AIC MOCK EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+

1 AIC MOCK EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ What information is used to determine the required contact area of a reinforced concrete footing resting in soil? Correct Answer: Soil Bearing Capacity What is the following a definition of? "Reducing the duration of a project of a project usually by overlapping phases or activities that were originally planned to be done sequentially." Correct Answer: Fast- Tracking Which of the following terms refers to the complete process of obtaining materials? Correct Answer: Procurement Who is responsible for ensuring that all workers on a construction project have and use personal protective equipment? Correct Answer: Employer A column transfer 80 kips of load to a footing. The soil bearing capacity is known to be 1800 PSF. What is the minimum required area of the footing? 2 Correct Answer: 44.44 Square Feet The size of the WBS should generally not exceed ___ elements. Correct Answer: 100-200 elements. The contract calls for 3011 units. The budget for the work (without overhead or profit) is $7,200.00. To date 412 units have been installed at a cost of $1,250. What is the unit cost to date and the expected profit/loss on this unit? Correct Answer: Young's Modulus relates? Correct Answer: stress and strain when a material is in the elastic region. What is ASHRAE the acronym for? Correct Answer: American society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air conditioning engineers The design of an outfall sewer requires a 0.5% grade in the pipe. The outlet invert is at sea level 0.00'. The sewer run is 6 miles. What is the pipe invert at the end of the six mile run? Correct Answer: 158.4 feet The transwer of heat by air flow is called: Correct Answer: Convection 3 Draft 4 of Master Format makes what general change to the CSI Division Numbering System? Correct Answer: Adds many divisions and three new groupings. The Field Engineer or the Project Engineer doesn't assists the superintendent in solving engineering related problems. Correct Answer: FALSE "Mold a moist or wer sample of soil into a ball and attempt to roll it into threads as thin as 1/8-inch in diameter. Cohesive material can be successfully rolled in threads without crumbling. For example, if at least two inch (50 mm) length of 1/8-inch thread can be held on one end without tearing, the soil is cohesive." What does this describe? Correct Answer: Plasticity What is a good practice for break down and presentation of a building schedule of values? Correct Answer: use CSI Codes on the AIA G702 and G703 forms. A topographical map is drawing showing: Correct Answer: Contour Lines and elevations. 4 What is the primary reason that the courts disfavor a Bar Chart? Correct Answer: it does not display the interrelationship of activities or the activity floats. The following criticla activities and their costs include: activity A, six days, $3000. Activity B, one day, $10,000 Acitivity C, ten days, $1,000 Activitiy D, Three Days, $2,500/ Which critical activity should be reviewed first for crashing? Correct Answer: ACTIVITY C Sediment controls is required to____ Correct Answer: keep soils on site and out of sewers and rivers. The subfloor was___ Correct Answer: exposed prior to the bids and subcontracting process. on bid day, you always use the low bid received from every subcontractor in compiling your bid. Correct Answer: False 5 Purchase orders are governed by which law? Correct Answer: Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) The process of following up on orders to ensure compliance with the specifications and schedule is called Expediting, and the person who performs these duties is sometimes called an: Correct Answer: expediter A derrick is a type of___? Correct Answer: Hoisting equipment What type of soil can be easily penetrated several inches by the thumb and molded by light finger pressure? Correct Answer: Open node or dangle activities are required on all schedules? Correct Answer: false. It is not logical to have activities without successors or predecessors on any schedule (except for start/end activities) A good quick ratio is___ Correct Answer: around 1.00 6 Why does the KISS rule apply to good writing? Correct Answer: "Keep it Simple Stupid" makes the writing clear and concise. FOB job site means the vendor is responsible for shipment of the order and ownership transfers from the supplier to the buyer at the job site. Correct Answer: True The base rate for labor is $15/hr. The labor burden is 35% and 3% for small tools for the labor. There are 1000 units to install. Records indicate that trade workers can install 10 units per hour, per trade worker. The owners need 15% overhead and profit to pay bills, pay interest on loan and provide some profit tot he partners. What is the minimum bid assuming no risk avoidance factor? Correct Answer: $2398.62 Liquidity ratios do NOT include___ Correct Answer: Debt to Equity The amount of air required to completely replace the air in a room or building (not to be confused with recirculated air) is called what? Correct Answer: Air Change A unit of measurement used for determining the cooling capacity equivalent of 12,000 BTU's per hour is which of the following? Correct Answer: One ton of cooling 7 If activity A takes 3 days and Activity B takes 6 days and they can be performed simultaneously, but must be completed before Activity C can start, how long can you delay the start of activity A? Correct Answer: 3 days. The project manager has the authority and responsibility for the successsful completion of the project(s) within the contract time and costs considerations. Correct Answer: True What activities and ananlysis do you perform on forward pass in a PDM? Correct Answer: add duration to ES and use highest dates when paths converge. The following activities with durations comprise a critical Path: Excavate 10 days Form 2 days Rebar 3 days Pour 1 day Cure 28 days Strip 1 day What day can you begin to backfill? Correct Answer: day 46 Escalators are specified in what CSI dividion (2004 Version)? 8 Correct Answer: Division 14 Acme subcontracting is excavating a trench on a project where you are acting as a construction manager. They are stacking the spoils directly adjacent to the trench. It is raining slightly. The excavation material is in Type A soil. Acme is treating the excavation as Type C soil. What do you do? Correct Answer: Temporarily stop the work until the spoil location hazard can be remediated. Bid Peddling is also considered ethical under the ASPE Code of Ethics. Correct Answer: FALSE Where the total length of climb (on a fixed ladder) equals or exceeds 24 feet (7.3 m), fixed ladders shall be equipped with the following items: Correct Answer: Ladder safety devices; or self-retracting lifelines, and rest platforms at intervals not to exceed 150 ft(45.7m); or a cage or well, and multiple ladder sections, each ladder section not to exceed 50 ft(15.2m) in length. Ladder sections shall be offset from adjacent sections, and landing platforms shall be provided at maximum intervals of 50 ft(15.2m). Well Run Meetings, Good communications and Document Control, Good Quality Control and Good project Closeout Documentation indicates____ Correct Answer: A well-run project Free float of the predecessor activity is equal to the late start of the successor activity minus the early finish of the predecessor activity. 9 Correct Answer: FALSE A contractor has suffered compensable delays amounting to 45 calendar days, in a contract amounted to $2,700,000. During this year, the contractor had 5 projects underway and the aggregate value was $10,000,000. The contractor's home office overhead during this year totaled $250,000. The duration of the project including delays, totaled 265 days. Calculate the home office overhead damages of this claim. Correct Answer: $11,462 The amount of time you can delay an activity on any path without delaying the scheduled end date is called? Correct Answer: TOTAL FLOAT Where can the centroid of a right triangle be found? Correct Answer: At a point perpendicular to the legs at 1/3 of the distance along either 90 degree leg from the intersection of the legs. cash Receipts and payments in a specified period is called? Correct Answer: Cash Flow In cashing a schedule, which activities are selected to focus on. Correct Answer: Least cost, critical path activities 10 The load on a simply supported beam is 500 pounds. The sum of the reaction loads must be equal to???? Correct Answer: 500 pounds What types of activities are considered first when shortening the length of a project? Correct Answer: Zero float and least cost The gradient is 3%. The sloped distance is 209,000 feet. What is the horizontal distance? Correct Answer: 208.99 feet. Employers shall maintain any material safety data sheets that are received with incoming shipments of hazardous chemicals, and ensure that they are readily accessible during each owrk shift to employees when they are in their work areas; By reference in 1926. Correct Answer: True Your pile driving project is working in Type A soils. During a week-long rain storm, the local storms sewer district has an emergency relocation across your site. They ask you to dig a trench 15 feet deep without shoring. What do you do? Correct Answer: Tell the client that the Soil is Class C and have an engineer shoring system ready before starting the excavation. Edwards Deming created a system for improving productivity and quality called? 11 Correct Answer: TQM pg. 138 For maintenance contracts, what are good methods of contract procurement? Correct Answer: Job order contracting and unit price contracts. The architect scale on a drawing calls for 1:8. You dont have a 1:8 scale. How do you measure the quanities? Correct Answer: First use the dimensions on the drawings. Then use one inch of a ruler equals 8 (feet or inches) The benchmark is 00.00/ The back sights are 6.00, 9.32 and 13.75 and 14.00 The foresights are 6.00, 9.00 and 3.22. What is the height of instrument? H.I. Correct Answer: 24.85 pg. 508 The _____ is responsible for requiring the wearing of appropriate personal protective equipment in all operations where there is an exposure to hazardous conditions or where Part 1926 indicates the need for using such equipment to reduce the hazards to the employees. Correct Answer: Employer 12 Accelerating a scheduling by shortening the duration of the lowest cost activities on the critical path is called???? Correct Answer: CRASHING The sides of building are 300 feet long and 200 feet wide. What is the diagonal distance between the opposite corners? Correct Answer: 360.60 feet ISO stands for? Correct Answer: International Standardization Organization Quantification of resources needed to achieve a project during a set time frame and the limit within which the task owners are required to work is called? Correct Answer: budget A WBS system should be Correct Answer: Either activity - oriented or deliverable - oriented A two-hundred pound person balances on the end of an upright timber 4x4 (real size). What is the Unit stress applied to the 4x4? Correct Answer: 12.5 pounds per square inch How is the term fast tracking defined in construction? Correct Answer: Overlapping execution of the design, procurement and construction. 13 p. 142 Return on equity equals net profit divided by equity. Correct Answer: TRUE p. 156 What is the required contact area form work for a free standing wall of concrete 3 feet wide, 10 feet tall and 100 feet long? (hint: free standing means you need to form the end walls) Correct Answer: 2060 SFCA Toilet accessories are specified in what CSI Division? (2004 version) Correct Answer: Division 10 A "notice to proceed" is a? Correct Answer: Formal document that tells the contract to begin work and then fixes the start and finish dates. Common contract clauses that encourage contracts to suggest cost-saving changes in the original design frequently state: Correct Answer: Savings are shared between the owner and the contractor 14 Ace Construction has $2,000,000.00 in current assets. They have current liabilities of 1,000,000.00 plus "due on demand" accounts payable of $1,500,000.00 What is Ace's current ratio? Correct Answer: 0.80 Current ratio = current assets/current liabilities The building is twenty-five feet by twenty five feet. The side line of the building and two corners along the line have been staked. What is the diagonal distance and the 90 degree distance to the other corners? Correct Answer: 35.36 feet and 25 feet. Accelerating a schedule by shortening the duration of the lowest cost activities on the critical path. The lowest cost installation activities are chosen because even if you double the cost of the activity it is the least cost method of acceleration. Least cost activities usually have the fewest expendable resources such as trade hours. This activitiy is called: Correct Answer: crashing The AIC code of ethics allows you to try and damage your competitors when you are trying to land a project Correct Answer: FALSE In analyzing the duration and dates for a critical path schedule, backwards passes are used to: 15 Correct Answer: determine late start dates. p. 401 You are the estimator on a public works project. You are delayed in traffic and are one minute late for the bid submission. What do you do? Correct Answer: Call your boss and take the heat for an unaccepted late bid. You are bidding a public project. the bid form requires an authorized signature. During the bid opening you notice that the low bidder has not signed the forms. You will be low bidder if the other bid is rejected. What do you do? Correct Answer: Formally protest the bid and ask the low bidder be declared "nonresponsive" The plans and specifications for a private project are incomplete, but the owner is insistent that you put a hard number on the table for the project. What do you do? Correct Answer: Gather the "best" subs and put a tight price on the job with a tightly defined set of qualifications and assumptions. The Specifications call for the spoil to be removed from the work area. What is spoil? Correct Answer: Excess soil on the site In what type of construction does the contractor take full responsibility for completion of the design and the construction work? Correct Answer: DESIGN-BUILD 16 What is the following a definition of? "a graphic display of planned and or actual resources usage over a period of time. It is in the form of a vertical bar chart, the height of each bar representing the quantity of resources usage in a given time unit. Bars may be single, multiple or show stacked resources." Correct Answer: HISTOGRAM p.139 Which of the following is the most complete list of construction project resources? Correct Answer: Cash material work space labor information equipment tools plans specifications time schedules 17 references against which the project is monitored and controlled is called? Correct Answer: Baseline A client asks you to provide a price for a project. The price comes in above budget. he asks that you go back to the subs and tell them that if they each cut 10% off their price, he will award you the project. What do you do? Correct Answer: Tell the client that the action he proposes is unfair to your subs, but that you and the low bid subs will prepare a list of options and changes that will bring the price within budget. Even if the project were to be terinated, some unavailable costs are already expended these costs are called? Correct Answer: Sunk costs Lead times are used to determine the estimated time duration for what type of activities? Correct Answer: procurement activities You have 25,000 CY to excavate form a pit. The excavation is wet sticky clay. WHat type of equipment would be most suitable? Correct Answer: Large track mounted backhoes p.188 18 Current Ratio is???? Correct Answer: Current assets divided by current liabilities p.155 The estimator prices the contractor's portion of the estimate develops the contractor's overhead costs and reviews and selects the subcontractor proposal bids to be incorporated in to the contractor's proposal. Correct Answer: true The critical path has a total float value of? Correct Answer: ZERO CRITICAL PATH HAS ZERO TOTAL FLOAT 6000 units have been installed to date with 9,000 units to install. Labor costs are $23,300.00 to date. What is the unit cost for labor to date? Correct Answer: $3.88 per unit p.292 The owners representative has the authority to? Correct Answer: Direct changes and/or clarify the work 19 Which document shows the work involved in completing a project in an exhaustive, hierarchical tree structure of tasks or deliverables? Correct Answer: Work Breakdown Structure On a project estimate, which of the following items is included as a project overhead expense? Correct Answer: Field Trailer The moment of inertia a shape is? Correct Answer: a property of the shape and an indicator of its ability to resist bending What is the difference between transmittal's and submittal's? Correct Answer: Transmittal are required "for record" such as certifications and test reports. Submittal's are required for "approval" p. 559 Task A is the start of t he project. Task B C D and E all start after Task A. Task F start is dependent on Tasks D and E Task G is dependent on C, Task C is also dependent on completion of Task F. 20 All activities take one day. What is the critical path task list? Correct Answer: A D E F C G if relative humidity is 60% and dry bulb temperature is 70 degrees F, what is the dew point? Correct Answer: 56 degree F p. 133 "Fissured" soil means? Correct Answer: A soil material that has a tendency to break along definite planes of fracture with little resistance, or a material that exhibits open cracks, such as tension cracks, in an exposed surface. p, 485 Overhead expenses distributed over appropriate direct labor and/or material base costs are called? Correct Answer: BURDEN Which of the following items is the least important when laying out a construction project CPM schedule? 21 Correct Answer: Ordering the project trailers Safety Ratios include Debt to Equity. T or F? Correct Answer: TRUE What date has been met when construction is completed to the point where it can be used for its intended purpose? Correct Answer: Substantial completion Estimates at every level are NOT normally used for_____? Correct Answer: Project Closeout The Notice of Award and Letter of Intent are the same document. Correct Answer: FALSE Notice of Award - is an acceptance of the Contractor's offer from the Owner. Letter of Intent - slightly different version which indicates selection and acceptance of a proposal and states intent of entering into a suitable contract at a later date because of certain activities not being met at the notification time, such as encumbrances at the site that have not been reconciled p. 557 22 The voluntary process of creating a cooperative and mutually beneficial team out of potential adversaries on a construction project is called _____. Correct Answer: Partnering p. 138 In contrast to a change order, what is tho be used where the owner and contractor, for whatever reason, have not reached agreement on proposed changes in the contract sum or contract time? Correct Answer: Construction Change Directive (CCD) The vertical members of a window support system are called? Correct Answer: Mullions DBT is the dry bulb temperature in degrees F or C. Dry bulb temperature is measured with: Correct Answer: An ordinary thermometer. Dry bulb temperature lines are the vertical lines on a psychometric chart. Who is directly responsible for coordinating subcontractors work on-site, safety and cleanup management, as well as direct trade supervision such as concrete, labor etc? Correct Answer: Project superintendent 23 On a U.S. Federal construction project, your firm has been awarded the work based on a hard bid. You realize that a bidding mistake means your profit will be increased. What do you do? Correct Answer: Keep the added profit, as this is part of the risk-reward system. Your firm would have to have absorbed a loss if it had been discovered after the contract. Which position typically assigns the crews, maintains a job diary and schedules subcontractors? Correct Answer: Superintendent The Superintendent supervises and coordinates the daily activities of foremen. They plan and schedule the work foce, the materials and equipment and coordinate the subcontracts to promote an efficient construction of the structure at a profit. Correct Answer: true Task A is start. Task E is end. Task B, C, and D are dependent on Task A. Task C is dependent on Task B and Task D is dependent on Task C. Which activities are on the critical path? Correct Answer: ABCDE You hear a rumor that your competitor is having financial difficulties. What do you do? Correct Answer: Keep this unsubstantiated information to yourself.. 24 The transfer of heat directly from one surface to another without the intermediate air acting as a transfer mechanism is called what? Correct Answer: Radiation The transfer of heat through a solid material is called what? Correct Answer: Conduction Under the workers right to knw, they have a right under federal law to be told what types of chemicals and other hazardous substances are found in the work place and how they should be handled. What document lists what products are made of? Correct Answer: Material Data Sheets The owner hires the general contractor with a direct contract. Ulitimately, who has QA/QC responsibility to the Owner? Correct Answer: General Contractor If an activity can be delayed five days without delaying the follow on activity what is this called? Correct Answer: Five days of free float A simply supported beam ten feet long has a 10 kip load two feet from the left end. What is the maximum moment in the beam? Correct Answer: 16 kip feet 25 Which of the following is the proper Procurement Activity Sequence that is used for every Vendor or Supplier (such as Rebar, Structural Steel and Sheet Metal) on a Design/Build logic network according to acceptable legal practice? Correct Answer: Award Vendor Contract Vendor Prepares Shop Drawings Contractor Reviews Shops A/E Reviews Shops, Vendor Fabricates and Delivers Subcontractor 1: bids plans and specs with a need for 30 days on site and the use of the general contractor's crane at no cost. Subcontractor 2: bids plans and specs with a need for 25 days on the site and will supply his own hoisting equipment. Subcontractor 3: bids plans specs with need for 20 days on the site and use of the general contractor's crane at no cost. Each bidder bids $50,125 dollars as base bid. The crane is worth $2,000 for the lifts and the general conditions costs for the general contractor are $1,000 per day. Who wins and why? Correct Answer: Subcontractor 3 because he will save you $8,000 over Subcontractor 1 and he will save you $3,000 over subcontractor 2 ($10,000 in general conditions less $2,000 in crane charges and $5,000 in GC's less $2,000 in crane charges) An implied contract term is: 26 Correct Answer: An understood but not written term of contract A job built ladder is used in a trench six feet deep. What is the minimum length of the ladder? Correct Answer: 9 feet. Memorandums are written for ? Correct Answer: Internal Correspondence Carpenters cost $15,000 per hour direct labor, plus 35% burden. Laborers cost $10.00 per direct hour plus 35% burden. You have one laborer for every four carpenters. What is the blended burdened hourly rate per hour? Correct Answer: $18.90 per hour The coefficient of thermal expansion for steel is 0.0000065.The change in material temperature is minus 60 degrees F. The steel is 55 feet long. What is the change in length of the steel? Correct Answer: 0.26 inches shorter Non-self -supporting ladders shall be used at an angle such that the horizontal distance from the top suppor to the foot of the ladder is approximately ____ of the working length of ladder (the distance along the ladder between the foot and the top support). Correct Answer: One quarter 27 The following is a jumbled list of construction activities. Some of these activities can be performed simultaneously. All activities take 1 day. "Pour slab, install studs, install electrical rough-in, install plumbing rough-in, inspections, insulation, drywall." What is the list of critical path activities? Correct Answer: Pour slab, install studs, install electrical rough-in, install plumbing roughin, inspections, insulation, drywall What is the name of the term for shifting the activities within their available free floats in order to produce a uniform work force and reduce the maximum resource usage requirements? Correct Answer: Resource leveling Fabric and Art are specified in what CSI Division (2004 version)? Correct Answer: Division 12 In the business organization of corporations, shareholders have____ Correct Answer: limited liability What is the normal process used by owners to assure that the work is not overpaid? Correct Answer: Schedule of Values The remote resort project has been delayed by unusual rain and road closures. The rain and road closures in the area normally last for 10 days per year. Your firm experiences thirty days of closures during the one year project. You are fifteen days late on 28 substantial completion. The liquidated damages are $1,000 per day. The client is withholding $30,000 for late completion. In your humble opinion what is the client entitled to in liquidated damages? Correct Answer: $0.00 A cofferdam is a? Correct Answer: Structure used to keep water OUT a normally underwater construction site. A four foot high concrete wall form has fluid state concrete in it to three feet high. What is the pressure at the bottom of the form? Correct Answer: 450 lbs/sq ft p.81 T or F? A well run meeting has a written agenda and written minutes. Correct Answer: True yes, pm does this. p. 584 29 The amount of time you can delay an acitivity before it delays a follow on (successor) activity is called? Correct Answer: Free Float A portable job built ladder is to be used in an excavation 10 feet deep. What is the minimum safe length of the ladder? Correct Answer: 14 feet Project manager wishes to implement a standard procedure at the job site for processing and tracking shop drawings. Which form of communication should be required for this effor? Correct Answer: Written. p.559 For unit price contracts, what is used in the schedule of values? Correct Answer: Bid unit price and quantities p.143 30 What is the simplified version of a trial involving no discovery and having simplified rules of evidence where both sides agree on an arbitrator, or each side selects an arbitrator and the two arbitrators elect the third to comprise a panel? Correct Answer: Arbitration p. 520 A simply supported beam ten feet long has a 10 kip load two feet from the left end. What is the maximum shear in the beam? Correct Answer: 8 kips a 30 foot high wall is poured at the rate of 10 feet per hour using type 1 cement without pozzolans. The temperature of the concrete is 70 degrees F. What is the design pressure? Correct Answer: 1170 PSF How is free float defined? Correct Answer: The amount of slack between activities p. 402 The specific gravity of mild steel is 7.85. What does one cubic foot of steel weigh? Correct Answer: 490 pounds. 31 The time available for an activity (or path) to be delayed from its planned duration without affecting the project duration is called? Correct Answer: FLOAT The purpose of through-wall flashing in brick veneer construction is: Correct Answer: Direct the escape of moisture Activity A has two days of free float and two days of total float. Activity A is? Correct Answer: A non-critical activity A well run meeting always ? Correct Answer: WRITTEN AGENDA What is hydration? Correct Answer: Concrete hardening by chemical reaction p.45 The following steps outline a good receiving procedure that all job sites should follow: Correct Answer: All of the above ??? 32 You are a smart owner who understands the trade off between first cost and maintenance costs. The ten year life cycle cost for a changed parking lot is $100.000 less than the specified product, but the first cost is an add on of $75,000 (capital costs). You plan to sell the product in one year or less. Do you accept the change? why? Correct Answer: No. Unless the change will be an dded selling value. You can't get payback in one year. Proof that your firm has been paying subcontractors and vendors from previous application payments is provided through? Correct Answer: Waivers of Lien A 10 foot long supported beam has a point load of 225 pounds placed 2 feet fro the left end. What is the magnitude of the maximum shear. Correct Answer: 180 pounds Cash and assets that are expected to be used, sold or converted to cash usually within one year. A sporting goods store's____would include the money in the register and its bicycles, as well as short-term insurance policies and marketable securities - securities expected to be turned into cash in one year. Correct Answer: current assets. 33 p. 153 For a design- build schedule to be admissible evidence in court, it must contain the Design Activity Sequence, Procurement Activity Sequence and the Construction Activity sequence. Which of the following must also be on the preliminary schedule? Correct Answer: A time scaled with owner- furnished items and planned weather losses each month. The Certificate of Substantial Completion is the substantial acceptance of the project which is implemented by a joint inspection on the part of the owner's representative and the contractor. Correct Answer: TRUE The known ceiling height is 125.00 feet and the known floor height is 112.32 feet. You are set up on the floor. The back sight off the floor is 5.85 feet. What should the foresight be to the ceiling height? Correct Answer: 6.83 p. 508 ADR stands for? Correct Answer: Alternative Dispute Resolution Among other issues, a formal letter should include what? Correct Answer: Address of the recipient 34 Title of recipient date of writing signature of author According to AIA documents, if a project is delayed due to abnormal weather conditions, which of the following BEST describes the liability of the contractor? Correct Answer: The contractor is entitled to an extension of time and not additional compensation. Which document is used to request payment for materials? Correct Answer: invoice A force of 500 pounds is placed at the end of a ten inch long wrench. What is the moment at the far end of the wrench. Correct Answer: 5000 inch-pounds in the context of construction. what does GMP mean? Correct Answer: GMP = Guaranteed MAXIMUM price Edwards Deming was a strong proponent of what management system? Correct Answer: TQM total quality management 35 p. 138 The amount of time you can delay a critical path activity without delaying the end date or any follow on activity is? Correct Answer: 0 days if a masonry contractor has been given a back charge by a general contractor, what does this mean? Correct Answer: The general contractor is deducting a sum of money from the masonry contractor's contract amount. The traditional method of letting public construction contracts int he United States is by what method? Correct Answer: Design-bid-build Ace Concrete from San Diego is working on a project in Michigan. The specifications call for 4% entrained air. Ace forgets to have the air entrained. What are the ramifications for the owner? Correct Answer: The concrete will have diminished capacity to resist freeze and thaw and will not last as long as planned in Michigan. If the work on a project includes 7500 units to install and the labor costs are $10,000 to date with 300 units installed, what is the expected final cost? Correct Answer: $250,000.00 36 p. 381 if a concrete wall form is 30 feet high full of fluid concrete, what is the pressure on the form 10 below the top? Correct Answer: 1500 PSF Quantification of resources needed to achieve a task by a set time, within which the task owners are required to work is called a? Correct Answer: budget On the critical path, early start and late start dates must be? Correct Answer: The same In the case of loss caused by a covered peril, if a car crashes and cuts electricity for a commercial freezer and the food in the freezer spoils, the costs would be covered by which of the following? Correct Answer: consequential loss or damage A rod- buster is a? Correct Answer: Re-enforcing steel installer The right of the insurance carrier to take action to recover the amount of a claim paid to a covered insured if the loss was caused by a third party is called? 37 Correct Answer: subrogation you have a chance to support construction research. What do you do? Correct Answer: Suppor the research in any way you can A scheduling situation that restricts the flow of resources on a project is called a ? Correct Answer: constraint When are addendum apically issued? Correct Answer: Before the bid In order to be submittable in court, the daily diary must be? Correct Answer: Written every day, in ink, in a bound book. A portable factory built ladder is to be used in an excavation 10 feet deep. What is the minimum safe length of the ladder? Correct Answer: 14 feet The process of adjusting the flow of air in duct systems, or wateer flow in hot-water heating systems using accurate instrumentation to deliver the right amount of heating or cooling to each area room of the home is called what? Correct Answer: commissioning and balancing 38 "competent person" by OSHA definition means/ Correct Answer: one who is capable of identifying existing and predicatable hazard in the surroundings, or working conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to exmplyees, and who has authorization to take prompt corrective measure to eliminate them.