AREA1 Concepts

AREA 1 – TEST 1 c.
benefit-cost ratio
d. net present value
1. Which of the following is not part of a force pump? 20. General-purpose tillage involves cutting and pulverizing
a. inlet valve the soil to a depth of:
b. piston a. up to 3 inches
c. plunger b. up to 6 inches
d. discharge valve c. up to 12 inches
d. up to 18 inches
2. What do you call a device that forces more fuel mixture
into the cylinders than would be drawn in under normal 21. Bend downward of the point of the share to make the
atmospheric conditions, thus making possible greater plow penetrate the soil to the proper depth is:
power output with the same piston displacement. a. tilt angle
a. carburetor b. disc angle
b. supercharger c. horizontal suction
c. throttle d. vertical clearance
d. venturi
22. Width of cut of the disc plow is influenced by:
3. Arrange the following according to the process of a. disc diameter
management. b. depth of cut
i. Selecting the right employees for the right position c. disc angle
ii. Formulation of the mission, vision, goals, objectives and d. all of the above
activities of the organization
iii. Conducting of annual performance evaluation of 23. In the equation C = SWEff/10, W is width of cut
employees. expressed in:
iv. Coordinating the employees and material resources of a. ft.
the organization. b. m
v. Orientation of personnel for the proper achievement of c. km
goals. d. mile
a. i, ii, iii, iv, v
b. ii, iv, I, iii, v 24. General-purpose tillage equipment is used in:
c. ii, I, v, iv, iii a. 2-wheel tractor for wetland op.
d. ii, iv, I, v, iii b. 4-wheel tractor for dryland op.
c. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op.
4. The gasoline engine is characterized as: d. all of the above
a. low first cost – high operating cost
b. low first cost – low operating cost 25. Planter designed to place seedlings in rows and in hills
c. high first cost – high operating cost is called:
d. high first cost – low operating cost a. row-crop drill planter
b. hill-drop planter
13. In management, this is doing the right things. c. solid drill planter
a. Efficiency d. transplanter
b. competence
c. reliability 26. The IRRI drum seeder is an example of:
d. effectiveness a. row-crop drill planter
b. hill-drop planter
15. Of corresponding size and speed, single-cylinder c. solid drill planter
engines compared to multi-cylinder engines will require d. broadcaster
__________ flywheels.
a. Lighter 27. In the equation for horsepower, Hp = QxH/3960xEff, H
b. thinner is total head in:
c. heavier a. ft.
d. a or b b. ft/min
c. meters
16. The windmill for water pumping is characterized as: d. meters/min
a. low torque – high speed
b. high torque – high speed 28. The power unit for driving centrifugal pumps for
c. high torque – low speed household use is usually:
d. low torque – low speed a. electric motor
b. gasoline engine
18. Which of the following agencies is not based in a c. diesel engine
university? d. kerosene engine
a. AMTEC
b. PhilSCAT 29. The most recently developed system of harvesting and
c. AMDP threshing of rice is:
d. PCARRD a. mechanical harvesting & threshing
b. combining
19. The following are considered discounted measures of c. stripping
project worth: d. all of the above
a. payback period
b. internal rate of return
30. A machine that cuts standing crop, conveys the cut crop a. nozzle discharge
to one side, and lays them down in an orderly manner is b. effective working width
called: c. walking speed
a. sickle d. application rate
b. reaper-windrower
c. reaper-binder 51. Which of the following does not belong to the group of
d. stripper positive displacement pumps?
a. lift pump
31. The Japanese combine is characterized as: b. force pump
a. low power & hold-on feeding c. rotary pump
b. low power & throw-in feeding d. propeller pump
c. high power & hold-on feeding
d. high power & throw-in feeding 52. According to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA),
water requirement for rice production is:
40. Select two consecutive farm operations which when a. 5 mm/day
done mechanically can increase cropping intensity: b. 10 mm/day
a. planting – spraying c. 15 mm/day
b. irrigation – weeding d. 20 mm/day
c. harvesting – plowing
d. harvesting – threshing 54. It is made by partial combustion of carbonaceous
substances like coal and wood.
41. Which of the following operation is not done by a a. natural gas
stripper? b. propane
a. cutting of standing crop c. LPG
b. stripping d. producer gas
c. cleaning of grains
d. conveying of grains to the tank 58. The tractor is generally characterized as:
a. high speed – heavy load
42. The cutting mechanism most commonly employed by b. high speed – light load
reapers and combines is: c. low speed – heavy load
a. slicing & tearing d. low speed – light load
b. high velocity, single-element, impact action
c. two-element, scissor-type action 63. The three main sources of power for mechanization
d. all of the above include:
a. human, animal & mechanical
43. The IRRI axial-flow thresher is characterized as: b. human, electrical & mechanical
a. low power & hold-on feeding c. animal, electrical & mechanical
b. low power & throw-in feeding d. human, animal & electrical
d. high power &throw-in feeding 64. Before the adoption of mechanized harvest and
postharvest operations for rice, field losses were:
44. What section is not yet included in the PAES as of a. 5 – 15%
2014? b. 10 – 27%
a. Production/postharvest machinery c. 10 – 37%
b. Irrigation and drainage d. 20 – 30%
c. agricultural structures
d. engineering materials 65. In optimizing the capacity of a machine, it is
recommended to have:
46. Which is true about V-belt and pulley drive? a. one small machine
a. It cannot be used for long center distance drive. b. one big machine
b. Efficiency drops with small pulley size. c. two or more small machines
c. Its application is limited only for parallel drive. d. all of the above
d. Excessive high load increases efficiency.
66. Primary tillage involves cutting the soil to a depth of:
48. Parameter not required in determining the field capacity a. up to 3 inches
of a planter: b. 3 to 6 inches
a. width of planter c. 6 to 18 inches
b. forward speed of planter d. 6 to 36 inches
c. No. of seeds per hill
d. efficiency of planter 67. Primary tillage equipment that cuts the soil to a depth of
6 to 18 inches is called:
49. Type of soil working parts utilized by push-type weeders a. moldboard plow
for wetland operation: b. subsoiler
a. blade type c. chisel plow
b. tine type d. spiral plow
c. rotary type
d. all of the above 68. The perpendicular distance between the wing and point
of the share determines the:
50. Which of the following is not measured in calibrating a a. longitudinal dimension of plow
sprayer? b. transverse dimension of plow
c. diagonal dimension of plow 83. Agency of the government charged with the
d. maximum dimension of plow development of the Philippine National Standards (PNS):
a. BOAE-PRC
69. Draft of plows is primarily determined by: b. NAFC-DA
a. type of soil c. BPS-DTI
b. speed of plowing d. DOH
c. sharpness of cutting edge
d. overall adjustment of plow 85. It is the peak of the turned furrow slice.
a. Furrow crown
71. The power unit for driving centrifugal pumps for b. Furrow slice
household use is usually: c. Furrow wall
a. electric motor d. None of the above
b. gasoline engine
c. diesel engine 86. Threshing efficiency basically is determined from weight
d. kerosene engine of grain obtained at the ___ to the grain input fed at the
feeding trays.
72. A machine that cuts standing crop, conveys the cut crop a. straw outlet
to one side, and lays them down in an orderly manner is b. oscillating screen outlet
called: c. blower outlet
a. sickle d. All of the above
b. reaper-windrower
c. reaper-binder 88. Ignition of fuel in a gasoline fuel engine usually starts
d. stripper when the piston is __________.
a. at the top dead center
73. The Japanese combine is characterized as: b. moving downward the bottom dead center
a. low power & hold-on feeding c. approaching the top dead center
b. low power & throw-in feeding d. None of the above
d. high power & throw-in feeding 89. It is the power developed by the engine of a tractor
which is available for pulling, dragging or similar tractive
74. How many volumes of PAES were adopted by the effort.
Department of Agriculture? a. belt horsepower
a. two b. brake horsepower
b. three c. drawbar horsepower
c. four d. indicated horsepower
d. five
90. One way of increasing engine power is to force more air
77. The acronym PAES means: into the cylinder so that more power can be produced from
a. Philippine Agricultural Engineering Society each power stroke. This process which uses a type of air
b. Professional Agricultural Engineering Society compression device powered by the engine crankshaft is
c. Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards called:
d. Professional Agricultural Engineering Standards a. turbocharging
b. supercharging
78. The development of PAES started in: c. power charging
a. 1985 d. air charging
b. 1990
c. 1995 93. The pushing or rolling of soil by a steeply inclined blade.
d. 2000 a. Bulldozing
b. Chiselling
80. The word used to indicate requirements strictly to be c. Subsoiling
followed in order to conform to the standard and from which d. None of the above
no deviation is permitted:
a. Shall 94. The draft of a plow is dependent on the ___.
b. Should a. size of the plow
c. a or b b. plowing depth
d. none of the above c. type of soil
d. All of the above
81. What section is not yet included in the PAES?
a. Production/postharvest machinery 95. The factors that affect the draft of the plow:
b. Irrigation and drainage a. Soil condition
c. agricultural structures b. Hitch to the tractor
d. engineering materials c. Topography
d. All of the above
82. The Consumer Act of the Philippines of is covered
under: 100. A mechanically operated machine that removes weeds
a. DA AO 11 S2001 or grasses from the crops.
b. PRC BR 05 S2002 a. Seeder
c. RA 7394 b. Weeder
d. RA 8559 c. Cultivator
d. None of the above
AREA 1 – TEST 2 c. Shank
1. The ratio between the numbers of weeds removed by the
weeder to the number of weeds present per unit area. 28. Material recommended by PAES for use as implement
a. Weeding index frame.
b. Weeding rate a. Mild steel
c. Weeding capacity b. Cold rolled steel
d. None of the above c. Spring steel
2. When a machine is driven directly from the shaft of a
power source, the power is transmitted using ___. 29. Material recommended by PAES in the manufacture of
a. gear drive disk blade.
b. sprocket and chain drive a. Mild steel
c. direct drive b. Carbon steel
d. None of the above c. Cast iron
8. The ratio between the mass of fuel consumed per unit
time and the corresponding power measured. 30. When a disk harrow consists of a front and rear gangs
a. Specific fuel consumption and is centrally positioned with the tractor, it is classified as
b. Fuel to mass ratio _________?
c. Fuel consumption rate a. Single action harrow
d. None of the above b. Double action harrow
c. Offset harrow
21. The projection of cash inflow and outflow of a farm to d. None of the above
estimate the incremental net benefit of the life of the project
is known as: 31. When a disk harrow consists of a front gang only and is
a. Farm budget centrally positioned with the tractor, it is classified as
b. Farm plan _________?
c. Farm inventory a. Single action harrow
d. Farm contract b. Double action harrow
c. Offset harrow
22. The gearbox placed on first gear will develop… d. None of the above
a. high torque - high speed
b. low torque – low speed 32. When a disk harrow consists of a front and/or rear
c. high torque – low speed gangs and is not centrally positioned with the tractor, it is
d. low torque – high speed classified as _________?
a. Single action harrow
23. Tractor A can cover a 1-Ha field in 2 hrs, tractor B in 3 b. Double action harrow
hrs, and tractor C in 6 hrs. How long will it take to cover a 1- c. Offset harrow
Ha field if the three tractors worked together? d. None of the above
a. 0.5 hr
b. 1.0 hr 33. The angle between the axis of the set of disks and the
c. 1.5 hr line perpendicular to the direction of the implement.
d. 2.0 hr a. Disk angle
b. Gang angle
24. A transaction by your company this year involving the c. Implement angle
repayment in cash of a portion of the long term loan of the d. None of the above
company in the amount of P 70,000.00 would have the
following effect: 34. The horizontal seed plate is used for:
a. increase in assets = increase in liabilities a. row-crop drill planter
b. decrease in assets = decrease in liabilities b. hill-drop planter
c. increase in assets = increase in ownership c. solid drill planter
d. increase in one asset= decrease in another asset d. broadcaster
25. It results in the reduction of the purchasing power of 36. Planters designed to plant seeds continuously in rows
monetary unit. with row spacing greater than 36 cm is called:
a. deflation a. row-crop drill planter
b. devaluation b. hill-drop planter
c. incision c. solid drill planter
d. inflation d. broadcaster
26. A six-bottom moldboard plow is to be used to plow a 37. The groundwheel of a planter is normally related to the
heavy soil. How many scrapers are there in the plow? operation of the:
a. 2 c. 6 a. furrow opener
b. 4 d. None of the above b. metering device
c. seed tube
27. It is a part of the plow that connects the plow bottom d. double-disc closer
and the frame.
a. Upper hitch point 38. Part of a planter that is always present in all planters
b. Boom regardless of type and cropping system:
a. furrow opener 59. Principle used in creating hydraulic energy in a lever-
b. metering device operated knapsack sprayer is:
c. seed tube a. adding air to a container with fixed volume of liquid
d. furrow closer b. adding liquid to a container with a fixed volume of air
c. adding liquid to a container with an existing volume of
42. Planter designed to plant seeds in rows and in hills is liquid
called: d. adding air to a container with an existing volume of air
a. row-crop drill planter
b. hill-drop planter 64. It is a self-propelled machine having a single axle
c. solid drill planter designed primarily to pull and propel trailed or mounted
d. broadcaster agricultural implement and machinery.
a. Walking-type tractor
43. The adjustable orifice with agitator is used for: b. Pedestrian tractor
a. row-crop drill planter c. Hand tractor
b. hill-drop planter d. All of the above
c. broadcaster
d. transplanter 65. Warranty period for hand tractor from the purchase of
the machine.
44. Parameter not required in the calibration of a planter is: a. 4 months
a. row spacing b. 6 months
b. ave. seed emergence c. 12 months
c. forward speed d. All of the above
d. groundwheel diameter
66. A metal sheet with gauge number equal to 14
48. Planter designed to place seedlings in rows and in hills means___.
is called: a. 14-mm thick
a. row-crop drill planter b. 14 pieces of metals sheet in a stock
b. hill-drop planter c. 14 pieces in one-inch thickness
c. solid drill planter d. None of the above
d. transplanter
67. The required water temperature in testing pump.
50. The IRRI drum seeder is an example of: a. 10 degrees C and below
a. row-crop drill planter b. 10-40 degrees C
b. hill-drop planter c. 40-60 degrees C
d. broadcaster
68. The criteria used in evaluating the performance of a
51. Parameter not required in determining the field capacity machine.
of a planter: a. Reliability of machine
a. width of planter b. Environment and safety
b. forward speed of planter c. Cost of operation
c. No. of seeds per hill d. All of the above
d. efficiency of planter
69. The development of a desirable soil structure for a
55. Method of pest control not considered engineering seedbed does not include:
control is: a. higher water infiltration rate
a. chemical control b. increased water surface runoff
b. biological control c. greater water holding capacity
c. mechanical control d. promotion of root penetration
d. a and b
70. Soil cut, lifted, inverted and thrown to one side of the
56. Sprayers are used primarily for the application of : blow bottom is termed:
a. herbicides a. furrow
b. insecticides b. furrowslice
c. fungicides c. backfurrow
d. pesticides d. Deadfurrow
57. Which of the following is not a spray nozzle pattern? 71. Bend sideward of the point of the share to make the
a. hollow cone nozzle pattern plow cut the proper width is:
b. solid cone nozzle pattern a. vertical clearance
c. hollow fan nozzle pattern b. horizontal suction
d fan nozzle pattern c. disc angle
d. tilt angle
58. Operation with the highest manual labor requirement for
lowland rice: 72. The angle the disc of a disc plow makes with the
a. plowing with carabao direction of travel to make it cut the proper width and allow
b. hand transplanting it to rotate when moving forward is:
c. weeding with push-type weeder a. 15 – 25 degrees
d. manual harvesting b. 42 – 45 degrees
c. 55 – 60 degrees
d. 30 – 36 degrees a. low first cost – high operating cost
b. low first cost – low operating cost
73. In the equation C = SWEff/10, C is capacity expresses c. high first cost – high operating cost
in: d. high first cost – low operating cost
a. m2/h
b. m2/day 90. The three-phase electric motor is characterized as.
c. ha/h a. low first cost – high operating cost
d. ha/day b. low first cost – low operating cost
c. high first cost – high operating cost
74. Floating power tillers are used in: d. high first cost – low operating cost
a. 2-wheel tractor for wetland op.
b. 2-wheel tractor for dryland op. 91. Indicates the maximum load that can be safely carried
c. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op. by an electric motor under continuous operation:
d. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op a. duty rating
b. service factor
75. The mechanical function of the planter does not include: c. hp rating
a. sort the seeds d. current rating
b. meter the seeds
c. deposit the seeds 92. The piston goes up and the two valves remain closed is
d. cover the seeds termed:
a. intake
76. The horizontal seed plate is used for: b. compression
a. row-crop drill planter c. power
b. hill-drop planter d. exhaust
c. solid drill planter
d. broadcaster 93. Type of transmission system where the speed ratio
depends on the teeth ratio of the two members:
79. Which of the following belong to the group of variable a. gears
displacement pump? b. chain and sprocket
a. centrifugal pump c. belt and pulley
b. mixed flow pump d. a and b
c. air lift pump
d. all of the above 96. In a compression-ignition engine, the fuel is introduced
into the cylinder at the:
80. In the equation for horsepower, Hp = QxH/3960xEff, Eff a. start of intake
is: b. start of compression
a. efficiency of pump c. end of intake
b. efficiency of transmission d. end of compression
c. efficiency of prime mover
d. efficiency of the system 97. A valve operates:
a. once per cycle
81. The direct type of power transmission system has: b. twice per cycle
a. 90% Eff c. 3X per cycle
b. 95% Eff d. 4X per cycle
c. 98% Eff
d. 100% Eff 98. The thermal efficiency range for internal combustion
engines is:
82. A field measuring 45 m X 90 m is to be prepared using a a. 25 – 36%
1-m upland power tiller at a speed of 3 kph. Assume a 10% b. 36 – 50%
overlap between passings and 9 seconds turnaround time c. 50 – 75%
at the end of each pass. Determine the field efficiency in d. 75 – 90%
going the longer field direction:
a. 77% 99. Type of power transmission system where clutch action
b. 80% is possible:
c. 83% a. direct coupling
d. 86% b. chain and sprocket
83. Select two consecutive farm operations which when c. belt and pulley
done mechanically can increase cropping intensity: d. gears
a. planting – spraying
b. irrigation – weeding 100. The gearbox placed on first gear will develop:
c. harvesting – plowing a. high torque - high speed
d. harvesting – threshing b. low torque – low speed
c. high torque – low speed
84. 1 pk is equal to ____________ watts d. low torque – high speed
a. 735.49
b. 740.12
c. 760.00
88. The gasoline engine is characterized as

AREA 1 – TEST 3 b. 101 - 199
c. 201 - 299
3. Energy conversion efficiency (percent) of electric motors d. 301 – 399
is:
a. 25 – 30 18. Which of the following statement is true?
b. 30 – 36 a. The velocity of the knife of a reaper is faster than its
c. 36 – 50 forward velocity.
d. 50 – 90 b. The velocity of the knife of a reaper is slower than its
forward velocity.
6. Cleaning units for rice husk gasifier to remove gaseous c. The velocity of the knife of a reaper is the same with the
pollutant and solid particles while cooling the gas at the forward velocity.
same time. d. None of the above
a.Cyclone separator
b.Fabric filter 19. The difference between a stripper and a reaper is that
c.Scrubber __________________.
d.All of the above a. the stripper cuts the panicle during harvesting
b. the reaper detach the grain during harvesting
7. Seed produced by the Seed Production and Health c. the stripper detach the grains while the reaper cuts the
Division form UP and certified 100% pure by the Seed panicle during harvesting
Quality Control Services of the Bureau of Plant Industry. d. None of the above
a. Certified Seeds
b. Registered Seeds 20. Heavy-duty type power tiller basically consists of
c. Foundation Seeds _______ axles?
d. Breeder Seeds a. single
b. double
8. 1 cv is equal to _________ watts c. triple
a. 735.50 d. None of the above
b. 740.12
c. 760.00 21. Twelve man-days is equivalent to:
d. None of the above a. one man working for 12 hrs
b. three men working for three days
10. It is the percentage ratio of the time a machine is c. six men working for 2 hrs
effectively operating to the total time the machine is d. four men working for 3 days
committed to the operation.
a. Operating time efficiency 22. An engine valve arrangement wherein the intake and
b. Time efficiency exhaust valves are located on one side of the cylinder
c. Effective time efficiency block.
d. All of the above a. I - head arrangement
b. L- head arrangement
11. Materials used to securely join separate parts of an c. X- head arrangement
object or structure are called d. None of the above
a. binders
b. fasteners 23. Hydraulic control level of a tractor are usually located at
c. holders the ____________.
d. clippers a. right side of the operator seat
b. left side of the operator seat
14. Planter designed to plant seeds in rows and in hills is c. front of the operator seat
called d. None of the above
b. hill-drop planter 24. Drawbar types:
c. solid drill planter a. Fixed drawbar
d. broadcaster b. Swinging drawbar
c. Link drawbar
15. The most recently developed system of harvesting and d. All of the above
threshing of rice is:
a. mechanical harvesting & threshing 25. Acceptable level wheel slip for two-wheel drive tractor
b. combining on a tilled or soft soil.
c. stripping a. 7 - 11%
d. all of the above b. 10 - 15%
c. 16 - 20%
16. Which of the following agencies does not belong to the d. None of the above
Department of Agriculture?
a. BPRE 26. The power required in driving power harrows, rotary
b. BPI tiller, and other related equipment.
c. AMMDA a. Brake horsepower
d. RAEG b. Drawbar horsepower
c. Power takeoff horsepower
17. Number series assigned to standards on agricultural d. All of the above
production machinery:
a. 01 - 99 27. Instrument for measuring furnace temperature.
a. Glass bulb thermometer b. ethanol
b. Dial type bimetallic thermometer c. tetraethyl lead
c. Thermocouple wire thermometer d. gasohol
d. All of the above
40. A secondary tillage operation which pulverizes,
30. Which of the following does not belong to the group of smoothens, and packs the soil during seedbed preparation
positive displacement pumps? and also controls weeds.
a. lift pump a. Harrowing
b. force pump b. Listing
c. rotary pump c. Chiselling
d. propeller pump d. None of the above
31. The conventional system of harvesting and threshing of 41. The power take-off rpm of a lawn mower and garden
rice in the Philippines is: ride-on tractors.
a. manual harvesting and threshing a. 1000 rpm
b. Manual harvesting and mechanical threshing b. 540 rpm
c. mechanical harvesting and threshing c. 2000 rpm
d. combining d. None of the above
32. Amount of power that the manufacturer specified for an 42. Power machines that cut sheet metals, angle bars,
engine. round bars, or square bars by shear action of two moveable
a. Indicated horsepower blades that are made to move by maximized leverage.
b. Brake horsepower a. Sheet metal circular cutter
c. Rated horsepower b. metal cutting power saw
d. Belt horsepower c. Square shearing cutter
d. Power shears
33. A device that provides ignition to a gasoline engine.
a. Flywheel 45. Bend downward of the point of the share to make the
b. Fuel injector plow penetrate the soil to the proper depth is:
c. Carburetor a. tilt angle
d. Spark plug b. disc angle
c. horizontal suction
34. Device that connects and disconnects power input to d. vertical clearance
the power output.
a. Clutch 46. Which of the following operation is not done by a
b. Gear stripper?
c. Pulley a. cutting of standing crop
d. None of the above b. stripping
c. cleaning of grains
35. Compression pressure for small gasoline engine. d. conveying of grains to the tank
a. 40 to 70 psi
b. 75 to 125 psi 47. Twelve man-days is equivalent to the output of:
c. 150 to 410 psi a. 3 men X 4 days
d. None of the above b. 6 men X 2 days
c. 12 men X 1 day
36. The Japanese combine is characterized as: d. all of the above
a. low power & hold-on feeding
b. low power & throw-in feeding 48. When heat alone is used to melt and flow metal
c. high power & hold-on feeding together, the process is known as _______.
d. high power & throw-in feeding a. Soldering
b. Pressure welding
37. This mixture of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol is used c. Fusion Welding
as a fuel for spark ignition engine. d. None of the above
a. methyl ester
b. ethyl ester 49. Component parts of a seeder that is used to calibrate
c. gasohol the seed metering device.
d. normal heptane a. Furrow wheel
b. Ground wheel
38. This pump uses the energy of a downward-flowing c. Support wheel
stream of water to lift a portion of the water to a higher d. All of the above
level.
a. centrifugal pump 50. A central part of a plow where the share, moldboard,
b. waterwheel and landside are attached.
c. hydraulic ram a. Frame
d. water turbine b. Frog
c. Shank
39. It is a gasoline fuel additive which helps improves the d. None of the above
anti-knocking characteristics of fuels but which has been
recently discovered to be dangerous to living beings. 51. Engine cooling method.
a. methanol a. air cooled
b. water cooled b. Down draft
c. air and water cooled c. Cross draft
d. All of the above d. Fluidized bed
52. Seed produced from breeder seeds and distributed to 61. The gasification rate of rice hull ranged from
all members of the Seed Net and selected seed producers a. 90-105 kg/m2-hr
in every province for further multiplication. b. 110-210 kg/m2-hr
a. Certified Seeds c. 210-240 kg/m2-hr
b. Registered Seeds d. None of the above
c. Foundation Seeds
d. Breeder Seeds 62. Rice hull gasifier efficiency normally ranged from
a. 50-70 %
53. It is the useful service life of the machine before it b. 70-80 %
becomes unprofitable for its original purpose due to c. 80-90 %
obsolescence or wear. d. None of the above
a. Machine economic life
b. Machine life span 63. The caloric value of fuel is
c. Machine service life a.The amount of heat contained by the fuel per unit weight
d. None of the above b.The heat needed to burn a certain weight of fuel
c.The weight of fuel to be heated
54. Angle in the soil surface plane perpendicular to the d.None of the above
direction of travel between the tool axis and the line which
is perpendicular to the direction of travel. 64. A type of rice husk furnace that burns the fuel while it is
a. Tilt angle being spread in a circular pattern inside the combustion
b. Side angle chamber.
c. Lift angle a. Step grate furnace
d. None of the above b. Suspended air furnace
c. Cyclone furnace
55. Seed produced from Foundation Seed and being d. All of the above
distributed to all accredited seed producers for mass
production. 65. The thermal efficiency of the furnace is the ratio of
a. Certified Seeds a. The amount of fuel used to the amount of heat generated
b. Registered Seeds during combustion
c. Foundation Seeds b. The amount of heat generated during combustion to the
d. Breeder Seeds amount of fuel used
c. The amount of heat delivered to the amount of heat
56. Seed produced from the Registered Seed by accredited available in the fuel used
seed producers and distributed to farmers for commercial d. None of the above
production.
a.Certified Seeds 66. The burning temperature of most agricultural waste
b.Registered Seeds a.100-200C
c.Foundation Seeds b.300-400 C
d.Breeder Seeds c.500-600 C
d.None of the above
57. Machine operation in which there are two or more
machines performing their own respective operation 67. A high-cetane fueled engine uses
simultaneously. a. Diesel as fuel and is difficult to start engine at lower
a. Individual operation temperature
b. Parallel operation b. Diesel as fuel and is easy to start at higher temperature
c. Series operation c. Gasoline fuel and is easy to start at lower temperature
d. None of the above d. None of the above
58. Machine operation in which there are two or more 68. High viscosity engine oil is desirable to use because
machines performing their own respective operation in a.Its viscosity changes easily with a change in temperature
sequence. b.Its viscosity does not change easily with the change in
a. Individual operation temperature
b. Parallel operation c.Its viscosity changes even without a change in
c. Series operation temperature
d. None of the above d.None of the above
59. Machine operation in which one or more similar 69. Engine oil having high flash and fire point indicates.
machines are operated as one unit. a. High boiling point
a. Individual operation b. High evaporation rate
b. Parallel operation c. High heating value
c. Series operation d. All of the above
70. In order to increase the resistance of engine oil, the
60. A type of gas producer which has the ability to gasify formation of certain acidic product that may cause corrosion
wet fuel. of certain type of bearing the recommended additive to use
a. Updraft is.
a.Anticorrosive 80. It is the act of checking, testing, measuring, repairing
b.Antioxidants and adjusting the engine in order to bring it to the peak
c.Dispersants efficiency.
d.All of the above a. Trouble shooting
b. Tune-up
71. An additive purposely to provide a protective film on c. Timing adjustment
bearing surfaces thus preventing any acid to corrode metal d. All of the above
parts.
a. Anticorrosive 81. The coefficient of traction for wheel-type tractor is
b. Antioxidants highest for
c. Dispersants a. Concrete road
d. All of the above b. Fine sand
c. Sandy loam soil
72. Additives to cause carbon particles in the engine to d. All of the above
remain in suspension in oil.
a. Anticorrosive 82. The rapid explosion of mixture of fuel and air within the
b. Antioxidants cylinder when ignited by spark plug is in _____.
c. Dispersants a. Constant volume combustion
d. All of the above b. Constant temperature combustion
c. Constant pressure combustion
73. The burning of portion of fuel in the combustion d. All of the above
chamber of an engine at a rate faster than the desired.
a. Knocking 83. The relatively slow burning as the fuel is injected into a
b. Detonation highly compressed heated air is.
c. Misfiring a. Constant volume combustion
d. All of the above b. Constant temperature combustion
c. Constant pressure combustion
74. A device used to measure the quantity of oil in a d. All of the above
crankcase.
a. Dipstick 84. The gross heating value of diesel is
b. Oil gauge a. Higher than gasoline
c. Oil stick b. Higher than kerosene
d. None of the above c. Higher than ethanol
d. All of the above
75. A device that provides a rich mixture of fuel during high
load and lean mixture during under load. 85. Which of the following is true in the operating gasifier for
a. Carburetor internal combustion engine?
b. Economizer a. Only 50 to 70 % of the diesel oil can be replaced by gas
c. Fuel regulator producer.
d. All of the above b. Gasoline and diesel can be fueled with gas producer.
c. The power output of gasoline engine at arbitrary rpm will
76. The lubrication system of an engine is basically increase by 30 to 50 % when fueled with producer gas.
a. To reduce wear and tear of an engine d. All of the above
b. To act as complement of the cooling system
c. To act seal between the piston and cylinder wall 86. An injection system used in small stationary diesel
d. All of the above engine consisting essentially of a high pressure pump and
an injection nozzle.
77. When a diesel engine knocks, the trouble is a. Air injection system
a. The diesel fuel ignition timing is late b. Solid injection system
b. Incorrect type of spark plug c. Automized injection system
c. Incorrect engine lubrication and wrong grade oil d. None of the above
d. All of the above
87. An engine running at a speed of 2000 rpm is classified
78. When a gasoline engine knocks, the problem is as
a. The spark timing is too far advance a. Low speed engine
b. Incorrect type of spark plug b. Medium speed engine
c. Incorrect type of fuel c. High speed engine
d. All of the above d. None of the above
88. A primary tillage operation which manipulates the soil to
79. If the engine timing is advance a greater depth than 300 mm.
a. The spark plug ignites earlier than the fuel while piston is a. Reservoir tillage
completing the compression stroke b. Deep tillage
b. The spark plug ignites earlier than the fuel while the c. Ridge tillage
piston is at the intake stroke d. None of the above
c. The spark ignites earlier than the fuel while moving
downward immediately after the power stroke 89. A secondary-tillage implements which stirs the soil using
d. All of the above multiple number of disk blade arranged on a gang.
a. Spike tooth harrow
b. Disk harrow
c. Two of the above
d. None of the above 100. Application of chemical to a specific area such as row,
bed, or base of
90. A trailing harrow that is hitched too high to the drawbar the plant.
will… a. Direct application
a. Have too deep penetration b. Spot treatment
b. Have right penetration c. Space application
c. Have too shallow penetration d. None of the above
91. A kind of chemical used for spraying which form finely

divided solid particles when mixed with water.
a. Emulsion
b. Suspension
c. Solution
d. All of the above
92. Growing of more than one crop on the same land in one
year
a. Mixed crop
b. Multiple cropping
c. Inter-cropping
93. Growing of two or more crops simultaneously and

intermingled with no row arrangement.
a. Mixed cropping
b. Inter-cropping
c. Multiple cropping
94. Growing of two or more crops in alternate rows.

a. Inter-planting
b. Inter-cropping
c. Inter-culture
d. All of the above
95. It is a practice of planting short-term annual crop with

long-term annual or biennial crops.
a. Inter-planting
b. Inter-cropping
c. Inter-culture
d. All of the above
96. It is the cultivation of one crop underneath a perennial

crop.
a. Inter-planting
b. Inter-cropping
c. Inter-culture
d. All of the above
97. Application of chemical to a small restricted area,

usually to control the spread of pest.
a. Spot treatment
b. Space application
c. Direct application
d. All of the above
98. Dispersion of liquid or dry particles in air in such a

manner that target pest is exposed to chemical.
a. Spot treatment
b. Space treatment
c. Direct application
d. All of the above
99. Application of chemical to the steam, fruit, leaves,

needles, or blades of the plant.
a. Direct application
b. Foliar application
c. Space application
d. All of the above
AREA 1 – TEST 4 26. The traditional system of harvesting and threshing of
rice is:
1. Application of chemical over entire area to be treated. a. manual harvesting and threshing
a. Basal application b. manual harvesting and mechanical threshing
b. Band application c. mechanical harvesting and threshing
c. Broadcast application d. combining
27. Among the factors affecting the choice of harvesting
8. In a four-stroke cycle engine, it is the event during which and threshing system, which one is the major factor?
the piston is moving upward and the two valves are close. a. kind of crop
a. power b. timeliness of operation
b. intake c. topography
c. compression d. farm size
d. exhaust
28. The threshing action most commonly employed by a
9. During this event, fresh supply of fuel enters the cylinder mechanical thresher for rice is:
as the piston moves downward and the intake valve opens. a. rubbing action
a. compression b. impact action
b. intake c. stripping action
c. exhaust d. all of the above
d. power
32. It refers to ratio of the kinetic energy of air that a
10. The engine referred to in question no. 38 above is a: windrotor can convert into mechanical energy over the
a. 2-stroke cycle diesel engine theoretical maximum available from the wind.
b. 4-stroke cycle spark ignition engine a. Power coefficient
c. 2-stroke cycle spark ignition engine b. Torque coefficient
d. 4-stroke cycle diesel engine c. Betz coefficient
d. Speed coefficient
14. It refers to ratio of the kinetic energy of air that a
windrotor can convert into mechanical energy over the 34. This rating is given to diesel fuels for their ability to burn
theoretical maximum available from the wind. without detonating as compared with the performance of
a. Power coefficient reference fuels.
b. Torque coefficient a. octane rating
c. Betz coefficient b. cetane rating
d. Speed coefficient c. heptane rating
d. alcohol rating
15. A constant pressure cycle
a. Gasoline engine 36. In an ideal Diesel engine, the combustion of fuel occurs
b. Diesel engine at:
c. Steam engine a. constant pressure
d. None of the above b. constant temperature
c. constant volume
18. In an ideal Diesel engine, the combustion of fuel occurs d. constant enthalpy
at:
a. constant pressure 37. The acronym PAES means:
b. constant temperature a. Philippine Agricultural Engineering Society
c. constant volume b. Professional Agricultural Engineering Society
d. constant enthalpy c. Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards
d. Professional Agricultural Engineering Standards
19. In an ideal Otto engine, the combustion of fuel occurs
at: 40. The following are methods of reducing risks in
a. constant pressure agriculture, except:
b. constant temperature a. Insurance
c. constant volume b. flexibility
d. constant enthalpy c. future contract
d. aggregation
21. Which of the following statements is incorrect: The
higher the pressure 42. Application of chemical in parallel strips leaving the area
a. the larger the droplet size between strips free of chemicals.
b. the higher flow rate a. Basal application
c. the wider the spray angle b. Broadcast application
d. all of the above c. Band application
25. Application of chemical to the base of a tree around the
trunk or by injection into slasher or cuts. 43. Solid blocks or masses that are cut, sheared or broken
a. Basal application loose by tillage tool.
b. Broadcast application a. Furrow slice
c. Band application b. Clod
d. None of the above c. Loose soil
44. It is a change in the value of a machine. d. PTO
a. Cost reduction
b. Depreciation 57. It refers to the driving force developed by a wheel or
c. Loss of value any other traction device.
d. None of the above a. rolling resistance
b. traction
45. Actual rate performance of machine on land or crop c. inertia
processed in a given time based upon total field time. d. pull
a. Theoretical field capacity
b. Effective field capacity 58. It is engine part whose primary function is to maintain
c. Field efficiency uniform engine speed by absorbing some energy during the
d. All of the above power strokes and providing power during the idle strokes.
a. governor
46. The rate of performance obtained if a machine performs b. accelerator
its function 100 % of the time of a given operating speed c. flywheel
using 100 % of its theoretical width. d. crankshaft
a. Theoretical field capacity
b. Effective field capacity 59. It is the theoretical maximum percentage of the kinetic
c. Field capacity energy of air which a windrotor can convert into mechanical
d. None of the above energy.
a. 82.5%
47. The amount paid for hiring equipment and operating b. 50.5%
services to perform a certain task. c. 59.3%
a. Custom cost d. 10.0%
b. Operating cost
c. Variable cost 60. In a spark ignition engine, fresh supply of fuel and air
d. None of the above mixture enters the cylinder as the piston moves downward
and the intake valve opens during this event.
48. The ratio of engine power used in performing an a. exhaust
operation to engine power available. b. intake
a. Field load factor c. power
b. Engine efficiency d. compression
c. Engine performance ratio
d. All of the above 61. In order to properly stop the forward motion of the 4-
wheel tractor, the operator has to step on the:
49. The amount of any material applied per unit treated by a a. brake pedal
sprayer. b. clutch pedal
a. Through put rate c. brake and clutch pedals
b. Application capacity d. accelerator
c. Application rate
d. All of the above 62. What is the prevailing ad valorem tax in the Philippines?
a. 5 percent
50. How much oxygen does air have? b. 2 percent
a. 23.2% by volume c. 10 percent
b. 23.2% by weight d. 20 percent
c. 15.3% by weight
d. 15.3% by volume 63. What is the process by which a farm manager looks
ahead to the future and contemplates alternative courses of
51. For complete combustion of gasoline, how much air is action for the farm?
needed? a. Budgeting
a. 11.1 kg/kg of fuel b. Farm Economics
b. 12.5 kg/kg of fuel c. Farm Planning
c. 15.1 kg/kg of fuel d. Efficiency of Production
d. 8.2 kg/kg of fuel
64. These are the economic resources owned by a
55. It is an instrument used for testing specific gravity of a business which are expected to benefit future operations:
liquid. a. inventories
a. hydrometer b. assets
b. hygrometer c. liabilities
c. viscometer d. none of the above
d. density meter
65. Which of the following is not a good reason for using
56. It is a special arrangement of gears so constructed and Farm Plans?
located in the transmission system of an automotive a. For review and analysis of objectives.
machine that it will permit one driving member to rotate b. Serve as a central facilitating aid.
slower or faster than the other and at the same time propel c. Provide a basis for evaluation and improvement.
its share of the load. d. None of the above
a. gear box
b. automatic transmission 66. The following are all processes of proper management,
c. differential except ________.
a. Planning b. The value of an asset after subtracting depreciation
b. Leading c. Also called as the ‘net benefit.’
c. Controlling d. The exchange value of goods or services in terms of
d. Procrastinating money.
67. Which of the following statements is not a good labor 94. A four-stroke-spark-ignition engine needs a magneto to
management practice. operate.
a. Planning a labor calendar. a. contact point
b. Providing social life and giving out bonuses and profit b. fuel pump
sharing, to enhance productivity. c. gas tank
c. Doing everything there is to do in order to save the rainy d. float valve
days for resting.
d. Developing initiative, goodwill, cooperation and respect. 95. Compact tractors are four-wheel tractors with power
rating below 32 hp.
68. Which among the following is/are not functions of farm a. 80 Kw
management b. 24 Kw
a. Keeping records and accounts. c. 70 Kw
b. Controlling and directing the various resources. d. 90 Kw
c. Managing labor, land and capital.
d. None of the above. 96. The differential facilitates the turning of the tractor.
a. gear lever
69. The classes of risks in agriculture results from: b. 3-pt hitch
a. Human factors c. pto
b. Statements b, and c d. steering wheel
c. Liquidity
d. Natural factors 97. For high speed engines, the intake valve opens at TDC
and closes after BDC.
70. This involves planning the procurement and utilization a. 54 degrees
of funds and controlling the financial operations to insure b. 50 degrees
effective utilization of funds. c. 44 degrees
a. Farm Budget d. 40 degrees
b. Marketing Management
c. Production Management 98. Spark-ignition engines use gasoline as fuel.
d. Financial Management a. carburetor
b. injection nozzle
71. Which of the following is not a function of management? c. metering valve
a. Controlling and directing the various resources d. plunger
b. Management of labor
c. Methods of reducing risks in agriculture 99. In a four-stroke cycle engine, compression is the event
d. Farm records during which the piston is moving upward and the two
valves are close.
72. In financial analysis, what is the ideal current ratio? a. power stroke
a. 1:1 b. intake stroke
b. 2:1 c. compression stroke
c. 3:1 d. exhaust stroke
d. 2:2
100. In a compression-ignition engine, fresh supply of fuel
73. It is the cost outlay of the firm for the wear and tear of and air mixture enters the cylinder as the piston moves
machines, buildings and implements. downward and the intake valve opens.
a. credit a. exhaust stroke
b. depreciation cost b. intake stroke
c. discount rate c. compression stroke
d. none of the above d. power stroke
74. What is the term used for the amount of funds available
for payment at any given time?
a. Current assets
b. Accounts receivables
c. Net working capital
d. Capital
75. Which of the following is not a method of valuation of

inventory?
a. original cost
b. original cost less depreciation
c. normal market value
d. none of the above
76. What is the “book value of an asset?”

a. A tax levied on an import.
AREA 1 – TEST 5 c. also called the power tower, and has been taken out of
service due to the costs of upkeep
1. If it is desired to reverse the four-wheel tractor to the d. the network of electrical lines that carry electricity from
right, the steering wheel must be turned. power plants to the customers
a. backwards
b. counterclockwise 33. The process of producing both electricity and capturing
c. clockwise waste heat is called
d. forward a. active heat absorption
b. regeneration
2. The flywheel is the part of the engine which absorbs the c. cogeneration
power from the crankshaft during the idle strokes and d. passive heat absorption
returns it during the power stroke.
a. True 34. It is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions
b. False from an internal combustion engine. It works by providing
c. Neither an environment for a chemical reaction wherein toxic
d. None of the above combustion by-products are converted to less-toxic
substances.
4. At the given velocity, how long will it take to plow a a. muffler
rectangular field W meters wide and L meters length. b. header
a. lw/10VW c. turbocharger
b. Lw/10vW d. catalytic converter
c. lW/10Vw
d. LW/10vw 33. Cocomethyl ester, also known as biodiesel, is a non-
toxic, eco-friendly fuel having similar properties as diesel
13. When demand exceeds supply, there is fuel. The process of transesterifying raw vegetable oil into
a. surplus cocomethyl ester requires the use of:
b. over-production a. alcohol
c. shortage b. oxygen
d. glut c. hydrogen
d. carbon dioxide
14. _____ refers to the cost of the best foregone alternative
a. sunk cost 34. It is the ratio of the actual weight of fuel inducted by the
b. opportunity cost engine during the intake stroke to the theoretical weight of
c. investment cost air that should have been inducted by filling the piston
d. depreciation cost displacement volume with air at atmospheric temperature
and pressure.
15. The fundamental _____ equation is given as “Assets = a. volumetric capacity
Liabilities + Owner’s Equity.” d. volumetric measure
a. accounting b. volumetric parameter
b. present economy c. volumetric efficiency
c. overhead
d. time value 38. Among the fuels that belong to the paraffin group, this
has three carbon atoms in its molecular structure. It is the
29. Which is the oldest form of direct or indirect solar main component of LPG.
energy? a. pentane
a. Photovoltaic b. Ethane
b. Ocean thermal energy conversion c. Butane
c. Flat-plate collectors d. propane
d. Hydropower
39. This vertical axis windmill has a very low tip speed ratio
30. Photovoltaic cells work by and power coefficient of less than 0.2. The rotor is usually
a. storing solar energy as electricity for long periods of time constructed using a cylindrical tank cut axially into two and
b. amplifying the energy of the sun installed vertically face to face at an offset position.
c. using solar energy to release electrons from one layer of a. Savonious
the cells to migrate to another layer, thereby setting up an b. Cretan
electric current c. Darrieus
d. a and c d. Multibladed
31. When biomass is combined with microorganisms in 44. The ideal air-fuel ratio for using kerosene as an engine
anaerobic conditions, the result is fuel is:
a. an electric current a. 10:1
b. butane b. 15:1
c. propane c. 13:1
d. methane and nutrient rich sludge d. 12:1
32. The power grid is 48. Which of the following statement/s is/are true?
a. the network of fluid-filled tubes in a roof-mounted solar a. A person must be efficient to be effective.
water heater b. A person may be effective without being efficient.
b. the reaction chamber inside a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell c. A person may be efficient without being effective.
d. Statements a and c
49. Among the following statements, which demonstrates 58. The mechanical function of the planter does not include:
efficiency in operations? a. sort the seeds
a. Reducing the number of workers while maintaining the b. meter the seeds
same target yield. c. deposit the seeds
b. Increasing the target yield and maintaining the number of d. cover the seeds
workers.
c. Reducing the number of workers and reducing the target 59. The horizontal seed plate is used for:
yield. a. row-crop drill planter
d. Statements a and c. b. hill-drop planter
c. solid drill planter
50. The study of the ways and means of organizing land, d. broadcaster
labor and capital and the application of technical knowledge
and skill in order that the farm may be made to yield the 60. Method of pest control not considered engineering
maximum net returns is called _______. control is:
a. Management a. chemical control
b. Farm Management b. biological control
c. Economics c. mechanical control
d. Scientific Method d. a and b
51. A farmer’s success is dependent on several factors, of 61. In the equation for horsepower, Hp = QxH/3960xEff, Q
which are: is pump output in:
a. Proper selection of farm type and size based on the a. gallons
available capital, labor and other resources. b. gpm
b. Age, strength, maturity and his ability to communicate c. liters
well in English. d. lps
c. Giving due importance to land and water conservation
and record keeping of all transactions of the farm. 62. Which of the following is not a typical example of a
d. Statements a, c, d. small singlecylinder engine?
a. air-cooled gasoline engine
52. The development of a desirable soil structure for a b. water-cooled gasoline engine
seedbed does not include: c. air-cooled diesel engine
a. higher water infiltration rate d. water-cooled diesel engine
b. increased water surface runoff
c. greater water holding capacity 63. The conventional system of harvesting and threshing of
d. promotion of root penetration rice in the Philippines is:
a. manual harvesting and threshing
53. Soil cut, lifted, inverted and thrown to one side of the b. Manual harvesting and mechanical threshing
blow bottom is termed: c. mechanical harvesting and threshing
a. furrow d. combining
b. furrowslice
c. backfurrow 64. Average harvesting losses of rice at maturity date is
d. Deadfurrow 3.35 %, but two weeks after maturity date this will increase
to:
54. Bend sideward of the point of the share to make the a. 5.63%
plow cut the proper width is: b. 8.64%
a. vertical clearance c. 40.70%
b. horizontal suction d. 60.46%
c. disc angle
d. tilt angle 65. The adjustable orifice with agitator is used for:
55. The angle the disc of a disc plow makes with the b. hill-drop planter
direction of travel to make it cut the proper width and allow c. broadcaster
it to rotate when moving forward is: d. transplanter
a. 15 – 25 degrees
b. 42 – 45 degrees 66. Parameter not required in the calibration of a planter is:
c. 55 – 60 degrees a. row spacing
d. 30 – 36 degrees b. ave. seed emergence
c. forward speed
56. In the equation C = SWEff/10, C is capacity expresses d. groundwheel diameter
in:
a. m2/h 67. Soil working part utilized by push-type weeders for
b. m2/day dryland operation is:
c. ha/h a. blade type
d. ha/day b. tine type
c. rotary type
57. Floating power tillers are used in: d. all of the above
a. 2-wheel tractor for wetland op.
b. 2-wheel tractor for dryland op. 68. Which of the following statements is incorrect: The
c. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op. higher the pressure,
d. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op a. the larger the droplet size
b. the higher flow rate AREA 1 – TEST 6
c. the wider the spray angle
d. all of the above 1. The management process by which managers think them
through in advance and where the organization’s mission,
69. In a water pumping system, the source of water is vision, goals and objectives are made is called _________.
usually at a: a. organizing
a. lower elevation than pt. of delivery b. controlling
b. equal elevation than …. c. staffing
c. higher elevation than …. d. planning
d. a and c
2. What is the ratio of output over input?
70. Which of the following is not part of a force pump? a. planning
a. inlet valve b. efficiency
b. piston c. effectiveness
c. plunger d. none of the above
d. discharge valve
3. The fund collected by the government to finance its
77. Which of the following countries follow the activities.
mechanization model of low land area to farmer ratio? a. credit
a. Thailand b. tax
b. Philippines c. enterprise
c. Malaysia d. dividend
d. Indonesia
4. What is the term used for the effective and efficient use
78. The gasoline engine is characterized as: of scarce resources to achieve organizational goals?
a. low first cost – high operating cost a. Farm Management
b. low first cost – low operating cost b. Management
c. high first cost – high operating cost c. Agriculture
d. high first cost – low operating cost d. Agricultural Economics
92. It is an articulated connection between a link and the 5. It is the process of management where managers
tractor. coordinate the human and material resources of the
a. Hitch point organization.
b. Link point a. Planning
c. Implement point b. Organizing
d. All of the above c. Staffing
d. leading
95. The person responsible for helping the organization
achieve its goal is called_______. 6. A payment for the use of money, generally stated as a
a. Planner percentage of the amount or principal borrowed is called
b. Leader __________.
c. Organizer a. duty
d. Manager b. credit
c. dividend
7. This is also known as the ad valorem tax.

a. tax
b. capital
c. value added tax
d. interest
8. Which of the following is not a managerial role:

a. mediator
b. monitor
c. liaison
9. Which of the following Cs in marketing is directly linked

with the place or distribution decision?
a. customer satisfaction
b. cost recovery
c. convenience
d. communication
14. Which of the following are characteristics of a good

channel of distribution?
a. It has a good track record.
b. It has the capability to handle a wide variety of products.
c. It has growth potential
d. All of the above. 26. An external shaft on an agricultural tractor other than
the PTO which provides rotational power to implements that
15. Promotion corresponds to what C of marketing? are usually front and side mounted.
a. Communication a. Belt drive shaft
b. Convenience b. Secondary PTO
c. Cost c. Auxiliary PTO
d. Customer satisfaction d. None of the above
16. Which is not an English or English derived unit? 27. A rotating device located inside the hopper of gravity
a. foot flow applicator and broadcast spreaders to enhance
b. Pascal delivery of granules to the adjustable orifice of the machine.
c. ft-lb/sec a. Mixer
d. pounds b. Stirrer
c. Agitator
17. Which is not an SI unit? d. None of the above
a. psi
b. Pascal 28. In ASAE, safety code for laboratory equipment and
c. Newton typical application, the safety yellow color stands for
d. Ampere a. Danger stop
b. Warning
18. A sprayer designed to charge the spray droplet so that c. Caution
there is a powerful attraction between the plants and the d. None of the above
charged droplet.
a. Electromagnetic sprayer 29. A safety gray color at the ASAE safety code is code for
b. Electrolytic sprayer a. Floor or work area around machines and Equipment
c. Electrostatic sprayer b. Areas with radiation hazard
d. All of the above c. Traffic and housekeeping areas
d. All of the above
19. It is used to protect tractor operator from dust, noise,
rain and heat. 30. When pipeline is painted with green and white color, the
a. Operator’s shield safety code means that the pipe contains
b. Chasis a. Liquid of inherently low hazard
c. Cab b. Flammable or explosion materials
d. None of the above c. Fire extinguishing materials
d. All of the above
20. A device that transfer seed from the seedbox to the
coulter tube at a fixed rate 31. The standard length of stroke of hydraulic remote-
a. Seed feeder control cylinders for trailing-type agricultural implement is
b. Seed distributor a. 6 to 12 inches
c. Seed metering device b. 8 to 16 inches
d. All of the above c. 10 to 20 inches
21. A device at a header of a combine for severing the plant
stalk. 32. Minimum thrust per drawbar horsepower of hydraulic
a. Cutting mechanism remote-control cylinder for trailing type agricultural
b. Star wheel implement.
c. Pickup a. 68 kg
d. None of the above b. 78 kg
c. 88 kg
22. A device for gathering crops on a window of a combine. d. None of the above
a. Header
b. Pickup 38. The perpendicular distance between the upper hitch
c. Star wheel point and the common axis of the lower hitch point of a
d. None of the above tractor.
a. Mast height
23. A transport machine used in agriculture suitably b. Hitch vertical height
designed for coupling to an agricultural tractor or self- c. Stud height
propelled combine. d. None of the above
a. Agricultural wagon
b. Agricultural loader 39. The distance between lower hitch point measured at the
c. Agricultural trailer base of the lower hitch stud, or the distance between the
d. None of the above inner most restraining means provided on the implement.
a. Lower hitch-point spread
24. A harvest residue discharged from cleaning devices of a b. Lower hitch point distance
combine. c. Lower hitch point clearance
a. Foreign matters d. None of the above
b. Cut straw
c. Chaffs 41. For safety purposes, slow-moving vehicle such as
d. None of the above agricultural machines must be provided with
a. Rear bumper to protect the machine from impact
b. Identification emblem to guide motorist that the machine d. None of the above
is slowmoving
c. Signal light when traveling 58. A biogas is generated inside the
d. None of the above a. Gas holder
b. Mixing tank
46. The identification of the given tire with its maximum c. Digester
recommended load when used in specific type service. d. None of the above
a. Tire rating
b. Tire lug rating 59. The feed material to water ratio for biogas generation is
c. Ply rating a. 1:0.5 to 1:1
d. All of the above b. 1:1 to 1:2
c. 1:2 to 1:3
47. A machine that is used with small plow and harrow d. None of the above
designed for rice farming operation.
a. Puddling-type floating tiller 61. A solid biomass fuel burning device used for domestic
b. Power tiller cooking water heating, smoking, roasting and simmering.
c. Hydro tiller a. Furnace
d. All of the above b. Cookstove
c. Biomass oven
48. It is part of moldboard plow that is used to cut the soil. d. None of the above
a. Moldboard
b. Share 62. The percentage primary air requirement based on the
c. Shin total air for the combustion of fuel in a cookstove.
d. None of the above a. 80 %
b. 60 %
50. An engine that burns fuel inside the cylinder. c. 40 %
a. External combustion engine d. None of the above
b. Internal combustion engine
c. Sterling engine 63. Elements necessary for combustion.
d. None of the above a. Fire
b. Air
51. A mechanical breaking up of fuel into spray droplets by c. Fuel
high velocity of air passing through a jet. d. All of the above
a. Atomization
b. Carburetion 64. Air required for complete combustion of combustible
c. Turbo charging gasses.
d. None of the above a. Stoichiometric air
b. Primary air
53. Engine having fuel injected into the combustion c. Secondary air
chamber near the end of the combustion stroke and is d. All of the above
ignited by heat of compression only.
a. Gasoline engine 65. The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of
b. Diesel engine one pound water by one degree Farenheight.
c. Steam engine a. Kcal
d. None of the above b. BTU
c. Joule
54. Firing order of 4-cylinder engine. d. None of the above
a. 1-2-3-4
b. 1-3-4-2 66. The excessive amount of tars produced in the
c. 1-2-4-3 combustion of agricultural waste is primary due to:
d. None of the above a. Insufficiency of fuel
b. Less air is used
55. Engine system that reduces the temperature of the c. Too much air used
cylinder. d. None of the above
a. Ignition System
b. Carburetor System 67. Open-fire stove has a thermal efficiency of:
c. Cooling System a. 3-11 %
d. None of the above b. 11-20 %
c. 20-30%
56. The primary gas produced during gasification. d. All of the above
a. Methane
b. Carbon Dioxide 68. A chamber where combustion of fuel takes place.
c. Carbon Monoxide a. Damper
d. All of the above b. Chimney
c. Fire box
57. When a biogas contains 40 % methane and 60 % d. None of the above
carbon dioxide,
a. The biogas can be used for cooking 69. The thermal efficiency of a cookstove can be increased
b. The biogas can run gas refrigerator by:
c. The biogas can be used for lighting a. Increasing the amount of fuel
b. Using more air for the fuel c. rotary type
c. Insulating the stove d. all of the above
d. All of the above
91. Type of soil working parts utilized by push-type weeders
70. The power output of an agriwaste-fired multiple-burner for wetland operation:
stove can be increased by: a. blade type
a. Providing large connecting tunnel for the pot holes b. tine type
b. Increasing the height of the chimney c. rotary type
c. Providing damper to control the flow of passage of air d. all of the above
d. All of the above
92. Which of the following is not measured in calibrating a
71. The recommended angle for the inclined metal grates sprayer?
on the step-gratetype stove. a. nozzle discharge
a. 45-60 deg b. effective working width
b. 30-40 deg c. walking speed
c. 60-80 deg d. application rate
95. Which of the following belong to the group of variable
72. A gas produced from agricultural waste which is displacement pump?
odorless, tasteless, colorless and flammable. a. centrifugal pump
a. Biogas b. mixed flow pump
b. CO c. air lift pump
c. CH4 d. all of the above
96. In the equation for horsepower, Hp = QxH/3960xEff, Eff
73. The primary gas produced during anaerobic digestion of is:
agricultural wastes. a. efficiency of pump
a. CH4 & H2S b. efficiency of transmission
b. CH4 & CO2 c. efficiency of prime mover
c. CH4 & CO d. efficiency of the system
d. All of the above
98. Which of the following is not a part of a typical lift
74. C-N ratio suitable for anaerobic digestion of agriwaste. pump?
a. 10:1 to 20:1 a. inlet valve
b. 20:1 to 30:1 b. piston
c. 30:1 to 40:1 c. plunger
d. None of the above d. bucket valve
75. The power output of diesel engine, when powered with 99. In the equation for horsepower, Hp = QxH/3960xEff, Q
gas producer at an arbitrary speed will be reduced by is pump output in:
a. 10-20 % a. gallons
b. 30-50 % b. gpm
c. 50-70 % c. liters
d. None of the above d. lps
76. The percentage amount of diesel fuel can be replaced 100. Which of the following is not a typical example of a
by gas producer small single-cylinder engine?
a. 20-40 % a. air-cooled gasoline engine
b. 50-70% b. water-cooled gasoline engine
c. 90-100% c. air-cooled diesel engine
d. None of the above d. water-cooled diesel engine
82. The projection of cash inflow and outflow of a farm to

estimate the incremental net benefit of the life of the project
is known as:
a. Farm budget
b. Farm plan
c. Farm inventory
d. Farm contract
83. Type of engine that can be fueled with producer gas.

a. Gas engine
b. Diesel engine
c. Gasoline engine
d. All of the above
90. Soil working part utilized by push-type weeders for

dryland operation is:
a. blade type
b. tine type
AREA 1 – TEST 7 c. One-stroke cycle engine
1. Which of the following agencies does not belong to the
Department of Agriculture? 16. A fuel commonly used for external combustion engine.
a. BPRE a. Gasoline
b. BPI b. Diesel
c. AMMDA c. Biomass
d. RAEG d. None of the above
2. In a water pumping system, the source of water is usually 17. Fuel used for constant volume cycle internal
at a: combustion engine.
a. lower elevation than pt. of delivery a. Gasoline
b. equal elevation than …. b. Diesel
c. higher elevation than …. c. Biomass
d. a and c d. None of the above
3. In the equation for horsepower, Hp = QxH/3960xEff, H is 18. Which of the following engine requires frequent
total head in: maintenance?
a. ft. a. Compression ignition engine
b. ft/min b. Spark-ignition engine
c. meters c. Air cooled compression ignition engine
d. meters/min d. All of the above
4. The power unit for driving centrifugal pumps for 19. The direction of a crawler-type tractor can be
household use is usually: maneuvered by __________
a. electric motor a. stopping the engine
b. gasoline engine b. stopping one of its wheels
c. diesel engine c. using the stirring wheel
d. kerosene engine d. None of the above
5. According to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), 20. A crawler-type tractor of the same weight provides
water requirement for rice production is: __________ soil compacting pressure than wheel type
a. 5 mm/day tractor.
b. 10 mm/day a. higher
c. 15 mm/day b. lower
d. 20 mm/day c. the same
7. The traditional system of harvesting and threshing of rice
is: 22. This is the most common cause of short life of lead acid
a. manual harvesting and threshing battery. It results when a cell or battery is permitted to
b. manual harvesting and mechanical threshing remain in a discharged condition for some length of time
c. mechanical harvesting and threshing such that the lead sulfate hardens and cannot be readily
d. combining converted to its former state.
a. detonation
8. Among the factors affecting the choice of harvesting and b. sulfation
threshing system, which one is the major factor? c. induction
a. kind of crop d. carburetion
b. timeliness of operation
c. topography 23. Engines are not normally used for:
d. farm size a. 4-wheel tractors
b. power sprayers
10. The threshing action most commonly employed by a c. 4-row harvesters
mechanical thresher for rice is: d. 1-ton rice mills
a. rubbing action
b. impact action 24. Type of engine commonly used for brush cutters.
c. stripping action a. 4-stroke-spark-ignition engine
d. all of the above b. 4-stroke-compression-ignition
c. 2-stroke-spark-ignition
13. The threshing action where grains are detached from d. 2-stroke –compression-ignition
their panicles when the straw is pulled through a “V” shaped
configuration is called: 26. Type of 2-wheel tractor equipped with a single-bottom
a. rubbing action moldboard plow and comb-tooth harrow.
b. impact action a. traction type
c. stripping action b. rotary type
d. a and b c. standard type
d. general-purpose type
15. An internal combustion engine that produces two power
stroke in two revolution of the crankshaft. 27. Bend sideward of the point of the share to make the
a. Four-stroke cycle engine plow cut the proper width is:
b. Two-stroke cycle engine a. vertical clearance
b. horizontal suction d. None of the above
c. disc angle
d. tilt angle 40. This fuel is made by partial combustion of
carbonaceous substances like coal, wood, charcoal,
29. The angle the disc of a disc plow makes with the sawdust and other similar materials in an atmosphere of air
direction of travel to make it cut the proper width and allow and steam. It is a mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen,
it to rotate when moving forward is: methane, nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
a. 15 – 25 degrees a. gasohol
b. 42 – 45 degrees b. producer gas
c. 55 – 60 degrees c. natural gas
d. 30 – 36 degrees d. straight-run fuel
30. Primary tillage involves cutting the soil to a depth of: 45. The speed of the engine is automatically regulated by
a. up to 3 inches ______
b. 3 to 6 inches a. Hand lever
c. 6 to 18 inches b. Governor
d. 6 to 36 inches c. Flywheel
31. Which of the following do belong to crop maintenance
equipment? 46. A type of engine that completes power stroke in one
a. Plow and harrow revolution of the crankshaft.
b. Weeder a. Four-stroke cycle
c. Sprayer b. Two-stroke cycle
d. All of the above c. All of the above
32. At the downward stroke of a two-stroke cycle gasoline
engine, which of the following events takes place? 47. Number of pistons for 6-cylinder four stroke gasoline
a. Power, Exhaust, and Intake engine.
b. Compression, Exhaust, and Power a. 3
c. Compression, Power, and Intake b. 6
d. Compression, Power, and Compression c. 9
33. Secondary tillage involves pulverizing the soil to a depth
of: 50. Amount of power that the manufacturer specified for an
a. up to 3 inches engine.
b. 3 to 6 inches a. Indicated horsepower
c. 6 to 18 inches b. Brake horsepower
d. 6 to 36 inches c. Rated horsepower
d. Belt horsepower
34. Part of the moldboard plow bottom that receives the
furrowslice, lifts, inverts and throws it to one side is called: 51. A device which uses fluid power to produce mechanical
a. share force and motion.
b. moldboard a. Governor
c. landside b. Accumulator
d. frog c. Actuator
36. Width of cut of the disc plow is influenced by:
a. disc diameter 52. Part of engine that which slides up and down the
b. depth of cut cylinder and transmits power to the crankshaft.
c. disc angle a. Connecting rod
d. all of the above b. Cylinder block
c. Piston
37. Part of a planter that is always present in all planters d. Spark plug
regardless of type and cropping system:
a. furrow opener 53. A device that is used to actuate the throttle of an engine
b. metering device to increase its speed.
c. seed tube a. Governor
d. furrow closer b. Accelerator
c. Actuator
38. Twelve man-days is equivalent to: d. None of the above
a. one man working for 12 hrs
b. three men working for three days 54. Distance of movement piston from the top dead to the
c. six men working for 2 hrs bottom dead center.
d. four men working for three days a. Stroke
b. Bore
39. Engine piston displacement will increase if the c. Valve clearance
____________. d. None of the Above
a. piston diameter is increased
b. piston stroke is increased 55. Reduction of engine speed or flow of fuel.
c. All of the above a. Throttling
b. Clutching 68. A hand operated tractor which is suitable for both
c. Atomization primary and secondary tillage used when field has been
d. None of the above soaked for at least half a day to soften the soil.
a. Power tiller
56. A device that permits the flow of fuel and of burned b. Puddling-type floating tiller
gases in one direction only. c. Reaper
a. Check valve d. None of the above
b. Relief valve
c. Spark plug 69. PAES recommended diameter of hole in the drawbar for
d. None of the above four-wheel agricultural tractor.
a. 30 mm
57. An internal combustion engine that produces power in b. 33 mm
one revolution of the crankshaft. c. 36 mm
a. Four stroke cycle engine d. None of the above
b. Two stroke cycle engine
c. Rotary engine 70. Front tread of four-wheel agricultural tractor is usually
d. None of the above adjusted by ______.
a. changing bolt position of the front axle
58. A device that provides ignition to a gasoline engine. b. changing the size of wheel
a. Flywheel c. changing the front axle
b. Fuel injector d. None of the above
c. Carburetor
d. Spark plug 71. The rear wheel for two-wheel and four wheel drive
tractors are adjusted by _____.
59. During the power stroke, which of the following valve is a. inverting the wheel disc
open? b. changing the rear axle
a. Intake c. changing the position of the bolt of the rear axle
b. Exhaust d. None of the above
c. Intake and exhaust
d. None of the above 72. Types of brake system for agricultural tractors:
a. Internal expansion type
60. Number of spark plugs for 6 cylinder diesel engine b. External expansion type
a. 6 c. Disk type
b. 12 d. All of the above
c. 4
d. None of the above 73. Acceptable level wheel slip for two-wheel drive tractor
on a firm soil.
61. Usable power delivered by the engine a. 7 - 11%
a. Indicated horsepower b. 10 - 15%
b. Brake horsepower c. 16 - 20%
c. Rated horsepower d. None of the above
74. Acceptable level wheel slip for four-wheel drive tractor
62. A device that meters the fuel air and mixes them into on a tilled or soft soil.
harmonious mixture before the mixture enters the a. 6 - 10%
combustion chamber of an engine. b. 8 - 13%
a. Governor c. 10 - 16%
b. Air injector d. None of the above
c. Carburetor
d. All of the above 75. It is a single or pair of wheels with radially mounted
tilling blades attached to a common shaft or axle of a
63. At the downward stroke of two-stroke cycle, which of the puddling-type floating tiller.
events are taking place. a. Cage wheel
a. Power & intake b. Tilling wheel
b. Compression & exhaust c. Hydro wheel
c. Power and exhaust d. None of the above
76. Common designs of floatation structure for puddling-
64. The volume displaced by a piston in making upward type floating tiller.
and downward stroke. a. Elliptical-shaped
a. Piston displacement volume b. Boat type
b. Clearance volume c. Pontoon type
c. Total volume d. All of the above
77. Another term for puddling-type floating tiller
65. One pferde starke (ps) is equal to a. Rotary tiller
a. 0.986 hp b. Float-assist tiller
b. 0.735 kw c. Garden tiller
c. 75 kgf-m/sec d. None of the above
d. All of the above
78. What type of fastener is used to fasten a metal part to d. None of the above
wood?
a. Machine bolt 89. Instrument for measuring the speed of a shaft.
b. Lag screw a. Odometer
c. Carriage bolt b. Anemometer
d. None of the above c. Tachometer
d. All of the above
79. A type of disk harrow that is not directly parallel in
position with the tractor during operation. 90. Instrument for measuring low-pressure head.
a. Single action disk harrow a. Dial type pressure gauge
b. Double action disk harrow b. Manometer
c. Offset disk harrow c. Orifice
80. The power that is required in pulling an implement. 91. It is a set of concave discs.
a. Brake horsepower a. Gang
b. Drawbar horsepower b. Disc set
c. Power takeoff horsepower c. Disc frame
81. The power that is required in driving a pump shaft. 92. Ferrous metals are metals that contain __________.
a. Brake horsepower a. Copper
b. Drawbar horsepower b. Aluminum
c. Power takeoff horsepower c. Iron
d. All of the above d. All of the above
82. The power available at the engine shaft used in driving 93. Which of the following is not a part of a typical lever-
machinery. operated knapsack sprayer?
a. Brake horsepower a. tank
b. Drawbar horsepower b. pump
c. Power takeoff horsepower c. pressure gage
d. All of the above d. nozzle
83. Variables affecting the drawbar horsepower: 96. This scientific phenomenon is the basic principle of
a. Implement speed and width operation of spark ignition systems of engines. It says that a
b. Implement width and pulling force change in the magnetic flux in a conducting circuit produces
c. Implement pulling force and speed current in the circuit.
d. None of the above a. electromagnetic induction
b. ohm’s law
84. PS is a German acronym for ________________. c. Boyle’s law
a. Pferdestark d. Charles’ law
b. Pferdstark
c. Pferdestarke 100. The maximum horizontal projection of a tool in the soil
d. None of the above perpendicular to the line of motion.
a. tool width
85. cv is a French acronym for ____________ . b. tool clearance
a. Cheval-vapeur c. tool operating width
b. Chevapeur d. tool orientation
c. Chevalvapour
86. pk is Dutch acronym for ____________ .

a. Paardekracht
b. Pardkract
c. Padkracht
87. One (1)PS is equal to _________ watts

a. 735.49
b. 740.12
c. 760.00
88. A farm is planed be planted with corn at a spacing of 30

cm x 60 cm. As engineer in-charge of the mechanization
program of the farm which of the following equipment would
you recommend?
a. Drill
b. Row Crop Planter
c. Broadcaster
AREA 1 – TEST 8 d. up to 18 inches
1. Which does not describe a corporation? 17. Width of cut of the disc plow is influenced by:
a. It is subject to fewer legal restrictions than other types of a. disc diameter
business organization. b. depth of cut
b. Its activities are limited to those stated in its charter. c. disc angle
c. It enjoys perpetual life. d. all of the above
d. Ownership is readily transferred.
18. In the equation C = SWEff/10, W is width of cut
2. This is the most common cause of short life of lead acid expressed in: (code 16)
battery. It results when a cell or battery is permitted to a. ft.
remain in a discharged condition for some length of time b. m
such that the lead sulfate hardens and cannot be readily c. km
converted to its former state. d. mile
a. Carburetion
b. deposition 19. General-purpose tillage equipment are used in:
c. colloid formation a. 2-wheel tractor for wetland op.
d. sulfation b. 4-wheel tractor for dryland op.
c. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op.
3. In a spark ignition system, it prevents arcing in the d. all of the above
breaker point and helps intensify the spark in the spark
plug. 20. Planter designed to place seedlings in rows and in hills
a. distributor is called:
b. condenser a. row-crop drill planter
c. ignition coil b. hill-drop planter
d. secondary winding c. solid drill planter
d. transplanter
6. It is the ratio of the horsepower output of an engine to the
fuel horsepower. 21. Optimum axle speed for puddling-type floating tiller.
a. mechanical efficiency a. 100 rpm
b. thermal efficiency b. 250 rpm
c. power efficiency c. 340 rpm
d. volumetric efficiency d. None of the above
11. This must be high enough in order to self-ignite the air 22. It is the ratio of the drawbar power and the wheel axle
fuel mixture in a diesel engine. power.
a. compression temperature a. Lugging efficiency
b. valve compression b. Traction efficiency
c. intake pressure c. Mechanical efficiency
d. engine pressure d. None of the above
13. It is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions 23. The sum of all resistance acting on the tractor.
from an internal combustion engine. It works by providing a. Coefficient traction
an environment for a chemical reaction wherein toxic b. Running resistance
combustion by-products are converted to less-toxic c. Rolling resistance
substances. d. None of the above
a. muffler
b. header 24. Running resistance of a tractor includes
c. turbocharger a. Rolling resistance
d. catalytic converter b. Air and acceleration resistance
c. Slope resistance
14. Which of the following agencies is not based in a d. All of the above
university?
a. AMTEC 25. Weight transfer means
b. PhilSCAT a. To move paddy from field to the granary
c. AMDP b. To transfer torrens title from the landlord to the tenant
d. PCARRD c. To shift implements weight to the tractor’s drive wheel in
order to improve traction
15. The following are considered discounted measures of d. None of the above
project worth:
a. payback period 27. Automatic Draft Control in a modern farm tractor:
b. internal rate of return a. Automatically controls the amount of air passing through
c. benefit-cost ratio the radiator to regulate the operating temperature of the
d. net present value engine
b. Positions the implement at a constant height or depth
16. General-purpose tillage involves cutting and pulverizing relative to the tractor
the soil to a depth of: c. Is the hydraulic implement hitch system which
a. up to 3 inches automatically raises or lowers a soil engaging implement to
b. up to 6 inches maintain its draft at a preselected value
c. up to 12 inches d. None of the above
38. The metering device of a seeder basically is used to
28. An international testing center for tractor. uniformly feed the seed into the _______________.
a. International Rice Research Institute a. covering device
b. International Farm Machinery Institute b. seed tube
c. NEBRASKA c. furrow opener
29. When a machine is driven directly from the shaft of a 39. Part of a rice transplanter that places the seedlings into
power source, the power is transmitted using: the prepared paddy field.
a. Gear drive a. Feed tray
b. Sprocket and chain drive b. Picker
c. Direct drive c. Handle
30. Belt size designation for agricultural V-belt is: 40. If you are an engineer to mechanize lowland rice farm
a. A, B, C, D, E that is usually flooded, what primary tillage implement
b. HA, HB, HC, HD, HE would you recommend?
c. AA-BB-CC-DD-EE a. Spiral-type tiller
d. None of the above b. Disc-type tiller
c. Puddling-type tiller
31. It is a gripping device between power source. d. None of the above
a. Clutch
b. Chain 41. Which of the following primary tillage equipment for
c. Springs small rice farm with higher field capacity?
d. None of the above a. Disc plow
b. Spiral plow
32. Machine element that transmit torque and power. c. Puddling-type tiller
a. Pulley d. Comb harrow
b. Bearing
c. Shaft 42. Select a farm operation that can only be done with the
d. None of the above use of a machine:
a. plowing
33. It is used to fasten shaft pulleys and hubs of gears b. spraying
together. c. harvesting
a. Bolt d. threshing
b. Springs
c. Keys 44. The gasoline engine is characterized as:
d. None of the above a. low first cost – high operating cost
b. low first cost – low operating cost
34. A universal joint is: c. high first cost – high operating cost
a. A connector which can be used on all brands of tractor d. high first cost – low operating cost
b. Used to transmit power between two intersecting shafts
usually when the angle between them is variable 46. An engine valve arrangement wherein the intake and
c. A prohibited drug used universally exhaust valves are located in the cylinder head.
d. None of the above a. I - head arrangement
b. L- head arrangement
35. Which of the following statement is true? c. X- head arrangement
a. The velocity of the flat belt of a reaper is faster than its d. None of the above
forward velocity.
b. The velocity of the flat belt of a reaper is slower than its 47. Type of soil working parts utilized by push-type weeders
forward velocity. for wetland operation:
c. The velocity of the flat belt of a reaper is the same with a. blade type
the forward velocity. b. tine type
d. None of the above c. rotary type
d. all of the above
36. A drum seeder is highly suitable for rice a seed that was
_______________. 48. Which of the following is not measured in calibrating a
a. freshly stored before planting sprayer?
b. pre-germinated before planting a. nozzle discharge
c. milled before planting b. effective working width
d. All of the above c. walking speed
d. application rate
37. During seeding and planting, which of the crop
production activities is simultaneously in operation? 49. Which of the following does not belong to the group of
a. Weeding positive displacement pumps?
b. Irrigating a. lift pump
c. Fertilizing b. force pump
d. Spraying c. rotary pump
d. propeller pump
50. According to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA),
water requirement for rice production is: 76. One half of the travel from one end of the field to the
a. 5 mm/day other.
b. 10 mm/day a. Round
c. 15 mm/day b. Trip
d. 20 mm/day c. Operation
56. In what type of engine is the fuel introduced into the
cylinder at the end of compression? 77. It describes the practice of dividing the field into sub-
a. 4-stroke-spark-ignition engine areas and operating on these sub-areas individually.
b. 4-stroke-compression-ignition a. Operating in lands
c. 2-stroke-spark-ignition b. Field operation
d. a and b c. Field division
59. The mechanical function of the planter does not include:
a. sort the seeds 78. __________ unprocessed area that provides room for
b. meter the seeds making turns.
c. deposit the seeds a. Headland
d. cover the seeds b. Turn strips
c. Turning radius
61. The air required for complete combustion of d. None of the above
combustible gases.
a. Stoichiometric air 79. Pattern efficiency of headland pattern in a square field.
b. Primary air a. 93.0%
c. Secondary air b. 95.7%
d. All of the above c. 84.0%
62. The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of
one pound water by one degree Fahrenheit. 83. What part of the internal combustion engine is usually
a. kCal made of cast iron and the primary function is to maintain
b. BTU uniform engine speed by carrying the crankshaft through
c. Joule those intervals when it is not receiving energy from a
d. None of the above piston?
a. connecting rod
63. The air requirement for gasification of agricultural b. governor system
wastes ranged from ___. c. flywheel
a. 10-20 % of stoichiometric air (SA) d. accelerator
b. 20-30 % of SA
c. 30-40 % of SA 91. A type of plow that is widely adapted in breaking
d. None of the above different types of soil for turning and covering crop residues.
a. Rotary plow
66. At the downward stroke of the two-stroke cycle engine, b. Moldboard plow
which of the events are taking place? c. Disk plow
a. Power & intake, exhaust d. All of the above
b. Compression
c. Power & exhaust 92. The power required in pulling an implement.
d. None of the above a. Wheel power
b. Brake power
73. Which of the following statement is true? c. Drawbar power
a. Field efficiency decreases with the increase in theoretical d. None of the above
field capacity.
b. Field efficiency decreases with the increase in effective 93. Tillage equipment which displaces and shatters soil,
field capacity. used to reduce soil strength and to bury or mix plant
c. Field efficiency does not increase with the increase in materials and fertilizers in the tilled layer.
theoretical field capacity. a. Primary tillage equipment
d. None of the above b. Seeding and planting equipment
c. Secondary tillage equipment
74. It is the radius of the circle within which the implement d. None of the above
can make its shortest run in the field.
a. Radius of run 94. A tillage implement consisting of two or four gangs of
b. Minimum turning distance concave disks.
c. Turning radius a. Disk plow
d. None of the above b. Disk harrow
c. Cultivator
75. It is the travel of the machine across or around a field d. None of the above
from a selected starting point adjacent to the first.
a. Round 95. Tillage implements which shatters or loosen the soil
b. Trip without complete burial or mixing of surface materials.
c. Operation a. Chisel plow
d. None of the above b. Lister plow
c. Disk plow AREA 1 – TEST 9
1. Minimum soil manipulation necessary for crop production
96. Mechanical manipulation of soil for any purpose. or for meeting tillage requirements under existing soil
a. Land grading condition.
b. Tillage a. No-tillage planting
c. Earth moving b. Much tillage
d. None of the above c. Minimum tillage
97. A procedure in which planting is made directly into an
essentially unprepared seedbed. 2. A tool which cuts plants materials and soil ahead of
a. Zero tillage another tool.
b. No-tillage planting a. Coulter
c. Reduced tillage b. Jointer
d. None of the above c. Injector
d. Two of the above
98. The pushing or rolling of soil by a steeply inclined blade.
a. Bulldozing 3. The force to propel an implement in the direction of
b. Chiselling travel.
c. Subsoiling a. Draft
d. None of the above b. Drawbar horsepower
c. Side draft
99. A secondary tillage operation which pulverizes, d. None of the above
smoothens, and packs the soil during seeded preparation
and also controls weeds. 4. The angle, in a vertical plane perpendicular to the
a. Harrowing direction of travel, between a centralized tool or reference
b. Listing axis and the soil surface.
c. Chiselling a. Tilt angle
d. None of the above b. Lift angle
c. Side angle
100. A tillage and land forming operation using a tool which d. None of the above
splits the soil and turns two furrows laterally in opposite
directions, thereby providing a ridge-and-furrow soil 5. It is deep chiselling below 16 in. For the purpose of
configuration. loosening soil for root growth and/or water movement.
a. Listing a. Ridging
b. Harrowing b. Chiselling
c. Chiselling c. Subsoiling
6. The ratio of the clearance volume from the total volume.

a. Compression ratio
b. Air fuel ratio
c. Bore stroke ratio
8. Conversion of solid into combustible carbon monoxide

through thermochemical reaction.
a. Digestion
b. Carbonization
c. Gasification
d. Pyrolysis
9. Power transmitted to the pistons by the gas in the

cylinder
a. Brake horsepower
b. Indicated horsepower
c. Drawbar horsepower
d. Flywheel horsepower
10. An engine has piston displacement of 38.4 in3. If the

clearance volume of the cylinder is 2.5 in3, what is the
compression ratio?
a. 1:12
b. 1:16
c. 1:8
11. Number of explosion of piston on a single cylinder, four

stroke cycle engine in 100 revolution of the crankshaft.
a. 100
b. 50 d. natural gas
c. 25
d. None of the above 30. This refers to the quantity of heat required to raise the
temperature 1 lb of water 1ºF.
12. A device that connects and disconnects power input to a. specific heat
the power output. b. thermal conductivity
a. Clutch c. heating value
b. Gear d. Btu
c. Pulley
d. None of the above 31. It is the partial or complete interruption of the fuel flow in
the fuel system as a result of vaporization of the fuel and
13. The space when the piston is at the top dead center the formation of gas bubbles at some point.
a. Piston displacement volume a. stalling
b. Clearance volume b. vapor lock
c. Total volume c. detonation
d. None of the above d. explosion
14. How many piston strokes are there in one revolution of 33. A soil mass cut, lifted, pulverized, inverted, and thrown
a crankshaft. to one side of the plow bottom.
a. One a. Furrow crown
b. Two b. Furrow slice
c. Four c. Furrow wall
18. A device which connects or disconnects engine 38. It is a vertical axis windmill with a very low tip-speed
crankshaft to the transmission box or driven machine. ratio.
a. Differential gear a. Cretan
b. Clutch b. Savonius
c. Actuator c. Darrieus
d. None of the above d. 2-bladed airfoil type
19. Firing order for 8-cylinder V piston 40. This fuel is obtained from the fermentation of wet
a. 1-6-8-4-3-2-7-5 wastes such as animal dung in the absence of oxygen. This
b. 1-8-7-3-6-5-4-2 gaseous fuel contains up to 60 percent methane.
c. All of the above a. producer gas
d. None of the above b. carbon monoxide
c. liquefied petroleum gas
23. Which of the following operation is not done by a d. biogas
stripper?
a. cutting of standing crop 42. In the operation of this ideal engine, the combustion of
b. stripping fuel occurs instantaneously such that the pressure rises at
c. cleaning of grains constant volume.
d. conveying of grains to the tank a. Diesel cycle engine
b. Otto cycle engine
24. The cutting mechanism most commonly employed by c. compression ignition engine
reapers and combines is: d. Carnot cycle engine
a. slicing & tearing
b. high velocity, single-element, impact action 43. An engine with a clearance volume of 120 cm3 and
c. two-element, scissor-type action whose bore and stroke are 10 cm and 10 cm, respectively,
d. all of the above is most possibly:
a. a gasoline engine
25. The IRRI axial-flow thresher is characterized as: b. a diesel engine
a. low power & hold-on feeding c. a compression ignition engine
b. low power & throw-in feeding d. a jet engine
d. high power &throw-in feeding 48. The compression ratio of engines is directly related to
its thermal efficiency. Theoretically:
28. The greatest heat loss for a 4-stroke cycle, spark a. Otto-cycle engines have higher thermal efficiency than
ignition engine with a thermal efficiency of 23% is attributed Diesel cycle engines.
to: b. Diesel-cycle engines have higher thermal efficiency than
a. cooling system Otto-cycle engines.
b. friction c. Otto-cycle and Diesel-cycle engines have approximately
c. exhaust gases equal thermal efficiency.
d. radiation d. None of the above.
29. This gas is a mixture of butane and propane and may 49. This kind of gasoline can be obtained by breaking up
be used to a considerable extent as engine fuel. heavy molecules of oil into lighter ones:
a. biogas a. natural gasoline
b. LPG b. cracked gasoline
c. producer gas c. straight-run gasoline
d. blended gasoline 62. Which of the following statement about a product is not
true?
51. Natural gas consists large of: a. Ideas and services are examples of products
a. butane b. There are five levels of a product namely: core, generic,
b. pentane expected, augmented and potential product
c. propane c. A product is anything offered to a market for attention,
d. none of the above acquisition and consumption.
d. A good product is enough to warrant high sales in the
52. This fuel is obtained by partial combustion of market.
carbonaceous substances, like coal, wood, charcoal,
sawdust, or similar materials, in an atmosphere of air and 63. What three most important factors input into the
steam. It is a mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, determination of prices?
methane, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. a. Cost, demand, competition
a. LPG b. Target market, promotional expenses, distribution
b. natural gas channels
c. producer gas c. Market share, competitive moves, substitutes
d. biogas d. Demographics, purchasing habits, shelf position
53. The sequence by which the cylinder delivers the power 64. The first step in pricing is:
stroke. a. determining the prices of competitors
a. Ignition b. setting pricing objectives
b. Firing order c. determining market’s sensitivity
c. Flash point d. evaluating different pricing methods
65. What factors would lead a marketer to adopt a going-
54. Engine that burns fuel outside the cylinder. rate pricing strategy?
a. Spark ignition engine a. There are no product differentiation and competitor
b. External combustion engine moves are uncertain.
c. Compression ignition engine b. The pricing policy is 20% recovery on production cost.
d. None of the above c. There is an unusually high demand for the product.
d. There are few substitutes for the product.
55. At the intake stroke of a diesel engine, what come in?
a. Fuel and air 66. It is the time used in refueling, lubricating, tightening of
b. Fuel chain, etc of the machine.
c. Air a. Maintenance time
d. None of the above b. Machine adjustment time
c. Repair time
56. A device that creates ignition of fuel in a diesel engine. d. All of the above
a. Spark plug
b. Piston 67. Which of the following statement is true?
c. Carburetor a. Theoretical field capacity is less than effective field
d. None of the above capacity.
b. Effective field capacity is more than effective field
58. What are the potential benefits from mechanization? capacity.
a. Increased cropping intensity and production c. Theoretical field capacity is equal to the effective field
b. increased productivity of labor capacity.
c. reduction of losses d. None of the above
d. aota
68. It is a complete list of all physical assets at a specific
59. The lever-operated manual knapsack sprayer method of point in time. This list indicates the value of each item of
test is found in: property and the amount of farm liabilities.
a. PAES 113:2000 a. market list
b. PAES 112:2000 b. farm capital
c. PAES 113:2001 c. farm potential
d. PAES 115:2000 d. farm inventory
60. Which is not a characteristic of a manager? 69. For occupational settings, _____________ is (more
a. Politician specifically) a measure of the acceptability of risk.
b. must balance competing goals a. potential
c. mediator b. freedom
d. makes decisions difficult c. clarity
61. It is the ratio of the weight of the shelled kernels d. safety
collected at the main outlet, to the total weight of the kernel 70. Tools that are used to make holes or change the shape
input of the sheller, expressed in percent. or size of holes are called
a. shelling recovery a. layout tools
b. shelling loss b. boring tools
c. purity c. cutting tools
d. shelling efficiency d. driving tools
71. Obtained from OXOGENS, it is the most common shop
material. 83. A term used to describe the resistance of oil to flow.
a. Silicon a. Viscosity
b. steel b. Cetane Number
c. galvanized iron c. Volume weight
d. wood d. None of the above
72. Select a farm operation that can only be done with the 84. Ignition timing for gasoline engine.
use of a machine: a. 1-5 deg
a. plowing b. 5-10 deg
b. spraying c. 10-15 deg
c. harvesting d. None of the above
d. threshing
85. Ignition timing for diesel engine.
74. The use of machinery does not only imply ownership, a. 5-12 deg
the following are also considered viable options: b. 17-19 deg
a. renting 133
b. custom hire service c. 20-26 deg
c. joint ownership d. None of the above
d. borrowing
86. A type of engine that completes power stroke in two
75. Secondary tillage involves pulverizing the soil to a depth revolution of the crankshaft.
of: a. Four-stroke cycle engine
a. up to 3 inches b. Two-stroke cycle engine
b. 3 to 6 inches c. All of the above
c. 6 to 18 inches d. None of the above
d. 6 to 36 inches
87. An engine that produce more power per unit weight.
76. Part of the moldboard plow bottom that receives the a. Four-stroke cycle
furrowslice, lifts, inverts and throws it to one side is called: b. Two-stroke cycle
a. share c. All of the above
b. moldboard d. None of the above
c. landside
d. frog 88. An engine which uses oil entirely as lubricant.
a. Four-stroke cycle
77. Gear oil is used for b. Two-stroke cycle
a. Engine c. All of the above
b. Transmission box d. None of the above
c. Hydraulic system
d. All of the above 89. An engine basically has
a. Larger cylinder diameter than piston diameter
78. Mean effective pressure for turbo-charge engine. b. Equal piston diameter than cylinder diameter
a. 300 psi c. Larger piston diameter than cylinder diameter
b. 200 psi d. None of the above
c. 400 psi
d. None of the above 90. A part of an engine which reduces vibration and stores
energy.
79. Engine valve that allows the entrance of fuel. a. Spark plug
a. Exhaust valve b. Flywheel
b. Intake valve c. Piston
c. Check valve d. None of the above
98. The factors that affect the draft of the plow:
80. Standard throttling adjustment of an engine. a. Soil condition
a. 1/3 b. Hitch to the tractor
b. ½ c. Topography
c. ¾ d. All of the above
99. Two pistons running at the same time in the same
81. Mean effective pressure of an engine. direction but performing different strokes.
a. 120 psi a. Running mate
b. 200 psi b. Firing order
c. 50 psi c. Valve timing
82. Fuel for compression ignition engine. 100. The greatest heat loss for a 4-stroke cycle, spark
a. Gasoline ignition engine with a thermal efficiency of 23% is attributed
b. Kerosene to:
c. LPG a. cooling system c. friction
d. None of the above b. exhaust gases d. internal convection
AREA 1 – TEST 10 a. 540 rpm
b. 450 rpm
1. Percentage work done in pulling an average plow. c. 640 rpm
a. 50 % d. None of the above
b. 18 %
c. 30 % 12. It is the special arrangement of gears to permit driving
d. None of the above member to rotate slower or faster than the other and permit
operation of driving wheels at different speed for easy turn.
2. Percentage work of plow used in cutting furrow slice. a. Spur gear
a. 43 % b. Planetary gear
b. 58 % c. Differential
c. 24 % d. None of the above
13. It is a gear reduction of the tractor located in the power
3. One of the two times in a year when the sun is farthest train between the differential and the driving wheel and
from the equator. transmits power of low speed and large tongue to the rear
a. Equinox axles and wheels.
b. eclipse a. Differential
c. solstice b. Universal joint
d. azimuth c. Final drive
4. A point in which all the horizontal and vertical forces in
the plow meets. 14. Standard power-take-off speed of a tractor.
a. Side draft a. 100 rpm
b. Center of resistance b. 540 rpm
c. Center of gravity c. 1200 rpm
5. Drawbar horsepower is a factor of: 15. Standard number of spline for PTO shaft.
a. Force exerted by plow a. 6 spline
b. Speed of plow b. 21 spline
c. All of the above c. 20 spline
d. None of the above d. All of the above
6. A two-wheeled and hand-operated tractor used primarily 16. Standard shaft diameter of PTO shaft.
as a substitute for draft animals. a. 35 mm
a. Power tiller b. 45 mm
b. Reaper c. 50 mm
c. Seeder d. Two of the above
19. The burning efficiency of rice hull furnaces is between
7. Attachment to a tractor rear wheel to increase traction. a. 70-80 %
a. Ballast b. 80-90 %
b. Cagewheel c. 90 and less than 100 %
c. Stirring wheel d. All of the above
20. The thermal efficiency of rice hull furnaces is between
8. Tractor part that controls the direction of the travel of the a. 40-70 %
machine. b. 70-90 %
a. Rear wheel c. 10-40 %
b. Front wheel d. All of the above
c. Stirring wheel
d. None of the above 22. It is an indicator of the amount of fuel in a furnace that is
converted into ash.
9. A tractor device which automatically raises or lowers the a. Burning efficiency
implement in operation to maintain a given draft b. Thermal efficiency
a. Automatic draft control c. Heat utilization efficiency
b. Automatic position control d. None of the above
c. 3-point linkage
d. None of the above 25. The ideal air-fuel ratio for using kerosene as an engine
fuel is:
10. The inherent characteristics of tractors to maintain or to a. 10:1
produce increased drawbar pull even if the speed is b. 15:1
reduced. c. 13:1
a. Lugging ability d. 12:1
b. Mechanical efficiency
c. Coefficient traction 29. The act regulating the practice of agricultural
d. None of the above engineering in the Philippines.
a. Republic Act No. 8559
11. The lower PTO speed of standard four-wheel tractor is. b. Republic Act No. 9513
c. Republic Act No. 8749 b. Malleability
d. None of the above c. Ductility
d. All of the above
30. The Renewable Act of 2008.
a. Republic Act No. 8559 63. Type of power transmission system where the center-to-
b. Republic Act No. 9513 center distance between shafts is dictated by the diameters
c. Republic Act No. 8749 of the members.
d. None of the above a. direct coupling
b. chain and sprocket
31. Which of the following statements is true in accordance c. belt and pulley
with the Republic Act 8749 (Air Pollution Control Policy)? d. gears
a. It is allowed to import, manufacture, sell, etc. leaded
gasoline in the Philippines. 64. Theoretically, the intake valve:
b. It is allowed to import, sell, use, etc. engine or its a. opens at BDC/closes at BDC
components that uses leaded gasoline. b. opens at TDC/closes at TDC
c. It is not allowed to manufacture, sell, import, etc. leaded c. opens at BDC/closes at TDC
gasoline or engine and its components in the Philippines. d. opens at TDC/ closes at BDC
65. In a compression-ignition engine, intake is
33. PAES 101:2000 refers to: accomplished when:
a. General safety in agricultural machinery a. piston goes down & IV opens
b. Operator’s manual content and presentation b. piston goes up & EV opens
c. Method of sampling c. piston goes down & EV opens
d. All of the above d. piston goes up & IV opens
34. The substance that is added to the tractor for the 66. It is a special arrangement of gears so constructed and
purpose of changing traction and stability. located in the transmission system of a 4-wheel tractor that
a. Ballast permits one driving wheel to rotate slower or faster than the
b. Cage wheel other and at the same time propel its share of the load.
c. Plow a. gear box
d. Hydraulic lift b. differential
c. clutch
36. The center of gravity of a standard two-wheel-drive d. power take-off
tractor is located ___.
a. at the mid center of the tractor 67. The development of a desirable soil structure for a
b. 1/3 of the wheel base ahead of the rear wheel axle of the seedbed does not include:
tractor a. higher water infiltration rate
c. near the front axle wheel of the tractor b. increased water surface runoff
d. None of the above c. greater water holding capacity
d. promotion of root penetration
40. It is a large domesticated four-footed animal that is used
for power in agriculture? 68. In the equation C = SWEff/10, C is capacity expressed
a. Poultry and Livestock animal in:
b. Draft animal a. m2/h
c. Dairy animal b. m2/day
d. None of the above c. ha/h
d. ha/day
51. The type of steam boiler commonly used in food
industry. 69. Floating power tillers are used in:
a. Fire-tube boiler a. Hand tractor for wetland op.
b. Water-tube boiler b. Hand tractor for dryland op.
c. Power boiler c. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op.
d. None of the above d. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op
57. A central part of a plow where the share, moldboard, 73. Primary tillage equipment that cuts the soil to a depth of
and landside are attached. 6 to 18 inches is called:
a. Frame a. moldboard plow
b. Frog b. subsoiler
c. Shank c. chisel plow
d. None of the above d. spiral plow
58. It is the traverse distance between two adjacent discs. 75. Time value of money and interest rate utilized together
a. Disk distance generate this concept which means that different sums of
b. Disk clearance money at different times can be equal in economic value.
c. Disk spacing a. equivalence
d. None of the above b. equalization
c. equilibrium
59. Metals high in weldability are usually high in d. equestrian
__________ .
a. Fusibility
78. Recommended chain and sprocket drive for tractor a. Boom
powered by 3.73 to 5.22 kW gasoline engine. b. Sprinkler laterals
a. ANSI chain number 50 c. Sprayer nozzle set
b. ANSI chain number 60 d. None of the above
c. ANSI chain number 70
d. All of the above 94. It is an auxiliary plow-working element, mounted above
the shin which deposits the upper edge of the furrow in the
79. Recommended chain and sprocket drive for tractor furrow bottom.
powered by 5.22 kW and above gasoline engine. a. Tail piece
a. ANSI chain number 50 b. Thrash board
b. ANSI chain number 60 c. Coulter
c. ANSI chain number 70 d. None of the above
d. All of the above
95. The size of a moldboard plow is determined ________.
80. Welding by heating and then forcing the pieces together a. from the wing of the share to the landside
is called ______. b. from tip of the moldboard to the landside
a. Fusion welding c. from the top of the moldboard to the point of the share
b. Pressure welding d. None of the above
c. Inertia Welding
d. All of the above 98. A secondary tillage implement consisting of one or two
in-line gang rollers used for crushing soil clods and
81. The most common form of gas welding uses the gases compacting the soil.
_______ . a. Roller tiller
a. Acetylene and air b. Packer
b. Acetylene and hydrogen c. Roller harrow
c. Acetylene and oxygen d. None of the above
d. All of the above
99. A primary or secondary tillage implement used for
82. Spot welding is a form of welding known as ________ . broadcast or for strip tillage and also used as chemical
a. Flow welding incorporators prior to planting.
b. Resistance welding a. Roller tiller
c. Forge welding b. Roller harrow
d. None of the above c. Packer
83. The metal that is melted from a pieces being joined is
called the _________. 100. It is a plow consisting of a strongly constructed frame
a. Filler metal and a vertical leg drawn to subsoil and the bullet-shape
b. Weld metal attachments creates a tube like cavity acting as a drainage
c. Base metal channel.
d. None of the above a. Subsoiler
b. Bullet plow
84. A form of resistance welding used for welding sheet c. Mole plow
metal is ________. d. All of the above
a. Arc welding
b. Gas welding
c. Spot Welding
90. The time required for savings or sales to offset first

costs, without regard for the time value of money is called
a. discounted payback period
b. capital recovery period
c. return on investment period
d. simple payback period
91. It is an auxiliary plow-working element, mounted above

the shin which deposits the upper edge of the furrow in the
furrow bottom.
a. Tail piece
b. Thrash board
c. Coulter
92. The size of a moldboard plow is determined ________ .

a. from the wing of the share to the landside
b. from tip of the moldboard to the landside
c. from the top of the moldboard to the point of the share
93. It is a set of sprinkler nozzles.

AREA 1 – TEST 11 usually involves all these stages, from vaporizing a liquid
fuel to letting it mix with air and finally moving the mixture to
1. In designing a rice thresher, the most important factors where it can be burned.
affecting threshing efficiency is a. oxygenation
a. rpm of the cylinder b. carburetion
b. Peripheral speed of the cylinder c. fuel injection
c. Diameter of the cylinder d. fuel induction
10. 83. It is a device used to reduce the toxicity of
2. An insecticide that kills insects when insects suck on emissions from an internal combustion engine. It works by
plant tissues. providing an environment for a chemical reaction wherein
a. Contact toxic combustion by-products are converted to less-toxic
b. Stomach substances.
c. Systemic a. muffler
d. All of the above b. header
c. turbocharger
3. A hitch system for a tractor suitable for large, heavy d. catalytic converter
implement for trailer.
a. Three-point hitch system 11. Cocomethyl ester, also known as biodiesel, is a non-
b. Drawbar hitch system toxic, eco-friendly fuel having similar properties as diesel
c. Semi-mounted system fuel. The process of transesterifying raw vegetable oil into
d. All of the above cocomethyl ester requires the use of:
a. alcohol
4. In an ideal Otto engine, the combustion of fuel occurs at : b. oxygen
a. constant pressure c. hydrogen
b. constant temperature d. carbon dioxide
c. constant volume
d. constant enthalpy 12. It is the ratio of the actual weight of fuel inducted by the
engine during the intake stroke to the theoretical weight of
5. It is the power developed by the engine of a tractor which air that should have been inducted by filling the piston
is available for pulling, dragging or similar tractive effort. displacement volume with air at atmospheric temperature
a. belt horsepower and pressure.
b. brake horsepower a. volumetric capacity
c. drawbar horsepower b. volumetric parameter
d. indicated horsepower c. volumetric efficiency
d. volumetric measure
6. One way of increasing engine power is to force more air
into the cylinder so that more power can be produced from 16. Among the fuels that belong to the paraffin group, this
each power stroke. This process which uses a type of air has three carbon atoms in its molecular structure. It is the
compression device powered by the engine crankshaft is main component of LPG.
called: a. pentane
a. turbocharging b. ethane
b. supercharging c. butane
c. power charging d. propane
d. air charging
20. It is the amount paid for hiring equipment and operator
7. This fuel is made by partial combustion of carbonaceous services to perform a certain task.
substances like coal, wood, charcoal, sawdust and other a. Machine fixed cost
similar materials in an atmosphere of air and steam. It is a b. Machine variable cost
mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, methane, nitrogen c. Machine custom cost
and carbon dioxide. d. None of the above
a. gasohol
b. producer gas 22. In the equation for horsepower, Hp = QxH/3960xEff, Q
c. natural gas is pump output in:
d. straight-run fuel a. gallons
b. gpm
8. It is a toxic chemical with chemical formula CH3OH. c. liters
Drinking even small amounts can cause blindness. It is d. lps
used on a limited basis to fuel internal combustion engines,
mainly by virtue of the fact that it is not nearly as flammable 25. A raised ridge left at the center of the strip of land when
as gasoline. It is harder to ignite than gasoline and plowing started center to center.
produces just one-eighth of the heat upon burning. It is also a. Back furrow
called wood alcohol. b. Dead furrow
a. ethanol c. Furrow
b. methanol d. All of the above
c. isopropyl alcohol
d. gasohol 26. Which of the following is not a part of a typical lift
pump?
9. It is the process of combining the proper ratio of oxygen a. inlet valve
with a gaseous form of a fossil fuel so it can combust. It b. piston
c. plunger c. volumetric efficiency
d. bucket valve d. volumetric measure
29. Soil cut, lifted, inverted and thrown to one side of the 50. The following tools could be used for lay out work,
blow bottom is termed: except__________.
a. furrow a. micrometer
b. furrowslice b. all of the above
c. backfurrow c. marking gauge
d. Deadfurrow d. none of the above
30. The sequence of events which make up the cycle of 51. Special nails like concrete nails are usually sold by
operation of an engine is: ______.
a. I-C-P-E a. Weight
b. I-P-C-E b. Piece
c. C-E-I-P c. a and b
d. P-I-C-E d. Bags
31. Which of the following do not belong to seeder parts. 52. In construction sites, shops and other work places,
a. Furrow opener which should come first?
b. Metering device a. Profit
c. Covering device b. cost cutting
d. None of the above c. Safety
d. Breaks
32. Which of the following is not a spray nozzle pattern?
a. hollow cone nozzle pattern 53. Field operating pattern where it has trips that parallel
b. solid cone nozzle pattern with each other, are incremented successively by the
c. hollow fan nozzle pattern operating width of the implement, and initiated at one
d fan nozzle pattern boundary and terminated at the opposite.
a. Circuitous pattern
33. Single-axle machine powered by an engine ranging b. Headland pattern
from 3 to 15 hp: c. Alternation pattern
a. 2-wheel tractor d. None of the above
b. compact tractor
c. standard tractor 54. It describes the operation of the implement operation
d. general-purpose tractor paralleling each land’s boundaries and is commonly
describes as “going around the field.”
35. Air-cooled engines are equipped with fins to: a. Circuitous pattern
a. increase air velocity b. Headland pattern
b. increase surface area c. Alternation pattern
c. increase air volume d. None of the above
d. a and c
55. It is sometimes used in processing established row
36. Which of the following countries follow the crops and a modification of continuous pattern.
mechanization model of low land area to farmer ratio? a. Circuitous pattern
a. Thailand b. Headland pattern
b. Philippines c. Alternation pattern
c. Malaysia d. None of the above
d. Indonesia
56. An angle of the plow in reference to the direction of
40. The ideal air-fuel ratio for using kerosene as an engine travel of the plow.
fuel is: a. Tilt angle
a. 10:1 b. Disk angle
b. 15:1 c. All of the above
c. 13:1 d. None of the above
d. 12:1
60. A device which connects or disconnects engine
43. A hand tool that permits the creation of threads on rods crankshaft to the transmission box or driven machine.
and shafts. a. Differential gear
a. taps and die b. Clutch
b. lathe machine c. Actuator
c. tap wrench and tap d. None of the above
d. die and die stock
62. The advantages of seasoning lumber is/are:
45. It is the ratio of the actual weight of fuel inducted by the a. reduce its weight
engine during the intake stroke to the theoretical weight of b. decrease shrinkage
air that should have been inducted by filling the piston c. increase its strength and resistance to decay
displacement volume with air at atmospheric temperature d. all of the above
and pressure.
a. volumetric capacity 64. Domesticated animals used as power for agriculture.
b. volumetric parameter a. Dairy animals
b. Draft animals a. Tilt angle
c. Game animals b. Side angle
d. None of the above c. Lift angle
65. Power available on human for useful work.
a. 0.1 hp 78. Standard rpm of a tractor PTO drive.
b. 0.5 hp a. 600 rpm
c. 0.3 hp b. 200 rpm
d. None of the above c. 540 rpm
68. A device that converts electricity to mechanical power.
a. Rotor 79. It is the part of the moldboard plow that receives the
b. Generator furrow slice from the share and turns to break, crush, and
c. Motor pulverize the soil.
d. None of the above a. Share
b. Shin
69. A device that converts electricity from sunlight. c. Moldboard
a. Windpump d. All of the above
b. Photovoltaic
c. Generator 80. The part of the moldboard plows which is used to cut
d. None of the above the soil.
a. Share
70. Wind machine that is used for lifting water. b. Shin
a. Aeropump c. Moldboard
b. Generator d. All of the above
c. Wind turbine
d. Windpump 81. It is a part of the plow bottom which helps to counteract
the side pressure exerted by the furrow slice.
71. Power generated from falling water. a. Shin
a. Hydro power b. Landside
b. Biomass power c. Share
c. Wind power d. None of the above
82. A type of implement which is directly attached to the
72. Vehicle designed to pull, propel, and supply power to tractor and its power lift is dependent upon the tractor
operate machinery used in agricultural operation. engine for its general operation.
a. Agricultural Tractor a. Semi-integral
b. Automobile b. Integral-mounted
c. Payloader c. Trailing or pull
73. The stirring wheel of the tractor can be found at 83. A type of implement which is supported by two or three
a. In front wheels and is hitched to the drawbar of the tractor where it
b. At the rear is being pulled.
c. At the operator’s seat a. Integral-mounted
d. None of the above b. Trailing
c. Semi-integral
74. A substance that is added to the tractor for the purpose d. None of the above
of changing traction and stability.
a. Ballast 84. A type of plow which is equipped with plow bodies which
b. Cage wheel turns the furrow slice to one side only.
c. Plow a. One-way plow
d. Hydraulic lift b. Two-way plow
c. Two of the above
75. Power drive that can be found at the rear of the tractor d. None of the above
to propel power implements and stationary machines.
a. Power take off drive 85. A type of plow which has two sets of bodies mounted
b. Hydraulic system symmetrically on a share frame which can be rotated over
c. Differential gear 180 degrees along the longitudinal axis.
d. None of the above a. Reversible plow
b. One-way plow
76. It is the minimum vertical distance between the soil c. Lister plow
surface and a potentially obstructing machine element. d. None of the above
a. Vertical clearance
b. Machine height 87. Firing order for 8-cylinder V piston
c. Ground clearance a.1-6-8-4-3-2-7-5
d. All of the above b.1-8-7-3-6-5-4-2
c.All of the above
77. Angle in vertical plane perpendicular to the direction of d.None of the above
travel between the tool axis and the soil surface.
88. Engine mechanical efficiency.
a. Brake hp over indicated hp
b. Rated hp over indicated hp
c. Friction hp over flywheel hp
89. Number of times the intake valve opens in a single-

cylinder four-stroke cycle after completing 200 revolutions.
a. 200
b. 100
c. 50
90. Part of an engine that converts reciprocating motion into

rotary motion.
a. Crankshaft
b. Piston
c. Camshaft
91. System of number indicating the ignition quality of

diesel fuel.
a. Octane rating
b. Cetane rating
c. Fuel index
92. Twenty-hp engine is equal to.

a. 1524.44 kg-m/sec
b. 1254.2 kg-m/sec
c. 1425.44 kg-m/sec
93. Ten-hp engine is equivalent to

a. 7.46 kw
b. 76.4 watt
c. 0.746 kw
94. A substance that decreases the effect of friction and

which is commonly obtained from petroleum products.
a. Lubricant
b. Gear oil
c. Grease
d. All of the above
95. Among the fuels that belong to the paraffin group, this
has three carbon atoms in its molecular structure. It is the
main component of LPG.
a. pentane
b. ethane
c. butane
d. propane
99. Sprayers are used primarily for the application of:

a. herbicides
b. insecticides
c. fungicides
d. pesticides
100. Which of the following is not a spray nozzle pattern?

a. hollow cone nozzle pattern
b. solid cone nozzle pattern
c. hollow fan nozzle pattern
d. fan nozzle pattern
AREA 1 – TEST 12 19. Primary tillage equipment that cuts the soil to a depth of
6 to 18 inches is called:
1. Which of the following belong to the group of variable a. moldboard plow
displacement pump? b. subsoiler
a. centrifugal pump c. chisel plow
b. mixed flow pump d. spiral plow
c. air lift pump
d. all of the above 20. The perpendicular distance between the wing and point
of the share determines the:
2. In the equation for horsepower, Hp = QxH/3960xEff, Eff a. longitudinal dimension of plow
is: b. transverse dimension of plow
a. efficiency of pump c. diagonal dimension of plow
b. efficiency of transmission d. maximum dimension of plow
c. efficiency of prime mover
d. efficiency of the system 21. Draft of plows is primarily determined by:
a. type of soil
3. The direct type of power transmission system has: b. speed of plowing
a. 90% Eff c. sharpness of cutting edge
b. 95% Eff d. overall adjustment of plow
c. 98% Eff
d. 100% Eff 23. Planters designed to plant seeds continuously in rows
with row spacing greater than 36 cm is called:
4. The traditional system of harvesting and threshing of rice a. row-crop drill planter
is: b. hill-drop planter
a. manual harvesting and threshing c. solid drill planter
b. manual harvesting and mechanical threshing d. broadcaster
c. mechanical harvesting and threshing
d. combining 24. The groundwheel of a planter is normally related to the
operation of the:
5. Among the factors affecting the choice of harvesting and a. furrow opener
threshing system, which one is the major factor? b. metering device
a. kind of crop c. seed tube
b. timeliness of operation d. double-disc closer
c. topography
d. farm size 25. Part of a planter that is always present in all planters
regardless of type and cropping system:
6. The threshing action most commonly employed by a a. furrow opener
mechanical thresher for rice is: b. metering device
a. rubbing action c. seed tube
b. impact action d. furrow closer
c. stripping action
d. all of the above 26. Operation with the highest manual labor requirement for
lowland rice:
7. The acronym PAES means: a. plowing with carabao
a. Philippine Agricultural Engineering Society b. hand transplanting
b. Professional Agricultural Engineering Society c. weeding with push-type weeder
c. Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards d. manual harvesting
d. Professional Agricultural Engineering Standards
27. Principle used in creating hydraulic energy in a lever-
15. The three main sources of power for mechanization operated knapsack sprayer is:
include: a. adding air to a container with fixed volume of liquid
a. human, animal & mechanical b. adding liquid to a container with a fixed volume of air
b. human, electrical & mechanical c. adding liquid to a container with an existing volume of
c. animal, electrical & mechanical liquid
d. human, animal & electrical d. adding air to a container with an existing volume of air
17. In optimizing the capacity of a machine, it is 28. Which of the following is not a part of a typical lever-
recommended to have: operated knapsack sprayer?
a. one small machine a. tank
b. one big machine b. pump
c. two or more small machines c. pressure gage
d. all of the above d. nozzle
18. Primary tillage involves cutting the soil to a depth of : 29. Which of the following is not a part of a typical lift
a. up to 3 inches pump?
b. 3 to 6 inches a. inlet valve
c. 6 to 18 inches b. piston
d. 6 to 36 inches c. plunger
d. bucket valve
30. The ability to choose appropriate means of achieving a 40. Which of the following is not one of the four Cs of
given objective is called _______. marketing?
a. effectiveness a. communication
b. economics b. customer cost
c. efficiency c. customer solution/satisfaction
d. liquidity d. commitment
31. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a 41. A piece of wood that is one square foot and one inch
manager: thick.
a. responsible a. stock
b. politician b. power routers
c. none of the above c. lumber
d. decision maker d. board foot
32. The art of applying business and scientific principles to 42. Fasteners that are externally threaded to allow the part
the organization and management of farm business being assembled to be easily dismantled.
enterprise for the purpose of securing the greatest a. rivets
continuous profit is called ________. b. Bolts
a. Management c. hinges
b. Scientific Method d. none of the above
c. Farm Management
d. Agricultural Economics 43. A list of all the different pieces of materials needed for a
job. It is also called a “finish-stock list”.
33. The term used for the process of management where it a. bill of materials
is aimed at getting members of the organization to move in b. a and c
the direction that will achieve its objectives. c. working drawing
a. Planning d. project plan
b. Directing
c. Organizing 44. It refers to freshly-cut trees, raw logs and large sizes of
d. Staffing sawn logs that are usually 4 inches thick.
a. Sanded
34. The management process by which managers think b. Timber
their through in advance and where the organization’s c. Lumber
mission, vision, goals and objectives are made is called d. oxogens
______.
a. organizing 45. Mango, Langka, Narra, Mancono are all ________.
b. staffing a. Monocots
c. planning b. Dicots
d. controlling c. Hardwoods
36. One source of labor provided from outside of the family
is called: 46. Refers to tools that are driven by electric motor,
a. hired labor hydraulics, air, gas engine, or forces other than, or in
b. labor management addition to human power. They are generally stationary and
c. family labor are usually fixed in the shop.
d. fieldwork labor a. portable power tools
b. power machines
37. The term “marketing” is best identified in today’s c. hand tools
business world with the concept of: d. power tools
a. making a sale
b. satisfying customer needs 47. Machines with rotating knives that dress the edges of
c. creating customer needs boards to a uniform thickness.
d. communication through advertising a. Planers
b. grinders
38. A want supported by buying power is best described as c. Jointers
a: d. band saw
a. demand
b. exchange 48. Coco lumber,buho, tinikan, sawali are all construction
c. desire materials. They are all __________.
d. need a. Hardwoods
b. monocots
39. Which of the following is true: c. Softwoods
a. Want is more important to marketers than demand d. Dicots
b. The major objective of marketing is customer satisfaction
at a profit. 49. A piece of lumber that is 2 x 3 x 6 is how many board
c. Need is more important to modern-day marketers than feet?
wants. a. 1
d. Customer satisfaction even without profit is most b. 4
important to marketers. c. 2
d. 3
50. Types of guards designed to prevent contact with the c. Otto cycle – gasoline engine
moving parts by a person and/or clothing. d. constant volume process – diesel engine
a. Shield
b. cover 65. Which is not a function of the crankcase?
c. casing a. oil reservoir
d. aota b. support for the shafts
c. housing for moving parts
52. This must be high enough in order to self-ignite the air- d. nota
fuel mixture in a diesel engine.
a. compression temperature 67. Washers are primarily used:
b. intake pressure a. to increase friction
c. valve compression b. to reduce compressive stress
d. engine pressure c. to increase bearing surface
d. to tighten bolt-and-nut connection
53. A power circular saw which rolls on a horizontal arm and
has a blade that could be raised or lowered and the arm 68. Which is not true about chains?
could be rotated up to 45 deg in both direction. a. Adapted to long or short distances
a. radial arm saw b. A large reduction of speed can be obtained if desired.
b. cut off saw c. Size of sprocket and speed increases with the number of
c. tilting carbon table saw teeth.
d. portable power saw d. With a large number of teeth, the angle of rotation will be
also large.
54. Materials that are usually very corrosion resistant and
are used mostly for food handling equipments. 69. To ensure safety in the shop, which should be
a. copper considered first?
b. mild steel a. recognize hazards
c. lead b. conduct safety seminars
d. stainless steel c. conduct workplace inspections
d. conduct incident investigations
55. Which illustrates proper anaerobic digestion process?
a. biomass → saccharification → fermentation 70. Clamps, pliers are all examples of _______.
b. biomass → liquefaction → saccharification a. layout tools
c. biomass → fermentation → liquefaction b. turning tools
d. biomass → fermentation → saccharification c. cutting tools
d. holding tools
57. Which is not a tractor safety measure?
a. Not refueling while the engine is hot. 71. Its design and structure permit it to drive large drill bits
b. Not shifting gears while going down a slope. and apply heavy pressures on the bits.
c. Keeping the hitches high. a. hand drill
d. Not using the differential lock when turning. b. drill press
c. breast drill
58. Which does not belong to the group? d. ratchet brace
a. disc harrow
b. field cultivator 72. It is guide in making a project and contains the
c. packer necessary information to accomplish the project.
d. disc plow a. working drawing
b. bill of materials
59. Ply rating is an indicator of: c. project plan
a. fuel utilization efficiency d. none of the above
b. maximum tire load
c. brake horsepower 73. It has a motor-driven circular blade that may be
d. oil viscosity adjusted for angled cuts and is fed down to the material
being cut.
60. An engine with all intake valves in the cylinder head and a. radial arm saw
all exhaust valves in the cylinder block. b. cut off saw
a. L-head c. table circular saw
b. T-head d. band saw
c. F-head
d. I-head 74. Which operation could be done with a welding
machine?
62. Which is not included in the markings and labeling of a. Cut
tractors? b. join metals
a. type and size c. thread
b. parts and components d. a, b, and d
c. safety markings
d. country of manufacture 75. ___________ are examples of permanent fasteners.
a. Nails
63. Which pair is mismatched? b. all of the above
a. indirect cooling – water-cooled engine c. bolts
b. spark ignition – gasoline engine d. none of the above
76. In an ideal Diesel engine, the combustion of fuel occurs d. RAEG
at:
a. constant pressure 94. The use of machinery does not only imply ownership,
b. constant enthalpy the following are also considered viable options:
c. constant temperature a. renting
d. constant volume b. custom hire service
c. joint ownership
77. In an ideal Otto engine, the combustion of fuel occurs d. borrowing
at:
a. constant pressure 95. Secondary tillage involves pulverizing the soil to a depth
b. constant volume of:
c. constant temperature a. up to 3 inches
d. constant enthalpy b. 3 to 6 inches
c. 6 to 18 inches
78. It is the power developed by the engine of a tractor d. 6 to 36 inches
which is available for pulling, dragging or similar tractive
effort. 96. Part of the moldboard plow bottom that receives the
a. belt horsepower furrowlice, lifts, inverts and throws it to one side is called:
b. indicated horsepower a. share
c. brake horsepower b. moldboard
d. drawbar horsepower c. landside
d. frog
80. The Philippine Government has devised a plan on the
development of the use of biofuels and renewable energy 97. Type of plow developed in an effort to reduce friction in
sources, also known as the BiGSHOW, where Bi stands for a sliding bottom by using a rolling bottom is:
Biofuels/ Biomass, G for Geothermal, S for Solar, H for a. moldboard plow
hydroelectric, O for ocean. What does W represents? b. disc plow
a. Water c. subsoilers
b. wind d. rototiller
c. waste
d. wastewater 99. In the equation C = SWEff/10, S is speed of plowing in:
a. mps
81. The threshing action where grains are detached from b. kph
their panicles when the straw is pulled through a “V” shaped c. fpm
configuration is called: d. mph
a. rubbing action
b. impact action 100. Disc harrow consisting of four gangs of discs with two
c. stripping action gangs in front and two gangs at the rear is called:
d. a and b a. single-action disc harrow
b. double-action disc harrow
82. The development of PAES started in: c. off-set disc harrow
a. 1985 d. all of the above
b. 1990
c. 1995
d. 2000
84. Twelve man-days is equivalent to:

a. one man working for 12 hrs
b. three men working for three days
c. six men working for 2 hrs
d. four men working for three days
90. Which is true about V-belt and pulley drive?

a. It cannot be used for long center distance drive.
b. Efficiency drops with small pulley size.
c. Its application is limited only for parallel drive.
d. Excessive high load increases efficiency.
92. Select a farm operation that can only be done with the
use of a machine:
a. plowing
b. spraying
c. harvesting
d. threshing
93. Which of the following agencies does not belong to the

Department of Agriculture?
a. BPRE
b. BPI
c. AMMDA
AREA 1 – TEST 13 a. 420 board feet
b. 84 board feet
1. Planter designed to plant seeds in rows and in hills is c. 72 board feet
called: d. 360 board feet
b. hill-drop planter 21. Percentage engine output to be attained when testing
c. solid drill planter based on the maximum rated power output.
d. broadcaster a. 60%
b. 80%
2. It indicates the ratio of the amount of heat given off by c. 100%
the furnace to the system and the heat used from the fuel. d. All of the above
a. Burning efficiency
b. Thermal efficiency 22. Basic hand tools for engine maintenance:
c. Heat utilization energy a. Open wrench
d. None of the above b. Adjustable wrench
c. Screw driver (Philip and Flat)
3. Which of the following is true in operating gasifier for d. All of the above
internal combustion engine?
a. Only 50 to 70 % of the diesel oil can be replaced by gas 23. It is an articulated connection between a link and the
producer. implement.
b. Gasoline and diesel can be fueled with gas producer. a. Hitch point
c. The power output of gasoline engine at arbitrary rpm will b. Link point
decrease by 30 to 50 % when fueled with producer gas. c. Implement point
4. A rice hull gasifier reactor that produces less tar during 24. It is an articulated connection between a link and the
operation. tractor.
a. Updraft a. Hitch point
b. Cross draft b. Link point
c. Down draft c. Implement point
5. Power generated from moving air 25. It is the center to center distance between two front or
a. Wind power rear wheels.
b. Hydropower a. Wheel clearance
c. Photovoltaic cell b. Wheel tread
d. None of the above c. Wheel distance
7. A gas produces putrefactive bacteria that breaks down
organic material under airless condition consisting mainly of 26. A type of four-wheel tractor where power is transmitted
methane and carbon dioxide. to all wheels of the tractor.
a. Biofuel a. Two-wheel drive tractor
b. Biogas b. Four-wheel drive tractor
c. Gasifier c. Hydraulic drive tractor
d. LPG d. None of the above
8. A device that converts kinetic energy of the wind to 27. A type of four-wheel tractor where power is transmitted
mechanical power. to rear wheels with small front wheels being pushed along.
a. Rotor a. Two-wheel drive tractor
b. Generator b. Four-wheel drive tractor
c. Motor c. Hydraulic drive tractor
9. The IRRI axial-flow thresher is characterized as: (code 28. Auxiliary gear shift lever of a tractor is usually located at
67) the ____________.
a. low power & hold-on feeding a. right side of the operator seat
b. low power & throw-in feeding b. left side of the operator seat
c. high power & hold-on feeding c. front of the operator seat
d. high power &throw-in feeding d. None of the above
10. What section is not yet included in the PAES? 29. PAES recommended thickness of drawbar for four-
a. Production/postharvest machinery wheel agricultural tractor.
b. Irrigation and drainage a. Not more than 32 mm
c. agricultural structures b. 32 mm
d. engineering materials c. More than 32 mm
20. 5 pcs. of work benches are needed for the AE REVIEW
2011. The engineers found out that they needed 10 pcs. of 30. The IRRI drum seeder is an example of:
2”x3”x12’ and 6 pcs. of 2”x2”x6’ for each work bench. How a. row-crop drill planter
many board feet of lumber would they need for a bench? b. hill-drop planter
d. broadcaster
45. Usable power delivered by the engine
31. Parameter not required in determining the field capacity a. Indicated horsepower
of a planter: b. Brake horsepower
a. width of planter c. Rated horsepower
b. forward speed of planter d. None of the above
c. No. of seeds per hill
d. efficiency of planter 46. A device that meters the fuel air and mixes them into
harmonious mixture before the mixture enters the
34. The gearbox placed on first gear will develop… combustion chamber of an engine.
a. high torque - high speed a. Governor
b. low torque – low speed b. Air injector
c. high torque – low speed c. Carburetor
d. low torque – high speed d. All of the above
35. This vertical axis windmill has a very low tip speed ratio 47. A device that permits the flow of fuel and of burned
and power coefficient of less than 0.2. The rotor is usually gases in one direction only.
constructed using a cylindrical tank cut axially into two and a. Check valve
installed vertically face to face at an offset position. b. Relief valve
a. Savonious c. Spark plug
b. Cretan d. None of the above
c. Darrieus
d. Multibladed 48. An internal combustion engine that produces power in
one revolution of the crankshaft.
38. A more meaningful classification for tools would be a. Four stroke cycle engine
based on ________. b. Two stroke cycle engine
a. material that they work on c. Rotary engine
b. use or function d. None of the above
c. user
d. cost 49. During the power stroke, which of the following valve is
open?
39. Wrought iron, steel, cast iron, pig iron are all ________. a. Intake
a. Alloys b. Exhaust
b. a and b c. Intake and exhaust
c. ferrous metals d. None of the above
d. non-ferrous metals
50. Number of spark plugs for 6 cylinder diesel engine
40. Which fastener has a cross mark slot on its head? a. 6
a. flat head b. 12
b. Phillips head c. 4
c. square head d. None of the above
d. all of the above
51. The volume displaced by a piston in making upward
41. What year was the metric system first used in the and downward stroke.
Philippines? a. Piston displacement volume
a. 1980 b. Clearance volume
b. 1983 c. Total volume
c. 1981 d. None of the above
d. 1982
52. At the downward stroke of two-stroke cycle, which of the
42. The thickness of a metal sheet is designed by a series events are taking place.
of numbers called __________. a. Power & intake
a. Schedule b. Compression & exhaust
b. gauge number c. Power and exhaust
c. SAE number d. None of the above
d. ply rating
53. The ratio of the clearance volume from the total volume.
43. A mechanical breaking up of fuel into spray droplets by a. Compression ratio
high velocity of air passing through a jet. b. Air fuel ratio
a. Atomization c. Bore stroke ratio
b. Carburetion d. None of the above
c. Turbo charging
d. None of the above 54. Power transmitted to the pistons by the gas in the
cylinder
44. A device that is used to actuate the throttle of an engine a. Brake horsepower
to increase its speed. b. Indicated horsepower
a. Governor c. Drawbar horsepower
b. Accelerator d. Flywheel horsepower
c. Actuator
58. The space when the piston is at the top dead center d. none of the above
a. Piston displacement volume
b. Clearance volume 70. This rating is given to diesel fuels for their ability to burn
c. Total volume without detonating as compared with the performance of
d. None of the above reference fuels.
a. octane rating
59. How many piston strokes are there in one revolution of b. cetane rating
a crankshaft. c. heptane rating
a. One d. alcohol rating
b. Two
c. Four 74. The cutting mechanism most commonly employed by
d. None of the above reapers and combines is:
a. slicing & tearing
60. Engine having fuel injected into the combustion b. high velocity, single-element, impact action
chamber near the end of the combustion stroke and is c. two-element, scissor-type action
ignited by heat of compression only. d. all of the above
a. Gasoline engine
b. Diesel engine 75. The advantages of seasoning lumber is/are:
c. Steam engine a. reduce its weight
d. None of the above b. decrease shrinkage
c. increase its strength and resistance to decay
62. The sequence by which the cylinder delivers the power d. all of the above
stroke.
a. Ignition 77. It is a set of sprinkler nozzles.
b. Firing order a. Boom
c. Flash point b. Sprinkler laterals
d. None of the above c. Sprayer nozzle set
63. Engine that burns fuel outside the cylinder.
a. Spark ignition engine 78. What property of metal refers to its ability to resist
b. External combustion engine penetration?
c. Compression ignition engine a. Hardness
d. None of the above b. Toughness
c. Strength
64. At the intake stroke of a diesel engine, what come in? d. All of the above
a. Fuel and air
b. Fuel 82. The differential of a tractor is required when making a:
c. Air a. right turn
d. None of the above b. left turn
c. going straight
65. A device that creates ignition of fuel in a diesel engine. d. a and b
a. Spark plug
b. Piston 83. Fuel used by compression ignition engine is:
c. Carburetor a. kerosene
d. None of the above b. methane
c. diesel
66. Two pistons running at the same time in the same d. gasoline
direction but performing different strokes.
a. Running mate 84. Before the adoption of mechanized harvest and
b. Firing order postharvest operations for rice, field losses were:
c. Valve timing a. 5 – 15%
d. None of the above b. 10 – 27%
c. 10 – 37%
67. Distance of movement piston from the top dead to the d. 20 – 30%
bottom dead center.
a. Stroke 85. Which of the following statements is incorrect: The
b. Bore higher the pressure,:
c. Valve clearance a. the larger the droplet size
d. None of the Above b. the higher flow rate
c. the wider the spray angle
68. Firing order of 4-cylinder engine. d. all of the above
a. 1-2-3-4
b. 1-3-4-2 86. A process of providing the engine with additional
c. 1-2-4-3 amount of air and fuel using a small turbine propelled by
d. None of the above engine exhaust gas to increase power by about 30%.
a. Turbocharging
69. The cetane rating of alpha-methylnaphthalene is: b. Supercharging
a. 50 c. Air and fuel injecting
b. 20 d. None of the above
c. 80
87. The pivotal point of connection of hitch to the tractor or c. three-point hitch system of the tractor
a center of the articulated connection between link and the d. None of the above
implement
a. Link point 98. Trailing-type implements are usually attached to the
b. Hitch pin tractor through a _________.
c. Hitch point a.single point hitch system of the tractor
d. All of the above b.double-hitch system of the tractor
c.three-point hitch system of the tractor
88. Which of the following is not a source of energy for d.None of the above
farming?
a. Solar energy 99. A part of mechanism that they may be added to a
b. Wind energy functional power unit, not utilizing its mechanical power for
c. Biomass energy the purpose of enhancing the performance of that unit.
d. None of the above a. Auxiliary unit
b. Spare parts
89. A conventional source of energy. c. Accessory
a. Human power d. None of the above
b. Draft Animal
c. Fossil fuel 100. Power take-off of lawn mower and garden ride-on
d. All of the above tractors.
a. 1000 rpm
90. A non-conventional sources of energy b. 540 rpm
a. Biomass c. 2000 rpm
b. Solar d. None of the above
c. Wind
d. All of the above
91. A steam engine is an example of ______________.

a. an internal combustion engine
b. an external combustion engine
c. a dual combustion engine
92. A constant volume cycle engine.

a. Gasoline engine
b. Diesel engine
c. Steam engine
93. A constant pressure cycle

a. Gasoline engine
b. Diesel engine
c. Steam engine
94. Power implements are usually connected to the

________ of the tractor.
a. wheel axle drive
b. power take-off drive
c. front wheel drive
95. Turbo charging tractor engine will increase the power

output approximately by _____.
a. 10 – 20 %
b. 20 - 30 %
c. 30 – 40 %
96. Integral mounted implement are usually attached to the

tractor through a ______.
a. single point hitch system of the tractor
b. double-hitch system of the tractor
c. three-point hitch system of the tractor
97. A semi-integral mounted type implements are usually

attached to the tractor through a _________.
a. single point hitch system of the tractor
b. double-hitch system of the tractor
AREA 1 – TEST 14 b. MIG welding
c. Gas welding
1. A frame for protection of operators of compact utility d. All of the above
tractors to minimize the possibility of serious crushing injury
to the operator resulting from accidental upset. 15. A device suitable for cutting stainless steel plate.
a. Roll bar a. Shear cutter
b. Tractor shield frame b. Plasma cutter
c. Roll-over protection structure c. Acetylene gas cutter
2. Maximum tire inflation pressure for agricultural 16. Ductility which is one of the properties of metals refers
implement. to:
a. 40 psi a. Its resistance to penetration
b. 60 psi b. How much the material absorb impact before it breaks
c. 100 psi c. How much the material is deformed
6. Twelve man-days is equivalent to the output of: 17. A type of bearing used to restrain endwise motion of a
a. 3 men X 4 days turning shaft or withstand axial load.
b. 6 men X 2 days a. Ball bearing
c. 12 men X 1 day b. Thrust bearing
d. all of the above c. Roller bearing
8. It is a structural member of an implement where tillage
tool is to the beam attached. 18. A drive suitable for counter clockwise direction of shafts.
a. Boom a. Open drive belt
b. Shank b. Chain and sprocket
c. Gang c. Gears
9. When a disk plow is set on a vertical position, the plow 19. A belt transmission suitable for cross-drive system.
will a. V-belt
a. Penetrate b. Timing v-belt
b. Will not penetrate c. Flat belt
c. Remain in position d. None of the above
20. If the pulley to be driven requires to be turned in
10. It is a metallic or synthetic lining for a hole which counterclockwise direction, what drive system would you
reduces or prevents abrasion between components of a recommend?
machine. a. Open drive
a. Bearing b. Quarter-turn drive
b. Bushing c. Cross-drive
c. Gasket d. All of the above
d. All of the above
21. When one pulley is to be driven horizontally and the
11. A steel containing 0.035 – 0.4% carbon and is widely other pulley is to be driven vertically, what drive system
used for production of steel plate, structural steel, bars, etc. would you recommend?
a. Mild steel a. Open drive
b. Hard steel b. Quarter-turn drive
c. Soft centered steel c. Cross drive
12. A heat treatment method to increase the hardness of 22. A thresher has a capacity of 30 cavans per hour. Three
steel by rapid cooling. men are required to operate the thresher. The other data
a. Tempering are as follows:
b. Quenching Purchase price =P40,000 including engine
c. Annealing Utilization =1,500 hours per year, 8 hours/day
d. None of the above Estimated life = 7 years
What is the depreciation cost using straight line method?
13. A gas-metallic arc welding which uses inert gas a. 6,568.35/year
shielding to produce a cleaner and sounder weld compare b. 784.56/year
with conventional welding. c. 5,142.86/year
a. Gas welding d. None of the above
b. MIG welding
c. TIG welding 26. It is a power transmission device used to deliver
d. All of the above misaligned shaft.
a. Gears
14. A widely used method of welding aluminum, copper, b. Sprocket and chain
stainless steel, and other difficult-to-weld metals. c. Universal joint
a. TIG welding d. All of the above
27. It is a kind of steel used in making disk plow bottom. 41. Disc harrow consisting of four gangs of discs with two
a. Tool steel gangs in front and two gangs at the rear is called:
b. Soft-centered steel a. single-action disc harrow
c. Molybdenum steel b. double-action disc harrow
d. None of the above c. off-set disc harrow
c. all of the above
28. The perpendicular distance between the wing and point
of the share determines the: 44. General-purpose tillage involves cutting and pulverizing
a. longitudinal dimension of plow the soil to a depth of:
b. transverse dimension of plow a. up to 3 inches
c. diagonal dimension of plow b. up to 6 inches
d. maximum dimension of plow c. up to 12 inches
d. up to 18 inches
29. Draft of plows is primarily determined by:
a. type of soil 45. Bend downward of the point of the share to make the
b. speed of plowing plow penetrate the soil to the proper depth is:
c. sharpness of cutting edge a. tilt angle
d. overall adjustment of plow b. disc angle
c. horizontal suction
32. The groundwheel of a planter is normally related to the d. vertical clearance
operation of the:
a. furrow opener 46. It refers to the arrangement of soil particles in the soil
b. metering device layer.
c. seed tube a. Soil texture
d. double-disc closer b. Soil structure
c. Soil moisture
33. Suppose an engine has a piston displacement of 38.4 d. All of the above
in3. If the clearance volume of the cylinder in 2.5 in3, what
is its compression ratio? 47. Operation with the highest manual labor requirement for
a. 12.4 lowland rice:
b. 19.4 a. plowing with carabao
c. 16.4 b. hand transplanting
d. 11.4 c. weeding with push-type weeder
d. manual harvesting
34. A three-bottom disc plow is to be connected to a tractor,
what tractor hitch system would your recommend for the 49. In a compression-ignition engine, the fuel is introduced
plow? into the cylinder using this device.
a. Drawn bar hitch type a. intake manifold
b. Semi-mounted type b. intake valve
c. Direct mounted type c. TDC
d. None of the above d. fuel injector
35. A 4-cylinder 120 mm × 100 mm engine turns at 1,750 53. Type of plow developed in an effort to reduce friction in
rpm. If the individual cylinder’s clearance volume is 110 a sliding bottom by using a rolling bottom is:
cm3, what is the engine’s compression ratio? a. moldboard plow
a. 8:1 b. disc plow
b. 9:1 c. subsoilers
c. 10:1 d. rototiller
d. 11:1
54. In the equation C = SWEff/10, S is speed of plowing in:
38. Part of a planter that is always present in all planters a. mps
regardless of type and cropping system: b. kph
a. furrow opener c. fpm
b. metering device d. mph
c. seed tube
d. furrow closer 55. Disc harrow consisting of four gangs of discs with two
gangs in front and two gangs at the rear is called:
39. Type of plow developed in an effort to reduce friction in a. single-action disc harrow
a sliding bottom by using a rolling bottom is: b. double-action disc harrow
a. moldboard plow c. off-set disc harrow
b. disc plow d. all of the above
c. subsoilers
d. rototiller 56. The adjustable orifice with agitator is used for:
40. In the equation C = SWEff/10, S is speed of plowing in: b. hill-drop planter
a. mps c. broadcaster
b. kph d. transplanter
c. fpm
d. mph 57. Parameter not required in the calibration of a planter is:
a. row spacing
b. ave. seed emergence d. None of the above
c. forward speed
d. groundwheel diameter 71. The power of an engine specified by the manufacturer.
a. Indicated horsepower
58. Soil working part utilized by push-type weeders for b. Brake horsepower
dryland operation is: c. Rated horsepower
a. blade type d. All of the above
b. tine type
c. rotary type 79. Solar battery is rated in terms of ___.
d. all of the above a. dimension of the battery
b. wattage
59. Which of the following statements is incorrect: The c. ampere – hour
higher the pressure, d. None of the above
a. the larger the droplet size
b. the higher flow rate 81. Which is the oldest form of direct or indirect solar
c. the wider the spray angle energy?
d. all of the above a. Photovoltaic
b. Ocean thermal energy conversion
60. In a water pumping system, the source of water is c. Solar trough collectors
usually at a: d. Hydropower
a. lower elevation than pt. of delivery
b. equal elevation than …. 82. Photovoltaic cells work by
c. higher elevation than …. a. storing solar energy as electricity for long periods of time
d. a and c b. amplifying the energy of the sun
c. using solar energy to release electrons from one layer of
61. It is the undisturbed or broken side of the furrow. the cells to migrate to another layer, thereby setting up an
204 electric current
a. Furrow crown d. a and c
b. Furrow slice
c. Furrow wall 83. When biomass is combined with a microorganisms in
d. None of the above anaerobic conditions, the result is
a.an electric current
62. It refers to the relative proportion of the soil separates in b.butane
a given soil. c.propane
a. Soil texture d.methane and nutrient rich sludge
b. Soil structure
c. Soil moisture 84. The power grid is
d. All of the above a. regeneration
b. the network of fluid-filled tubes in a roof-mounted solar
64. The power generated from falling water. water heater
a. Hydro power c. the reaction chamber inside a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell
b. Biomass power d. the network of electrical lines that carry electricity from
c. Wind power power plants to the customers
85. The process of producing both electricity and capturing
67. A 16-valve diesel engine usually have ___________ . waste heat is called?
a. a single-piston cylinders a. active heat absorption
b. a six-piston cylinders b. regeneration
c. an eight-piston cylinders c. cogeneration
d. None of the above d. passive heat absorption
68. Reduction of engine speed or flow of fuel. 91. Wind pumps are suitable for high ___ operation.
a. Throttling a. torque
b. Clutching b. speed
c. Atomization c. power
69. A device which uses fluid power to produce mechanical 93. The greater the number of blades of the wind machine,
force and motion. ___ the torque.
a. Governor a. the higher
b. Accumulator b. the lower
c. Actuator c. the same
70. A turbine used for hydro system wherein pressurized 94. The size of the bottom of a furrower is measured from
water is converted to a high-speed jet by letting the water ___.
pass through a nozzle. a. the distance between the plow bottoms
a. Impulse turbine b. the left and to the right wing of the share of the plow
b. Reaction turbine bottom
c. Water wheel
c. the height of the share tip to the highest tip of the AREA 1 – TEST 15
moldboard
d. None of the above 1. ASAE stands for
a. American Society of Automotive Engineers
95. An implement used for seedbed preparation, weed b. American Society of Air-conditioning Engineers
eradication, or fallow cultivation subsequent to some form c. American Society of Agricultural Engineers
of primary tillage, equipped with steel spring shanks. d. All of the above
a. Chisel plow
b. Field cultivator 2. The optimum puddler speed for puddling-type floating
c. Spring tooth harrow tiller is
d. All of the above a. 100-150 rpm
b. 200-250 rpm
96. The ratio of the heat released by the fuel of a heated-air c. 300-350 rpm
mechanical dryer to the theoretical heat available from the d. None of the above
fuel.
a. Burner efficiency 3. Part of soil profile exploited by the roots of the plant.
b. Furnace efficiency a. Root bed
c. Combustion efficiency b. Root zone
d. None of the above c. Tillage zone
98. The method of applying chemicals over the entire area
to be treated. 4. The soil profile modified by tillage or amendments for use
a. Basal application by plant roots.
b. Band application a. Root bed
c. Broadcast application b. Root zone
d. None of the above c. Tillage zone
100. The center of resistance of moldboard plow is located
a. At the center of moldboard 5. When plowing requires for the soil to be incorporated or
b. At the center of share mixed with grasses and weeds, as an Agricultural Engineer
c. At the intersection of moldboard and share you will recommend
d. None of the above a. Disc plow
b. Rotary plow
c. Moldboard plow
d. All of the above
6. Manual transplanting of rice is advantageous over

mechanical rice transplanter in terms of
a. Intelligence
b. Dexterity
c. Cost
7. If soil clods are needed to be inverted during plowing, the

agricultural engineer will recommend a
a. Disc plow
b. Moldboard plow
c. None of the above
d. All of the above
8. An agricultural engineer will recommend a _______ in

order to loosen the soil during plowing
a. Subsoiler
b. Field cultivator
c. Chisel plow
9. It is a factor which considers the physical condition,

heart-beat ratio, and body weight of a person when
operating a machine.
a. Humanistic factor
b. Mechanical operation factor
c. Ergonomic factor
d. All of the above
12. It is a part of seeder that eventually distributes seed in

rows.
a. Metering device
b. Drive wheel
c. Seed hopper
d. None of the above d. land conservation programs
13. It is a machine which has one or more elements that 38. Draft of plows is primarily determined by the:
rotates about a vertical axis and cut grass by impact. a. type of soil
a. Rotary mower b. speed of plowing
b. Grass cutter c. sharpness of cutting edge
c. Power scythe d. overall adjustment of plow
d. All of the above
40. Which statement is not true?
14. Cocomethyl ester, also known as biodiesel, is a non- a. Metal with high fusibility are usually high in weldability.
toxic, eco-friendly fuel having similar properties as diesel b. Toughness is the ability of a material to withstand
fuel. The process of transesterifying raw vegetable oil into bending and twisting.
cocomethyl ester requires the use of: c. Grain size is directly related to strength.
a. alcohol d. Malleability is the capability of a material to resist being
b. oxygen shaped and formed.
c. hydrogen
d. carbon dioxide 41. When Philippines did adopt the metric system?
a. January 1, 1980
17. A type of pump that develops most of the suction and b. January 1, 1981
discharge head by propelling or lifting action of the impeller c. January 1, 1982
vanes in the water. d. January 1, 1983
a. Axial-flow pump
b. Centrifugal pump 42. ____(X)____ is a market situation that exists when
c. Mixed-flow pump there are few suppliers of a product or service that the
d. None of the above action by one results in _____(Y)_____ action by the
others.
21. The method in which planting is done directly onto an a. X = Perfect Competition; Y = indefinite
essentially unprepared seedbed. b. X = Monopoly; Y = Opposite
a. Zero tillage c. X = Monopoly; Y = Similar
b. No-tillage planting d. X = Oligopoly; Y = Similar
c. Reduced tillage
d. None of the above 44. Which does not belong to the group?
a. Ericson engine
29. A machine that breaks the liquid droplets of effective b. Stirling engine
size and distributes them uniformly over the surface or c. Wankle engine
space to be protected, and regulates the amount of d. Rankine engine
chemical solution to avoid excessive application that might
prove harmful or wasteful. 45. These rely on the illumination-spectrum intensity
a. Duster coming from the sun.
b. Sprayer a. thermal or heat-based applications
c. All of the above b. greenhouse applications
d. None of the above c. photovoltaic applications
d. solar pond principle
30. The primary factor that affects the performance of the
sprayer. 49. The following are methods of reducing risks in
a. Spray-particle size agriculture, except:
b. Spraying time a. Insurance
c. Spray materials b. flexibility
d. None of the above c. future contract
d. aggregation
33. A type of mechanical rice thresher that detaches and
separates the grains from the panicles by feeding the rice- 50. The following are the characteristics of diesel engine
in-stalks into the machine. compared to gasoline engine, except:
a. Axial-flow thresher a. higher fuel – utilization efficiency
b. Throw-in thresher b. higher fuel consumption
c. Hold-on thresher c. higher compression ratio
d. None of the above d. higher air-fuel ratio
34. Factors affecting the power requirement of a rice 52. Among the following statements, which demonstrates
thresher. efficiency in operations?
a. Feeding rate i. Reducing the number of workers while the maintaining the
b. Moisture content same target yield.
c. Length of straw ii. Increasing the number of workers while maintaining the
d. All of the above same target yield.
iii. Increasing the target yield and maintaining the number of
37. The following are the reasons why mechanization is a workers.
difficult problem in less developed countries, except: iv. Reducing the number of workers and reducing the target
a. social system yield.
b. small farm size v. Increasing the number of workers and increasing the
c. resistance to change of some farmers target yield.
a. i only c. increase in assets = increase in ownership
b. i, iii d. increase in one asset= decrease in another asset
c. i, iii, v
d. iii, iv 73. It results in the reduction of the purchasing power of
monetary unit.
55. It is an indicator of the amount of fuel in a furnace that is a. deflation
converted into ash. b. devaluation
a. burning efficiency c. incision
b. thermal efficiency d. inflation
c. latent heat
d. heat utilization efficiency 74. Time value of money and interest rate utilized together
generate this concept which means that different sums of
60. Tires can be partially filled with water to improve money at different times can be equal in economic value.
traction. a. equivalence
a. Wheelbase b. equalization
b. Rollover c. equilibrium
c. drawbar d. equestrian
d. ballast
77. Investment A costs P10,000 today and pays back
61. The mechanical function of the planter does not include: P11,500 two years from now. Investment B costs P8,000
a. sorting the seeds today and pays back P4,500 each year for two years. If an
b. metering the seeds interest rate of 5% is used, what investment decision will
c. depositing the seeds you make and why?
d. covering the seeds a. Choose investment A because it provides a net present
value that is P128 more than B.
62. A process by which a farm manager looks ahead to the b. Choose investment B because it provides a net present
future and contemplates alternative courses of action for value that is P128 more than A.
the farm. c. Choose investment A because it provides a net present
a. farm budgeting value that is P64 more than B.
b. farm planning d. Choose investment B because it provides a net present
c. farming value that is P64 more than A.
d. farm management
79. It is used to seal engine components which are bolted
64. It refers to ratio of the kinetic energy of air that a to the sub-frame, the cylinder block, and the crankcase.
windrotor can convert into mechanical energy over the a. Oil
theoretical maximum available from the wind. b. Grease
a. Power coefficient c. Gasket
b. Speed coefficient d. None of the above
c. Torque coefficient
d. none of the above 80. An air-cooled engine is basically equipped with
a. Pump
66. SAE number is an indicator of: b. Fan
a. fuel utilization efficiency c. Fan and pump
b. maximum tire load d. None of the above
c. brake horsepower
d. oil viscosity 81. A rice hull gasifier reactor that produces less tar during
operation.
68. ___________ is any paid form of non-personal a. Updraft
presentation and promotion of products. b. Crossdraft
a. Advertising c. Downdraft
b. Personal selling d. All of the above
c. Sales promotion
d. Public relations 82. The primary gas produced during gasification.
a. Methane
69. ___________ often called mild steel bars in rectangular, b. Carbon dioxide
angular and square shapes are useful in bench metal work. c. Carbon monoxide
The bars can be pounded, twisted and bent into many d. All of the above
shapes. Mild steel is often used as replacement for wrought
iron, because it is less expensive. 83. When an engine is diesel operated,
a. round bars a. The moisture of air and fuel is taken in the cylinder
b. cast iron bars b. The fuel is compressed into the combustion engine
c. pig iron bars c. Air fuel ratio is not constant as the quantity of air drawn
d. hot rolled iron bars into the cylinder is not always the same
d. All of the above
72. A transaction by your company this year involving the
repayment in cash of a portion of the long term loan of the 84. When operating light equipment, it is recommended to
company in the amount of P 70,000.00 would have the use.
following effect: a. Four stroke gasoline engine
a. increase in assets = increase in liabilities b. Two stroke gasoline engine
b. decrease in assets = decrease in liabilities c. Four stroke diesel engine
d. All of the above 96. A kilogram fuel consumed by an engine per hr per
amount of brake power is the _______.
85. A four-stroke-cycle engine is advantageous to use than a. fuel consumption rate
two-stroke-cycle engine for the reason that b. specific fuel consumption rate
a. It is easier to start the engine c. specific fuel
b. Has regular intake and exhaust valves d. None of the above
c. Easy to lubricate
d. All of the above 97. A tractor type designed for operation with advantage
under trees.
86. A turbine used for hydro system wherein pressurized a. Standard tractor
water is converted into a high speed jet by passing it b. All-purpose row crop tractor
through a nozzle. c. Orchard tractor
a. Impulse turbine d. All of the above
b. Reaction turbine
c. Water wheel 98. Which of the following is not driven by PTO shaft?
d. None of the above a. Rotary tiller
b. Power harrow
87. A component part of solar electric system that converts c. Moldboard plow
sunlight to electricity d. All of the above
a. PV panel
b. Solar cell 99. It is a circular flat tool placed ahead of a plow used to
c. Solar module cut plant material and soil.
d. All of the above a. Jointer
b. Pinion plow
88. A turbine for hydro system which runs completely filled c. Coulter
with water. d. None of the above
a. Impulse turbine
b. Reaction turbine 100. Angle in vertical plane parallel to the direction of travel
c. Water wheel between a tool axis and the soil surface.
d. None of the above a. Tilt angle
b. Side angle
89. Solar battery is rated in terms of c. Lift angle
a. Dimension of the battery d. None of the above
b. Wattage
c. Ampere – hour
91. The act of analyzing, testing, and measuring the engine

to remedy the cause and trouble.
a. Servicing
b. Tune-up
c. Trouble shooting
d. All of the above
92. When strength is provided beyond what is needed as

an extra margin of insurance against parts failure.
a. Factor of ignorance
b. Factor of safety
c. Reliability
93. An engine running without load is in.

a. Optimum running condition
b. Low running condition
c. Idle condition
94. Two engines are rated 1 hp and the other is 1 ps. Which
of the following statement is true?
a. 1 hp engine is stronger than 1 ps engine
b. Two engines are the same in strength
c. 1 ps engine is stronger than 1 hp engine
d. None of the above statement is true
95. Japanese engines are usually rated in terms of

a. Horsepower
b. Pferde starke
c. Watts
d. All of the above
AREA 1 – TEST 16 a. Auxiliary reducer
b. Turbocharger
1. Too little piston clearance will cause: c. Power inducer
a. seizing in the cylinder as the engine gets hot d. All of the above
b. loss compression
c. loss of oil pumping 12. A device that converts energy of animal to useful work.
d. imperfect valve timing a. Head yoke
b. Breast strap
2. A trench left when the plow bottom cuts and turns the c. Harness
furrow slice. d. None of the above
a. Back furrow
b. Dead furrow 16. A type of plow designed to reduce friction by making a
c. Furrow rolling bottom instead of slides along the furrow.
d. All of the above a. Moldboard
b. Rotary plow
3. If the rotor of the windmill originally at 2 meters is to be c. Disk plow
reduced to 1 meter, the power output of the machine will be d. None of the above
reduced by
a. Two times 21. A primary-tillage plow used for small rice farm.
b. Three times a. Moldboard
c. Four times b. Rotary
d. None of the above c. Spiral
d. All of the above
5. Small gasoline engine basically has a compression ratio
of 22. A primary-tillage plow for rice farming that is attached in
a. 6:1 replacement to the cage wheel of a power tiller.
b. 10:1 a. Rotary
c. 3:1 b. Spiral
d. None of the above c. Disk
d. All of the above
6. A gasoline without ethylene bromide of having an octane
rating of 87 which sometimes caused knocking on the 23. An angle of the disk plows in reference to the vertical
engine. plane.
a. Premium a. Tilt angle
b. Leaded b. Disk angle
c. Unleaded c. All of the above
7. It is a device used to generate high voltage current 24. A plow that combines the primary and secondary tillage
needed for spark plug in small engine. at the same time. It is used to cut and to pulverize the soil.
a. Distributor a. Disk plow
b. Contact point b. Rotary plow
c. Magneto c. Chisel plow
8. A knocking sound produced due to incomplete 25. A plow primarily for loosening the soil.
combustion of fuel inside the combustion chamber of an a. Lister plow
engine. b. Disk plow
a. Detonation c. Chisel plow
b. Ignition d. All of the above
c. Carburetion
d. None of the above 26. A plow that is used to break up plow sole.
a. Chisel plow
9. Part of a tractor that retards or stops one wheel during b. Lister plow
operation to be able to make short turn. c. Subsoiler
a. Differential brake d. None of the above
b. Hand brake
c. Brake pedal 27. A gang arrangement on a disk harrow consisting of two
d. All of the above gangs of diskplaced end to end which throws the soil in
opposite direction.
10. Part of the tractor engine where pistons slide back and a. Double-action
forth and are replaced when damaged. b. Single-action
a. Cylinder block c. Offset
b. Cylinder liner d. None of the above
c. Cylinder head
d. All of the above 28. A gang arrangement often called as “tandem harrow”.
a. Double-action
11. A turbine and an air blower mounted ahead of the intake b. Single-action
manifold of an engine to force more air into the cylinder c. Offset
thereby increasing power output of the engine by 10-15%. d. None of the above
29. A mechanical device used in fabricating farm tools will 38. The rate of machine performance is usually expressed
cost P120,000 when purchased. Maintenance will be in terms of _______.
P10,000 per year. It will generate revenues of P50,000 per a. quantity per unit time
year for five years. It has a salvage value of P30,000. If the b. quality per unit time
enterprise targets a minimum attractive rate of return of c. speed per unit time
15% per year, will you recommend that the device be d. All of the above
purchased? Why?
a. No, because the computed IRR of 12% is less than the 39. A gang arrangement in which the harrow is not centrally
MARR. located with respect to the tractor position.
b. No, because the computed IRR of 14% is less than the a. Double-action
MARR. b. Single-action
c. Yes, because the computed IRR of 24% is more than the c. Offset
MARR. d. None of the above
d. Yes, because the computed IRR of 15% is just equal to
the MARR. 40. Factors that influence the depth of penetration of disk
harrow.
30. Which of the following ratios cannot be calculated from a. Angle disk
a farm enterprise’s balance sheet? b. Angle of hitch
a. current ratio c. Size of disk
b. acid test ratio d. All of the above
c. debt-to-equity ratio
d. inventory turnover ratio 41. The actual coverage rate by an implement based on the
total field time.
31. Clearly assigning tasks, training, and supervising labor a. Field efficiency
are among the rules for ____________. b. Effective field capacity
a. Labor Management c. Theoretical field capacity
b. Hiring d. None of the above
c. Human Resources
d. Applying 42. A moldboard plow has:
a. Lower draft than disk plow
32. This includes any goods employed in production other b. Higher draft than disk plow
than land, labor, buildings and fences. c. Equal draft than disk plow
a. infrastructures d. All of the above
b. property
c. capital 43. By increasing the disk angle, the penetration of a disk
d. currency plow,
a. Will be improved
33. Depth of plowing for common paddy field. b. Will be the same
a. 5 to 10 cm c. Will become poor
b. 10 to 15 cm d. None of the above
c. 15 to 20 cm
d. None of the above 44. The disk angle that will give the minimum draft for a disk
plow for a given width of cut is:
34. Depth of cultivated topsoil layer being practiced in a. 30-35 deg.
modern upland farming b. 40-45 deg.
a. 0 to 10 cm c. 45-50 deg.
b. 10 to 20 cm d. None of the above
c. 20 cm to 30 cm
d. None of the above 45. Seeding directly into previously undisturbed soil.
a. Much tillage
35. In paddy field plowing operation using a four wheel b. No-till
tractor, which of the following is true: c. Minimum tillage
a. Smaller plots are much efficient to plow than larger plots. d. None of the above
b. Larger plots are much efficient to plow than smaller plots.
c. Smaller or larger plots have the same plowing efficiency. 46. A tillage operation traditionally performed in preparing a
d. None of the above seedbed for a given crop grown in a given geographical
area.
36. It is a wheel less cultivator that is used for domestic a. Conventional tillage
gardening. b. Conservation tillage
a. Motor tiller c. Strip tillage
b. Power tiller d. None of the above
c. Puddling-type floating tiller
d. None of the above 47. An implement with integral power unit designed to
provide both mobility and power for performing agricultural
37. Machine performance is determined by ___________. operation.
a. the rate and quality at which the operations are a. Mounted implement
accomplished b. Self-propelled machine
b. the speed to accomplish the given operation c. Trailed-mounted implement
c. the power needed in accomplishing the given operation d. None of the above
52. Which of the following agencies does not belong to the 65. General-purpose tillage equipment are used in:
Department of Agriculture? 234
a. BPRE a. 2-wheel tractor for wetland op.
b. BPI b. 4-wheel tractor for dryland op.
c. AMMDA c. 4-wheel tractor for wetland op.
d. RAEG d. all of the above
53. How many times greater is the power of a carabao over 69. Planters designed to plant seeds continuously in rows
man? with row spacing greater than 36 cm is called.
a. 0.1 a. row-crop drill planter
b. 1.0 b. hill-drop planter
c. 10 c. solid drill planter
d. 100 d. broadcaster
55. The word used to indicate that among several 70. Principle used in creating hydraulic energy in a lever-
possibilities one is recommended as particularly suitable operated knapsack sprayer is:
without mentioning or excluding others: a. adding air to a container with fixed volume of liquid
a. Shall b. adding liquid to a container with a fixed volume of air
b. Should c. adding liquid to a container with an existing volume of
c. a or b liquid
d. none of the above d. adding air to a container with an existing volume of air
57. The most recently developed system of harvesting and 71. Which of the following is not a part of a typical lever-
threshing of rice is: operated knapsack sprayer?
a. mechanical harvesting & threshing a. tank
b. combining b. pump
c. stripping c. pressure gage
d. all of the above d. nozzle
58. A machine that cuts standing crop, conveys the cut crop 72. Which of the following is not a typical example of a
to one side, and lays them down in an orderly manner is small singlecylinder engine?
called: a. air-cooled gasoline engine
a. sickle b. water-cooled gasoline engine
b. reaper-windrower c. air-cooled diesel engine
c. reaper-binder d. water-cooled diesel engine
d. stripper
73. The conventional system of harvesting and threshing of
59. An engine that burns fuel inside the cylinder. rice in the Philippines is:
a. External combustion engine a. manual harvesting and threshing
b. Internal combustion engine b. Manual harvesting and mechanical threshing
c. Sterling engine c. mechanical harvesting and threshing
d. None of the above d. combining
60. Part of engine that which slides up and down the 75. The threshing action where grains are detached from
cylinder and transmits power to the crankshaft. their panicles when the straw is pulled through a “V” shaped
a. Connecting rod configuration is called:
b. Cylinder block a. rubbing action
c. Piston b. impact action
d. Spark plug c. stripping action
d. a and b
62. Tractor size is determined by ___________________.
a. weight, horsepower, and size and number of wheels 76. The development of PAES started in:
b. implement capacity, weight, and size and number of a. 1985
wheels b. 1990
c. weight, horsepower, and implement capacity c. 1995
d. weight, horsepower, and size ONLY d. 2000
63. An open trench left between the adjacent strips of land 79. This must be high enough in order to self-ignite the air
after finishing the plowing operation. fuel mixture in a diesel engine.
a. Back furrow a. compression temperature
b. Dead furrow b. valve compression
c. Furrow c. intake pressure
d. All of the above d. engine pressure
64. In the equation C = SWEff/10, W is width of cut 80. These designs were introduced to increase tractor
expressed in: safety.
a. ft. a. DTR
b. m b. SRAF
c. km c. ROPS
d. mile d. TE
81. Fuel used for constant pressure cycle internal 96. The sequence by which the cylinder delivers the power
combustion engine. stroke.
a. Gasoline a. Ignition
b. Diesel b. Firing order
c. Biomass c. Flash point
82. How many fuel injection pumps are there in 4 cylinder

four stroke cycle diesel engine?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
83. How many fuel injection pumps are there in 4 cylinder

four stroke cycle gasoline engine?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
84. Compression ring is usually located ____________ .

a. on top of the oil ring
b. beneath the oil ring
c. on the same position with the oil ring
85. Increasing the engine clearance volume will

_____________.
a. increase the compression ratio
b. decrease the compression ratio
c. have the same compression ratio
86. The classes of risks in agriculture results from:

a. Human factors
b. Statements b, and c
c. Liquidity
d. Natural factors
88. A machine that cuts standing crop, conveys the cut crop
to one side, and lays them down in an orderly manner is
called:
a. sickle
b. reaper-windrower
c. reaper-binder
d. stripper
89. The Japanese combine is characterized as:

a. low power & hold-on feeding
b. low power & throw-in feeding
d. high power & throw-in feeding
93. The time required for savings or sales to offset first

costs, without regard for the time value of money is called
a. discounted payback period
b. capital recovery period
c. return on investment period
d. simple payback period
95. This fuel is obtained by partial combustion of

carbonaceous substances, like coal, wood, charcoal,
sawdust, or similar materials, in an atmosphere of air and
steam. It is a mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen,
methane, nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
a. LPG
b. natural gas
c. producer gas
d. biogas

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AREA 1 – TEST 1 c.

88. The gasoline engine is characterized as

91. A kind of chemical used for spraying which form finely

93. Growing of two or more crops simultaneously and

94. Growing of two or more crops in alternate rows.

95. It is a practice of planting short-term annual crop with

96. It is the cultivation of one crop underneath a perennial

97. Application of chemical to a small restricted area,

98. Dispersion of liquid or dry particles in air in such a

99. Application of chemical to the steam, fruit, leaves,

75. Which of the following is not a method of valuation of

76. What is the “book value of an asset?”

7. This is also known as the ad valorem tax.

8. Which of the following is not a managerial role:

9. Which of the following Cs in marketing is directly linked

14. Which of the following are characteristics of a good

82. The projection of cash inflow and outflow of a farm to

83. Type of engine that can be fueled with producer gas.

90. Soil working part utilized by push-type weeders for

86. pk is Dutch acronym for ____________ .

87. One (1)PS is equal to _________ watts

88. A farm is planed be planted with corn at a spacing of 30

6. The ratio of the clearance volume from the total volume.

8. Conversion of solid into combustible carbon monoxide

9. Power transmitted to the pistons by the gas in the

10. An engine has piston displacement of 38.4 in3. If the

11. Number of explosion of piston on a single cylinder, four

90. The time required for savings or sales to offset first

91. It is an auxiliary plow-working element, mounted above

92. The size of a moldboard plow is determined ________ .

93. It is a set of sprinkler nozzles.

89. Number of times the intake valve opens in a single-

90. Part of an engine that converts reciprocating motion into

91. System of number indicating the ignition quality of

92. Twenty-hp engine is equal to.

93. Ten-hp engine is equivalent to

94. A substance that decreases the effect of friction and

99. Sprayers are used primarily for the application of:

100. Which of the following is not a spray nozzle pattern?

84. Twelve man-days is equivalent to:

90. Which is true about V-belt and pulley drive?

93. Which of the following agencies does not belong to the

91. A steam engine is an example of ______________.

92. A constant volume cycle engine.

93. A constant pressure cycle

94. Power implements are usually connected to the

95. Turbo charging tractor engine will increase the power

96. Integral mounted implement are usually attached to the

97. A semi-integral mounted type implements are usually

6. Manual transplanting of rice is advantageous over

7. If soil clods are needed to be inverted during plowing, the

8. An agricultural engineer will recommend a _______ in

9. It is a factor which considers the physical condition,

12. It is a part of seeder that eventually distributes seed in

91. The act of analyzing, testing, and measuring the engine

92. When strength is provided beyond what is needed as

93. An engine running without load is in.

95. Japanese engines are usually rated in terms of

82. How many fuel injection pumps are there in 4 cylinder