an occupiped load of not more than
20, wherein a standard automatic extinguishing system is a

A. 300 sq.m (Your Answer)

B. 200 sq.m (Correct Answer)
C. 400 sq.m
D. 500 sq.m
Correct
30)

What is the fee if an expired plumbing permit is renewed?

A. P 150.00
B. Equal to the original fee
C. Double of the original fee
D. 1/2 of the original fee (Your Answer)
Incorrect
31)

What is the minimum dimension for a turning space in a water closet stall intended for
disabled persons?

A. 2.00 m
B. 1.20 m (Your Answer)
C. 1.00 m
D. 1.50 m (Correct Answer)
Correct
32)

A kind of cleanout plugs that will be installed in case where raised heads may cause
hazards to passing personnel or vehicles.

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
33)

Depressed
Countersunk (Your Answer)
Embedded
Recessed

What is the maximum allowable lead content of pipe and fitting for potable piping
system?

A. 0%
B. 2%
C. 5%
D. 8% (Your Answer)
Incorrect
34)

What is the maximum height should a water closet have if it is intended for a disabled
person.

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
35)

0.40m
0.50m * (Your Answer)
0.45m (Correct Answer)
0.35m

For the hot and cold water distribution system, on what side should the hot water
supply be placed in combination fittings?

A. Left (Your Answer)

B. Right
C. Center
D. None of these
Correct
36)

The following are the data required whenever a Registered Master Plumber sign the
blueprint of the building plan EXCEPT

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
37)

Date of PRC registration

PTR date
Registration expiry date (Your Answer)
None of these

What institution standart used as a reference for joining pipes?

A. ASSE

B. ASPE
C. ANSI
D. IAPMO (Your Answer)
Correct
38)

To what provision does the design, construction and operation of deep wells for the
abstraction of ground water will have to follow?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
39)

National Plumbing Code of the Philippines

National Standards for Drinking Water
Water Code of the Philippines (Your Answer)
Code of Sanitation

How many units do the controversial Article 3.2.2.2 of PD 1096 otherwise known as
the National Building Code limits the practice of Master Plumber?

A. 20 (Your Answer)
B. 10
C. 5
D. 50
Incorrect
40)

Accordingto Batas Pambansa Blg. 344, what type of urinal should be provided for
disabled persons?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
41)

WALL-HUNG TYPE (Your Answer)

PEDESTAL TYPE
TROUGH TYPE (Correct Answer)
NONE OF THESE

What kind of septic tank is prohibited?

A. CONCRETE
B. STEEL
C. PLASTIC
D. WOODEN (Your Answer)
Correct
42)

To allow cleaning of the soil and waste line each cleanout should be installed
A. In the direction of flow (Your Answer)
B. Opening upward
C. Vertically above flow line

D. All of these
Incorrect
43)

Who has the power to remove any member of the Board of Master Plumbers for
neglect of duty, incompetence, malpratice and unprofessional or dishonorable
conduct?

A. President of the Philippines (Correct Answer)

B. Civil Service Commisioner
C. Chairman of PRC Commisioners (Your Answer)
D. Commision on Appointments
Incorrect
44)

What is the minimum number of years of experience must a Registered Master

Plumber be before he can be a technical staff of a Building Office?

A.
B.
C.
D.
Correct
45)

One year
Three years (Correct Answer)
Two years
Five years (Your Answer)

Who was the first Charter President of NAMPAP?

A. Antonio Mansueto Sr.

B. Comelio G. Odvina
C. Jesus Tanghal Dera
D. Catalino C. Casupanan (Your Answer)
Correct
46)

Aside from Bell and Spigot, B & S in the code means

47)

What installation standard is followed in joining plastic pipe and fittings by solvent
cement?

48)

Aside from the number of fixture units connected to it, the size of the vent piping is
determined by its

49)

The cover of gravity tanks shall be vented using a screened

50)

Who is empowered to administer the provision of Rep. Act 1378?

51)

In sizing the grease interceptors, four elements are being used. Two of these

elements are number of meals per peak hour and the waste flow rate. Whta are the
other two elemets?
52)

What is the masimum length of the fire hose that shall be equipped on wet standpipes?

53)

What should be done whenever a partition contains some piping and runs parallel to
the floor joist underneath?

54)

In accordance to the Building Code, what must be provided in addition to septic tanks
by building located in areas where there is no sanitary sewerage system whenever they
will dispose their waste?

55)

According to the Building Code of the Philippines what is the range in height above
grade should the Siamese fire department conncetion be installed?

56)

What portion of the trap should the vent pipe opening will not go below from a soil or
waste pipe?

57)

Whenever the piping is pressurized by a pump or ejector, what kind of pipe should
not be used in the excreta drainage system?

58)

The appropriate sealant that will be used to cover void spaces between pipes and
sleeves through concrete floors in the ground

59)

The Building Code stated that all dry standpipe outlets shall be equipped with valves
having substantial chains. What kind of valve is this?

60)

What kind of joint is not allowed in cast iron pipe?

61)

Unless prohibited by structural conditions, what is the reference of each vertical vent
pipes before offsetting horizontally to join the stack vent or vent stack?

62)

When permitted by DENR, which of the following below is NOT used as a basis in
determining the type of the private sewage disposal system to be used?

63)

According to the Code, the desgign of roof gutters is based on the maximum roof
area. What is the shape of the gutter does the desgn table for storm sewer is being
based to?

64)

Which of the following is not included in a plumbing unit?

65)

For at least how many working days shall a required for inspection of the plumbing

works be filed before such inspection be intended?

66)

Drainage piping serving fixtures located below the crown level of the main sewer
shall discharge into an approved water tight

67)

Who is authorized to issue rules and regulations to carry into effect the objectives of
Rep. Act 1378?

68)

What is the minimum age requirement for an appointee to become a member of the
Board of Master Plumbers?

69)

What is the maximum distance as where supports of vertical cast iron soil pipes are
made?

70)

Which of the following is a prohibited fixture inside a public toilet room?

71)

What shall be issued by the Administrative Authority for the construction of a part of
a large and/or complicated plumbing system before the entire plans and
specifications for the whole system have been submitted or approved?

72)

Wet venting is applied whenever

73)

What is the minimum allowable interval for the support of plastic pipes when
installed vertically

74)

NAMPAP is a professional organization of Registered Master Plumber under PRC.

What is the PRC accreditation number of NAMPAP?

75)

According to Art 3.2.2.2 of PD 1096 what scope of work in plan preparation for new
sanitary installations with more than 20 units does a sanitary engineer differs with a
Registered Master Plumber?

76)

What is the minimum number of water closet in a floor level wherein you have to
provide 1 water closet for disabled persons as provided by Batas Pambansa Blg. 344?
in excess of this number you have to provide 2.

77)

Who among the Board Examiners is not a signatory to PRC Resolution 04 that
request for the adoption and promulgation of the Revised National Plumbing Code
of the Philippines in 1999?

78)

Unless serving sinks or urinals, cleanouts may be omitted on a horizontal drain line
that is

79)

Article 3.2.2.2 of PD 1096 actually allows a Registered Master Plumber to sign and
seal plans for new sanitary installations of more than twenty (20) plumbing units.
Aside from being a Registered Master Plumber what is the other requirement that
you must have before you can sign and seal it?

80)

Who shall set the criteria for the quality of drinking water from meteoric, surface or
underground sources?

81)

Which of the following could be omitted if the trap arm changes direction that does
not exceed 90 degrees?

82)

What government agency is tasked to set the criteria in the discharge of sanitary
sewage from buildings or pretreated industrial wastewater directly into the nearest
sanitary sewer main?

83)

What is the minimum height of raised letters on an iron or bronze sign that will read
"CONNECTION TO DRY STANDPIPE"?

84)

A stack, as defined in the code, is ___

85)

Where should the overflow pipe lead for overhead tank installed on buildings?

86)

Which of the following is the primary basics for sizing vertical rainwater piping in the
Revised National Plumbing Code?

87)

If ever pipes are to pass through masonry by using pipe sleeves, how far must each
pipe be from each other?

88)

A type of drainage and venting system with universal branch line that is prohibited

89)

Except for plastic piping system, hot and cold water piping may be tested wtih ___

90)

Except on what fixture does the vent pipe opening from the soil or waste pipe must
not be below the weir of the trap?

91)

In the water test of the entire plumbing system all openings should be tightly closed
except at

92)

A plumbing permit shall expire and become null and void if the plumbing work
authorized therein if not started for how many days?

93)

What is the name of the professional orginazation for the Registered Master
Plumbers here in the Philippines?

94)

What shape of signage is shown for mens showroom?

95)

If the discharge of a fixture or drain may contain solids or semisolids heavier than
water that would be harmful to the drainage system or cause stopaage within the
system, where the discharge must pass first?

96)

In the excreta drainage system, which of the following pipe materials should not be
used underground?

97)

PD No. 1185 is another law that Master Plumbers used as their guide in the practice
of the plumbing profession.What is PD No. 1185?

98)

What is the minimum number of approved slip joints fittings may be used on the
putlet side of the trap?

99)

Which of the following plumbing code in USA does the National Plumbing Code of
the Philippines was being patterned for?

100) For a vertical drainage line that is installed to be truly in vertical position, what is the
allowed degeree of the branch to be used?
101) Who is the current chairman of the Board of Examiners for Master Plumber?
102) What Congress of the Republic of the Philippines approved after the third reading
Rep. Act 1378 otherwise known as the Plumbing Law of the Philippines?
103) Where the number of water closets in a floor level exceeds 20, how many of these
shall be provided to the disabled persons?
104) What is the type of Siamese connection that all 125-millimeter dry standpipes shall be
equipped with?
105) In what year did NAMPAP was incorporated as a professional organization?
106) Who was awarded as the most outstanding Registered Master Plumber for the Year
2011?
107) A fitting for lead-caulked joint that is prohibited when in vertical position

108) In 1966- 1969, the Board of Master Plumbers and NAMPAP prepared a curriculum for
Plumbing Engineering and approved by the Department of Education. What was the
first school that introduced the Plumbing Engineering curriculum?
109) What kind of concealed connections on fixtures that it is required to provide an
access panel or utility at least 0.30 meter in its least dimension for easy inspection
and repair?
110) What is the maximum water pressure must standpipe fittings and connections must
withstand to when ready for service?
111) When can a vertical piping be considered to be wet vented?
112) Which of the following is not considered as suds-producing fixture?
113) In order as not to impede the movement of a person in wheel chair and to have a
convenient access on the lavatory, what is the allowable knee recess vertical clearance
that will be provided?