Online Practice Exam
This online practice exam is designed to help you train, test, and evaluate your readiness for the NCEES Water Resources Civil PE Exam while you also learn the conceptual background. This exam contains 80 original, non-AI-generated questions, developed and reviewed by experienced engineers, that closely reflect the coverage, style, and difficulty of the actual Civil PE Exam while also serving as an effective learning tool.
The water resources and environmental practice exam includes material from twelve knowledge areas, referred to here as categories, consistent with the Water Resources and Environmental Civil PE exam as published on the NCEES official website. The categories and the approximate number of questions included per exam are listed below:
- Project Planning – 4–6 questions
- Soil Mechanics – 3–5 questions
- Materials – 4–6 questions
- Analysis and Design – 6–9 questions
- Hydraulics – Closed Conduit – 7–11 questions
- Hydraulics – Open Channel – 7–11 questions
- Hydrology – 8–12 questions
- Groundwater and Wells – 4–6 questions
- Surface Water and Groundwater Quality – 5–8 questions
- Drinking Water Distribution and Treatment – 6–9 questions
- Wastewater Collection and Treatment – 7–11 questions
- Project Sitework – 9–14 questions





