FREE Master of Architecture: Building Technology Questions and Answers

Question 1

A door with small horizontal interlocking metal slats guided in a track that coils around a manual or motor-driven overhead drum at the opening.

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Roll-up Door

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Flush Door

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Overhead Swing-up Door

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Panel Door

Question 2

Which is not sheet glass?

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Insulating Glass

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Picture Glass

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Heavy Sheet Glass

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Heavy Sheet Glass

Question 3

An admixture accelerates concrete setting. For several reasons, adding such a material can speed up early strength development.

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Accelerators

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Retarders

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Damproofers

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Water Reducing Admixtures

Question 4

Silica-rich rock. Gray, buff, light brown, red.

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Sandstone

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Marble

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Limestone

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Granite

Question 5

What is a bundle of steel elements like wire, cable, bar, rod, or strand used to prestress concrete?

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Tendon

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Prestress Cables

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Reinforcement

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Tendon Cables

Question 6

Excavating or filling earth or other solid materials to prepare for a finishing surface like paving?

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Grading

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Site Preparation

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Benching

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Cut and Fill

Question 7

A shutter-proof opaque glass used to make a glass door that lets in natural light only.

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Figured Wired Glass

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Bevel Glass

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Smoked Glass

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Etched Glass

Question 8

A paint defect caused by application on damp or greasy surfaces, where the film peels off in large pieces.

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Peeling

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Bleeding

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Cracking

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Alligatoring

Question 9

A "hands of door" with a left hinge and a door leaf that swings left inside the room.

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Left Hand

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Right Hand

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Left Hand Reverse

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Right Hand Reverse

Question 10

A diagonally cut wood end joint.

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Scarf

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Splice

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Finger

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Lap