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PRACTICE QUESTIONS
All Questions are Closed Book
1. API Recommended practice 574, inspection of piping, tubing valves,
and fittings, does not cover.
a. Control valves
b. Piping smaller than 2 NPS
c. Tubing smaller than 1.5 diameter
d. Fittings smaller than 2 NPS
2. The refining industry generally uses what type piping for severe
service?
a. Brass
b. Cast
c. Seamless
d. Longitudinal seam welded
3. Piping made by rolling plates to size and welding the seams is larger
than ______inches
a. 10
b. 16
c. 14
d. 12
4. Steel and alloy piping are also manufactured to standard dimensions
in nominal pipe size up to ________inches.
a. 24
b. 36
c. 48
d. 50
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13. What type valve is is normally used in fully open or fully closed
position?
a. Gate
b. Globe
c. Slide
d. plug
14. what type gate valves have body and port opening that are smaller
than the valves end opening.
a. Borda tube gate valves
b. Reduced port gate valves
c. Weir gate valves
d. Sluice gate valves
15. What type of gate valve should not be used as block valves
associated with pressure relief devices?
a. It is normally used as block valve
b. It is commonly used to regulate fluid flow
c. It is ordinarly used to measure pressure drop
d. It is frequently used in place of a slide valve
16. What is a globe valve used for?
a. Sluice gate valves
b. Weir gate valves
c. Borda tube gate valves
d. Reduced port gate valves
17. A plug valve consists:
a. Of a slide or slides that operate perpendicularly to the flow and
move on rail guides to interrupt flow
b. Of a ball with a hole in it that fits into the valve body and
interrupts the flow of material
c. Of a circular gate that operates in and out in the body to
interrupt flow
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34. What type of problem would you expect to find in catalyst, flue-
gas, and slurry piping on a fluid catalytic cracking unit.
a. Embritlement
b. Cracking
c. Corrosion
d. Erosion
35. Stainless steel such as type 304 18 chr-8 Ni in the presence of
temperature above 100F. may crack because of the presence of
a. Nitrates
b. Sulphides
c. Chlorides
d. Dissolved oxygen
36. A 2 diameter line is injecting a product into an 8 diameter pipe.
What type of deterioration would you expect to take place?
a. Accelerated corrosion or erosion
b. Long term corrosion
c. Chloride cracking
d. Dissolved oxygen pitting
37. An inspector is checking a piping system that has had problems
with isolated corrosion at or near the welds of piping shoes. Without
knowing what product is in the line, what would be the best answer
below for the problem?
a. The shoes are at high stress points and thus leaks occur
b. The welds of the shoes to the pipe were too large
c. The welds of the shoes to the pipe burned nearly through the
pipe
d. The shoes are acting as cooling fins and causing localized
temperature differences
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38. what type of problem would you expect in piping containing amine?
a. Dissolved oxygen cracking
b. Stress corrosion cracking
c. Galvanic corrosion
d. Crevice corrosion
38. What type of problem would you expect in piping containing
amine?
a. Dissolved oxygen cracking
b. Stress corrosion cracking
c. Galvanic corrosion
d. Crevice corrosion
39. What area do you consider to be of most concern when inspecting
a piping system?
a. Underneath insulation on lines operating at temperatures above
200F.
b. In a straight run pipe containing motor oil
c. At and/or downstream of a chemical injection point.
d. Underneath insulation on lines operating below 25F
40. Leaks in utility piping(water, steam etc) are:
a. Only of minor concern and may be disregarded
b. Always dangerous but losses are negligible.
c. Seldom hazardous but they do result in losses
d. Usually hazardous and losses result
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48. If you find a slotted hole in a base- plate, what would this indicate
to you?
a. It indicates that the craftsman making the hole was not sure of It
exact location.
b. It indicates that the base plate may have been designed to
accommodate expansion.
c. It indicates that the base plate was possibly made to be used in
multiple locations
d. It indicates that the base plate had two holes side by side
punched in it by mistake
b. MT
c. ET
d. RT
58. Reduction of strength of the metal in a pipe, scaling bulging metal
deterioration or complete failure are all symptoms of
a. Excessive pressure
b. Low temperature
c. Excessive temperature
d. Blocked effluent
59. points of probable external corrosion of underground piping can be
located by series of measurements of the :
a. Electrical resistance of surrounding soil or by measurement of pipe
to soil electrical potential
b. Wattage of the surrounding piping or by measurement of pipe to
conduit electrical resistance
c. Potential of the cathodic protection or by wattage of the pipe to soil
electrical resistance
d. Volt amps readings of the surroundings soil or by measurement of
pipe to pipe electrical potential
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c. Fouling
d. Corrosion
68.why is the area between the seats of a gate valve a weak location?
a. Pitting can occur at this location while the valve is operating open.
b. Fouling can occur at this location where there is a possibility of
high velocity
c. The body of the valve is thinner in this location.
d. The wedging action of the disk when is seats causes strain in this
area
69. After a valve has been inspected, repaired and reassembled, what
should be done next?
a. It should be plasited inside to prevent corrosion and returned for
reinstallation
b. It should be returned to the job for reinstallation
c. It should be painted and the inlet and outlet capped
d. It should be tested to API 598 requiremets
70.In addition to checking the gasket surfaces of flanges for defects, and
checking for corrosion and erosion, which of the following additional
checks:
a. The rating of the flanges must be checked to make sure that they
are both class 150 and they both have the same number of bolt
holes
b. The bolts should be checked for proper specifications, stretching
and corrosion the gasket must be of the proper tpe material
c. The flange bolt holes must match and at least on flange must be a
class 15 or 30.
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d. The bolts should be machine grade and brand new. The gasket
must be a minimum of a spiral wound grafoil filled.
71. A weld is being made in carbon steel piping carrying amine (MEA).
What should the inspector check in addition to insuring that the weld is
proper and meets specification?
a. The class of the piping i.e 150,300,600 etc should be verified
b. Amine can cause environmental cracking, the weld should be
checked for hardness.
c. Welds on the hangers should be made checked and the resuts
recorded
d. Check the seating surface and lightness of the joint by WFMT.
72.Welded joints in carbon steel and carbon molybdenum steel exposed
to elevated tempratures of 800F or over may be subject to :
a. Hydrogen attack
b. Graphitization
c. Environmental cracking
d. Graphitic corrosion
73.which one of the listed is Not a cause for a threaded joint leak?
a. Use of the proper lubricant
b. Improper assembly or loose threads
c. Corrosion or poor fabrication
d. Cross threading or dirty threads at assembly
87. what type of piping usually has a pressure recorder attached in which
a permanent record of the test is made?
a. Boiler piping
b. Underground piping
c. Light hydrocarbon unit piping
d. Operating unit piping
88. which of the following piping should NOT be hammer tested?
a. Pipe made from steel on a fluid catalytic cracking unit
b. Steel pipe and lines off a crude tower on a crude still
c. Cast iron and stress relieved lines in caustic and corrosive
service
d. ASTM A- 106 Grade A pipe on a catalytic reforming unit.
89.New construction piping should meet the requirement of ________ as
a minimum
a. API 571
b. ASTM A-53
c. ASME B-31.3
d. ASME Std 607
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