WECA- Residential Electrician - Sample Certification Exam





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Residential Electrician - Sample Certification Exam

Instructions
Welcome! The sample exam you are about to take is designed for the experienced journeyman electrician with at least 4,800 field hours.
California’s Residential Electrician Certification Exam is 75 questions and you have 3 hours to complete it. This sample exam is only 10 questions, so we recommend you take only 2.4 minutes per question.

To try and simulate the State exam, allow yourself only 24 minutes to answer the following ten questions!

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1. NEC 300-15(a) requires that a _____ be installed at each conductor splice or connection point.
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A. insulated wire connector

B. outlet box

C. grounding electrode conductor

D. exothermic weld

2. A circuit energized at 120 volts has an 8 ohm, a 12 ohm, and a 24 ohm resistor connected in parallel. The total resistance of the circuit is :
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A. 2 ohms

B. 4 ohms

C. 6 ohms

D. 16 ohms

E. 44 ohms

3. Type NM-B Cable enters a metal device box and is secured by a cable clamp at the bottom of the box. The cable is installed so the cable jacket is flush with the cable clamp so the free conductors begin at the cable clamp. If the device box has a depth of 2 1/2 inch (65 mm), the minimum permitted length of free conductor in this box is required to be not less than:
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A. 3 inches (75 mm)

B. 6 inches (150 mm)

C. 6 1/2 inches (165 mm)

D. 8 inches (200 mm)

E. 9 inches (225 mm)

4. A feeder conductor supplies 58 amperes of continuous load and 42 amperes of noncontinuous load. The minimum standard rating of overcurrent device permitted for this feeder is:
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A. 100 amperes

B. 110 amperes

C. 125 amperes

D. 150 amperes

E. 175 amperes

5. How is a track lighting load in residences calculated?
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A. at 150 volt-amperes per each two feet of track

B. at 60 watts per lighting head

C. it is considered to be part of the general lighting load of 3 volt-amperes per square foot

D. per the examples in Appendix D

6. The Code generally requires receptacles installed in a garage to be GFCI-protected. The exception(s) to this rule include ___.
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A. receptacles that are not readily accessible, such as a ceiling receptacle installed to serve an automatic garage door operator

B. a single receptacle installed for a refrigerator or freezer located in a dedicated space, or a duplex receptacle installed for two appliances (refrigerator and freezer) located in a dedicated space

C. a single receptacles installed to serve an alarm system

D. all of the above

7. The NEC requires that switching be done only in the _____ conductor.
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A. ungrounded

B. designated

C. black

D. red

8. Fixture whips used with fixtures in suspended ceilings are permitted to be of various types of cables or conductors in flexible raceways. Regardless of the wiring method used, fixture whips are permitted to be a maximum of _____ long between outlet box and fixture.
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A. 3 feet (900 mm)

B. 4 1/2 feet (1.4 m)

C. 6 feet (1.8 m)

D. 6 feet 7 inches (2 m)

9. Incandescent lighting fixtures are marked with their _____.
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A. voltage

B. maximum lamp wattage

C. amperes

D. both A and B

10. Television antenna and lead-in wires are covered under Article _____.
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A. 240

B. 810