RI JOURNEYMAN COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔A 24 volt thermostat cable is permitted to be supported by the raceway drop feeding
power to the boiler it controls.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔Bonded is defined as, to establish electrical continuity and conductivity.
Terminated
Attached
Connected
Joined - ✔✔Connected
✔✔Rigid PVC with expansion fillings may be installed in theaters.
True
False - ✔✔False
✔✔An ohmmeter can be used to test the coil of a relay.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔The prospective symmetrical fault current at nominal voltage to which an apparatus
or system is able to be connected without sustaining damage exceeding defined
acceptance describes
Interrupting capacity
Fault current rating
Short-Circuit current rating
Hazard Risk Category - ✔✔Short-Circuit current rating
✔✔Meter disconnect switches must have a short circuit current rating equal to or
greater than the available short circuit current of the supply and shall be capable of
interrupting the load served.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔A unit of an electrical system that carries or controls electric energy as its principle
function is a
, Circuit Breaker
Device
Utilization equipment
Switch - ✔✔Device
✔✔Circuit Breakers shall have their blank rating in a manner that is visible after
installation.
Ampere
Voltage
Interrupting rating
All of these - ✔✔Ampere
✔✔The minimum vertical clearance for overhead service drop conductors above areas
subject to truck traffic is feet.
18
16
24
12 - ✔✔18
✔✔A multi-pole general use snap switch shall not be permitted to be fed from more than
a single circuit unless it is listed and marked as a two-circuit or a three-circuit switch, or
unless its voltage rating is not less than the nominal blank voltage of the system
supplying the circuits.
Phase to phase
Line to line
System
Phase to neutral - ✔✔Line to line
✔✔Electrical equipment that is likely to require examination, adjustment, maintenance
or servicing while blank shall be field marked to warn persons of the electric arc flash
hazard.
Energized
Exposed
Unguarded
In the field - ✔✔Energized
✔✔Electrical Metallic Tubing may not be used in a wet location.
True
False - ✔✔False
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔A 24 volt thermostat cable is permitted to be supported by the raceway drop feeding
power to the boiler it controls.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔Bonded is defined as, to establish electrical continuity and conductivity.
Terminated
Attached
Connected
Joined - ✔✔Connected
✔✔Rigid PVC with expansion fillings may be installed in theaters.
True
False - ✔✔False
✔✔An ohmmeter can be used to test the coil of a relay.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔The prospective symmetrical fault current at nominal voltage to which an apparatus
or system is able to be connected without sustaining damage exceeding defined
acceptance describes
Interrupting capacity
Fault current rating
Short-Circuit current rating
Hazard Risk Category - ✔✔Short-Circuit current rating
✔✔Meter disconnect switches must have a short circuit current rating equal to or
greater than the available short circuit current of the supply and shall be capable of
interrupting the load served.
True
False - ✔✔True
✔✔A unit of an electrical system that carries or controls electric energy as its principle
function is a
, Circuit Breaker
Device
Utilization equipment
Switch - ✔✔Device
✔✔Circuit Breakers shall have their blank rating in a manner that is visible after
installation.
Ampere
Voltage
Interrupting rating
All of these - ✔✔Ampere
✔✔The minimum vertical clearance for overhead service drop conductors above areas
subject to truck traffic is feet.
18
16
24
12 - ✔✔18
✔✔A multi-pole general use snap switch shall not be permitted to be fed from more than
a single circuit unless it is listed and marked as a two-circuit or a three-circuit switch, or
unless its voltage rating is not less than the nominal blank voltage of the system
supplying the circuits.
Phase to phase
Line to line
System
Phase to neutral - ✔✔Line to line
✔✔Electrical equipment that is likely to require examination, adjustment, maintenance
or servicing while blank shall be field marked to warn persons of the electric arc flash
hazard.
Energized
Exposed
Unguarded
In the field - ✔✔Energized
✔✔Electrical Metallic Tubing may not be used in a wet location.
True
False - ✔✔False
