Treatment 1/2 Practice Test 2

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Water Treatment Operator Certification
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
What is a pathogen?
Respuesta
  • Algae
  • Laurel Tryptose
  • MTBE
  • Disease-causing microorganism

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
What is the impact of algae to water quality?
Respuesta
  • Elevated hardness
  • Increase in Cryptosporidium
  • Taste and odor problems
  • Corrosively

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
What is the concentration of chlorine gas?
Respuesta
  • 12.5%
  • 100%
  • 65%
  • 22.5%

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
Which of the following is not used to mix coagulants?
Respuesta
  • Hydraulic mixing
  • Mechanical mixing
  • Diffuser
  • Horizontal paddle wheel

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
What is considered to be a quick remedy to address a sudden increase in filtered water turbidity?
Respuesta
  • Feed a filter-aid chemical to the filter influent
  • Increase plant flowrate
  • Backwash less frequently
  • Reduce speed of rapid mixer

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
What is the likely cause of pinging in a pump?
Respuesta
  • Water hardness
  • Frequent starting and stopping
  • Cavitation
  • Corrosion

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
Which of the following controls the efficiency of removing suspended solids in the sedimentation process?
Respuesta
  • Minimize mud ball formation
  • Sodium hydroxide
  • Flowrate
  • Proper backwashing

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
What is a sanitary survey?
Respuesta
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • An analysis to determine all potential water quality impacts to a proposed well
  • Survey conducted to find ways to reduce wastewater production
  • Investigation to determine optimal location for water sampling station

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
Which of the following categories does bacteria belong to?
Respuesta
  • Dissolved
  • Settleable
  • Inorganic
  • Colloidal

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
Under the Surface Water Treatment Rule, what must the reduction of viruses be through filtration and disinfection?
Respuesta
  • 99%
  • 99.99%
  • 90%
  • 95%

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
Which of the following is not considered free residual chlorine?
Respuesta
  • Hypochlorous acid
  • Hyochlorite ion
  • Monochloramine
  • Chlorine

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
Why is coliform used as an indicator organism?
Respuesta
  • It reduces the complexity and cost of analysis
  • It is accurate in identifying the strain of virus
  • It provides detailed information about the type of pathogens in the sample
  • It provides the exact number of pathogens in the sample

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
What is an example of a non-community, non-transient water system?
Respuesta
  • Rest stop
  • Subdivision
  • Retirement community
  • School

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
What is the purpose of packing in a pump?
Respuesta
  • Increase the pressure and flow of a fluid
  • Transmit input per from the driver to the impeller/s mounted on the shaft
  • Control the leakage of water along the pump shaft and prevent air from entering along the shaft when the pump is in a suction lift condition
  • Keep the shaft or rotor in correct alignment with the stationary parts under the action of radial and transverse (axial) loads

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
What does the addition of carbon dioxide do to the pH of water?
Respuesta
  • Raises it
  • Lowers it
  • Unaffected by it
  • Creates instability of pH

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
What is an unconfined aquifer?
Respuesta
  • One in which groundwater is under pressure by overlying and aquitards
  • A well in which water rises under pressure from a permeable stratum overlaid by impermeable rock
  • A location where groundwater naturally emerges from the Earth's subsurface in a defined flow and in an amount large enough to form a pool
  • One in which groundwater possesses a free surface open to the atmosphere

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
What is a static water level in a well?
Respuesta
  • Water level when pump is not running
  • Water level when pump is running
  • The midpoint of the aquifer
  • The bottom of the zone of saturation

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
Which of the following will least likely impact the formation of flocs during the coagulation and flocculation process?
Respuesta
  • Alkalinity
  • pH
  • Temperature
  • Hardness

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
What is formed when free chlorine reacts with ammonia?
Respuesta
  • Ammonia hydroxide
  • Ammonia chloroform
  • Chloramine
  • Ammonium nitrate

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
Which contaminant causes Blue Baby Syndrome?
Respuesta
  • Copper
  • Nitrate
  • Lead
  • Arsenic

Pregunta 21

Pregunta
What is free Chlorine?
Respuesta
  • The residual chlorine existing in water in chemical combination with ammonia or organic amines
  • The sum of free and combined chlorine
  • Inorganic chloramines
  • The concentration of residual chlorine in water which is present as dissolved gas, hypochlorous acid, and or hypochlorite

Pregunta 22

Pregunta
What is a thermocline?
Respuesta
  • A thin distinct layer in a reservoir in which temperature changes more rapidly with depth than it does in the layers above or below
  • Epilimnion
  • Hypolimnion
  • Deepest layer

Pregunta 23

Pregunta
What agency protects the health and safety of industrial employees?
Respuesta
  • Public Utilities commission
  • EPA
  • OSHA
  • NEPA

Pregunta 24

Pregunta
What is the first priority in water treatment?
Respuesta
  • Production of drinking water at a reasonable cost
  • Production of safe drinking water
  • Production of an aesthetically pleasing drinking water
  • Production of drinking water that does not leave scale deposits

Pregunta 25

Pregunta
What is the health effect of consuming water with high levels of lead?
Respuesta
  • Blue Baby Syndrome
  • Breathing problems
  • Diarrhea
  • Cardiovascular effects, increased blood pressure and incidence of hypertension

Pregunta 26

Pregunta
What is an imaginary surface to which groundwater rises under hydrostatic pressure in wells or springs?
Respuesta
  • Drawdown
  • Radius of influence
  • Pumping water level
  • Piezometric surface

Pregunta 27

Pregunta
What is used to evaluate new coagulants or polymers being considered for use at the plant?
Respuesta
  • DPD test
  • MPN method
  • Jar test
  • Colilert method

Pregunta 28

Pregunta
What are the 4 zones of a clarifier?
Respuesta
  • Inlet, Outlet, Settling, Sludge
  • Inlet, Outlet, Settling, Skimming
  • Inlet, Outlet, Settling, Baffles
  • Settling, Baffles, Skimming, Sludge

Pregunta 29

Pregunta
Which type of filtration process is approved by the Surface Water Treatment Rule?
Respuesta
  • Nanofiltration
  • Conventional water treatment
  • Ion Exchange
  • Microfiltration

Pregunta 30

Pregunta
Which of the following impacts the color of source water?
Respuesta
  • Sodium
  • Pressure
  • Organics, such as soil and leaves
  • Temperature

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
Coliform is most likely to be found in which of the following water supplies?
Respuesta
  • Deep well
  • Shallow well
  • Artesian
  • Lake

Pregunta 32

Pregunta
What is the amount of water than can be withdrawn from an aquifer without significant environmental impact?
Respuesta
  • Well drawdown
  • Safe yield
  • Cone of depression
  • Specific yield

Pregunta 33

Pregunta
pH will increase if the following chemical is added to water.
Respuesta
  • CO2
  • Iron
  • Ammonia
  • Acid

Pregunta 34

Pregunta
Which of the following is an unstable form of disinfection?
Respuesta
  • Ozonation
  • Sodium hypochlorite
  • Chloramine
  • UV

Pregunta 35

Pregunta
How many stages are in a breakpoint chlorination curve?
Respuesta
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 4

Pregunta 36

Pregunta
Chlorine demand is best described as which of the following?
Respuesta
  • Chlorine dose + Chlorine residual
  • Chlorine dose - Chlorine residual
  • Chlorine dose X Chlorine residual
  • The amount of chlorine required to linger in the pipeline

Pregunta 37

Pregunta
What is an example of a natural organic matter?
Respuesta
  • Iron
  • Manganese
  • Fallen leaves
  • Arsenic

Pregunta 38

Pregunta
What is a typical characteristic of a colloidal particle in raw water?
Respuesta
  • Positive charge on the surface
  • Negative charge on the surface
  • Neutral charge on the surface
  • Cationic attributes

Pregunta 39

Pregunta
What is short circuiting in a clarifier?
Respuesta
  • Electrical problems in the control panel
  • Negative electrical charge on colloid
  • Electrical charge neutralized by alum
  • Shorter settling time in basin

Pregunta 40

Pregunta
What would cause a filter to begin backwashing?
Respuesta
  • Low chlorine concentration
  • Presence of THM
  • Head loss
  • Temperature

Pregunta 41

Pregunta
What is the purpose of surface washing in a filtration unit?
Respuesta
  • Clear under drain
  • Expand filter media
  • Prevent loss of media
  • Break-up mud balls

Pregunta 42

Pregunta
Where would you most likely see high levels of nitrate in the groundwater supply?
Respuesta
  • Near agricultural land
  • In very deep wells
  • Near military bases
  • Near swamps

Pregunta 43

Pregunta
What is adsorption
Respuesta
  • Constituents is sucked in
  • Constituents sticking to the surface of a substance
  • Molecule is converted from aqueous phase to solid phase
  • Contaminant breaks up into smaller particles

Pregunta 44

Pregunta
In which part of the water treatment plant are 99% of the suspended solids removed?
Respuesta
  • Coagulation
  • Disinfection
  • Flocculation
  • Sedimentation and filtration

Pregunta 45

Pregunta
Which of the following will most likely lead to the lowest concentration of THMs in treated water?
Respuesta
  • Sodium hypochlorite
  • Chlorine gas
  • Chloramines
  • Calcium hypochlorite

Pregunta 46

Pregunta
Which of the following is not true about the Total Coliform Rule?
Respuesta
  • Uses a presence and absence approach
  • Compliance is determined on a monthly basis
  • Each total coliform-positive routine sample must be tested for the presence of fecal coliforms
  • Smaller systems that collect fewer than 40 samples cannot have coliform positive results in more than 2 samples per month

Pregunta 47

Pregunta
Which of the following is true about fusible plugs on a chlorine container?
Respuesta
  • Use it as the point of connection
  • Always remove it before use
  • Never remove it
  • Should be removed during maintenance

Pregunta 48

Pregunta
What is the most common water quality complaint from customers?
Respuesta
  • Color
  • Taste and odor problems
  • Scaling
  • Corrosion

Pregunta 49

Pregunta
What information should be identified on the sampling container?
Respuesta
  • Sampling location, date, and time
  • Concentration of all constituents
  • Probable cause of contamination
  • Type of treatment used at the plant

Pregunta 50

Pregunta
What is the standard requirement for conventional and direct filtration?
Respuesta
  • Filtered water must be less than or equal to 0.2 NTU in 95% of monthly measurements
  • Filtered water must be less than or equal to 1.0 NTU in 95% of monthly measurements
  • Filtered water must be less than or equal to 0.5 NTU in 95% of monthly measurements
  • Filtered water must be less than or equal to 0.3 NTU in 95% of monthly measurements

Pregunta 51

Pregunta
What is the main drawback of using sodium hypochlorite to disinfect water?
Respuesta
  • Expensive
  • Formation of THMs
  • Difficult to procure
  • Most dangerous form of disinfectant to store at plant

Pregunta 52

Pregunta
What is one of the causes of hardness of water?
Respuesta
  • Arsenic
  • Nitrate
  • Calcium
  • Manganese

Pregunta 53

Pregunta
Which chemical is used to raise the pH in water?
Respuesta
  • Citric acid
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Sulfuric acid
  • Soda ash

Pregunta 54

Pregunta
What is the purpose of flocculation?
Respuesta
  • Mix coagulants with raw water
  • Add chlorine prior to filtration
  • Slowly stir water to bring smaller flocs together to form larger ones
  • Oxidize mineral

Pregunta 55

Pregunta
Which of the following range of pH is considered to be acidic?
Respuesta
  • 8-10
  • 0-6
  • 11-13
  • 7

Pregunta 56

Pregunta
What is the term used to describe the upper layer of a stratified reservoir?
Respuesta
  • Epilimnion
  • Thermocline
  • Hypolimnion
  • Metalimnion

Pregunta 57

Pregunta
What is another name for the Multiple Tube Fermentation test?
Respuesta
  • MPC
  • MFF
  • MDS
  • MPN

Pregunta 58

Pregunta
What impact does precipitated manganese have on water?
Respuesta
  • Brownish water
  • Blackish water
  • Reddish water
  • No impact

Pregunta 59

Pregunta
Which of the following is not part of the Surface Water Treatment Rule?
Respuesta
  • Applies to all public water systems using surface water sources or ground water sources under the direct influence of surface water
  • Requires most water systems to filter and disinfect water from surface water sources or ground water under direct influence
  • Establishes maximum contaminant level goals (MCLGs) for viruses, bacteria, and Giardia lamblia
  • All water systems are allowed to use disinfection only for surface water sources that meet criteria for water quality and watershed protection

Pregunta 60

Pregunta
What is a typical characteristic of chlorine gas?
Respuesta
  • Greenish yellow color
  • Blue color
  • Orange color
  • Brown color

Pregunta 61

Pregunta
Which of the following is not true about the Total Coliform Rule?
Respuesta
  • Each total coliform-positive routine sample must be tested for the presence of fecal coliform or E. coli
  • If any routine sample is total coliform-positive, repeat samples are required.
  • Establishes a maximum contaminant level (MCL) based on the presence of absence of total coliforms
  • Monthly sampling requirements are not based on population served

Pregunta 62

Pregunta
What can be done to minimize the formation of THM?
Respuesta
  • Increase the chlorination before filtration
  • Increase precursors
  • Eliminate or reduce chlorination before the filters
  • Increase temperature

Pregunta 63

Pregunta
What is the source of fecal coliform bacteria?
Respuesta
  • Sand
  • Feces
  • Leaves
  • Inorganic

Pregunta 64

Pregunta
What is the drawback of using UV for disinfection?
Respuesta
  • DBPs
  • Involves storage of toxic chemicals
  • High energy cost
  • Longer contact time required

Pregunta 65

Pregunta
What are the two types of aquifers
Respuesta
  • Confined and unconfined
  • Static and pumping
  • Cationic and anionic
  • Eutrophic and oligotrophic

Pregunta 66

Pregunta
What is a common problem associated with hardness in water?
Respuesta
  • Corrosion
  • Blue Baby Syndrome
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Scaling

Pregunta 67

Pregunta
What is the problem with very soft water?
Respuesta
  • Scaling
  • Leads to kidney disease
  • Corrosion
  • THM formation

Pregunta 68

Pregunta
Why is it harmful to backwash at a high velocity?
Respuesta
  • Forms mudballs
  • Flushes some media into spent backwash water
  • Increases build-up (headloss)
  • Forms THMs

Pregunta 69

Pregunta
What occurs on the right side of the breakpoint chlorination curve?
Respuesta
  • Chlorine is destroyed by reducing compound
  • Formation of chloroganics
  • Chlororganics partly destroyed
  • Free available residual chlorine begin to form

Pregunta 70

Pregunta
How does Powder Activated Carbon (PAC) remove contaminants from the water?
Respuesta
  • Absorption
  • Disinfection
  • Adsorption
  • Filtration

Pregunta 71

Pregunta
Which entity is responsible for enforcing the drinking water standards?
Respuesta
  • State
  • City
  • County
  • Federal EPA

Pregunta 72

Pregunta
How is the rate of head loss affected by a more uniform filter media?
Respuesta
  • Faster
  • Slower
  • Unaffected
  • More breakthroughs

Pregunta 73

Pregunta
Which of the following is true about soluble iron and Manganese?
Respuesta
  • Carcinogens
  • Reddish brown
  • Black
  • Colorless

Pregunta 74

Pregunta
What is the reason for adding coagulants at the flash mixer?
Respuesta
  • Stir flocs together
  • Oxidize iron and manganese
  • Neutralize negative charge on colloids
  • Pre-chlorination

Pregunta 75

Pregunta
Why would a water purveyor switch from chlorine gas to sodium hypochlorite?
Respuesta
  • Eliminate THMs
  • Safety
  • To minimize liquid chemical storage at plant
  • To eliminate the usage of free chlorine at the plant

Pregunta 76

Pregunta
Which pathogen is smallest in size
Respuesta
  • Bacteria
  • Protozoa
  • Cyst
  • Virus

Pregunta 77

Pregunta
Which of the following is not an example of a suspended solid?
Respuesta
  • Silt
  • Decaying plants
  • Animal matter
  • Soluble calcium

Pregunta 78

Pregunta
Which of the following is not a type of a coliform test?
Respuesta
  • Multiple Tube Fermentation method
  • Membrane Filter Method
  • DPD
  • Colilert Method

Pregunta 79

Pregunta
What is the definition of a public water system?
Respuesta
  • Publicly or privately owned water system that has at least 15 service connections, or regularly serves and average of at least 25 people daily at least 60 days per year
  • Publicly or privately owned water system that has at least 25 service connections, or regularly serves and average of at least 25 people daily at least 60 days per year
  • Publicly or privately owned water system that has at least 35 service connections, or regularly serves and average of at least 25 people daily at least 60 days per year
  • Publicly or privately owned water system that has at least 45 service connections, or regularly serves and average of at least 25 people daily at least 60 days per year

Pregunta 80

Pregunta
When is Brilliant Green Bile used to test for coliform?
Respuesta
  • Membrane Filter Method
  • Multiple Tube Fermentation method
  • Colisure Method
  • MF Method - Escherichia coli

Pregunta 81

Pregunta
Which of the following is the correct order of treatment for a conventional water treatment plant?
Respuesta
  • Intake, Coagulation, Flocculation, Filtration, Sedimentation, Disinfection
  • Intake, Flocculation, Coagulation, Filtration, Sedimentation, Disinfection
  • Intake, Coagulation, Flocculation, Sedimentation, Filtration, Disinfection
  • Intake, Flocculation, Sedimentation, Coagulation, Filtration, Disinfection

Pregunta 82

Pregunta
What might happen if insufficient amount of coagulants were injected into the flash mixer?
Respuesta
  • Excessive increase in floc size
  • Scaling becomes a problem
  • Worsens DBP problem
  • Some colloids may repel each other

Pregunta 83

Pregunta
Which of the following is a grab sample?
Respuesta
  • Time proportional
  • Sample taken on a one time basis without consideration of flow or time
  • Flow proportional
  • A collection of numerous individual discrete samples taken at regular intervals over a period of time

Pregunta 84

Pregunta
What happens over the course of a filter run time?
Respuesta
  • Headloss decreases
  • Headloss is unaffected
  • Headloss increases
  • Headless goes to zero

Pregunta 85

Pregunta
When is direct filtration used instead of conventional water treatment?
Respuesta
  • When source water is low in turbidity, color, and coliform
  • When source water is low in iron and manganese
  • When source water is low in nitrates
  • When source water has an ideal pH and temperature

Pregunta 86

Pregunta
Convert 1,210 gpm to ft3/sec
Respuesta
  • 1.7 ft3/s
  • 2.7 ft3/s
  • 3.9 ft3/s
  • 4.8 ft3/s

Pregunta 87

Pregunta
If a tank with a diameter of 60 feet, and a height of 30 feet is filled at a rate of 1,303 gpm, then how long will it take to fill this tank? Assume the tank was empty.
Respuesta
  • 4.0 hours
  • 9.8 hours
  • 3.5 hours
  • 8.1 hours

Pregunta 88

Pregunta
How many 150-lb chlorine gas cylinders will you need per day to dose the water supply at 1.6 mg/L if the demand for water in a 24-hour period is 11,166,264 gallons?
Respuesta
  • 3 cylinders
  • 2 cylinders
  • 1 cylinder
  • 4 cylinders

Pregunta 89

Pregunta
If the discharge pipe at a pump station is located 32 feet below the City Hall, what must the pressure be in the discharge pipe so that the water reaches the City Hall at a pressure of 62 psi? Assume that pipe friction and head loss are negligible.
Respuesta
  • 75.9 psi
  • 53.4 psi
  • 62.7 psi
  • 59.2 psi

Pregunta 90

Pregunta
If a well has a static water level of 62 feet and a pumping water level of 83 feet, then what is the specific capacity if the well yield is 1,000 gpm?
Respuesta
  • 32 gpm/ft
  • 47.6 gpm/ft
  • 56.7 gpm/ft
  • 65.1 gpm/ft

Pregunta 91

Pregunta
IF a 25% copper sulfate solution is added to a reservoir with a volume of 400,000 cubic feet, and the intended dose is 0.4 mg/L, then what is the amount of copper sulfate solution required in lbs?
Respuesta
  • 29.9 lbs.
  • 45.2 lbs.
  • 39.9 lbs.
  • 67.8 lbs.

Pregunta 92

Pregunta
A pump with an efficiency of 77% and a motor of 91% are used to lift water 52 feet at a rate of 500 gpm. If the electrical unit cost is $0.14 kWh, then what is the daily cost to operate the pump and motor? Assume the equipment runs 24 hours/day.
Respuesta
  • $19.21
  • $41.25
  • $32.25
  • $23.52

Pregunta 93

Pregunta
If a rectangular basin that is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide has a water level of 2 feet at 11 a.m., and rises to a water level of 20 feet at 6 p.m., then what is the pumping rate?
Respuesta
  • 580.9 gpm
  • 480 gpm
  • 621.7 gpm
  • 348.1 gpm

Pregunta 94

Pregunta
A steel tank with a diameter of 45 feet and a height of 25 feet is draining at a flow rate of 342 gpm. What is the pressure 18 inches from the bottom of the tank, 4.2 hours later? Assume that the tank is initially full.
Respuesta
  • 17 psi
  • 12 psi
  • 7 psi
  • 2.5 psi

Pregunta 95

Pregunta
How many pounds of 25% copper sulfate solution do you need to make 145 pounds of 3% copper sulfate solution?
Respuesta
  • 17.4 lbs
  • 19.8 lbs
  • 21.3 lbs
  • 14.7 lbs

Pregunta 96

Pregunta
If you are required to have a chlorine dose of 1.7 mg/L in a 3-million gallon steel tank, then how many gallons of a 12.5% sodium hypochlorite solution will need to be injected? Assume the specific weight of the chemical is 10lbs/gallon, and that the tank is 40% full. There is not chlorine in the water prior to dosage.
Respuesta
  • 3.6 gallons
  • 1.7 gallons
  • 13.6 gallons
  • 4.2 gallons

Pregunta 97

Pregunta
If the surface dimensions of a sand filtration bed are 35 feet (length) and 30 feet (width), then what is the filtration rate if the flow is 2,525 gallons per minute?
Respuesta
  • 1.9 GPM/sq. ft.
  • 4.2 GPM/sq. ft.
  • 3.5 GPM/sq. ft.
  • 2.4 GPM/sq. ft.

Pregunta 98

Pregunta
If the desired concentration of chlorine in a 2-million gallon welded steel tank is 2 mg/L, then how many pounds of 65% calcium hypochlorite tablet must be placed inside the tank?
Respuesta
  • 59 lbs
  • 51 lbs
  • 69 lbs
  • 40 lbs

Pregunta 99

Pregunta
If the velocity of water in a 6-inch pipe is 4.5 ft/s, then what is the velocity of the water if the pipe transitions to a 8 -inch pipe?
Respuesta
  • 2.5 ft/s
  • 5 ft/s
  • 1.9 ft/s
  • 6.4 ft/s

Pregunta 100

Pregunta
If 1.2 MGD of water flows through a rectangular sedimentation basin that is 55 feet long and 30 feet wide, then what is the overflow rate?
Respuesta
  • 0.24 GPM/sq. ft.
  • 0.51 GPM/sq. ft.
  • 0.68 GPM/sq. ft.
  • 041 GPM/sq. ft.
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