Please note: The test order is now open to the general public.

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No actual tickets will be provided when you order your exam using Purplepass. The "Will Call" delivery option means that you need to check in at the designated testing room on the test date no later than 1/2 hour before the test time with your accepted photo ID. A registration confirmation email will be sent to your confirmed email address used in the Ticket Holder information.

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ADEQ’s Operator Certification Program establishes guidelines to ensure that only certified operators make decisions about process control or system integrity that affects public health. The program establishes minimum standards for certification and re-certification of the operators of drinking water and wastewater systems.

Operators must hold the lower grade level certificate for one full year (365 days from your effective date), prior to sitting for the next grade level exam.  Operators may check the effective date of their certificate(s) by using the Operator Certification Database ( https://legacy.azdeq.gov/databases/opcertsearch_drupal.html )

Testing early (before 365 days from your effective date) requires ADEQ approval prior to sitting for the exam.  Use the Operator Certification Early Exam Application (http://www.azdeq.gov/node/642 ) to begin this review process.

http://www.azdeq.gov/OperatorCertification 

GateWay Community College is the only entity in Arizona that offers and proctors the ADEQ Operator Certification exams. GateWay offers the exams on campus and throughout Arizona. For more information and scheduled test dates, visit our registration website below.

https://sites.google.com/gatewaycc.edu/adeq-water-operator-cert/home 

You will be given up to 110 questions online with three hours to complete. Ten (10) of the questions are called PRE-TEST questions because ABC is testing them to see if they are good questions for future exams. Although you will not know which the extra questions are, they will not be included in your score. Only 100 questions are scored. 

The only payment option to order the tests is with a credit card (all other options are not accepted). The test order is final and no test cancellations are available. In addition, no test fee reimbursements are provided. So make sure that you order the right type of test and that you have cleared your test date with your supervisor.

Note for Supervisors: Purplepass will allow to use the same credit card to order the test for several operators, if needed. HOWEVER, each operator must have a separate test order (i.e., no more than ONE test type per order). Only one test type per test session for each operator. Remember that ALL orders are final: no cancellations, no reimbursements, and no change of test type once you have placed the order. Please email to operatorcert@gatewaycc.edu if you have any questions.

GateWay Contact Information:

Please note: the best way to contact the GateWay-ADEQ Operator registration program is by email operatorcert@gatewaycc.edu or operatorcert@gmail.com

602-286-8105

Maggie Wright

ADEQ Operator Certification Testing Group

Water Resources Technologies

GateWay-ADEQ Operator Certification Program

GateWay Community College

108 N. 40th Street

Phoenix, AZ 85034

You can check the ABC's Need to Know Criteria documents (ABC 2017 Edition) to see what you are required to know to pass the exams ( http://www.abccert.org/testing_services/need_to_know_criteria.asp ). You can also download the conversion tables used at the exam so you can familiarize yourself with them ahead of time. However, you cannot take those to the exam. GateWay will provide those to you at the testing site. You can also take a sample exam so you can become familiar with the testing format.

“As of July 1, 2016 anyone who passes an operator certification exam must submit the operator certification new certificate application, a copy of their individual mastery report (IMR) and the $65.00 fee to ADEQ in order to receive their certificate.  All this documentation can be mailed into ADEQ or dropped off in person during business hours at ADEQ.”