April 2009
Documenting skills is value-add
ISA certification provides an objective, third-party assessment, and confirmation of a person’s skills. It gives manufacturing and factory staff the opportunity to differentiate themselves from their peers and gain recognition. InTech covers two certification areas in this monthly Certification department.
ISA Certified Control Systems Technician (CCST) program
Certified Control System Technicians (CCSTs) calibrate, document, troubleshoot, and repair/replace instrumentation for systems that measure and control level, temperature, pressure, flow, and other process variables.
This question comes from the Level I study guide, Domain 3, Troubleshooting. Level I represents a professional who has a five-year total of education, training, and/or experience.
CCST question
Per ISA-5.1-1984 (R1992) – Instrument Symbols and Identification, the line below is a (an) ___________ Instrument Line Symbol.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A. electric
B. pneumatic
C. hydraulic
D. sonic
CCST answer
The best answer is A, electric.
Here are the mentioned noted instrument line symbols from the ISA standard.
Nicholas Sheble (nsheble@isa.org) writes and edits Certification Review.
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