Practice questions for final exam – Real Estate, Urban Development and
Information Management (7U4X0)
2. Building Modeling Information
Q1. Which statement about the building industry is NOT supported by Eastman et al. or by statistical
data presented in the lecture?
a. The building industry is open to change, innovative in their processes and eager to adopt
new technologies.
b. Compared to other industries, the productivity in the building industry has stagnated in the
past.
c. In most building projects a considerable amount of heterogeneous information (text, models,
drawings, spreadsheets etc. in different formats) from many actors from different areas of
expertise is generated and has to be processed.
d. The building industry is very fragmented with many small companies involved in a typical
project.
Q2. What is NOT a main driver for building owners to use BIM?
a. Design assessment early and often
b. Asset management
c. Tax calculation
d. Cost reliability and management
Q3. 'Intelligent' components that are based on information provided by a user (length, height,
material type) and act according to some prescribed 'behavior' (draw itself, connect itself to other
components etc.) are referred to as ...
a. ... data exchange objects c. ... parametric objects
b. ... user interfaces d. ... intelligent widgets
Q4. Which of the following is NOT a method to model geometry?
a. Boundary Edge Representation (B-rep)
b. Wireframe
c. Computational Solid Geometry (CSG)
d. Bitmap
Q5. What is NOT an essential component of Boundary Representation (B-rep) geometry
descriptions?
a. Voxel b. Vertex c. Face d. Edge
Q6. The underlying paradigm of BIM IT tools to model buildings and other real-world phenomena is
referred to as ...
a. ... Object-Centered World Views
b. ... Conceptual Modelling
c. ... Object-Oriented Modelling and Programming
d. ... Object-Template Modelling
Q7. Which of the following data types is suitable to hold alphanumeric information:
a. Float b. Integer c. Boolean d. String
Information Management (7U4X0)
2. Building Modeling Information
Q1. Which statement about the building industry is NOT supported by Eastman et al. or by statistical
data presented in the lecture?
a. The building industry is open to change, innovative in their processes and eager to adopt
new technologies.
b. Compared to other industries, the productivity in the building industry has stagnated in the
past.
c. In most building projects a considerable amount of heterogeneous information (text, models,
drawings, spreadsheets etc. in different formats) from many actors from different areas of
expertise is generated and has to be processed.
d. The building industry is very fragmented with many small companies involved in a typical
project.
Q2. What is NOT a main driver for building owners to use BIM?
a. Design assessment early and often
b. Asset management
c. Tax calculation
d. Cost reliability and management
Q3. 'Intelligent' components that are based on information provided by a user (length, height,
material type) and act according to some prescribed 'behavior' (draw itself, connect itself to other
components etc.) are referred to as ...
a. ... data exchange objects c. ... parametric objects
b. ... user interfaces d. ... intelligent widgets
Q4. Which of the following is NOT a method to model geometry?
a. Boundary Edge Representation (B-rep)
b. Wireframe
c. Computational Solid Geometry (CSG)
d. Bitmap
Q5. What is NOT an essential component of Boundary Representation (B-rep) geometry
descriptions?
a. Voxel b. Vertex c. Face d. Edge
Q6. The underlying paradigm of BIM IT tools to model buildings and other real-world phenomena is
referred to as ...
a. ... Object-Centered World Views
b. ... Conceptual Modelling
c. ... Object-Oriented Modelling and Programming
d. ... Object-Template Modelling
Q7. Which of the following data types is suitable to hold alphanumeric information:
a. Float b. Integer c. Boolean d. String
