ARGUS Certification Exam Questions and Correct Answers, With Complete Solution.

ARGUS Certification Exam Questions and
Correct Answers, With Complete Solution.
Task Pane provides a number of shortcuts and convenient functions, which
include:
Getting Started, ARGUS Alerts, ARGUS Valuation - DCF Wizard, and Shared
Workspace
Getting Started (Task Pane) - 4
Create new files, open recent files, connect to ARGUS website, and access a shared
workplace online
ARGUS Alerts
Login to the ARGUS website to receive instant alerts, news, and other information
Property Library
Window allows you to view a list of property files in the active directory when other
ARGUS Valuation - DCF property files are open.
Toolbar (on the Property Library window)
Allows you to navigate to directories and to perform actions on one or multiple ARGUS
files without opening the files themselves
Items of Property Library Toolbar (5)
Email a file to someone, report on a batch of ARGUS files, create a portfolio, compare
two or more files, add selected files to the Tenant Registry
When creating a ARGUS file it is best to start with...
the Property Description
Inputs of Property Description
Basic property information - timing area measures, and inflation
What is the first window to appear when creating a new file?
Property Description window
Where is the password button found?
Property Description window
Property Type can or cannot be changed once selected?
CANNOT!
Property Timing tab is found where?
Property Description window
Property Timing tab includes:
Analysis start date, Reporting Start Date, and # of years to Report or End Date
Analysis Start Date
Sets the date at which ARGUS Valuation - DCF calculations will occur. For example,
month 6 is relative to the analysis start date (not Reporting Start Date)
All entries that begin with a "relative" start date will be relative to which date?
Analysis Start Date
Reporting Start Date
- Sets the date at which reports will begin
- Does not alter the timing of base calculations in the program
Reporting Start Date must fall (where) relative to the Analysis Start Date

, on or after the Analysis Start Date
Analysis of up to (xx) years may be conducted
40
If the analysis begins midyear...
ARGUS will calculate a stub year with the partial year in the first year
Default unit of Area Measures is?
Square Feet
When entering a inflation percentage that is less than 1%, it must be in what
form?
decimal
Percentages of inflation may be entered as...
positive or negative whole numbers, or a decimal
If an inflation field is left empty...
it will default to the General Inflation Rate
Why is inflation in year 1 never available?
Because it does not occur until the beginning of the 2nd year
Inflation input into Year 2 will apply to which years numbers?
Year 1
When entering the Property Size, enter the (blank) area
net rentable
Default inflation is?
0% unless changed
The main screen that displays once a file has been created or opened
Executive Dashboard
Executive Dashboard
Basic summary of all the Year 1 information in an ARGUS Valuation - DCF file
In the Executive Dashboard, where are the links to the input screens found?
Icons on the tool bar as well as the links in grey type
The Globe and Magnifying Glass icon
Is a link to view the property in Google Maps
Where are the Export, Print, Calculate, and Pause button located?
Bottom right hand corner
Where is the import Graphic icon located?
Upper left corner of the executive dashboard
The Import Graphics icon
Import images and will be included on each new property created with that template
To create or modify a dashboard select the (blank)
Dashboard template icon
Where is the Dashboard Template icon located?
The toolbar of the executive dashboard
What are the (blank) per-formatted Dashboard templates? - 6
Valuation Summary, Classic, Investment, Appraisal,Lending, and Navigation
Miscellaneous Revenues
Are property-level income items not paid by the tenants. Any operating revenue not paid
by the tenants can be entered in this screen.
What are examples of miscellaneous revenues?