NERC Reliability Coordinator (RC) Certification Exam ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR

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NERC Reliability Coordinator (RC) Certification
Exam ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR


QUESTION: Every 2 years TO/TOP/DSP must provide how many hours of system restoration

training to field switching personnel - ANSWER-2 hours




QUESTION: Every 2 years GOP's with blackstart resources shall provide how many hours of

training to operating personnel responsible for startup - ANSWER-2 hours




Q; Common standard time period for station battery to handle outage of AC power to chargers

- ANSWER-8-12 hours




QUESTION: Time to restore data exchange redundancy when redundancy testing by RC/TOP/BA

deemed unsuccessful - ANSWER-2 hours




QUESTION: Transition period to backup control facility (fully functioning) - ANSWER-2 hours




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QUESTION: Annual testing of backup control facility must prove to be functional for this long -

ANSWER-2 hours




QUESTION: BAL-002 default contingency reserve restoration period (following disturbance

recovery period) - ANSWER-90 minutes




QUESTION: How often should BA calculate and record inadvertent interchange - ANSWER-60

minutes/hourly




QUESTION: How often should BA provide MW-hour meter readings to adjacent BA's - ANSWER-

60 minutes/hourly




QUESTION: TLR procedure (identifying TLR level and actions to be implemented) needs

updating how often - ANSWER-60 minutes/hourly




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QUESTION: Hourly ATC for next 48 hours calculated how often - ANSWER-60 minutes/hourly




QUESTION: During EEA2/3 the energy deficient entity needs to update the RC how often until

alert is terminated - ANSWER-60 minutes/hourly




QUESTION: DOE-417 (disturbance reporting) should be completed by when - ANSWER-60

minutes




QUESTION: BA with loss of resources must submit RFI with start time no more than how far

beyond the resource loss - ANSWER-60 minutes




QUESTION: Sink BA should ensure interchange modifications are submitted how soon after the

modification - ANSWER-60 minutes




QUESTION: If unable to calculate ACE for this long, BA must notify RC - ANSWER-30 minutes




QUESTION: ACE cannot exceed BAAL for how long - ANSWER-30 minutes




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QUESTION: If AVR, PSS, or other voltage control device status changes from normal operation,

GOP must notify TOP within how long of the change (if it does not last longer than this, no

reporting necessary) - ANSWER-30 minutes




QUESTION: GOP must notify TOP of change in reactive capability how quick - ANSWER-30

minutes




QUESTION: TOP should return from unknown operating state how quick - ANSWER-30 minutes




QUESTION: IROL Tv should be less than or equal to... (system should be returned to IROL within

this time frame of exceeding) - ANSWER-30 minutes




QUESTION: RC completes RT assessments of SOL/IROL violations how often - ANSWER-30

minutes




QUESTION: Once BA/TOP notifies RC of emergency conditions, RC has how long to notify other

BA/TOP's and neighboring RC's - ANSWER-30 minutes


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