WAC and RCW Electrical Practice Exam
Questions and Answers
1. Flexible metal conduit is sometimes referred to as?
Answer Greenfield
2. What do you look for to determine if a switch or receptacle is
acceptable for copper and aluminum wiring?
Answer CO/ALR
3. What type of receptacle should not be used with aluminum
branch circuits wiring any longer?
Answer CU/AL
4. What type of wire nut is not appropriate for aluminum wire?
Answer Conventional
5. What is another name for a grounding rod?
Answer Electrode
6. What is the purpose of a circuit breaker?
Answer Interruption of electrical flow
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, 7. What are two examples of automatic circuit breakers?
Answer Fuses and Breakers
8. What is another term for NM sheathed cable?
Answer Romex
9. Minimum distance of a GFCI from a bathtub or shower
Answer
0 by the code (36 by the brown book, but on exam it should be 0)
10. Maximum distance of an outlet from a lavatory/basin
Answer
3'
11. Which is deficient?
Answer Unused opening that has been taped
12. A device designed to open and close a circuit by non-
automatic means and applied within its rating to open the circuit
automatically when predetermined over-current is called?
Answer Circuit Breaker
13. Type NM wiring
shall be supported a maximum of on center.
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Questions and Answers
1. Flexible metal conduit is sometimes referred to as?
Answer Greenfield
2. What do you look for to determine if a switch or receptacle is
acceptable for copper and aluminum wiring?
Answer CO/ALR
3. What type of receptacle should not be used with aluminum
branch circuits wiring any longer?
Answer CU/AL
4. What type of wire nut is not appropriate for aluminum wire?
Answer Conventional
5. What is another name for a grounding rod?
Answer Electrode
6. What is the purpose of a circuit breaker?
Answer Interruption of electrical flow
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, 7. What are two examples of automatic circuit breakers?
Answer Fuses and Breakers
8. What is another term for NM sheathed cable?
Answer Romex
9. Minimum distance of a GFCI from a bathtub or shower
Answer
0 by the code (36 by the brown book, but on exam it should be 0)
10. Maximum distance of an outlet from a lavatory/basin
Answer
3'
11. Which is deficient?
Answer Unused opening that has been taped
12. A device designed to open and close a circuit by non-
automatic means and applied within its rating to open the circuit
automatically when predetermined over-current is called?
Answer Circuit Breaker
13. Type NM wiring
shall be supported a maximum of on center.
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