AIC EXAM #2 | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+

1 AIC EXAM #2 | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ What is the name of the law principle for referring the Contractor to other documents that are not contained in the package provided? Correct Answer: Incorporated by Reference. Which document issued by the Architect illustrates what is to be built? Correct Answer: Plans Which document describes quality of work and the quality of the materials and the construction execution procedures? Correct Answer: Technical Specifications. Which document specifies the temporary facilities needed on a project? Correct Answer: General Requirements. Which document specifies the Regulations required such as soil erosion or minorities? Correct Answer: General Requirements. 2 Which document describes the duties and responsibilities of each party and the business procedures for administering the contract? Correct Answer: General Conditions Which of the following documents are submitted by the Contractor at bid opening? Correct Answer: Proposal Form, Bid Breakdown, Addendum, Bid Bond & Noncollusive Affidavit. Which document requests that additional information be submitted by the bidder within 48 hours of bid opening? Correct Answer: Proposal Supplements Which document applies to the Contractor and the Subcontractors and describes the administrative, procedural and temporary procedures on the job site? Correct Answer: General Requirements What types of projects establish prevailing wage rates? Correct Answer: Federally Funded Projects Which of the following documents is normally incorporated by reference? Correct Answer: General Conditions 3 Which document describes the business procedures for a specific project and they change the initial procedures? Correct Answer: Supplementary Conditions Which document is submitted to the Owner for bid consideration before the Contractor can receive the bidding documents? Correct Answer: Pre-qualification Forms. Which document makes changes, modifications and corrections prior to bid opening? Correct Answer: Addenda Which document specifies the existing soil conditions? Correct Answer: Information Available to Bidders Which document establishes the forms, content and procedures for submitting the bid proposals? Correct Answer: Instructions to Bidders Which document establishes the labor rates on a project? Correct Answer: Prevailing Wage Rate Schedule Which document is submitted by each bidder stating that their bid was arrived at without any conferring with other prime bidders? Correct Answer: Noncollusive Affidavit 4 Which document contains a description of the alternate(s)? Correct Answer: General Requirements What is the term called which requires all Bidders to include in their bid a specified amount or unit price for a particular item? Correct Answer: Cash Allowance Which of the following systems is designed to restrain horizontal temporary loads such as soil and water? Correct Answer: Sheet Piling Which piece of equipment and attachment would be the most efficient method to excavate inside a cofferdam? Correct Answer: Crane with a Clamshell attachment. What is another name for Sheeting? Correct Answer: Uprights What is the concrete pouring method called that is used to pour concrete under water? Correct Answer: Tremie Which party is normally responsible for estimating and pricing the temporary structures? 5 Correct Answer: Contractor What is a toe in relationship to a Cofferdam? Correct Answer: The vertical sheeting extended below the bottom of the excavation at least 2 feet. Assume you are lifting an item onto the bridge deck. The Deck is 27 feet above the ground and the horizontal distance from the centerline of the rotation is 40 feet. What is the minimum boom angle? Correct Answer: 57 degrees What is the primary cause for a masonry wall to collapse while under construction? Correct Answer: Lack of masonry wall bracing and a change in wind conditions. What is the working range of a Lift Crane? Correct Answer: 55 - 80 degrees Which piece of equipment is used to excavate ponds or soil under water? Correct Answer: Dragline. Assume you are lifting an item onto the bridge deck. The deck is 37 feet above the ground and the horizontal distance from the centerline of the rotation is 70 feet. What is the minimum boom angle? Correct Answer: 57 degrees 6 Which party is normally responsible for designing the temporary structures? Correct Answer: Contractor Which piece of equipment has its boom above the structure and it lifts the load vertically until it is above the structure, then it can move the load horizontally? Correct Answer: Tower Crane What is the lifting system called which consists of two vertical towers with a cross beam on top with the intended purpose of lifting an unusually long piece of equipment which was transported horizontally and it is lifted into its permanent vertical position? Correct Answer: Jin Pole Which of the following temporary systems is utilized to support freshly placed concrete which is poured on the ground as a slab and lifted up to its final horizontal elevation using hydraulic jacks? Correct Answer: Lift slab form system What is the working range of a Clam Shell? Correct Answer: 40 - 54 degrees Which of the following temporary systems is utilized to support freshly placed concrete which is poured continuously in a vertical direction? Correct Answer: Slip form system. 7 What is the working range of a Dragline? Correct Answer: 25 - 39 degrees What does "close sheeting" mean in relationship to a shoring system? Correct Answer: The spacing between timber planks not to exceed ½ inch. Which piece of equipment is most efficient for compacting granular soils such as sand, gravel, and crushed stone? Correct Answer: Smooth-Wheel Roller. In construction, what is the proper terminology for transporting the off road equipment to the job site? Correct Answer: Mobilization Which of the following systems is utilized for supporting an existing structure when the new excavation will be below the existing structures foundation while the extension to the existing foundation is being placed? Correct Answer: Underpinning Assume you are lifting an item onto the roof. The Height of the exterior wall is 27 Feet above the ground and the horizontal distance from the centerline of the rotation is 40 feet. What is the minimum length of the boom required? Correct Answer: 70 Feet. 8 Which of the following systems is utilized for restraining a vertical wall of soil and other loads where it is impractical to slope the soil such as in a downtown area where the excavation and new substructure are below the street level? Correct Answer: Cribbing and Tie-backs. Assume you are lifting an item onto the bridge deck. The deck is 37 feet above the ground and the horizontal distance from the centerline of the rotation is 70 feet. What is the minimum length of the boom required? Correct Answer: 120 Feet. What are the components of a cofferdam or a support system? Correct Answer: Sheeting, Wales, and Cross braces. According to the OSHA Construction Safety Standards, what is required for shoring systems more than 20 feet deep? Correct Answer: The Registered Professional Engineer shall design the protection system Which piece of equipment sets below the excavation and the bucket pushes up? Correct Answer: Power Shovel. Which of the following systems is designed to carry the vertical load of the structure? Correct Answer: Piling. 9 Which of the following systems is designed as an enclosed structure to restrain soil and water, therefore, allowing workers to work inside safely? Correct Answer: Cofferdam. Refer to chart PUC 1. What is the Total Crew Cost per day? Correct Answer: $1,423.36 Refer to chart PUC 1. What is the productivity rate in S.F.C.A. per Workhour? Correct Answer: 9.083 Refer to chart PUC 1. How many days (whole) are required to install 12,000 S.F.C.A.? Correct Answer: 22 What does the Means Book unit of measure abbreviation C stand for? Correct Answer: One hundred Refer to chart PUC 1. What is the Labor Cost per S.F.C.A. ($L/S.F.C.A.)? Correct Answer: $2.61 Refer to chart PUC 2. What is the Equipment Cost per Cubic Yard ($Eq/CY)? Correct Answer: $ 5.34 10 Refer to chart PUC 1. How many total crew workhours are expended per day? Correct Answer: 60 What does the Means book unit of measure abbreviation C.S.F. stand for? Correct Answer: One-hundred Square Feet. The plans call for you to purchase 4 x 4 - W2.9 x W 2.9 (6x6) of Welded Wire Fabric for a reinforced concrete bridge deck. The estimated quantity is 13,200 Square Feet (SF). The agreed upon purchase price is $18.30 per CSF. What is the Total Materials costs to purchase? Correct Answer: $2,415.60 Refer to chart PUC 1. What is the Productivity Rate expressed in Workhours per Unit (Whr/Unit)? Correct Answer: 00.110 What does the Means Book unit of measure abbreviation V.L.F. stand for? Correct Answer: Vertical Lineal Feet What does the Means Book unit of measure abbreviation S.F.C.A. stand for? Correct Answer: Square Feet Contact Area. What does the Means Book unit of measure abbreviation Sq. stand for? Correct Answer: One Hundred Square Feet. 11 What does the Means book unit of measure abbreviation M.B.F. stand for? Correct Answer: One-thousand Board Feet. Refer to chart PUC 1. How many total workhours are required to install 12,000 S.F.C.A.? Correct Answer: 1,320 Refer to chart PUC 1. What is the Total Labor Cost for installing the 12,000 S.F.C.A.? Correct Answer: $31,320.00 What are the agreed upon terms and conditions on a purchase order? Correct Answer: Material prices and merchant warranty. A clause in the Subcontract Agreement reads that "a Subcontractor binds themselves to the Contractor for the performance of the Subcontractor's Work in the Same manner as the Contractor is bound to the Owner for such performance under Contractor's contract with the Owner". What is the name of this clause? Correct Answer: Flow down. If the Shipping terms are FOB JOBSITE, which parties is the Bill of Lading between? Correct Answer: Common carrier and the vendor 12 Which of the following terms is used to refer to the complete process of obtaining materials? Correct Answer: Procurement If Damages should occur during shipment of construction materials and the terms on the Bill of Lading are FOB Factory, who would be required to recover the loss from the common carrier? Correct Answer: Purchaser. Which document is used to request payment for materials? Correct Answer: Invoice What is the name of the law principle that allows the Contractor to receive an oral or a printed quotation and then incorporate this price quotation into their bid proposal to the Owner and if awarded the prime contract they can hold the subcontractor to their quotation? Correct Answer: Promissory Estoppel The terms on the purchase order indicate F.O.B. Factory, at which point does the responsibility for the goods change? Correct Answer: Passes at time of pickup by carrier What is the primary difference in contract formation between a Subcontract Agreement and a Purchase Order? 13 Correct Answer: Meeting of the minds exists in a Subcontract but not in a Purchase Order. Which of the following descriptions defines the term 2/10 Net 30? Correct Answer: 2% discount can be deducted if paid within 10 days of the invoice date. Full payment due in thirty days. During what phase of a project must the Contractor provide the Subcontractor Agreement to the Subcontractor to avoid the subcontractor from refusing to sign an agreement that they have not seen? Correct Answer: During the bidding phase of the project. The UCC establishes basic rules governing the sale of goods used to establish a Purchase Order. What does UCC stand for? Correct Answer: Uniform Commercial Code The contractural agreement between a shipper and a common carrier to move material from location A to location B for a specified price is called __________. Correct Answer: Bill of Lading Which of the following documents is used internally to request the contractor's purchasing department to obtain the prices for the materials needed for a project? Correct Answer: Purchase Requisition. Which of the following are the best steps of a good material receiving procedure? 14 Correct Answer: Inspect delivery, note damages, count items and compare to the bill of lading For labor services to be considered under the formation principles, which form shall they be placed on? Correct Answer: Subcontract Agreement What is the term called when a prime contractor has a subcontractors bid, but approaches another subcontractor and asks them to give them a lower price? Correct Answer: Bid Shopping. Which of the following items must never be agreed upon utilizing a form titled Purchase Order? Correct Answer: Labor Which of the clauses below is considered a Condition Precedent? Correct Answer: The Sub will be paid when the Contractor is paid Which of the following documents is used to request materials from the contractors storage bins? Correct Answer: Stock requisition Assume that you are utilizing the verbiage Purchaser and Supplier in the terms and conditions of the contract. How will the courts interpret this type of contract? 15 Correct Answer: Sale of Goods contract The Vendor has quoted you a price of $9,270 COD for an item. Which of the following is this price quote telling you? Correct Answer: The $9,270 shipping will be collected by the carrier on delivery by the buyer Which test is most commonly used to determine if a contract is predominantly for services or for the sale of goods? Correct Answer: Predominate Thrust Test. Refer to chart WSPM 1. Approximately how many total board feet (BF) for all of the cofferdam components including the waste? Correct Answer: 25,565 Refer to chart WSPM 1. How many total vertical lineal feet (VLF) of sheet piling? Correct Answer: 3,848 Refer to chart WSPM 2. What is the Total Lumber Cost allocated to this project? Correct Answer: $2,420 Refer to chart WSPM 2. Approximately how many pounds of nails are required? Correct Answer: 443 16 Refer to chart WSPM 2. Assume the Total Material Costs for the Cofferdam above is $17,000 and using the information provided above. What is the Material Unit Costs per Vertical Lineal Feet ($M/VLF)? Correct Answer: $3.09 Refer to chart WSPM 1. How many total square feet of contact area (S.F.C.A.) Is required for the sheet piling? Correct Answer: 4,160 Refer to chart EPUC 2. What is the true (Actual) output for the Backhoe in Cubic Yards per hour? Correct Answer: 176.06 The Vibrating Plate is 24" wide and 26" long. The vibrating plate moves at 35 feet per minute (FPM) working a 45 minute hour and 95% modified Proctor Density is developed after 3 passes for the 6 inch lifts. What is the production rate in Cubic Yards per hour for the vibrating plate? Correct Answer: 19.44 Refer to chart EPUC 2. How many Bucket cycles per hour can the backhoe complete? Correct Answer: 156.5 Refer to chart EPUC 1. Given that the 1.5 CY Hydraulic Backhoe will load at rate of 80 CY/hr and the Trucks will Haul 10 CY per load to the Disposal Site 12 Miles Away. The Trucks will h Average 35 Miles per Hour (MPH) Loaded and 45 MPH Empty. Assume 17 the truck Unload Time is 6 minutes. What is the truck round trip cycle time in hours (decimal of an hour)? Correct Answer: 0.835 Refer to chart EPUC 1. Assume that the round trip time is .266. How many Round Trips per hour for one-truck? Correct Answer: 3.759 Refer to chart EPUC 1. What is the backhoe Equipment Cost per Cubic Yard? Correct Answer: $0.71 Refer to chart EPUC 3. The Steel Drum Roller Compactor moves at 2 Miles per Hour working a 50 minute hour and 95% Proctor Density is developed after 8 passes for the 6 inch lifts. What is the true (Actual) Production rate in Cubic Yards per Hour? Correct Answer: 81.480 Refer to chart EPUC 2. What is the (Theoretical) Production Rate for the Backhoe in Cubic Yards per hour? Correct Answer: 234.75 Refer to chart EPUC 1. Assume you are going to utilize 9 trucks. What is the Hauling Equipment Cost per Cubic Yard? Correct Answer: $2.56 18 Refer to chart EPUC 1. What is the Labor cost per CY ($L/CY) to HAUL using 6 trucks Drivers needed to keep the Backhoe productive including payroll burden? Correct Answer: $0.83 Refer to chart EPUC 1. Assume that the round trips per hour for one truck is 1.197 Trips per hour. How many whole Trucks are needed to keep the Backhoe working efficiently? Correct Answer: 7 Refer to chart EPUC 1. What is the Labor cost per CY ($L/CY) to EXCAVATE including Payroll Burden? Correct Answer: $0.51 The welders have associated themselves with numerous trades and they have taken on their trade name. Which of the following crafts are the welders associated with? Correct Answer: Ironworkers, Boilermakers and Pipe Fitters. Which trade operates the motorized concrete buggies? Correct Answer: Laborer Which trade seals the head and butt joints for the drywall on a commercial project? Correct Answer: Taper Which of the following trades Fits, Aligns & Installs Drain, Waste and Vent Piping? Correct Answer: Plumber 19 Which position typically plans the sequence of daily construction operations? Correct Answer: Superintendent Which position typically draws the logical sequences and calculates the activity days? Correct Answer: Planning Engineer Which trade Pours, Finishes and polishes floors to bring out the marble chips? Correct Answer: Terrazzo Worker Which trade ties and places the rebar? Correct Answer: Rod Busters Which position typically performs surveying and dimensional layouts for the structure? Correct Answer: Project Engineer Which party typically obtains the building permits? Correct Answer: Project Manager Which trade welds the high pressure process piping? Correct Answer: Pipe Fitter Welder Which duties change as a person moves up an organizational chart? 20 Correct Answer: Analysis skills increase and their communication skills increase Which trade lubricates the construction equipment? Correct Answer: Oiler Which trade applies heat resistant materials to structural steel and sprays refractory material on the inside of steel Boilers and High Pressure Vessels or Tanks? Correct Answer: Fireproofer Which position typically develops and analyzes the weekly cost productivity reports? Correct Answer: Cost Engineer Which trade installs windows, doors, and finish materials? Correct Answer: Carpenters What are the components of a job-built boiler that the Boilermaker will assemble together? Correct Answer: Sets structural steel sides, assembles piping, welds water tubes, and sets pumps. Typically, the authority and responsibility for the completion of the project within the contract time and costs falls on the ____________? Correct Answer: Project Manager 21 Which positions typically plans sequence of daily constructionu operations, coordinates subontractors, and conducts safety inspections? Correct Answer: Superintendent Which trade operates equipment to place the Steel Sheet Piling? Correct Answer: Pile Driver What to the vertical lines on an organizational chart with various positions indicate? Correct Answer: Authority and Position Which trade cuts and installs anes of glass in store fronts and glass curtain walls? Correct Answer: Glazier Which position typically develops project logic network and calculates activity duration for construction activities? Correct Answer: Planning and Scheduling Engineer Which position typically completes the time card? Correct Answer: Crew Leader Which trade assembles structural steel for tanks, vats, and pressure vessels? Correct Answer: Boilermakers 22 Which party typically develops the overhead costs and reviews subcontractors bids? Correct Answer: Estimators Which trade installs low Voltage intercom & security systems? Correct Answer: Communications Electrician Which trade applies stucco to the outside of the building? Correct Answer: Plasterer Which trade does the layout, cut and erect formwork? Correct Answer: Carpenters Which of the following activities does a Millwright Perform? Correct Answer: Assembles and aligns rotating equipment Which trade Installs piping and equipment for the fire protection system? Correct Answer: Sprinkler Fitter Which of the following trades installs and calibrates pressure and flow gauges? Correct Answer: Instrumentation Fitter Which trade erects jin poles for making heavy lifts, assembles cranes and attaches slings to the loads for the crane to lift? 23 Correct Answer: Rigger Which of the following trades Fabricates and Erects Air Distribution Duct Work? Correct Answer: Sheet Metal Workers Which trade assembles and aligns the underground pipe outside the structure? Correct Answer: Pipe Layer Given the Cut/fill Calculations for Grid Y below, What is the Fill Volume? Correct Answer: 52.73 Use the 45 feet by 52 feet L-shaped EXCAVATION PROBLEM PLAN AND THE EXCAVATION PROBLEM DETAIL Attached. Assume that the working space is 4 feet. How many the Cubic Yards (CY) of Working Space Excavation must be excavated? Assume buiding excavation depth of 10.00'. Correct Answer: 311.11 Using a Wet Sand and the Modified Proctor method, What is the shrinkage factor? Correct Answer: 1.12 Use the Trench information. The Trench is 300 Feet long and its starts 5 Feet below grade at the building and slopes downward 1/8 inch per Foot away from the building. The pipe is a 12 inch diameter Reinforced Concrete pipe. What is the Depth at the other end of the pipe in feet? 24 Correct Answer: 8.125 Refer to the Topography. What is the Net Result of the Cut/Fill in the South West corner? Correct Answer: F - 0.25 Use the 45 feet by 52 feet L-shaped EXCAVATION PROBLEM PLAN AND THE EXCAVATION PROBLEM DETAIL Attached. What is the Total depth of the cut in Feet for the Building Excavation? Correct Answer: 8.75 Use the 45 feet by 52 feet L-shaped EXCAVATION PROBLEM PLAN AND THE EXCAVATION PROBLEM DETAIL Attached. How many Cubic Yards (CY) of Building Excavation must be excavated? Assume depth of excavation at 9'-3". Correct Answer: 588.06 Use the 45 feet by 52 feet L-shaped EXCAVATION PROBLEM PLAN AND THE EXCAVATION PROBLEM DETAIL Attached. Assume that the excavation is for a Compacted Sharp Sand Damp. How many Cubic Yards (CY) of excavation for the Angle of repose? Do not consider the corners and use 8.92' for depth of excavation and 4' for work space. Correct Answer: 464.12 What does Building Excavation mean? Correct Answer: Excavation to the bottom of the compacted fill under the floor. 25 What is the shrinkage percentage for a Compacted Modified Sand Damp? Correct Answer: 10.8 GIVEN: Assume the lot size is 70' X 95' Topsoil is to be removed to a depth of 7". How many Cubic Yards of topsoil must be excavated? Correct Answer: 143.7 Use the Trench information. The Angle of repose is 9.25 feet (Run): 6.17 feet (rise). How many cubic yards of Trench excavation must be excavated for the Angle of Repose? Correct Answer: 634.14 Assume the depth of the excavation is 18' and the soil is a Compacted Angular Gravel. What is the Run dimension in feet for the angle of repose? Correct Answer: 9.00 Use the Trench information. Using the width of a trench for a 12 inch pipe and the average depth is 6'-9" deep, how many Cubic Yards of Trench Excavation with vertical walls must be excavated? Correct Answer: 225.00 Assume the depth of the excavation is 12' and the soil is a Compacted Sharp Sand. What is the Run dimension in feet for the angle of repose? Correct Answer: 18.00 26 Use the Trench information. Assume the bottom of the excavation is 9.40' What is the Average Depth of the Excavation? Correct Answer: 7.20 Assume the depth of the excavation is 12' and the soil is a Firm Clay. What is the Run dimension in feet for the angle of repose? Correct Answer: 8.04 Given the cut fill grid calculations for grid Y, calculate the cut volume. Correct Answer: 78.77 Refer to the Topography. Looking at the existing elevations on the topography, which direction will the water flow towards? Correct Answer: NW Using the EXCAVATION TABLES. What is the swell percentage using damp sand? Correct Answer: 13.41% Given the bond premium table, What is the Bond Premium for a $2,755,000 Project? First $ 500,000 $12.00 per M. Next $ 2,000,000 $6,000 plus $7.25 per M. Next $ 2,500,000 $20,500 plus $5.75 per M. Correct Answer: $21,966 27 What are the financial obligations of the Contractor if the Payment Bond is invoked? Correct Answer: Pay the Surety for the face value of the bond plus all other expenses incurred. What does the Surety do if a bond is invoked? Correct Answer: Pay the Owner the bond face value, then sues the contractor for face value plus. Which party invokes a bond? Correct Answer: Owner. Which party backs the face value of the Bonds? Correct Answer: Surety Which documents must be submitted to the Owner from the Contractor at the signing of the Owner-Contractor Agreement? Correct Answer: Performance Bond, Payment Bond and Insurance Certificates. Which document specifies the time frame for submitting the contract bonds & insurance? Correct Answer: Instructions to Bidders Which document guarantees to the Owner that all third parties will be paid or else the Bond will be invoked? 28 Correct Answer: Labor/Material Bond. Which document guarantees to the Owner that the successful Contractor will sign a contract? Correct Answer: Bid Bond. The Contractor submits a bid for $1,303,071 with the appropriate forms. They receive a Notice of Award letter indicating that their bid has been selected. The Contractor decides not to accept the contract. Will the Contractor lose anything? Correct Answer: Yes, they will lose the amount of their Bid Bond Face Value Which document specifies the Bid Bond Percentage? Correct Answer: Instruction to Bidders Which period of time does the Bid Bond cover? Correct Answer: bid submittal until the signing of the agreement Which entity sets the worker's compensation manual rates? Correct Answer: State. What is the purpose of an EMR? Correct Answer: Adjust Workers Compensation Manual Rate to reflect a company 29 What does the abbreviation EMR stand for? Correct Answer: Experience Modification Rating Which of the following Insurance Coverage items are purchased as a Rider? Correct Answer: Broad Indemnify, Flood, Soil Erosion, Rail and Marine Workers Compensation. Which type of insurance that covers the Contractor assuming the liability of another party through a hold harmless clause? Correct Answer: Indemnification. What is the term that means "hold harmless clause" and it means that someone will assume the legal lialbility of another for certain events or risks, usually the contractor? Correct Answer: Indemnification Who does contingent liability cover? Correct Answer: Owner. Which type of insurance is needed because a 150-year rated rain storm has removed the structure from its foundation and it flows down the river? Correct Answer: Soil Erosion Which type of insurance covers injuries to workers employed at the job site? Correct Answer: Workers Compensation. 30 Which type of insurance covers workers being laid off from their job? Correct Answer: Unemployment. Which type of insurance covers injuries to persons not employed at the site but get injured passing by the site? Correct Answer: Public Liability. Which document contains the coverage amounts for the insurances for the project? Correct Answer: Supplementary Conditions. Which type fo insurance covers all parties and all risks under one unified insurance program and purchased by the owner? Correct Answer: Wrap up policy What is the PS 3 diagram method called? Correct Answer: Time-scaled Using PS 1, what is the total estimated time in days for the Design of the Rebar? Correct Answer: 94 Using PS 3, what detail is diplayed in letter "A"? Correct Answer: Activity Duration. 31 What determines the amount of the procurement sequence or "lead time" on an activity? Correct Answer: The amount of time from award bid to delivery at the site What is the primary reason that the courts disfavor a Bar Chart? Correct Answer: It does not display the interrelationship of activities or the activity floats How is Total float defined? Correct Answer: The amount of slack within a path (series) of activities. What is the total float for activity B? Correct Answer: 1 Using PS 3, what detail is displayed at letter "C"? Correct Answer: Activity Description How should the nodes on a logic network be numbered? Correct Answer: Separated by a minimum of five numbers. What is the float between activity C and G? Correct Answer: 0 32 What types of activities are considered first when shortening the length of a project? Correct Answer: Zero float and least cost How is the term fast tracking defined in construction? Correct Answer: Overlapping execution of the design, procurement and construction Use chart PS2 to answer the following question. Using the diagram method above, What detail is displayed at Letter D? Correct Answer: Late Finish How is Free float defined? Correct Answer: The amount of slack within an activity. Using PS 4, how many (whole) effective days to complete this entire sequence of activities? Correct Answer: 15 What is the name of the term called for shortening a logic network? Correct Answer: Crashing What is the name of the term for shifting the activities within their available free floats in order to produce a uniform work force and reduce the maximum resource usage requirements? Correct Answer: Resource Leveling 33 What is the best source for developing the activity descriptions for the logic network and schedule? Correct Answer: Technical Specifications Using PS 3, what does the vertical line with the arrowhead at "D" indicate? Correct Answer: Interrelationship. The next four questions deal with the logic network PS 5. What is the total number of days to complete this sequence of activities? Correct Answer: 14 Use chart PS2 to answer the following question. Using the diagram method above, What detail is displayed at Letter A? Correct Answer: Early Start Use chart PS2 to answer the following question. Using the diagram method above, What detail is displayed at Letter C? Correct Answer: Activity Duration Leadtimes are used to determine the estimated time durations for what type of activities? Correct Answer: Procurement Activities 34 Using PS 4, and assuming the interior and exterior walls both require bond beam lintels, joint reinforcement, and sawing of masonry; how many (whole) activity days are needed to complete the Interior Masonry? Correct Answer: 12 What are the critical activities for this network? Correct Answer: A, C, F, G Using PS 1, what is the total estimated days for the Rebar Leadtime? Correct Answer: 90 Use chart PS2 to answer the following question. Using the diagram method above, What detail is displayed at Letter B? Correct Answer: Activity Node Many times the contractor must indicate a sequence of activities as consecutive because of crews or equipment available, What is the term for this sequence called? Correct Answer: Restraints What is the term called that is a measure of its ability to cause turning, rotating, or twisting about an axis of rotation? Correct Answer: Moment What does the B-B designation plyform refer to? 35 Correct Answer: The front and back suface plies have a solid surface with smooth repair plugs. What is the stress term called that has the narrow dimension carrying the load with the fibers at the top in compression and the bottom fibers are in tension? Correct Answer: Extreme Fiber Bending (Fb) What is the term for a material that deforms slowly when a force is applied to it for an extended period of years, even though the force is too small to cause failure in a short period of time? Correct Answer: Creep Which of the follosing soft wood species used for structural lumber have the highest Fiber bending and Modulus of Elasticity (E) values? Correct Answer: Douglas Fir and Southern Yellow Pine What is the wood member called that is graded according to its load being carried on the cross section? Correct Answer: Posts and Timbers Assume you have a wooden beam that is 20 feet long and it carries a concentrated load of 500 pounds at a distance of 15 feet from Reaction (R2). Reaction (R1) is pinned 5 feet from the load. What are the values in lbs for R1and R2? Correct Answer: 375 and 125 36 What is the term called where the force tends to cause a member to fail by cutting perpendicular to the beam's longitudinal axis at or near the beam's supports? Correct Answer: Vertical Shear What is the wood member called that is graded according to its bending strength on its wider dimension which is 2-4 inches thick and at least 6 inches wide? Correct Answer: Planks What is the stress term called that is induced by the tendency for the upper fibers to slide over the lower fibers as a beam bends? Correct Answer: Horizontal Shear Parallel to the Grain (Fv//) Assume you have a beam that is 16 feet long and it carries a concentrated load of 900 pounds at a distance of 4 feet from R2. Reaction (R1) is pinned 12 feet from the load. Reaction R1=225 and R2=675. What is the maximum shear in lbs? Correct Answer: 675 What is the stress term called which is a measure of the stiffness or resistance to deflection? Correct Answer: Modulus of Elasticity (E) What is the wood member called that is graded according to its bending strength on its narrow edge which is at least 4 inches thick and at least 2 inches wider than they are thick? Correct Answer: Beams and Stringers 37 What is the stress term called in a wood frame structure which works in unison to support the load on the structure and allows part of the load from a weaker member to be distributed to adjacent members? Correct Answer: Extreme Fiber Bending (Fb) in Repetitive members What is the structural lumber grade used where straightness and strength are the most important consideration such as in concrete formwork? Correct Answer: Construction Grade Which of the following values is a typical number for the Modulus of Elasticity (E)? Correct Answer: 1,300,000 What is the stress term called that when the stress is induced by pulling apart in a longitudinal direction? Correct Answer: Tersion Parallel to the Grain (Ft//) Assume you have a beam that is 16 feet long and it carries a concentrated load of 900 pounds at a distance of 4 feet from R2. Reaction (R1) is pinned 12 feet from the load. Reaction R1=225 and R2=675 lbs. What is the maximum bending moment in lb-ft? Correct Answer: 2700 What is the wood member called that is graded according to its bending strength on its narrow edge which is 2-4 inches thick and at least 6 inches wide? Correct Answer: Joists 38 What is the stress term called that is induced by pressing the fiber together longitudinally on its cross section? Correct Answer: Compression Parallel to the Grain (Fc//) What is a contractor referred to as that defends the concept of the right of each contractor to decide the crew size, the job activities assigned and established their wages according to each individual's ability and performance? Correct Answer: Merit shop contractor What is the name of the illegal dispute between a contractor and a union that causes the employees of a neutral party to exert pressure on the contractor to settle called? Correct Answer: Secondary boycott In 1959 the Landrum-Griffin act was enacted, which party and what rules were enacted? Correct Answer: Union officials must report organization activities and finances to congress yearly. Which of the following activities creates a hostile work environment under the Sexual Harassment provisions? Correct Answer: Conduct which interferes with work performance. What is the correct name for the acronym DBE? Correct Answer: Disadvantaged Business Enterprises 39 The clause that is used by the union to prohibit the use of prefabricated products at the worksite is called Correct Answer: work preservation According to the Federal government regulations, What is the maximum number of days that a company has to submit the non United States Citizens form to the federal government? Correct Answer: 3 In 1932 the Norris-LaGuardia act was enacted, and it does all of the following EXCEPT: Correct Answer: It outlawed secondary boycotts that required a contractor to put pressure on another party to conform under the agreement. Which of the following posters describes the regulations for wage payment and hours of work for all industries and must be posted at the job site? Correct Answer: Fair Labor Standards What can be recovered by an individual from the officers or Managers of a company under the Civil Rights Act of 1991 if a manager is found guilty? Correct Answer: The manager can be held personally for awarded damages and lawyer fees. What is the name of the act that requires the contractor to pay prevailing wage rates on all federally funded projects? 40 Correct Answer: Davis-Bacon act. Which form must be completed by all non United States citizens? Correct Answer: I-9 What is the procedure established in the labor agreement that provides for meetings between successively higher levels of union-contractor management to resolve employee disputes without work stoppage called? Correct Answer: Grievance procedure What is a court order called that prohibits a union or contractor to stop certain activities? Correct Answer: Injunction What are the additional provisions that were ADDED by the 1991 Civil Rights Act to the existing employment discrimination law that allows employees to recover compensatory and punitive damages? Correct Answer: Emotional Pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, and loss of enjoyment The claims procedure that is defined as a third party establishing a binding decision as outlined in the contract is called Correct Answer: arbitration What is the purpose of the EEOC law? 41 Correct Answer: Prohibit discrimination against individuals due to race, sex, age. What is the correct name for the acronym EEOC? Correct Answer: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. What do the EEO, ADA and DBE laws have in Common? Correct Answer: Protection of individuals from employment discrimination In 1935 the Wagner act was enacted and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was formed, What type of disputes is the NLRB empowered to resolve? Correct Answer: Organized Labor-Contractor disputes In 1947 the Taft-Hartley act was enacted, Which party were unfair practices established against? Correct Answer: Union's management. What is the correct name for the acronym ADA? Correct Answer: American with Disabilities Act What is a dispute between two unions over work activities requiring the contractor to assign the work to one of the unions involved called? Correct Answer: Jurisdictional dispute 42 The 1947 Taft-Hartley act prohibited Featherbedding. What is featherbedding? Correct Answer: The practice of paying the union for services not performed. When hiring employees, Which form must they fill out requesting their marital status, number of exemptions and their social security number? Correct Answer: W-4 Use chart CP2 to answer the following question. What is the Budgeted Labor Unit Cost in Dollars per unit for the Concrete Footings? Correct Answer: 21.45 Use chart CP1 to answer the following question. What is the Budgeted Unit Workhours in Whr per Unit for the Column Forms? Correct Answer: 0.171 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the current projection for the Equipment costs at completion? Correct Answer: 16960 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the current projection for the labor costs at completion? Correct Answer: 11,960 43 Use chart CP1 to answer the following question. What is the Total Projected Workhours at Completion for the Column Forms? Correct Answer: 602 The budget calls for 40,000 Lineal Feet of lumber and the labor is budgeted at $26,000. The work completed to date is 8,000 Lineal Feet of lumber and the labor cost is $6,000. What is the projected total labor cost savings or labor cost overrun at completion? Correct Answer: $4,000 overrun Use chart CP2 to answer the following question. What is the projected gain or loss in Labor Dollars for the Concrete Footings? Correct Answer: 338.00 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is current projection for the quantities in Vertical Lineal Feet (VLF)? Correct Answer: 5980 Use chart CP2 to answer the following question. What is the Week Labor Unit Cost in Dollars per unit for the Concrete Footings? Correct Answer: 14.60 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the current projection for the subcontract costs at completion? Correct Answer: 7000 44 Use chart CP2 to answer the following question. What is the Total Projected Labor costs at Completion for the Concrete Footings? Correct Answer: 5150.72 The estimated cost of a project if built today is $4,000,000 and the costs are expected to rise 3.5 percent for the next 5 years. What will be the estimated cost if the project is built five years from now? Correct Answer: $4,750,745 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the current projection for the Workhours at completion? Correct Answer: 686 Use chart CP1 to answer the following question. What is the Weekly Unit Workhours in Whr per Unit for the Column Forms? Correct Answer: 0.195 Use chart CP1 to answer the following question. What is the projected gain or loss in Workhours for the Column Forms? Correct Answer: (174) Use chart CP1 to answer the following question. What is the To Date Unit Workhours in Whr per Unit for the Column Forms? Correct Answer: 0.241 45 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What are the projected workhours gain or loss? Correct Answer: (134) Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the total projected gain or loss? Correct Answer: (6363) Use chart CP2 to answer the following question. What is the To Date Labor Unit Cost in Dollars per unit for the Concrete Footings? Correct Answer: 20.12 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the projected labor cost gain or loss? Correct Answer: 2957 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the projected material cost gain or loss? Correct Answer: 0 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the current projection total costs at completion? Correct Answer: 76470 46 Use charts CP3 and CP4 to answer the following question. What is the current projection for the material costs at completion? Correct Answer: 40550 Use chart CP1 to answer the following question. What are the Total Earned Workhours for the Column Forms? Correct Answer: 19