PHILIPPINE

AGRICULTURAL
ENGINEERING
STANDARD
REVIEWER FOR CENTRALIANS

PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURAL
ENGINEERING ACT OF 1998
(RA 8559)

PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURAL AND

BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING ACT OF
2016
(RA 10915)

PAES COMPILATION BY:

ESTEH FRANK DFE
CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY (CPU)
ILOILO CITY
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 PHILIPPINE EXAM 1
AGRICULTURAL 1. Implement consisting of long, flat and
curved teeth made of spring steel.

ENGINEERING a.
b.
c.
Roller-harrow
Disc harrow
Spring-tooth harrow

STANDARD d. Spike-tooth harrow

2. PAES 151:2010 Agricultural Machinery

a. Power Sprayer for Mango –

Specifications
b. Sugarcane Planter – Specifications
c. Spring-tooth Harrow – Specifications
d. Mechanical Rice Transplanter –
Specifications

PAES 101 3. Type of field cultivator wherein main

frame is mounted on the front of the
tractor.

a. Three-point hitch mounted

b. Field cultivator
c. Front mounted
d. Drawn type cultivator

TO 4. Machine designed for transplanting rice

seedlings into a puddled and leveled field.

a. Transplanting
b. Transplanting arm
c. Mechanical rice transplanter
d. Human transplanting

PAES 166 5. Total force parallel to the direction of

travel required to move the implement.

a.
b.
Draft
Drawbar horsepower
c. Implement
d. Drawbar power

6. Based on PAES 117: 2000 small engine –

methods of test, how many hours shall the
engine run continuously with continuous

AGRICULTURAL
speed and power specified by the
manufacturer.

a. Four

MACHINERY b.
c.
d.
tHree
fiVe
Six

7. Implement performing shallow post-plant

tillage to aid the crop by loosening the
soil and/or by mechanical eradication of
undesired vegetation.

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 a. Continuous-tool bar cultivator 15. Portion of an implement designed to
b. Field cultivator connect the implement to a power source.
c. Cultivating tillage implement
d. Separated gang cultivator a. Coulter
b. Draft
8. Implement consisting of tool bars that c. Blade
extend across the top of the rows, which d. Hitch
allow lateral adjustments of the tools for
different row spacing. 16. Miniature plow attachment whose purpose
is to turn over a small furrow slice
a. Continuous-tool bar cultivator directly ahead of the main moldboard plow
b. Field cultivator bottom, to aid in covering trash.
c. Cultivating tillage implement
d. Separated gang cultivator a. Coulter
b. Jointer
9. Implement consisting of tool bars that c. Blade
drop down between the rows to provide d. Hitch
maximum vertical clearance for the plants.
17. Soil profile modified by tillage or
a. Continuous-tool bar cultivator amendments for use by plant roots
b. Field cultivator
c. Cultivating tillage implement a. Root zone
d. Separated gang cultivator b. Land
c. Seedbed
10. Based on PAES Walking-type Agricultural d. Root bed
Tractor (rotary tilling-type), the noise
emitted by the tractor measured 50 mm away 18. PAES 124: 2002 walking-type
from the operator’s ear level shall not be agricultural tractor – Part 3: special type
more than? (float-assist tiller), what is the
recommended peak transmission efficiency of
a. 94 db (A) the tractor?
b. 98 db (A)
c. 96 db (A) a. 90%
d. 92 db (A) b. 85%
c. 80%
11. Soil-handling implements which forms d. 95%
uniform ridges of soil to predetermined
shapes 19. Part of the soil profile exploited by
the roots of plants.
a. Coulter
b. Bed shaper a. Root zone
c. Blade b. Seedbed
d. Hitch c. Root bed
d. Head land
12. Soil-working tool, consisting of an
edge and a surface, which is primarily 20. Soil zone which affects germination and
designed to cut through the soil. emergence of seeds.

a. Coulter a. Root zone

b. Draft b. Land
c. Blade c. Seedbed
d. Hitch d. Root bed

13. Circular, flat tool used to cut plant 21. Based on PAES 118: 2001 four-wheel
material and soil. tractor, the tractor shall be able to pull
field implements up to what speed?
a. Coulter
b. Bed shaper a. 8 km/h
c. Blade b. 10 km/h
d. Hitch c. 12 km/h
d. 14 km/h
14. Force to propel an implement in the
direction of travel which is equal and 22. Tillage in which a narrow curved shank
opposite to drawbar pull. is used.

a. Coulter a. Anchoring
b. Draft b. Ridging
c. Blade c. Listing
d. Hitch d. Chisel plowing

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23. Component of the power sprayer used to b. 3 kph to 4 kph
regulate the pressure. c. 5 kph to 6 kph
d. 8 kph to 9 kph
a. Automatic switch valve
b. Cut-off valve 31. Operation wherein a lister is used in a
c. Solenoid valve manner that forms a furrow midway between
d. Pressure relief valve two previous rows of plants

24. Type of force type hand pump that a. Harrowing

discharges water only on the forward stroke b. Middlebreaking
of the piston or plunger and draw in water c. Incorporating
into the cylinder during the back stroke. d. Off barring

a. Single acting 32. Plow bottom that has less curvature

b. Force type than the stubble and can be used easily for
c. Double acting stubble, ordinary trash and stalk cover
d. Lift type land.
a. General-purpose moldboard
25. Type of power sprayer mounted on b. Stubble moldboard
wheels, either pushed by an operator or c. Slatted moldboard
towed by a vehicle. The pump can be powered d. Moldboard plow
by an engine or an electric motor.
33. Plow bottom that has long, narrow and
a. Wheel frame power sprayer less sloping moldboard with a gradual twist
b. Wheel-mounted power sprayer that allows complete inversion of the
c. Power sprayer furrow slice with minimum breakage.
d. Frame mounted power sprayer
a. Share
26. PAES 159:2011 Agricultural Machinery b. Stubble moldboard
c. Plow bottom
a. Power Sprayer for Mango – d. Sod moldboard
Specifications
b. Sugarcane Planter – Specifications 34. Working part of the plow which includes
c. Spring-tooth Harrow – Specifications the share, moldboard, and landside, all
d. Mechanical Rice Transplanter – attached to the frog.
Specifications
a. Share
27. Sugarcane stalks containing buds used b. Moldboard plow
as planting mat. c. Plow bottom
d. Sod moldboard
a. Feeding shank
b. Sugarcane billet plant 35. What type of field operation pattern?
c. Sugarcane plant
d. Sugarcane billet

28. Based on PAES119: 2001 four-wheel

tractor – methods of test, what is the
recommended noise emitted by the tractor
measured 50 mm away from the operator’s ear
level?

a. Shall be more than 92 db (A)

b. Shall not be more than 92 db (A) a. Headland pattern turn strips each
c. Shall be lesser than 92 db (A) end
d. Shall be exactly 92 db (A)
b. Headland pattern from boundaries
29. Operation which pulverizes, smoothens, c. Headland alternation pattern
and makes the soil ready for planting. d. Headland strips alternation pattern

a. Harrowing 36. Type of plow mounted on the tractor’s

b. Middlebreaking three-point linkage and depends upon the
c. Incorporating tractor for its general operation.
d. Off barring
a. Trailing moldboard plow
30. Based on PAES 132: 2004 Disc/Moldboard b. Tractor-mounted moldboard plow
Plow – Methods of Test, what is the c. Tractor-mounted reversible disc plow
required travelling speed during operation d. Semi-mounted moldboard plow
for two-wheel tractor-drawn plows?
37. Type of plow hitched to the drawbar or
a. 2 kph to 3 kph lower links of the tractor, supported by

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two or three wheels and equipped with
hydraulic lines and cylinders for lifting 44. Type of hand pump intended for use in
and/or depth control. lifting water from low-head cisterns and
wells, the depth of which is not beyond the
a. Semi-mounted reversible disc plow head furnished by atmospheric pressure.
b. Trailing moldboard plow
c. Tractor-mounted reversible disc plow a. Single acting
d. Semi-mounted moldboard plow b. Lift type
c. Double acting
38. Based on PAES 112: 2000 Lever-Operated d. Force type
Knapsack Sprayer, the overall weight of the
sprayer with its component parts, when 45. Part of granule applicator where
fully loaded with water shall not exceed granules are loaded.
how many kilograms?
a. Hopper
a. 12 b. Agitator
b. 16 c. Granule
c. 22 d. Granule applicator
d. 25
46. PAES 163:2011 agricultural machinery
39. Serves as an adaptor of the drill bit
and conduit of water jet channel. a. Power sprayer for mango –
specifications
a. Drilling rig b. Sugarcane planter – specifications
b. Drilling pipe c. Spring-tooth harrow – specifications
c. Drill bit d. Mechanical rice transplanter –
d. AOTA specifications

40. A type of drilling rig in which the 47. PAES 166:2011 Agricultural Machinery
mode of drilling is done by using a
rotating drill bit that cut and loosen the a. Subsoiler – Methods of Test
soil thus producing a hole of required b. Hand Pump – Methods of Test
diameter. c. Granule Applicator – Methods of Test
d. Mist Blower – Methods of Test
a. Rotary
b. Percussion 48. Secondary tillage implement consisting
c. Combination of long and curved teeth made of spring
d. AOTA steel which are fastened on the transverse
toolbars with the other end pointed to give
41. A type of drilling rig in which the good soil penetration.
mode of drilling is done by alternately
raising and dropping either an external a. Trailing spring-tooth harrow
weight (solid steel or wood) or the b. Harrowing
drilling stem itself, causing the impact of c. Spring-tooth harrow
the drill bit to the soil, thus producing a d. Auger head/drill bit
hole of required diameter.
49. Four-wheel tractor speed limit on paved
a. Rotary road in kph.
b. Percussion
c. Combination a. 15 to 22
d. AOTA b. 15 to 20
c. 14 to 26
42. Based on PAES 118: 2001 four-wheel d. 8 to 15
tractor, what is the allowable wheel slip
for maximum efficiency for two-wheel drive 50. Based on PAES 112: 2000 Lever-Operated
tractor at tilled or soft soil. Knapsack Sprayer, the flow rate from the
nozzle using water and the nozzles
a. 20-40 provided, shall lie in the range of 0.3 to
b. 10-20 1.4 L/min. at what mean pressure?
c. 10-15
d. 10-30 a. 100 kPa
b. 300 kPa
43. A type of drilling rig in which the c. 400 kPa
mode of drilling is done by rotary action d. 200 kPa
and percussion.
51. Tillage of an entire area as contrasted
a. Rotary to a partial tillage as in bands or strips.
b. Percussion
c. Combination a. Deep tillage
d. AOTA b. Broadcast tillage

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 c. Rotary tillage
d. Oriented tillage 59. What type of field operation pattern?

52. Tillage action and transport operations

utilized to loosen, load, carry, and unload
soil.
a. Earthmoving
b. Land grading
c. Land forming
d. Land planning

53. PAES 128: 2002 drilling rig – methods

of test, the drilling rig shall be operated a. Continuous pattern turn strips each
for at least 100 mm diameter of bore hole end
and minimum depth of how many meters? b. Continuous pattern from boundaries
c. Continuous alternation pattern
a. 10 d. Continuous strips alternation
b. 20
pattern
c. 30
d. 40
60. Tillage, which constitutes the initial
54. Tillage operation which move soil to major soil-working operation, normally
establish a desired soil elevation and designed to reduce soil strength, cover
slope. plant materials, and rearrange aggregates.

a. Land grading a. Secondary tillage

b. Land forming b. Primary tillage
c. Land planning c. Ridge tillage
d. Soil cultivation d. Conservation tillage

55. Tillage operation which are oriented in 61. Tillage, following primary tillage,
specific paths or directions with respect which is designed to control weed growth
to the sun, prevailing winds, previous and to create specific soil surface
tillage actions, or field base lines. configurations before seeding.

a. Deep tillage a. Precision tillage

b. Broadcast tillage b. Secondary tillage
c. Rotary tillage c. Minimum tillage
d. Oriented tillage d. Primary tillage

56. Shallow tillage operation performed to 62. System traditionally performed in

promote growth of crop plants by creating a preparing a seedbed for a given crop and
soil condition conducive to aeration, grown in a given geographical area.
infiltration, and moisture conservation or
to pest control. a. Precision tillage
b. Secondary tillage
a. Earthmoving c. Minimum tillage
b. Land forming d. Conventional tillage
c. Land planning
d. Soil cultivation 63. What type of field operation pattern?

57. Mechanical manipulation of soil for any

desired purpose.

a. Precision tillage
b. Conventional tillage
c. Tillage
d. Mulch tillage

58. Based on PAES 124: 2002 walking-type

agricultural tractor – Part 3: special type
(float-assist tiller), what is the a. Overlapping alternation pattern
recommended noise emitted by the tractor b. Overlapping pattern from boundaries
measured 50 mm away from the operator’s ear c. Overlapping alternation strip
level? pattern
d. Overlapping alternation pattern
a. Shall be more than 92 db (A)
b. Shall be exactly 92 db (A) 64. System wherein least soil manipulation
c. Shall not be more than 92 db (A) is performed.
d. Shall be lesser than 92 db (A)

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 a. Precision tillage a. Mounted mist
b. Secondary tillage b. Mist
c. Minimum tillage c. Backpack mist
d. Conventional tillage d. Wand

65. System in which tillage of the total 73. Part of the cylinder that is connected
soil surface is performed in such a way to the pump rod and which forces water up
that plant residue is specifically left on the draw pipe.
or near the soil surface.
a. Hand pump
a. Precision tillage b. Plunger/piston
b. Optimum tillage c. Pump stand/pedestal
c. Primary tillage d. Pump rod/plunger rod
d. Mulch tillage
74. Type of sugarcane planter that is
66. Implement which shatters the soil capable of chopping sugarcanes into billets
without complete burial or mixing of which are dropped into the furrows.
surface materials.
a. Manual sugarcane planter
a. Moldboard plow b. Mechanical sugarcane planter
b. Spiral plow c. Semi-automatic sugarcane planter
c. Chisel plow d. Sugarcane planter
d. Rotary plow
75. Based on PAES 118: 2001 four-wheel
67. Implement which cuts, partially or tractor, what is the allowable wheel slip
completely inverts a layer of soil to bury for maximum efficiency for two-wheel drive
surface materials, and pulverizes the soil. tractor at firm soil.

a. Row crop cultivator a. 5-10%

b. Roller-harrow b. 7-11%
c. Moldboard plow c. 12-18%
d. Rotary hoe d. 10-20%

68. Tool attached to the shank of the 76. Eliminates back and dead furrows and is
subsoiler to cut through the soil. used for surface irrigation.

a. Soil abrasion a. Subsoiler

b. Subsoiler b. Disc plow
c. Shank c. Roller-harrow
d. Ripper point d. Two-way plow

69. Series of hills in a field. 77. Implement for intermittent tillage at

depths sufficient to shatter compacted
a. Root-washed seedlings subsurface layers.
b. Rows
c. Hills a. Subsoiler
d. Soil-bearing seedlings b. Disc plow
c. Roller-harrow
70. Scratching, cutting, or abrasing of d. Two-way plow
materials caused by the action of soil.
78. Based on PAES 112: 2000 Lever-Operated
a. Soil abrasion Knapsack Sprayer Method of test, the
b. Subsoiler pumping rate shall not exceed how many
c. Shank strokes/min?
d. Ripper point
a. 10
71. Lever that connects the pump rod to the b. 25
pump head which often includes some c. 30
mechanism to add counterweight to balance d. 40
the weight of the water being lifted up the
draw pipe. 79. Consists of two gangs wherein one gang
is located behind the other at an angle and
a. Handle the harrow is operated in an offset
b. Plunger/piston position in relation to the tractor.
c. Pump stand/pedestal
d. Pump rod/plunger rod a. Roller-harrow
b. Offset disc harrow
72. Part of the mist blower that connects c. Spring-tooth harrow
the nozzle to the blower. d. Single-action disc harrow

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80. Implement used for seedbed preparation
which crushes soil clods and smooths and a. Soil-additive applicator
firms the soil surface. b. Soil-additive incorporator
c. Soil roller
a. Row crop cultivator d. Soil-working surface
b. Roller-harrow
c. Packer 87. Tillage tools which present a
d. Rotary hoe reasonable constant boundary area to the
soil.
81. Based on PAES 118: 2001 four-wheel
tractor, what is the allowable wheel slip a. Multi-powered tillage tools
for maximum efficiency for four-wheel drive b. Soil abrasion
tractor at tilled or soft soil. c. Soil adhesion
d. Mechanical impedance
a. 15-21
b. 10-30 88. Scratching, cutting, or abrading of
c. 18-25 materials caused by the action of soil.
d. 8-13
a. Multi-powered tillage tools
82. What type of field operation pattern? b. Soil abrasion
c. Soil adhesion
d. Mechanical impedance

89. Resistance to the movement of plant

parts or tillage tools through soil that is
caused by the mechanical strength of the
soil.

a. Multi-powered tillage tools

b. Soil abrasion
c. Soil adhesion
d. Mechanical impedance
a. Circuitous pattern turn strips at
corner diagonals 90. PAES 160:2011 Agricultural Machinery
b. Circuitous pattern rounded corners
c. Circuitous pattern from back furrow a. Power Sprayer for Mango –
d. Circuitous pattern square corners Specifications
b. Sugarcane Planter – Specifications
83. Implement wherein the frame and c. Spring-tooth Harrow – Specifications
cultivating tools are designed to d. Mechanical Rice Transplanter –
adequately pass through standing crop rows Specifications
without crop damage.
91. Type of soil auger that makes use of
a. Row crop cultivator human force to drill the soil.
b. Roller-harrow
c. Packer a. Motor-powered
d. Rotary hoe b. Soil boring auger
c. Fluid-powered
84. Machine used to apply, or to apply and d. Hand-operated type
incorporate soil additives by means of
tillage. 92. PAES 155:2010 Agricultural Machinery

a. Soil-additive applicator a. Subsoiler – Methods of Test

b. Soil-additive incorporator b. Hand Pump – Methods of Test
c. Soil roller c. Granule Applicator – Methods of Test
d. Soil-working surface d. Mist Blower – Methods of Test

93. Fine drops of liquid, such as water or

85. Based on PAES 132: 2004 Disc/Moldboard chemical pesticide, sprayed into the air.
Plow – Methods of Test, what is the
required travelling speed during operation a. Wand
for four-wheel tractor-drawn plows? b. Mist
c. Backpack mist
a. 3 kph to 6 kph d. Mounted mist
b. 10 kph to 12 kph
c. 8 kph to 9 kph 94. Type of soil auger that is powered by
d. 5 kph to 6 kph either pneumatic or hydraulic pump to drill
the soil.
86. Portions of tillage tools which are
designed to be in contact with the soil. a. Motor-powered

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 EXAM 2
b. Soil boring auger
c. Fluid-powered
d. Hand-operated type

95. PAES 162:2011 agricultural machinery

1. Based on PAES 116: 2001 small engine,
a. Power sprayer for mango – methods of the noise emitted by the engine measured 50
test mm away from the operator’s ear level shall
b. Hand pump – methods of test not be more than?
c. Granule applicator – methods of test
d. Soil auger – methods of test a. 90 db
b. 94 db
96. Type of granule applicator designed for c. 96 db
handheld operation. It makes use of screw d. 92 db
or spinner plate operated manually to
facilitate metering of granules. 2. Two-wheel tractor speed limit on bare
dirt road in kph.
a. Orifice
b. Handheld granule applicator a. 8 to10
c. Spinner plate b. 15 to 20
d. Granule applicator c. 4 to 6
d. 8 to 15
97. Raised ridge left at the center of the
strip of land, when plowing is started from 3. Based on PAES 133: 2004 disc harrow –
center to side. methods of test, what is the travelling
speed to be maintained during operation?
a. Back furrow
b. Furrow slice
c. Furrow crown a. 7 kph to 8 kph
d. Dead furrow b. 9 kph to 10 kph
c. 2 kph to 3 kph
98. Trench left when the plow bottom cuts d. 5 kph to 6 kph
and turns the furrow slice.
4. Type of weeder with rectangular,
a. Back furrow triangular or crescent shapes with cutting
b. Furrow crown edges sharpened and hardened.
c. Furrow
d. Dead furrow a. Blade type
b. Hand-held weeder
99. What type of field operation pattern? c. Tine type
d. Rotary type

5. Type of weeder with a straight, curved,

round or square cross-section steel rods
with sharply pointed and hardened soil
engaging ends.

a. Blade type
b. Hand-held weeder
c. Tine type
d. Rotary type
a. Circuitous pattern turn strips at
6. Type of weeder which utilize either
corner diagonals blade or tine type of soil working parts
b. Headland pattern rounded corners with short (0.15 m to 0.5 m), medium (>0.5
c. Headland pattern from back furrow m to 1 m) and long (>1 m) handles.
d. Circuitous pattern square corners
a. Animal- drawn weeder
b. Power-weeder
c. Hand-held weeder
d. Push-type weeder
100. Sliding implement that cuts, lifts,
inverts and throws to one side a layer of 7. Type of weeder which utilizes either
soil (furrow slice) to bury surface blade, tine or rotary soil working parts
materials. for dry and wet field weeding.

a. Slatted moldboard a. Animal- drawn weeder

b. Moldboard plow b. Power-weeder
c. Plow bottom c. Tractor-mounted weeder
d. Sod moldboard d. Push-type weeder

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 14. What type of field operation pattern?

8. Based on PAES 115: 2000 centrifugal,

mixed flow and axial flow water pumps –
methods of test the water to be used during
the test shall be clean with a temperature
range of?

a. 10 – 40 ºC
b. 20 – 70 ºC
c. 30 – 80 ºC a. Straight pattern turn strips at
d. 40 – 90 ºC corner diagonals
b. Circuitous pattern rounded corners
9. Type of weeder in which soil working c. Straight alternation pattern
parts are mounted on a frame or tool bar
d. Circuitous pattern square corners
and pulled by an animal for dry field
weeding.
15. Type of granule applicator that uses a
a. Animal- drawn weeder spinner plate or a screw attached to the
b. Power-weeder power take-off shaft to actuate metering of
c. Hand-held weeder granules.
d. Push-type weeder
a. Trailing granule applicator
10. Type of rotary weeder driven by its own b. Mounted granule applicator
engine for wet field weeding. c. Three-point hitch type granule
applicator
a. Power-weeder d. Mechanical walk-behind type
b. Tractor-mounted weeder
c. Hand-held weeder 16. PAES 148:2010 Agricultural Machinery
d. Push-type weeder
a. Soil Auger – Method of test
11. Type of weeder in which soil working b. Granule Applicator– Method of test
parts are mounted on a frame or tool bar c. Field Cultivator – Method of test
and pulled by either two- or four-wheel d. Subsoiler– Method of test
tractor for dry field weeding.

a. Animal- drawn weeder 17. Power requirement of an implement being

b. Power-weeder towed or pushed.
c. Tractor-mounted weeder
d. Hand-held weeder a. Draft
b. Drawbar horsepower
12. Type of granule applicator that uses c. Implement
wheel rotational motion to actuate d. Drawbar power
application of granules. The granules are
metered by a spinner plate or a screw 18. Ratio between the productivity of a
attached to the ground wheel. machine under field conditions and the
theoretical maximum productivity.
a. Powered walk-behind type
b. Trailing granule applicator a. Field efficiency
c. Mounted granule applicator b. Theoretical field capacity
d. Three-point hitch type granule c. Effective field capacity
applicator d. Field capacity

13. Type of knapsack granule applicator 19. Horizontal distance perpendicular to

that makes use of gravitational force to the direction of travel between the
apply granules. outermost edges of the implement.

a. Mounted granule applicator a. Implement width

b. Three-point hitch type granule b. Ground clearance
applicator c. Implement length
c. Mechanical walk-behind type d. Center of implement
d. Gravity knapsack
20. Unplowed soil at the end of the furrow
strip.

a. Root zone
b. Seedbed

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 c. Root bed c. Internal combustion engine
d. Head land d. AOTA

21. Type of pump which combines some of the 28. I-head arrangement of valves wherein
features of both centrifugal and the axial the intake and exhaust valves are located
flow pump and in which head is developed in the cylinder head.
partly by the centrifugal force and partly
by the lift of the vanes on the water. a. Overhead valve (ohv)
b. Side valves (sv)
a. Mixed flow pump c. AOTA
b. Diffuser pump d. NOTA
c. Turbine pump
d. Mixed pump 29. System in which water/liquid-coolant
serves as the cooling medium which
22. Tillage implement resembling a double circulates in the water jackets to absorb
moldboard, one left wing and one right wing the heat of the engine.
used to make ridges and beds for planting
and trenches for irrigation and drainage a. Water-cooled
purposes. b. Liquid-cooled
c. Indirect cooling system
a. Furrower d. AOTA
b. Bedder
c. Ridger 30. Based on PAES 137:2004 agricultural
d. AOTA trailer – methods of test, what is the
maximum speed of operation for two-wheel
23. One movement of piston for each of the tractor?
events such as intake, compression, power
and exhaust. a. 10 kph
b. 15 kph
a. Four-stroke cycle c. 20 kph
b. Three-stroke cycle d. 25 kph
c. Two-stroke cycle
d. Single-stroke cycle 31. What type of field operation pattern?

24. Based on PAES 118: 2001 four-wheel

tractor, what is the allowable wheel slip
for maximum efficiency for four-wheel drive
tractor at firm soil.

a. 6-20
b. 6-10
c. 6-25
d. 6-30

25. One downward movement of piston for the

events exhaust and intake and one upward
movement of piston for the events a. Circuitous pattern turn strips at
compression and power. corner diagonals
b. Circuitous pattern rounded corners
a. Four-stroke cycle c. Circuitous pattern from back furrow
b. Three-stroke cycle d. Circuitous pattern square corners
c. Two-stroke cycle
d. Single-stroke cycle 32. Engine in which combustion is achieved
by compressing the air until a high
26. Type of engine where the combustion of temperature is achieved to initiate
fuel takes place inside the cylinder. combustion of fuel.
a. Spark ignition engine a. Spark ignition engine
b. Compression ignition engine b. Compression ignition engine
c. Internal combustion engine c. Internal combustion engine
d. AOTA d. AOTA
27. Fuel and air mixture is first 33. Engine in which combustion occurs
introduced inside the cylinder in gaseous through the initiation of a spark on the
condition. It is then compressed and fuel and air mixture
ignited resulting to the generation of
power. a. Spark ignition engine
b. Compression ignition engine
a. Spark ignition engine c. Internal combustion engine
b. Compression ignition engine d. AOTA

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34. Based on PAES 112: 2000 Lever-Operated 42. Maximum distance that the plunger moves
Knapsack Sprayer, the tank shall have a when the handle is moved.
minimum capacity of how many liters?
a. Full stroke
a. 10 b. 1st stroke
b. 15 c. Stroke
c. 20 d. Half stroke
d. 25
43. Type of force type hand pump that
35. Vertical distance from base plane of discharges water on both forward and back
the pump to the free level of water source. strokes.

a. Static suction head (h1) a. Single acting

b. Head b. Force type
c. Total static head (hg) c. Double acting
d. Static discharge head (h2) d. Lift type

36. PAES 149:2010 Agricultural Machinery 44. What type of field operation pattern?

a. Soil Auger – Specifications

b. Granule Applicator– Specifications
c. Field Cultivator – Specifications
d. Subsoiler– Specifications

37. Part of the transplanting arm that

picks rice seedlings.

a. Transplanting arm
b. Pike
c. Grasping fork
d. Ripper point
a. Circuitous pattern 270 degrees turns
38. Modified wheel used in transplanters to
facilitate movement in the field. from boundaries or center
b. Circuitous pattern 270 degrees turn
a. Secondary wheel strips at corner diagonals
b. Paddle wheel c. Circuitous pattern 270 degrees
c. Primary wheel rounded corners
d. Floating wheel d. Circuitous pattern 270 degrees from
39. Rice seedlings grown in nursery for back furrow
transplanting wherein the soil is retained
with the roots for transplanting. 45. Power recommended by the manufacturer
for satisfactory operation under continuous
a. Root-washed seedlings duty condition within a specified speed
b. Transplanting range.
c. Hills
d. Soil-bearing seedlings a. Continuous brake power
b. Rated power
40. Type of mechanical rice transplanter c. Drawbar power
designed for handling rice seedlings that d. Net power
were grown with mat. Soil and fertilizers
were mixed thoroughly and filled uniformly 46. Type of weeder with curved or straight
in seedling boxes when growing the spikes or puddles radially attached to a
seedlings. common axle, which rotate to uproot and
bury weeds.
a. Walk-behind type
b. Root-washed seedling type a. Blade type
c. Riding type b. Hand-held weeder
d. Soil-bearing seedling type or mat c. Tine type
type d. Rotary type

41. Steel rod that connects the pump handle 47. Based on PAES walking-type agricultural
to the plunger assembly within the tractor (pull-type),the noise emitted by
cylinder. the tractor measured 50 mm away from the
operator’s ear level shall not be more
a. Hand pump than?
b. Plunger/piston
c. Pump stand/pedestal a. 98 db (A)
d. Pump rod/plunger rod b. 96 db (A)

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 c. 94 db (A) a. Power sprayer for mango – Methods of
d. 92 db (A) Test
b. Hand Pump – Methods of Test
48. Power output of a “fully equipped” c. Granule Applicator – Methods of Test
engine. d. Mist Blower – Methods of Test

a. Continuous brake power 57. Component of the sugarcane planter that

b. Rated power cuts the sugarcane billets and drops it
c. Drawbar power into the furrow.
d. Net power
a. Feeding shank
49. Highest power developed. b. Sugarcane billet plant
c. Sugarcane plant
a. Continuous brake power d. Sugarcane billet
b. Peak brake power
c. Drawbar power 58. Agricultural equipment used for
d. Net power planting sugarcane billets.

50. Based on PAES 112: 2000 Lever-Operated a. Manual sugarcane planter

Knapsack Sprayer, the sprayer shall have a b. Mechanical sugarcane planter
minimum volumetric efficiency of? c. Semi-automatic sugarcane planter
d. Sugarcane planter
a. 95%.
b. 90%. 59. Based on PAES 155:2010 agricultural
c. 85%. machinery – mist blower: What is the
d. 80%. minimum net weight of mist blower?

51. Bar at the rear of a tractor to which a. 10 kg

implements are hitched. b. 15 kg
c. 20 kg
a. Rated power d. 25 kg
b. Drawbar
c. Net power 60. Self-propelled, wheeled vehicle having
d. AOTA two axles designed to carry, pull or propel
agricultural implements and machines.
52. PAES 154:2010 Agricultural Machinery
a. Four-wheel tractor
a. Subsoiler – Methods of Test b. Four-wheel drive
b. Hand Pump – Methods of Test c. Two-wheel drive
c. Granule Applicator – Methods of Test d. AOTA
d. Mist Blower – Methods of Test
61. What type of field operation pattern?
53. Operation of the pump from the topmost
position of the handle to its lowest
position.

a. Full stroke
b. 1st stroke
c. 2nd stroke
d. Half stroke

54. PAES 156:2010 Agricultural Machinery

a. Subsoiler – Methods of Test

b. Hand Pump – Methods of Test
c. Granule Applicator – Methods of Test a. Circuitous pattern turn strips at
d. Mist Blower – Methods of Test corner diagonals
55. Type of power sprayer mounted on a b. Circuitous pattern rounded corners
steel frame which is carried by at least c. Circuitous pattern from back furrow
two (2) operators for transport. d. Circuitous pattern square corners

a. Wheel frame power sprayer 62. Combination of one upper link and two
b. Wheel-mounted power sprayer lower links, each articulated to the
c. Power sprayer tractor and the implement at opposite ends
d. Frame mounted power sprayer in order to connect the implement to the
tractor.
56. PAES 158:2011 Agricultural Machinery
a. Three-point linkage
b. Hitch point

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 c. Link point a. 90 m/s
d. Aota b. 80 m/s
c. 70 m/s
63. Based on PAES 137:2004 agricultural d. 60 m/s
trailer – methods of test, what is the
maximum speed of operation for four-wheel 71. Any group of different tillage
tractor? operation, following primary tillage, which
are designed to create refined soil
a. 10 kph conditions before the seed is planted.
b. 15 kph
c. 20 kph a. Secondary tillage
d. 25 kph b. Mechanical tillage
c. Primary tillage
64. Articulated connection between a link d. Tillage
and the implement.
72. Spade-shaped, V-pointed soil working
a. Three-point linkage tool, which is used for various plowstocks,
b. Hitch point cultivators, grain drills, and soil
c. Link point scarifiers.
d. AOTA
a. Pike
65. Articulated connection between a link b. Shank
and the tractor. c. Shovel
d. Sweep
a. Three-point linkage
b. Hitch point 73. Operation which is performed to cut the
c. Link point soil with partial or complete soil
d. AOTA inversion.

66. Power measured at the flywheel or the a. Residue processing

crankshaft. b. Subsoiling
c. Moldboard plowing
a. Continuous brake power d. Vertical mulching
b. Engine power
c. Drawbar hp 74. Implement which works under the
d. Net power combined principles of the regular disc
plow and harrow.
67. Implement used to pulverize the soil to
attain a better soil tilt for the seed a. Plow-harrow
germination and growth. b. Subsoiling
c. General-purpose tillage implement
a. Disc harrow d. Vertical mulching
b. Offset disc harrow
c. Tandem disc harrow 75. Implement used for broadcast or strip
d. Single-action disc harrow tillage and is also used as chemical
incorporator and as row crop cultivator.
68. Consists of two or more gangs, in which
a set of two gangs follows behind the front a. Plow-harrow
gangs and is arranged in such a way that b. Rotary tiller
the discs on the front gangs throw the soil c. General-purpose tillage implement
in one direction (usually outward) and the d. Vertical mulching
discs on the rear gangs throw the soil in
the opposite direction. 76. Based on PAES 153:2010 agricultural
machinery – hand pump: Force type hand pump
a. Disc harrow shall lift the water up to a height of how
b. Offset disc harrow many meters from the ground level?
c. Tandem disc harrow
d. Single-action disc harrow a. 10 m
b. 20 m
69. Operation that cuts and throws the soil c. 15 m
away from the base of plants. d. 25 m

a. Harrowing 77. Implement which consists of two

b. Middlebreaking horizontal power driven spiral flanged
c. Incorporating shafts which rotate vertically.
d. Off barring
a. Spiral plow
70. Based on PAES 155:2010 agricultural b. Rotary plow
machinery – mist blower: What is the c. Aota
minimum air speed of mist blower? d. Nota

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78. Auxiliary component of the subsoiler
that helps maintain uniform operating depth 86. Water pump powered by the movement of
and for adjusting depth of cut. human arms.

a. Gauge wheel a. Hand pump

b. Wheel slippage b. Plunger/piston
c. Clearance volume c. Pump stand/pedestal
d. Ground clearance d. Pump rod/plunger rod

79. Tillage which constitutes the initial 87. Quantity used to express a form (or
major soil-working operation, normally combination of forms) of the energy content
designed to reduce soil strength, cover of the liquid per unit weight of the liquid
plant materials, and rearrange aggregates. referred to any arbitrary datum.

a. Secondary tillage a. Static suction head (h1)

b. Mechanical tillage b. Head
c. Primary tillage c. Total static head (hg)
d. Tillage d. Static discharge head (h2)

80. Structural member primarily used for 88. Implement used for cutting, displacing
attaching a tillage tool to a beam. and/or shattering the soil to reduce soil
strength and to bury or mix plant
a. Soil abrasion materials, pesticides, and fertilizers in
b. Subsoiler the tillage layer.
c. Shank
d. Ripper point a. Primary tillage implement
b. Row crop cultivator
81. Type of self-propelled rice c. Moldboard plow
transplanter wherein the operator walks d. Secondary tillage implement
behind the transplanter during operation.
89. Based on PAES 120: 2001 Disc Harrow:
a. Walk-behind type
b. Root-washed seedling type
c. Riding type
d. Soil-bearing seedling type or mat
type

82. PAES 152:2010 Agricultural Machinery

a. Subsoiler – Methods of Test

b. Mechanical Rice Transplanter –
Methods of Test
c. Granule Applicator – Methods of Test a. Tandem
d. Mist Blower – Methods of Test b. Offset
c. Single action
83. Ratio of the total number of hills with d. Any of the above
seedlings damaged by cutting, bending or
crushing during transplanting to the total
90. Is attached to the tractor’s lower
number of hills expressed in percentage.
hitch points and is raised/lowered by the
tractor hitch as well as a remote hydraulic
a. Percent missing hill
cylinder on the rear transport wheel.
b. Percent damaged hill
c. Percent damaged efficiency
a. Semi-mounted reversible disc plow
d. Planting efficiency
b. Trailing moldboard plow
c. Semi-mounted moldboard plow
84. Ratio of the number of hills with
d. Semi-mounted moldboard plow
seedlings to the total number of hill
expressed in percentage.
91. This plow is attached to the three-
point hitch and is fully carried by the
a. Percent missing hill
tractor in transport. This type is usually
b. Percent damaged hill
limited in size (2-4 discs) due to tractor
c. Percent damaged efficiency
front-end stability and hydraulic lift
d. Planting efficiency
capacity.
85. PAES 153:2010 Agricultural Machinery
a. Semi-mounted reversible disc plow
b. Semi-mounted moldboard plow
a. Subsoiler – Specification
c. Tractor-mounted reversible disc plow
b. Hand Pump – Specification
d. Semi-mounted moldboard plow
c. Granule Applicator – Specification

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92. Attached to the tractor by three-point 99. Type of centrifugal pump with a casing
hitch linkages and are fully carried by the made in the form of a spiral or volute
tractor during transport. curve.

a. Semi-mounted moldboard plow a. Volute pump

b. One-way disc plow b. Mixed flow pump
c. Tractor-mounted reversible disc plow c. Diffuser pump
d. Semi-mounted moldboard plow d. Turbine pump

93. Based on PAES 144: 2005 Rice Drum 100. Based on PAES 161:2011 Agricultural
Seeder – Methods of Test, what is the Machinery – Soil Auger: What is the
required traveling speed maintained during recommended noise emitted by the tractor
operation? measured 50 mm away from the operator’s ear
level?
a. 5 kph to 6 kph a. Shall not be more than 92 db (A)
b. 9 kph to 10 kph b. Shall be more than 92 db (A)
c. 8 kph to 9 kph c. Shall be exactly 92 db (A)
d. 1 kph to 2 kph d. Shall be lesser than 92 db (A)

94. This is a type of tractor power-driven

seeder which drills and deposits the seeds
at a specified rate and depth and in
narrow-spaced rows. It cannot deposit the
seeds in hills or even in check rows.

a. Seed drill
b. Tractor power-driven seeder and
planter
c. Row-crop planter
d. Hill-drop planter

95. This is a type of tractor power-driven

seeder which can deposit the seeds at a
specified rate in hills and rows spaced to
permit inter-row cultivation and also
functions as a seed drill if required.

a. Row-crop planter
b. Hill-drop planter
c. Checkrow planter
d. Precision planter

96. This is a type of row-crop planter

which is designed to deposit one or more
seeds in a hill at equal intervals.

a. Tractor power seeder

b. Row-crop planter
c. Hill-drop planter
d. Precision planter

97. This is a type of row-crop planter

which enables operator to perform hill
planting at definite spacing (in checks or
squares). This facilitates mechanical weed
control and other operations.

a. Tractor power-driven seeder and

planter
b. Row-crop planter
c. Hill-drop planter
d. Checkrow planter

98. Part of the plow which lifts, inverts

and throws the furrow slice to one side.

a. Stubble moldboard
b. Slatted moldboard
c. Moldboard
d. Plow bottom

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d. Sugarcane planter

9. Boring part of the soil auger.

a. Motor-powered
b. Soil boring auger
1. System in which only isolated bands of c. Soil auger
soil is tilled. d. Auger head/drill bit
a. Strip tillage 10. Type of knapsack granule applicator
b. Mulch tillage which makes use of an engine or an electric
c. Ridge tillage motor attached to a fan blower to
d. Conservation tillage facilitate its operation.
2. Tillage which forms a ridge and furrow a. Powered walk-behind type
soil configuration. b. Powered knapsack
c. Mechanical walk-behind type
a. Bedding d. Gravity knapsack
b. Ridging
c. Listing 11. Type of walk-behind granule applicator
d. Aota that makes use of ground wheels to actuate
the screw or spinner plate for application
3. Filling up the pump with water to of granules.
displace or evacuate the entrapped air
through a vent and create a liquid seal a. Powered walk-behind type
inside the casing. b. Mounted granule applicator
c. Three-point hitch type granule
a. Mixed flow pump applicator
b. Axial flow pump d. Mechanical walk-behind type
c. Priming
d. Self-priming 12. Type of field cultivator wherein main
frame is mounted far behind the tractor.
4. Operation which mix or disperse foreign
materials, such as pesticides, fertilizers a. Three-point hitch mounted
or plant residues into the soil. b. Field cultivator
c. Shank
a. Harrowing d. Drawn type cultivator
b. Middlebreaking
c. Incorporating 13. Pump assembly attached to the stand
d. Off barring which contains the handle outlet assembly.
5. Theoretical power required for pumping. a. Hand pump
b. Pump head
a. Water power c. Pump stand/pedestal
b. Water horsepower d. Pump rod/plunger rod
c. Water pump
d. Water efficiency 14. Type of engine driven rice transplanter
which makes use of engine to actuate its
6. Valve used to stop the flow of fluid. movement in the puddled field.
a. Automatic switch valve a. Walk-behind type transplanter
b. Cut-off valve b. Engine driven or self-propelled rice
c. Solenoid valve transplanter
d. Pressure relief valve c. Riding type
d. Mechanical transplanter
7. Type of mist blower that is carried by
an operator on his back for mobility. 15. Type of pump which develop most of the
suction and discharge head by propelling or
a. Wand lifting action of the impeller vanes on the
b. Mist blower water.
c. Backpack mist blower
d. Wand a. Mixed flow pump
b. Axial flow pump
8. Type of sugarcane planter that is not c. Priming
capable of chopping sugarcane but instead, d. Self-priming
requires pre-cut billets for planting.
16. Based on PAES Walking-type Agricultural
a. Manual sugarcane planter Tractor (rotary tilling-type), what is the
b. Mechanical sugarcane planter minimum peak transmission efficiency of the
c. Semi-automatic sugarcane planter axle-driven rotary tiller?

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