COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION EXAMINATION TEST
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The slope is also referred to as - ✔✔Pitch
✔✔What attaches to two for additional support - ✔✔Collar tie
✔✔A structure of triangular shapes to span long distances - ✔✔Truss
✔✔The bottom of a truss is called - ✔✔The bottom chord
✔✔The top part of a truss is called the - ✔✔Top chord
✔✔What type of truss has two slopes - ✔✔Scissor truss
✔✔What is the weight classification of nails - ✔✔Penny
✔✔Most nails are made from - ✔✔Stainless steel
✔✔What two elements are typically applied to wood to make engineered wood products
- ✔✔Heat and pressure
✔✔List eight different qualities typically given in an APA wood rating - ✔✔Structural use
Mill number
ANSI number
American wood code number
Laminating specification
Combination number
Species of lumber used
Appearance grade
✔✔How would lumber with a moisture content of 20 be rated - ✔✔Green
✔✔What is the formula for slope - ✔✔rise/run
✔✔What type of nail is typically used for framing - ✔✔Common nail
✔✔What would cause a nail to have a bluish finish - ✔✔Tempered with heat
✔✔What are the common lengths for 2 X 4 and 2 X 6 lumber - ✔✔8ft. 9ft. and 10 feet
✔✔Define the following wood framing abbreviations
PSL - ✔✔Parallel strand lumber
, ✔✔OSB - ✔✔Oriented Strand Board
✔✔LVL - ✔✔Laminated Veneer Lumber
✔✔MDF - ✔✔Medium Density Fiberboard
✔✔EXP - ✔✔exposure
✔✔HDF - ✔✔High-Density Fiberboard
✔✔APA - ✔✔American Plywood Association
✔✔EXT - ✔✔exterior
✔✔STRUCT - ✔✔structural
✔✔What resists uplift when a roof truss system is used - ✔✔Metal truss hanger or
hurricane tie
✔✔Steel is approximately ____% iron - ✔✔98
✔✔What is the second largest quantity element in steel - ✔✔Carbon
✔✔What elements affect the "brittleness" of steel - ✔✔Phosphorus and sulfur
✔✔List the remaining 8 elements found in steel - ✔✔Silicon
Manganese
Copper
Nickel
Chromium
Tungsten
Molybdenum
Vanadium
✔✔What does ASTM mean - ✔✔American Society for Testing and Materials
✔✔What are the stages that low carbon steel goes thru resisting a load - ✔✔Elastic
range
Yield point
✔✔In what load will steel return to its original shape - ✔✔Elastic range
✔✔In what load range will steel not return to its original shape - ✔✔Yield point
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The slope is also referred to as - ✔✔Pitch
✔✔What attaches to two for additional support - ✔✔Collar tie
✔✔A structure of triangular shapes to span long distances - ✔✔Truss
✔✔The bottom of a truss is called - ✔✔The bottom chord
✔✔The top part of a truss is called the - ✔✔Top chord
✔✔What type of truss has two slopes - ✔✔Scissor truss
✔✔What is the weight classification of nails - ✔✔Penny
✔✔Most nails are made from - ✔✔Stainless steel
✔✔What two elements are typically applied to wood to make engineered wood products
- ✔✔Heat and pressure
✔✔List eight different qualities typically given in an APA wood rating - ✔✔Structural use
Mill number
ANSI number
American wood code number
Laminating specification
Combination number
Species of lumber used
Appearance grade
✔✔How would lumber with a moisture content of 20 be rated - ✔✔Green
✔✔What is the formula for slope - ✔✔rise/run
✔✔What type of nail is typically used for framing - ✔✔Common nail
✔✔What would cause a nail to have a bluish finish - ✔✔Tempered with heat
✔✔What are the common lengths for 2 X 4 and 2 X 6 lumber - ✔✔8ft. 9ft. and 10 feet
✔✔Define the following wood framing abbreviations
PSL - ✔✔Parallel strand lumber
, ✔✔OSB - ✔✔Oriented Strand Board
✔✔LVL - ✔✔Laminated Veneer Lumber
✔✔MDF - ✔✔Medium Density Fiberboard
✔✔EXP - ✔✔exposure
✔✔HDF - ✔✔High-Density Fiberboard
✔✔APA - ✔✔American Plywood Association
✔✔EXT - ✔✔exterior
✔✔STRUCT - ✔✔structural
✔✔What resists uplift when a roof truss system is used - ✔✔Metal truss hanger or
hurricane tie
✔✔Steel is approximately ____% iron - ✔✔98
✔✔What is the second largest quantity element in steel - ✔✔Carbon
✔✔What elements affect the "brittleness" of steel - ✔✔Phosphorus and sulfur
✔✔List the remaining 8 elements found in steel - ✔✔Silicon
Manganese
Copper
Nickel
Chromium
Tungsten
Molybdenum
Vanadium
✔✔What does ASTM mean - ✔✔American Society for Testing and Materials
✔✔What are the stages that low carbon steel goes thru resisting a load - ✔✔Elastic
range
Yield point
✔✔In what load will steel return to its original shape - ✔✔Elastic range
✔✔In what load range will steel not return to its original shape - ✔✔Yield point
