CDS - Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Corresponding Answers
with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
Labor and material payment bonds provide the necessary protection on
public projects - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Miller act corresponds with what.? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Labor and material
payment bond
Architects should not advise owners and the legal sufficiency of required
affidavits, waivers, or releases of liens. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Liens are not permitted on public projects. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Architect must review, approve, and promptly submit shop drawings
required by the contract documents. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
An architect approved shop drawings which deviated from the contract
documents. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Changes in contract drawings must be
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,submitted in writing to architect before becoming affective, not equal to
revisions within shop drawings.
Who is responsible for errors and omissions in shop drawings? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔General Contractor
Revisions not requested by the architect on resubmitted shop drawings
don't require architect's approval? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
A contractors stamp of approval on shop drawings means that the
contractor has already determined all criteria related thereto. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔FALSE
AIA document B101 is used to outline the architects service obligations? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
The architects responsibilities are re-stated within the AIA General
Conditions Doc A201. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Contractors may not know what services the architect is obligated to
perform if what document is not part of the contract documents. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔AIA Document B101
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, In review of shop drawings the general conditions Document A201 clearly
states? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Matters outside the scope of the design concept
and the contract documents are not reviewed.
If an architect had performed their services using stipulations of AIA
documents A201 & B141 within a ______ there should be no concern
about professional liability. But general liability is different. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Standard of care
Calendar days - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔7 / Week
Liquidated damages is a provision included in the? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Owner-contractor agreement. Document A101.
An amount of money stipulated in the contract that is chargeable against
the contractor is reimbursement for damages suffered by the owner
because the contractors failure to fulfill his or her contractual obligation's. -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Liquidated damages
What clause should be used when a slight delay in schedule can cause a
breach of contract? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Time is of the essence
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Questions and Corresponding Answers
with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
Labor and material payment bonds provide the necessary protection on
public projects - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Miller act corresponds with what.? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Labor and material
payment bond
Architects should not advise owners and the legal sufficiency of required
affidavits, waivers, or releases of liens. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Liens are not permitted on public projects. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Architect must review, approve, and promptly submit shop drawings
required by the contract documents. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
An architect approved shop drawings which deviated from the contract
documents. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Changes in contract drawings must be
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,submitted in writing to architect before becoming affective, not equal to
revisions within shop drawings.
Who is responsible for errors and omissions in shop drawings? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔General Contractor
Revisions not requested by the architect on resubmitted shop drawings
don't require architect's approval? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
A contractors stamp of approval on shop drawings means that the
contractor has already determined all criteria related thereto. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔FALSE
AIA document B101 is used to outline the architects service obligations? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
The architects responsibilities are re-stated within the AIA General
Conditions Doc A201. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Contractors may not know what services the architect is obligated to
perform if what document is not part of the contract documents. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔AIA Document B101
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, In review of shop drawings the general conditions Document A201 clearly
states? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Matters outside the scope of the design concept
and the contract documents are not reviewed.
If an architect had performed their services using stipulations of AIA
documents A201 & B141 within a ______ there should be no concern
about professional liability. But general liability is different. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Standard of care
Calendar days - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔7 / Week
Liquidated damages is a provision included in the? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Owner-contractor agreement. Document A101.
An amount of money stipulated in the contract that is chargeable against
the contractor is reimbursement for damages suffered by the owner
because the contractors failure to fulfill his or her contractual obligation's. -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Liquidated damages
What clause should be used when a slight delay in schedule can cause a
breach of contract? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Time is of the essence
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