DBIA Exam With 100% Correct Answers
Miller Act 1935 - correct answers ✔✔Federal Government passed bond requiring payment and
performance bonds on all public works, what year?
Brooks Bill 1972 - correct answers ✔✔Bill directing A/E's selected on qualifications, what year?
Clinger Cohen Act/Defense Procurement Reform Act 1996 - correct answers ✔✔Allows all
federal agencies to utilize Design-Build. Prior to that no enabling legislation existed allowing
Design-Build.
Standard of Care - correct answers ✔✔The level of quality that any average Design Professional
would be able to perform given the circumstances.
Design Bid Build - correct answers ✔✔Slowest Project Delivery method, linear in nature,
prescriptive (owner knows what they want),
Multi Prime - correct answers ✔✔Project Delivery - Many contracts through Owner
CM at Risk - correct answers ✔✔Project Delivery method allowing the contractor to come on
board very early in design for preconstruction services yet maintains separation between
Designer and Builder contractually.
Design Build - correct answers ✔✔Fastest Project Delivery method, fast tracking possible
overlapping design with construction utilizing incremental packages.
Low Bid - correct answers ✔✔Procurement Method - Most Familiar
, Negotiated (Qualifications Based) - correct answers ✔✔Procurement Method - Common for A/E
Best Value - correct answers ✔✔Procurement Method - Qualifications and Price
Sole Source - correct answers ✔✔Procurement Method - Direct
Lump Sum - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format w/ agreed upon fixed price
Cost Plus Fee - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format - contractor reimbursed for actual cost plus
an agreed upon percentage
GMP (Guaranteed Maximum Price) - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format - Combines Cost-Plus
& Lump-Sum, contractor reimbursed for actual cost plus a fee only up to a certain amount.
Unit Price - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format - cost per piece
Target Price - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format - established cost/benchmark determined
jointly by project team.
Trust, Flexibility - correct answers ✔✔Successful Design Build requires _____ & _______
between participants
Hammurabi - correct answers ✔✔Singular responsibility for both design & construction was
first codified by ____
Bridging Documents - correct answers ✔✔Owner provided items such as 20% design or more
and provides prescriptive specs at RFP.
Miller Act 1935 - correct answers ✔✔Federal Government passed bond requiring payment and
performance bonds on all public works, what year?
Brooks Bill 1972 - correct answers ✔✔Bill directing A/E's selected on qualifications, what year?
Clinger Cohen Act/Defense Procurement Reform Act 1996 - correct answers ✔✔Allows all
federal agencies to utilize Design-Build. Prior to that no enabling legislation existed allowing
Design-Build.
Standard of Care - correct answers ✔✔The level of quality that any average Design Professional
would be able to perform given the circumstances.
Design Bid Build - correct answers ✔✔Slowest Project Delivery method, linear in nature,
prescriptive (owner knows what they want),
Multi Prime - correct answers ✔✔Project Delivery - Many contracts through Owner
CM at Risk - correct answers ✔✔Project Delivery method allowing the contractor to come on
board very early in design for preconstruction services yet maintains separation between
Designer and Builder contractually.
Design Build - correct answers ✔✔Fastest Project Delivery method, fast tracking possible
overlapping design with construction utilizing incremental packages.
Low Bid - correct answers ✔✔Procurement Method - Most Familiar
, Negotiated (Qualifications Based) - correct answers ✔✔Procurement Method - Common for A/E
Best Value - correct answers ✔✔Procurement Method - Qualifications and Price
Sole Source - correct answers ✔✔Procurement Method - Direct
Lump Sum - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format w/ agreed upon fixed price
Cost Plus Fee - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format - contractor reimbursed for actual cost plus
an agreed upon percentage
GMP (Guaranteed Maximum Price) - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format - Combines Cost-Plus
& Lump-Sum, contractor reimbursed for actual cost plus a fee only up to a certain amount.
Unit Price - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format - cost per piece
Target Price - correct answers ✔✔Contract Format - established cost/benchmark determined
jointly by project team.
Trust, Flexibility - correct answers ✔✔Successful Design Build requires _____ & _______
between participants
Hammurabi - correct answers ✔✔Singular responsibility for both design & construction was
first codified by ____
Bridging Documents - correct answers ✔✔Owner provided items such as 20% design or more
and provides prescriptive specs at RFP.
