Planning

and
Professional Practice
Taken from UST Architecture Undergraduate Assessment
Test (USAT)
by Arch. Jonathan V. Manalad
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1. It is a group of people living in
the same place with the same
privileges under the same
rules.
a. Neighborhood
b. Community
c. District
2. It is the art and science of
designing, planning, and
structuring elements and
dimensions within the local
area.
a. Community architecture
b. Barangay initiative
c. Regional planning
3. Orientation in the community
based on unconsciously
memorized sense of
impressions.
a. False
b. Probably
c. True
4. An individual’s capacity to
orient himself to what he feels,
smells and tastes.
a. Sense of place
b. Common sense
c. Sense of belongingness
5. It is the art and science of
arranging and organizing the
external physical environment
to accommodate and support a
variety of human behaviour.
a. Site planning
b. Site selection
c. Site orientation
6. Item number 5 above, lies
along the boundaries of
architecture, engineering and
____.
a. Surveying
b. City planning
c. Geography
7. The site is not simply a collection
of buildings and streets but a
system of structures, surfaces,
spaces, living things, climates
and details.
a. I do not agree
b. I have no idea
c. I agree
8. The site planning process has
three basic stages, which
among the process below is
the third stage?
a. Design and implementation
b. User definition/ identification
c. Analysis
9. The site planning process has
three basic stages, which
among the process below is
the second stage?
a. Analysis
b. User definition/ identification
c. Design and implementation
10. The site planning process has
three basic stages, which
among the process below is
the first stage?
a. Design and implementation
b. Analysis
c. User definition/ identification
11. The scope of site planning
does not include dealing with
the environs of a structure in a
a lot.
a. I agree
b. I don’t agree
c. I have no idea
12. The scope of site planning
deals with the environs of
building complexes.
a. I don’t agree
b. I agree
c. I have no idea
13. The scope of site planning
does not deal anymore with the
environs of housing
subdivisions, industrial estates
and the like.
a. I have no idea
b. I agree
c. I don’t agree
14. The scope of site planning
deals with the environs of the
urban centers, in towns, cities
and regions in varying degrees.
a. I don’t agree
b. I agree
c. I have no idea
15. General planning instrument
undertaken within a short or
limited period of time and is
usually non-continuing.
a. project/action plan
b. Long range plan
c. Annual plan
16. General planning instrument
undertaken within a immediate,
one-year period usually
undertaken as provided in the
yearly budget of public or
private agencies.
a. project/action plan
b. Long range plan
c. Annual plan
17. General planning instrument
undertaken within 4 to 5 years
time frame, programmed with
annual targets.
a. Long range plan
b. Medium range plan
c. Annual plan
18. General planning instrument
undertaken in 20-30 years span.
It looks beyond the foreground
of pressing current issues to the
perspective of problems in the
future.
a. Long range plan
b. Medium range plan
c. Annual plan
19. In procedural steps in site
planning, classification and
analysis of data is done first
before surveying and collecting
basic data.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I have no idea
20. In procedural steps in site
planning, classification and
analysis of data is done first
before designing and drawing
up of a program.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I have no idea
21. In procedural steps in site
planning, designing or drawing
up of a program is done first
before implementation or
execution.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I have no idea
22. In procedural steps in site
planning, feedback and
adjustment of the program is
done first before
implementation or execution.
a. I agree
b. I disagree
c. I have no idea
23. Initial personal
reconnaissance is an activity
in _____.
a. Data gathering
b. Analysis of data
c. Implementation
24. Analysis of population
records, statistical data and
gathered site info are
activities in:
a. Implementation
b. Data gathering
c. Analysis of data
 Done! 
• Source: USAT 2006 Surveying and Structural
Design
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