NICET LEVEL III WATER BASE EXAMINERS 2026
SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Preliminary, bid, approval, construction, as-built - ✔✔Drawings have different stages
which are?
✔✔Request for proposal (RFP) - ✔✔Oftentimes a project will begin with a _________.
✔✔•certified value specialist
•owner's representatives
•designers and consultants
•the construction team
•cost estimator
•building management staff
•third-party (independent) reviewers - ✔✔Value-engineering team typically consist of?
✔✔•Information gathering
•brainstorming
•analysis
•development
•recommendations - ✔✔Value-engineering typically goes through phases which are?
✔✔Planning stage - ✔✔At what stage does value-engineering provide the most benefit?
, ✔✔Value = Function / Cost - ✔✔Value-engineering equation is:
✔✔Low cost and high value - ✔✔Value-engineering cost vs value goal is?
✔✔Giving careful consideration to all options, without sacrificing the project's goals. -
✔✔Value-engineering of a project involves:
✔✔Request for Information (RFI) - ✔✔Discrepancies between the plans and
specifications should be resolved using a?
✔✔36 inches - ✔✔Minimum distance between the deflector and the top of the storage
shall be?
✔✔8 foot on center - ✔✔The minimum distance control modes sprinklers can be spaced
apart is?
✔✔12 inches - ✔✔The minimum distance an upright control mode sprinkler shall be
permitted to be offset horizontally from the pipe is?
✔✔12 inches - ✔✔The minimum distance upright control mode sprinkler shall be
located above the centerline of the pipe for pipe greater than 4 inch nominal in
diameter?
✔✔8 foot - ✔✔The minimum distance ESFR sprinklers can be spaced apart is?
✔✔12 sprinklers located on 3 branch lines - ✔✔How many sprinklers are required to be
calculated on ESFR systems?
✔✔Preventing flashover in the room of origin where sprinklered; thereby allowing
occupants to escape - ✔✔The goal of NFPA 13D and NFPA 13R is?
✔✔400 square foot - ✔✔Pipe or tube listed for light hazard occupancies is permitted in
ordinary hazard rooms otherwise light hazard occupancies where the room does not
exceed _________. This allows the uses of nonmetallic pipe in small rooms such as
closets and mechanical rooms.
✔✔•lobbies not in hotels and motels
•foyers
•corridors
•halls
•lounges
•ordinary hazard areas (per NFPA 13R section 7.2.4.1)
•garages (per NFPA 13R section 7.3.3 and 7.3.3.1(1)
SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Preliminary, bid, approval, construction, as-built - ✔✔Drawings have different stages
which are?
✔✔Request for proposal (RFP) - ✔✔Oftentimes a project will begin with a _________.
✔✔•certified value specialist
•owner's representatives
•designers and consultants
•the construction team
•cost estimator
•building management staff
•third-party (independent) reviewers - ✔✔Value-engineering team typically consist of?
✔✔•Information gathering
•brainstorming
•analysis
•development
•recommendations - ✔✔Value-engineering typically goes through phases which are?
✔✔Planning stage - ✔✔At what stage does value-engineering provide the most benefit?
, ✔✔Value = Function / Cost - ✔✔Value-engineering equation is:
✔✔Low cost and high value - ✔✔Value-engineering cost vs value goal is?
✔✔Giving careful consideration to all options, without sacrificing the project's goals. -
✔✔Value-engineering of a project involves:
✔✔Request for Information (RFI) - ✔✔Discrepancies between the plans and
specifications should be resolved using a?
✔✔36 inches - ✔✔Minimum distance between the deflector and the top of the storage
shall be?
✔✔8 foot on center - ✔✔The minimum distance control modes sprinklers can be spaced
apart is?
✔✔12 inches - ✔✔The minimum distance an upright control mode sprinkler shall be
permitted to be offset horizontally from the pipe is?
✔✔12 inches - ✔✔The minimum distance upright control mode sprinkler shall be
located above the centerline of the pipe for pipe greater than 4 inch nominal in
diameter?
✔✔8 foot - ✔✔The minimum distance ESFR sprinklers can be spaced apart is?
✔✔12 sprinklers located on 3 branch lines - ✔✔How many sprinklers are required to be
calculated on ESFR systems?
✔✔Preventing flashover in the room of origin where sprinklered; thereby allowing
occupants to escape - ✔✔The goal of NFPA 13D and NFPA 13R is?
✔✔400 square foot - ✔✔Pipe or tube listed for light hazard occupancies is permitted in
ordinary hazard rooms otherwise light hazard occupancies where the room does not
exceed _________. This allows the uses of nonmetallic pipe in small rooms such as
closets and mechanical rooms.
✔✔•lobbies not in hotels and motels
•foyers
•corridors
•halls
•lounges
•ordinary hazard areas (per NFPA 13R section 7.2.4.1)
•garages (per NFPA 13R section 7.3.3 and 7.3.3.1(1)
