Certified API 570 Piping Inspectors (Salary rate 350-500usd/day) must have a broad knowledge base relating to maintenance, inspection, repair, and alteration of pressure vessels. The API 570 examination is designed to determine if individuals have such knowledge.

To help you learn things faster and easily pass the Examination, here is a list of the topic will outline the full-details of API 570’s Questions and Answers with Explanations for helping the self-learning personals by reading each steps as below:

Firstly, You must know the Real API 570 Exam Structure

• The API 570 exam day is 7.5 hours long including 2.75 hours for the closed-book portion (morning time), a 45-minute lunch break (out the exam-room), and 3.75 hours for the open-book portion (afternoon). 
• There are 170 questions on the exam, of which only 140 are scored. The remaining are pretest questions (to evaluate/analyze the new-generation inspectors on both experience and IQ relating to advance NDT methods, problems resolve, design, and inspection matters)
• There are 110 closed-book questions (2.75 hours) and separated 60 open-book questions (3.75 hours).

You will PASS if the final score is 80%

API 570 Approximate Question from each Codes:

To understand the requirement of knowledge on each code, see Body of Knowledge API 570 (updated every year on API website).

Secondly, You have to go through each questions as detailed below:

Step 1: ASME B31.3 Questions and Answers (Piping Design, Fabrication and Pre-Com)

Part 1: Quality Factor of Weld-joint and Casting

Part 2: Internal Pressure and Minimum Thickness of Pipe

Part 3: Pressure testing (Hydrostatic leak test, Pneumatic leak test)

Part 4: Exemption of Impact Testing (Design Minimum Metal Temperature that exempted from impact test)

Part 5: Preheating – PWHT

Part 6: Thermal expansion

Step 2: ASME B16.5 Questions and Answers (Flange and Flanged Fitting configurations)

Part 1: Flange Class Rating (P-T) and cost effective

Part 2: Flange affecting to System hydrotest (Affect to B31.3 Pressure test section)

Part 3: Minimum Blank Flange’s thickness (Calculation provided by B31.3)

Step 3: API 570 Questions and Answers (In-service inspection and evaluation)

For renewal (every 6 years), we will update any deviation in this topic since 2019. 25 Question must be passed for renewal at API portal.

Step 4: API 574 Questions and Answers (How to inspect sufficiently and safety)

Step 5: API 571 Questions and Answers (Type of in-service defects and how to inspect it)

Step 6: ASME V Questions and Answers (NDT methods monitoring and evaluation)

Step 7: API 578 Questions and Answers (PMI)

Step 8: API 577 and ASME IX Questions and Answers (WPS and Welder certification)

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