DBIA CERTIFICATION EXAM STUDY
GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
BANK AND VERIFIED CORRECT
SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
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1. DBIA Mission - ANSWER ✓ Promotes the value of design-build project
delivery and teaches the effective integration of design and construction
services to ensure success for Owners and design and construction
practitioners
2. DBIA Values - ANSWER ✓ - Excellence in integrated design-build project
delivery, producing high value outcomes. - An environment of trust
characterized by integrity and honest communication. - mutual respect for
diverse perspectives. - commitment to innovation and creativity to drive
quality, value and sustainability. - Professionalism, fairness and the highest
level of ethical behavior.
3. DBIA Vision - ANSWER ✓ Be the industry's preeminent resource for
leadership, education, objective expertise and best practice for the successful
integrated delivery of capital projects.
4. DBIA Purpose - ANSWER ✓ Only organization that defines, teaches, and
promotes best practice in design-build project delivery.
5. Best practices - ANSWER ✓ the belief that there is a technique, method, or
process that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any
other method
6. Design-Build Done RIght - ANSWER ✓ Categorized 10 best practice
supporting implementing techniques into 3 areas
,7. 3 areas of best practices from Design build done right - ANSWER ✓ 1.
Procuring design-build services 2. contracting for design-build services 3.
executing the delivery of design-build projects
8. Federal Government passed bond requiring payment and performance bonds
on all public works, what year? - ANSWER ✓ Miller Act 1935
9. Bill directing A/E's selected on qualifications, what year? - ANSWER ✓
Brooks Bill 1972
10.Allows all federal agencies to utilize Design-Build. Prior to that no enabling
legislation existed allowing Design-Build. - ANSWER ✓ Clinger Cohen
Act/Defense Procurement Reform Act 1996
11.The level of quality that any average Design Professional would be able to
perform given the circumstances. - ANSWER ✓ Standard of Care
12.Slowest Project Delivery method, linear in nature, prescriptive (owner
knows what they want), - ANSWER ✓ Design Bid Build
13.Project Delivery - Many contracts through Owner - ANSWER ✓ Multi
Prime
14.Project Delivery method allowing the contractor to come on board very early
in design for preconstruction services yet maintains separation between
Designer and Builder contractually. - ANSWER ✓ CM at Risk
15.Fastest Project Delivery method, fast tracking possible overlapping design
with construction utilizing incremental packages. - ANSWER ✓ Design
Build
16.Procurement Method - Most Familiar - ANSWER ✓ Low Bid
17.Procurement Method - Common for A/E - ANSWER ✓ Negotiated
(Qualifications Based)
18.Procurement Method - Qualifications and Price - ANSWER ✓ Best Value
,19.Procurement Method - Direct - ANSWER ✓ Sole Source
20.T/F trust is most important thing for DB - ANSWER ✓ False
21.DB estimating sequence where 15%-20% of design is completed -
ANSWER ✓ Schematic estimating
22.Provides baseline budgets and schedules and list estimate trends - ANSWER
✓ Trend logs
23.Drawings and specs are approved by DOR and confirmed within budget -
ANSWER ✓ Committed Design
24.What is NOT a design managers role? - ANSWER ✓ Coordinating owner
design reviews and approvals
25.Who is responsible for ensuring quality assurance? - ANSWER ✓ Design
Build Team
26.When programming and design is developed by DB entity - ANSWER ✓
Direct DB
27.Establishes that under DBB, owner is responsible for increased cost due to
defective plans/specs - ANSWER ✓ Spearin Doctrine
28.Selection where qualitative aspects are scored out of 100 the divided by
qualitative score - ANSWER ✓ Adjusted low bid
29.The doctrine of mercantilism dominated at what century? - ANSWER ✓
16th century through the end of 18th century
30.Is an economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and
minimize the imports for an economy. It promotes imperialism, colonialism,
tariffs and subsidies on traded goods to achieve that goal. - ANSWER ✓
Merchantilism
31.Foreign ships were prohibited from taking part in coastal trade in England,
and all imports from continental Europe were required to be carried by either
, British ships or ships that were registered in the country where the goods
were produced. - ANSWER ✓ British Navigation Act of 1651
32.Who wrote about both of whom stressed the desirability of imports and
stated that exports were just the necessary cost of acquiring them. -
ANSWER ✓ Adam Smith and David Ricardo
33.Cost Influence Curve - ANSWER ✓ The earlier an improvement is made,
the greater its potential for cost savings
1. Skimp design cost: more design errors=increased cost
2. Optimum process not found = increased operating cost
34.Fast Tracking - ANSWER ✓ A schedule compression method that changes
the relationship of activities. With fast tracking, activities that would
normally be done in sequence are allowed to be done in parallel or with
some overlap. Fast tracking can be accomplished by changing the relation of
activities from FS to SS or even FF or by adding lead time to downstream
activities. However, fast tracking does add risk to the project.
35.Spearin Doctrine - ANSWER ✓ A 1918 court decision stating that a
contractor is entitled to rely on the construction documents provided by the
owner to be sufficient for their intended purpose and is not responsible for
the consequences of defects in the contract documents.
36.Design-Bid-Build (DBB) - ANSWER ✓ Owner controls design team
selection. Process is well-established and understood. Linear sequence.
Contractor's input is absent during design process.
37.CMAR (Construction Management At Risk) - ANSWER ✓ Contractor
provides preconstruction services. Contractor selected by QBS or best value.
38.CMAR Key Considerations - ANSWER ✓ ▪ Owner procures and manages
designers and contractors under separate contracts
▪ Owner negotiates the full commercial deal
▪ Potential issues over what is "reasonably inferable" from GMP design
documents
▪ No direct contractual relationship between contractor and designer
▪ Limited public sector authority for its use
GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
BANK AND VERIFIED CORRECT
SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<BRAND NEW VERSION>
1. DBIA Mission - ANSWER ✓ Promotes the value of design-build project
delivery and teaches the effective integration of design and construction
services to ensure success for Owners and design and construction
practitioners
2. DBIA Values - ANSWER ✓ - Excellence in integrated design-build project
delivery, producing high value outcomes. - An environment of trust
characterized by integrity and honest communication. - mutual respect for
diverse perspectives. - commitment to innovation and creativity to drive
quality, value and sustainability. - Professionalism, fairness and the highest
level of ethical behavior.
3. DBIA Vision - ANSWER ✓ Be the industry's preeminent resource for
leadership, education, objective expertise and best practice for the successful
integrated delivery of capital projects.
4. DBIA Purpose - ANSWER ✓ Only organization that defines, teaches, and
promotes best practice in design-build project delivery.
5. Best practices - ANSWER ✓ the belief that there is a technique, method, or
process that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any
other method
6. Design-Build Done RIght - ANSWER ✓ Categorized 10 best practice
supporting implementing techniques into 3 areas
,7. 3 areas of best practices from Design build done right - ANSWER ✓ 1.
Procuring design-build services 2. contracting for design-build services 3.
executing the delivery of design-build projects
8. Federal Government passed bond requiring payment and performance bonds
on all public works, what year? - ANSWER ✓ Miller Act 1935
9. Bill directing A/E's selected on qualifications, what year? - ANSWER ✓
Brooks Bill 1972
10.Allows all federal agencies to utilize Design-Build. Prior to that no enabling
legislation existed allowing Design-Build. - ANSWER ✓ Clinger Cohen
Act/Defense Procurement Reform Act 1996
11.The level of quality that any average Design Professional would be able to
perform given the circumstances. - ANSWER ✓ Standard of Care
12.Slowest Project Delivery method, linear in nature, prescriptive (owner
knows what they want), - ANSWER ✓ Design Bid Build
13.Project Delivery - Many contracts through Owner - ANSWER ✓ Multi
Prime
14.Project Delivery method allowing the contractor to come on board very early
in design for preconstruction services yet maintains separation between
Designer and Builder contractually. - ANSWER ✓ CM at Risk
15.Fastest Project Delivery method, fast tracking possible overlapping design
with construction utilizing incremental packages. - ANSWER ✓ Design
Build
16.Procurement Method - Most Familiar - ANSWER ✓ Low Bid
17.Procurement Method - Common for A/E - ANSWER ✓ Negotiated
(Qualifications Based)
18.Procurement Method - Qualifications and Price - ANSWER ✓ Best Value
,19.Procurement Method - Direct - ANSWER ✓ Sole Source
20.T/F trust is most important thing for DB - ANSWER ✓ False
21.DB estimating sequence where 15%-20% of design is completed -
ANSWER ✓ Schematic estimating
22.Provides baseline budgets and schedules and list estimate trends - ANSWER
✓ Trend logs
23.Drawings and specs are approved by DOR and confirmed within budget -
ANSWER ✓ Committed Design
24.What is NOT a design managers role? - ANSWER ✓ Coordinating owner
design reviews and approvals
25.Who is responsible for ensuring quality assurance? - ANSWER ✓ Design
Build Team
26.When programming and design is developed by DB entity - ANSWER ✓
Direct DB
27.Establishes that under DBB, owner is responsible for increased cost due to
defective plans/specs - ANSWER ✓ Spearin Doctrine
28.Selection where qualitative aspects are scored out of 100 the divided by
qualitative score - ANSWER ✓ Adjusted low bid
29.The doctrine of mercantilism dominated at what century? - ANSWER ✓
16th century through the end of 18th century
30.Is an economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and
minimize the imports for an economy. It promotes imperialism, colonialism,
tariffs and subsidies on traded goods to achieve that goal. - ANSWER ✓
Merchantilism
31.Foreign ships were prohibited from taking part in coastal trade in England,
and all imports from continental Europe were required to be carried by either
, British ships or ships that were registered in the country where the goods
were produced. - ANSWER ✓ British Navigation Act of 1651
32.Who wrote about both of whom stressed the desirability of imports and
stated that exports were just the necessary cost of acquiring them. -
ANSWER ✓ Adam Smith and David Ricardo
33.Cost Influence Curve - ANSWER ✓ The earlier an improvement is made,
the greater its potential for cost savings
1. Skimp design cost: more design errors=increased cost
2. Optimum process not found = increased operating cost
34.Fast Tracking - ANSWER ✓ A schedule compression method that changes
the relationship of activities. With fast tracking, activities that would
normally be done in sequence are allowed to be done in parallel or with
some overlap. Fast tracking can be accomplished by changing the relation of
activities from FS to SS or even FF or by adding lead time to downstream
activities. However, fast tracking does add risk to the project.
35.Spearin Doctrine - ANSWER ✓ A 1918 court decision stating that a
contractor is entitled to rely on the construction documents provided by the
owner to be sufficient for their intended purpose and is not responsible for
the consequences of defects in the contract documents.
36.Design-Bid-Build (DBB) - ANSWER ✓ Owner controls design team
selection. Process is well-established and understood. Linear sequence.
Contractor's input is absent during design process.
37.CMAR (Construction Management At Risk) - ANSWER ✓ Contractor
provides preconstruction services. Contractor selected by QBS or best value.
38.CMAR Key Considerations - ANSWER ✓ ▪ Owner procures and manages
designers and contractors under separate contracts
▪ Owner negotiates the full commercial deal
▪ Potential issues over what is "reasonably inferable" from GMP design
documents
▪ No direct contractual relationship between contractor and designer
▪ Limited public sector authority for its use
