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FTCE Engineering and Technology Practice Test

Unofficial practice for FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12, four questions for each of its ten competencies.

Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale. About what range of dimensions is that?

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Nature and impacts of technology 4

  • A class studies how energy technology has changed. Which source was the largest in total annual U.S. energy consumption until the mid-1800s? U.S. Energy Information Administration, Biomass explained. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 1
  • In 1982 the FDA approved the first consumer product developed through genetic engineering. What was it? FDA, Science and History of GMOs and Other Food Modification Processes. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 1
  • Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale. About what range of dimensions is that? National Nanotechnology Initiative (nano.gov), About Nanotechnology. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 1
  • What do research scientists use the technology called CRISPR to do? NHGRI Talking Glossary of Genomic and Genetic Terms, "CRISPR". Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 1
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Principles of drafting 4

  • A student saves a 3D model as an STL file for a 3D printer. How does that format describe the object? Library of Congress, Sustainability of Digital Formats: STL (STereoLithography) File Format Family. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 2
  • An engine block has intricate interior passages. Which kind of drawing shows them most clearly? MIT OpenCourseWare, 2.007 Design Handbook: Engineering Drawing and Sketching. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 2
  • By convention, how are hidden lines drawn on an orthographic or isometric drawing? MIT OpenCourseWare, 2.007 Design Handbook: Engineering Drawing and Sketching. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 2
  • Which practice does sound dimensioning of a part drawing follow? MIT OpenCourseWare, 2.007 Design Handbook: Engineering Drawing and Sketching. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 2

Principles of engineering 4

  • A design team is brainstorming possible solutions. Which guideline fits this step? TeachEngineering (University of Colorado Boulder), Engineering Design Process. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 3
  • A start-up wants to protect the name and logo that identify its product to customers. Which form of protection fits? U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, What is a trademark?. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 3
  • An engineer redesigns a workstation to cut heavy lifting, overhead reaching and awkward postures. Which harm is this ergonomic design meant to prevent? OSHA, Ergonomics, Overview. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 3
  • In the engineering design process, a team has compared its ideas, selected one promising solution and planned how to go on. What is the next step? TeachEngineering (University of Colorado Boulder), Engineering Design Process. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 3

Energy and power technologies 4

  • How does the alternating current supplied to a home in the United States differ from the direct current of a battery? NDE-Ed.org (Iowa State University Center for Nondestructive Evaluation), Alternating Current. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 4
  • Most electricity generators rest on a discovery Michael Faraday made in 1831. What did he find? U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity explained: How electricity is generated. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 4
  • The resistance of a circuit stays the same and the voltage across it is doubled. By Ohm's law, what happens to the current? NDE-Ed.org (Iowa State University Center for Nondestructive Evaluation), Series Circuits. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 4
  • Which emission from burning coal contributes to acid rain, and is reduced by the scrubbers some power plants fit? U.S. Energy Information Administration, Coal explained: Coal and the environment. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 4

Information and communication technologies 4

  • A poster shows one large red shape among many small gray ones, so the eye goes to it first. Which principle of design is this? J. Paul Getty Museum, Education: Principles of Design (handout). Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 5
  • A school network needs a gateway that limits access between its own network and the internet according to its security policy. What is that gateway called? NIST Computer Security Resource Center, Glossary: firewall. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 5
  • A web page shows a chart as an image. What is the purpose of the alternative text written for it? Section508.gov (U.S. General Services Administration), Authoring Meaningful Alternative Text. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 5
  • MP3 makes audio files small through perceptual coding. What does the codec do? Library of Congress, Sustainability of Digital Formats: MP3. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 5

Transportation technologies 4

  • A jet engine pushes gas backward and the aircraft is pushed forward. Which of Newton's laws of motion describes this pair of forces? NASA Glenn Research Center, Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics: Newton's Laws of Motion. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 6
  • How is the battery of a hybrid electric vehicle that is not a plug-in model charged? U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center: How Do Hybrid Electric Cars Work?. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 6
  • Which hinged control surface, on the outboard part of the wing, is used to roll an airplane from side to side? NASA Glenn Research Center, Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics: Airplane Parts and Function. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 6
  • Which statement describes the propulsion system of an all-electric vehicle? U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center: How Do All-Electric Cars Work?. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 6

Manufacturing technologies 4

  • A plant makes large lots of a product in advance, based on predicted customer demand. What does lean thinking call this conventional approach? U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lean Thinking and Methods: Introduction. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 7
  • A steel shaft cracks after millions of load cycles, though no single load reached the yield stress of the metal. Which damage mechanism is this? NDE-Ed.org (Iowa State University Center for Nondestructive Evaluation), Fatigue Properties. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 7
  • Which list names the five pillars of the lean method called 5S? U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lean Thinking and Methods: 5S. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 7
  • Which manufacturing management method trains machine operators to care for their own equipment, so that every level of the plant works to keep equipment effective? U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lean Thinking and Methods: TPM. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 7

Construction technologies 4

  • A bridge engineer adds up the weight of the bridge itself and of permanent fixtures such as guardrails and signs. Which kind of load is this? TeachEngineering (University of Colorado Boulder), lesson cub_brid_lesson02. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 8
  • A school adds a wheelchair ramp to its shop entrance. What is the steepest running slope the ADA Standards allow for the ramp? U.S. Access Board, Guide to the ADA Accessibility Standards, Chapter 4: Ramps and Curb Ramps. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 8
  • In federal sealed bidding, which bidder receives the contract after the bids are publicly opened? Federal Acquisition Regulation, Part 14, Sealed Bidding (acquisition.gov). Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 8
  • Under OSHA's construction scaffold rule, an employee on a scaffold must be protected from falling when the scaffold is more than how far above a lower level? OSHA, 29 CFR 1926.451, Scaffolds: General requirements. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 8

Laboratory management and safety 4

  • A teacher replaces a solvent-based finish with a less hazardous water-based one. Which level of the hierarchy of controls is this? CDC, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: About Hierarchy of Controls. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 9
  • Magnesium shavings catch fire at a lathe. Which class of fire extinguisher is made for this fire? OSHA, Evacuation Plans and Procedures eTool, Portable Fire Extinguishers: Fire Extinguisher Basics. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 9
  • Under OSHA's portable fire extinguisher rule, how often must the extinguishers in a workplace be visually inspected? OSHA, 29 CFR 1910.157, Portable fire extinguishers. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 9
  • Under section 1006.063, Florida Statutes, who must wear eye-protective devices while a laboratory activity likely to injure the eyes is going on? Florida Statutes, section 1006.063, Eye-protective devices required in certain laboratory courses. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 9

Technology education and instruction 4

  • Which career and technical student organization is for middle and high school students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics? Technology Student Association, About. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 10
  • Which description fits project-based learning? PBLWorks (Buck Institute for Education), What is PBL?. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 10
  • Which federal law, signed on July 31, 2018, reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006? U.S. Department of Education, Perkins Collaborative Resource Network: Perkins V. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 10
  • Which ITEEA document sets out the knowledge and abilities a student needs for literacy in technology and engineering? International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy. Written to FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) competency 10

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the competencies and skills of FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) in the test information guide on the Florida Teacher Certification Examinations website, https://www.fl.nesinc.com/studyguide/FL_SG_obj_055.htm (copyright State of Florida, Department of State), read 2026-10-08: approximately 80 multiple-choice questions in 2 hours 30 minutes, ten competencies of about 10% each. This bank holds 40, four for each competency. Every fact was read on the public page named under its question (37 pages, each opened 2026-10-08): OSHA standards and eTools, NIOSH, the Energy Information Administration, NASA, the Alternative Fuels Data Center, EPA, FDA, NHGRI, NIST, the Library of Congress, USPTO, the Access Board, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the Florida Statutes, MIT OpenCourseWare, TeachEngineering, NDE-Ed.org, the Getty Museum and others. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.

How it works

This free FTCE Engineering and Technology practice test follows Engineering and Technology Education 6–12, exam 055: 40 questions of our own. It is unofficial and not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Florida Department of Education or Pearson.

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Ten competencies, about 10% each

The nature and impacts of technology; drafting; engineering; energy and power; information and communication; transportation; manufacturing; construction; laboratory management and safety; and technology education itself, with its standards, instruction and assessment.

Questions and clock

Candidates answer approximately 80 multiple-choice questions in 2 hours 30 minutes. Exam mode on this page runs all 40 questions in 75 minutes, which is that pace.

Where the facts come from

OSHA standards for shop and site safety, the Energy Information Administration, NASA, the Alternative Fuels Data Center, EPA's pages on lean methods, MIT OpenCourseWare for drafting and the Florida Statutes. The page read is linked under each question.

  • One safety question rests on section 1006.063, Florida Statutes, on eye protection in school laboratories.

Questions and answers

Is the FTCE Engineering and Technology test K-12 or 6-12?

6–12. The exam is Engineering and Technology Education 6–12, test 055. The FTCE site says it took that name on March 1, 2017, with no change to its content or its competencies and skills.

Is this a practice test for the FTCE engineering vocational education exam?

If your program calls it that, yes. The FTCE site lists one subject area exam for this field, Engineering and Technology Education 6–12, and these questions follow its ten competencies.

Where is the FTCE Engineering and Technology Education 6-12 study guide?

On the FTCE site, free: the test information guide for test 055. Its competencies and skills page is the outline behind this page, and each question here is tagged with a competency from it.

How many questions are on the FTCE Engineering and Technology Education test?

Approximately 80 multiple-choice questions, and a scaled score of at least 200 passes. A scaled score is not a percent, so exam mode here gives the number right and no pass verdict.

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