CMM: Certified Construction Manager

CMM: Certified Construction Manager practice questions, page 5 of 7, with answer review and explanations.

Question 21

You are the agency construction manager on an integrated project delivery (IPD) contract. This is your first IPD contract and you are concerned about your risk exposure. Ultimately, which party of the IPD contract faces the most risk?

  1. Owner
  2. Construction Manager
  3. Designer
  4. Construction Contractor

Question 22

An owner wants to complete extensive renovations to his 20-year-old, 25-story office building for which your firm provided construction management as constructor (CMC) services. Since you weren't personally involved in the project, you wanted to assess the current conditions. During your research, you discovered several construction deficiencies. Your next step is to

  1. include the corrective work in the scope of the renovations.
  2. recuse yourself from the project and have another colleague take over the project.
  3. disclose the deficiencies to the owner.
  4. coordinate with another firm to validate your discovered deficiencies.

Question 23

An agency CM is brought on a project prior to determination of the project’s delivery method. The CM learns from discussions with the owner that the project is very complex, has a lot of unknowns, and anticipated difficult third-party coordination. The owner wants to maintain design control and is struggling with how best to design a constructable project. Cost is not the highest priority for the project. Which delivery method should the CM recommend?

  1. CM at Risk
  2. Design-Bid-Build
  3. Design-Build
  4. Job Order Contracting (JOC)

Question 24

The chief estimator for a construction company is asked to provide an estimate based on known project characteristics, such as square footage and unit prices. The estimator will MOST likely be employing which technique?

  1. Parametric Estimating
  2. Analogous Estimating
  3. Bottom Up Estimating
  4. Conceptual Estimating

Question 25

Owner’s representation staff are managing the construction of a new water treatment plant. The owner has specific operational and sustainability goals they want met and are contracting the team for full commissioning services. The commissioning plan should include which of the following requirements for each party in the commissioning process?

  1. Budgeting, sequencing, scheduling, documentation
  2. Sequencing, scheduling, design review, verification procedures
  3. Sequencing, scheduling, startup procedures, verification process
  4. Sequencing, scheduling, documentation, verification procedures