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1. API Recommended Practice 574 Inspection Practices for piping system components, does not cover:

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2. The refining industry generally uses what type of piping for severe service?

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3. Piping is normally made by rolling plates and welding the seams for pipes larger than larger than_________ inches.

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4. What API document provides guidance in Fitness for Service (FFS)?

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5. Steel and alloy piping are also manufactured to standard thicknesses designated as "Schedules" in nominal pipe sizes up to_______________ inch

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6. The actual thickness of wrought piping may vary from its nominal thickness by a manufacturing under tolerance of as much as___________________ percent.

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7. Cast piping has thickness tolerance of  - .... inch and  + .... inch.

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8. For all nominal pipe sizes of_____________ inches and smaller, the size refers to the nominal inside diameter.

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9. Under tolerance of welded plates used for pipe manufacturing used in refinery service is.....inch

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10. Tubing is generally seamless drawn, but may also be welded. Its stated size is its actual

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11. There are many type of valves. Which one of the valves listed below is incorrect?

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12. What type of valve is normally used in a fully open or fully closed position?

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13. What is a globe valve used for?

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14. What are check valves normally used for?

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15. What type of pipe joint is generally limited to piping in non-critical service and has a nominal size of 2 inches or smaller?

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16. Socket welded joints are usually used in nominal pipe size of ____ or smaller.

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17. Which of the joints listed is the most common found in the petroleum industry?

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18. The primary purpose of piping inspection is to...

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19. OSHA 1910.119 mandates that:

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20. Regulatory requirements usually cover only those conditions that affect:

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How the API 570 exam questions developed? 

A question writing session is periodically conducted by Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), or individuals who specialize in pressure vessels, write questions from specific sections of the Code.  Each question is then checked by three other SME’s.

 

This validation exercise answers two questions;

  1. Is the question written clearly?
  2. Does the question cover knowledge that is important to a vessel inspector?

These questions then go into a question data-bank as non scored exam questions.

 

Presently there are over 1000 questions in the data-bank and are grouped by topics.  For each examination, there are 170 questions on the exam pulled from Area of Examination (see below). Only 140 Questions are scored. The remaining 30 are pre-test questions and not marked towards your score, that is, these pre-test questions do not affect your score whether you have answered them correctly or not. API does not tell you which ones these questions are.

API needs to ensure that these questions are not significantly challenged by the candidates and have also been answered by a reasonable number of candidates before adding them to their question bank as scored questions.

 

Publications Effectivity Sheet & Body of knowledge

Publications effectivity sheet is the list of applicable reference documents that you need to study for the exam. It also tells you which sections of each document are applicable. It can be revised from time to time when the codes and recommended practices or their addendum are revised and becomes applicable. Red texts indicate a revision or a change from the previous API Effectivity Sheet.

 

Body of knowledge also list the reference codes and recommended practices (without revision number) and elaborates on topics that a pressure vessel inspector needs to know giving examples. It shows what you are expected to know.

 

From time to time, API conducts a Job Analysis to re-evaluate the API 570 exam to ensure that it remains relevant and continues to focus on the inspectors’ core competencies. As a part of this process, the publication effectivity sheet and body of knowledge is revised. For example, API 570 Publications Effectivity Sheet applicable for exams held between June 2021 – October 2021 has been revised by adding the API RP 576 (Pressure Relieving Devices).

 

Number of Exam Questions per Code and RP

As per API Publication Effectively Sheet or reference material for API-570 exam, there are 4 ASME codes (ASME B31.3, ASME B16.5, ASME Code V & ASME Code IX), 4 Recommended Practices (571, 574, 576, 577, 578) and the all important API standard 570. However, all of them are not equally important and therefore, do not require equal emphasis.

 

About 40% of questions are asked from API 510 code which is some 80 pages long, while the rest contribute to remaining 60% which are 2000 pages long.

 

 

CodeApproximate Number of Questions
API 570 Code & API 57470 – 75
ASME Sec IX & API 57715 – 20
ASME Sec. V10 – 15
API RP 5718 – 10
ASME B31.315 – 20
ASME B16.58 – 10
API 576 & API 5788 – 10
safety3 – 4

 

Below table shows area of examination versus maximum number of exam questions and should give you a fair idea of how important each part of Body of Knowledge is.

 

Area of Examination                     Maximum No. of Questions

Scope and General Application of 570                              5

Damage Mechanisms                                                           15

Repairs                                                                                     15

NDE                                                                                           15

(Procedures, limitations, advantages, techniques, responsibilities, applications)

Welding                                                                                      15

Design                                                                                         10

Planning                                                                                      20

Inspection and Testing Practices                                            15

Pressure Relief Devices                                                               5

Data Evaluation                                                                           20

Roles and Responsibilities                                                          5

Total Score                                                                                    140

Add another 30 non scored questions that are distributed across the topics.

 

No Negative Marking

The pass mark is roughly 70% for all the API examinations. No negative marking is applied. Therefore, make sure that you have answered all the questions. At the end, click the ‘’review all’’ button and peruse through the list to ensure that you have not skipped any question. You can also check ‘’review incomplete questions’’ to ensure there is nothing on the list, that is, no question left unanswered.

 

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