NivaarExam Prep

07-Str-B2

Worked solutions to 8 past sittings (2013–2018), 48 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Topics across the sittings

Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.

Questions by sitting

December 2018

  1. Question 1: Scheduling — activity-on-arrow network, floats, critical path and AON conversion
  2. Question 2: Contract Administration — comparing lump-sum, unit-price, turn-key and cost-plus delivery
  3. Question 3: Project Control — expense and payment S-curves, financing interest and overdraft limit
  4. Question 4: Engineering Economics — maximum justifiable investment in a new pavement surface
  5. Question 5: Insurance — bid bonds, performance bonds and construction liens
  6. Question 6: Estimating — completing an R.S. Means brick-veneer line and pricing the job

May 2018

  1. Question 1: Scheduling — CPM with a start-to-start lag, late bar chart and delay impact
  2. Question 2: Estimating — quantities, durations and bare costs from R.S. Means data
  3. Question 3: Contract Administration — bid package, competitive bidding, and screening unbalanced bids
  4. Question 4: Engineering Economics — present-worth comparison of alternatives with unequal lives
  5. Question 5: Cash Flow — the BCWS curve, and interest on a contractor's overdraft
  6. Question 6: Safety Practices and Regulations — eight measures on highway and building projects

December 2017

  1. Question 1: Scheduling — precedence network, floats, critical path, delay impact and percent complete
  2. Question 2: Litigation — delay claims, contractual prevention, settlement routes and the analyses that support a claim
  3. Question 3: Estimating — duration and cost from R.S. Means production data, and the activity time–cost relationship
  4. Question 4: Engineering Economics — present-worth comparison of two projects with unequal lives
  5. Question 5: Insurance — bid bonds, performance bonds and payment retention, and the advantages of union resources
  6. Question 6: Safety Practices and Regulations — highway rehabilitation work zones, particularly at night

May 2017

  1. Question 1: Scheduling — CPM on an activity-on-arrow network and least-cost crashing
  2. Question 2: Litigation — delay claims, contractual prevention, settlement routes and delay analysis
  3. Question 3: Productivity — influencing factors, site arrangement, morale and motivation
  4. Question 4: Engineering Economics — present-worth comparison of two projects with unequal lives
  5. Question 5: Cash Flow — the S-curve, overdraft interest and the peak cash requirement
  6. Question 6: Safety Practices and Regulations — night work in highway rehabilitation work zones

May 2016

  1. Question 1: Scheduling — critical path, total floats, and the effect of delaying E
  2. Question 2: Contract Administration — bid unbalancing and public-sector award criteria
  3. Question 3: Estimating and Bidding — indirect-cost classification and the total-indirect-cost equation
  4. Question 4: Engineering Economics — present-worth comparison of two projects with unequal lives
  5. Question 5: Safety Practices and Regulations — eight measures across highway and building work
  6. Question 6: Project Control — S-curves and progress measurement from a bar chart

May 2014

  1. Question 1: Estimating and Bidding — RS Means unit costs and crew-based duration
  2. Question 2: Scheduling — precedence network with SS, FS and FF lags
  3. Question 3: Labor Relations — unionized versus non-unionized labour
  4. Question 4: Engineering Economics — maximum justified investment in a new pavement surface
  5. Question 5: Construction Delays — classification and forensic analysis
  6. Question 6: Safety Practices and Regulations — bridge rehabilitation in high traffic

May 2013

  1. Question 1: Project Control — earned value and the 20/80 rule
  2. Question 2: Scheduling — critical path and late bar chart
  3. Question 3: Insurance — bid bonds, performance bonds and retainage
  4. Question 4: Engineering Economics — breakeven revenue for alternatives of unequal life
  5. Question 5: Construction Delays — classification and forensic analysis
  6. Question 6: Safety Practices and Regulations — a downtown high-rise site

Undated paper

  1. Question 1: Scheduling — least-cost plan, and accelerating to eight days inside a four-worker limit
  2. Question 2: Litigation — delay claims, their contractual prevention, and the delay taxonomy
  3. Question 3: Contract Administration — Design-Bid-Build versus CM at Risk, and screening unbalanced bids
  4. Question 4: Engineering Economics — present-worth comparison of two projects with unequal lives
  5. Question 5: Project Control — earned value and the Cost Performance Index under the 20/80 rule
  6. Question 6: Safety Practices and Regulations — a multi-activity site with demolition and hazardous-material removal