Nit-pick - that probably wasn't the PE exam. It was probably the FE exam. The FE exam is what you need to pass in order to start the apprenticeship to get your

Nit-pick - that probably wasn't the PE exam. It was probably the FE exam. The FE exam is what you need to pass in order to start the apprenticeship to get your PE. The PE exam is what you take after an apprenticeship in order to get your PE License. This page has some pretty good info on the whole process: https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe As someone who took the FE and then went into software, I understand why this is so complicated. The acronyms are hard to understand and the process is very divorced from what software engineers have to deal with in their day-to-day life.