Every applicant for every class takes a test, and 28 TAC § 34.615 says what is in it. The license test includes a section on the subchapter and on Insurance Code Chapter 6002 — the law itself — plus a technical qualifying test. Tests may be supplemented by practical tests or demonstrations necessary to determine the applicant’s knowledge and ability. And the standards used in the tests are the ones adopted in 28 TAC § 34.607, which is the same adopted-edition question Chapter 1 opened with: you are examined on the edition Texas has adopted, not on the newest one published.

Four bodies may conduct the technical qualifying half. Under the same rule it is conducted by the State Fire Marshal’s Office, by the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies, by the Electronic Security Association, or by an outsource testing service. That list is why the technical qualification routes in § 5.3 look the way they do — the organizations that certify are also among the organizations that test. Insurance Code § 6002.156 sits behind all of it: the state fire marshal establishes the scope and type of the examination, it must cover the chapter and commissioner rules and include specific testing of ALL LICENSE CATEGORIES, and the state fire marshal may administer it directly or enter into an agreement with a testing service, contracting for development, scheduling, site arrangements, grading, reporting, analysis, and other administrative duties.

Failing is a procedure rather than a setback. 28 TAC § 34.615 provides that examinees who fail must file a RETEST APPLICATION accompanied by the required fee in order to be retested on the next scheduled test date — so a retest is a fresh filing, not an automatic rebooking. Results come with their own timetable, set by Insurance Code § 6002.157. The state fire marshal must send each examinee notice of the results not later than the 30th day after the examination is administered. Where a testing service conducts, grades, or reviews the examination, notice goes out within two weeks after the state fire marshal receives the results from that service. And if notice will be delayed more than 90 days after the examination date, the state fire marshal must tell the examinee the reason for the delay before the 90th day.