NACE CIP LEVEL 1 EXAM | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
• SSPC-SP15 -✓✓ Commercial grade power tool cleaning
• SSPC-SP16 -✓✓ Brush-off blast cleaning of Non Ferrous Metals
• SSPC-SP 14 -✓✓ Industrial Blast Cleaning
10% Stain
• SSPC-SP13 -✓✓ Surface prep of concrete
• SSPC-SP7 -✓✓ Brush off blast cleaning
• NACE SP0178 -✓✓ Design, fabrication, and surface finish practices for tanks and
vessels to be lined for immersion service.
• SSPC-SP 11 -✓✓ Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal
• SSPC-PA2 -✓✓ Measurement of Dry Coat Thickness with magnetic gauges.
• SSPC-SP10/NACE 2 limits staining to ______per each unit area -✓✓ 5%
Near White Commercial Blast
• SSPC-SP6/NACE 3 limits staining to _______per each unit area -✓✓ 33%
Commercial Blasts
• NACE SP0188 -✓✓ holiday testing
• SSPC-SP1 -✓✓ Solvent Cleaning
• SSPC-SP5/NACE 1 limits staining to _________per each unit area -✓✓ 0%
White Metal Blast
• SSPC-SP3 -✓✓ Power Tool Cleaning
• SSPC-SP2 -✓✓ Hand Tool Cleaning
• ASTM D 4417 -✓✓ surface profile blast cleaned steel
• SA-3 -✓✓ Blast Cleaning to Visually Clean Steel
, • SA 2 1/2 -✓✓ Very Thorough Blast Cleaning
• Sa 2 -✓✓ Thorough Blast Cleaning
• SA 1 -✓✓ Light Blast Cleaning
• St 3 -✓✓ Very Thorough Hand and Power Tool Cleaning
• St 2 -✓✓ Thorough Hand and Power Tool Cleaning
• 2 Non-convertible coating types -✓✓ 1. Evaporation cure 2. Coalescence cure
• SSPC-VIS1 Defines surface covered with and rust as what grade? -✓✓ Grade B
• SSPC-SP2
ISO St 3
ISO St 2
All deal with hand tool Cleaning. True or false? -✓✓ True
• Acrylic -✓✓ A plastic resin that, when mixed with water and pigment, forms an
inorganic and quick-drying paint medium.
-Excellent UV and weather resistance
• Polyaspartic -✓✓ -Used to achieve low or near zero VOC systems
-pot lives from 5 minutes to several hours
-Film builds up to (15 mils) DFT in a single pass
• Phenolic -✓✓ Typically used where low PH environments and Higher Temperature are
factors
• latex (Emulsions) -✓✓ -Resins normally thermoplastic resin types
-Coalescence curing
(Non-convertible)
• Furans -✓✓ -Applied by Brick layers not coating applicators.
-Not a common coating type
• epoxy -✓✓ -Two parts, resin and hardener must be mixed.
-Can be solvent-based, water-based, or solvent-free
• Alkyds -✓✓ -Oxidative curing
-Reffered to as "Oil Based Paints"
2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
• SSPC-SP15 -✓✓ Commercial grade power tool cleaning
• SSPC-SP16 -✓✓ Brush-off blast cleaning of Non Ferrous Metals
• SSPC-SP 14 -✓✓ Industrial Blast Cleaning
10% Stain
• SSPC-SP13 -✓✓ Surface prep of concrete
• SSPC-SP7 -✓✓ Brush off blast cleaning
• NACE SP0178 -✓✓ Design, fabrication, and surface finish practices for tanks and
vessels to be lined for immersion service.
• SSPC-SP 11 -✓✓ Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal
• SSPC-PA2 -✓✓ Measurement of Dry Coat Thickness with magnetic gauges.
• SSPC-SP10/NACE 2 limits staining to ______per each unit area -✓✓ 5%
Near White Commercial Blast
• SSPC-SP6/NACE 3 limits staining to _______per each unit area -✓✓ 33%
Commercial Blasts
• NACE SP0188 -✓✓ holiday testing
• SSPC-SP1 -✓✓ Solvent Cleaning
• SSPC-SP5/NACE 1 limits staining to _________per each unit area -✓✓ 0%
White Metal Blast
• SSPC-SP3 -✓✓ Power Tool Cleaning
• SSPC-SP2 -✓✓ Hand Tool Cleaning
• ASTM D 4417 -✓✓ surface profile blast cleaned steel
• SA-3 -✓✓ Blast Cleaning to Visually Clean Steel
, • SA 2 1/2 -✓✓ Very Thorough Blast Cleaning
• Sa 2 -✓✓ Thorough Blast Cleaning
• SA 1 -✓✓ Light Blast Cleaning
• St 3 -✓✓ Very Thorough Hand and Power Tool Cleaning
• St 2 -✓✓ Thorough Hand and Power Tool Cleaning
• 2 Non-convertible coating types -✓✓ 1. Evaporation cure 2. Coalescence cure
• SSPC-VIS1 Defines surface covered with and rust as what grade? -✓✓ Grade B
• SSPC-SP2
ISO St 3
ISO St 2
All deal with hand tool Cleaning. True or false? -✓✓ True
• Acrylic -✓✓ A plastic resin that, when mixed with water and pigment, forms an
inorganic and quick-drying paint medium.
-Excellent UV and weather resistance
• Polyaspartic -✓✓ -Used to achieve low or near zero VOC systems
-pot lives from 5 minutes to several hours
-Film builds up to (15 mils) DFT in a single pass
• Phenolic -✓✓ Typically used where low PH environments and Higher Temperature are
factors
• latex (Emulsions) -✓✓ -Resins normally thermoplastic resin types
-Coalescence curing
(Non-convertible)
• Furans -✓✓ -Applied by Brick layers not coating applicators.
-Not a common coating type
• epoxy -✓✓ -Two parts, resin and hardener must be mixed.
-Can be solvent-based, water-based, or solvent-free
• Alkyds -✓✓ -Oxidative curing
-Reffered to as "Oil Based Paints"
