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Unit 11 Using Wire Tables and Determining Conductor Sizes

1. All insulations perform equally well in dry, damp, and wet locations.
a. True
b. False

ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-3 Factors That Determine Ampacity

2. A piece of wire that is one mil in diameter and one foot long is one mil-foot.
a. True
b. False

ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-5 Calculating Conductor Sizes and Resistance

3. The National Electrical Code® _____ contains tables dealing with conductors for general wiring.
a. 300
b. 310
c. 100
d. 110

ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-2 Using the NEC Charts

4. In the National Electrical Code®, the current carrying abilities of conductors are called the _____.
a. ampacities
b. insulations
c. inductances
d. ambients

ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-2 Using the NEC Charts

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5. The ambient air temperature considered in relation to a conductor ampacity is the temperature of the _____.
a. conductor
b. insulation
c. raceway
d. surrounding air

ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-2 Using the NEC Charts

6. What is the nonconductive covering around a wire?

a. insulation
b. conductor
c. duct bank
d. raceway

ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-3 Factors That Determine Ampacity

7. The insulation used on conductors cannot operate in all possible temperatures. The highest allowable temperature is
called the _____ temperature.
a. maximum operating
b. minimum operating
c. ambient
d. correction

ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-3 Factors That Determine Ampacity

8. The ampacities listed in Table 310.15(B)(16) are based on an ambient temperature of _____.
a. 194°F
b. 30°F
c. 140°F
d. 86°F

ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-2 Using the NEC Charts

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Unit 11 Using Wire Tables and Determining Conductor Sizes

9. There are six current-carrying conductors in a raceway that is to be installed in an area with an ambient temperature
of 90°F. It is necessary to _____.
a. apply a correction for the ambient temperature only
b. derate because of the number of conductors in the raceway only
c. correct for temperature and derate (because of the number of conductors)
d. no corrections or derates are required

ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-4 Correction Factors

10. If there are more than _____ conductors in a raceway, the ampacity of the conductors must be derated.
a. two
b. three
c. four
d. six

ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-4 Correction Factors

11. The unit circular mil is equal to the _____.

a. radius of the wire in mils
b. diameter of the wire in mils
c. radius of the wire in mils squared
d. diameter of the wire in mils squared

ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-5 Calculating Conductor Sizes and Resistance

12. A wire that has a diameter of 162 mils has an area of _____ circular mils.
a. 162
b. 26,244
c. 20,162
d. 509

ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-5 Calculating Conductor Sizes and Resistance

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13. The longer the conductor, the more _____ it will have.
a. diameter
b. resistance
c. voltage

ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-5 Calculating Conductor Sizes and Resistance

14. Materials that increase their resistance with an increase in temperature have a _____ coefficient of temperature.
a. positive
b. negative

ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-5 Calculating Conductor Sizes and Resistance

15. In the American Engineers Handbook, the standard temperature of material resistance is _____.
a. 20°C
b. 30°C
c. 40°C
d. 50°C

ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-6 Calculating Voltage Drop

16. When a conductor is very large it may become necessary to connect them in _____.
a. parallel
b. series

ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-7 Parallel Conductors

17. To test wire insulation, a special type of ohmmeter called a(n) _____ is used.
a. MEGGER
b. wattmeter
c. ammeter
d. voltmeter

ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-8 Testing Wire Installations

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18. There are two conductors, a red and a blue installed in metallic conduit. You are using a MEGGER to test for shorts.
How should the two leads of the MEGGER should be connected?
a. one to the blue lead and one to the conduit
b. one to the red lead and one to the conduit
c. one to the blue lead and one to the red lead
d. both to the conduit

ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-8 Testing Wire Installations

19. There are two conductors, a red and a blue installed in metallic conduit. You are using a MEGGER to test for
grounds. How should the two leads of the MEGGER should be connected?
a. one to the blue lead and one to the conduit
b. one to the red lead and one to the conduit
c. one to the blue lead and one to the red lead
d. both a and b above

ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-8 Testing Wire Installations

20. The ____________________ was standardized in 1857 and is used mainly in the United States for the diameters
of round, solid, nonferrous electrical wire.
ANSWER: AWG
American Wire Gauge
American Wire Gauge (AWG)
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-1 The American Wire Gauge (AWG)

21. The ampacities listed in the tables are based on a specified ambient temperature. If conductors are to be operated in
a different ambient temperature than the temperature specified, a(n) ____________________ factor must be
applied.
ANSWER: correction
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: 11-4 Correction Factors

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