ICC 2015 Building Plans Examiner Quiz 4

Questions from the 2015 IBC


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1) Fire alarm shop drawings require all of the following except?

2) A Manual Fire Alarm is required for a Group F occupancy if the combined load is more than how many people above or below the lowest level of exit discharge (LED)?

3) Apartment complexes with more than how many sleeping units requires a Manual Fire Alarm?

4) In an R-2 occupancy, which of the following does not need a smoke alarm?

5) Which of the following is required to be activated by a smoke detector connected to an automatic fire alarm system in a high rise building?

6) What is the maximum sound pressure level for an audible alarm notification appliance in an R occupancy?

7) How many rooms equipped with visible alarm notification appliances are required in a 140 room hotel?

8) Which occupancy does not require doors in smoke barriers to be protected by automatic closing devices?

9) Automatic control of a smoke control system where automatic control is used, the automatic control shall be initiated by all of the following, except?

10) A smoke proof enclosure shall have access by way of a vestibule with a minimum dimension of what?

11) Minimum width and length of vestibule is?

12) A Group F-1 shall have smoke control if over?

13) What is the minimum distance smoke and heat vents shall be located away from fire walls?

14) A fire command center shall be separated from the remainder of the building by not less than a?

15) The minimum area of a fire command center shall be?

16) Sloped surfaces shall be used in the means of egress where changes in elevation is less than?

17) The occupancy load for concentrated (non-fixed chairs) assembly use is based upon?

18) The occupancy load for a library reading room is based upon?

19) For areas with fixed seating without dividing arms, the occupant load shall be not less than on person for each?

20) The capacity of a non-stairway means of egress in a non-sprinklered building is?

21) The means of egress shall be configured such that the loss of any one exit, or access to one exit, shall not reduce the available capacity or width to less than what percent of the required capacity or width?

22) Door in any position shall not reduce the required width by more than?

23) Three or more exits are required from any space with an occupant load over?

24) A boiler room requires two exits if?

25) Two exits are required for refrigerated rooms exceeding?

26) A single exit is allowed from a story for what occupancy:

27) In a non-sprinklered building requiring two exits, they shall be placed at least how far apart?

28) A Group-B occupancy in a second floor is permitted to have a single exit for what design occupancy load?

29) The common path of travel allowed for a Group-M occupancy is?

30) An emergency electrical system shall automatically illuminate the exit access stairway and ramp if the room or space requires?

31) Accessible means of egress stairway shall be a minimum of?

32) Each area of refuge shall be sized to accommodate one wheelchair for each?

33) An area of refuge shall be separated from the story by a?

34) The minimum clear width of a door shall be?

35) The maximum width of a swinging door leaf shall be?

36) Required doors in the means of egress of a hospital that supports the movement of beds shall have a clear width of not less than?

37) The door opening heights shall not be less than?

38) Side-hinged doors shall swing in the direction of travel where serving a room with more than how many people?

39) Landings at doors shall have a length measured in the direction of travel of not less than?

40) Swinging door thresholds shall not be raised above the finished floor by more than?

41) Sensor released electrically locked egress doors are permitted in which of the following occupancies?

42) Panic hardware is required for a building with 40 people in which of the following occupancies?

43) Balanced doors requiring panic hardware shall have the push-pad not extend more than how far from the latch side?

44) Panic hardware is not required where safe dispersal areas based on 3 ft2 per occupant are located between the fence and enclosed space of a stadium, where the safe dispersal area is not less than how far from the enclosed space?

45) The minimum width of a stairway serving 50 people shall be?

46) Stairways shall have a headroom clearance of not less than?

47) Stair risers shall be a maximum and minimum of what values for non-R occupancies?

48) The maximum riser height and tread depth in a Group R-3 occupancy is permitted to be?

49) The minimum winder tread depth in an R-3 occupancy shall be?

50) Every stairway landing shall have a minimum width measured perpendicular to the direction of travel equal to the width of the stairway. Where the stairway has a straight run, the depth need not exceed?

51) The open space under exterior stairways shall not be used for?

52) The maximum rise height between stairway landings shall not exceed?

53) The smallest radius for curved stairs with winder treads shall not be less than?

54) Spiral stairways shall provide a headroom of at least?

55) The maximum riser height for spiral stairways shall be?

56) Alternating tread devices are allowed in which of the following occupancies?

57) Means of egress ramps shall not exceed what slope?

58) Pedestrian ramps shall not be steeper than?

59) The cross-slope of a ramp shall not be steeper than?

60) The minimum clear width of a ramp shall not be less than?

61) The required headroom of a ramp shall not be less than?

62) Doors opening onto a landing in a means of egress ramp shall not reduce the clear width to less than?

63) The length of a non-accessible ramp landing shall be not less than?

64) Handrail height measured above a stair tread nosing or the finished surface of a ramp slope shall be within?

65) Handrails shall?

66) A non-accessible dwelling unit’s handrails need only extend from?

67) Projections into the required width of aisles, stairways and ramps at each side shall not exceed what distance at or below the handrail height?

68) All portions of the stairway minimum width or required capacity shall be within how far from a handrail?

69) Guards shall be located along open-sided walking surfaces more than how far above the grade below?

70) Guards are not required at vertical openings in the?

71) What is the minimum height of required guards?

72) Required guards shall not have openings that allow a passage of a sphere through of what size?

73) Triangular openings at the open sides of a stair formed by the riser, tread and bottom rail shall not allow passage of a sphere of what diameter?

74) Areas not open to the public in Prisons, Groups F, H, and S shall not have openings that allow passage of a sphere of what diameter?

75) Guards are needed (some exceptions apply) for windows in R-3 buildings where the window sill is under 36 inches and the grade below the winder is more than?

76) A Group F-1 sprinklered building that is one story in height with a minimum height from the finished floor to the bottom of the ceiling is 24 feet is permitted to have a maximum exit access travel distance of?

77) In an open parking garage, exit access travel distance is permitted to the measured to the closest riser of an exit access stairway to the closest slope of an?

78) Exit access travel distance shall be measured from the most remote point within a story to the entrance to an exit along the?

79) What is the maximum exit access travel distance for an unsprinklered F-1 occupancy?

80) What is the maximum exit access travel distance in a sprinklered F-1 occupancy?

81) What is the maximum exit access travel distance in a non-sprinklered B occupancy?

82) What is the maximum exit access travel distance in a sprinklered B occupancy?

83) Fire rated construction is not required for an enclosed exit access stairway in a Group B occupancy that connects no more than how many stories?

84) A sprinklered corridor in a Group B occupancy requires what fire rating?

85) What is the minimum width of a corridor in a Group B building serving 49 people?

86) A Group E occupancy with 100 people shall have corridors at least?

87) Hospital corridors that require bed movement shall be how wide?

88) Sprinklered Group B occupancies are permitted to have dead ends how long?

89) The minimum width of egress balconies shall have the same minimum width as?

90) The long side of an egress balcony shall be open by at least?

91) Except for independent ventilation duck work, sprinkler piping, electrical raceways and fire department communication systems, penetrations into or through interior exit stairways and ramps shall be?

92) The minimum width of an exit passageway serving less than 50 people shall be?

93) Exit passageway enclosures shall have not less than a 1-hour fire-resistance rating, and?

94) Horizontal exits in a hospital are allowed to comprise what fraction of the required exits on a floor?

95) Refuge areas in a hospital ambulatory occupancy shall be based upon how many square feet per occupant?

96) Non-high rise buildings that are not used as hospitals can use exterior exit stairways as an element of a required means of egress for buildings not exceeding how many stories?

97) Required open areas on exterior exit stairways and ramps shall be located not less than how far above the adjacent floor or landing?

98) The minimum width of a court shall be?

99) The main exit for an Assembly occupancy with an occupant load greater than 300 shall be of sufficient capacity to accommodate not less than?

100) Press boxes do not require a sprinkler system if under?

101) Where one of the two paths of travel is across the aisle through a row of seats to another aisle, there shall be not more than how many seats between the two aisles?

102) The minimum clear width for aisles with seating on both sides serving more than 49 seats shall be?

103) The minimum clear width for aisles with seating on both sides serving less than 50 seats shall be?

104) The minimum clear aisle access way width shall be not less than how wide for aisle access ways serving 14 or fewer seats?

105) What width is required for an aisle serving 14 seats with backrests where the only exit access is a ramp at one end of the aisle?

106) The slope of an aisle other than ramped aisles that serve as part of an accessible route, shall have a slope not exceeding?

107) Where guard railing would interfere with sightlines of immediately adjacent seating, the guard railing is permitted to be reduced to a minimum height of?

108) At least one exterior emergency escape and rescue opening is required for sleeping rooms below what story?

109) Where basements contain one or more sleeping rooms:

110) Emergency escape and rescue openings not on the grade floor shall have a minimum net clear opening of?

111) The minimum net clear opening for grade floor emergency escape and rescue openings shall be?

112) The minimum net clear opening height of an emergency escape and rescue opening shall be?