ISA UTILITY SPECIALIST MAIN CORE EXAMS SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Unsafe Acts - ✔✔Work practices such as willful rule violations and maliciousness,
as well as human error, which could lead to injury or a fatality.
✔✔Unsafe Working Conditions - ✔✔Working circumstances, such as equipment failure,
that could lead to injury or fatality.
✔✔Budget - ✔✔Means to justify the allocation of resources, set priorities, and make
decisions regarding what work can and cannot be accomplished.
✔✔Capital Budget - ✔✔Monetary outlay for relatively large sums of money invested
over multiple years.
✔✔Circuit Work - ✔✔Completing all necessary line clearance on a feeder or circuit
basis.
✔✔Constraint Triangle - ✔✔Depiction of the concept of triple constraint in project
management, consisting of time, cost, and scope.
✔✔Contract - ✔✔A legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties. Every
contract has five basic elements: offer, acceptance, consideration, legal and possible
objective, and competent parties.
,✔✔Cost Center - ✔✔Accounting configuration for expenditures that do not generate
income.
✔✔Critical Path - ✔✔In project management, the longest period of time a series of tasks
requires from project beginning to end.
✔✔Decision Package - ✔✔A proposal or plan that outlines project expenditures,
outputs, and alternatives, which receive funding in order or priority.
✔✔Dependencies - ✔✔Relationships that dictate when tasks in the work breakdown
structure begin and end.
✔✔Evergreen Contract - ✔✔Contract without a set expiration date.
✔✔Geographic Information System (GIS) - ✔✔Layered mapping application consisting
of a base map and overlays, containing features and information that can be viewed
singularly or in combination.
✔✔Grid Work - ✔✔Distribution cycle work performed within a specified geographic
boundary.
✔✔Hotspotting - ✔✔Process by which limited tree work is scheduled on a specific area
of the network where shorts or outages are occurring.
✔✔Key performance indicators (KPIs) - ✔✔Contractual targets against which a
contractor is evaluated. It can include unite price components, as well as elements,
such as work quality, customer satisfaction, reliability, safety, certifications, or other
factors.
✔✔Labor Union - ✔✔Organization of employees that collectively negotiates wages,
benefits, working conditions, and other matters.
✔✔Lump Sum Contract - ✔✔Contractual strategy where vendors submit a single price
for a set amount of work.
✔✔Mid-cycle Pruning - ✔✔Process where trees growing significantly faster than most
other trees are pruned at approximately half the scheduled maintenance cycle length,
enabling a longer interval for slower-growing trees.
✔✔Operating and Maintenance Budget - ✔✔Budgets that finance day-to-day activities,
including salaries, rent, utilities, and supplies.
✔✔Performance Appraisal - ✔✔Employee evaluation.
, ✔✔Performance-based Contract - ✔✔Results-oriented methods of providing a service
that focuses on the outputs, quality, or outcomes, including the achievement of specific,
measurable performance standards and requirements. These contracts may include
both monetary and non-monetary incentives and disincentives.
✔✔Performance Budgeting - ✔✔A budgeting strategy that stresses the goals and
objectives of a program. It of ten involves mission statements and performance
measures.
✔✔Predictive Maintenance - ✔✔Type of preventive maintenance performed
continuously or at intervals, using field data to diagnose and monitor a condition or
system.
✔✔Profit Center - ✔✔Accounting configuration where expenditures are sources of
revenue. A profit center can be a product or service, a region, a distribution channel, or
other consideration.
✔✔Program Budgeting - ✔✔Budgeting strategy in which line items are organized into
programs, rather than accounts, with a focus on outcomes, rather than inputs.
Examples of programs might be labor, chemicals, or individual projects.
✔✔Preventative Maintenance - ✔✔Maintenance operations scheduled to take place in
advance of failure or other problems.
✔✔Reactive Maintenance - ✔✔Maintenance operations that take place after a problem
has occurred.
✔✔Specifications - ✔✔Document stating a detailed, measurable plan or proposal for
provision of a product or service.
✔✔SMART Goals - ✔✔In project management, a means of setting and evaluating goals
using the elements of the acronym: specific, measurable, achievable, timely.
✔✔SWOT Analaysis - ✔✔In project management, analysis of strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, and threats.
✔✔Time and Material Contract - ✔✔Method of providing a service in which all costs -
including labor, equipment, supplies, overheads, and operating profit - are passed on to
the contracting agency, usually on an hourly basis.
✔✔Triple Constraint - ✔✔In project management, a concept showing the interrelation of
the resources of time, cost, and scope, often depicted in a constraint triangle.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Unsafe Acts - ✔✔Work practices such as willful rule violations and maliciousness,
as well as human error, which could lead to injury or a fatality.
✔✔Unsafe Working Conditions - ✔✔Working circumstances, such as equipment failure,
that could lead to injury or fatality.
✔✔Budget - ✔✔Means to justify the allocation of resources, set priorities, and make
decisions regarding what work can and cannot be accomplished.
✔✔Capital Budget - ✔✔Monetary outlay for relatively large sums of money invested
over multiple years.
✔✔Circuit Work - ✔✔Completing all necessary line clearance on a feeder or circuit
basis.
✔✔Constraint Triangle - ✔✔Depiction of the concept of triple constraint in project
management, consisting of time, cost, and scope.
✔✔Contract - ✔✔A legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties. Every
contract has five basic elements: offer, acceptance, consideration, legal and possible
objective, and competent parties.
,✔✔Cost Center - ✔✔Accounting configuration for expenditures that do not generate
income.
✔✔Critical Path - ✔✔In project management, the longest period of time a series of tasks
requires from project beginning to end.
✔✔Decision Package - ✔✔A proposal or plan that outlines project expenditures,
outputs, and alternatives, which receive funding in order or priority.
✔✔Dependencies - ✔✔Relationships that dictate when tasks in the work breakdown
structure begin and end.
✔✔Evergreen Contract - ✔✔Contract without a set expiration date.
✔✔Geographic Information System (GIS) - ✔✔Layered mapping application consisting
of a base map and overlays, containing features and information that can be viewed
singularly or in combination.
✔✔Grid Work - ✔✔Distribution cycle work performed within a specified geographic
boundary.
✔✔Hotspotting - ✔✔Process by which limited tree work is scheduled on a specific area
of the network where shorts or outages are occurring.
✔✔Key performance indicators (KPIs) - ✔✔Contractual targets against which a
contractor is evaluated. It can include unite price components, as well as elements,
such as work quality, customer satisfaction, reliability, safety, certifications, or other
factors.
✔✔Labor Union - ✔✔Organization of employees that collectively negotiates wages,
benefits, working conditions, and other matters.
✔✔Lump Sum Contract - ✔✔Contractual strategy where vendors submit a single price
for a set amount of work.
✔✔Mid-cycle Pruning - ✔✔Process where trees growing significantly faster than most
other trees are pruned at approximately half the scheduled maintenance cycle length,
enabling a longer interval for slower-growing trees.
✔✔Operating and Maintenance Budget - ✔✔Budgets that finance day-to-day activities,
including salaries, rent, utilities, and supplies.
✔✔Performance Appraisal - ✔✔Employee evaluation.
, ✔✔Performance-based Contract - ✔✔Results-oriented methods of providing a service
that focuses on the outputs, quality, or outcomes, including the achievement of specific,
measurable performance standards and requirements. These contracts may include
both monetary and non-monetary incentives and disincentives.
✔✔Performance Budgeting - ✔✔A budgeting strategy that stresses the goals and
objectives of a program. It of ten involves mission statements and performance
measures.
✔✔Predictive Maintenance - ✔✔Type of preventive maintenance performed
continuously or at intervals, using field data to diagnose and monitor a condition or
system.
✔✔Profit Center - ✔✔Accounting configuration where expenditures are sources of
revenue. A profit center can be a product or service, a region, a distribution channel, or
other consideration.
✔✔Program Budgeting - ✔✔Budgeting strategy in which line items are organized into
programs, rather than accounts, with a focus on outcomes, rather than inputs.
Examples of programs might be labor, chemicals, or individual projects.
✔✔Preventative Maintenance - ✔✔Maintenance operations scheduled to take place in
advance of failure or other problems.
✔✔Reactive Maintenance - ✔✔Maintenance operations that take place after a problem
has occurred.
✔✔Specifications - ✔✔Document stating a detailed, measurable plan or proposal for
provision of a product or service.
✔✔SMART Goals - ✔✔In project management, a means of setting and evaluating goals
using the elements of the acronym: specific, measurable, achievable, timely.
✔✔SWOT Analaysis - ✔✔In project management, analysis of strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, and threats.
✔✔Time and Material Contract - ✔✔Method of providing a service in which all costs -
including labor, equipment, supplies, overheads, and operating profit - are passed on to
the contracting agency, usually on an hourly basis.
✔✔Triple Constraint - ✔✔In project management, a concept showing the interrelation of
the resources of time, cost, and scope, often depicted in a constraint triangle.
