Welding Licensing Exam Study Guide

Everything you need to pass the welding certification exams—fully updated for the latest advances!

This thoroughly revised study guide helps you pass your licensing certification exams—including the AWS certification exam—and obtain your professional license. Inside, you'll find a valuable review of material that is most likely to appear on welding certification exams—from basic safety and cutting practices to different types of welding, including plasma-arc, shielded-metal-arc, oxyacetylene, flux-cored, gas metal, and gas tungsten, brazing, soldering, and more.

“Welding Licensing Exam Study Guide, Second Edition” features:

• Over 1,000 updated multiple-choice and true-false practice exam questions and answers

• Numerous welding calculations and troubleshooting tips

• Hundreds of detailed drawings and illustrations

• New: Info on plastic pipes and tubing

• New: Methods of welding repair and maintenance

• In-depth coverage of welding tools and their uses

• The latest welding safety practices

• Guidance on studying welding methods

• SI and English units for all problems and equations

• Welding and Cutting Processes

• Plasma-Arc Cutting and Welding

• Shielded-Metal-Arc Welding

• Oxyacetylene Welding

• Flux-Cored-Arc Welding

• Gas-Metal-Arc Welding

• Gas-Tungsten-Arc Welding

• Braze Welding

• Brazing

• Soldering

• Lead, Tin, and Zinc

• Identifying Metals

• Cast Iron and Its Alloys

• Wrought Iron

• Carbon Steels

• Low-and High-Alloy Steels

• Hardfacing, Tool, and Die Steels

• Reactive and Refractory Metals

• Galvanized Metals

• Soft Metals and Their Alloys

• Submerged-Arc Welding

• Arc-Welding Electrodes

• Types of Joints

• Welding Positions

• Welding Tips and Tests

• Common Welding Problems

• Certifications

• Conversion Tables

• Welding Terminology

• Tips for Producing Good Welds