Construction Electrician - 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 100 questions Footnote *, which are distributed as follows:
Major Work Activity A - Performs common occupational skills - 11 questions
Task A-1 Performs safety-related functions
2 questions
Task A-2 Uses tools and equipment
2 questions
Task A-3 Organizes work
2 questions
Task A-4 Fabricates and installs support components
2 questions
Task A-5 Commissions and decommissions electrical systems
2 questions
Task A-6 Uses communication and mentoring techniques
1 question
Major Work Activity B - Installs, services and maintains generating, distribution and service systems - 28 questions
Task B-7 Installs, services and maintains consumer/supply services and metering equipment
4 questions
Task B-8 Installs, services and maintains protection devices
4 questions
Task B-9 Installs, services and maintains power distribution equipment
4 questions
Task B-10 Installs, services and maintains power conditioning, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and surge suppression systems
2 questions
Task B-11 Installs, services and maintains bonding and grounding, and ground fault protection and detection systems
4 questions
Task B-12 Installs, services and maintains power generation and conversion systems
2 questions
Task B-13 Installs, services and maintains renewable energy generating and storage systems
2 questions
Task B-14 Installs, services and maintains high-voltage systems
2 questions
Task B-15 Installs, services and maintains transformers
4 questions
Major Work Activity C - Installs, services and maintains wiring systems - 30 questions
Task C-16 Installs, services and maintains raceways, conductors, cables and enclosures
9 questions
Task C-17 Installs, services and maintains branch circuitry and devices
8 questions
Task C-18 Installs, services and maintains heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems
4 questions
Task C-19 Installs, services and maintains electric heating systems
5 questions
Task C-20 Installs, services and maintains exit and emergency lighting systems
3 questions
Task C-21. Installs, services and maintains cathodic protection systems
1 question
Major Work Activity D - Installs, services and maintains motors and control systems - 21 questions
Task D-22 Installs, services and maintains motor starters and controls
8 questions
Task D-23 Installs, services and maintains drives
4 questions
Task D-24 Installs, services and maintains motors
6 questions
Task D-25 Installs, programs, services and maintains automated control systems
3 questions
Major Work Activity E - Installs, services and maintains signalling and communication systems - 10 questions
Task E-26 Installs, services and maintains signaling systems
4 questions
Task E-27 Installs, services and maintains communication systems
3 questions
Task E-28 Installs, services and maintains integrated control systems
3 questions
For more information about exam preparation materials contact your provincial/territorial apprenticeship office.