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THE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER BOARD EXAMINATION (ENP)
PRE BOARD EXAMINATION 2018

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HISTORY, CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING

Choose the best letter of the answer for each questions written below. Use the answer sheet provided.
Encircle the letter of your answer.
1. RA 10587 is also known as _________.

a. Civil Engineering Law
b. Sanitary Engineering Law
c. Environmental Planning Law
d. Environmental Engineering Law
2. It is also known as urban and regional planning, city planning, town and country planning, and/or
human settlements planning, refers to the multi-disciplinary art and science of analyzing,
specifying, clarifying, harmonizing, managing and regulating the use and development of land and
water resources, in relation to their environs, for the development of sustainable communities and
ecosystems. (RA 10587)
a. Strategic Planning
b. Environmental Planning
c. Environmental Management
d. Development Management
3. Refers to a person who is registered and licensed to practice environmental planning and who holds
a valid Certificate of Registration and a valid Professional Identification Card from the Board of
Environmental Planning and the Professional Regulation Commission. (RA 10587)
a. Urban Planner
b. Development Planner
c. Environmental Planner
d. Rural Planner
4. Refers to the duly integrated and accredited professional organization of environmental planners,
of which there shall be only one as prescribed by Republic Act No. 8981, the Comprehensive
Professional Code, and in Section 32 of this Act.(RA 10587)
a. PIEP
b. APO
c. UAP
d. PICE
5. Article II of RA 10587 is ______.(RA 10587)
a. Title
b. Declaration of Policy
c. Professional Regulatory Board of Environmental Planning
d. None of the Above
6. Section 16 of RA 10587, Rating in the Licensure Examination. – To pass the licensure examination,
each person must obtain a weighted average of not less than ___________ and a rating of not less
__________ in any examination subject. (RA 10587)
a. 50% , 70%
b. 70%, 50%
c. 50%, 50%
d. 75%, 75%
7. SEC. 17. Subjects of Examination. – The licensure examination for environmental planners shall
include, but shall not be limited to, the following: (RA 10587)
I. History, concepts, theories and principles of environmental planning;

II. Environmental planning process, methods/techniques and strategies; and
III. Environmental plan implementation, legal aspects and administration.
a. I only
b. I and II only
c. None of the Above
d. I, II and III
8. SEC. 26. Use of Seal. – All registered and licensed environmental planners shall not obtain a seal
of such design as the Board shall authorize and direct: Provided that the serial number of the
certificate issued by the Board shall be included in the design of the seal. Plans, designs and
programs prepared by or under direct supervision of a registered and licensed environmental
planner shall be stamped with the said seal during the life of the registrant’s certificate, and it shall
be unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any document with the said seal after the certificate of the
registrant named thereon shall have expired or shall have been revoked, unless said certificate shall
have been renewed or reissued. (RA 10587)
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
d. I don’t know
9. Process of providing a framework for stimulating economic activities and utilizing the mix of
human, physical, financial, capital, natural and institutional resources to promote and sustain
economic growth to improve the quality of life of the people
a. Social Planning
b. Local Social Development Planning
c. Local Economic Development Planning
10. The natural physical environment. (Doxiadis)
a. Man
b. Nature
c. Society
d. Networks
11. An individual, Homo Sapiens – biological needs (oxygen, nutrition), sensation and perception (five
senses), emotional needs (satisfaction, security, sense of belonging), moral values. (Doxiadis)
a. Man
b. Nature
c. Society
d. Networks
12. A group of individuals sharing the same culture, values, norms, mores, and traditions. (Doxiadis)
a. Man
b. Nature
c. Society
d. Networks
13. Buildings, the built component – housing, hospitals, schools, town halls, commercial
establishments, recreational facilities, industrial buildings, etc. (Doxiadis)
a. Shells
b. Networks
c. Society
d. Man
14. Links within the settlement and with other settlements, transportation systems, communication
systems, water supply systems, power and electrical systems, etc. (Doxiadis)
a. Shells
b. Networks
c. Society
d. Man
15. Basically an agricultural society characterized by low productivity, low technology. Power is
concentrated in the hands of the landed elite, and value system is oriented towards fatalism.
(Rostow)
a. Traditional Society
b. Preconditions for Take Off
c. Take Off
d. Drive to Maturity
16. Transitional period when a society prepares itself for take-off, new and higher functions due to
modern science. Investments are used for social overhead capital and infrastructure. (Rostow)
c. Take Off
17. Development of one or more leading manufacturing sectors. Start of self-sustaining growth.
Profits are reinvested. (Rostow)
c. Take Off
18. The “automobile age”, modern technology and techniques, growth of urban population, white-
collar workers. (Rostow)
c. Take Off
19. Increasing purchasing power of the consumer, service/tertiary sector become dominant. Welfare
state. (Rostow)
a. Drive to maturity
b. Age of High Mass Consumption
c. Take off
d. Traditional Society
20. A center of activity; distinguished from a landmark by virtue of its active function; it is a distinct
hub of activity. Times Square in New York City is both a landmark and a node. (Lynch)
a. Pathways
b. Districts
c. Edges
d. Nodes
21. The prominent visual features of the city; some are very large and are seen at great distances; some
are very small and can only be seen up close (street clock, a fountain, or a small statue in a park).
Landmarks help in orienting people in the city and help identify an area. (Lynch)
a. Landmarks
b. Pathways
c. Districts
d. Edges
22. The termination of a district is its edge. Some districts have no distinct edges at all but gradually
taper off and blend into another district. When two districts are joined at an edge they form a seam.
A narrow park may be a joining seam for two urban neighborhoods. (Lynch)
a. Landmarks
b. Pathways
c. Districts
d. Edges
23. A city is composed of component neighborhoods or districts; its center, uptown, midtowns, its in-
town residential areas, train yards, factory areas, suburbs, college campuses, etc. Sometimes they
are considerably mixed in character and do not have distinct limits like the midtown in Manhattan.
(Lynch)
a. Landmarks
b. Pathways
c. Districts
d. Edges
24. Major and minor routes of circulation to move about, the city has a network of major routes and a
neighborhood network of minor routes; a building has several main routes which people use to get
to it or from it. An urban highway network is a network of pathways for a whole city. (Lynch)
a. Landmarks
b. Pathways
c. Districts
d. Edges
25. The key to orderly and rational land development in any local government unit, i.e. a city or
municipality.
a. Strategic Management
b. Management
c. Planning
d. Rural Planning
26. Prescribes the development pace, direction and strategies for the optimum use of land resources in
a community as well as its role in provincial and national development.
a. CDP
b. CLUP
c. LDIP
d. ELA
27. Cases when the inherent features and characteristics of the land have not been considerably altered
or modified such that the soil horizon, landform, and structure remain intact so that the land can be
reverted to its former use or original condition. (HLURB)
a. Multiple Land Uses
b. Irreversible Uses
c. Reversible Uses
28. When land is subject to applications which brought about changes, alteration or modifications so
much so that it preempts the original use or it is physically impossible to restore the land to its
previous state or condition. (HLURB)
c. Reversible Uses
29. Combining different land uses, whether reversible or irreversible, in an orderly and desirable
pattern because: (HLURB)
i. Land is finite and supply is finite

ii. Demand is ever increasing
iii. Competition is there
iv. Land can indeed have more than one use and uses can be combined in different
ways.
c. Reversible Uses
30. A related concept of multiple uses of land is the compatibility of uses. Some land uses are innately
incompatible while others are completely compatible. Compatible uses can coexist harmoniously
and effectively in an orderly management. (HLURB)
a. Compatible and Incompatible Land Uses
c. Reversible Uses
31. A graphical representation of a place or particular phenomena or themes in an area. It is a
convenient visual form of spatial data, their distribution and relationships.
a. Globe
b. Maps or Mappings
c. Compass
d. GPS
32. Compares map distance with ground distance by proportional numbers and expressed as a
representative fraction or ratio. Example: 1:1,000 means 1 meter on the map is equivalent to 1,000
meters or 1 kilometer on the ground.
a. Map Title
b. Legend
c. Date and Author
d. Scale – Numerical / Functional
33. Usually, maps are oriented towards the geographic (true) north.
a. Map Title
b. Legend
c. Date and Author
d. North Arrow
34. Key to the codes and symbols used in a map.
a. Map Title
b. Legend
c. Date and Author
d. North Arrow
35. Name of map maker and date of survey or period covered by it.
a. Map Title
b. Legend
c. Date and Author
d. North Arrow
36. Shows simple properties of map data. Example: world map, road map, sketch map.
a. Base Map
b. Reference Map
c. Thematic Map
37. Working map for the preparation of various maps. Example: general base map, urban base map.
a. Base Map
b. Reference Map
c. Thematic Map
38. Types of Mapping / Maps used in Environmental Planning
i. Base Maps
ii. Reference Maps
iii. Thematic Maps
iv. Geological Maps
v. Analytical Maps
vi. General Purpose
a. Iii, v and vi
b. None of the Above
c. All of the Above
d. I, ii, iii and iv
39. Analysis of soil and slope of an area.
a. Soil Suitability Map
b. Land Capability Map
c. Flooding Hazard Map
d. Erosion Hazard Map
40. Shows areas where flooding usually occur.
41. Indicates suitability of areas for cultivation.
42. Provides information on the degree of soil suitability for urban development.
43. Illustrates the obstacles to development in the physical sense like subsidence, flooding risks, or
fault lines.
a. Development Constraints Map
b. Land Management Map
c. Land Suitability Map
44. A land resources inventory map describing the shape of land in terms of relief, not slope; an input
map to land suitability map.
b. Land Management Unit Map
45. Classifies land into categories based on the degree to which the characteristics of the land can
satisfy the environmental requirements of specific crops without deterioration.
b. Land Management Map
46. It is the initial unit which dispenses of basic health care (maternal and child care, immunizations,
treatment and health conditions, nutrition, family planning, sanitary health care, emergency
treatment and health education).
a. MHS
b. BHS
c. PGH
d. Clinic
47. It is the classification and administration of all designated protected areas to maintain essential
ecological processes and life-support systems, to preserve genetic diversity, to ensure sustainable
use of resources found therein, and to maintain their natural conditions to the extent possible.
a. IPPs
b. POs
c. NIPAS
d. CCA
48. Refers to a local legislation approving the development control/zoning plan and providing for the
regulations and other conditions, on the uses of land including the limitation on the infrastructures
that may be placed thereon within the territorial jurisdiction of a city or municipality.
a. Zoning
b. Watershed
c. Zoning Ordinance
d. Tourism Development Areas
49. Refers to the delineation/division of a city/municipality into functional zones where only specific
land uses are allowed. It directs and regulates the use of all lands in the community in accordance
with an approved or adopted land use plan for the city/municipality. It prescribes setback
provisions, minimum lot sizes, building heights and bulk.
a. Zoning
b. Watershed
c. Zoning Ordinance
50. Refers to a catchment area or drainage basin from which the waters of a stream or stream system
are drawn.
a. Watershed
b. Zoning Ordinance
c. Tourism Development Areas
51. Refers to specific sites for tourism development located in areas identified as priorities in the
national and regional master plans as well as those designated through legislative and executive
issuances as tourist spots and tourist zones which can be developed into tourism estates or
integrated resort, leisure and recreation complexes, and other tourism related facilities.
a. SEZ
b. Watershed
c. Zoning Ordinance
52. Refer to selected areas with highly developed or which have the potential to be developed into
agro-industrial, industrial, tourist/recreational, commercial, banking, investment and financial
centers. An Eco zone may contain any or all of the following: industrial estates, export processing
zones, free trade zones, and tourist/recreational centers.
a. SEZ
b. Watershed
c. Zoning Ordinance
53. Refers to housing programs and projects covering houses and lots or home lots only undertaken by
the government or the private sector for the underprivileged and homeless citizens which shall
include site and services development, long-term financing, liberalized terms on interest payments,
and such other benefits in accordance with RA 7279.
a. SEZ
b. Socialized Housing
c. Regional Growth Networks / Corridors
d. Regional Agri-Industrial Growth Centers
54. These are the neighboring provinces/regions which are linked together and are identified through
the collaboration and cooperation of various LGUs. The linking of these areas permits the
comparative advantages/strengths of each area to be shared with one another, thereby ensuring the
optimum utilization of resources and the development of networks/corridors and its radiation areas.
a. SEZ
55. The specific locations in each of the country’s regions outside the National Capital Region (NCR)
identified for development by providing it with the full range of infrastructure/utilities needed by
industries to establish operations in the countryside.
a. SEZ
56. Refers to the act of specifying how agricultural lands shall be utilized for non-agricultural uses such
as residential, industrial, and commercial, as embodied in the land use plan, subject to the
requirements and procedure for conversion.
a. Prime Agricultural Lands
b. Protected Areas
c. Reclassification of Agricultural Lands
d. Socialized Housing
57. Refer to identified portions of land and water set aside by reason of their unique physical and
biological significance, managed to enhance biological diversity, and protected against destructive
human exploitation.
b. Protected Areas
58. Refer to lands that can be used for various or specific agricultural activities and can provide
optimum and sustainable yield with a minimum of inputs and development cost as determined by
the DA.
b. Protected Areas
59. Means the undertaking of any development activities whose results will modify or alter the physical
characteristics of the agricultural lands to render them sustainable for non-agricultural purposes
without an approved order of conversion from the DAR.
b. Premature Conversion of Agricultural Land
c. Protected Areas
60. Refers to the acquisition of land at values based on existing use in advance of actual need to promote
planned development and socialized housing programs.
a. Land Swapping
b. Land Management
c. Land Banking
61. This school of thought holds that settlements form in a balanced manner; they tend to be spread
evenly and symmetrically in isotropic space, displaying both hierarchy and equilibrium arising
from the interdependence in between big and small settlements and from the complementation
between their respective scopes of functions.
a. Galaxy of Settlements Theory
b. Central Place Theory
c. Geographic Determinism
d. Dependency Theory
62. This theory propounded by James S. Coleman (1988), Robert Putnam (1993), and Diane Carney
(1998) and adopted by UNDP (1997), looks at collective non-market assets of people such as
trust, solidarity, norms of reciprocity, common purpose, equality and other resources that are
inherent in social relations and embedded in social networks.
a. Theory of Social Change
b. Social Mobilization
c. Theory of Social Learning
d. Theory of Social Capital
63. An activity or industry that provides input materials and services to, say, agriculture, e.g. farm
implements, fertilizers, pesticides, certified seeds is linked in a backward manner.
a. Forward
b. Backward
c. Vertical
d. Horizontal
64. An activity that uses the output of a particular activity, say, sugar milling, e.g. candies, soft
drinks, confectionery, is linked in a forward manner.
a. Forward
b. Backward
c. Vertical
d. Horizontal
65. Where two or more firms produce components of a final output, e.g. parts of a car.
a. Forward
b. Backward
c. Vertical
d. Horizontal
66. Where two or more firms produce complete products that are complementary in use, e.g. furniture
shops each specializing in one type of furniture like chairs, tables, cabinets, etc.
a. Forward
b. Backward
c. Vertical
d. Horizontal
67. Where a service cuts across different types of firms, e.g. security services, insurance,
messengerial or forwarding services.
a. Vertical
b. Horizontal
c. Diagonal
d. Residentiary
68. Where services to the employees or managerial staff are provided by firms or households, e.g.
housing, recreation, food catering.
a. Vertical
b. Horizontal
c. Diagonal
d. Residentiary
69. According to Howard’s Garden City, there are three Magnets in a Community. These are the
following;
i. Town
ii. Country
iii. Town – Country
iv. Urban
v. Rural
a. Iv, v and i
b. I, ii and vi
c. I, ii and v
d. I, ii and iii
70. Father of American City Planning, the Prophet of City Beautiful Movement. Chicago Plan (1909).
a. Jane Jacobs
b. Daniel Hudson Burnham
c. Frank Lloyd Wright
d. Thomas Adams
71. “Father of Town Planning” in Europe. Lawyer-architect; emphasized geometric designs
a. Le Corbusier
b. Henry Wright
c. Hippodamus of Miletus
d. Sir Patrick Geddes
72. Concentrates development into one continuous body. High density activities; increases
discomfort due to noise. Housing limited to high-rise or compact dwelling. Strong visual image
for the whole town.
a. Galaxy of Settlements
b. Urban Star
c. Dispersed Sheet
d. Core City
73. No Vivid or memorable image of city. Developments spread evenly over wide tract; low
densities, substantial open land in reserve. Transport network continuous grid; no road hierarchy,
major nodal points or terminals. Public service provision is expensive.
b. Urban Star
c. Dispersed Sheet
d. Core City
74. Dominant core with secondary centers distributed along main radials. Very strong visual image.
b. Urban Star
c. Dispersed Sheet
d. Core City
75. Land value is maximum at city centre; more accessible to centre has higher value, declining
farther away from transport, employment.
a. Central Place Theory
b. Urban Bid Rent Theory
c. Both a and b
d. None of these
76. Its primary concern is to visualize future possibilities and intentionally choose, guide, and/or
create current behaviours, structures, and/or tools to achieve and/or target toward desirable future
states.
a. Profession
b. Discipline
c. Process
d. Activity
77. It refers to the methods, mechanisms and tools for accomplishing the activity, especially in a
group or social context.
a. Profession
b. Discipline
c. Process
d. Activity
78. It refers to the body of knowledge, related to all aspects of planning, held symbolically or in the
minds of practitioners, researches, and theorists.
a. Profession
b. Discipline
c. Process
d. Activity
79. It refers to the group of individuals carrying appropriate skill sets who fulfil an agreed upon social
responsibility to guide these processes.
a. Profession
b. Discipline
c. Process
d. Activity
80. Putting to use in-lying vacant or idle lands within the built-up envelope. Assessing how much
land can be added to the supply by in-filling requires the conduct of a vacant land survey.
a. Reclamation
b. Urban Renewal/Redevelopment
c. Densification
d. Infilling
81. Increasing density of buildings per land surface area as indicated by the floor-area ratio (FAR),
and/or increasing the occupancy rate of existing multi-storey structures.
a. Reclamation
c. Densification
d. Infilling
82. Conversion of slums and blighted areas from one-storey makeshift dwellings to permanent
medium-rise walk-up apartments easily increases residential density.
a. Reclamation
c. Densification
d. Infilling
83. Producing new urban land by filling or draining portions of a lakeshore, seashore, and similar
waterfront areas, provided the resulting alternation of natural ecosystems will not result in serious
ecological imbalance, is a supply-augmentation scheme worth considering.
a. Reclamation
c. Densification
d. Infilling
84. Should be limited to agricultural lands with relatively low suitability for cultivation to major food
or cash crops. These areas are designated by the BSWM as “conditionally restricted” areas for
conversion. Extreme necessity could justify conversion of moderately suitable agricultural lands
designated as “moderately restricted” areas. Agricultural lands designated as “highly restricted”
however should be considered “no touch” or non-negotiable areas.
a. Agricultural Land Conversion
c. Densification
d. Infilling
85. Intended to dampen the need or urge of rural dwellers to move to urban areas. Vigorous agrarian
reform, rural resettlement, rural electrification, efficient telecommunications are some examples
of rural development interventions that effectively reduce rural to-urban migration.
a. Relocation or Resettlement
b. Opening Alternative Growth Centers
c. Improved Rural Services
d. All of the Above
86. Fast-growing barangays could be assisted to serve as service centers for other barangays within
their areas of influence, thus reducing the pressure on the poblacion or traditional urban center to
expand.
d. All of the Above
87. An effective way of decentralizing urban populations. The social, economic and psychological
costs to the affected population of this option however, are so high that resettlement is often
regarded as an unattractive alternative.
d. All of the Above
88. The _______ embrace the traditional town center or poblacion, other urban barangays, rural
settlements, and where applicable, the settlement of ethnic groups or indigenous people.
Conceptually, settlement areas constitute the space for living.
a. Production Areas
b. Settlement Areas
c. Infrastructure Areas
d. Protection Areas
89. ____________ Or the space for making a living, are those taken up by commercial, office,
industrial, agricultural, tourism and similar activities.
a. Production Areas
b. Settlement Areas
d. Protection Areas
90. _____________ provide a vital link between and among the different land use areas as well as
support the activities for living and those for making a living.
a. Production Areas
b. Settlement Areas
d. Protection Areas
91. Which of the following sectors represents the “calyx” of a flower?
a. Social Development
b. Infrastructure Development
c. Institutional Development
d. Economic Development
92. The success indicators are desired end-state scenarios about the development of each sector and
subsector. How much or to what extent are these desired future states already attained? How
much remains to be done to fully achieve the desired end? To find the answer to these questions
is to undertake the intermediate analysis: Vision – Reality Gap analysis. When the gap has been
determined, the formulation of sectorial goals becomes straightforward. Whatever it takes and
however long it takes to fill the gap that is the sectorial goal.
a. GAM
b. SWOT
c. VRGA
d. CBA
93. When the CDP process has reached this stage, the sectorial programs and projects and the
proposed legislations are compiled, reconciled, and otherwise processed and refined to form the
LGU’s __________ for the next 3 years.
a. CDP
b. LDIP
c. ELA
d. SEP
94. A cluster of programs. A comprehensive long-range and multi-sectorial effort to attain a set of
goals by deciding upon a mix of alternative strategies. It may have a time frame of 3 to 30 years.
a. Task
b. Activity
c. Project
d. Plan
95. A cluster of projects. Comprises the operational components of a long-term plan. Sometimes
synonymous with project, it may cover a period of 3-6 years. A _____ defines a particular
clientele and their priority needs and breaks down the strategic decisions in a plan into different
components or projects which are tactical or short-term in nature.
a. Program
b. Task
c. Project
d. Plan
96. A cluster of activities. A specific but complex effort consisting of interrelated activities
performed by various functional units and specialists. Sometimes synonymous with program, a
____ has a well-defined objective, a definite schedule, and a set budget. It may cover a period of
1-3 years.
a. Task
b. Activity
c. Project
d. Plan
97. a cluster of tasks. A very short-term effort performed by one or several members of a project team
or of an office or organization. Some activities must be completed before the project can move
on; other activities can either be done simultaneously or lie in wait as other tasks go on. An
______ may last from one week to one year.
a. Task
b. Activity
c. Project
d. Plan
98. A purposive combination of psychomotor actions or motions leading to the accomplishment of an
activity. A _____ may take a few minutes to a few months to complete.
a. Task
b. Activity
c. Project
d. Plan
99. What are the Land Domains for the CLUP Preparations
i. Public Land Domain
ii. Private Land Domain
iii. Ancestral Domain
iv. Urban Domain
v. Rural Domain
a. I only
b. II only
c. Iii, iv and v only
d. I, ii and iii only
100. The ______ is the principal instrument for implementing the Comprehensive
Development Plan (CDP) and to some extent, certain aspects of the Comprehensive Land Use
Plan (CLUP).
a. ELA
b. CBA
c. LDIP
d. All of the Above

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PRE BOARD EXAMINATION 2018

HISTORY, CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING

1. RA 10587 is also known as _________.

I. History, concepts, theories and principles of environmental planning;

i. Land is finite and supply is finite

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