CONCRETE TEST COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ These procedures for capping enable concrete cylinders and cores to meet
the standard practice's requirements for __________ and __________..
Answer: planeness, perpendicularity
◍ Equipment needed for the capping process includes capping ________,
__________ devices, and ___________ pots..
Answer: plates, alignment, melting
◍ Plates for neat cement and high-strength gypsum plaster cups should be
made of ______, ______, ______, or ______..
Answer: glass, metal, granite, diabose
◍ Sulfur mortar cap plates should be formed against ______ or _______
plates..
Answer: Metal, stone
◍ (T or F) The purpose of the guide bar or bull's eye level is to ensure that
caps remain perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder within 0.5 degrees..
Answer: True
◍ To avoid accidents during reheating of cooled sulfur, use melting pots that
have ___________..
Answer: peripheral heating
◍ The technician should use a stiff layer of ______________ to cap fresh
concrete cylinders..
Answer: neat Portland cement paste
◍ Hardened concrete cylinders should be capped with _______, ______, or
, _______..
Answer: neat Portland cement paste, high strength gypsum cement, sulfur
mortar
◍ (T or F) Plater of Paris and mixtures of plaster of Paris and Portland cement
are examples of suitable high-strength plasters..
Answer: False
◍ Sulfur mortars and high strength gypsum cement cubes must demonstrate a
minimum compressive strength of ______ or _______, whichever is
greater..
Answer: 35MPa/5000 psi, cylinder strength
◍ The cement paste should be applied to the freshly molded cylinder from
_____ hours after molding. This is to allow ____ of the concrete specimen..
Answer: 2-4, settling
◍ The strength of the paste depends on:.
Answer: The water cement ratio, time, type of cement
◍ A slight twisting action will help eliminate _____ and air _____ when the
capping plate is placed onto the mound of paste..
Answer: excess paste, voids
◍ Neat cement paste caps should not be used on dry specimens because the
caps may ____ and _______ when dry..
Answer: shrink, crack
◍ The technician should remove all _____ or ____ materials from the ends of
hardened concrete cylinders before capping..
Answer: oily, waxy
◍ ______ the pot and recharge with fresh material at intervals to ensure that
the oldest materials in the pot has not been used more than _____ times..
Answer: Empty, 5
◍ (T or F) when capping concrete cylinders with a compressive strength of 35
MPa [5000 psi] or greater, it is permitted to reuse compound recovered from
GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ These procedures for capping enable concrete cylinders and cores to meet
the standard practice's requirements for __________ and __________..
Answer: planeness, perpendicularity
◍ Equipment needed for the capping process includes capping ________,
__________ devices, and ___________ pots..
Answer: plates, alignment, melting
◍ Plates for neat cement and high-strength gypsum plaster cups should be
made of ______, ______, ______, or ______..
Answer: glass, metal, granite, diabose
◍ Sulfur mortar cap plates should be formed against ______ or _______
plates..
Answer: Metal, stone
◍ (T or F) The purpose of the guide bar or bull's eye level is to ensure that
caps remain perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder within 0.5 degrees..
Answer: True
◍ To avoid accidents during reheating of cooled sulfur, use melting pots that
have ___________..
Answer: peripheral heating
◍ The technician should use a stiff layer of ______________ to cap fresh
concrete cylinders..
Answer: neat Portland cement paste
◍ Hardened concrete cylinders should be capped with _______, ______, or
, _______..
Answer: neat Portland cement paste, high strength gypsum cement, sulfur
mortar
◍ (T or F) Plater of Paris and mixtures of plaster of Paris and Portland cement
are examples of suitable high-strength plasters..
Answer: False
◍ Sulfur mortars and high strength gypsum cement cubes must demonstrate a
minimum compressive strength of ______ or _______, whichever is
greater..
Answer: 35MPa/5000 psi, cylinder strength
◍ The cement paste should be applied to the freshly molded cylinder from
_____ hours after molding. This is to allow ____ of the concrete specimen..
Answer: 2-4, settling
◍ The strength of the paste depends on:.
Answer: The water cement ratio, time, type of cement
◍ A slight twisting action will help eliminate _____ and air _____ when the
capping plate is placed onto the mound of paste..
Answer: excess paste, voids
◍ Neat cement paste caps should not be used on dry specimens because the
caps may ____ and _______ when dry..
Answer: shrink, crack
◍ The technician should remove all _____ or ____ materials from the ends of
hardened concrete cylinders before capping..
Answer: oily, waxy
◍ ______ the pot and recharge with fresh material at intervals to ensure that
the oldest materials in the pot has not been used more than _____ times..
Answer: Empty, 5
◍ (T or F) when capping concrete cylinders with a compressive strength of 35
MPa [5000 psi] or greater, it is permitted to reuse compound recovered from
