2014

NETA II
STUDY GUIDE

This document is a basic guide line to help you prepare for the exam.
Please NOTE you will have to find the right answers on your own.
 NOTE- Green highlighted answers are the ones chosen by other techs.
These are not necessary the correct answers.

1. If a circuit breaker is rated for 25000A and a 50000A fault occurs, the
breaker opens, what will happen?
a. Breaker will fail
b. Breaker will clear fault with no damage
c. Contacts will be polished

2. Disconnect switch is used for?

a. Used as a safety switch
b. Used as an isolation point

3. If you are DC hipoting a cable and you see dips in the current at the max
voltage what should the tech do?
a. Ignore these readings
b. Measure maximum dip
c. Measure average dip
d. Record range of values (lowest and highest)

4. How would you define a UPS system?

a. Converts ac to dc then inverts dc to ac
b. Battery bank
c. To supply trip power
Que hay en la parte superior del aceite en un tanque trafo sellado de aire?
5. What is on top of the oil in a sealed-air transformer tank?
a. Nitrogen blanket
b. Oxygen blanket
c. No space intended for air
Que usaria para limpar o desactivar?
6. In the event of a high current fault, what would you use to clear it?
a. Instantaneous overcurrent relay
b. Current limiting fuses
c. Arrestors

7. What would a thermal device trip on?

a. Overload
b. Short circuit
c. Voltage
d. Phase loss
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8. Which test equipment is the least likely to be used on a cable?
a. Ratio test

9. Analog meter with accuracy of 1% of full scale. Reading at 25% of full

scale what is the accuracy?
a. 1%
b. 0.25%
c. 25%
d. 2.5%
Que aria principalmente
10. What would primarily be used to insulate breakers, bus work, and
switchgear?
a. SF6
b. Air
c. Oxygen
d. Both A and B

11. When batteries are charging what gas is produced?

a. Hydrogen
b. Oxygen
c. Nitrogen

12. What does NETA recommend you do when hipoting a vacuum bottle?
a. Use an AC hipot
b. Ground the other side of the bottle
c. Guard yourself from x-rays
Quien dice OSHA tiene que ser entrenado para bloquear y etiquetar y procedimento
13. Who does OSHA say has to be trained for lock out / tag out
procedures?
a. Affected employees
b. Electrical workers
c. Contracted employees
d. Supervisors

14. What is the first thing that you should do when performing a ratio test?
a. Connect X1, X2
b. Connect H1, H2
c. Test neutral tap
d. Perform a self-check

15. Best description of confined space/who regulates confined sapce?

Espacio cerrado o parciamente cerrado, no esta diceñado que sea ocupado por personas,
tiene una entrada o salida limitada y es regulado por la OSHA
16. What does the ~ symbol mean when it is by the power source?
a. Alternating current
b. Direct current

17. Which of the following is definitely not a confined space?

a. Silo
b. Vat tina
c. Ventilation room
d. Ditch sanja

18. What is true about rescue equipment and confined space?

a. Must be present at the site
b. Must include self-contained breathing apparatus debe incluir equipo
de respiracion autonomo
c. Must have non- entry rescue system

19. What is classified as a low voltage ac power breaker?

a. 120 / 208 or 277 / 480
b. 250
c. 450
d. 240, 480, 600
e. None of the above

20. How often does a digital meter need to be calibrated?

a. Every 6 months
b. Every 12 months
c. Everyday
d. Never

21. Six 12 V batteries in parallel, all rated 100 amp/hrs, what is the total rating
of the bank?
a. 72V @ 100 A/hrs
b. 72V @ 600 A/hrs
c. 12V @ 100 A/hrs
d. 12V @ 600 A/hrs

22. Six 12 V batteries series, all rated 100 amp/hrs, what is the total rating of
the bank?
e. 72V @ 100 A/hrs
f. 72V @ 600 A/hrs
g. 12V @ 100 A/hrs
h. 12V @ 600 A/hrs
23. What is the ratio of a delta-delta 13800 / 4160 volts transformer?
a. 3.3173
b. 5.5
c. 5.75
salud
24. What is the purpose of occupational health and safety?
a. Provides safety regulations for workers
Establece norma de seguridad para los trabajadores
25. How many positive peaks will be seen in a 350 Hz system in 2 seconds?
a. 350
b. 700
c. 1050
d. 60
encontrar
26. What apparatus would you most likely find a rapid pressure indication?
a. Transformer
b. Oil circuit breaker
c. SF6 breaker
encontrado
27. A stator is found in?
a. Generator
b. Resistor
c. Breaker
d. Transformer
mas largo tambien llamado?
28. Longest side of a power triangle also called?
a. True
b. Apparent power
c. Real power
d. Reactive power
sellado
29. What is most common in a sealed transformer?
a. Purged with nitrogen air
b. Oil fill to the top llenado de aceite en la parte superior
c. Breather respiradero
d. Oxygen

30. Multimeter is best used for?

a. Phase angles
b. Checking resistance on switchgear with building neutral and
ground
 deseado
31. After performing a high potential test on SWGR, the desired time has
expired, you should?
a. Ground the system
b. Immediately shut the machine off
c. Turn the dial on the hipot to zero volts
d. Disconnect the test set

32. What is the last thing a tech does when they are finished on switchgear?
a. Check connections
b. Inspect insulation
c. Clean cell
que permitiria bloqueo y etiquetado sin tener una cerradura
33. What would allow lock out/tag out not have a lock?
a. All workers agree and sign on to tag
b. Not able to lock piece of equipment out
c. Employer has shown policy of system that will ensure lock out
without locking out
d. B and C

34. What fire extinguisher can be used on electrical fires?

a. Class A solidos combustibles ordinarios
b. Class B liquidos y gases
c. Class C electricos
d. Class D metales combustibles
e. Class K aceites y

35. What is the hard hat rating for low voltage not high voltage?
a. Class G General 2200v
b. Class E Electrico 22000v
c. Class C Conductivo

36. Which hard hats are not allowed on a high voltage site?
a. Class G
b. Class E
c. Class C Conductivo

37. What is the cosine of 60 degrees?

coseno 60°= 1/2
38. What transformer cannot be used indoors?
Potencia
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39. What type of circuit breaker has a puffer?
a. SF6
b. Air magnetic
c. Vacuum
d. Oil

40. What is the insulation of the 15 kV cable MV 90/220 mils?

a. 90%
b. 120%
c. 100%
d. 133.XX%

41. What is the purpose of a battery on an analog multimeter?

a. Measuring AC current
b. Measuring DC current
c. Measuring resistance
Si el peso especifico es mayor a 1?
42. Where would you take an oil sample from if the specific gravity is greater
than 1?
a. From the bottom
b. From the top
c. From the middle
d. Don’t take the sample

43. What two standards does NETA follow when doing a Short circuit study?
a. ANSI/IEEE
b. ANSI/ASTM

44. What would PVC be used for in medium voltage cables?

a. Insulation
b. Jacket
c. Semicon
d. Shielding
e. None of the above

45. What is the purpose of ANSI?

a. Safety
b. Testing
c. Xxx
46. When performing a PI test you would use a?
a. Megohmmeter
b. Low resistance meter
destello limite
47. What is the Flash protection boundary?
a. Far enough away you can feel the heat
b. Can get 2nd degree burns Puede sufrir quemaduras de 2° grado
c. Far away
Que mas es lo planteado del limite prohibido dice que es comparado?
48. What else is the prohibited approach boundary said to be comparable
to?
a. Contact with the live conductor
b. Coming within 1” of the source
Proporcionan
49. Station batteries provide?
a. Trip power to CB’s Interbalo de energia a breakers circuitos
b. Indicator lights
c. Control room lights
d. Maintain power to cap trip devices

50. Current transformer does which of the following?

a. Low current to relays and XXX
b. Gives current to a motor
c. Voltage proportional to primary

51. What does a resistor in a circuit do?

a. Lower current baja corriente
b. Heat

Kilo Watt hora

52. kWH meter measures ___________________

53. Analog switch?

a. Make before break
b. Break before make
c. Break CT not interrupted
Razone spara tener un llave de repuesto kirk
54. Reasons to have a copy/spare kirk key?
a. Switch during maintenance cambio durante mantenimineto
b. Lose or break one perder o romper uno
c. Fuse and changing taps Fusible y cambio de tomas
d. All of the above todas las de arriva
CSA canadian standards asiciation, asociacion independiente que
implememta y supervisa las normas de los productor comenciales
y de copnsumo electrico canadiense
55. What does CSA do?

56. What is the main purpose of CO relays?

a. Overcurrent
b. Overvoltage
c. Differential

57. What are the standards for arc flash?

NFPA 70E
58. Incident energy is measured in?
a. Cal/cm2

59. What will cause corona?

a. Moisture on insulation
b. Dirt on insulation
c. Oil on insulation
d. Small air gaps between bus and insulation pequenos espacios de aire
e. No air gaps between bus and insulation entre bus y la aislacion

60. How often are gloves inspected?

a. Every 6 months
b. Every year
c. Every 2 years

61. When should an IR scan be performed?

a. Prior to service
b. After service
c. Not useful

62. What is required with an IR image in a report?

a. Description of the equipment tested
b. Temperature difference between the suspected zone and the
reference zone
c. ???
d. A and B

63. What is the typical voltage rating of a multi-meter before a high voltage
probe is required?
devanado
64. What type of meter is used to measure winding resistance?
megger o meghometro
65. Switchgear interiors are compartmentalized for the purpose of?
a. Workers safety seguridad de los trabajadores
b. Dirt/dust control Suciedad control de polvo
c. Moisture control control humendad
d. Fault damage control control de daños
e. All of the above
atornillado
66. What can be used to test bolted connections?
a. Torque wrench
b. Thermographic survey
c. Low resistance ohmmeter
d. All of the above

67. An analog voltmeter?

a. Includes a series connected high resistance
b. Are low impedance devices
c. Provide ± 2 % accuracy
d. Include full voltage operating coils
e. Include DC movements only

68. How many terminals are on a typical insulation resistance tester?

fase-neutro-tierra
lectura
69. Calculate the percent accuracy if specified at 120, reading 124.56?

70. If a 51 relay starts to pick up at 4A when the CT ratio is 200:5, what is the
primary current?
a. 200 A
b. 4 A
c. 160 A

71. What is a 27 on a single line?

Rele bajo voltaje
72. How do you properly turn off a power supply?
a. Ramp down the voltage first bajar la rampa de tension primero

73. What do all of the inside angles of a triangles add up too?

a. 90 degrees
b. 180 degrees
c. 360 degress

74. What is an ammeter selector switch used for?

Usados para conectar uno o mas fases de suministros electricos a un
amperimetro, demodo que la corriente en cada fase pueda visualizarce
en un amperimetro
 sin blindaje
75. When can an unshielded 15kV cable be used?
a. In conduit en conductos
cuando se realizan uniones para protejer
b. When splicing to shield cableel cable
c. From an isolation switch to a transformer in a switch yard
de un interuptor de aislacion a un interuptor de
trasformador en patio
76. What is the ASTM procedure for taking oil samples?
a. D877 procedimineto para muetra de aceite?
b. D923
c. D974
d. D1533
e. D3612

77. What is the ASTM procedure for doing a DGA?

a. D877 DGA= analisis de gases en aceite
b. D923
c. D974
d. D1533
e. D3612

78. What is the voltage rating of class 2 gloves?

a. 500V 00 Beige
b. 7000V 1 Blaco
c. 17000V 2 Amarillo
d. 26500V 3 Verde
e. 36000V 4 Naranjo

79. No-load tap charger should? Cuando los reles comparan la

a. Be charged when TX is de-energized suma, diferencia o interaccion
b. When TX has no load entre dos
o mas corrientes o entre V y I?
80. When relays compare the sum, difference, or interaction between two or
more currents or between V and I?
a. It must plot in same quadrant
b. Relative direction of current must be known Direccion relativa de la I
c. CT ratio is not relevant debe ser conocida
d. Lagging PF exists
e. Relay inputs must be in phase

81. Who enforces Canadian Labor Code?

a. OH&S
b. CLC ( Canadian Labour Congress)
82. Before meggering?
a. Record reading as shown registro de lectura como se muestra
b. Apply scale multiplier aplicar multiplicador de escala
c. Record scale multiplier historial multiplicadoe de escala
d. Record scale reading and multiplier lectura de escala de registro y
e. B or D multiplicador

83. Bridges are used to measure? Los puente se utilizan para medir
a. Watts
b. Amps
c. Millivolts
d. Reactance
e. Resistance

84. What does SF6 stand for?

Hexafloruro de asufre
85. What is the most common form of switchgear wiring?
a. SIS

3 years? La CEC es publicado cada

86. The CEC is released every _____
CEC= Canadian electrical code
87. What would the ASTM be used for?
American society for testing and material
88. What is the main purpose of the CEC?
sirve de base para las regulaciones del cableado atravez de canada
89. What is 2πr?
a. Circumference of a circle
b. Area of a circle

90. What would you use when performing a PI test on a motor aside from a
high voltage DC test set?
a. Megohmeter
b. Multimeter
c. Power factor test set

91. What type of main breaker would you use on a medium voltage motor
starter?
a. Thermal overload
b. Magnetic or Instantaneous
c. Long time delay
d. Short time delay
92. Thermal devices provide?

93. If a battery is designated as 100Ah, which is true?

a. 100 A for 1 hour at full voltage
b. 1 A for 10 hours at no less than 76% of voltage
c. 100 A for 100 hours
hacer cumplir
94. Who can enforce CEC Standards?
a. Federal Authorities
b. Provincial Authorities
c. Local Authorities
d. Standards Council of Canada consejo estandar de canada

95. An analog meter is used on a 4160 V system with a PF of 0.8 and a 200:5
CT, what would the full deflection on the meter read?
a. 5 A
b. 4 A
c. 200 A
d. 160 A

96. What does 50/51 stand for?

Sobre corriente instantane / tiempo de sobre corriente instantanea
97. A DGA test on an oil sample measures?
a. Oil Dielectric strength
b. Gas Analysis D3612
c. Water Content
d. Specific Gravity
e. Viscosity

98. A class 0 glove test is at 5000 Vac, what is the maximum rated voltage for
use?
a. 5000 V
b. 2500 V
c. 1000 V
d. 2000 V

99. You need to check the resistance of a contactor, what should you do
before you perform the test?
a. Check for voltage present
b. Measure voltage
c. Check resistance
 Para lograr
100. What multiplication value is applied to peak voltage to achieve an
RMS voltage?
a. 0.707
b. 1.414
c. 1.2
d. 2

101. What should be used to take a DGA sample?

a. Amber bottle
b. Jar
c. Can
d. Thief Tubes
asi como
102. Insulators on bus work should provide electrical insulation as well as:
a. Ensure bus does not move during a fault Asegurar que el bus no se mueva
b. Prevent contamination durante la falla
c. Prevent corrosion to bus
d. Provide heat to bus
e. Cool bus

103. 3 years:
The CEC Part 1 is released every ____
a. 1
b. 3
c. 6
d. 10

104. How is a resistor shown on a single line?

a.

b.

c.
d. A and C

105. Oil immersed, natural cooled transformer is designated as?

a. AA trasformador tipo seco con enfriamiento propio
b. OA trasformador sumergido en aceite con enfriamiento natural
c. FA enfriamiento propio y aire forzado
d. FOA sumnergido en liquido aislante con enfriamiento con aceite
forzado
106. What is the purpose of continuous forced air ventilation in a
confined space?
a. Eliminate the need for a permit
b. Eliminate the need for an attendant
c. Change confined space to non-confined space cambiar espacio confinado
a no confinado
107. Temporary grounds should be?
a. 2/0 AWG wire
b. Are sized with consideration of short circuit calculations and time
c. Screw tight jaw or spring energized clamp estan dimensionados
d. All of the above con la consideracion
calculo y tiempo del
108. Voltage in an electrical system is? cortocircuito
a. Equivalent to water pressure
b. Measured to ground
c. Measurement of power flow
retarda
109. If the current lags the voltage by 90 degrees, the circuit is purely?
a. Inductive
b. Capacitive
c. Resistive

110. Which is the preferred method of ground resistivity testing?

a. Two point method
b. Three point method
c. Fall of potential method
d. Four point method

111. Which material if the most conductive?

a. Copper
b. Brass bronce
c. Silver plata
d. Steel
e. Gold
Que no esta clasificado para interrumpi corriente de carga?
112. What is not rated to interrupt load current?
a. Load break air switch
b. Vacuum switch
c. Air circuit breaker
d. Disconnect switch
e. Oil circuit breaker
113. NETA recommends that a thermographic report includes?
estandarizacion y desarrollo de areas
114. What does IEEE stand for? tecnicas
Intutute of electrical and electronic ingeenier
115. What trip device is normally used to open a medium voltage circuit
breaker where battery source is not available? Que dispositivo de disparo se
utiliza normalmente para abrir
a. Capacitor
un interruptor de circuito de
b. Series media tension, donde la fuente
c. Shunt de la bateria no esta disponible?
d. Vacuum
e. AC coil

116. Which is used to test RTD inputs of a motor protective relay?

a. Decade box
b. Hi-amp test set
c. Relay test set
d. Volt ohmmeter
e. Megohmmeter
El ultimo escalon de una escalera
debera??
117. The top step of a tied-off ladder shall?
proporcionar ranuras de una
a. Provide a seven inch tread depth
profundidad 7"
b. Have a non-slip surface Tener superficie anti deslizante
c. Be kept free from foreign objects libre objetos extraños
d. Not be used
e. A, B and C
carga a travez
118. What is the voltage drop across the 20 ohm resistor?
= 80v

I =4A
 119. What is the current in the circuit?

I=24A

120. What is BD?

= 80

la suma de los angulo interiores es 180