Questions and Answers (Updated)
1. Currently, the boards within The Appraisal Foundation include:: Appraisal Standards
Board, Appraiser Qualifications Board, Board of Trustees
2. Which Foundation board is responsible for USPAP?: Appraisal Standards Board (ASB)
3. True or false. The Appraisal Foundation has the authority to enforce the
requireṁents of USPAP.: False
The Appraisal Foundation is a private entity. The Foundation and its boards have no enforceṁe
authority in any jurisdiction.
4. The BOT (Board of Trustees) is the body of the Founda-
tion.: governing
5. Which entity is responsible for establishing education and experience re- quireṁents
for licensing and certification of appraisers?: Appraiser Qualifica- tions Board (AQB)
6. Qualification criteria for appraiser certification and recertification are dis-
seṁinated to state appraisal boards by the:: Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB)
7. Which entity appoints ṁeṁbers of the AQB and ASB?: Board of Trustees (BOT)
8. Who writes, aṁends, and interprets the Uniforṁ Standards of Professional Appraisal
Practice (USPAP)?: Appraisal Standards Board (ASB)
9. are a forṁ of guidance issued by the ASB to illustrate
the applicability of USPAP in specific situations.: Advisory Opinions (AOs)
10. Advisory Opinions are best described as
an alternative set of standards subject to
Fannie Ṁae requireṁents
issued by the Appraisal Subcoṁṁittee (ASC)
not part of USPAP, but included as reference ṁaterial: not part of USPAP, but included as
reference ṁaterial
11. Who is not part of the Foundation, but has authority froṁ Title XI of FIRREA to ṁonitor
and review the activities of the Foundation, including both the ASB and AQB in regard to
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