PAT Testing Quiz Set March 2021

UPS is an abbreviation of?

‘milli-amps’ can be expressed as?

The Code of Practice recognises a ‘person with technical knowledge or sufficient experience to enable him/her to avoid the dangers that electricity may create’ as a?

A portable appliance is an item of equipment that is:

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 puts a duty of care on?

Identify the missing word(s) from Regulation 4(2) of the Electricity at Work Regulations – ‘As may be necessary to prevent danger, all systems shall be _____ so as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, such danger’?

If an inspector considers that the equipment being tested is not suitable for the environment, this should be?

Test equipment should be, so far as is reasonably practicable, constructed, maintained and used in such a way as to?

Regulation 12 of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 deals with?

An electric heater which has castors to allow the heater to be freely moved and a mass of 14 kg is known as equipment type?

When an extension lead has been fitted with a three-pin socket-outlet, it should be tested as a Class I appliance plus?

The insulation resistance for equipment powered by a BS EN 60742 safety isolating transformer should be:

The Code of Practice recognises a ‘person with technical knowledge or sufficient experience to enable him/her to avoid the dangers that electricity may create’ as a?

Who is responsible for the safety of electrical equipment on a daily basis?

Class 1 appliances depend on the integrity of a buildings fixed electrical installation. Guidance on the inspection and testing of fixed electrical installations can be found in

Specific guidance on maintaining portable and transportable equipment may be found in HSE document

From the following list, which classification and location of equipment is considered to be of the lowest risk?

A substantially continuous metal enclosure around Class II equipment is classified as?

An electric iron which is metal-cased and has basic insulation around live parts is supplied by a three-core cord. The appliance construction class would be?

A 12V compressor relies on the supply voltage as a means of electric shock protection. This equipment is classified as 

Any piece of equipment must have a warning label if it has a protective conductor current of more than?

A photocopier for general use in a school should be subjected to  a user check;

An item of equipment subjected to type testing will usually be

A category of inspection and testing that may not require records to be kept is the

The table of suggested frequency of inspection and testing for electrical equipment gives details of;

A formal visual inspection of a new 110V Class II electric drill used on a construction site should initially be conducted;

When conducting a formal visual inspection on equipment intended for use outdoors. It is important to confirm that the equipment has a suitable……

Where a formal visual inspection is conducted on an item of equipment intended to be used outdoors the inspector should confirm that the equipment is protected by an RCD with a rated residual operating current of;

Extension leads with a length of 30m should

A two core extension lead must be fitted with

The most important check to be carried out on any item of equipment in the work place is the

Three-phase appliances fitted with plugs to BS EN 60309;

An electrician’s continuity/insulation resistance tester is better suited to perform tests where the equipment

Where the test instrument has such a facility; an alternative to subtracting the test lead resistance from the measured value is to;

The most suitable method of testing equipment supplied by a BS1363 plug is to use;

Class I appliances must be tested for

Which of the following is the main reason for maintaining test instrument records?

A list itemizing details of equipment that may need to be inspected and tested is known as?

Where IT equipment may be damaged by an applied voltage insulation resistance test, the test that would be carried out instead is?

When an item of equipment has passed all the required inspection and testing, the attached label should not contain the words?

Some electrical test equipment incorporates a test facility that is not recommended for in-service testing. This test facility is commonly known as; commonly known as;

A measurement of 25MΩ was produced after an insulation resistance test was performed on a Class ll hand-held item. Six months later a test performed on the same item of equipment produced a measurement of 4MΩ. This would indicate that the equipment is?

For standardisation, if a 230V appliance possesses an input rating of 650 W then the correct fuse size for the 3 pin plug would be?

For standardisation, if a 230V appliance possesses an input rating of 900 W then the correct fuse size for the 3 pin plug would be?

What is measured in Amps (Amperes)?

What is the minimum insulation resistance required for a Class I appliance?

If the class of an item of equipment is not known, when deciding the frequency of combined inspection and test, it should be treated as;

The suggested initial frequency for combined inspection and test of a Class I hair dryer in a hotel room is;

Frequency check for RCD

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 puts a duty of care on?

Identification of all electrical equipment within a duty holder’s control is required in order to produce?

Equipment condition labels fixed to items of electrical equipment must;

What is the British Standards code for a Class III Isolation transformer?

What is the British Standards code for a standard 13 Amp three pin plug fuse?

What is the British Standards code for a standard 13 Amp three pin plug?

What is the Standards code for industrial blue plug?

Standard for safety requirements of electrical equipment

What protection is given to an appliance with international protection code of IP34 ?

When conducting a formal visual inspection on equipment used outdoors, it is important that the equipment has a suitable;

What is the minimum ip code requirement for electrical equipment used in garden?

What is the limits of ES1 rms value?

What is the limits of ES2 rms value?

Which of the following is Class 1 energy source code ?

The model form that does not require the equipment serial number to be recorded is the

If an earth continuity test was carried out on a 25 m extension lead which has a core area of 1.5 mm2, the approximate result produced would be

An insulation resistance value is recorded as 1.34MΩ. Another way of expressing this value is?

An appliance supplied with a 0.75mm2 flexible lead having a length of 2m and an earth continuity test produces a reading of 0.172Ω. the value of earth continuity for the appliance alone is;

If an earth continuity test was carried out on a 25 m extension lead which has a core area of 2.5 mm2, the approximate result produced would be

A washing machine in a hotel should be subject to a formal visual inspection every?

The cord grip of a plug must always secure the?

It is recommended user checks of stationary equipment installed in a factory unit should be carried out?

An inspection and test label would not require which of the following items of information?

The user check is limited to?

A test result of 0.05MΩ is returned from an insulation resistance test on a Class I appliance. If the appliance is connected to a 230V supply, the value of current that would leak to earth would be?

As an alternative to insulation resistance testing, a touch current measurement is conducted. In this case, for practical purposes, the test voltage used is?

A more suitable unit for expressing the value 1000 Ω would be?

A more suitable unit for expressing the value 0,2 M Ω would be?

30mA can be represented as

The purpose of the fuse in a standard 13A plug is to;

Which of the following would not be covered under the scope of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989