DBIA EXAM 500 FINAL PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ criteria documents.
Answer: describe the end result
◉ bridging documents.
Answer: prescribes how to achieve the end result
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ functional requirement.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ criteria documents.
Answer: describe the end result
◉ bridging documents.
Answer: prescribes how to achieve the end result
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ 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
◉ functional requirement.
