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NETTCP Paving Questions and Verified
Answers
Quality assurance is defined only as those planned and systematic actions taken by the
agency to provide confidence that a product or facility will perform satisfactory in
service. (T/F)
Ans: False
A quality assurance program serves as a skeleton or overall framework necessary for
construction quality assurance implementation. (T/F)
Ans: True
Joint development and review of quality assurance specifications should include agency
and industry personnel (engineers, inspectors, technicians) who are directly responsible
for construction. (T/F)
Ans: True
The same six core elements required for a design-bid-build constitution QA programs are
also required for design-build construction QA programs. (T/F)
Ans: True
Quality control activities include only sampling and testing. Visual inspection is
regulated to the acceptance inspector. (T/F)
Ans: False
Quality control plans are project specific documents whose function is to address specific
production facility and field placement processes for individual categories of work on a
construction project. (T/F)
Ans: True
Acceptance is the responsibility of the transportation agency. (T/F)
Ans: True
The engineering limits are the absolute threshold values for individual test results. (T/F)
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Ans: True
Quality assurance specifications typically use quality measures. (T/F)
Ans: True
Since the objective of the IA comparison is to identify discrepancies or variability in
testing procedures or equipment l, IA testing is performed on split samples. (T/F)
Ans: True
Dispute resolution is a formal system designed to address significant differences between
agency acceptance test data and/or observations and contractor QC test data and/or
observations. (T/F)
Ans: True
All agency central laboratories are required under federal regulations to be accredited
through the AASHTO accreditation program (AAP). (T/F)
Ans: True
Personnel qualification/certification programs should include requirements for
recertification at 2 to 5 year intervals. (T/F)
Ans: True
Each agency construction QA program must meet requirements of 23 CFR 637B and is
required to be approved by FHWA. (T/F)
Ans: True
Asphalt binder exists in both naturally occurring and manufactured forms. (T/F)
Ans: True
Another appropriate term for asphalt binder is tar. (T/F)
Ans: False
An asphalt binder blended with water in a colloid mill is called an emulsion. (T/F)
Ans: True
Viscosity is defined as a fluids ability to flow (higher viscosity=more flowable). (T/F)
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Ans: False
When exposed to air over an extended period of time, asphalt binder tends to stiffen and
becomes less flexible. (T/F)
Ans: True
A PG binder with a grade of 64-27 would be used in warmer climate than a PG Binder
with a grade of 70-28. (T/F)
Ans: False
A PG 64-28 may or may not be modified. (T/F)
Ans: True
The binder supplier should always be consulted for recommendations on the optimum
mixing and compaction temperatures for modified binders at the plant. (T/F)
Ans: True
Using the AASHTO M 320 criteria, very heavy traffic, slow moving, or standing traffic
may require a grade increase for the high temperature criteria. (T/F)
Ans: True
A binder with a rating of 64E-22 means the performance of the binder is extended (E) on
the high end. (T/F)
Ans: False
Elastomers are thermoplastic in that changes in temperature affect which characteristics
of the polymer are predominant at any given time, and those changes are recoverable
(reversible). (T/F)
Ans: True
85-90% of the overall volume of an asphalt mixture is occupied by aggregate.
Ans: True
The nominal maximum size is defined as the first sieve that retains more than 10% in a
cumulative fashion.
NETTCP Paving Questions and Verified
Answers
Quality assurance is defined only as those planned and systematic actions taken by the
agency to provide confidence that a product or facility will perform satisfactory in
service. (T/F)
Ans: False
A quality assurance program serves as a skeleton or overall framework necessary for
construction quality assurance implementation. (T/F)
Ans: True
Joint development and review of quality assurance specifications should include agency
and industry personnel (engineers, inspectors, technicians) who are directly responsible
for construction. (T/F)
Ans: True
The same six core elements required for a design-bid-build constitution QA programs are
also required for design-build construction QA programs. (T/F)
Ans: True
Quality control activities include only sampling and testing. Visual inspection is
regulated to the acceptance inspector. (T/F)
Ans: False
Quality control plans are project specific documents whose function is to address specific
production facility and field placement processes for individual categories of work on a
construction project. (T/F)
Ans: True
Acceptance is the responsibility of the transportation agency. (T/F)
Ans: True
The engineering limits are the absolute threshold values for individual test results. (T/F)
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Ans: True
Quality assurance specifications typically use quality measures. (T/F)
Ans: True
Since the objective of the IA comparison is to identify discrepancies or variability in
testing procedures or equipment l, IA testing is performed on split samples. (T/F)
Ans: True
Dispute resolution is a formal system designed to address significant differences between
agency acceptance test data and/or observations and contractor QC test data and/or
observations. (T/F)
Ans: True
All agency central laboratories are required under federal regulations to be accredited
through the AASHTO accreditation program (AAP). (T/F)
Ans: True
Personnel qualification/certification programs should include requirements for
recertification at 2 to 5 year intervals. (T/F)
Ans: True
Each agency construction QA program must meet requirements of 23 CFR 637B and is
required to be approved by FHWA. (T/F)
Ans: True
Asphalt binder exists in both naturally occurring and manufactured forms. (T/F)
Ans: True
Another appropriate term for asphalt binder is tar. (T/F)
Ans: False
An asphalt binder blended with water in a colloid mill is called an emulsion. (T/F)
Ans: True
Viscosity is defined as a fluids ability to flow (higher viscosity=more flowable). (T/F)
, Page | 3
Ans: False
When exposed to air over an extended period of time, asphalt binder tends to stiffen and
becomes less flexible. (T/F)
Ans: True
A PG binder with a grade of 64-27 would be used in warmer climate than a PG Binder
with a grade of 70-28. (T/F)
Ans: False
A PG 64-28 may or may not be modified. (T/F)
Ans: True
The binder supplier should always be consulted for recommendations on the optimum
mixing and compaction temperatures for modified binders at the plant. (T/F)
Ans: True
Using the AASHTO M 320 criteria, very heavy traffic, slow moving, or standing traffic
may require a grade increase for the high temperature criteria. (T/F)
Ans: True
A binder with a rating of 64E-22 means the performance of the binder is extended (E) on
the high end. (T/F)
Ans: False
Elastomers are thermoplastic in that changes in temperature affect which characteristics
of the polymer are predominant at any given time, and those changes are recoverable
(reversible). (T/F)
Ans: True
85-90% of the overall volume of an asphalt mixture is occupied by aggregate.
Ans: True
The nominal maximum size is defined as the first sieve that retains more than 10% in a
cumulative fashion.
