Specific Competencies and Skills Tested in this Assessment:
Safety
- Apply shop and personal safety rules and procedures, including appropriate PPEs
- Identify minor first aid treatment procedures
- Recall fire and electrical safety rules and procedures
- Identify SDS-related issues and information
Design and Layout
- Interpret blueprints and specifications to industry standards
- Interpret shop drawings/rough sketches
- Interpret detailed drawings
- Interpret a cut list or bill of material
- Identify types of joints and their uses
- Estimate time and materials
Major Woods and Materials
- Identify benefits of major woods and wood products
- Demonstrate understanding of characteristics of different woods
- Compare and contrast sheet good materials
Hand and Portable Power Tools
- Identify proper use of portable power cutting tools
- Identify proper use of fastening tools
- Identify proper use of portable sanders
- Identify proper use of portable routers
- Identify proper use of hand tools
- Identify proper use of portable drills and drivers
Stationary Power Equipment
- Articulate proper use of stationary saws
- Demonstrate understanding of to remove and replace stationary saw blades
- Identify proper use of boring machines and tools
- Select and use appropriate boring bits
- Identify proper use of planers and joiners
- Identify proper use of shapers and stationary routers
- Identify proper use of stationary sanders
- Prepare stock
Assembly
- Identify types and uses of different clamps
- Identify methods of case construction
- Identify various types of joinery
- Identify methods of face frame construction
- Identify various styles of door construction
- Identify various types of drawer construction
- Identify types and uses of hardware and accessories
- Identify and use of various fasteners
Finishing
- Identify types and uses of finishing materials
- Recall safe use and storage of finishing materials
- Recall safe use of finishing tools and equipment
Installation
- Determine how to Install a base cabinet
- Determine how to Install a wall cabinet
- Identify industry standards for installation
Written Assessment:
Administration Time: 3 hours
Number of Questions: 162
Areas Covered:
Safety: 12%
Design, Layout, and Estimation: 14%
Major Woods and Materials: 9%
Hand and Portable Power Tools: 14%
Stationary Power Equipment: 18%
Assembly: 20%
Finishing: 6%
Installation: 7%
Sample Questions:
Proper PPE practices require that workers wear _____ while operating all machinery.
- gloves
- eye protection
- work aprons
- head protection
A scale is an instrument with all increments
- Lengthened to proportion
- shortened to proportion
- shortened to length of project
- longer than length of project
It is best to make up a cut list before estimating the
- labor cost
- material cost
- installation time
- completion date
The sheets applied over the core material of plywood panel products are called
- over sheets
- face grains
- face veneers
- panels
The pneumatic stapler is operated by
- compressed air
- electricity
- spring tension
- hydraulic pressure
Performance Assessment:
Administration Time: 3 hours
Number of Jobs: 3
Areas Covered:
24% Develop a Cut List
Participant will go to designated station, use the shop drawings provided to complete a cut list, and turn the cut list in to the evaluator. Evaluator will provide a Master Cut List which participant will use to proceed to other jobs.
34% Lay Out, Cut, and Assemble Face Frame
Participant will refer to the drawings provided to lay out, cut, and assemble a face frame, leave the work area clean and orderly, and notify evaluator when finished.
42% Lay Out and Assemble One Drawer
Participant will refer to the drawings provided, lay out and build a drawer, apply wood with edge treatment to draw front, install drawer pull, leave work area clean and orderly, notify evaluator when finished, and submit Master Cut List and other written materials to the evaluator.
Sample Job: Develop a Cut List
Maximum Time: 15 minutes
Participant Activity: The participant will go to the designated station, use the shop drawings provided as the source of all dimensions and information to create a Cut List, turn the Cut List in to the evaluator and use the Master Cut List the evaluator will provide to proceed to other jobs.