Lead Inspector Assessor Course Exam Questions and Answers (Latest 2026)

Lead Inspector / Assessor Course Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest 2026)
Permanent abatement options include... - Correct Answers
✅Paint removal, component removal, enclosure,
encapsulation


What agencies focus on childhood lead poisoning prevention?
- Correct Answers ✅CDPH, HUD, EPA


What is the CAL OSHA Standard for lead? - Correct Answers
✅Title 8 CCR 1532.1


What is the Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead
Based Paint Hazards in Housing? - Correct Answers ✅1995
HUD Guidelines


When was the revision to Chapter 7 of the Guidelines for the
Evaluation and Control of Lead Based Paint Hazards in
Housing enacted? - Correct Answers ✅1997


Target Housing - Correct Answers ✅Housing where children
may live and spend time in.


T/F Every purchaser of any interest in residential real property
on which a residential dwelling was built prior to 1978 is
notified that such property may present exposure to lead
from lead based paint. - Correct Answers ✅True

,Lead Inspector / Assessor Course Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest 2026)
The federal regulation for re-certification occurs how often? -
Correct Answers ✅Every 3 years


In California, how often is re-certification? - Correct Answers
✅Every other year


What is the California standard equivalent to 29 CFR
1926.62? - Correct Answers ✅Title 8 CCR 1532.1


What is the California standard equivalent to 29 CFR
1910.134? - Correct Answers ✅Title 8 CCR 5144


What are the two documents that base the Lead Based Paint
Inspections? - Correct Answers ✅HUD 1995/1997 and EPA
40 CFR part 745


What is EPA 40 CFR part 745? - Correct Answers ✅Lead;
Requirements for Lead Based Paint Activities in Target
Housing and Child Occupied Facilities


What is HUD 1995/1997? - Correct Answers ✅Guidelines
for the Evaluation and Control of Lead Based Paint Hazards in
Housing

,Lead Inspector / Assessor Course Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest 2026)
Lead based paint - Correct Answers ✅paint, varnish,
shellac or other coating on surfaces that contain 1.0 mg/cm2
or more of lead or 0.5% or more lead in weight


Lead based paint hazards - Correct Answers ✅any
condition that cause exposure to lead contaminated dust,
lead contaminated soil or lead contaminated paint that is
deteriorated or present in accessible surfaces, friction
surfaces, or impact surfaces that would result in adverse
human health effects


Lead based paint inspection - Correct Answers ✅a surface-
by-surface investigation to determine the presence of lead
based paint and the provision of a report explaining the
results of the investigation


What are the HUD primary substrates? - Correct Answers
✅brick, concrete, drywall, metal, wood, and plaster


What is the inspector's job during an inspection? - Correct
Answers ✅To test a surface in the interior of each dwelling
unit that is representative of each type of painted, stained,
shellacked or varnished testing combination in every room
equivalent.

, Lead Inspector / Assessor Course Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest 2026)
T/F Lead inspection includes soil testing. - Correct Answers
✅False - soil testing is part of a risk assessment or if
requested by the owner


Room equivalent - Correct Answers ✅an identifiable part of
a residence, such as a room, house exterior, a foyer,
staircase, hallway or an exterior area (play areas, painted
swing sets, painted sandboxes, fences, etc.)


Building component type - Correct Answers ✅those items
in the interior or exterior of housing onto which paint, stain,
varnish or shellac has been applied and that have a common
substrate


Substrate - Correct Answers ✅the material underneath the
paint


Testing combination - Correct Answers ✅unique
combination of room equivalent, building component type
and substrate


Deteriorated paint - Correct Answers ✅any interior or
exterior paint that is peeling, chipping, chalking, cracking or
is located on an interior or exterior surface or fixture that is
damaged or deteriorated