Virginia HVAC Exam Prep: 1,450 Practice Questions for the Journeyman and Master HVAC Tradesman Exams
PassProfessor’s Virginia HVAC Exam Prep is built for candidates for Virginia’s Journeyman and Master HVAC tradesman licenses, issued by the Board for Contractors in the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. The bank holds 1,450 original practice questions: a 1,250-question HVAC core covering the trade itself, plus 200 Virginia questions on Virginia laws, rules, and contractor business law, and the tradesman exam’s published content areas.
Every question is an original item written for this program, and every question comes with an explanation for every answer: why the keyed answer is right and why each other option is wrong, grounded in the cited code, standard, manual, or rule.
The exam, in facts
- Virginia runs two tracks: individual tradesman licenses (Residential, Journeyman, and Master HVAC) and firm contractor licenses (Class A, B, and C with the HVA classification), all under the Board for Contractors in DPOR.
- Journeyman and Master candidates take the same 85-item exam portion in 210 minutes, all open book. Virginia publishes the pass marks as raw scores, not percentages: 60 of 85 for Journeyman and 64 of 85 for Master. The Residential HVAC portion runs 55 items in 120 minutes, passing at 39 raw.
- PSI’s published tradesman outline gives 10 items to the regulatory and licensing block (the Virginia Code and 18VAC50-30), then spreads the rest across warm air heating (8), ventilation systems (8), air conditioning systems (8), duct systems (6), chimneys, flues, and vents (6), boilers (5), commercial kitchen venting (5), and the piping, combustion air, controls, and insulation areas.
- The tradesman exam’s reference list keys one code book: the International Mechanical Code 2021. Alongside it sit Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (22nd edition) and, for the Residential portion, ACCA Manual J. No IFGC volume, no NEC volume, and no Virginia code book appears on the HVAC tradesman list.
- Exam fees run $100 for Journeyman, $125 for Master, and $100 for Residential (to PSI). A firm-side HVA contractor license needs a Qualified Individual who holds a Master HVAC tradesman license; the firm’s Designated Employee, not the tradesman, takes the contractor business portions.
- Tradesman licenses run 3 years ($160 renewal) with 3 hours of code-change continuing education per designation each cycle; contractor licenses carry no continuing-education requirement. Class thresholds under 2025 law: Class A covers single projects of $150,000 or more, Class B $30,000 to under $150,000, Class C over $1,000 to under $30,000.
How the practice program works
The full practice exam draws 85 questions in 210 minutes – the same length and time as the real Journeyman and Master portion – weighted to the tradesman exam’s published outline across the bank’s 18 topics, and every attempt draws a fresh assortment, so no two practice exams are the same.
Each of the bank’s 18 topics has its own drill, so you can drill Virginia licensing law on its own or work the trade topics one at a time:
- Refrigeration Principles & Components — 114 questions
- Refrigerants, Recovery & Handling — 58 questions
- Cooling Systems: Service, Diagnostics & Repair — 104 questions
- Heating Systems — 219 questions
- Air Distribution, Duct Design & Airflow — 126 questions
- Controls & Electrical for HVAC — 117 questions
- Piping, Brazing & Gas Piping — 81 questions
- Ventilation, Venting, Combustion Air & IAQ — 115 questions
- Load Calculation & System Design — 44 questions
- Safety, Testing & Code Practice — 88 questions
- Commercial Refrigeration Systems — 41 questions
- Equipment Installation & Commissioning — 77 questions
- Hydronics & Boilers — 41 questions
- Business & Law Practice — 50 questions
- Plan Reading & Construction Documents — 25 questions
- Packaged & Manufactured Systems — 50 questions
- Virginia Business & Law — 55 questions
- Virginia Licensing Law & Rules — 45 questions
Try the free 12-question sample first — it uses a fixed set of questions so you can see exactly how explanations read before you buy.
Our practice exam is scored against a 70% practice benchmark. Virginia publishes its pass marks as raw scores – 60 of 85 for Journeyman and 64 of 85 for Master – not as percentages, so the 70% figure here is a PRACTICE BENCHMARK ONLY: a study signal, not a conversion of the state’s raw-score standard and not a result on the real exam.
Questions
Which Virginia licenses does this cover?
The Journeyman and Master HVAC tradesman licenses – both take the same 85-item portion this practice exam mirrors, with Virginia’s raw-score pass marks (60 of 85 for Journeyman, 64 of 85 for Master). The Virginia law and business coverage also serves the contractor track’s Virginia-portion material; the Residential portion (55 items, passing at 39 raw) is a shorter sitting built on the same foundations.
Is the practice exam timed like the real one?
Yes. The full practice exam allows 210 minutes for 85 questions, matching the real Journeyman and Master portion. The real exam is open book; how you use references while practicing is up to you.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Every question is original to PassProfessor, written from PSI’s published exam outline and the cited references. Nothing here is copied or paraphrased from a licensing exam or a competitor’s bank.
What does the 70% benchmark mean?
Our practice exam is scored against a 70% practice benchmark. Virginia publishes its pass marks as raw scores – 60 of 85 for Journeyman and 64 of 85 for Master – not as percentages, so the 70% figure here is a PRACTICE BENCHMARK ONLY: a study signal, not a conversion of the state’s raw-score standard and not a result on the real exam.
Enroll: Product: /product/virginia-hvac-exam-prep/ — $79 for the full program.