OACETT PPE Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025 Graded A+
What does OACETT stand for? - Answers Ontario Associated of Certified Engineering Technicians and
Technologists
What organization is OACETT formed under? - Answers Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario
What year was OACETT formed? - Answers 1961
What year did the OACETT Act become law in Ontario? - Answers 1984
What kind of law is the OACETT Act? - Answers Statute Law
What is the OACETT Act legislated under? - Answers Statute Law of Ontario of 1998
Under what bill does the OACETT Act operate? - Answers Bill pr25
Name 2 characteristics of OACETT - Answers Non-profit, self governing
How many members make up OACETT? - Answers 25,000
What is the main objective of OACETT? - Answers To establish and maintain high professional standards
What 6 documents govern OACETT? - Answers OACETT Act, Corporations Act, OACETT By-Law, OACETT
Policies, OACETT Boards, Administrative Guidelines
What is the purpose of the OACETT by-law? - Answers Written rules that put the OACETT Act into
practice
What is the registration board that OACETT certifications go through? - Answers Institute of Engineering
Technology of Ontario (IETO)
Is OACETT allowed to discipline engineers? - Answers No
What does the OACETT Administration Board (OAB) do? - Answers Act on behalf of the council, manage
finances, help direct CEO
What does the IETO do? - Answers Manage member certifications
What does the Professional Affairs and Services Board (PASB) do? - Answers Promote professional
recognition of OACETT members with employees
What are chapters? How many are in Ontario? - Answers Divisions in which members are organized, 27
What is a licensure? - Answers The process of granting licenses to qualified applicants
What are the 2 national councils and what provinces belong to each? - Answers Technology
Professionals Canada (TPC) includes ON, SK, AB, BC. Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists
includes all other provinces excluding QC.
,Describe the design of the Technology Ring and the meaning behind it - Answers Made up of 5 raised
gears and 1 maple leaf. The gears symbolize the tradesperson, technician, technologist, engineer and
scientist.
When can a member start using their designation? - Answers When they pass exam and receive
confirmation from registrar
What document draws out the day-to-day functioning of the IETO? - Answers IETO Terms of Reference
Define: Certified member - Answers Certified and registered member
Define: Associate member - Answers An applicant who is training to write exam
Define: Fellow OACETT member - Answers Certified member in good standing
Define: Life member - Answers Certified member recognized by Council as having made an exceptional
contribution to the association
Define: Non-resident member - Answers Certified member who has moved outside of Ontario
Which membership is not administered by the IETO? What does it mean? - Answers Honorary member.
A non-certified person who has made an exceptional contribution to the association
Which 3 titles are used for working in road construction? - Answers Junior Inspector, Senior Inspector,
Contract Administrator
When did OACETT become incorporated? - Answers 1962
What 4 requirements are there to be a certified member? - Answers Be of good character, be 18 or
older, be a resident of Ontario, meet criteria of OACETT and IETO
What is the Prior Learning Assessment Recognition (PLAR) process? - Answers Applicants with more than
10 years experience but no academic experience can do this to meet their education criteria
Briefly describe the appeals process (4 steps) for membership certification - Answers Appeal must be
filed in writing within 30 days with the appropriate fee. The appeal must be heard by the IETO within 90
days
What is the Fair Access to Regulated Professions and Compulsory Trades Act (FARPACTA)? - Answers An
Act that regulates registration processes so they are fair and not full of unnecessary hurdles
Who is responsible for the implementation of the FARPACTA? - Answers Office of the Fairness
Commissioner
What 3 things can members be censured for? - Answers Professional misconduct, incompetence, a
breach of ethics
, What is the difference between a rule and a law? - Answers A rule is a guideline followed by society and
a law is a written rule that is enforced by the government
What does the Rule of Law mean? - Answers It means that the law applies to everyone equally
What are 3 reasons that societies may put laws into place? - Answers Control, fairness, social policy
What 2 laws is Canadian law divided into? What do they mean? - Answers Substantive Law: sets out the
rights and obligations of members of a society
Procedural Law: prescribes the procedures by which these rights and duties are enforced
What is a right and what is a duty? Give an example of each - Answers A right is something that is owed
to us, like the freedom of association. A duty is something we have to do, like pay taxes.
What 2 laws can substantive law be divided into? - Answers Public law and private law
What 3 sources does Canadian law originate? - Answers Common Law and Equity, Statute Law,
Administrative Law
Define: Common law - Answers Precedents used to determine the outcome of a decision
Define: Equity - Answers When there is no precedent, so the parties apply directly to the monarch for
resolution of the dispute
Define: Civil law - Answers Law concerned with the private relations between members of a community
Define: Statute law - Answers Laws passed by parliament
Define: Administrative law - Answers Set of detailed regulations with which larger laws are implemented
Define: Constitution - Answers A set of rules that guide how a state is run
Define: Trial - Answers A first set of proceedings for a case
Define: Appeal - Answers The second set of proceedings for a case
Define: Crime - Answers An act that is considered to be injurious to society
Define: Absolute discharge - Answers The offender does not get a criminal record
Define: Conditional discharge - Answers The offender does not get a criminal record as long as they
don't violate a set of restrictions made to them
Define: Plaintiff - Answers The party that initiates the case
Define: Defendant - Answers The party being sued
What does OACETT stand for? - Answers Ontario Associated of Certified Engineering Technicians and
Technologists
What organization is OACETT formed under? - Answers Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario
What year was OACETT formed? - Answers 1961
What year did the OACETT Act become law in Ontario? - Answers 1984
What kind of law is the OACETT Act? - Answers Statute Law
What is the OACETT Act legislated under? - Answers Statute Law of Ontario of 1998
Under what bill does the OACETT Act operate? - Answers Bill pr25
Name 2 characteristics of OACETT - Answers Non-profit, self governing
How many members make up OACETT? - Answers 25,000
What is the main objective of OACETT? - Answers To establish and maintain high professional standards
What 6 documents govern OACETT? - Answers OACETT Act, Corporations Act, OACETT By-Law, OACETT
Policies, OACETT Boards, Administrative Guidelines
What is the purpose of the OACETT by-law? - Answers Written rules that put the OACETT Act into
practice
What is the registration board that OACETT certifications go through? - Answers Institute of Engineering
Technology of Ontario (IETO)
Is OACETT allowed to discipline engineers? - Answers No
What does the OACETT Administration Board (OAB) do? - Answers Act on behalf of the council, manage
finances, help direct CEO
What does the IETO do? - Answers Manage member certifications
What does the Professional Affairs and Services Board (PASB) do? - Answers Promote professional
recognition of OACETT members with employees
What are chapters? How many are in Ontario? - Answers Divisions in which members are organized, 27
What is a licensure? - Answers The process of granting licenses to qualified applicants
What are the 2 national councils and what provinces belong to each? - Answers Technology
Professionals Canada (TPC) includes ON, SK, AB, BC. Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists
includes all other provinces excluding QC.
,Describe the design of the Technology Ring and the meaning behind it - Answers Made up of 5 raised
gears and 1 maple leaf. The gears symbolize the tradesperson, technician, technologist, engineer and
scientist.
When can a member start using their designation? - Answers When they pass exam and receive
confirmation from registrar
What document draws out the day-to-day functioning of the IETO? - Answers IETO Terms of Reference
Define: Certified member - Answers Certified and registered member
Define: Associate member - Answers An applicant who is training to write exam
Define: Fellow OACETT member - Answers Certified member in good standing
Define: Life member - Answers Certified member recognized by Council as having made an exceptional
contribution to the association
Define: Non-resident member - Answers Certified member who has moved outside of Ontario
Which membership is not administered by the IETO? What does it mean? - Answers Honorary member.
A non-certified person who has made an exceptional contribution to the association
Which 3 titles are used for working in road construction? - Answers Junior Inspector, Senior Inspector,
Contract Administrator
When did OACETT become incorporated? - Answers 1962
What 4 requirements are there to be a certified member? - Answers Be of good character, be 18 or
older, be a resident of Ontario, meet criteria of OACETT and IETO
What is the Prior Learning Assessment Recognition (PLAR) process? - Answers Applicants with more than
10 years experience but no academic experience can do this to meet their education criteria
Briefly describe the appeals process (4 steps) for membership certification - Answers Appeal must be
filed in writing within 30 days with the appropriate fee. The appeal must be heard by the IETO within 90
days
What is the Fair Access to Regulated Professions and Compulsory Trades Act (FARPACTA)? - Answers An
Act that regulates registration processes so they are fair and not full of unnecessary hurdles
Who is responsible for the implementation of the FARPACTA? - Answers Office of the Fairness
Commissioner
What 3 things can members be censured for? - Answers Professional misconduct, incompetence, a
breach of ethics
, What is the difference between a rule and a law? - Answers A rule is a guideline followed by society and
a law is a written rule that is enforced by the government
What does the Rule of Law mean? - Answers It means that the law applies to everyone equally
What are 3 reasons that societies may put laws into place? - Answers Control, fairness, social policy
What 2 laws is Canadian law divided into? What do they mean? - Answers Substantive Law: sets out the
rights and obligations of members of a society
Procedural Law: prescribes the procedures by which these rights and duties are enforced
What is a right and what is a duty? Give an example of each - Answers A right is something that is owed
to us, like the freedom of association. A duty is something we have to do, like pay taxes.
What 2 laws can substantive law be divided into? - Answers Public law and private law
What 3 sources does Canadian law originate? - Answers Common Law and Equity, Statute Law,
Administrative Law
Define: Common law - Answers Precedents used to determine the outcome of a decision
Define: Equity - Answers When there is no precedent, so the parties apply directly to the monarch for
resolution of the dispute
Define: Civil law - Answers Law concerned with the private relations between members of a community
Define: Statute law - Answers Laws passed by parliament
Define: Administrative law - Answers Set of detailed regulations with which larger laws are implemented
Define: Constitution - Answers A set of rules that guide how a state is run
Define: Trial - Answers A first set of proceedings for a case
Define: Appeal - Answers The second set of proceedings for a case
Define: Crime - Answers An act that is considered to be injurious to society
Define: Absolute discharge - Answers The offender does not get a criminal record
Define: Conditional discharge - Answers The offender does not get a criminal record as long as they
don't violate a set of restrictions made to them
Define: Plaintiff - Answers The party that initiates the case
Define: Defendant - Answers The party being sued
