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Practice
Questionnaire for
New Omani QA/QC
Engineers/ Inspectors
DLQ dept -2022
GENERAL
1. What is quality control?
2. What is welding?
3. What is steel?
4. What is difference between metals and
materials?
5. How many types of steels are there
mainly?
6. What are the types of alloys? List out any
three or four?
7. What is the difference between CS &
alloy steel?
8. What is the effect of oils, paints & rust
found in the welding area?
9. How do you control hydrogen cracking?
10. What is environmental cracking?
11. What is corrosion and erosion?
12. Where do you get the preheating
requirement?
13. How do you measure it?
14. Where do measure the pre heating?
15. What is inter pass temperature?
16. Where do we get the inter pass
temperature requirements?
17. How do you measure it?
18. What is heat input?
19. How do you measure it?
20. How do calculate the heat input?
21. Where do measure the heat input? Draw
a picture?
22. What are the welding parameters
affecting the heat input?
23. What is PWHT?
24. What is the difference between stress
relieving & PWHT?
25. What is the difference between
normalizing & annealing?
26. How many thermocouples are required
during PWHT?
27. What are the types of thermo couples?
28. How do attach it to the job?
29. Where do attach the thermo couples?
Explain it?
30. How much is the heating bandwidth?
31. How do control the chimney effects?
failure during PWHT heating cycle?
33. How do you ensure efficiency of the
PWHT?
34. What is the hardness?
35. How do you measure it?
36. Where do measure it?
37. What is the weight of hammer to
carryout the Poldi hardness tester? ( as
per NACE RP472)
38. What is your course of action? If you
find the diameter of indent are oblong
more than 0.1 units during hardness
testing.
39. How much distance required at least
between indentations?
40. What is color-coding?
41. List how many types of flanges
available?
42. What are the inspections required for
spectacle flanges?
43. What are the inspections required for
valves installation?
44. What is minimum wall thickness? How
much is it?
45. What is a quality audit?
46. What is the purpose of quality audits?
47. What is code?
48. What is specification?
49. What is standard?
50. How much verticality acceptable during
vessel erection?
51. Which code is stringent? (ASME SEC
IX or API - 1104)
52. What is gauge plate?
53. What is size of gauge plate?
54. What is length of gauge plate?
55. Why gauge plate is required?
56. Where do use the gauge plate?
57. What are the pipe fittings?
58. How do ensure height of elbow for 20 D
X 6”NPS?
59. Do you know 90 deg; four cuts miter
bends sizes of sides?
60. What is inert gas?
61. Why backing gas or purging gas is
required?
62. How many variables are there to control
the welding defects?
63. What is definition of plate/ sheet / strip?
64. Can you explain low hydrogen baking
procedure?
65. What does it mean for low hydrogen
electrode?
66. Why baking is required?
67. What is P&ID?
 68. What is isometric drawing? 104. How do identify the correct flanges and
69. What is difference between ASTM & fittings?
ASME materials? 105. How do check the correct pipe schedule?
70. How do calculate the carbon 106. What is the tolerance of pipe dimensions?
equivalent? 107. What is an expansion loop and why is it
71. How do calculate the PREN? required?
72. What is duplex stainless steel? 108. How do carryout the inspections?
73. How much is the maximum inter pass
temperatures for CS and SS?
74. What is HAZ?
75. How do find the development angle for
cone?
76. How many types of dished heads?
77. Which thickness is more in case of
hemisphere dished head and shell?
78. What is factor of safety?
79. What is plasticity & elasticity?
80. How many types of weld joints?
81. How do measure the strain rate during
hydro test?
82. What is the microstructure of the duplex
stainless steel at room temperature?
83. What cold cracking and hot cracking?
84. How many types of crystal structures?
85. What is IGC?
86. When is it taking place?
87. How do control it?
88. What is mechanism involved in it?
89. Do you know the bolt tighten sequence?
Draw a diagram?
90. Why orifice plate is required?
91. What are the inspections required @
orifice plate inserted?
92. What is good engineering practice for
L/S & C/S orientations?
93. How much distance to be maintained
between seams as per PD5500?
94. What is a lethal substance?
95. How do know the requirement of
PWHT?
96. How do know the requirement of
impact test?
97. Do you know how the valve are be
classified?

100. How many types of manually operated

valves?
100a. what is course of action, while hydro
testing found 25 mm stretch at TP and 20
mm at zero pressure?
101. How many types of reducers are there?
102. What is the difference between concentric
reducer and eccentric reducer?
103. How do verify that correct piping
material?
ASME SEC.IX
17. What is welding inspector role before
welding, during welding & after welding?
18. What are the welding variables in WPS?
19. How many types of welding variables?
20. What is difference between essential
variables & non-essential variables?
21. What is the supplementary variable? When
it is mandatory?
22. What are the essential variables for QW-
353?
23. What are the essential variables for QW-
356?
24. What is QW-253?
25. What is QW-256
26. What is “A” number and “F” number?
27. UNS 31254 Super austenitic stainless steel
‘P’ number is 8, what is ‘A’ number?
28. How much misalignment is acceptable?
Where do you get it?
29. If you have dissimilar thickness, how do
you accept the misalignment?
30. If you have 3/4”X 32” NPS piping, how
many tests required for welder
qualifications?
31. If I have 36 mm thickness job, my welders
are max.qualified 12mm.shall I completed
by them?
32. What is heat input?
33. Where do you ensure? Draw picture?
34. How do we ensure it?
35. Why do we need to control/monitor it?
36. What is interpass temperature?
37. Where do ensure inter pass temperature?
38. How do you ensure inter pass temperature?
39. What are the inspections tools you familiar?
40. How can you check the fit up? Explain?
41. What type of cleaning required within
groove & near by groove? How long?
42. What is bridge tacks?
43. Where it is required?
44. How much welding shall be completed
before welding interruption?
45. If not what to do?
46. What is your action, if inter pass
temperature more 50 c than the specified?
47. What is PQR?
48. What is WPS?
49. What is WPQ?
50. What is QW-484A format?
51. What is QW-482 format?
52. What is QW-483 format?
53. What is mandrill size during bend test? As
per Sec X.
54. What is the purpose to carry out the bend
test?
55. What is Qw-451?
56. What is QW-452?
57. What type of qualification required for >
24” pipe?
58. What is the difference between pipe and
tube?
59. What doesn’t mean 2” tube and 2” pipe?
60. Can you list out the pipeline construction
codes?
61. How do ensure the soundness of welding?
62. How much weaving is acceptable?
63. Why tensile strength test is required?
64. Why bend tests are required?
65. Why fillet break test is required?
66. Why macro test is required?
67. What is difference between macro & micro
test?
68. Why notch toughness test is required?
69. How much ovality is acceptable for pipes?
70. One welder is qualified for plate welding
with 3G according to AWS D 1.1; shall we
allow him to carry the plate welding with
3G of ASME SEC IX?
71. How much area of cleaning is required from
the weld groove as a good engineering
practice?
72. If PQR are qualified with PWHT, what is
the maximum thickness range qualified?
73. What is the T limits for WPS, on impact
tested materials?
74. What is the basic difference between the
tensile testing as per API 1104 and ASME
Sec IX?
75. If welder is qualified in 6G position
with19mm thickness, how many bend
specimens are required & what type of
bends are required?
API 1104
76. How much misalignment is acceptable?
77. How much undercut is acceptable?
78. How much reinforcement is acceptable?
79. How many test specimens required for <4”
dia, WQT?
80. How many test specimens required for 6”
PQR?
81. What are ranges for diameters?
82. What are ranges for thickness?
83. How much length of crack is to be repaired?
84. What are limitations of API 1104 code?
85. What is table-02?
86. What is table-03?
87. What is table-04?
88. What are the tests are required to qualify the
welder?
89. What are the tests are required to qualify
welding procedure?
90. What are the essential variables for WPS?
Example: Process, Base metal group, joint
design(V/U), position (roll/fixed), wall
thickness range, Filler metal group, Current
( AC/DC or +/-), time interval between
beads, progression(UP/Down), Shielding
gas type/mixture, Shielding flux type,
Travel speed, decease the Pre heating and
PWHT parameters.
91. What are the essential variables for WPQ?
Example: Process, joint design (V/U),
position (roll/fixed), wall thickness range,
Filler metal group, progression (UP/Down)
and diameter range.
ANSI B 31.3
92. What are the services existing in this code?
93. How much gap is required between socket
welds?
94. How do you ensure the gap?
95. What is minimum size of fillet for socket
weld?
96. What is a minimum fillet size for slip on
flanges at inside & out side?
97. What is a cover fillet size for branch
connection?
98. What is a fillet size for reinforcement pad?
99. Where do we measure the hardness?
100. Why hardness test is required?
101. How much hardness, test bar shall be
selected for hardness testing?
102. Why do need to do the hydro testing?
103. What are the pressure gauges ranges for
hydro testing?
104. How many pressure gauges required
during hydro test?
105. What type of water is required for DSS or
ASS systems hydro testing?
106. What is the difference between random
and spot radiography?
107. What is penalty clause for random
radiography?
108. What is the purpose of tell tale holes?
109. Which location it is required? Explain with
different orientations?
110. Why backing strip is required while
welding saddle L/S or RF pad L/S?
111. What is table-330.1.1?
112. What is table-331.1.1?
113. What is table-341.1.1?
114. How much misalignment is acceptable for
fit-up?
115. What is the PWHT temperature for CS and
for what thickness?
116. How do you carry out the Fit up
inspection?
117. How do carry out the Weld visual
inspection?
118. How much reinforcement’s height and
protrusion is acceptable?
119. If WPS is qualified with 10 mm on impact
tested materials, what is the thickness range
for production?
SOUR SERVICE:
120. What is sour service?
121. What is the difference between the sweet
and sour service?
122. What are the additional standards are to be
considered for sour service?
123. What are the additional requirements to be
considered? Example: for CS plate, CS
Forgings& Fittings.
124. What are the additional requirements to be
considered? Example for ASS & DSS
materials.
125. What are the additional requirements to be
considered? Example for MSS materials.
126. If welded CS pipes, fittings/rolled plates,
what are the corrosion tests to be
suggested?
127. If seamless or welded DSS/SDSS Pipes/
fitting/flanges/rolled plates, what are the
corrosion tests to be suggested?
128. If seamless or welded 625/825 pipes,
flanges/fittings/rolled plates, what are the
corrosion tests to be suggested?
METALLURGY:
129. What is the temperature for the lower
critical?
130. What is the temperature for the upper
critical?
131. What is phase for Steels for above the
upper critical temperature?
132. What are the phases in iron-iron carbide
diagrams?
133. What is the hardest phase among the
austenite, cementite, ferrite and pearlite
phases?
134. Can you explain Engineering stress and
strain diagram & True stress and strain
diagram?
135. What are the favorable conditions required
to get martensite structure?
136. How many types of hardness tests for
available?
137. What is creep? How does it work?
138. What is fatigue? How does it work?
139. What is ductile fracture and brittle
fracture?
140. What is the stress corrosion cracking?
141. What is the inter-granular cracking and
trans-granular cracking?
142. What is DBT? What it happens after the
DBT?
143. What is the crystalline structure &
amorphous structure?
144. Which is the best crystal in Single or Poly
crystalline materials?
145. What is a TTT curve? How it helps us?
ASME SEC.V ART.2
1. What is the principle of radiography?
2. What is difference between the
radiography films and radiographs?
3. What is the penetrameter?
4. How do you ensure the quality of
radiographs?
5. What is density?
6. What is contrast?
7. How much contrast variations are
acceptable?
8. How do you ensure the density of
radiographs?
9. How much densities are acceptable?
10. What is ungeometrical sharpness?
11. For example below 2” thickness how
much ug is it?
12. How do you control it?
13. What is NDT?
14. Why do we need to do it?
15. What is isotope?
16. What is the unit for radioactive
material?
17. What is the present unit for
radioactive material?
18. How do you ensure the black scatter
radiation?
19. What is table -276?
20. What is half-life of isotope?
21. What is half-life of IR-192?
22. What is half-life of CO-60?
23. How much sensitivity is required?
24. What doesn’t mean 2% sensitivity?
25. What doesn’t mean 2-2T
sensitivity?
26. What is your course of action, if you
found instead of ASTM
pentameters. DIN pentameters
used?
27. Where do you place the
penetrameters?
28. If contrast varies more than plus
30% & minus 15% through body of
penetrameters, how do you give
judgments?
29. How many methods of radiation
exposures?
30. How do you ensure the cordoning
area?
31. What are safety devices to ensure
radiation?
32. How do ensure the person exposed
radiation?
33. How many exposures required for
DWDI?
34. How many penetrometers required
during panoramic exposure? Where
have to place it?
35. How do select the penetrometers
material?
36. How do select the penetrameter for
dissimilar materials?
37. How many penetrameter strips are
there?
38. How many wires are there in one
strip?
39. What is the penetrameter material of
wire for ASTM 3D?
40. How do select the penetrameters?
Explain?
41. What are planner defects?
42. What are volumetric defects?
43. What is meant for elongated
indication?
44. What is meant for rounded
indication?
45. What is elongated indication?
 46. How do control the back scattering?
47. How much width of film is required
for 32mm thickness?
48. How much width of film is required
for 23 mm thickness?
49. What type of film (D4/D7) is
required?
50. How much film over lap is required
to tracebility purpose?
51. How do ensure the fog? How much
is acceptable?
52. How do assure the archival life of
radiographs?
ASME SEC V ART.4/5
53. What is the principle of ultrasonic
testing?
54. What is rate of search unit
movement?
55. How do calibrate the equipment?
56. What is sensitivity of UT?
57. How many types of waves?
58. How many types of search units?
59. What are the angles are available for
angle probe?
60. How much recommended range
frequency is required for search
unit?
61. What is DAC?
62. What is aqeostic impedance?
63. Why couplant is required during
scanning?
64. How do select the couplant?
65. What is a piezoelectric effect?
66. What is reverse piezoelectric effect?
67. How do select the probe diameter?
68. How do select the frequency of
probe?
69. How do select the angle of probe?
79. How do ensure the test method is
satisfactory?
80. What is the surface temperature?
81. What are limitations of LPT?
82. What is reverse bleeding action?
ASME SEC V ART.7
83. What is principle of MPT?
84. What are the parameters to be
ensured before testing?
85. What is ferromagnetic property?
86. How many methods are there to
magnetizatize?
87. How many types of yokes are there?
88. What is lifting power of permanent
magnetic yoke?
89. What is maximum /minimum
distance between yokes?
90. How much current is required for
AC electromagnetic yoke?
91. How do ensure that you method is
finding good results?
92. Why do demagnetize the substrate?
93. What is the maximum space
between poles?
94. What are limitations of MPT?

ASME SEC V ART.6

70. What is principle of LPT?
71. What are the parameters to be
ensured before starting?
72. Do you know how many methods of
testing?
73. Can you explain how do carryout
the testing?
74. Do you know, what is table-672?
75. Do you know what dwell time is?
76. How do remove the excess
penetrant?
77. How do ensure that excess penetrant
has removed?
78. When do start inspection after
developing?
BLASTING AND PAINTING SUPPORTS
1. What is relative humidity? 1. What is an anchor support?
2. What is surface profile? 2. Where an anchor support is is
3. What is blotting test? required?
4. How do measure the salt contamination 3. What is guide support?
on prepared surface? 4. What is stopper?
5. How do measure the residual dust on 5. When shims are required for
prepared surface? supports?
6. How do you measure surface profile? 6. What is a sliding support?
7. How many grades of surface cleanliness? 7. What is requirement of seal welding?
8. How do you ensure surface cleanliness? 8. Can Teflon tape use prior to seal
9. What is dew point temperature? welding?
10. What is wet bulb temperature?
11. How many rotations per minute while ISO 9001:
using whirling hygrometer? 1. What is ISO 9001 standard?
12. What temperature is measured as soon 2. Why is it required?
as whirling has stopped? 3. What is quality management
13. Why wind direction is required before system?
whirling the hygrometer? 4. What are the principles of QMS?
14. What type of water is required to wet 5. What are the mandatory
the wick? procedures required for system?
15. Why not to expose hygrometer direct to 6. What is the clause of 7.1?
sun or heat source while rotating? 7. What is the clause of 8.2.2?
16. What are the adhesion tests? 8. What is the clause of 8.3?
17. Do you know good weather conditions? 9. What is the clause of 8.5.3?
18. List out the duties of Gr.2 inspector? 10. What is the clause of 8.5.4?
19. List out the duties of Gr.3 inspector? 11. What is the clause of 8.2.4?
20. Do you know contractors malpractices? 12. What is the clause of 7.3.1?
21. What are the causes of paint faults? 13. What is the clause of 4.2.3?
22. What are the paint faults? 14. What is the clause of 4.2.4?
23. What is the difference between dry
blisters and osmotic blisters?
24. What is chalking? What is cause?
25. What is pot life?
26. What is induction time?
27. What is cissing?
28. What is difference between holidays
and pin holing?
29. How do ensure the wet film thickness?
30. How do ensure the dry film thickness?
31. What are the tests for drying/ curing?
32. How do ensure the opacity?
33. How do ensure the density?
34. How do ensure the viscosity?
35. What are the paint and paint film tests?
36. What are the artificial weathering tests?
37. What are the methods of surface
preparations?
38. What methods corrosion prevention?
39. What is galvanic series?
40. How many methods are cathodic
protections to steel?
41. What is difference between painting&
coating?
42. What is maximum pressure for air
compressor?