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API 572 Study Guide and Practice Questions

This document contains 104 multiple choice practice questions for the API 572 inspection exam. The questions cover topics like identifying coating failures, common areas for paint failure, non-destructive examination techniques, measuring pit depth, thickness monitoring locations, inspecting support welds, factors that influence corrosion, and identifying signs of caustic embrittlement. The questions are from a study guide to help exam candidates prepare for the API 572 certification test.

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API 572 Study Guide and Practice Questions

This document contains 104 multiple choice practice questions for the API 572 inspection exam. The questions cover topics like identifying coating failures, common areas for paint failure, non-destructive examination techniques, measuring pit depth, thickness monitoring locations, inspecting support welds, factors that influence corrosion, and identifying signs of caustic embrittlement. The questions are from a study guide to help exam candidates prepare for the API 572 certification test.

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API 572 Study Guide

Practice Questions
96. Which of the following coating failures is easily missed during a visual examination?
a) Film lifting
b) Blisters
c) Rust spots

97. Where are two likely areas where paint failures occur?
a) Top heads and nozzles
b) Weld seams and nozzles
c) Top heads and moist crevices
d) Weld seams and moist crevices
e) Nozzles and moist crevices

98. What two on-stream NDE techniques may be able to locate moist insulation?
a) Real-time RT and Thermography
b) Real-time RT and MFL
c) Neutron back scatter and Thermography
d) Neutron back scatter and MFL
e) Neutron back scatter and Real-time RT
f) Thermography and MFL

99. Pit depth is normally measured with a ________________________________.

100. The minimum number of TMLs required for a routine vessel is at least _______ thickness
reading(s) on each shell ring, and _______ thickness reading(s) on each head.

101. A vessel operates in a cyclic temperature service. The vessel support-to-vessel welds should be
checked using MT or PT to check for:
a) stress corrosion cracking.
b) fatigue cracking.
c) polytheonic cracking.
d) HTHA.

102. Which of the following is NOT a significant factor in atmosphere corrosion?


a) vessel operating pressure
b) relative humidity
c) chemical vapors
d) metal surface temperature

103. In a caustic storage vessel, caustic embrittlement is least likely at:


a) heating coil connections.
b) areas of high stress.
c) internal baffles or vortex breakers.
d) nozzles.

104. Caustic that seeps through a crack will often leave a:


a) brown residue.
b) white salt.
c) yellow sticky deposit.
d) black hard residue.

[Link] 13 September 2005

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