NCIDQ IDPX Practice Questions

1. The construction fit-out allowance provided to a tenant in an office building would be defined in the (A) BOMA standards (B) lease agreement (C) rental contract (D) work letter - Answer- D 2. An interior designer is calculating the lease area for an office occupying a portion of a high-rise building using the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) standard ANSI/BOMA Z65.1, Office Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement. The exterior wall includes 65% glass area. The designer should calculate the area of the interior space by measuring to the (A) inside surface of the exterior wall (B) inside glass surface (C) outside glass surface (D) centerline of the exterior wall - Answer- B 3. The use of particleboard as part of a construction detail should be carefully evaluated in terms of the particleboard's (A) availability (B) permeability (C) strength (D) VOC content - Answer- D 4. To determine the necessary rentable floor area for a project, the interior designer must know which of the following? (Choose the three that apply.) (A) net assignable area (B) number of employees (C) efficiency factor (D) expected growth rate (E) corridor size and configuration (F) rentable-usable ratio - Answer- A,C,F 5. The initial determination of the area required for a client's program gives the (A) gross area (B) net area (C) rentable area (D) usable area - Answer- B 6. An interior designer has been hired to redesign a large Victorian house into a bed and breakfast inn. During an initial interview, the client says that he wants to restore the interior to an authentic Victorian look, as well as enlarge some of the bedrooms into suites so that the inn will be the best in town. After hearing these comments, what should b