ACG CXA 2026 EVALUATION EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔commissioning benefits - ✔✔■ Reduction of change orders and additional claims
Fewer project delays
■ Managed start-up requirements
■ Shorter building turn-over transition period
■ Less post-occupancy corrective work
■ Minimized effects from design changes
■ Improved indoor air quality and occupant productivity
■ Better operation, maintenance and reliability
■ Lower energy and operations costs
■ Value-added quality construction
■ Complete and useful O&M documentation
■ Owner advocacy for design and construction decisions
■ Documentation of the entire construction process
✔✔commissioning authority - ✔✔leader of the commissioning team
✔✔Important qualifications and skills of HVAC Commissioning Agencies include: - ✔✔■
Knowledge of HVAC systems, covering design, common control strategies, installation,
operations and maintenance
■ Experience in controls for HVAC systems, including familiarity with current
technology, both conventional and direct digital control
■ Practical field construction background
■ Demonstrated ability to organize many specific activities into a coherent
commissioning plan
■ Communications skills, both written and verbal
■ Profi ciency in documentation
■ Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams
■ Familiarity with testing and balancing
✔✔overall cost of comprehensive HVAC commissioning - ✔✔usually between 2% and
5% of the HVAC construction cost
✔✔overall cost of construction HVAC commissioning - ✔✔approximately 80% of that for
comprehensive commissioning
✔✔typically follows the RFQ process - ✔✔An interview process, a Request for Proposal
(RFP) process, and contract negotiations
✔✔RFQ should contain the following information: - ✔✔■ Date of Issuance
■ RFQ Due Date
■ Owner/Program Manager Contact Information
■ Project/Program Description
,■ Project/Program Schedule
■ Small Business/Minority Business Participation Goals
■ Characterization of the Request
■ Qualification Requirements
■ RFQ and Selection Process Description
■ Selection Criteria
■ Notification of Selection/Unsuccessful Respondent Protocol
✔✔RFP should contain the following information: - ✔✔■ Date of Issuance
■ RFP due date
■ Owner/program manager contact information
■ Project name and location
■ Project/program description
■ Project/program schedule
■ Small Business/Minority Business participation goals
■ Characterization of the request
■ Qualification requirements
■ RFQ and selection process description
■ Selection criteria
■ Notification of selection/unsuccessful respondent protocol
■ Approximate size, use and occupancy of the facility
■ Types of systems to be commissioned
■ Special project considerations
■ Design team identification
■ Design and construction document development and distribution process
■ Submittal requirements
■ Request for scope of proposed services
■ Request for cost of services
■ Detailed break-out of services costs
■ Hourly charge-out rates for services applying to duly authorized extra work
■ Interview or pre-proposal conference schedules
■ Restrictions on communications with selection team members
■ Rules of withdrawal
■ Non-collusion affidavit
■ Insurance requirements
■ Contract requirements
✔✔The commissioning authority must possess... - ✔✔organizational, documentation,
communications, and team-building skills
✔✔The preferred delivery model for commissioning services advocated by ACG. -
✔✔Independent certified commissioning authority under direct contract to the owner
✔✔The AABC Commissioning Group (ACG) was established in... - ✔✔2004 as a
separate non-profit association
, ✔✔AIA - ✔✔registered architect
✔✔PE - ✔✔professional engineer
✔✔the heart of the commissioning process - ✔✔functional performance testing
✔✔responsibility of CxA during FPT - ✔✔directing, witnessing, and documenting the
tests
✔✔certifies TBEs - ✔✔Associated Air Balance Council (AABC)
✔✔the hallmark of both AABC and ACG - ✔✔independence
✔✔TBEs - ✔✔independent and possess the technical expertise to carry out both HVAC
functional performance testing and TAB services
✔✔the members of an HVAC Commissioning Team from the construction phase until
the end of the project may include representatives of the following: - ✔✔■ owner
■ end-user
■ architect
■ mechanical engineer
■ electrical engineer
■ commissioning authority
■ mechanical contractor
■ electrical contractor
■ controls contractor
■ sheet metal contractor
■ TAB agency
■ owner's O&M staff
■ general contractor (or construction manager)
✔✔Pre-Design - ✔✔■ Commissioning is established as an integral part of the
project
■ The owner selects the commissioning authority
■ Develop the scope of commissioning
■ Commissioning authority reviews design intent document
✔✔Design - ✔✔■ Review design to ensure it accommodates commissioning
■ Write commissioning specifications defining contractor responsibilities
■ Commissioning authority writes the commissioning plan
■ Establish the project schedule
✔✔Construction - ✔✔■ Commissioning authority reviews contractor submittals
■ Commissioning authority updates commissioning plan
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔commissioning benefits - ✔✔■ Reduction of change orders and additional claims
Fewer project delays
■ Managed start-up requirements
■ Shorter building turn-over transition period
■ Less post-occupancy corrective work
■ Minimized effects from design changes
■ Improved indoor air quality and occupant productivity
■ Better operation, maintenance and reliability
■ Lower energy and operations costs
■ Value-added quality construction
■ Complete and useful O&M documentation
■ Owner advocacy for design and construction decisions
■ Documentation of the entire construction process
✔✔commissioning authority - ✔✔leader of the commissioning team
✔✔Important qualifications and skills of HVAC Commissioning Agencies include: - ✔✔■
Knowledge of HVAC systems, covering design, common control strategies, installation,
operations and maintenance
■ Experience in controls for HVAC systems, including familiarity with current
technology, both conventional and direct digital control
■ Practical field construction background
■ Demonstrated ability to organize many specific activities into a coherent
commissioning plan
■ Communications skills, both written and verbal
■ Profi ciency in documentation
■ Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams
■ Familiarity with testing and balancing
✔✔overall cost of comprehensive HVAC commissioning - ✔✔usually between 2% and
5% of the HVAC construction cost
✔✔overall cost of construction HVAC commissioning - ✔✔approximately 80% of that for
comprehensive commissioning
✔✔typically follows the RFQ process - ✔✔An interview process, a Request for Proposal
(RFP) process, and contract negotiations
✔✔RFQ should contain the following information: - ✔✔■ Date of Issuance
■ RFQ Due Date
■ Owner/Program Manager Contact Information
■ Project/Program Description
,■ Project/Program Schedule
■ Small Business/Minority Business Participation Goals
■ Characterization of the Request
■ Qualification Requirements
■ RFQ and Selection Process Description
■ Selection Criteria
■ Notification of Selection/Unsuccessful Respondent Protocol
✔✔RFP should contain the following information: - ✔✔■ Date of Issuance
■ RFP due date
■ Owner/program manager contact information
■ Project name and location
■ Project/program description
■ Project/program schedule
■ Small Business/Minority Business participation goals
■ Characterization of the request
■ Qualification requirements
■ RFQ and selection process description
■ Selection criteria
■ Notification of selection/unsuccessful respondent protocol
■ Approximate size, use and occupancy of the facility
■ Types of systems to be commissioned
■ Special project considerations
■ Design team identification
■ Design and construction document development and distribution process
■ Submittal requirements
■ Request for scope of proposed services
■ Request for cost of services
■ Detailed break-out of services costs
■ Hourly charge-out rates for services applying to duly authorized extra work
■ Interview or pre-proposal conference schedules
■ Restrictions on communications with selection team members
■ Rules of withdrawal
■ Non-collusion affidavit
■ Insurance requirements
■ Contract requirements
✔✔The commissioning authority must possess... - ✔✔organizational, documentation,
communications, and team-building skills
✔✔The preferred delivery model for commissioning services advocated by ACG. -
✔✔Independent certified commissioning authority under direct contract to the owner
✔✔The AABC Commissioning Group (ACG) was established in... - ✔✔2004 as a
separate non-profit association
, ✔✔AIA - ✔✔registered architect
✔✔PE - ✔✔professional engineer
✔✔the heart of the commissioning process - ✔✔functional performance testing
✔✔responsibility of CxA during FPT - ✔✔directing, witnessing, and documenting the
tests
✔✔certifies TBEs - ✔✔Associated Air Balance Council (AABC)
✔✔the hallmark of both AABC and ACG - ✔✔independence
✔✔TBEs - ✔✔independent and possess the technical expertise to carry out both HVAC
functional performance testing and TAB services
✔✔the members of an HVAC Commissioning Team from the construction phase until
the end of the project may include representatives of the following: - ✔✔■ owner
■ end-user
■ architect
■ mechanical engineer
■ electrical engineer
■ commissioning authority
■ mechanical contractor
■ electrical contractor
■ controls contractor
■ sheet metal contractor
■ TAB agency
■ owner's O&M staff
■ general contractor (or construction manager)
✔✔Pre-Design - ✔✔■ Commissioning is established as an integral part of the
project
■ The owner selects the commissioning authority
■ Develop the scope of commissioning
■ Commissioning authority reviews design intent document
✔✔Design - ✔✔■ Review design to ensure it accommodates commissioning
■ Write commissioning specifications defining contractor responsibilities
■ Commissioning authority writes the commissioning plan
■ Establish the project schedule
✔✔Construction - ✔✔■ Commissioning authority reviews contractor submittals
■ Commissioning authority updates commissioning plan
