Case study Question - NCARB Practice Exam
The owner learns that the survey drawing provided to the architect contains an incorrectly rendered property line. The owner directs their surveyor to revise the drawing to reflect the correct site boundaries, but the corrected survey reveals problems with the permitted building location.
What are the owner's responsibilities as a result of this error? Check the four that apply.
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Provide a revised survey to the architect. |
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Send a written notice of the survey error to the architect. |
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Coordinate the services of the surveyor with the services of the architect. |
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File the revised survey to the planning and zoning commission for approval. |
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Approve any additional service requests sent by the architect for design revisions. |
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Direct the architect to file the revised survey to the planning and zoning commission for approval. |
Your answer: ABDE
Correct answer: ABCE
I think C as a responsibility of the owner no matter there was an error or not. As the prompt is asking "as a result of this error," I did not include C in my answer.
Can someone please explain to me the gymnastics here? Thank you!
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Iverson,
This question relates with A201 and B101 roles and responsibilities. Any services contracted with the owner belongs with that particular team member to resolve…letter D implies what happens after the errors are corrected. Then and only then can the architect approve moving the project forward.This question, from my vantage point, is about how the ‘owner’ manages the errors. I placed quotes around owner as it relates with managing risk…
Hope this helps get you started…
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C is the right choice because the surveyors is a consultant for the owner, and they fall under the owner's responsibility to coordinate the services of their consultant(s) with the architect, and that is required due to the error.
The two options regarding filing the survey to zoning are moot; the owner would not be the one to direct/file the survey, as filing documents to the AHJ is the responsibility of the architect, per B101 Article 3.1.6:
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A good thing to keep in mind for these types of questions on the exam. When they ask you what "actions are necessary" or "what do you do first," if there are multiple answers that seem correct, but one implies a later step in the sequence, that answer will not be correct.
For example, if it asks how do you get ready for work in the morning, you would not choose "walk to the bus stop." If you can wrap your head around this kind of rule, it will help a lot in the actual exam.
Answer D seems correct, but in the exact moment the question is being asked, the owner just directed the surveyor to correct the drawings. So we don't even have the updated survey yet, how can we submit it to the AHJ.
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