ASHRAE/CMR code Prep Quiz

Topics: ASHRAE/CMR

Quiz Result Settings

1: Ashrae states that the equipment on a building needs to conform to adjacent buildings classifications when within ____ feet from opening and intakes.

  • 20
  • 50
  • 75
  • 15

2: Large Mercantile occupancy is a premise or that portion of a premise where more than ____ persons congregate on levels above or below the street level to purchase personal merchandise.

  • 350
  • 100
  • 250
  • 400

3: What type of relief valve is used on low pressure centrifugal compressor systems?

  • Spring-loaded relief valve
  • Rupture disc
  • Purge relief
  • None of the above

4: Each machinery room shall contain

  • smoke and fire alarms as well as three means of egress and that egress must meet 528 CMR ventilation requirements
  • a refrigerant detector located in an area where the refrigerant from a leak will concentrate
  • high and low pressure controls
  • a toxicity detector where the presence of ammonia or lithium bromide from a leak will concentrate

5: What is an example of institutional occupancy?

  • Dorms
  • Shopping mall
  • Hospital
  • Football stadium

6: What must be done if refrigeration lines pass through a concrete floor?

  • installed through a pipe casing
  • insulated
  • leak checked
  • moisture barrier

7: Halo-carbon refrigerants cannot be used with what material?

  • Magnesium alloy
  • Stainless Steel
  • Aluminum
  • Copper

8: What refrigerant has zero ozone depletion

  • HFC
  • CFC
  • HCFC
  • None of the above

9: All electrical work done on refrigeration systems must comply with

  • ASHREA-15 Section 9.2.1
  • OSHA
  • NEC and Massachusetts Modifications
  • Department of Energy

10: Where are the three places that the discharge from an ammonia relief valve be piped?

  • atmosphere, tank containing water, where the A.H.J. indicates
  • underground, into drain, into mechanical room
  • to chemical neutralizing tank only
  • none of the above

11: What is not a requirement of a class T machine room?

  • fire hose connection to the building fire protection system
  • automatic ventilation
  • self-closing doors
  • tight fitting doors

12: What must be done to all doors and access points in duct work going through a mechanical room?

  • Must be hindged
  • Must be screwed shut
  • Must be sealed and gasketed
  • All of the above

13: When a receiver is greater than 3 cubic feet but less than 10 cubic feed, what is the minimum relief device required?

  • fusible plug
  • relief valve
  • rupture disc
  • all of the above

14: A Low-Probability System

  • is such that a leak of refrigerant from a failed connection can not enter the occupied space
  • is such that any leak will cause injury or death to anyone within a 100 square foot area
  • is such that a leak of refrigerant from a failed connection will enter the occupied space
  • is a system highly likely to leak form a failed connection or component of such system

15: When liquid receivers are used, the liquid refrigerant shall not exceed _______percent of the volume at 90F.

  • 90%
  • 75%
  • 80%
  • 99%

16: B3 refrigerants are considered

  • non-toxic but non-flammable
  • non-toxic but flammable
  • toxic and highly flammable
  • toxic but non-flammable

17: Most CFC's are

  • inert
  • flammable
  • inert but toxic
  • toxic

18: Machinery rooms shall be vented to _____________ and utilizing mechanical ventilation.

  • the outdoors
  • Machinery rooms need not be vented
  • the return air ducted system
  • the mechanical room housing the refrigeration system

19: NH3 is

  • lithium bromide
  • R-508A
  • R-718
  • ammonia

20: Institutional occupancy is

  • a premise or that portion of a premise where large numbers of people congregate and from which occupants cannot quickly vacate the space.
  • a premise or that portion of a premise from which, because they are disabled, debilitated, or confined, occupants cannot readily leave without the assistance of others.
  • a premise or that portion of a premise where people transact business, receive personal service, or purchase food and other goods.
  • None of the above

21: A relief valve discharge capacity is rated in

  • Pounds of air per minute.
  • temperature minus pounds of air per second divided by release rate squared
  • PSIA
  • PSIG

22: Methyl Chloride is a halogenated refrigerant and should not come in contact with

  • aluminum
  • zinc
  • magnesium
  • all of the above

23: R-22 is considered a(n)

  • HCFC
  • CFC
  • HFC
  • HCFCH

24: Group A1 refrigerants over ____ pounds in a system must discharge to the atmosphere

  • 110
  • 1,000
  • 330
  • 6.6

25: Low temperature systems should have what?

  • High pour point
  • Low pour point
  • High viscosity
  • None of the above