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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? July 2021PEimpact KH2023-06-09T15:14:27-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

Will your score on this month’s quiz set off fireworks? Here’s the July 2021 Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?

Question 1: The National Electrical Code is published by __________.
- NFPA
- IEC
- ANSI
- UL

Question 2: Many common engineering alloys have either BCC or FCC crystal structures. What is the acronym FCC?
- Ferrite-centered crystal
- Face-centered cubic
- Ferrite-centered cubic
- Face-centered crystal

Question 3: Which of the following is a positive displacement type pump?
- Plunger pump
- Gear pump
- Diaphragm pump
- All of the above

Question 4: Rebar is commonly added to concrete to _________.
- Increase the compressive strength
- Increase the tensile strength
- Save money
- Accelerate the curing process

Question 5: The ____________ of a piece of equipment is the Uptime / (Uptime + Downtime)
- Availability
- Reliability
- Maintainability
- Mean Time to Failure

Question 6: Shear stress in a beam of rectangular cross section subjected to bending is zero at the ______.
- Neutral axis
- Top and bottom surface
- Entire cross section
- Both (a) and (b)

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