ExAC – PROGRAMMING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
In what phase of a project is the program created? -
correct answer ✅Pre-design phase
Program is also called -
correct answer ✅Functional program, design brief, facilities
program, architectural program, owner's statement of
requirements, space needs analyses.
How to determine fees for programs? -
correct answer ✅Separately and not part of "basic services"
What is a functional program? -
correct answer ✅A written statement which describes various
criteria and data for a building project, including design objectives,
site requirements and constraints, spatial requirements and
relationships, building systems and equipment, and future
expandability.
Programming skills -
correct answer ✅Organizational behaviour, decision-
making,success measurement, future objectives, social
responsibility.
, ExAC – PROGRAMMING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
How to develop programming skills? -
correct answer ✅The social sciences, management sciences,
operations research, industrial engineering.
What are some programming techniques? -
correct answer ✅Research, observation (of the client's existing site
or workplace), interviews and direct consultation with end users of
the facility, public consultation, facilitation of focus groups,
questionnaires and surveys.
The amount of space required is determined from? -
correct answer ✅The number of people or pieces of equipment
that will occupy the spaces, the nature of the activity in the place.
The architect must understand what to create the program -
correct answer ✅The impacts of a building occupants and
processes in the built environment, the social impacts of its
program on the community, the planning impacts of its functions
on the local infrastructure.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
In what phase of a project is the program created? -
correct answer ✅Pre-design phase
Program is also called -
correct answer ✅Functional program, design brief, facilities
program, architectural program, owner's statement of
requirements, space needs analyses.
How to determine fees for programs? -
correct answer ✅Separately and not part of "basic services"
What is a functional program? -
correct answer ✅A written statement which describes various
criteria and data for a building project, including design objectives,
site requirements and constraints, spatial requirements and
relationships, building systems and equipment, and future
expandability.
Programming skills -
correct answer ✅Organizational behaviour, decision-
making,success measurement, future objectives, social
responsibility.
, ExAC – PROGRAMMING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
How to develop programming skills? -
correct answer ✅The social sciences, management sciences,
operations research, industrial engineering.
What are some programming techniques? -
correct answer ✅Research, observation (of the client's existing site
or workplace), interviews and direct consultation with end users of
the facility, public consultation, facilitation of focus groups,
questionnaires and surveys.
The amount of space required is determined from? -
correct answer ✅The number of people or pieces of equipment
that will occupy the spaces, the nature of the activity in the place.
The architect must understand what to create the program -
correct answer ✅The impacts of a building occupants and
processes in the built environment, the social impacts of its
program on the community, the planning impacts of its functions
on the local infrastructure.
