CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE

EXAMINATION

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

Paper 01 – General Proficiency

75 minutes

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This test consists of 60 items. You will have 75 minutes to answer them.
2. In addition to this test booklet, you should have an answer sheet.
3. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each
item you are about to answer and decide which choice is best.
4. On your answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the
space having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item
below.
5. Sample Item
6. In drawings, thin short dashes represent Sample Answer
(A) adjacent parts A B C D
(B) hidden details
(C) movable parts
(D) irregular details
The best answer to this item is “hidden details,” so answer space (B) has been shaded.
7. If you want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in your new
choice.
8. When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you
can. If you cannot answer an item, go on to the next one. You may return to this item
later. Your score will be the total number of correct answers.
9. You may do any rough work in this booklet.
10. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO

1. Which type of industry extracts raw 5. Which of the following is NOT a
materials from the earth? characteristic of an entrepreneur?

(A) Primary (A) Willingness to work hard

(B) Secondary (B) Team builder
(C) Tertiary (C) Skilled at organizing
(D) Quaternary (D) Poor leadership quality

2. The segment of the economy in 6. At which step in the entrepreneurial

which businesses share the same process is a business plan created?
services or products is called a/an
(A) Discovery
(A) Industry (B) Concept Development
(B) Sector (C) Resourcing
(C) Factory (D) Actualization
(D) Plants

7. Which of the following is NOT a

3. Which type of organizational benefit of being an entrepreneur?
structure allows for it to be controlled
(A) Creating your own destiny
and directed at the highest level?
(B) Making a difference in
(A) Matrix society
(B) Divisional (C) Generates impressive profits
(C) Top-Down (D) High stress levels
(D) Flat

8. Which of the following members of

4. Which type of labour requires some the building team carries the greatest
form of education, training and level of responsibility on a
minimal education? construction site?

(A) Unskilled (A) Trade Foreman

(B) Skilled (B) Project Manager
(C) Technician (C) Contractor
(D) Semi-skilled (D) Civil Engineer
9. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 12. Which of the following method is
must be worn by all used to dispose waste electrical and
electronic equipment (WEEE)?
(A) Workers
(B) Employers (A) Incineration
(C) Safety Officers (B) Landfilling
(D) Work Supervisors (C) Recycling
(D) Burning

10. Which of the following is NOT a

health and safety responsibility of 13. One way to promote environmental
employers toward employees? safety practices in classroom is
to
(A) Provide adequate First Aid
facilities (A) use computers to take notes
(B) Ignore safety concerns raised
instead of writing in books
by employees
(B) use less biodegradable
(C) Provide Protective Personal
(C) ensure proper housekeeping
Equipment (PPE)
(D) burn all waste
(D) Ensure that plant, equipment
and machinery are safe

14. Changing the oil and oil filter in your

11. Which of the following HSE codes car within the specific mileage is
and standards is commonly used in considered as a form of
industry. _______________ maintenance.

(A) OSHA Act 2004 (A) Preventative

(B) STOW-TT (B) Predictive
(C) BS OHSAS 18001- OHS (C) Reactive
(D) ISO 14001- EMS (D) Passive
15. Which of the following is NOT a 19. Which type of fire extinguisher is
benefit of regular of maintenance used to fight Class C fires?

(A) Reduced breakdowns (A) Carbon Dioxide

(B) Improve equipment efficiency (B) Foam
(C) Maximizes production (C) Water
(D) Reduce the useful life of the (D) Dry Powder
equipment

20. Which of the following is NOT and

16. Which of the following is NOT an electrical injury?
element of the fire triangle?
(A) Electric shock
(A) Heat (B) Falls
(B) Gas (C) Burns
(C) Fuel (D) Eye injury
(D) Oxygen

21. Which of the following is NOT trade

17. Class C fires are considered as
bloc in the Caribbean?
(A) Combustibles
(A) CARICOM
(B) Flammable liquids and gases
(B) CSME
(C) Cooking Media
(C) EU
(D) Live electrical equipment
(D) CARIFORUM

18. What is the acronym used when

handling a fire extinguisher?

(A) PULL
(B) PASS
(C) PUSH
(D) PEST
22. Entrepreneurship is the capacity and 25. Which of the following is the most
willingness to dangerous place to use electrical
equipment?
(A) create a business opportunity
(B) manage a business belonging (A) indoors
to someone else (B) outdoors
(C) take a business beyond its (C) near water
development stage (D) near other electrical
(D) develop, organize and manage equipment
a business venture

26. Which of the following components

is an output device of a computer
23. When manually lifting equipment,
system?
your hands should be protected by
(A) Keyboard
(A) wearing gloves
(B) Visual Display Unit (VDU)
(B) wearing goggles
(C) Mouse
(C) holding the equipment firmly
(D) Microphone
(D) not bending your back

27. In information technology, WAN

24. Earthing, bonding and protective
stands for
devices in electrical installations will
(A) Wide Array Net
(A) stop circuit overload
(B) WAP Area Network
(B) eliminate electric faults
(C) Wide Area Network
(C) reduce the risk of electric
(D) Wireless Area Network
shock
(D) reduce the risk of electrical
fires
28. Which of the following individuals is 31. Which of the following programs is
responsible for the design of private an Operating System Software?
and commercial buildings?
(A) Microsoft Office 2013
(A) Architect (B) Windows 10
(B) Civil engineer (C) Linux
(C) Quantity surveyor (D) XP
(D) Structural engineer

32. Which of the following is NOT a part

29. Which of the following groups of of the design process?
tradesmen are responsible for
(A) Product selection
applying finishes to buildings?
(B) Identifying the problem
(A) Painters, machine operators, (C) Critical analysis of the
fitters, plumbers problem
(B) Painters, plumbers, (D) Development of working
carpenters, electricians drawings
(C) Fitters, plumbers, machine
operators, carpenters
(D) Welders, electricians, 33. In the area of Information and

carpenters, fitters Communication Technologies, the

term multimedia is BEST defined as,
“The combined use of
30. Which of the following is NOT a
(A) animations in computer
factor in determining the
applications only.
appropriateness of a design?
(B) sound and video in computer
(A) Shade applications only.
(B) Aesthetics (C) sound, pictures, video and
(C) Functionality animations in computer
(D) Suitability of material applications.
(D) sound, pictures, video,
animations and text in
computer applications.
34. In the area of computer 37. Which one of the following devices
communications, smart phones and is required to connect a computer to
tablets are connected to computer the internet?
networks via
(A) Flash Drive
(A) fibre optic cables (B) Mouse
(B) dial-up network connections (C) DVD
(C) GPRS technologies (D) Modem
(D) WiFi technologies

38. Which of the following is NOT an

35. Forms are three dimensional. They example of secondary storage device?
have height, width and thickness.
(A) Hard disks
Some common forms are:
(B) RAM
(A) cylinders, cubes, spheres and (C) Magnetic tapes
cones (D) CD
(B) circles, squares, rectangles
and triangles
(C) difficult to draw 39. A top down structure in an

(D) for income taxes purposes organisational chart shows a

(A) hierarchical relationship

between workers
36. A path made by a moving point is
(B) horizontal relationship
called a ___________________.
between workers
(A) Line (C) hierarchical and horizontal
(B) Shape relationship between
(C) Space categories of workers
(D) Texture (D) hierarchical and horizontal
relationship between each
worker
40. Which one of the following is called 43. A live electric line has fallen on your
the Brain of the computer? car. What’s the safest thing you can
do?
(A) Memory
(B) CPU (A) Run
(C) Hard disk (B) Walk
(D) RAM (C) Crawl
(D) Stay in your car

41. A prototype is a model that:

44. A technical worker in construction
(A) does not meet the stated and manufacturing industries is paid
constraints more than a skilled or semi-skilled
(B) performs exactly as the final worker because they have
solution would
(A) a better position
(C) looks exactly as the final
(B) highly academic
solution would but does not
qualifications
function
(C) higher levels of knowledge
(D) does not meet the stated
and skills
criteria
(D) greater production output

42. What should your first action be

45. The role of a quantity surveyor is to
when treating an electrical burn?
(A) prepare working drawings
(A) Ensure that the casualty is still
(B) set out a building on a site
breathing
(C) prepare a bill of quantities
(B) Wash the burn with cold
(D) manage the finances of a
water
construction project
(C) Check for danger and ensure
that contact with the electrical
source is broken
(D) Check for level of response
46. A person qualified to perform 49.
electrical work must possess:
(A) Skills/techniques to
distinguish live parts from
other parts of electrical
equipment.
(B) Skills and techniques to
determine the nominal voltage
of exposed live parts.
(C) Knowledge on the use of 50.
Where should you aim a fire
extinguisher nozzle when putting out
a fire?
(A) At the top of the fire
(B) At the base of the fire
(C) At the centre of the fire
(D) Away from the fire
Group project work completed by

PPE, insulating and shielding some students was displayed on the

materials, and insulated tools. school’s intranet. What benefit does

(D) All of the above. this have over publishing the work on
the internet?

47. Electrical injuries are commonly (A) Work cannot be copied

caused by: (B) The intranet is safe from

viruses
(A) Unsafe equipment or
(C) Hyperlinks to other websites
installations
cannot be used
(B) An unsafe environment
(D) The projects remain private
(C) Unsafe work practices.
within the school
(D) All of the above

51. The area around machines should be

48. Which of the following causes back
(A) free from scraps
injuries?
(B) waxed and smooth
(A) Lifting objects incorrectly (C) clearly painted in red
(B) Being physically unfit (D) stacked with useful material
(C) Poor posture
(D) All of the above
52. When a safety hazard cannot be 55. Which of the following is NOT a
eliminated, students should subsector of the non-residential
construction sector?
(A) avoid the hazard
(B) ignore the hazard (A) Industrial
(C) guard or mark off the hazard (B) Civil
(D) share the information with (C) Commercial
other students (D) Domestic

53. Which of the following names is 56. Which industry is commonly referred
given to a group of computers in an to as “Service Industry”?
organization that are connected to
(A) Primary
each other?
(B) Secondary
(A) The internet (C) Tertiary
(B) An intranet (D) Quaternary
(C) An extranet
(D) A subnet
57. The kind of work a person does to
earn a living is called a/an
54. The IDEATE model is an example of ___________.
a / an _________________________.
(A) Occupation
(A) Design Principles (B) Occupation Level
(B) Design Element (C) Basic Rate
(C) Engineering Design Process (D) Gross Salary
(D) Design Drawing
58. Developing a business plan is usually
done in the ___________________
of the entrepreneurial process.

(A) Discovery Stage

(B) Concept Development
(C) Actualization Stage
(D) Harvesting Stage

59. Why are codes and standards

implemented in the construction and
manufacturing sector?

(A) To ensure safety

(B) To ensure that all tasks are
being done to a particular
standard
(C) To make money of the
government
(D) To give employers a hard task

60. Safety is:

(A) The responsibility of the

safety officer
(B) The responsibility of
management
(C) My responsibility
(D) All of the above