AWS API 1104 Endorsement

It is a specialty endorsement offered within the AWS CWI and SCWI Endorsements program, listed alongside Structural Steel (D1.1), Bridge Welding (D1.5), Railroad (D15.1), Aerospace (D17.1), and others. It signals code-specific pipeline inspection knowledge for inspectors already working within the CWI or SCWI framework.

Inspectors, welding coordinators, QA personnel, and pipeline quality professionals who already hold or are working toward a CWI or SCWI credential and whose job involves pipeline welding under API 1104. If your work is structural steel or bridges, the D1.1 or D1.5 endorsements are a better fit.

Expect code-specific content from API 1104: welding procedure and welder qualification, girth weld inspection, nondestructive examination acceptance criteria, and repair and retest provisions. Build your study plan around the standard itself rather than general welding fundamentals you already covered for the CWI.

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Treat it as different rather than simply harder. The base CWI exam spans broad inspection fundamentals, while this endorsement concentrates on one code. Candidates who know API 1104 well but rarely open the document during practice tend to struggle with locating clauses quickly under time pressure.

Read API 1104 end to end once for structure, then drill procedure qualification, welder qualification, inspection acceptance criteria, and repair rules in that order. Finish with timed open-book practice locating clauses. Confirm which references AWS permits you to bring using the Exam and Reference Guide.

Weak familiarity with the standard's layout, confusing acceptance criteria between weld types and inspection methods, mixing API 1104 rules with structural code habits, and misreading repair or retest limits. Practicing clause lookups and writing out criteria tables from memory addresses most of these.

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