Steamfitter/Pipefitter - Red Seal Self-Assessment and Exam Breakdown
Self-Assessment
This tool can be used to reflect on your own experience and knowledge in the trade compared with what is on the exam.
Exam Breakdown
Each Red Seal exam's questions are developed to assess the activities laid out in in the Red Seal Occupational Standard. This trade's Red Seal exam has 130 questions Footnote *, which are distributed as follows:
Major Work Activity A – Performs common occupational skills - 16 questions
Task A-1 Performs safety-related functions
5 questions
Task A-2 Uses and maintains tools and equipment
5 questions
Task A-3 Organizes job
6 questions
Major Work Activity B – Performs layout, fabrication and piping installation - 29 questions
Task B-4 Performs fabrication
9 questions
Task B-5 Lays out, identifies and installs piping, tubing, fittings and related components
11 questions
Task B-6 Installs, maintains, troubleshoots, repairs and tests valves
6 questions
Task B-7 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs heat tracing systems
3 questions
Major Work Activity C – Performs rigging, hoisting, lifting and positioning - 17 questions
Task C-8 Performs common rigging, hoisting, lifting and positioning
11 questions
Task C-9 Performs complex and critical rigging, hoisting, lifting and positioning
6 questions
Major Work Activity D – Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs low and high pressure steam and condensate systems - 24 questions
Task D-10 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs low pressure steam and condensate systems
11 questions
Task D-11 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs high pressure steam and condensate systems
13 questions
Major Work Activity E – Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs heating, cooling and process piping systems - 26 questions
Task E-12 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs hydronic systems
6 questions
Task E-13 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs process piping systems
6 questions
Task E-14 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs industrial water and waste treatment systems
2 questions
Task E-15 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs hydraulic systems
2 questions
Task E-16 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) systems
3 questions
Task E-17 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs fuel systems
2 questions
Task E-18 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs medical gas systems
2 questions
Task E-19 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs compressed air and pneumatic systems
3 questions
Task E-20 Installs and tests fire protection systems (NOT COMMON CORE)
0 questions
Major Work Activity F – Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs renewable energy systems - 7 questions
Task F-21 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs geo-exchange and geothermal systems
2 questions
Task F-22 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs solar heating systems
1 questions
Task F-23 Installs, tests, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs heat recovery systems
4 questions
Major Work Activity G – Performs commissioning, start-up and turnover - 11 questions
Task G-24 Prepares system for commissioning, start-up and turnover
6 questions
Task G-25 Commissions systems
5 questions
For more information about exam preparation materials (textbooks, modules, etc.) contact your provincial/territorial apprenticeship office.