MCQs Tips Paper 1

(MCQs TIPS)
1. WPQRs
Welding Engineer

2. Who determines the correct weld preparation (root gap, root face, included angle) should be?
The inspector will recommend what is suitable

3. How is preheat for tack welds during assembly and fit up determined?
The fabrication specification/WPS will give the requirements

4. Why it is sometime necessary to preheat the base material before welding?

To prevent the possible risk of cracking

5. Which of the following would not be required to be checked before welding?

The workshop humidity

6. WPQR?
Welding Procedure Qualification Record

7. BS EN standard for welding symbols on drawings

BS EN 22553

8. Who is responsible for site safety?

Everyone

9. Is it permissible to allow trainee welder to carryout production welding?

Never

10. Who has the responsibility of ensuring the welder is using the correct polarity during welding?
The welder and the welder inspector

11. When would you measure the minimum preheat temperature?

Immediately prior to commencing the first pass and subsequent passes

12. During root welding which of the following would be the main cause of excess penetration?
The current is too high

13. The welder has increased the voltage on the SAW welding set, what would be the effect on the weld appearance?
The weld width would be wider

14. What course of action should be taken upon finding a welder using incorrect shielding gas
Report the incident and record all relevant information

15. What is the maximum OCV allowable to initiate an arc when using A. C. current?
90V

16. Why is the OCV capped at this voltage setting?

Allow smooth transition into welding voltage range

17. What information would be recorded as a minimum on a completed production weld?

Welders identification, date and weld number

18. PWHT?
Post weld heat treatment

19. Why would visual inspection of the excess weld material at the bottom of a cross country pipeline ......................?
It is the most difficult area to weld

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20. Who has the final responsibility of sentencing and accepting a weld on completion?
The clients inspector or certifying authority

21. Why it is essential to clean the excess weld metal on completion of the production weld?
To ensure it is suitably clean for visual inspection and NDT

22. To assess the surface of a weld for direct inspection, the distance from the surface to the eye should be maximum of?
600mm

23. What is the recommended minimum range of illumination required by BS En 970 for inspection of a surfce ?
350 to 500 lux

24. W h o s h o ul d s e l e c t th e s p ec i fi c w e l d s fo r NDT, to co ver th e 10% co n tr actu al p er cen tag e r eq u i r ed b y

th e specification/Code?
This will be referenced in the inspection and test plan

25. In a welding procedure transverse joint tensile test the following observations were made. The
specimen CS A was recorded as 25mm x 12mm and the maximum load applied was recorded as
150kN. What is the UTS?
333N/mm 2

26. In a transverse weld tensile test, if the break was in the parent metal, the sample would be:
Retested

27. Root and face bends from an 8mm thick butt weld require testing. The specimen are cut to 20mm wide. Code calls for a 4t
bend. Which of the following rollers should be selected for the testing:
32mm diameter

XX. Which of the following is NOT a quantative?

Side bend

XX. When examining a completed bend test, the angle of the bend was found to be 185. The testing specification calls
for the sample to have been formed through 180
New bends should be produced and bent to 180 then re-examined

XX. In a cross joint tensile test the following observations were made. Specimen width: 20 mm. . . . . . . . . . Max. Load: 180kN.
Break position: Parent Plate. What is the UTS?
a) 45kN/mm 2 b) 450N/mm 2 c) 30kN/mm 2 d) 30N/mm 2

XX. Charpy impact tests showing a rough torn surface after the completed test, this would indicate which type of failure??
Fatigue

XX. A butt weld has been made by MMA in a 50mm thick impact tested steel plate. The welding electrode used was a
basic type, 5mm diameter. The measured welding parameters for one of the runs was 220 amps, 21 volts, using
DC+ve polarity, and a ROL:of 270mm per min. What would be the arc energy?
a) Insufficient information given to calculate the arc energy
b) 1.54kJ/mm
c) 1.026kJ/mm
d) 2.82kJ/mm

XX. What is a typical ARC voltage setting when welding with the TIG (GTAW) process?
10 12 V

XX. When MMA welding what will be the effect on the weld if the power source was changed from AC to DC-ve?
It will slightly increase the depth of penetration

XX. What is the mode of metal transfer for the TIG (GTAW) welding process?
a) Spray Transfer b) Globular Transfer c) Dip Transfer d) None of the above

XX. Which of the following uses a flat characteristic?

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XX. Which of the following defects is usually associated with the MAG (GMAW) welding process when using dip transfer??
Lack of side wall fusion

XX. What would be the most likely SAW flux type for welding medium carbon steel which requires impact testing ?
Fused

XX. With which of the following NDE processes is it possible to detect both subsurface defects up to 2mm below?
Magnetic Particle using DC

XX. For MPI using the prod method, which of the following statement is true:
It may cause arc damage on the specimen material surface

XX. Which of the following commonly used radioisotopes has the longest half life?
a) Iridium 192 b) Cobalt 60 c) Thallium 170 d) Ytterbium 169

XX. A 300mm diameter pipe, 5mm wall thickness is to be radiographed using the double wall single image technique. The
source to be used is Iridium. Which of the following statement is true?
There is no problem with the technique

XX. Half life is a term used to describe?

The time taken for the gamma source to reduce its strength by half

XX. What is the greatest disadvantage of radiographic inspection?

The harmful effects of ionising radiation

51. For ultrasonic testing, which of the following statements is true?

The equipment shall be calibrated before use

Weld Decay

52. Weld decay occurs in which of the following steel types?

Austenitic Stainless Steel

53. Weld decay is caused by the formation of a compound with carbon. The other element in this compound is:
Chromium

54. The temperature at which this compound is formed is in the range?

350 550 C

55. Weld decay will cause which of the following problems?

The toughness is reduced

56. Weld decay can be minimised by specifying a steel with:

Lower carbon level

57. It may also be minimised by adding minimisers called stabilizers. These may be
Titanium / Niobium

58. A post weld heat treatment may also be of benefit in minimising the risk of weld decay, this heat treatment would be called?
Solution treatment

59. The main problem with such a heat treatment of stainless steel pipe spools and the reason why it is not regularly employed
is:
Controlling the rate of the temperature rise

60. On inspecting a completed weld which has charpy impact requirements some small, smooth, shallow areas of undercut
have been found <0.25mm deep. The welder says he can quickly put this right by depositing a thick narrow bead along the
undercut, in this situation what would you?
Only allow the welder to cosmetically blend out the undercut

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