DBIA PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+<RECENT VERSION>

DBIA PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+&lt;RECENT VERSION&gt; 1) Project delivery system - answer how team members are organized, establishes when parties engage, determines roles of parties, and determines sequence of design, procurement, and construction (db, cmar, dbb) 2) Procurement method - answer how team members are selected (qbs, best value, low price, sole source) 3) Contracting approach - answer how team members are paid (fp, gmp, cost reimbursement, target price, unit price) 4) Design-bid-build (dbb) - answer linear, sequential process, a/e selected on qualifications, gc selected on low price, design is fully completed without input from gc, a/e acting in owner's interests, with a historically strong bond, process is well-established and understood 5) Construction manager at risk - answer similar org structure to dbb, construction manager selected by qbs or best value, contractor provides precon services, negotiated gmp contracting approach, open book estimating process, potential to fast track project, construction cost determined before design completed, potential issues over what is reasonably inferable from gmp design documents 6) Design-build - answer the owner contracts with one entity (a person or firm) to provide both design and construction services, designer and contractor have a direct contractual relationship, selected by qbs or best value, wide spectrum of contracting approaches and organizational structures, single point responsibility, owner does not manage designer, owner exposure to claims is significantly reduced 7) Engineer procure construct (epc) - answer similar to design build, in industrial and power generation sectors, systems and performance testing are central to scope, contractor will typically perform engineering with its in-house staff, owner has need for single point responsibility, contracts include plant and process performance guarantees, contract items include performance and schedule liquidated damages and limitations of liability 8) Multiple prime contracting - answer owner contracts with multiple trade contractors, attributes are typically similar to dbb, owner's ability to schedule and coordinate the work 9) Integrated project delivery (ipd) - answer multi-party agreement - all parties equal, qbs procurement and target pricing contract approach, private sector use (limited at this time), key: owner's ability to accept risk 10) Public-private partnership (p3) - answer instead of government building and maintaining major infrastructure (such as highway, water treatment plant), build and maintenance is outsourced to a private company. Opposed by public sector unions. This is not considered a delivery system but its underlying approaches are delivery systems and typically use db. Multiple procurement and contracting approaches 11) Shift left - answer intense efforts to establish scope early in the process; drives early team formation to include key trade subcontractors; can enable big decisions to be made early, affect project outcomes at lowest cost, establish a need for co-location and collaboration, and compress time during concurrent design and construction 12) Traditional design build - answer typically two-phase best value procurement with lump sum contract; owner defines project requirements and scope of prescriptive work; use of performance-based technical requirements with limited prescriptive specifications 13) Progressive design build - answer design and price are progressively developed after the design-builder is under contract; final project cost and schedule commitment is not established as part of the selection process; two phases: preliminary services and final design and construction services 14) Criteria documents - answer describe the end result 15) Bridging documents - answer prescribes how to achieve the end result 16) Design bid build paradigm - answer prior to bidding, owner undertakes a process to design the project and all of its details to 100% complete plans and specs. The owner is therefore responsible for success or failure of details of the design, and warrants the sufficiency of design to the contractor. The owner is therefore liable to the contractor for any gaps between plans and specifications and owner's requirements for project performance 17) Design details responsibility - answer the owner should define its performance requirements and award the contract on the basis of preliminary design; this makes the design-builder responsible for completing the design in accordance with the owner's performance requirements. That also causes the design-builder to warrant the sufficiency of the design to meet the owner's criteria and the sufficiency of the design to subcontractors/suppliers that have no design responsibility 18) Uniformat - answer subdivides project by functional elements, focuses on systems and assemblies, useful for preliminary information and early design phases, aligns with bim models and conceptual estimating 19) Masterformat - answer subdivides work by results/trades, focuses on building materials, products, and activities, useful for detailed information during final design and construction phases, and aligns with detailed estimating 20) Functional requirement - answer a specific business need or behavior as seen by an external user of the system; describe what functions/operations the end product must perform/accommodate; examples: regulatory, permitting, economic, and others that define functions and operational capability. "build an office building on my existing lot to provide office space for 1,000 workers" 21) Performance requirement - answer describes what product(s) components must do/achieve with a measurement metric; challenges: developing objective and definable standards to validate performance, tendency to drift to prescriptive specs; examples: uniformat c10, interior construction. "provide durable, paintable interior walls between the offices with stc 35 (min)" 22) Prescriptive requirement - answer describes in terms of exactly how the product and/or its components must be built; cookbook approach; developed by the design builder but used by owners in the rfp/bridging documents for operability or maintenance needs and conditions of permits or third parties; examples: uniformat c10, partitions. "install gypsum wallboard on 3-5/8" metal studs at 16" on center with xx acoustical insulation per yy standards." 23) Shortlisting - answer takes the best of "qualified" teams; a key to design-build success; not the same as prequalifying or pass/fail; keeping this small increases interest among the best teams and minimizes procurement costs for everyone including the owner 24) Competitive procurement process - answer owners define their goals and selection criteria, one or 2 phase process if shortlisting is applicable, price is not a factor in selection, award to most qualified proposer, negotiate to a fair and reasonable price 25) Qbs typical criteria - answer qualifications, experience and past performance of design build team, qualifications of key personnel, capacity of design build team to perform work, team experience in working together, deisgn-builder's project management plan, project-specific ideas demonstrating team's ability to innovate and think outside of the box 26) Spearin doctrine - answer contractor must reasonably rely on what owner has furnished; defects that are obvious in bid documents must be raised by bidders during procurement 27) Course of conduct - answer what the parties do during the performance of other similar contracts 28) Course of performance - answer what the parties do during the performance of this contract 29) Terms of art - answer the use of a word in a specific industry 30) Differing site conditions (dsc) - answer subsurface or physical conditions at the site that differ materially from those indicated in the contract documents; unknown physical conditions at the site, of an unusual nature, that differ materially from those ordinarily encountered and generally recognized as inhering in the work of the character provided for in the contract 31) Constructive acceleration - answer a contractor may opt to speed up a project due to an excusable or unavoidable delay caused by weather, deliveries or change orders. The contractor may choose to file a claim for damages if the extra time is warranted but not given and the contractor had to incur extra expenses to complete the work on time. 32) Joint and several liability - answer a legal concept that makes each partner in a partnership legally liable for all the acts of the joint venture 33) Teaming agreement - answer a contractual agreement that defines the Roles, responsibility, considerations, and Partnerships of two or more organizations That works together in a project. It's not unlike A partnership or subcontractor relationship 34) Teaming party price - answer compensation for subsequent agreements (the contract that the parties will enter into if the design-builder wins the procurement) 35) Advancing the design - answer basis of design documents that if changed, would allow for a change order, expectation that design-builder will review these documents to discover and resolve conflicts or ambiguities, order of preference, determining submittal review and approval process, meet and confer process, owner to approve final construction documents, interim and final documents are to be consistent with the basis of design documents