ARE: PROGRAMMING + ANALYSIS
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS 2026/2027
Group A Occupancy - ANS Assembly: (50 or more)
A-1: performing arts and motion picture
A-2: food and drink
A-3: worship, recreation or amusement
A-4: indoor sporting events
A-5: outdoor activities
Group E Occupancy - ANS Education
Day care - 12th grade (6 or more students)
Group B Occupancy - ANS Business
Outpatient clinic where patients are not rendered incapable of self-preservation
Testing and research labs that do not exceed hazardous limit
Educational facilities for junior college, universities, and continuing education classes
Group F Occupancy - ANS Factory + Industrial
F-1: moderately hazardous
F-2: low hazardous (noncombustible); food processing over 2,500sf (take out less than is in
Group B)
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
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,Group H Occupancy - ANS Hazardous
Production or storage of high flammable or toxic material
Group I Occupancy - ANS Institutional
I-1: >16 ppl living under 24 supervised conditions (condition 1- can respond to emergency
without assistance, condition 2- need limited verbal or physical assistance)
I-2: >5 ppl living, unable to respond to emergency without assistance (condition 1: nursing and
medical care, condition 2: for hospitals, emergency, surgical care)
Group M Occupancy - ANS Mercantile
Grocery, department store, gas station
Group R Occupancy - ANS Residential
House and hotel
Group S Occupancy - ANS Storage
Warehouse and parking garage
Group U Occupancy - ANS Utility + Miscellaneous
Water tower and barns
AHJ - ANS Authority Having Jurisdiction - submits to AHJ for the issue of a building permit.
They decide which codes are to be adopted with their location
Guardrail height requirement - ANS 42" min for platform heights above 30"
Door clearances - ANS 32" min clear, 18" at latch side, 60" in front of pull side
Construction type I - ANS Fire-resistive; over 75ft tall; poured concrete + protective steel
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
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, Construction type II - ANS Non-combustible; metal floor and roof with masonry or tilt-slab
walls
Construction Type III - ANS Mixed combustible and non-combustible materials. Masonry
exterior, wood interior
Construction type IV - ANS Noncombustible exterior + interior; solid or lam wood; structural
beams and columns must be 8" thick; floors and roofs 6" thick min
Construction type V - ANS Most combustible; wood framed
Allowable building height limits in IBC - ANS Section 504.4
Minimum ceiling height in means of egress - ANS 7'6"
Door closers and stops headroom - ANS No less than 78"
What is the main benefit of a DOAS - ANS Supply air that can be comprised of 100% fresh
outside air
Clear dimension for a two-way drive - ANS 24'
Types of wood cutting - ANS Rotary - continuous veneer with bold, variegated ripple figure
Flat - variegated wavy figure. Plain slicing
Quarter - straight or varied stripes, perpendicular to ring
Half round - rotary and flat characteristics
Rift - oak, cutting perpendicular to radiating rays to minimize appearance
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
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EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS 2026/2027
Group A Occupancy - ANS Assembly: (50 or more)
A-1: performing arts and motion picture
A-2: food and drink
A-3: worship, recreation or amusement
A-4: indoor sporting events
A-5: outdoor activities
Group E Occupancy - ANS Education
Day care - 12th grade (6 or more students)
Group B Occupancy - ANS Business
Outpatient clinic where patients are not rendered incapable of self-preservation
Testing and research labs that do not exceed hazardous limit
Educational facilities for junior college, universities, and continuing education classes
Group F Occupancy - ANS Factory + Industrial
F-1: moderately hazardous
F-2: low hazardous (noncombustible); food processing over 2,500sf (take out less than is in
Group B)
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
1
,Group H Occupancy - ANS Hazardous
Production or storage of high flammable or toxic material
Group I Occupancy - ANS Institutional
I-1: >16 ppl living under 24 supervised conditions (condition 1- can respond to emergency
without assistance, condition 2- need limited verbal or physical assistance)
I-2: >5 ppl living, unable to respond to emergency without assistance (condition 1: nursing and
medical care, condition 2: for hospitals, emergency, surgical care)
Group M Occupancy - ANS Mercantile
Grocery, department store, gas station
Group R Occupancy - ANS Residential
House and hotel
Group S Occupancy - ANS Storage
Warehouse and parking garage
Group U Occupancy - ANS Utility + Miscellaneous
Water tower and barns
AHJ - ANS Authority Having Jurisdiction - submits to AHJ for the issue of a building permit.
They decide which codes are to be adopted with their location
Guardrail height requirement - ANS 42" min for platform heights above 30"
Door clearances - ANS 32" min clear, 18" at latch side, 60" in front of pull side
Construction type I - ANS Fire-resistive; over 75ft tall; poured concrete + protective steel
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
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, Construction type II - ANS Non-combustible; metal floor and roof with masonry or tilt-slab
walls
Construction Type III - ANS Mixed combustible and non-combustible materials. Masonry
exterior, wood interior
Construction type IV - ANS Noncombustible exterior + interior; solid or lam wood; structural
beams and columns must be 8" thick; floors and roofs 6" thick min
Construction type V - ANS Most combustible; wood framed
Allowable building height limits in IBC - ANS Section 504.4
Minimum ceiling height in means of egress - ANS 7'6"
Door closers and stops headroom - ANS No less than 78"
What is the main benefit of a DOAS - ANS Supply air that can be comprised of 100% fresh
outside air
Clear dimension for a two-way drive - ANS 24'
Types of wood cutting - ANS Rotary - continuous veneer with bold, variegated ripple figure
Flat - variegated wavy figure. Plain slicing
Quarter - straight or varied stripes, perpendicular to ring
Half round - rotary and flat characteristics
Rift - oak, cutting perpendicular to radiating rays to minimize appearance
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
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