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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? October 2023PEimpact KH2023-06-09T15:15:54-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

Will your score on this month’s quiz be high enough allow you to remove your MASK? Or, will a low score keep you DISGUISED? Here’s the October 2023 Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?

Question 1: The two main types of electrical wire are _________.
- Solid and retractile
- Solid and ribbon
- Solid and stranded
- Stranded and ribbon

Question 2: A pilot operated relief valve is operated by __________.
- The fluid pressure
- A solenoid valve
- A spring
- Manual control

Question 3: Availability of a piece of machinery is __________.
- Downtime / Total Time
- Uptime / Downtime
- Uptime / Total Time
- Total Time / Downtime

Question 4: The ____________ is the tensile stress when concrete cracking occurs.
- modulus of rupture
- poison ratio
- modulus of elasticity
- None of the above

Question 5: The two general categories under which nearly all Aluminum alloys fall are ________.
- Extrusion and casting alloys
- Forging and coining alloys
- Cast and wrought alloys
- Die casting and sand casting alloys

Question 6: Two major components of settlement are immediate settlement and _________.
- Secondary settlement
- Compaction
- Consolidation settlement
- Primary settlement

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