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Department of Labor and Industry License Examination Information Guide Department of Labor and Industry Electrical Licensing License Examination Guide The information in this guide is provided by the Licensing Unit of the Department of Labor and Industry to ensure that applicants for personal electrician licenses administered by the department understand basic qualifications, knowledge areas, and examination criteria and format to enable them to successfully complete requirements to become licensed. Although this document contains a significant amount of detail, it should not be construed by applicants to be inclusive of all information necessary to successfully make application, pass a license examination, and subsequently become licensed by the department. It is the applicant’s responsibility to adequately prepare to successfully complete the license examination process. The examination question format, degree of difficulty, and length of examination has been in effect since July 1, 2005. The 2014 National Electrical Code® became effective July 1, 2014 and except for the lineman license examination, is the code edition used for the questions in the electrical license exams. The lineman license examination is based on the 2012 National Electrical Safety Code®. Department of Labor and Industry License Examination Information Guide June 2013 Table of Contents Examination: ........................................................................................................................ Page 3 Purpose ................................................................................................................................. Page 3 General .................................................................................................................................. Page 3 Question Format .................................................................................................................... Page 4 Degree of Difficulty ................................................................................................................ Page 5 Length of Examination ........................................................................................................... Page 5 Examination Results .............................................................................................................. Page 5 Examination Review or Appeal .............................................................................................. Page 6 Sample Questions: .............................................................................................................. Page 6 Formulas and Sample Calculations: .................................................................................. Page 8 Examination Knowledge Areas: ....................................................................................... Page 19 American’s With Disabilities Act and License Examinations: ...................................... Page 29 Examination Schedule/Scheduling Examinations: ........................................................ Page 31 Qualifications for License Applicants: ............................................................................ Page 32 Electrical Engineering Degree ............................................................................................. Page 32 Technical College Program Credit ....................................................................................... Page 32 Military Experience .............................................................................................................. Page 32 Practical Experience Acceptable to the Department ........................................................... Page 32 Experience Requirements by License Type ........................................................................ Page 32 Reciprocal Licenses: ......................................................................................................... Page 33 Continuing Education Requirement Overview: .............................................................. Page 34 Personal License and Examination Application: ............................................................ Page 34 Page 2 of 34 Department of Labor and Industry License Examination Information Guide June 2013 Examination Purpose Successfully completing a license examination provides evidence that the applicant possesses the necessary knowledge and expertise to be licensed in a specific profession or for a specific scope of work within a profession. Licensing examinations are designed to assess the applicant’s competence after they have completed their qualifying education, training, and experience. Licensing examinations are designed to assess higher level skills than academic examinations by assessing the applicant’s ability to apply the competencies they gained from their education, training, and experience in actual practice. Licensing examinations are intended to assure the public that the person passing an examination is qualified to practice within the scope of the license without causing harm to the public. The purpose of this license examination guide is to provide applicants with awareness of knowledge areas covered by specific license examinations, question and examination format, degree of difficulty for specific license examinations, length of examination, and length of time allowed to complete their examination. Applicants are encouraged to review this entire guide to ensure their understanding of the examination process and governing rules. General 1. Examination instructions are intended to be clear, concise, and complete. No questions may be asked of the examination proctor (test administrator). 2. Examination questions and answer selections have been developed to be clear, concise, and complete. Applicants should understand the question without having to read the answer selections. No questions may be asked of the examination proctor (test administrator). 3. Examination questions relate to knowledge areas within the scope of the applicable license. 4. Examination questions reasonably cover the knowledge areas within the scope of the applicable license. 5. Examination questions relate to knowledge areas that are common. The examination knowledge areas are within the areas of work generally experienced by applicants for, or persons holding, the class of the applicable license. 6. Applicants are allowed to use the National Electrical Code or National Electrical Safety Code (used only for the lineman examination), a Laws and Rules Booklet, and an electronic calculator during their entire examination. Unless code references are specifically required by an individual question, no code references are required as part of any answer. All reference materials and a calculator are provided by the Department. No other materials or electronic devices, including cell phones are allowed in the building. Although reference materials are available for the entire examination, applicants should be adequately prepared and not rely on provided reference materials to answer all questions. The majority of questions are intended to be answered without the applicant needing to refer to reference materials. A copy of the National Electrical Code or the National Electrical Safety Code book is provided in the soft-cover format and do not include tabs or other aids. The edition of the National Electrical Code is the edition adopted as part of the state building code at the time the examination is administered. The edition of the National Electrical Safety Code is the most current edition at the time the examination is administered. The electronic calculator is of the common desk type that includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root, and percentage functions. The Laws and Rules Booklet provided for the examination is in the Department’s current format and represents the laws and rules in effect at the time the examination is administered. Page 3 of 34 Department of Labor and Industry License Examination Information Guide June 2013 7. Applicants observed giving or receiving assistance from other applicants or outside parties shall be automatically failed and required to submit a new application, including submission of required fees. 8. Applicants observed copying questions or making notes regarding questions shall be automatically failed and required to submit a new application, including submission of required fees. 9. During their examination, applicants may leave the examination room to use the restroom, but are not permitted to leave the building. Applicants leaving the building prior to completing their examination shall be automatically failed and required to submit a new application, including submission of required fees. 10. In addition to being monitored by the on-site proctor, the examination room may be electronically monitored. 11. Examination materials, including completed examinations and scoring keys are classified as nonpublic by Minnesota Statutes section 13.34. Applicants will only be provided with access to examination materials during the time they are being examined. Question Format 1. Examination questions are formatted in a manner that requires the applicant to demonstrate mastery of the knowledge area. 2. Variables in a question ensure that the appropriate knowledge area(s) or code rule(s) must be applied to arrive at the correct answer. 3. Multiple-choice answer selections for knowledge areas with multiple conditions or requirements are worded in a manner that requires the applicant to demonstrate knowledge of the subject matter and minimize the applicant’s opportunity to select a correct answer(s) based on key words. 4. Questions requiring more than one multiple-choice answer selection are clearly identified, including the number of correct answer selections. This is a companion format to the negative- response format identified in 6 below. 5. Questions with a negative-response format such as “which of the following does not apply,” are only used in limited instances. This is a companion format to the multiple-correct answer format identified in 5 above. 6. Negative response questions and questions requiring more than one multiple-choice answer are limited to: a list of conditions, a list of requirements, or a list of methods. 7. Incorrect multiple-choice answer selections are “plausible.” 8. Questions may include extraneous information. 9. Unless stated otherwise in specific questions, all questions and related answers assume a “unity” power factor. 10. As many as 5 variations of an examination may be administered on the same examination date. 11. Individual examinations are modified not less than three times each National Electrical Code or National Electrical Safety Code cycle. 12. Examination questions and suggestions are accepted on an on-going basis from interested parties and become part of an examination question database from which examinations are created. 13. Some questions relate to code violations repeatedly made by installers of electrical wiring. Practical experience must be augmented by quality training to ensure the applicant’s complete and accurate understanding of electrical code and theory. Page 4 of 34 Department of Labor and Industry License Examination Information Guide June 2013 Degree of Difficulty 1. Each examination question is assigned a degree of difficulty rating from 1 to 5, with 5 being the most difficult. “Degree of difficulty” as used in administration of the department’s license examinations has no relationship to academic “grade point average” achievement. 2. Questions rated least difficult (lowest) are those that relate to a single knowledge area, such as definitions or those requiring the application of a single code rule, or do not require complex mathematical calculations. 3. Questions rated most difficult (highest) are those that require the application of multiple code rules or require multiple or complex mathematical calculations. 4. Each examination is uploads/S4/ licensing-examination-guide.pdf