FREE Sanitation Exam Question and Answers

Question 1

One early morning as you are traveling, you come across a dead body stuffed inside a garbage can. What ought you to do?

Accepted Answer

do not touch anything and use the truck radio to ask the dispatcher to call the police

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put on your gloves, pull the body out of the container, and then call police

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without moving the body, see if there is identification on it, and then call the police

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empty the container into the truck and drive straight to the police department

Question 2

220 city residents received citations for breaking a local ban on open burning last year. 60% of those citizens received fines for the infraction. How many citizens who broke the law didn't get fined?

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88

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30

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60

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100

Question 3

What is a sanitation worker's approximate weight in kilograms if they weigh 168 pounds? One kilogram is equal to 2.2 pounds.

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76

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100

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80

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120

Question 4

135 of the Department of Public Works' 1,125 employees are fluent in Spanish. How many Public Works personnel are native Spanish speakers?

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12%

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10%

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15%

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8%

Question 5

One afternoon as you are picking up trash on a residential street, a five-year-old child approaches you. He tells you he is lost while sobbing. What ought you to do?

Accepted Answer

call in using your truck radio and ask the dispatcher to send police to your location

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Bring the child to the nearest home and ask the occupants to contact the police and care for the child until they arrive.

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walk door-to-door with the boy until you find out which house is his

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put him in the cab of your truck and let him ride with you until he's calm enough to remember where he lives

Question 6

The Sanitation Department will launch a program to clean up the graffiti on sanitation trucks starting the next month. Any truck that completes its designated route prior to the conclusion of the workers' shift will return to the sanitation lot, where supervisors will supply workers with cleaning supplies to use on the trucks there. Trucks will no longer be assigned to a certain route but will instead be rotated among the routes because the time it takes to finish various routes varies. Since they won't always be using the same truck each day as they did in the past, employees should no longer leave personal belongings in the trucks.

Which of the following statements about sanitation routes is true according to the passage?

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They vary in the amount of time they take to complete.

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They are all of equal length, though some may take longer to drive than others.

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They take longer to complete at certain times of the year.

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They are assigned according to the amount of graffiti on the truck in question

Question 7

How long would it take one sanitation worker to complete the same duty alone if it took four sanitation workers one hour and 45 minutes to complete it?

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7 hours

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3 hours

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8.5 hours

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4 hours