Sheet metal first year exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Question: How many separate specialties are there within the overall sheet metal trade?
Correct Answer: 9
Question: What percent of SMWIA members work in industrial and commercial?
Correct Answer: 12 percent
Question: What percent of SMWIA members work in architectural sheet metal?
Correct Answer: 15 percent
Question: Of SMWIA members, roughly what percent work in HVAC?
Correct Answer: 65 percent
Question: What type of roofs are increasingly being installed on residential buildings, both new and
retrofit?
Correct Answer: Standing seam roofs
Question: The agency which regulates food processing and service is what?
Correct Answer: FDA
Question: When did sheet metal craftsmen being to use welding?
Correct Answer: 1930's
Question: Commercial/ Institutional, are sectors of what sheet metal specialty?
Correct Answer: industrial
Question: What are the goals of architectural sheet metal?
Correct Answer: Durability, protection, beauty
Question: IAQ is the subcategory to what division?
Correct Answer: tab
Question: Each year SMWIA admits approximately how many new apprentices?
Correct Answer: 3500
Question: What percent of sheet metals workers are women?
Correct Answer: 4.5%
Question: The word ''Demographics" refers to the statistical characteristics of a group of people
Correct Answer: True
Question: The fastest growing segment of HVAC work is residential HVAC service
Correct Answer: False
Question: There are approximately, 1,550,000 members in. The SMWIA
Correct Answer: False
,Question: ITI operates the largest number of training centers certified by AWS
Correct Answer: True
Question: In the sheet metal trade technology and automation spell doom for many workers
Correct Answer: Flase
Question: Detailers never handle project correspondence and job documents
Correct Answer: False
Question: List as many different specialty areas you can think of.
Correct Answer: Architectural, industrial, hvac, tab, IAQ, energy management, clean rooms
Question: List four fields that usually require clean rooms in their manufacturing process
Correct Answer: Pharmaceutical, computer-science, space-technology and biotechnology.
Question: List four Testing, Adjusting and Balancing (TAB) technical specialty areas and briefly explain
what each entails
Correct Answer: Energy management, ensures that buildings are designed and have HVAC systems are
properly adjusted Building system commissioning, verify and record data on the performance of HVAC
systems Acoustical test, keeps sound and vibration levels below predetermined limits Life safety systems,
are designed to reduce or prevent fire deaths
Question: What are the ten areas of responsibility of an Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) specialist?
Correct Answer: To ensure that outside air intakes are secured from unauthorized access To balance air
flow to keep pockets of stagnant air from building up To make sure that air is properly filtered To remove
moisture that would contribute to mold growth To perform routine testing of ductwork for leakage To check
air diffusers to ensure they are appropriately adjusted to direct warm or cooled air to all occupied spaces It
controls the buildings air pressure by balancing the proportion of outdoor and indoor air so there is a slight
positive pressure Removes local contaminates from building work areas by trapping and expelling them
with local filter and exhaust systems They find the right balance of occupant comfort and energy efficiency
throughout the year They work with hvac service personnel to maintain the buildings hvac system
Question: What does HVAC stand for?
Correct Answer: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
Question: What type of sheet metal work uses almost exclusively components made out of stainless steel?
Correct Answer: Food service and processing sheet metal work
Question: What type of sheet metal work would material handling systems, conveyers, and blowpipe be
considered?
Correct Answer: Industrial sheet metal
Question: Installs a blow pipe system?
Correct Answer: Industrial sheet metal worker
Question: Bid a job?
Correct Answer: Estimator / Detailer / CAD
Question: Install a VAV box?
, Correct Answer: HVAC sheet metal work
Question: Install a skylight?
Correct Answer: Architectural sheet metal
Question: Install a furnace?
Correct Answer: Residential sheet metal work or HVAC sheet metal worker
Question: Install a marquee
Correct Answer: Sign work
Question: Service a chiller?
Correct Answer: HVAC service work
Question: Commission a buildings systems
Correct Answer: tab
Question: Weld a stainless steel sink?
Correct Answer: Food service sheet metal work
Question: Investigate a mold problem
Correct Answer: IAQ
Question: Install a conveyor system
Correct Answer: Industrial sheet metal work
Question: In 500 B.C., Babylonians used gold, silver, lead, iron, and copper to make vases and urns
Correct Answer: True
Question: In 123 A.D., the Romans made coins, utensils, and seals of office out of pewter (an alloy of tin,
lead, and brass)
Correct Answer: True
Question: In 1819, Edward Converse and Seth Peck invented and patented the double-seaming machine.
Correct Answer: Flase
Question: The term journeyman has its origins in the French word jour, which means day.
Correct Answer: True
Question: In 1700-1850 America, a tinker was a traveling worker who carried tools to repair and recast
pewter ware
Correct Answer: True
Question: During 7000-5000 B.C., Egyptians used copper for ornamentation
Correct Answer: True
Question: . Metal sheets for the USS Constitution, Fulton's first steamboat, and the roof of the Old State
House in Boston were all produced in Revere's copper-rolling mill.
Correct Answer: True
CORRECT Answers
Question: How many separate specialties are there within the overall sheet metal trade?
Correct Answer: 9
Question: What percent of SMWIA members work in industrial and commercial?
Correct Answer: 12 percent
Question: What percent of SMWIA members work in architectural sheet metal?
Correct Answer: 15 percent
Question: Of SMWIA members, roughly what percent work in HVAC?
Correct Answer: 65 percent
Question: What type of roofs are increasingly being installed on residential buildings, both new and
retrofit?
Correct Answer: Standing seam roofs
Question: The agency which regulates food processing and service is what?
Correct Answer: FDA
Question: When did sheet metal craftsmen being to use welding?
Correct Answer: 1930's
Question: Commercial/ Institutional, are sectors of what sheet metal specialty?
Correct Answer: industrial
Question: What are the goals of architectural sheet metal?
Correct Answer: Durability, protection, beauty
Question: IAQ is the subcategory to what division?
Correct Answer: tab
Question: Each year SMWIA admits approximately how many new apprentices?
Correct Answer: 3500
Question: What percent of sheet metals workers are women?
Correct Answer: 4.5%
Question: The word ''Demographics" refers to the statistical characteristics of a group of people
Correct Answer: True
Question: The fastest growing segment of HVAC work is residential HVAC service
Correct Answer: False
Question: There are approximately, 1,550,000 members in. The SMWIA
Correct Answer: False
,Question: ITI operates the largest number of training centers certified by AWS
Correct Answer: True
Question: In the sheet metal trade technology and automation spell doom for many workers
Correct Answer: Flase
Question: Detailers never handle project correspondence and job documents
Correct Answer: False
Question: List as many different specialty areas you can think of.
Correct Answer: Architectural, industrial, hvac, tab, IAQ, energy management, clean rooms
Question: List four fields that usually require clean rooms in their manufacturing process
Correct Answer: Pharmaceutical, computer-science, space-technology and biotechnology.
Question: List four Testing, Adjusting and Balancing (TAB) technical specialty areas and briefly explain
what each entails
Correct Answer: Energy management, ensures that buildings are designed and have HVAC systems are
properly adjusted Building system commissioning, verify and record data on the performance of HVAC
systems Acoustical test, keeps sound and vibration levels below predetermined limits Life safety systems,
are designed to reduce or prevent fire deaths
Question: What are the ten areas of responsibility of an Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) specialist?
Correct Answer: To ensure that outside air intakes are secured from unauthorized access To balance air
flow to keep pockets of stagnant air from building up To make sure that air is properly filtered To remove
moisture that would contribute to mold growth To perform routine testing of ductwork for leakage To check
air diffusers to ensure they are appropriately adjusted to direct warm or cooled air to all occupied spaces It
controls the buildings air pressure by balancing the proportion of outdoor and indoor air so there is a slight
positive pressure Removes local contaminates from building work areas by trapping and expelling them
with local filter and exhaust systems They find the right balance of occupant comfort and energy efficiency
throughout the year They work with hvac service personnel to maintain the buildings hvac system
Question: What does HVAC stand for?
Correct Answer: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
Question: What type of sheet metal work uses almost exclusively components made out of stainless steel?
Correct Answer: Food service and processing sheet metal work
Question: What type of sheet metal work would material handling systems, conveyers, and blowpipe be
considered?
Correct Answer: Industrial sheet metal
Question: Installs a blow pipe system?
Correct Answer: Industrial sheet metal worker
Question: Bid a job?
Correct Answer: Estimator / Detailer / CAD
Question: Install a VAV box?
, Correct Answer: HVAC sheet metal work
Question: Install a skylight?
Correct Answer: Architectural sheet metal
Question: Install a furnace?
Correct Answer: Residential sheet metal work or HVAC sheet metal worker
Question: Install a marquee
Correct Answer: Sign work
Question: Service a chiller?
Correct Answer: HVAC service work
Question: Commission a buildings systems
Correct Answer: tab
Question: Weld a stainless steel sink?
Correct Answer: Food service sheet metal work
Question: Investigate a mold problem
Correct Answer: IAQ
Question: Install a conveyor system
Correct Answer: Industrial sheet metal work
Question: In 500 B.C., Babylonians used gold, silver, lead, iron, and copper to make vases and urns
Correct Answer: True
Question: In 123 A.D., the Romans made coins, utensils, and seals of office out of pewter (an alloy of tin,
lead, and brass)
Correct Answer: True
Question: In 1819, Edward Converse and Seth Peck invented and patented the double-seaming machine.
Correct Answer: Flase
Question: The term journeyman has its origins in the French word jour, which means day.
Correct Answer: True
Question: In 1700-1850 America, a tinker was a traveling worker who carried tools to repair and recast
pewter ware
Correct Answer: True
Question: During 7000-5000 B.C., Egyptians used copper for ornamentation
Correct Answer: True
Question: . Metal sheets for the USS Constitution, Fulton's first steamboat, and the roof of the Old State
House in Boston were all produced in Revere's copper-rolling mill.
Correct Answer: True
