Free practice questions for the written portion of the Texas Journeyman Plumber exam — the closed-book Pearson VUE test behind the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners journeyman license — on the IPC/IFGC code track, with a written explanation on every answer, in English, Spanish, and Russian.
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The full Texas Journeyman Plumber course is 500 questions across 5 blocks that follow the chapter list of the TSBPE Journeyman Plumber Review Course — definitions, general regulations, fixtures, water heaters, water supply, sanitary drainage, vents, traps and fuel gas — plus the Plumbing License Law and Board Rules sections it names. Code questions follow the IPC/IFGC track: every fact is checked in both the 2018 edition the Board's rules adopt and the 2021 edition, and a question names the edition where the two differ. The bank drills the written portion only; the practical portion is not simulated.
Exam structure, topics, who can apply and official resources.
The Journeyman Plumber exam is the test behind the Texas journeyman plumber license issued by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners (TSBPE); Pearson VUE administers it. The current candidate handbook (August 2025) sets two portions: a written exam of 100 multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes and a practical exam of 6 tasks in 240 minutes, each passed at 70%. The written portion is closed book — no books, papers or reference materials in the room — so the code's tables and rules have to be known, not looked up. This course drills the written portion on the IPC/IFGC track. Practice it in the free sample above: no sign-up, with a written explanation on every question.
Pearson VUE's TSBPE Candidate Handbook (August 2025) splits the Journeyman Plumber exam in two. The written portion is 100 multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes, fee $68.50, taken by computer at a Pearson VUE test center. The practical portion is 6 tasks in 240 minutes, fee $40, given only at the Board's testing centers in Austin and Waco — and you are scheduled for it only after you pass the written portion. Each is passed at 70%, and the exam does not count as passed until both are. The TSBPE Review Course describes the practical: cutting and joining solvent-cemented PVC, soldered and brazed copper, threaded steel and compression-band cast iron; finding the code violations on several numbered water-heater installations; and laying out a two-story drain-waste-vent system for as many as 10 fixtures, then building it in a scale model. A current Tradesman Plumber-Limited licensee has already been tested on those skills and takes the written portion only. After both portions are passed, the initial license fee is $40. This course prepares you for the written portion.
The handbook keeps books, dictionaries, reference materials and papers — scratch paper included — out of the examination room; the test administrator hands out materials for notes, and they stay in the room. On a closed-book code exam the code's tables have to live in your head: hanger spacing by material and size, drainage fixture unit values, trap seals and trap-arm lengths, combustion-air ratios, relief-valve settings, test pressures and durations. The handbook publishes no weight per topic; the content-area diagnostics on the score report are the only official breakdown, and you see them after the fact. That is why every question in this course gives the rule and the number in its explanation, and the calculation questions show the arithmetic step by step — on exam day you will do the same arithmetic from memory.
The handbook and the Review Course tell candidates to study the Plumbing License Law, the Board Rules and either the 2018 International Plumbing Code with the 2018 International Fuel Gas Code, or the 2018 Uniform Plumbing Code — one code, not both, because the exam is not tied to either. The Board's own rule, 22 TAC §367.2(a), adopts the 2018 UPC and the 2018 IPC together with the codes the IPC brings in, the 2018 IFGC and IRC. This course follows the IPC/IFGC track. Every code fact in the bank was read in both the 2018 and the 2021 text; where the two agree the question states no edition, and where they differ the question names the edition and the explanation gives the other value. Check TSBPE's law-and-rules page for any change to the adopted editions before you sit. One Texas-specific point the Review Course stresses: anyone who installs liquefied petroleum (LP) gas piping first needs a separate license from the Texas Railroad Commission, and Board Rule 367.2(c)(3) makes LP-gas piping follow the Railroad Commission's rules on top of the plumbing code.
The Review Course walks through the code chapter by chapter: definitions first — the exam uses only the code's own terms — then general regulations (materials, installation methods, protection of piping, trenching, cutting and notching, testing and inspection), plumbing fixtures and fixture fittings, water heaters (locations, valves, relief valves and drains, pans), water supply and distribution (cross-connection control, materials, joints), sanitary drainage (materials, joints, separation from the water service, cleanouts, testing), vents (purpose, types, terminals, grade, connections, wet venting), traps, and fuel gas (gas types, piping materials, testing). The questions cover one- and two-family dwellings and commercial installations. Manufacturer's instructions are testable for five joint types — solvent-cemented PVC, threaded steel, soldered copper, brazed copper and compression-band cast iron — so read the labels on primer, cement, pipe-joint compound and flux. On the law side the list is short: Occupations Code sections 1301.351, .356, .403, .404, .452, .502, .508, .701 and .702, and Board Rules 361.1, 365.1 and 367.2, .4, .5 and .7.
Per the handbook, a Journeyman Plumber applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or an immigrant eligible to work in Texas; be currently registered as a Plumber's Apprentice or licensed as a Tradesman Plumber-Limited in Texas, or licensed as a journeyman or master plumber in another state; have at least 8,000 hours of plumbing-trade experience; have completed a TSBPE-approved 48-hour training course or be enrolled in or have completed a U.S. Department of Labor-approved apprenticeship program (holders of another state's journeyman or master license skip the 48-hour course); and have fingerprints reviewed and approved. The application goes to TSBPE with an Employer Certification Form that verifies the work experience. The Review Course suggests starting to study on the first day of those 8,000 hours, not the month before the exam.
Once TSBPE approves the application, Pearson VUE emails an Authorization to Test. Book the written exam online at pearsonvue.com/us/en/tsbpe.html or by phone at (888) 304-3589 at least 24 hours ahead — there are no walk-ins — and reserve a practical date at least ten days ahead. Pearson VUE's Texas sites include Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Bellaire, Bryan, Corpus Christi, the Dallas area, El Paso, Harlingen, Houston, Hurst, Lubbock, McAllen, Midland, San Antonio, Sugar Land, Tyler and Waco. Arrive 30 minutes early with a current, government-issued photo ID that carries your signature; to change or cancel, call at least 48 hours before the exam or the fee is forfeited. You leave with your score report in hand. If you fail, the authorization covers up to five attempts at the written portion within one year of the TSBPE authorization, with waits of at least 30 days after the first failure, 60 after the second and 90 after each one after that.
The full LICENA Texas Journeyman Plumber course is 500 questions in five blocks that follow the Review Course: Definitions, General Regulations & Texas Law · Fixtures & Water Heaters · Water Supply & Distribution · Sanitary Drainage & Traps · Vents & Fuel Gas. At 30 questions a day that is about three weeks: one pass to find the gaps, a second pass on the blocks you missed, then the timed final at the written exam's format — 100 questions in 120 minutes with a 70% pass mark. Because the exam is closed book, take the final without the code open; if a table value keeps slipping, that is the page to reread that night. The practical is not in this course — practise the five joints and a two-story drain-waste-vent layout with your hands. For job-site safety, the free OSHA construction practice test covers the federal rules.
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