API 577 EXAM || WITH QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADE A | LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
API 574 - CORRECT ANSWER : Piping System Components
CP-189 - CORRECT ANSWER : Qualification/Certification of Nondestructive
Testing Personnel
ASTM A956 - CORRECT ANSWER : Leeb Hardness Testing
ASTM A1038 - CORRECT ANSWER : Portable Hardness Testing by UT
Contact Impedance
ASTM E94 - CORRECT ANSWER : RT Exam
ASTM E1316 - CORRECT ANSWER : Terminology for Nondestructive Exam
NACE SP 0472 - CORRECT ANSWER : Prevent In-service Environmental
Cracking of carbon steel weldments
WRC 342 - CORRECT ANSWER : SS Weld Metal: Prediction of Ferrite
Content
ACFM can be used to find defects where? - CORRECT ANSWER : Surface
breaking/Near Surface
,Eddy Current exam primarily applies to what type of materials? - CORRECT
ANSWER : Non-Ferromagnetic Materials
Define fusion line - CORRECT ANSWER : Interface between base metal and
weld metal
Define Lamellar tear - CORRECT ANSWER : Subsurface terrace and step-like
crack in the base metal parallel to the surface
True/ False
Recordable Indication exceeds rejection criteria. - CORRECT ANSWER : False,
does not exceed
GTAW Alternating Current should be used when welding what type of materials? -
CORRECT ANSWER : Aluminum and Magnesium
GMAW Globular Transfer is limited to what positions? - CORRECT ANSWER :
Flat and Horizontal
The Plasma arc welding non transferred spray process is solely used for what? -
CORRECT ANSWER : The deposition of surface coatings
A bridge cam gauge can be used to determine what? - CORRECT ANSWER :
weld prep angle, excess weld metal, depth of undercut or pitting fillet weld throat
size, weld leg-length misalignment
, An adjustable fillet weld gauge is used to determine what? - CORRECT
ANSWER : Weld sizes for fit ups with 45 degree members and welds with
unequal leg lengths.
True/False
Reportable Indication does not exceed rejection criteria. - CORRECT ANSWER
: False, Does exceed
Weld size gauge is used to determine what? - CORRECT ANSWER : Fillet weld
size, actual throat size of convex/concave fillet welds, reinforcement of butt weld
and root openings
Hi-lo weld gauge is used to determine what? - CORRECT ANSWER : internal
misalignment, pipe wall thickness after alignment length between scribe lines, root
opening 37 and a 1/2 bevel, fillet weld leg size, reinforcement on butt welds,
internal mismatch, weld Crown height, root weld spacing
ACFM is used for the evaluation and monitoring of what? - CORRECT
ANSWER : Existing Cracks
True/False
ACFM instrument needs to be calibrated every 2 years. - CORRECT ANSWER :
False, ACFM instrument does not need to be calibrated.
Eddy Current is used to detect defects where? - CORRECT ANSWER : On the
surface and sub-surface
ANSWERS GRADE A | LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
API 574 - CORRECT ANSWER : Piping System Components
CP-189 - CORRECT ANSWER : Qualification/Certification of Nondestructive
Testing Personnel
ASTM A956 - CORRECT ANSWER : Leeb Hardness Testing
ASTM A1038 - CORRECT ANSWER : Portable Hardness Testing by UT
Contact Impedance
ASTM E94 - CORRECT ANSWER : RT Exam
ASTM E1316 - CORRECT ANSWER : Terminology for Nondestructive Exam
NACE SP 0472 - CORRECT ANSWER : Prevent In-service Environmental
Cracking of carbon steel weldments
WRC 342 - CORRECT ANSWER : SS Weld Metal: Prediction of Ferrite
Content
ACFM can be used to find defects where? - CORRECT ANSWER : Surface
breaking/Near Surface
,Eddy Current exam primarily applies to what type of materials? - CORRECT
ANSWER : Non-Ferromagnetic Materials
Define fusion line - CORRECT ANSWER : Interface between base metal and
weld metal
Define Lamellar tear - CORRECT ANSWER : Subsurface terrace and step-like
crack in the base metal parallel to the surface
True/ False
Recordable Indication exceeds rejection criteria. - CORRECT ANSWER : False,
does not exceed
GTAW Alternating Current should be used when welding what type of materials? -
CORRECT ANSWER : Aluminum and Magnesium
GMAW Globular Transfer is limited to what positions? - CORRECT ANSWER :
Flat and Horizontal
The Plasma arc welding non transferred spray process is solely used for what? -
CORRECT ANSWER : The deposition of surface coatings
A bridge cam gauge can be used to determine what? - CORRECT ANSWER :
weld prep angle, excess weld metal, depth of undercut or pitting fillet weld throat
size, weld leg-length misalignment
, An adjustable fillet weld gauge is used to determine what? - CORRECT
ANSWER : Weld sizes for fit ups with 45 degree members and welds with
unequal leg lengths.
True/False
Reportable Indication does not exceed rejection criteria. - CORRECT ANSWER
: False, Does exceed
Weld size gauge is used to determine what? - CORRECT ANSWER : Fillet weld
size, actual throat size of convex/concave fillet welds, reinforcement of butt weld
and root openings
Hi-lo weld gauge is used to determine what? - CORRECT ANSWER : internal
misalignment, pipe wall thickness after alignment length between scribe lines, root
opening 37 and a 1/2 bevel, fillet weld leg size, reinforcement on butt welds,
internal mismatch, weld Crown height, root weld spacing
ACFM is used for the evaluation and monitoring of what? - CORRECT
ANSWER : Existing Cracks
True/False
ACFM instrument needs to be calibrated every 2 years. - CORRECT ANSWER :
False, ACFM instrument does not need to be calibrated.
Eddy Current is used to detect defects where? - CORRECT ANSWER : On the
surface and sub-surface
