ISA MUNICIPAL ARBORIST UPDATED FINAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Weingarten Rights - ✔✔Established by the Supreme Court, a union worker's right to
union representation during investigatory interviews.
✔✔Life cycle costing - ✔✔Equipment purchase price, plus repairs and maintenance
over service life, minus resale value
✔✔First step for planning a public relations campaign to help generate support for
funding the urban forest sustainability program - ✔✔Identify the audience with whom
you want to communicate.
✔✔ANSI Z60.1 - ✔✔Nursery stock
✔✔Heritage tree - ✔✔A tree that meets the criteria described in the municipal code or
policy
✔✔Policies - ✔✔Statements and guidelines under which decisions will be made
✔✔Five proactive ways to protect trees from damage - ✔✔1) Design spaces to avoid
conflicts; 2) Install protective structures to reduce damage; 3) Practice appropriate tree
care to avoid damage; 4) Install lighting, protective cages, and benches where potential
, for vandalism is high; 5) Involve neighborhoods in tree planting and planting programs
to encourage public commitment; 6) Provide public education about the value of trees
and actions that damage them; 7) Communicate with other municipal departments
about activities that affect trees, such as street and sidewalk repair; 8) Review and
comment on development plans with regard to trees; 9) Review and approve permits for
tree removal, construction impact, and/or pruning; 10) Enact ordinances, by-laws,
policies, and standards that protect trees.
✔✔Components of a street tree ordinance that help protect trees - ✔✔1) Tree species
and height requirements below utility lines; 2) Pruning standards; 3) Prohibition
standards; 4) Requirements for tree removal permits; 5) Qualifications of arborists who
provide tree service work.
✔✔Tree Preservation versus Resource Conservation - ✔✔Tree Preservation focuses
on retaining individual or small groups of trees within a project boundary. Resource
conservation emphasizes sustaining plant and animal communities. This usually is
accomplished by retaining large corridors and open spaces in key areas that are linked
to wildlands. The scope of resource conservation requires planning on a regional basis
and usually cannot be accomplished solely on an individual project and, in many cases,
within one municipal jurisdiction. Coordination amount agencies and jurisdictions is
necessary to identify and meet resource conservation goals.
✔✔Variables to consider when determining a tree protection zone - ✔✔The amount of
space to sustain tree health and stability varies with species, age, size, health, structural
condition, root and crown conformation, soil characteristics, weather conditions,
maintenance provided, existing growth obstructions, and the intensity of construction
impacts to the tree.
✔✔Four components of Risk Management - ✔✔1) Identifying, assessing, and
prioritizing risks; 2) selecting and implementing risk control measures; 3) Establishing
methods for financing the cost of risk; 4) Enabling an organization to coordinate its risk
management efforts.
✔✔Acceptable risk - ✔✔Defined by the governing body and the amount of funding the
agency is willing to commit to assessing, monitoring, and mitigating those risks.
✔✔Five ways risks can be controlled - ✔✔1) Risk avoidance; 2) Loss prevention; 3)
Loss reduction; 4) Uncertainty reduction; 5) Risk transfer
✔✔Duty - ✔✔The obligation or responsibility to care for trees
✔✔Breach of duty - ✔✔The failure to act in a reasonable manner
✔✔Harm - ✔✔Physical damage or property injury
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Weingarten Rights - ✔✔Established by the Supreme Court, a union worker's right to
union representation during investigatory interviews.
✔✔Life cycle costing - ✔✔Equipment purchase price, plus repairs and maintenance
over service life, minus resale value
✔✔First step for planning a public relations campaign to help generate support for
funding the urban forest sustainability program - ✔✔Identify the audience with whom
you want to communicate.
✔✔ANSI Z60.1 - ✔✔Nursery stock
✔✔Heritage tree - ✔✔A tree that meets the criteria described in the municipal code or
policy
✔✔Policies - ✔✔Statements and guidelines under which decisions will be made
✔✔Five proactive ways to protect trees from damage - ✔✔1) Design spaces to avoid
conflicts; 2) Install protective structures to reduce damage; 3) Practice appropriate tree
care to avoid damage; 4) Install lighting, protective cages, and benches where potential
, for vandalism is high; 5) Involve neighborhoods in tree planting and planting programs
to encourage public commitment; 6) Provide public education about the value of trees
and actions that damage them; 7) Communicate with other municipal departments
about activities that affect trees, such as street and sidewalk repair; 8) Review and
comment on development plans with regard to trees; 9) Review and approve permits for
tree removal, construction impact, and/or pruning; 10) Enact ordinances, by-laws,
policies, and standards that protect trees.
✔✔Components of a street tree ordinance that help protect trees - ✔✔1) Tree species
and height requirements below utility lines; 2) Pruning standards; 3) Prohibition
standards; 4) Requirements for tree removal permits; 5) Qualifications of arborists who
provide tree service work.
✔✔Tree Preservation versus Resource Conservation - ✔✔Tree Preservation focuses
on retaining individual or small groups of trees within a project boundary. Resource
conservation emphasizes sustaining plant and animal communities. This usually is
accomplished by retaining large corridors and open spaces in key areas that are linked
to wildlands. The scope of resource conservation requires planning on a regional basis
and usually cannot be accomplished solely on an individual project and, in many cases,
within one municipal jurisdiction. Coordination amount agencies and jurisdictions is
necessary to identify and meet resource conservation goals.
✔✔Variables to consider when determining a tree protection zone - ✔✔The amount of
space to sustain tree health and stability varies with species, age, size, health, structural
condition, root and crown conformation, soil characteristics, weather conditions,
maintenance provided, existing growth obstructions, and the intensity of construction
impacts to the tree.
✔✔Four components of Risk Management - ✔✔1) Identifying, assessing, and
prioritizing risks; 2) selecting and implementing risk control measures; 3) Establishing
methods for financing the cost of risk; 4) Enabling an organization to coordinate its risk
management efforts.
✔✔Acceptable risk - ✔✔Defined by the governing body and the amount of funding the
agency is willing to commit to assessing, monitoring, and mitigating those risks.
✔✔Five ways risks can be controlled - ✔✔1) Risk avoidance; 2) Loss prevention; 3)
Loss reduction; 4) Uncertainty reduction; 5) Risk transfer
✔✔Duty - ✔✔The obligation or responsibility to care for trees
✔✔Breach of duty - ✔✔The failure to act in a reasonable manner
✔✔Harm - ✔✔Physical damage or property injury
