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I&C Exams/Certifications
Nichole:
Just curious, did you read this post... Or have you already studied everything that was posted in it as suggested study material? :)
It seems to me that there are a number of good ideas posted about what you should study, but I'm not an I&C person, so what do I know? ;)
UncaBuffalo:
--- Quote from: Socex on Feb 07, 2015, 11:55 ---Taking I&C test for an apprenticeship position. Been studying electrical circuits books from school and digital. What else should I be looking over?
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What are they asking for as a required background? I'd use that as the basis for my study. If they want people with electronics background, study the electronics stuff. I wouldn't get too carried away with trying to teach yourself I&C concepts for an apprenticeship test...they'll teach you that stuff when you get in.
As I've said before...Creeker's advice was right on the money for me to get my first I&C job:
--- Quote from: Creeker on Aug 02, 2008, 07:40 ---When I hired into my present utility, we had an I&C test which contained the following:
1. Basic Electronics -- Resistor color codes, ohms law, KVLs, KCLs, capacitance, inductance...
2. Power triangle type problems
3. LOTs of detector problems... LVDT, dry reference leg vented to atmosphere, atmospheric pressure changes, what happens to displayed pressure.. That sort of thing, for every different type of detector configuration you could imagine.
4. Not much at all on PLCs
5. No hard core stuff... encoder wheels, etc, but there was a couple transducer problems, RTD and thermocouples...
6. No AOV stuff that I can remember, but maybe a question or 2 on reference leg's being cracked open on a 5 valve manifold.
That's about all I can remember!
Bill
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Socex:
It said 2 year degree in electronics. Figure there will be some control questions mixed in. A lot of good material scattered thru this thread but seems a little overkill for what I need. The mass/poss I found to be fairly easy test. Just worried about this one. Graduated electronics school 8 years ago and haven't used it since.
UncaBuffalo:
--- Quote from: Socex on Feb 08, 2015, 12:40 ---It said 2 year degree in electronics. Figure there will be some control questions mixed in. A lot of good material scattered thru this thread but seems a little overkill for what I need. The mass/poss I found to be fairly easy test. Just worried about this one. Graduated electronics school 8 years ago and haven't used it since.
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Yeah. I'm kind of in that same boat. Have to take another entrance exam in a couple of weeks. I graduated in electronics about the same time you did...and haven't had to take an I&C specific test in about 5 years. I'm glancing through the electronics texts I listed earlier (and doing lots of problems from Phagan to get my brain in gear):
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Aug 23, 2008, 01:48 ---Electronics Math, R. Jesse Phagan
Electronic Devices, Thomas L. Floyd
Applied Electricity & Electronics for Technology, Rodney B. Faber
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...and then looking through the other material I've posted on this thread.
Good luck! :)
UncaBuffalo:
--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Feb 08, 2015, 12:51 ---Yeah. I'm kind of in that same boat. Have to take another entrance exam in a couple of weeks. I graduated in electronics about the same time you did...and haven't had to take an I&C specific test in about 5 years.
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Well, I passed, so that's a relief.
All your typical pressure, level, flow, and temperature questions...plus some basic electronics, radiation detection, and nuclear instrumentation.
The two most useful pieces of study material for this one were:
--- Quote from: ddickey on Sep 16, 2014, 07:27 ---At the moment I'm reading this.
http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/sinst/book/liii.pdf
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--- Quote from: UncaBuffalo on Sep 09, 2014, 10:14 ---http://www.pacontrol.com/download/BASIC-INSTRUMENTATION-MEASURING-DEVICES-AND-BASIC-PID-CONTROL.pdf
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