PLANNING 01

1)

He postulated that population increases in a geometric ratio while food

production increases arithmetically and that unless natural catastrophes, war
or sexual restraint control population increase, worldwide famine or war will
follow

A. Von Thunen
B. William Alonso
C. Lowdon Wingo Jr.
D. Robert Malthus (Your Answer)
Incorrect
2)

This is the golden era of urban design in the U.S. characterized with a totally
designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks, and clusters
or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers.

A. Radburn
B. City Beautiful Era (Correct Answer)
C. Garden City Movement (Your Answer)
D. Neighborhood Unit
Incorrect
3)

Urbanization began around 4,000 BC in the area known as the

A. Fertile Crescent (Correct Answer)

B. Mediterranean
C. Babylon (Your Answer)
D. Asia
Incorrect
4)

He is the author of the 10-volume treatise de Arkitektura which relates

experience of Roman architecture and town planning

A. Leonardo da Vinci
B. Hipodamus (Your Answer)
C. Nicoletus
D. Vitruvius (Correct Answer)
Correct
5)

An area intended for regional shopping centers such as large shopping malls
and other regional commercial activities, high-rise hotels, sports stadium or
sports complexes.
A. C-1
B. C-2

C. C-3 (Your Answer)

D. C-4
Correct
6)

The science of Human Settlements

A. Demography
B. Ekistics (Your Answer)
C. Anthropocosmos
D. Conurbation
Incorrect
7)

This zone is for particular types of institutional establishments e.g. welfare

homes, orphanages, home for the aged, rehabilitation and training centers,
military camps/reservation/bases/training grounds, etc.

A. Special Institutional Zone (Correct Answer)

B. General Institutional Zone (Your Answer)
C. Social Institutional Zone
D. Sectoral Institutional Zone
Incorrect
8)

The ratio of the total building floor area to the total lot area

A. Gross floor ratio (Your Answer)

B. Net floor area ratio
C. Floor area ratio (Correct Answer)
D. NOTA
Incorrect
9)

He developed the first theoretical basis for physical planning

A. Nicodemus
B. Hippodamus (Correct Answer)
C. Nostradamus
D. Aristotle (Your Answer)
Incorrect
10) A residential motor court around which housing may be arranged.
A. Collector (Your Answer)
B. Links
C. Cul-de-sac (Correct Answer)
D. NOTA
Correct

11) Zoning takes the form of a locally enacted ordinance which embodies among
others, regulations affecting:
A. Uses allowed or disallowed in each zone or district
B. Conditions for allowing them
C. Deviations legally allowed from the requirements of the ordinance.
D. All of the above (Your Answer)
Incorrect
12) The most frequent shape of a city, a large circle with radial corridors of
intense development emanating from the center.
A. Star (Your Answer)
B. Radiocentric (Correct Answer)
C. Ring
D. NOTA
Incorrect
13) They understood the importance of transportation and thus emerges as the
first regional planners of the world
A. Greeks (Correct Answer)
B. Romans
C. Sumerians (Your Answer)
D. Egyptians
Incorrect
14) The sole regulatory body for housing and land use development. It is charged
with encouraging greater private sector participation in low-cost housing
through liberalization of development standards, simplification of regulations
and decentralization of approvals for permits and licenses.
A. Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) (Your
Answer)

B. Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) (Correct Answer)

C. Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA)
D. None of the above
Incorrect
15) The minimum population necessary to support a service
A. Threshold population (Correct Answer)
B. Population pyramid
C. Demography
D. Conurbation (Your Answer)
Incorrect

16) This two corridors of intense development crosses at the center and is usually
found in small cities
A. Linear
B. Branch (Correct Answer)
C. Rectilinear (Your Answer)
D. NOTA
Correct
17) A street pattern that provides ease of orientation adopted to right angle
A. Linear
B. Grid (Your Answer)
C. Concentric
D. Star-shaped
Incorrect
18) Le Corbusier proposed this type of development that is anchored on the
objective of decongesting the centers of our cities by increasing their densities
by building high on small part of the total ground area.
A. Radburn
B. City Beautiful
C. Radiant City (Correct Answer)
D. Garden city (Your Answer)
Incorrect
19) Rectangular streets are examples of the
A. Axial
B. Ribbon-type
C. Grid-iron (Correct Answer)
D. Radial (Your Answer)
Correct
20) Arturo Soria y Mata suggested this type of development running from Cadiz,
Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg in which he proposed that the
logic of linear utility line should be the basis of all city lay-out
A. Broadacre
B. Linear City (Your Answer)
C. Radiant City
D. Cosmic City
Incorrect

21) What was the most important factor in designing settlement patterns during
the Spanish Period in the Philippines
A. Plaza (Your Answer)
B. Religion (Correct Answer)
C. Economy
D. Transportation

PLANNING 02
1)
It is the division of a community into districts or zones according to present and potential uses of
land to maximize, regulate and direct their use and development.

A.

Comprehensive Development Planning

B.

Zoning (Your Answer)

C.

Land Use Planning

D.

Police Power

Incorrect

2)
He advocated the concept of the Social City, a polycentric settlement, where growth is without
limit, surrounded by a greenbelt.

A.

Ebenezer Howard (Correct Answer)

B.

Daniel Burnham (Your Answer)

C.

Frederick Law Olmstead

D.

Arturo Soria Y Mata

Correct

3)

A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of a population by age and sex

A.

Population Pyramid (Your Answer)

B.

Population Projection

C.

Population Density

D.

Population Implosion

Correct

4)

Father of American Town Planning.

A.

Clarence Perry

B.

Daniel Burnham (Your Answer)

C.

Frederick Law Olmstead

D.

Clarence Stein

Incorrect

5)

Metro Manila is considered a primate city because

A.

It is the largest urban center of the country

B.

It contains the countrys primary central business district (Correct Answer)

C.
Answer)
D.

It has a very large population compared to all other urban centers of the country (Your
It is a metropolitan center

Correct

6)
Leonardo da Vinci described in this book a new concept of urban planning that was suited for
Milan, a city straddling a river where upstream, the river was directed into 6 or 7 branches, all parallel to
the main stream and rejoining it below the city.

A.

Milan Plan (Your Answer)

B.

De Arkitektura

C.

Linear City

D.

Codex Atlanticus

Correct

7)
An urban planning approach that puts priority on people and environment wherein the model is
the traditional city neighborhood that existed before where workplaces, shops and houses where within
walking distance of each other

A.

Garden City (Your Answer)

B.

New Urbanism

C.

Letchworth

D.

Welwyn

Correct

8)

He postulated that land use diminish intensively in reverse relationship to increased distance

A.

Von Thunen (Your Answer)

B.

William Alonso

C.

Lowdon Wingo Jr.

D.

Robert Malthus

Correct

9)

Which one is bigger in the hierarchy of settlements

A.

City

B.

Metropolis

C.

Conurbation

D.

Megalopolis (Your Answer)

Correct

10)

It is a merging of two or more metropolises with a population of 10 million or more

A.

Megalopolises

B.

Metropolitan

C.

Conurbation (Your Answer)

D.

Threshold population

Correct

11)

The ability of an areas resource system to support the activities of a given population.

A.

Threshold Population

B.

Resource Use

C.

Carrying Capacity (Your Answer)

D.

Demography

Correct

12)

He wrote the Chicago Plan which was heavily criticized and referred to as centro-centrist

A.

Pierre Charles LEnfant

B.

Daniel Burnham (Your Answer)

C.

Frederick Law Olmstead

D.

Clarence Stein

Correct

13)

A single detached dwelling unit is defined as a house

A.

Good for one household

B.

Intended for ownership

C.

Completely surrounded by yards (Your Answer)

D.

With one or more of its sides abutting the property line

Correct

14)

Urban development tends to occur along major transportation routes because.

A.

Population tends to concentrate where transportation is available

B.

Transportation facilities tend to service areas where there is population concentration

C.

Both a and b (Your Answer)

D.

None of the above

Correct

15)
The period in history wherein towns grew around either a monastery or castle assuming a
radiocentric pattern.

A.

Renaissance

B.

Ancient Rome

C.

Medieval Times (Your Answer)

D.

Ancient World

Correct

16)
A central business district usually has: - -- a. i. High daytime population ii. Large concentration of
office and retail activities iii. Large daily inflow and outflow of commuter

A.

I only

B.

Iii only

C.

I, ii

D.

I, ii, iii (Your Answer)

Correct

17)

The golden era of urban design in the US

A.

Garden City Era (Your Answer)

B.

The Park Movement Era

C.

City Beautiful Era

D.

The Conservationists Era

Correct

18)
Exponents of the systems view of planning: i. Brian McLoughlin ii. George Chadwick iii. John
Glasson iv. Alan Wilson

A.

I, ii, iii

B.

Ii, iii, iv

C.

I, iii, iv

D.

i, ii, iv (Your Answer)

Correct

19)
An area with a minimum income of P20M, at least 10,000 has. in land area or minimum
population of 150,000.

A.

Component city

B.

Highly urbanized city

C.

Independent component city

D.

City (Your Answer)

Correct

20)
The elements of the human settlements:- i. Nature ii. Man iii. Society iv. Shells v. Network vi.
Hamlet vii. Community

A.

I, ii, iii, v, vi

B.

Ii, iii, iv, v, vi

C.

i, ii, iii, iv, v (Your Answer)

D.

I, iii, iv, v, vi

Correct

21)

Each successive district admits the uses of all the more restricted districts

A.

Spot zoning

B.

Bonus zoning

C.

Non-cumulative zoning (Your Answer)

D.

Inclusionary zoning

Correct

22)

Growth in the proportion of a population living in urban areas

A.

Urbanization (Your Answer)

B.

Demography

C.

Megalopolis

D.

Component

Correct

23)

He believed in the use of open space as element of urban system.

A.

Pierre Charles LEnfant

B.

Daniel Burnham

C.

Frederick Law Olmstead (Your Answer)

D.

Clarence Stein

Correct

24)

The links within the settlement and with other settlements.

A.

Shells

B.

Networks (Your Answer)

C.

Norms

D.

Hamlet

PLANNING 03

1)

Sometimes called "subscription money", this is a deposit given to the seller to

show that the potential buyer has serious intentions.

A. Earnest Money (Your Answer)

B. Draft Money
C. Initial Installment
D. Equity
Correct
2)

They develop or improve the land as well as construct houses.

A. Appraisers
B. Developers (Your Answer)
C. Real Estate Brokers
D. Financing Agencies
Correct
3)

A habitable room for 1 family only with facilities for living, sleeping,
cooking, and eating.

A. Single Detached Unit

B. Dwelling Unit (Your Answer)
C. Living Unit
D. Home Unit
Correct
4)

A long, narrow chain of hills or mountains.

A. Ridge (Your Answer)

B. Ravine
C. Edge
D. Cliff
Correct
5)

A written agreement between parties, but it allows a specific period during

which the buyer can investigate the property and make a decision.

A. Initial Contract
B. Draft Contract
C. "Option to Buy" (Your Answer)
D. Subscription Agreement
Correct
6)

The government arm responsible for the development and implementation of

low cost housing in the Philippines.

A. National Housing Authority (Your Answer)

B. HLURB
C. National Shelter Program
D. Housing Agencies
Correct
7)

First Planner and developed the Gridiron.

A. Marcus Vitruvius Pollo

B. Hippodamus of Miletus (Your Answer)
C. Mesopotamians
D. Daniel Burnham
Correct
8)

This code mandates that all Local Government Units shall prepare their
comprehensive land use plans and enact them through zoning ordinances.

A. HLURB Code
B. Local Government Code (Your Answer)
C. Civil Code
D. Land Use Code
Correct
9)

A spatial organization concept a general view of the pattern of land use in a

city developed by Ernest W. Burgess. The city is conceived as a series of five
concentric zones with the cores as the central business district and fanning out
from which are the residential and commuter zones.

A. Multiple Nuclei Concept

B. Sector Concept
C. Concentric Zone Concept (Your Answer)
D. Locational Theory
Correct
10) A tool used to control the manner in which raw land is subdivided and placed
on the market for residential development.

A. Zoning Regulations
B. Deed Restrictions
C. Subdivision Regulations (Your Answer)
D. Housing Regulations
Correct
11) Niemeyer believed that relating large areas to each other is freedom as in the
planned city of___.
A. Chandigarh
B. Stalingrad
C. Chicago
D. Brasilia (Your Answer)
Correct
12) A piece of grassy land, especially one used for growing hay or as pasture for
grazing animals; low grassy land near a river or stream.
A. Farmland
B. Terrain
C. A&D Land
D. Meadow (Your Answer)
Correct
13) This is a type of a retaining wall made of rectangular baskets made of
galvanized steel wire or PVC-coated wire hexagonal mesh which are filled
with stones to form a wall.
A. Riprap
B. Gabion Wall (Your Answer)
C. Rock Wall
D. Mesh Wall
Correct
14) The remaining space in a lot after deducting the required minimum open
spaces.
A. Setback
B. Buildable Area (Your Answer)
C. Yard
D. Building Mass
Correct
15) On land, an encumbrance limiting its use; usually imposed for community or
mutual protection.

A. Parcel
B. Restriction (Your Answer)
C. Zoning
D. Density
Incorrect
16) . Of land, a contiguous land area which is considered as a unit, which is
subject to a single ownership, and which is legally recorded as a single piece.
A. Platting
B. Land Partition (Your Answer)
C. Parcel (Correct Answer)
D. TCT
Correct
17) A very steep slope of rock or clay.
A. Ridge
B. Ravine
C. Edge
D. Cliff (Your Answer)
Correct
18) The rough equivalent of the present tenement cities that existed in
ancient Rome,
which resulted from the population growth of the city and the congestion that
existed in streets.
A. Tenema
B. Insula (Your Answer)
C. Agoras
D. Domus
Correct
19) He conceptualized the 'City Beautiful Movement'.
A. Le Corbusier
B. Ebenezer Howard
C. Frank Lloyd Wright
D. Daniel Burnham (Your Answer)
Correct
20) Usually the last stage of the final site development process prior to issuance
of building permit.
A. Site Development Plan

B. Landscaping
C. Final Design Brief
D. Final Plat (Your Answer)
Correct
21) A type of planning which emphasizes that the proper role of the planner is not
to serve the general public interest but rather to serve the interests of the least
fortunate or least well represented groups in society.
A. Advocacy Planning (Your Answer)
B. Social Planning
C. Strategic Planning
D. Sectoral Planning
Correct
22) A long, deep, narrow valley eroded by running water.
A. Ridge
B. Ravine (Your Answer)
C. Edge
D. Cliff
Correct
23) In architectural terms, it is the relationship of the number of residential
structures and people to a given amount of space.
A. Zoning
B. Density (Your Answer)
C. Floor Area Ratio
D. Floor to Lot Area Ratio
Correct
24) A 20th century problem emanating from rapid urbanization of areas
surrounding a city which eats up the remaining adjacent rural open spaces.
A. Urban Development
B. Urban Sprawl (Your Answer)
C. Urban gentrification
D. Urban Blight
Correct
25) A wide area of parks of undeveloped land surrounding a community.
A. Park
B. Open Space
C. Greenbelt (Your Answer)

D. Plaza
Correct
26) In urban geography, a concept where urban settlement is confined to the area
within the legal limits of the city and the congestion and virtually all of this
area is occupied by urban residents.
A. City Core
B. Urban Center
C. City Limits
D. Truebounded City (Your Answer)
Correct
27) A profession which falls between planning and architecture. It deals with the
large-scale organization and design of the city, with the massing and
organization and the space between them, but not with the design of the
individual buildings.
A. City Planning
B. Urban Design (Your Answer)
C. Urban Theorists
D. City Administration
Correct
28) A locale with a sizeable agglomeration of people having characteristics of an
urban being.
A. City (Your Answer)
B. Composite City
C. Chartered City
D. Independent City
Correct
29) A Land Development Decision is also what kind of decision.
A. Land Use
B. Traffic (Your Answer)
C. Population
D. Density
Incorrect
30) The orderly arrangement of urban streets and public spaces.
A. City Planning (Correct Answer)
B. Open Space Planning
C. Street Planning (Your Answer)

D. Spatial Planning
Correct
31) In the Philippines, this type of land use planning emphasizes the proper
management of land resources to ensure that the present generation can
benefit from its continued use without compromising future generations.
A. Coastal Resource Planning
B. Land Use Planning
C. Sustainable Land Use Planning (Your Answer)
D. Strategic Planning
Correct
32) Phrase used to characterize development that meets the needs of the present
generation without compromising the needs of the future generations.
A. Planned Development
B. Sustainable Development (Your Answer)
C. Development-Oriented
D. Sectoral Development
Correct
33) A provision made in advance for the gradual liquidation of a future obligation
by periodic charges against the capital account.
A. Interest
B. Surcharges
C. Amortization (Your Answer)
D. Equity
Correct
34) Planning for roads, bridges, schools, parking structures, pubic buildings,
water supply, land waste disposal facilities.
A. Capital Facilities Planning (Your Answer)
B. Utilities Planning
C. Physical Planning
D. Transport Planning
Correct
35) Written document to transfer the property to one person to another.
A. Transfer Certificate Title
B. Deed (Your Answer)
C. Clearance
D. Equity

Correct
36) A wall that serves 2 dwelling units, known also as party wall.
A. Common Wall (Your Answer)
B. Fire Wall
C. Fire Block
D. Abuttment
Correct
37)

The main reason why the nomadic existence of early man metamorphosed to
village settlement and later to the birth of cities.

A. Development of Motor
B. Population Explosion
C. Agricultural Surplus (Your Answer)
D. Housing Provision
Correct
38) The container of man, which consists of both the natural and man-made or
artificial element.
A. Networks
B. Links
C. Physical Settlement (Your Answer)
D. Structures
SITE PLANNING

Correct
1)

It is important to determine the existing availability of utilities on site in terms

of adequacy and efficiency. This includes the following except for:

A. Sanitary/sewage system
B. Water supply
C. Drainage
D. Electric power supply
E. Transportation (Your Answer)
Correct
2)

What are the three main classes of soil?

i. clay
ii. loam
iii. sand
iv. silt
v. lime

A. I,ii and iii (Your Answer)

B. Ii, iii and iv
C. I, iii and v
D. Ii, iv and v
E. Iii, iv and v
Correct
3)

The art of arranging structures on the land and shaping the spaces between.

A. Site Planning (Your Answer)

B. Urban Design
C. Environmental Planning
D. Topographical Analysis
E. None of the above
Incorrect
4)

Is the term used to describe the composite sizes of particles in a soil sample.

A. Texture (Correct Answer)

B. Class
C. Weight
D. Percentage
E. None of the above (Your Answer)
Correct
5)

_______ is the natural science that studies the earth - its composition; the
processes that shaped its surface and its history.

A. Biology
B. Geology (Your Answer)
C. Hydrology
D. Zoology
E. Botany
Incorrect
6)

_________ are imaginary lines that join points of equal elevation on the
surface of the land above or below a reference surface such as the mean sea
level.

A. Topography (Your Answer)

B. Map
C. Contours (Correct Answer)
D. Slope
E. None of these
Incorrect

7)

Rocks produced by crystallization from a liquid.

A. Sedimentary rock
B. Metamorphosed rock
C. Igneous rock (Correct Answer)
D. Gravel
E. Limestone (Your Answer)
Correct
8)

The natural science that studies the waters of the earth, their occurrences,
circulation and distribution, their chemical and physical properties, and their
reactions to the living environment including their relation to all living things.
A. Hydrology (Your Answer)
B. Geology
C. Geomorphology
D. Biology
E. None of the above

TROPICAL

Correct
1)

Major thermal design factors to be studied includes the following except one:

A. Conduction heat flow

B. Solar heat gain
C. Outdoor conditions (Your Answer)
D. Ventilation heat flow
Correct
2)

Flow of heat through a material by transfer from warmer to cooler molecules in contact with each other.

A. Evaporation
B. Conduction (Your Answer)
C. Convection
D. Radiation
Incorrect
3)

The tendency of air or gas in a shaft or other vertical space to rise when heated, creating a draft that
draws in cooler air or gas from below.

A. Coriolis force (Your Answer)

B. Chimney effect (Correct Answer)
C. Thermal mass
D. Uniform heat emission
Incorrect
4)

Rate of heat transfer that occurs through a unit thickness of material for a unit area subjected to a unit
difference in temperature.

A. Conduction (Your Answer)

B. Conductivity (Correct Answer)
C. Resistance
D. Resisitivity
Correct
5)

This design variable refers to materials and construction; thermal insulation; surface qualities; shading
and sun control.

A. Building fabric (Your Answer)

B. Fenestration
C. Air-tightness
D. Building shape
Correct
6)

Wind direction of Habagat.

A. NW
B. SE
C. SW (Your Answer)
D. NE
Incorrect
7)

Angle of the sun above the horizon, measured from the horizon.

A. Azimuth (Your Answer)

B. Sun path
C. Latitude
D. Altitude (Correct Answer)
Correct
8)

This design variable refers to the size, position and orientation of windows; window glass materials;
external and internal shading devices.

A. Building fabric
B. Fenestration (Your Answer)
C. Thermal insulation
D. Surface-to-volume ratio
Correct
9)

These are the four constituents of climate most important for the purposes of building design.

i.
iii.
v.

temperature
humidity
Nature of the environment

ii.
iv.
vi.

Cloud cover
Solar radiation
Air movement

A. I, iii, iv, vi (Your Answer)

B. Ii, iii, iv, vi
C. I, iii, v, vi
D. Ii, iv, v, vi
Correct
10) The total amount of rain, hail, snow, dew, measured in rain gauges and expressed in mm per unit time
(day, month, year)

A. Cloud cover
B. Precipitation (Your Answer)
C. Humidity
D. Air movement
Correct
11) A phenomenon where the urban temperature is hotter than rural temperature.
A. Albedo effect
B. Urban heat island (Your Answer)
C. Wind shadow
D. Azimuth
Correct
12)

Any cool mass that is available for the absorption of excess heat, including water bodies, the ground, and
massive building materials.

A. Heat sink (Your Answer)

B. Water features
C. Cooling breezes
D. Radiant cooling
Incorrect
13) The general climate is influenced by these three factors:
i.
Diurnal temperature
iii.
Movement of air masses
v.
Moisture-bearing clouds

ii.
iv.
vi.

A. I, iii, v (Your Answer)

B. Ii, iv, vi (Correct Answer)
C. I, iii, iv
D. Ii, v, vi
Incorrect
14) Wind speed __________ with the increase in height above the ground.
A. Increases (Correct Answer)

topography
vegetation
Nature of the environment on local or regional
scale

B. Decreases (Your Answer)

C. Deflected
D. Is not affected
Correct
15) A cooling system using a buildings design and construction to maintain a comfortable temperature
within the building.

A. Passive cooling (Your Answer)

B. Stack effect
C. Electro-mechanical
D. Thermal mass
Incorrect
is the annual mean temperature if the highest DBT of the year is 37 oC and the lowest DBT is
16) What
o
16 C?

A. 37 oC
B. 26.5 oC (Correct Answer)
C. 35 oC (Your Answer)
D. 17.5 oC
Correct
17) Wind direction of Amihan.
A. NW
B. SE
C. SW
D. NE (Your Answer)
Correct
18) Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Heat gain in the tropics is due mainly to solar radiation at the building
surface.
B. In hot climates, heat gains are highest when there are low wind speeds
C. Relative humidities in the tropical regions are very low. (Your Answer)
D. Absorptivity of the surface to solar radiation is of primary importance in
tropical regions.
Incorrect
19) Regional climate
A. Mesoclimate (Correct Answer)
B. Macroclimate (Your Answer)
C. Microclimate

D. Diurnal
Incorrect
20) Maximum solar heat factor for walls in warm humid tropics.
A. 3%
B. 4% (Correct Answer)
C. 5%
D. 6% (Your Answer)
Correct
21) Serves as climatic mesh that filters the outside environment to create a proper and hopefully a
comfortable indoor environment.

A. Building fenestration
B. Building envelope (Your Answer)
C. Building materials
D. Building orientation
Incorrect
22) Integration in time of weather conditions, characteristics of a certain geographical location.
A. Climate (Correct Answer)
B. Temperature
C. Weather
D. Season (Your Answer)
Correct
23) A climate classification where the main problem is the lack of heat (under heating), or an excessive heat
dissipation for all or most parts of the year.

A. Hot-dry climate
B. Warm-humid climate
C. Cold climate (Your Answer)
D. Solar radiation
Incorrect
24) As a rough guide, the wind shadow will be _____ times the height of the building including the pitched
roof.

A. 3 (Your Answer)
B. 4
C. 5 (Correct Answer)
D. 6
Correct
25) Measured by a pyranometer, on an unobstructed horizontal surface and recorded either as the

continuously varying irradiance (W/m2), or through an electronic integrator as irradiance over the hour of
the day.

A. Cloud cover
B. Sunshine duration
C. Dry-bulb temperature
D. Solar radiation (Your Answer)
Incorrect
26) Maximum solar heat factor for roofs in warm humid tropics.
A. 3% (Correct Answer)
B. 4%
C. 5%
D. 6% (Your Answer)
Incorrect
27) The temperature of the outside air in contact with a shaded wall or roof which would give the same rate
of heat transfer and the same temperature gradient as the combined effect of solar radiation and air
temperature.

A. Dry-bulb temperature
B. Wet-bulb temperature
C. Sol-air temperature (Correct Answer)
D. Surface temperature (Your Answer)
Incorrect
28) Overheating is not as great as in other areas, but it is aggravated by very high humidities, restricting the
evaporation potential. The diurnal temperature variation is small.

A. Tropical upland (Your Answer)

B. Temperate
C. Warm humid (Correct Answer)
D. Hot dry
Correct
29) Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Tropical regions need both vertical and horizontal shading throughout the
year.
B. For the tropical zones, generally, as much ventilation as possible is desired.
C. Transitional spaces in tropical zones are located on the north and south
sides of the building where the suns penetration is not as great.
D. Transitional spaces require total climatic control and natural ventilation is
not sufficient. (Your Answer)
Incorrect

30) Range under which most people feel comfortable

A. U value
B. Thermal heat capacity (Your Answer)
C. Comfort zone (Correct Answer)
D. Lowest DBT
Incorrect
31) Wind speed increases rapidly as the percentage opening area in walls increases from 0 to _____%.
A. 10 (Your Answer)
B. 20 (Correct Answer)
C. 30
D. 40
Incorrect
32) Angle of the position of the sun along the horizon, measured to the east or west from true south.
A. Azimuth (Correct Answer)
B. Latitude (Your Answer)
C. Altitude
D. Sun path
Correct
33) Transfer of heat from one place to another by the flow of molecules from one place to another
A. Evaporation
B. Conduction
C. Convection (Your Answer)
D. Radiation
Incorrect
34) Instrument used for measuring relative humidity
A. Thermometer
B. Hygrometer (Correct Answer)
C. Vane anemometer
D. Pyranometer (Your Answer)