What is the minimum number of divorces that you must have to be a Lead Piper?
a. oneb. two
c. threed. zero, but you must be an alcoholic
Question #2
Which of the following items does not belong in this group?
a. beerb. pee
c. cigard. HB pencil lead
Question #3
You have a 2” Steam line with 1” insulation, a 4” Utility Water and a 4” Plant Air line left to run in a piperack. The problem is there is only enough room for two of the lines, do you
Connect the steam and water lines together and tell everyone that we now have hot water.
Route the air and water and leave out the steam.
Route the steam and air lines and leave out the water line.
Don’t run any of the lines and leave them for the field to run.
Question #4
You go to get a cup of coffee and as usual all of the coffee pots are empty. Do you
Make another pot and go back to work.
Make another pot and then spike it just for spite, then go back to work.
Don’t make another pot and just wait for someone else to make another pot.
Go find another coffeepot on another project.
Question #5
You go to a meeting with the process group to discuss the latest P&ID changes. Do you
Take a shotgun with you and hold everyone hostage until they see things your way.
Just take a two-by-four with you to help stress your point.
Just take a nap in the back of the room and then mark up the P&ID’s the way they should be later.
Keep raising your hand and asking in depth questions until you are asked to leave, then later mark up the P&ID’s the way they should be.
Question #6
Your in charge of all the equipment modeling on the job and every time you go into a model you find things have been moved, you
Threaten everyone on the project if they don’t stay out of the models.
Start booby-trapping keyboards of the people you suspect of tampering with your models.
Invite the suspected offender out to the parking lot.
Just go nuts in the office once or twice so everyone else is so afraid of you that they leave all of your stuff alone.
Question #7
Which of the following is not a common piping term?
a. Swageb. Beer
c. Overtimed. Hangover
Question #8
Just how long can a process engineer hold his breath under water?
a. 10 secondsb. 30 seconds
c. 1 minuted. Don’t know, they keep drowning
Question #9
You’re a piping designer and your piping lead asks you for the status in your area.
You say….
I’m basically done except for some supports and instrumentation.
If you cared about me you wouldn’t ask such personal questions.
I don’t know, if you would just leave me alone for five minutes I could get my work done.
I’m 72.4 % complete, when is the next team building meeting?
Question #10
You’re the lead piper on a project and the Project Engineer asks you for the status of your group.
You say…
We’re basically done except for some supports and instrumentation.
If you cared about me you wouldn’t ask such personal questions.
I don’t know, if you would just leave me alone for five minutes I could get my work done.
We’re 72.4 % complete, when is the next team building meeting?
Question #11
You’re trying to issue isos in a particular area and the P&ID’s keep changing.
Do you…
Wait until the changes stop and issue the isos late.
Issue the isos on schedule and revise them later.
Explain to management (again) why there are so many revisions.
Issue the isos now and let the field pick up the changes.
Question #12
You have just completed modeling an area and you are preparing for your Stage 3 model review, you…
…go out the night before and get hammered
…eat large quantities of baked beans before you begin.
…ask everyone to say a silent prayer for your eminent liver transplant.
…practice your pig Latin so no one can understand you.
Question #13
You can’t decide whether to buy a new bass boat or a new pick-up truck, you…
Flip a quarter, heads the boat and tails the truck.
Flip your wife.
Flip your mother-in –law.
Flip all of them off and go buy both.
Question #14
You know that you are on the fast track up the corporate ladder and you are working on your vision for
your retirement compensation package. Do you…
Hold out for what TL Austin made.
Hold out for what *** Cheney made.
Create a whole new level of corporate compensation.
Just run all the other executives off and declare yourself king.
Question #15
You find yourself in a meeting where Bob Leonhardt is explaining the CADD Execution Plan, you immediately…
a. drop to the floor and fake a heart attack.b. start to sob uncontrollably and ask to leave.
c. threaten to take hostages if you can’t leave.c. any or all of the above.
