ACG CXA UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Who is responsible for Post-Acceptance Phase Monitor Warranty Issues Work -
✔✔CxT
✔✔Who is responsible for Post-Acceptance Phase Cx Report/Addendums - ✔✔CxA
✔✔Who is responsible for Post-Acceptance Phase Attend 11th Month Review -
✔✔Shared
✔✔1. Owner
2. End user
3. architect
4. electrical engineer
5. mechanical engineer
6. commissioning authority
7. controls contractor
8. mechanical contractor
9. electrical contractor
10. sheet metal contractor
11. TAB agency
12. General or construction manager
13. owners O&M staff - ✔✔Identify typical team member of the Cx Team.
✔✔1. commissioning starts at the inception of a building project during the pre-design
phase, and continues through the post-acceptance phase.
2. provides an opportunity to cultivate a quality management focus among all design
and construction team members as they become involved with the project -
✔✔Comprehensive Commissioning
✔✔Chapter 5 - ✔✔Which Chapter of the ACG guideline identifies detailed methodology
for Comprehensive HVAC Commissioning?
✔✔Pre-design
Design
Construction
Acceptance
Post Acceptance - ✔✔What are the Comprehensive Commissioning phases?
✔✔1. Commissioning established as integral part of project
2. The owner selects the commissioning authority
3. Develop the scope of commissioning
,4. Commissioning authority reviews design intent document - ✔✔Comprehensive
Commissioning: Pre-design phase
✔✔1. Review design to ensure it accommodates commissioning
2. Write commissioning specifications defining contractor
responsibilities
3. Commissioning authority writes the commissioning plan
4. Establish the project schedule - ✔✔Comprehensive Commissioning Design phase
✔✔1. Commissioning authority reviews contractor submittals
2. Commissioning authority updates commissioning plan
3. Commissioning process is coordinated—through project
schedule, commissioning plan and commissioning plan
and commissioning meetings
4. Carry out and document system verification checks
5. Carry out the document equipment and system start-ups
6. TAB agency completes and documents TAB work - ✔✔Comprehensive
Commissioning Construction phase
✔✔1. Carry out FPTs on all HVAC systems
2. Train the O&M staff for effective, ongoing operations and maintenance of all systems
3. Provide full documentation - ✔✔Comprehensive Commissioning Acceptance phase
✔✔1. Correct any deficiencies, carry out required re-testing
2. Carry out any required "off-season" tests
3. Update documentation as required - ✔✔Comprehensive Commissioning Post-
Acceptance phase
✔✔ - ✔✔Identify the Comprehensive HVAC commissioning organizational structure for
Plan & Spec
✔✔1. Authority leads the commissioning process, and works
cooperatively with the designers and contractors, but always in the owner's interest
2. Facilitates communication and coordination among designers, contractors and
suppliers. - ✔✔During commissioning what statements identify the CxA's role?
✔✔ - ✔✔Identify the Comprehensive HVAC commissioning organizational structure for
Design Build
✔✔The Owner - ✔✔If the project uses the traditional plan and spec process, the
commissioning authority will typically report directly to who?
✔✔Takes place during the construction,
, acceptance and post-acceptance phases of the project. - ✔✔Define Construction HVAC
Commissioning—New Construction.
✔✔Chapter 6 - ✔✔Which Chapter of the ACG guideline identifies detailed methodology
for Contruction HVAC Commissioning?
✔✔1. Eliminates the pre-design and design phase planning and preparation included in
Comprehensive HVAC Commissioning.
2. Negative impact on commissioning effectiveness, and produces very little cost
savings.
3. Contractor has little or no advance warning that Cx will occur.
4. Commissioning authority has minimal time to plan and coordinate the commissioning
process before system start-ups are scheduled. - ✔✔What are the negative
consequences of Construction HVAC Cx?
✔✔Construction
Acceptance
Post-Acceptance - ✔✔What are the Construction HVAC Commissioning phases?
✔✔■ Identify commissioning scope; develop commissioning
test details
■ Commissioning authority reviews contractor submittals
■ Coordinate commissioning process—through commissioning plan, commissioning
meeting and schedule
■ Carry out and document system verifi cation checks
■ Observe and document equipment and system start-ups
■ TAB agency completes and documents test and balance
work - ✔✔Construction HVAC Commissioning Construction phase
✔✔■ Carry out and document functional performance tests
■ Verify reported TAB results
■ Train O&M staff
■ Submit final commissioning report - ✔✔Construction HVAC Commissioning
Acceptance phase
✔✔■ Carry out and document any required "off season" functional performance tests
■ Revise and submit final commissioning report, if required - ✔✔Construction HVAC
Commissioning Post-Acceptance phase
✔✔ - ✔✔Identify the Construction HVAC commissioning organizational structure for
Plan & Spec.
✔✔1. Periodic re-commissioning
2. Retro-commissioning
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Who is responsible for Post-Acceptance Phase Monitor Warranty Issues Work -
✔✔CxT
✔✔Who is responsible for Post-Acceptance Phase Cx Report/Addendums - ✔✔CxA
✔✔Who is responsible for Post-Acceptance Phase Attend 11th Month Review -
✔✔Shared
✔✔1. Owner
2. End user
3. architect
4. electrical engineer
5. mechanical engineer
6. commissioning authority
7. controls contractor
8. mechanical contractor
9. electrical contractor
10. sheet metal contractor
11. TAB agency
12. General or construction manager
13. owners O&M staff - ✔✔Identify typical team member of the Cx Team.
✔✔1. commissioning starts at the inception of a building project during the pre-design
phase, and continues through the post-acceptance phase.
2. provides an opportunity to cultivate a quality management focus among all design
and construction team members as they become involved with the project -
✔✔Comprehensive Commissioning
✔✔Chapter 5 - ✔✔Which Chapter of the ACG guideline identifies detailed methodology
for Comprehensive HVAC Commissioning?
✔✔Pre-design
Design
Construction
Acceptance
Post Acceptance - ✔✔What are the Comprehensive Commissioning phases?
✔✔1. Commissioning established as integral part of project
2. The owner selects the commissioning authority
3. Develop the scope of commissioning
,4. Commissioning authority reviews design intent document - ✔✔Comprehensive
Commissioning: Pre-design phase
✔✔1. Review design to ensure it accommodates commissioning
2. Write commissioning specifications defining contractor
responsibilities
3. Commissioning authority writes the commissioning plan
4. Establish the project schedule - ✔✔Comprehensive Commissioning Design phase
✔✔1. Commissioning authority reviews contractor submittals
2. Commissioning authority updates commissioning plan
3. Commissioning process is coordinated—through project
schedule, commissioning plan and commissioning plan
and commissioning meetings
4. Carry out and document system verification checks
5. Carry out the document equipment and system start-ups
6. TAB agency completes and documents TAB work - ✔✔Comprehensive
Commissioning Construction phase
✔✔1. Carry out FPTs on all HVAC systems
2. Train the O&M staff for effective, ongoing operations and maintenance of all systems
3. Provide full documentation - ✔✔Comprehensive Commissioning Acceptance phase
✔✔1. Correct any deficiencies, carry out required re-testing
2. Carry out any required "off-season" tests
3. Update documentation as required - ✔✔Comprehensive Commissioning Post-
Acceptance phase
✔✔ - ✔✔Identify the Comprehensive HVAC commissioning organizational structure for
Plan & Spec
✔✔1. Authority leads the commissioning process, and works
cooperatively with the designers and contractors, but always in the owner's interest
2. Facilitates communication and coordination among designers, contractors and
suppliers. - ✔✔During commissioning what statements identify the CxA's role?
✔✔ - ✔✔Identify the Comprehensive HVAC commissioning organizational structure for
Design Build
✔✔The Owner - ✔✔If the project uses the traditional plan and spec process, the
commissioning authority will typically report directly to who?
✔✔Takes place during the construction,
, acceptance and post-acceptance phases of the project. - ✔✔Define Construction HVAC
Commissioning—New Construction.
✔✔Chapter 6 - ✔✔Which Chapter of the ACG guideline identifies detailed methodology
for Contruction HVAC Commissioning?
✔✔1. Eliminates the pre-design and design phase planning and preparation included in
Comprehensive HVAC Commissioning.
2. Negative impact on commissioning effectiveness, and produces very little cost
savings.
3. Contractor has little or no advance warning that Cx will occur.
4. Commissioning authority has minimal time to plan and coordinate the commissioning
process before system start-ups are scheduled. - ✔✔What are the negative
consequences of Construction HVAC Cx?
✔✔Construction
Acceptance
Post-Acceptance - ✔✔What are the Construction HVAC Commissioning phases?
✔✔■ Identify commissioning scope; develop commissioning
test details
■ Commissioning authority reviews contractor submittals
■ Coordinate commissioning process—through commissioning plan, commissioning
meeting and schedule
■ Carry out and document system verifi cation checks
■ Observe and document equipment and system start-ups
■ TAB agency completes and documents test and balance
work - ✔✔Construction HVAC Commissioning Construction phase
✔✔■ Carry out and document functional performance tests
■ Verify reported TAB results
■ Train O&M staff
■ Submit final commissioning report - ✔✔Construction HVAC Commissioning
Acceptance phase
✔✔■ Carry out and document any required "off season" functional performance tests
■ Revise and submit final commissioning report, if required - ✔✔Construction HVAC
Commissioning Post-Acceptance phase
✔✔ - ✔✔Identify the Construction HVAC commissioning organizational structure for
Plan & Spec.
✔✔1. Periodic re-commissioning
2. Retro-commissioning
