NLC FINAL CPS

Power delivery companies that are owned by shareholders and operate for a profit are known as ____

• Electric cooperatives

• Investor-owned utilities

• Power marketing administrators

• • Public power agencies

Power marketing administrations offer their customers____

• • Transmission and distribution services

• • New construction and upgrade services

• • At-cost wholesale power

• • Engineering services

Which statement best represents power delivery jobs in the field?

• Expect to be on-call after hours and on weekends.

• • A work week is always Monday through Friday.

• • Fieldwork rarely requires overtime.

• • A work week is always an eight-hour day, five days a week.

Which statement applies to a journeyman's commitment to craftsmanship?

• • Journeymen supervise two or more employees.

• • Education is complete when journey level is achieved.

• • Journeymen never have to work under the direct supervision of a foreman.

• • A commitment to learning and acquiring new skills is vital to success.

Why is it important for an apprentice to finish the apprenticeship program they started?

• • Apprentices that leave cause their former employer to lose their registered status with the Department of Labor.

• • If an apprentice leaves one program, they have to wait 1-2 years before starting another program with their new employer.

• • Registered apprenticeship programs vary by employer, so an apprentice's on-the-job training and academic training may not transfer to their new employer.

• • The apprentice always loses wages, experience, and knowledge.

Some of these power delivery companies may provide utility services such as water, natural gas, and sewer.

• • Publicly owned utilities

• • Power marketing administrations

• • Investor-owned utilities

• • Rural electric cooperatives

A _____ _is a formal training program to become a journeyman.

• Apprenticeship program

• Lineworker skills program

• Electrical engineering program

• Electrical trade program

Which of the following statements best explains why apprentices may be transferred between service areas?

• Utilities save money when they transfer apprentices instead of journeymen between service areas

• Utilities transfer apprentices between service areas to learn company systems and broaden their knowledge

• Utilities transfer apprentices between service areas to eliminate employees that are not dedicated to the program

• Utilities transfer apprentices between service areas to test their attitudes

Which of these companies is likely to own a large amount of specialized equipment for large-scale construction projects?

• Contractors

• Municipalities

• Irrigation districts

• Cooperatives

Based on the applicant comments below, which one performed the best company research?

• "I see where ABC Electric Cooperative's board just approved a rate reduction.

  Now that's taking care of your members."

• • "Are you a union company?"

• • "Do you have any work in Oklahoma City?"

• • "I see that ABC Electric is an electrical contractor. Is MYR Group the holding company?"