01. A contractor must satisfy an owner requirement to demonstrate a systematic approach to controlling site runoff, waste disposal, and emissions, audited against a recognized management-system standard.
Which combination correctly pairs the applicable system standard with the standard used to audit it?
a) Implement ISO 9001 for the environmental controls and audit against ISO 45001
b) Implement ISO 31000 for the environmental controls and audit against ISO 14001
c) Implement ISO 45001 for the environmental controls and audit against ISO 9001
d) Implement ISO 14001 for the environmental controls and audit against ISO 19011
02. A package reports EV = $300,000, AC = $250,000, and PV = $340,000. The manager must summarize both performance dimensions for a status report.
Which statement correctly characterizes the package?
a) Over budget and ahead of schedule (CPI = 0.83, SPI = 1.13)
b) Under budget and ahead of schedule (CPI = 1.20, SPI = 1.13)
c) Under budget and behind schedule (CPI = 1.20, SPI = 0.88)
d) Over budget and behind schedule (CPI = 0.88, SPI = 0.83)
03. A process has specification limits of 90 to 110, a mean of 96, and a standard deviation of 2. Cpk is the smaller of (USL − mean) and (mean − LSL), each divided by 3 standard deviations.
What is the Cpk?
a) 1.00
b) 2.33
c) 1.67
d) 0.50
04. A safety manager wants to track a proactive measure that predicts and helps prevent incidents before they occur, rather than counting injuries after the fact.
Which of the following is a leading safety indicator?
a) Total recordable incident rate
b) Number of completed safety audits and near-miss reports
c) Days-away-from-work case rate
d) Lost-time injury count
05. A shipment of reinforcing steel arrives on site. The quality manager verifies it against the purchase order and the accompanying mill certificates before it is accepted into storage.
This step is part of which quality activity?
a) Functional commissioning of the material
b) Corrective action on a nonconformance
c) Receiving inspection and material control
d) Value engineering of the delivered material
06. An organization wants a set of principles and a common process to guide how it identifies, assesses, treats, and monitors risk across all its projects.
Which standard provides this risk-management framework and guidelines?
a) ISO 31000
b) ISO 9001
c) ISO 19011
d) ISO 45001
07. During planning, the team identifies that constructing over an abandoned mine shaft carries a severe collapse risk. After analysis, the design is revised to relocate the structure's footprint entirely off the affected area, eliminating the exposure.
Which risk response strategy did the team apply?
c) Transfer
d) Accept
08. Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is distinguished from more traditional delivery methods primarily by how it treats the relationship among the owner, designer, and builder.
Which characteristic is most central to IPD?
a) The owner transfers all design and construction risk to a single design-build entity
b) Design and construction proceed in strictly separate, sequential phases
c) The construction manager holds no financial stake in the project outcome
d) A multi-party agreement in which the key participants share project risk and reward
09. Midway through earthwork, a quality manager observes that a heavy rain has overwhelmed the site's silt controls and muddy water is discharging off-site into a creek, contrary to the project's stormwater permit conditions.
What is the most appropriate first action?
a) Wait until the rain stops and note the event in the monthly report
b) Reclassify the discharge as an accepted risk and continue earthwork
c) Increase the pace of grading to finish before inspectors arrive
d) Implement and reinforce the erosion and sediment controls required by the SWPPP to stop the off-site discharge, then document the corrective action
10. Over three projects a contractor doubles its spending on prevention (planning, training, better procedures) and observes total cost of quality fall, driven by a sharp drop in rework and warranty claims.
Which conclusion is best supported by this pattern?
a) Prevention and failure costs are independent, so the drop must be coincidental
b) The contractor should now cut prevention spending to zero to minimize cost
c) Appraisal costs must have risen by the same amount prevention rose
d) Increased investment in prevention reduced failure costs by more than the added prevention spend