A wall system that is intended to manage all water at the exterior surface.

When warm air in a room rises and forces the cooler air down, what manner of thermal activity is taking place?

There are four factors that affect heat accumulation in a home. Which of the following is not included?

Among the following materials used as vapor retarder, which one is the most efficient?

When a condition implies "not quite dry", it refers to the term

When a condition implies "less wetness than wet", it refers to the term

What type of gypsum board has the quality to eliminate the need for a separate vapor retarder in wall assemblies?

When a condition implies "high level of water in air", it refers to the term

It is produced by providing wind scoops, swamp coolers, and exposed water (e.g. fountains, mist sprays, waterfalls).

Among the following rigid insulating materials, which one is fire resistant?

Which type of roof shape uses a knee wall as part of its structural frame?

The term for a material installed over a roof membrane to prevent wind uplift and shield the membrane from sunlight.

Where a rafter is provided with eaves, what will be the cut at the underside of the rafter to bear on the top of the wall below it?

The roof member that supports the rake overhang.

When a gable or hip roof is not provided with a ceiling joist, what alternative structural element is provided to maintain stability for the rafters? 

A structure protruding through the plane of a sloping roof usually containing a window & having its own smaller roof.

A vertical pipe for conducting water from a roof to a lower level.

The exposed vertical face of an eave.

A rafter in a rake overhang.

A roof consisting of two oppositely sloping planes that intersect at a level ridge.

A membrane roof assembly in which the thermal insulation lies above the membrane.

A shortened rafter that joins a hip or valley rafter.

A short wall under the slope of a roof.

The horizontal edge at the low side of a sloping roof.

Roofing tile having S-shaped cross section laid so the downturn of one overlaps the upturn of the next in same course.

Which of the following insulating materials for low-slope (flat) roofs is fire resistant and therefore compatible with hot bitumens (asphalt)?

A trough formed by the intersection of two roof slopes.

Which kind of roof is most appropriate for using shingles?

A roof membrane laminated from layers of asphalt-saturated felt or other fabric, bonded together with bitumen.

A strip of material with a sloping face used to ease the transition from a horizontal to a vertical surface at the edge of a membrane roof.

Which of the following is not a roof membrane?

What is the primary purpose of roofing?

Which of the following wood roof systems has ceilings customarily left exposed?

Distortion from shrinkage of sawn lumber depends on the position of the piece of lumber occupied in the tree. Which sawing method produces the most pronounced distortion?

A lumber that has been worked with a tongue on one edge of each piece and a groove on the opposite edge.

Lengths of wood, rectangular in cross section, sawed directly from a log.

Which type of wood siding is suitable for both horizontal and vertical installation?

A wood panel made by binding together large, flat flakes of wood.

The sloping wood or steel member that supports the treads of a stair.

The strip of wood that lies immediately on top of a concrete or masonry foundation in wood frame construction.

The horizontal bottom portion of a window or a door.

A building type with exterior masonry bearing walls and an interior structure of balloon framing.

A diagonal cut at the end of a piece, whose joint is produced by joining two diagonally cut pieces at right angels.

A heavy U-shaped staple used to tie the ends of heavy timbers together.

Smooth, lying on a single plane.

A thin piece of material placed between two components to adjust their relative positions as they are assembled.

Exposed to view, or a material that is exposed to view.

A complex polymeric carbohydrate of which the structural fibers in wood are composed.

Pieces of wood inserted tightly between joists, studs, or rafters in a building frame to stabilize the structure, inhibit the passage of fire, provide a nailing surface for finish materials, or retain insulation.