Industry Certifications –
Practice Questions
Practice Questions 8/24/2020
Overview
The following are practice questions and represent the types of questions found in the
certifications. They do NOT represent all of the content. For information on content to prepare
for, see the REC Foundation document “Knowledge and Occupational Skills List.”
Each certification comes with an additional voucher code which can be used as a full practice
test for any section, a retest for a failed section, or a retest to improve a score (check your
local and state rules on how soon a retest is allowable). You can also save the extra code to
accumulate for additional students to take the certification exams.
1) Which of the following species of wood are classified as softwood?
a) Maple
b) Ash
c) Spruce
d) Poplar
2) Civil engineers __________.
a) design electrical power systems
b) develop mechanical hardware
c) design bridges, roadways and dams
d) design systems with pulleys, gears, and torque
3) The hardness of steel can be increased by all of these methods except __________.
a) sintering
b) stretching
c) hammering
d) adding carbon
4) If you received three full time job offers, one for $12 per hour, one for $1,400 per month,
and one for $26,500 per year, which job should you take if salary was your only
consideration?
a) $1,400 per month
b) $12 per hour
c) $26,500 per year
d) $12 per hour and $1,400 per month are the same
Fundamentals of Engineering
