BUILDING TECH PREBOARD EXAM
WELL DETAILED QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST EXAM
2025/2026 GRADED A+
C - answers Which of the following floors would require the highest quality of levelness
and flatness?
A: Gymnasium floors
B: Ice or skating rink
C: Movie/TV studios
D: Warehouse with air pallets
E: Carpet floors for office or commercial buildings
Retaining - answers Which of the following does not constitute the types of basement
wall structures?
Mission tile - answers A shingle-type roofing tile approximately semi-cylindrical in shape
laid in courses with units having their convex side alternately up and down.
Torsion - answers A twisting force
Smooth on four sides - answers Lumber specification for S4S means
Impact wrench - answers A device for tightening bolts and nuts by means of rapidly
repeated torque impulses produced by electrical or mechanical energy.
Canton - answers A column feature projecting from a corner of a building
Overturning - answers The failure of retaining walls where the top portion of the wall
slides first.
Tetrahedron - answers What is the simplest unit of a space frame, having only 6
structural members?
AISC Type I - answers A cantilever steel beam requires what kind of connection?
Fibrous admixtures - answers This kind of admixture is added to concrete mix to act as
"microreinforcing". Its most common use is to reduce plastic shrinkage cracking that
sometimes occurs during curing of slabs. GFRC, which is used for cladding panels, also
makes use of this admixture.
, Composite deck - answers Metal decking that serves as permanent formwork for a
reinforced concrete deck.
Mezzanine - answers A low or partial story between two main stories of a building,
especially one that projects as a balcony and forms a composition with the story
beneath it.
Summerwood - answers The visible rings in a cross section of a tree
Folded plate - answers A plate structure composed of thin, deep elements joined rigidly
along their boundaries and forming sharp angles to brace each other against lateral
buckling.
Masonry veneer - answers Which among the masonry wall types connects to a
structural frame such as wood or metal stud walls?
Rowlock - answers A brick laid on its long edge, with its end exposed in the face of the
wall
2,800 psi - answers If poured concrete passes a cylinder test at 1,400 psi, what is its
expected compressive strength?
Pilarete - answers The vernacular term for vertical stud is
Cold joint - answers A joint formed when a concrete surface hardens before the next
batch of concrete is placed against it.
Hollow structural steel - answers The abbreviation HSS refers to
Test pit - answers Prior to designing a foundation for a building larger than a typical
residential house, it is necessary to determine the soil and water conditions beneath the
site. What is the initial investigation that can be undertaken?
Shielded metal arc welding - answers At present, the steel construction industry uses 5
major welding processes. Which is a popular process called "stick" welding?
Drift - answers The lateral deflection of structure is called
Slip form - answers Building multistory site-cast concrete walls with forms that rise up
the wall as construction progresses.
Truss - answers Diaphragm action is defined as a bracing action that derives from the
stiffness of a thin plane of material when it is loaded in a direction parallel to the plane.
Which of the following does not characterize diaphragm action?
Silica sand - answers The main ingredient of glass is
WELL DETAILED QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST EXAM
2025/2026 GRADED A+
C - answers Which of the following floors would require the highest quality of levelness
and flatness?
A: Gymnasium floors
B: Ice or skating rink
C: Movie/TV studios
D: Warehouse with air pallets
E: Carpet floors for office or commercial buildings
Retaining - answers Which of the following does not constitute the types of basement
wall structures?
Mission tile - answers A shingle-type roofing tile approximately semi-cylindrical in shape
laid in courses with units having their convex side alternately up and down.
Torsion - answers A twisting force
Smooth on four sides - answers Lumber specification for S4S means
Impact wrench - answers A device for tightening bolts and nuts by means of rapidly
repeated torque impulses produced by electrical or mechanical energy.
Canton - answers A column feature projecting from a corner of a building
Overturning - answers The failure of retaining walls where the top portion of the wall
slides first.
Tetrahedron - answers What is the simplest unit of a space frame, having only 6
structural members?
AISC Type I - answers A cantilever steel beam requires what kind of connection?
Fibrous admixtures - answers This kind of admixture is added to concrete mix to act as
"microreinforcing". Its most common use is to reduce plastic shrinkage cracking that
sometimes occurs during curing of slabs. GFRC, which is used for cladding panels, also
makes use of this admixture.
, Composite deck - answers Metal decking that serves as permanent formwork for a
reinforced concrete deck.
Mezzanine - answers A low or partial story between two main stories of a building,
especially one that projects as a balcony and forms a composition with the story
beneath it.
Summerwood - answers The visible rings in a cross section of a tree
Folded plate - answers A plate structure composed of thin, deep elements joined rigidly
along their boundaries and forming sharp angles to brace each other against lateral
buckling.
Masonry veneer - answers Which among the masonry wall types connects to a
structural frame such as wood or metal stud walls?
Rowlock - answers A brick laid on its long edge, with its end exposed in the face of the
wall
2,800 psi - answers If poured concrete passes a cylinder test at 1,400 psi, what is its
expected compressive strength?
Pilarete - answers The vernacular term for vertical stud is
Cold joint - answers A joint formed when a concrete surface hardens before the next
batch of concrete is placed against it.
Hollow structural steel - answers The abbreviation HSS refers to
Test pit - answers Prior to designing a foundation for a building larger than a typical
residential house, it is necessary to determine the soil and water conditions beneath the
site. What is the initial investigation that can be undertaken?
Shielded metal arc welding - answers At present, the steel construction industry uses 5
major welding processes. Which is a popular process called "stick" welding?
Drift - answers The lateral deflection of structure is called
Slip form - answers Building multistory site-cast concrete walls with forms that rise up
the wall as construction progresses.
Truss - answers Diaphragm action is defined as a bracing action that derives from the
stiffness of a thin plane of material when it is loaded in a direction parallel to the plane.
Which of the following does not characterize diaphragm action?
Silica sand - answers The main ingredient of glass is
