API 570 EXAM STUDY GUIDE [MODULE 0]

API 570 EXAM STUDY GUIDE

TRAINING SERIES

       API 570 is a piping inspection code. So this certification examination from American Petroleum Institute (API)-Individual Certification Programs (ICP)  is focusing on piping inspections.

       This course contains closed book and open book examinations. At present this course syllabus have 9 different documents from API and ASME. At the end of every year API will publish the course content for the next year.

       The course content is split in to two.

       1. API 570 Exam Publications Effectivity Sheet

       2. API 570 Body of Knowledge (BOK)

       First of all we have to refer these two documents which are available on API website.

API 570 - PIPING INSPECTOR

       This series is based on the BOK for June 2020 to October 2020 exams. Before starting to study for this examination, you have to refer the latest of BOK and Exam Publications Effectivity Sheet.

       The BOK of  2020 contains the following.

1. API 570

2. API RP 571

3. API RP 574

4. API RP 577

5. API RP 578

6. ASME BPVC SECTION V

7. ASME BPVC SECTION IX

8. ASME B 16.5

9. ASME B31.3

       Seeing the list we feel that the content is huge. But the BOK further explains the required knowledge which is tested on the course in each of these documents.

       The exam approach strategy followed in this blog as below. Each code is numbered as one module and the posts are numbered as Part 1, Part 2, Part 3... etc. The release status of each Module/Part can be easily found from the index page.

MODULE 0 : Introduction

MODULE 1 : API RP 570

MODULE 2 : API RP 571

MODULE 3 : API RP 574

MODULE 4 : API RP 577

MODULE 5 : API RP 578

MODULE 6 : ASME BPVC Section V

MODULE 7 : ASME BPVC Section IX

MODULE 8 : ASME B16.5

MODULE 9 : ASME B31.3

MODULE 10 : MODEL EXAMS

Approach methodology followed here.

       We will go through page-wise or clause wise, as convenient, of each document and will try to answer the questions of the corresponding portions. To my opinion, this will give clarity of the topic and will give us an idea of the type of questions from each portion.

      There will be two phases for the exams, the closed book, and the open book. So we have to remember the answers which may have chances to be in a closed book exam.

       For open book exam answers (mainly referring tables and doing calculations), we should have the clarity of approach for the answers and 'what lies where' and in which document. So each of the questions in the question paper has to be first identified as from which document and then in which portion of that document. 

       Some codes or some areas of the codes can be expected on an open book exam and some others can be expected on the closed book exam. Though there is no hard and fast rule, the common man logic is applied in this approach.

       For example, referring tables and calculations will mostly be in the open book exam. These approaches are developed by the author and not to be considered as the policy or approach of official API course or exam.

       As you are aware, the codes cannot be displayed here. You should buy or should have the codes before going through this series. Notes are made on the perspective of author and does not guarantee that those are the only important portions for the exam. Questions can be asked from any portion based on BOK. Read the code portion thoroughly before starting the reading of the relevant portion of the blog.
       Please feel free to ask questions on the comments section or through Facebook page.

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