PLUMBING

CODE 1999

Prepared by: Engr. Jomar Biay

The birth of the plumbing profession in the
Philippines was traced back to
a. 12th century
b. 15th century
c. 16th century
d. 17th century

Based on the history of plumbing practice“ The

walled city” known as intramuro’s was
established as a model community by the?
a. Americans
b. Spaniards
c. Mexican
d. Japanese

When was the first amendment to the NPC was

approved which inclusion of “asbestos cement
pipe” as an approved material
a. November 28, 1967
b. September 21, 1988
c. October 23, 1986
d. November 21, 1985
The Filipino plumbers was assigned to
repair/remodeling plumbing system in all
pueblos or town, church and government
buildings during
a. 16th -17th century
b. 18th -19th century
c. 19th -20th century
d. 15th -16th century

Based on the history of plumbing practice,

plumbing took a great leap at the turn of?
a. 16th century
b. 20th century
c. 19th century
d. 18th century

Republic act No. 6541 known as the

a. Building code of the Philippines
b. Fire code of the Philippines
c. Code of Sanitation
d. Plumbing code of the phil.
Based on the history of plumbing practice, who is
the governor general alarmed and issued letter of
proper waste disposal when epidemics like
cholera, leprosy and other contagious disease
engulfed in the phil.
a. General Fortunato
b. General Mc. Arthur
c. General Malvar
d. General Harrison

The first chief of the division of the plumbing

construction and inspection.
a. John david
b. John F. Hass
c. John Meracolo
d. John Hidalgo

Who was the NANPAP president spearheaded the

updating of the RNPCP
a. Jamie M. Cabase
b. Hemogenes Pobre
c. Fortunato H. Amosco
d. Teodoro pastor.
When was the NAMPAP organized
a. 1934
b. 1932
c. 1935
d. 1937

Republic Act No. of the Plumbing law of the

Philippines
a. R.A 1374
b. R.A 1378
c. R.A 1060
d. R.A 9514

When was approved the “plumbing law of the

Philippines”
a. June 18, 1955
b. January 28, 1959
c. November 28, 1967
d. June 21, 1957
When was the national plumbing code of the
Philippines was prepared and approved by
malacaniang
a. June 18, 1955
b. December 21, 1944
c. January 28 , 1959
d. January 13, 1956

When was the board of examiner's and NAMPAP

prepared the curriculum for plumbing engineering
and approved by DEPED
a. 1966-1988
b. 1966-1969
c. 1955-1999
d. 1945-1965

Plumbing engineering was first introduced to what

school or university
a. Feati University
b. University of the Phil.
c. De LaSalle University
d. University of Manila
City ordinance no. 2411 known as the
a. National drinking water standard
b. Clean air act
c. Plumbing code for the city of manila
d. Clean water act.

Who is the Chairman of board of master(BOD)

plumber, where the draft code submitted.
a. Engr. John jones
b. Engr. Fortunato H. Amosco
c. Engr. Raymundo Gumapac
d. Engr. Catalino Casapunan

Who is the chairman of PRC adopted 1999

revised code of the Philippine's
a. Hermogenes Pobre
b. Teodoro Pastor
c. Roberto Feliciano
d. Raymondo Reyes
1999 RNPC was approved by Pres. Joseph Estrada
last_________
a. June 27, 1956
b. April 19, 1958
c. December 21, 1999
d. July 25, 1999

An ____________ is one of the most important

governance in modern and healthful human
existence, it involve the three basic necessities
a. Adequate Fire code
b. Adequate Plumbing code
c. Adequate Sanitation code
d. Adequate water code

Plumbing fixtures, devices and appurtenances

shall be supplied with water in ______ and
at______
a. Sufficient volume, pressure adequate
b. Quality, sufficient volume
c. Pressure adequate, quality
d. Volume and Quantity
Plumbing shall be design and adjusted to use the
________quantity of water consistent with proper
performance and cleaning
a. Maximum
b. Insufficient
c. Minimum
d. All of these

Each family dwelling unit on premises abutting on

a sewer or with a private sewage-disposal system
shall at least one ____________
a. Water closet, kitchen sink
b. Water closet, kitchen sink, lavatory and
bathtub or shower
c. Water closet, lavatory and shower
d. Water closet, water dispenser, shower

To whom a plumbing permit maybe issued

a. Registered master plumber
b. Registered electrical engineer
c. Registered sanitary engineer
d. Registered Mechanical engineer
How many set of plan shall be submitted of the
aforementioned requirements with each
application for a permit
a. 5 sets
b. 4 sets
c. 6 sets
d. 7 sets

How many sets of approved plumbing plan, data

and specification will retain to the administrative
authority
a. 2 sets
b.1 set
c. 3 sets
d. 4 sets

How many sets of approved plumbing plan,

specification and data will retain to applicant and
owner
a. 2 sets
b. 3 sets
c. 4 sets
d. 1 set
How many set of plan shall be kept or retain to a
jobsite while the work is in progress.
a. 3 sets
b. 2 sets
c. 1 sets
d. 4 sets

A plumbing permit issued under, shall expire and

become null and void if the plumbing work
authorize therein is not commenced
within_____from the date issued
a. Two years
b. One year
c. Six months
d. 1-1/2 months

If the plumbing work is suspended or abandoned

at any time after having been commenced for a
period of
a. 120 days
b. 180 days
c. 60 days
d. 90 days
In case of renewal of a plumbing permit what will
be the equivalent fee
a. Equivalent to original amount
b. Equivalent to ¼ of original amount
c. Equivalent to ½ of original amount
d. Equivalent to ¾ of the original amount

Where to be place a license number in a round

shaped seal
a. Upper portion of the round seal
b. Center of the round seal
c. Upper center of the round seal
d. Lower portion of the seal

Any public space, public park or through fare less

than 3m but not less the 2m in width dedicated for
public use
a. alley
b. court
c. park
d. plaza
The unobstructed vertical distance through the free
atmosphere between the lowest opening from any
pipe or faucet to the flood level rim of a fixture or
receptacle.
a. Air break
b. Flood level rim
c. Air gap
d. Flood level

An organization primarily establish for purposes

of testing to approved standards
a. Administrative
b. Approved testing agency
c. Authority
d. Plumbing official.

Authorize to administer and enforce the provision

of Republic act 1378
a. Administrative authority
b. Plumbing official
c. Approved testing agency
d. All of the above
The flow of water or other liquid, mixtures or
substances into the distributing pipes of a potable
water supply from any source.
a. Back siphon age
b. Back pressure
c. Backflow
d. Backflow connection

Occurs to an increased reverse pressure above the

supply pressure. Ex pumps, boilers or other source
of pressure
a. Backflow
b. Backpressure
c. Back siphon age
d. Backflow connection

The flowing back of used contaminated or polluted

water from a plumbing fixture or vessel into a
water supply pipe due to negative pressure in such
pipe
a. Back siphonage
b. Back pressure
c. Back pressure
d. Cross connection
Any joint obtained by joining of metal parts which
alloys will melts at a temp. higher than 449 degree
centigrade but lower than the melting temp of the
parts to be joined
a. Soldered joint
b. Butt joint
c. Brazed joint
d. Mechanical joint

A group vent pipe which starts in front of the

extreme fixture connection on a horizontal branch
and connects to the vent stack.
a. Common vent
b. Circuit vent
c. Local vent
d. Relief vent

The part of a plumbing system designed and

installed to serve more than one appliance , fixture,
building or system
a. Common
b. Supply
c. Chase
d. Interconnection
A room or space having a volume less than 14 cu
m with 250 kcal of the aggregate of all fuel burning
appliances installed in that space.
a. Open space
b. Room
c. Confined space
d. Isolated space

An impairment of the quality of the potable water

which creates an actual hazard to the public
through poisoning or spread of disease by sewage,
also defined as high hazard.
a. Pollution
b. Contamination
c. Disease
d. Black water

A continuous vent is vertical vent that is a

continuation of a drain to the vent connects.
a. Continuous vent
b. VSTR
c. STVR
d. Main vent
A drain connecting the compartments of a set of fixtures
to a trap connecting other permitted fixtures to a
common trap.
a. Continuous vent
b. Waste branch
c. Continuous waste
d. Soil stack

Marking on a backflow prevention device or a vacuum

breaker is a point conforming to approved standards and
establish by the testing laboratory
a. Marker
b. Critical level
c. Flood level
d. Flood level rim

Any connection or arrangement , physical or otherwise,

bet a potable water supply system and any plumbing
fixture which enables non-potable, used, unclean,
polluted contaminated to enter into any part of a potable
water system
a. Cross connection
b. backflow
c. Back siphon age
d. backpressure
The liquid or water-borne waste derived from the
ordinary living processes, free from industrial
waste and of such character that permit
satisfactory disposal without special treatment
a. Sewer
b. Storm sewer
c. Domestic Sewage
d. Domestic Sewer

A pipe fitting with adjacent reverse bends and

shape like the letter “S”
a. S-trap
b. Double bend fitting
c. Double offset
d. All the above

Two offsets in successions or in series such that the

centerline of the outside ends are in the same
straight line
a. Double offset
b. Double bent fitting
c. S-trap
d. All of the above
A pipe which caries ground and surface water,
storm water or waste water into the building
drainage system.
a. Sewer
b. Sewage
c. Drain
d. Conductor

The water supply pipe between the fixture supply

pipe and the water distributing pipe
a. Fixture supply
b. Fixtures branch
c. Distribution pipe
d. Water service pipe

The drain pipes from the trap of a fixture to the

junction of that drain with any other drain pipe
a. Fixtures drain
b. Waste branch
c. Soil branch
d. Wet vent
A water supply pipe connecting the fixture with
the fixture branch.
a. Fixture branch
b. Distribution pipe
c. Fixture supply
d. Cross main loop

The level in a fixture at which water begins to

overflow over the top rim of the fixture
a. Flood level rim
b. Flood level
c. Rim
d. Flooded

Is the top edge of a receptacle from where water

overflows
a. Flood level rim
b. Flood level
c. Flooded
d. Air Gap
A fixture is flooded when the liquid therein risers
to the flood level rim
a. Flood level rim
b. Flood level
c. Flooded
d. Rim

A tank located above or integral with water closet,

urinal or similar fixture for flushing or removing
excrement in the fixture
a. Flush valve
b. Flush tank
c. Flushometer valve
d. Flushometer tank

Is a device located at the bottom of the tank for the

purposed of flushing water closet and similar
fixtures
a. Flush valve
b. Flush tank
c. Flushometer valve
d. Flushometer tank
Is integrated within an air accumulator vessel
which is design to discharge a predetermine a
quantity of water into fixture for flushing purposes
a. Flushometer valve
b. Flush valve
c. Flushometer tank
d. Flush tank

Is a device which discharges a predetermined

quantity of water into fixtures for flushing
purposes and is actuated by direct water pressure.
a. Flushometer tank
b. Flushometer valve
c. Flush valve
d. Flush tank

A return bend of small- sized pipe, one end of

which is about 30 cm. long and other end is about
7.5 cm long. Commonly faucet, or pantry sink.
a. Gooseneck
b. Elbow 45 deg
c. Elbow 90 deg
d. Elbow 60 deg
An interceptor of at least 3 cu m capacity to serve
or more fixtures and which is remotely located.
a. Sump
b. Pit
c. Grease interceptor
d. Receptor

The water that stands or passes through the

ground
a. Natural water
b. Ground water
c. Surface water
d. Rainwater

A branch vent that performs its function for two

(2) or more traps
a. Group vent
b. Yoke vent
c. Utility vent
d. Circuit vent
Is any pipe or fitting installed in a horizontal
positioned or which forms at an angle not more
than 45 deg. With the horizontal.
a. Vertical pipe
b. Stack
c. Horizontal pipe
d. Riser

Any pipe or fitting installed in a vertical positioned

or which forms at an angle of not more than 45
degrees with the vertical line
a. Horizontal pipe
b. Stack
c. Vertical pipe

Are cast iron soil pipes with plain ends connected

together with bolted stainless steel band and
neoprene gasket.
a. Bell
b. Hubless
c. Flanged
d. Brazed joint
Is a pipe does not connect directly with the
drainage system but conveys liquid waste by
discharging into a plumbing fixture and directly
connected to the drainage system
a. Storm drainage
b. Sanitary drainage
c. Indirect waste pipe
d. Direct waste pipe
Is a devise designed and installed to separate and
retain deleterious, hazardous or undesirable
matters from normal sewage or liquid waste to
discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity
a. Separator
b. Filter
c. Interceptor
d. All the above
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 connection only.
a. Latrine
b. Lateral
c. Invert
d. Primary branch
Is the discharge from any fixture, appliances or
appurtenance in connection with a plumbing
system which does not receive fecal matter
a. Waste pipe
b. Waste discharge
c. Liquid waste
d. Solid waste

A Pipe or shaft to convey foul air from a plumbing

fixture or a room to the outer air.
a. Main vent
b. Group vent
c. Local vent
d. Circuit
Any system of continuous piping, which is the
principal artery of the system where branches are
connected
a. Soil pipe
b. Main
c. Waste pipe
d. Sanitary drainage system
The purposed for which a building is used or
intended to be used.
a. Commercial
b. Maintenance
c. Occupancy
d. Building Management

In a line of piping is a combination of elbow or

bends, which brings one section of the pipe out of
line but into a line parallel with original section.
a. Parallel
b. Vertical
c. Offset
d. Double offset

A natural person, his her executors, administer or

assigns, and also includes also a firm, partnership
or corporation, its or their successors of any
aforesaid
a. mankind
b. Person
c. People
d. Personality
Tube made of plastic material and colored black.
The cross-sectional shape is normally oval and is
denoted by its outside diameter.
a. PE
b. Copper
c. PB( polybutylene)
d. PEX

Tube made of plastic material and colored black.

The cross sectional shape is circular is denoted by
its outside diameter or O.D
a. PB
b. Copper
c. PE(polyethylene)
d. Double offset

Any one of special class of device or equipment or

intended to perform a special plumbing function,
such as motors, heating elements and pressure-
temperature elements
a. Plumbing appurtenance
b. Plumbing appliance
c. Plumbing fixtures
d. All of the above.
A manufactured device or prefabricated assembly
or an on the job assembly of component parts, and
serves as adjust to the basic piping system and
plumbing fixtures.
a. Plumbing fixtures
b. Plumbing appliance
c. Plumbing appurtenance
d. All the above

An approved type installed receptacles, devices or

appliances supplied with water or receive liquid or
liquid borne waste and discharge such waste into
the drainage system.
a. Plumbing appliance
b. Plumbing appurtenance
c. Plumbing fixtures
d. Plumbing system

The administrative authority or the officer with the

administration and enforcement of the NPC or his
regularly authorized authority.
a. Person
b. Plumbing official
c. Administrative authority
d. Having jurisdiction
An impairment of the quality of a water to a
degree which creates hazard to the public health
and adversely affect the asthetic and potable
qualities of water for domestic used.
a. Contamination
b. Non potable
c. Pollution
d. Waste water

Water satisfactory for drinking, culinary and

domestic purposes and meets the requirement of
the Philippine national standard for drinking
water
a. Potability
b. Purified water
c. Potable water
d. Clear water

The normal force exerted by a homogeneous liquid

or gas, per unit of area on the wall of the container
a. Static head
b. Pressure
c. Energy
d. Isolated space
The pressure existing without any flow motion.
a. Critical pressure
b. Normal pressure
c. Static pressure
d. Static head

The pressure available at the fixture or water outlet

; allowance is made for pressure drop due to
friction loss, head, meter and other losses in the
system during maximum demand period.
a. Static pressure
b. Normal pressure
c. Residual pressure
d. Critical pressure

Is the single sloping drain from the base of a stack

to its junction with the main building drain.
a. Secondary branch
b. Primary branch
c. Building drain
d. Branches
A building sewer, which receive the discharge
from more than one building and conveys it to a
public sewer, private sewage disposal system or
other point of disposal.
a. Public sewer
b. Public used
c. Private sewer
d. Private used

An outhouse or structure used for the deposition

of excrement
a. Septic tank
b. Cesspool
c. Privy
d. Seepage pit

A pit beneath a privy where excrement connects

a. Distribution box
b. Privy vault
c. Sump
d. Seepage pit
A common sewer directly controlled by public
authority to which all abutters have equal right of
connection
a. Private sewer
b. Drainage
c. Public sewer
d. Main sewer

Potable water piping color coded pipe

a. Red
b. Gray
c. Blue
d. Orange

Drainpipes manufactured with toxic components

and are color coded
a. Gray, blue and green
b. Gray, orange and brown
c. Orange, gray and white
d. Brown, green and yellow
An approved plumbing fixtures or device of such
materials, shape and capacity to adequately receive
the discharge from indirect waste pipe,
constructed and located to be readily cleaned.
a. Floor drain
b. Area drain
c. Receptor
d. Pit

Include all valves controls used in plumbing

system which are accessible.
a. Accessories
b. Equipment
c. Regulating equipment
d. Controls

An open return bend or combination of two 90⁰ or

single 180⁰ bends in copper tubing.
a. Offset
b. Return bend
c. Double offset bend
d. U shaped
Waste water containing human excrement and
liquid household waste. Also called “ domestic
sewage”
a. Sanitary Sewer
b. Storm sewer
c. Sanitary sewage
d. Black water

A sewer intended to receive sanitary sewage with

or without industrial waste and without the
admixture of rain or ground water
a. Domestic sewage
b. Sanitary sewer
c. Building sewer
d. Storm sewer

A loosely line excavation in the ground, which

receives the discharge of a septic tank .
a. Septic tank
b. Cesspool
c. Privy
d. Seepage pit
The pipe from the street water main or other
source of water supply to the building served.
a. Main sewer pipe
b. Distribution pipe
c. Service pipe
d. Fixture supply pipe

Any waste water containing animal or vegetable

matter in suspension or solution and may include
liquids containing chemicals in solution.
a. Black Water
b. Sewage
c. Potable water
d. Storm water

A vertical opening through a building fro

elevators, dumbwaiters, light, ventilation or
similar purposes.
a. Septic tank
b. Conduit
c. Pipe
d. Shaft
An approved elastomeric sealing gasket with an
approved outer shield and a tightening
mechanism.
a. Union patente
b. Nipple
c. Shielded coupling
d. Plug

A building design as a home by the owner of such

building, and shall b ethe only dwelling located on
a parcel of ground with the usual accessory
building.
a. Residential
b. Single family dwelling
c. High Rise accomodation
d. Condo

An adjustable tubing connection, consisting of a

compression nut, a friction ring, and a compression
washer, designed to fit a threaded adapter fitting
or a standard taper pipe thread.
a. Mechanical joint
b. Conduit
c. Threaded joint
d. Slip joint
A pipe joint obtained by joining metal parts with
metallic mixtures or alloys which melts at a
temperature 149C – 427C.
a. Union patente
b. Brazed joint
c. Soldered joint
d. Plug

The end of a pipe which fits into a bell.

a. Bell
b. Spigot
c. Cap
d. Condo

Wastes which require some 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. Soil waste
b. Liquid waste
c. Indirect waste
d. Special waste
A vertical pipe, or a reservoir, into which water is
pump to give it a head.
a. Dry pipe
b. Wet pipe
c. Standpipe
d. Plug

An underground drainpipe that receives only sub-

surface or seepage water and convey it to a pump
for disposal by gravity flow or by lift pump.
a. Drainage
b. Subsoil drain
c. Sewage
d. Waste water

An approved tank or pit which receives sewage or

waste water and is located the normal grade of the
gravity system and must be emptied by
mechanical means.
a. Soil waste
b. Liquid waste
c. Sewage ejector
d. Sump
That portion of rainfall or other precipitation
which runs off over the surface of the ground.
a. Dry water
b. Rain water
c. Surface water
d. Wet water

The pipe or tubing that connects the outlet of a

plumbing fixture to the trap.
a. Trap arm
b. Tailpiece
c. Outlet
d. Inlet

That portion of a fixture drain between a trap and

the vent.
a. Trap arm
b. Tailpiece
c. Outlet
d. Inlet
The maximum vertical depth of liquid that a trap
will retain, measured between the crown weir and
the top of the dip of the trap.
a. Water seal
b. Rain water
c. Trap seal
d. Wet water

An air pressure less than atmospheric. Also,

implies siphonage in piping system.
a. Back pressure
b. Vacuum
c. Outlet
d. Inlet

Any pipe or fitting which forms an angle not more

than 45 degrees with the vertical line.
a. Vertical pipe
b. Tailpiece
c. Horizontal pipe
d. Inlet
A pipe which conveys potable water from the
building supply pipe to the plumbing fixtures and
water outlets.
a. Water seal
b. Water main
c. Water distributing pipe
d. Water supply

A system of a building or premises consists of the

water service, water supply line, water distributing
pipe and the necessary branch pipe fittings, valves
and all appurtenances requires for the supply of
potable water.
a. Water main
b. Water supply system
c. Distributing System
d. Waste water

Any joint or seam obtained by the joining of metals

parts in a plastic molten state.
a. Welded joint or seam
b. Threaded joint
c. Swipe joint
d. Inlet
A hose connection with two-gated outlets
permitting two connections of the same or smaller
coupling diameter to be taken from a single supply
line.
a. Tee
b. U shaped
c. Wye
d. Nee

A pipe connecting upward from a soil or waste

stack below the floor and below horizontal
connection to an adjacent vent stack at a point
above the floor.
a. Circuit vent
b. Yoke vent
c. SVTR
d. VSTR
An open, unoccupied space other than a court,
unobstructed from the ground to the sky.
a. Yard
b. Alley
c. Space
d. Inlet
Known as Revent and Backvent also.
a. Dual vent
b. Common vent
c. Individual vent
d. Nee

Known as Common and Unit vent also.

a. Circuit vent
b. Dual vent
c. SVTR
d. Revent

Known as Relief vent and Yoke vent

a. Auxiliary vent
b. SVTR
c. VSTR
d. Inlet
Include all valves and controls used in plumbing
system which are accessible.
a. Appliances
b. Common vent
c. Regulating equipment
d. Appurtenance

An approved plumbing fixtures or device of such

materials, shape, and capacity to adequately
receive the discharge from indirect waste pipes,
constructed and located to be readily cleaned.
a. Interceptor
b. Receptor
c. SVTR
d. Revent

A water supply pipe, which extends vertically to

one full story or more to convey water into pipe
branches or plumbing fixtures.
a. Riser
b. SVTR
c. VSTR
d. Branch