NCIDQ Practicum Exam | Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Updated &Verified |
2024-2025 | 100% Score
Net Area/Net Assignable Area - ✔✔The actual area required by a client to accommodate specified
functions. Includes interior walls and building columns. DOES NOT include corridor circulation, closets,
etc.
Efficiency Factor - ✔✔Also called "Circulation Area". It is the ratio of enclosed spaces (offices) to open
spaces (workstations).
Circulation Area= NSF/ Circulation Multiplier
Useable Area (USF) - ✔✔Also called the "occupant area" and excludes building core and common space.
USF = NSF + Efficiency Factor
Rentable Area (RSF) - ✔✔RSF = GSF x Building Load Factor
Gross Area (GSF) - ✔✔GSF = NSF / Efficiency Factor
Occupancy Classification - ✔✔Is the formal designation of the primary purpose of the building. There
are 10 total:
1. Assembly
2. Business
3. Educational
4. Factory and industrial (not on exam)
5. High-hazard ( not on exam
6. Institutional
7. Mercantile
8. Residential
,9. Storage
10. Utility and Miscellaneous (not on exam)
Assembly Group A-2 - ✔✔- food / drink consumption
- banquet halls
- casinos
- nightclubs
- restaurants
- cafeterias
- commercial kitchens in a restaurant
- bars
Assembly Group A-3 - ✔✔- amusement arcades
- art galleries
- bowling alleys
- community halls
- courtrooms
- dance halls
- exhibition halls
- funeral parlour's
- public greenhouses
- libraries
- places of worship
- transportation waiting areas
Business Group B - ✔✔- offices
- banks
- storage of records and accounts
- outpatient clinic
, - professional and service transactions
*educational occupancies students above 12th grade
*food processing or a commercial kitchen NOT in a restaurant
*assembly occupant load less than 50 ppl and is accessory to another occupancy.
*Space less than 750 sq ft and accessory to another occupancy.
Institutional Group I - ✔✔- hospital
- jail
Uses intended in which people are cared for or live in a supervised environment, having physical
limitations because of health or age are harbored for medical treatment or other care or treatment or in
which the liberty of the occupants is restricted.
Mercantile Group M - ✔✔- department stores
- drug store
- markets
- greenhouses plant sales
- gas-stations
- retail stores
- wholesale
- sale rooms
use of building/structure for the display/sale of merchandise and involves stocks of goods, wares or
merchandise
Residential Group R-1 - ✔✔- hotel or motel
Uses intended for sleeping purposes. Occupants are transient in nature and visiting.
2024-2025 | 100% Score
Net Area/Net Assignable Area - ✔✔The actual area required by a client to accommodate specified
functions. Includes interior walls and building columns. DOES NOT include corridor circulation, closets,
etc.
Efficiency Factor - ✔✔Also called "Circulation Area". It is the ratio of enclosed spaces (offices) to open
spaces (workstations).
Circulation Area= NSF/ Circulation Multiplier
Useable Area (USF) - ✔✔Also called the "occupant area" and excludes building core and common space.
USF = NSF + Efficiency Factor
Rentable Area (RSF) - ✔✔RSF = GSF x Building Load Factor
Gross Area (GSF) - ✔✔GSF = NSF / Efficiency Factor
Occupancy Classification - ✔✔Is the formal designation of the primary purpose of the building. There
are 10 total:
1. Assembly
2. Business
3. Educational
4. Factory and industrial (not on exam)
5. High-hazard ( not on exam
6. Institutional
7. Mercantile
8. Residential
,9. Storage
10. Utility and Miscellaneous (not on exam)
Assembly Group A-2 - ✔✔- food / drink consumption
- banquet halls
- casinos
- nightclubs
- restaurants
- cafeterias
- commercial kitchens in a restaurant
- bars
Assembly Group A-3 - ✔✔- amusement arcades
- art galleries
- bowling alleys
- community halls
- courtrooms
- dance halls
- exhibition halls
- funeral parlour's
- public greenhouses
- libraries
- places of worship
- transportation waiting areas
Business Group B - ✔✔- offices
- banks
- storage of records and accounts
- outpatient clinic
, - professional and service transactions
*educational occupancies students above 12th grade
*food processing or a commercial kitchen NOT in a restaurant
*assembly occupant load less than 50 ppl and is accessory to another occupancy.
*Space less than 750 sq ft and accessory to another occupancy.
Institutional Group I - ✔✔- hospital
- jail
Uses intended in which people are cared for or live in a supervised environment, having physical
limitations because of health or age are harbored for medical treatment or other care or treatment or in
which the liberty of the occupants is restricted.
Mercantile Group M - ✔✔- department stores
- drug store
- markets
- greenhouses plant sales
- gas-stations
- retail stores
- wholesale
- sale rooms
use of building/structure for the display/sale of merchandise and involves stocks of goods, wares or
merchandise
Residential Group R-1 - ✔✔- hotel or motel
Uses intended for sleeping purposes. Occupants are transient in nature and visiting.
