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No. Questions
1 1) Procedure CCC
2) Method Vacant Possession
3) Improve SOMF
4) Type ACP after pass
5) Force majeure
6) Can claim loss n expense
7) Profit and attendance

2 1) What are the rights of an architect under the Architect’s Act?

2) What to do if client wants to appoint u for design only
3) What to do if client wants to appoint u for construction only
4) What is architect of record?
5) Elaborate about development process
6) Difference between Pam Contract with Quantities & without Quantities
7) What is ur role in the project (refer to log book)
8) What is ur view and direction in regards to EOT n MCO. How do u advice & assess which
relevant events to use
9) What is the fire strategy for high rise residential building?
10) What is the requirement for Passive & Active strategy?

3 1) Time at large
2) Plan if u pass
3) Defects
4) Failure of buildings
5) SOMF/discount
6) Defects after CMGD
7) Sapa panel u last yr..hahaha

4 1) What is strata process?

2) When to submit sifus?
3) What is architect duties for CPSP?
4) Architect duties in HDA? APDL? Withdraw money?
5) What if you pass PT3, currently as salary arch, boss client come to u build bungalow?
6) What if your partner in partnership died, client don’t know u, and want to appoint
another architect, how u retain client?
7) How to market yourselves in electronic media? Can u advertise in facebook?
8) What is profit attendance?

5 1) No introduction
2) Do you have any problem in your practice?
3) How long did you practice?
4) What situation of EOT that you commonly experience?
5) MC can claim EOT because NSC Delay?
6) Really can claim? Because of NSC?
7) NSC normally do what?
8) Your client want you to recommend his NSC friend to be appointed by Contractor without
knowing anything about the NSC, What is your action?
9) Differentiate. What is PC sum vs. Provisional sum. And list those 2 based on your
contract.

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10) CCC - what contractor need to attach together with G12 that he need to sign?
11) How many G Form?
12) Does a fisherman or anyone else join architect firm to do business? And what type of ACP
is possible?
13) You buat post contract tak?
14) Ada Buat CCC?

6 1) No introduction
2) What you continuos project?
3) Beza schedule G nga H? Based on 3rd schedule)?
4) Beza pam contract quantity & without quantity?
5) What to refer is any discrepancy or error in drawing in bq?
6) What is lantent & patent defect?
7) Contractor apply cpc, you gi inspect, tgk2 door senget, tile chipping, uneven plaster etc,
can u accept that defect?
8) Client x nk terima minor defect, tp arkitek dah bg cpc dan even kontrktor dh bg
undertaking letter utk rectify defect tu, boleh x?
9) Arch issue ccc, but local authority x terima dan x puas hati & nak datang inspect site?
Boleh ke?
10) Disebabkan mco, contractor entitle utk eot x? Under apa?
11) What is bomba requirement for hospital?

7 1) Scope of pmc.kalau pmc suruh u ubah dsgn what is ur action.what do u think pmc ni
perlu ada ke x?
2) Architect as PMC. Please explain.
3) Stage certification stage 2c apa yg u perlu buat
4) Apa document perlu before u certify 2c
5) Dlm LOA kpd contractor apa yg perlu ada?
6) EOT. What if employer interfere ur cert.
7) Determination. Please explain.
8) Manner of delivery vacant possession in landed project
9) What contractor need to submit before start commence at site
10) What u need to do in issuance CPC
11) Date of completion, keje x siap, what is ur action. Explain the process
12) How many type of insurance? What are they? What item the contractor need to prepare
for the insurance
13) Ipc, what u need to do when the contractor submit claim?
14) What are the adr in the contract? Compared to the 2018? What are the additional adr in
2018?

8 1) Please introduce yourself?

2) If the client wants to hire you only for design but has another architect, how?
3) 3.If the client only gives you tower 2, but tower 1 & podium is by another architect, will u
take it? How do you charge? Who is the main psp? How about statutory? And
contractual?
4) If you have 2 main con in 1 project, is it possible? How to make it possible? Give an
example of this situation?
5) If you get a call from your uncle tonight after the exam, he wants to build a bungalow,
can you take that job (despite that u are a graduate architect?) How will u charge? And
can a registered architect take this job even though u have done the design? How will he
charge?

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6) If the situation is reversed, his niece (graduate architect) already done the design, will u
take this job as certified architect? How do you charge?
7) How good are you in contracts?
8) How many forms/ types of contract?
9) Which PAM of contracts are you familiar with?
10) Are you familiar with the JKR contract? And other contracts besides PAM contracts?
11) What is a performance bond?
12) What is pc sum vs provisional sum?
13) Can pc sum change/ converted to provisional sum?
14) Can provisional sum change/converted to pc sum?
15) Have u done loa before? What did u write in loa? (What’s in loa?)
16) Why do you say ëstimated professional fees? Why is it estimated in your loa?
17) What do you want to do when u pass ur part 3?
18) Why sole prop? Why not partnership or Body Corporate?
19) What are the acts that architects need to know, or be fluent in day to day & for part 3
exam?
20) If the setback required by authority is 6m, but your client wants to make it 5m. How do
you advise your client?
21) If ur client very insisting on wanting 5m setback because land is really small, how to
advise / persuade ur client?
22) If this developer approaches you to do design, and he had / has another architect before
this, will you take it?
23) What if he bluffs u about lor? How do u check?
24) What if your friend is one of the other 5 architects that the developer has approached,
will u still take this job?
25) How do you exercise your code of conduct as a professional? Which code of conduct? In
relating to this scenario?

9 1) CCC
-Ar roles/ forms under Ar
-roles as JKR ar for CCC under PWD203DB.
2) Time at large
-What triggers to happen
3) EOT
-Why does E disagree to impose EOT. What do you do
4) Plan if u pass part III exam
- Do u still consider to set up due to current situation
5) Defects
-Patent/latent – What does PAM Kontrak say?
6) Failure of bldgs/bldgs collapase
-report to which dept
7) EOT due to pendemic/loss n expense
-is C entitled for LE?
8) SOMF
-Why is it important
-In what situation u accept discount
9) Defects after CMGD
-how Ar advise E
10) Sapa panel u last yr..hha
-why did u fail last year

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10 1) No. Intro > Story your project experience?

2) What are the item to be included in loa to the MC?
3) How many type of practice?
4) Condition of foreign architect?
5) Can foreign as PSP?
6) How many type of insurance do you know?
7) What do you need to do b4 issuance of CPC?
8) BOMBA - What by laws included for building above 30.5m?
9) What is the function òf compartmentation in BL 136 & 137
10) What is the meaning of fire exit?
11) What are the role of an architect in HDA?
12) What is the meaning of Parcel? (Panel x jadi tanya sebab kedua2 tanya soalan serentak
yg berlainan.
13) What is the difference of PC Sum & Provisional Sum?
14) Can you explain what is Profit and attendance?

11 1) No introduction
2) So,are you ready to become an architect?
3) How long did you practice?
4) Procedure submission since your building got demolition works
5) What type of insurance involved since you have demolition
6) How many type of insurance in pam contract?
7) What is time at large?
8) Explain about bomba requirement of your building.
9) Someone died at your site, what is your action?
10) CCC and CPC? Who first and why
11) CCC is what? What department need clearance? Architect sign which g form? Which
department need inspections? What documents require under g12?
12) So how u want to open your practice?
13) How many type of ACP and can i choose all at one time?
14) Can a fisherman joint your ACP? Yes why? Which one?
15) I have 100mil, but my friend contractor company only can do project up to 50mill only.
What is your advise?

12 1) Your client want to buy an abandoned building & want to hire u as their architect.what
would you advice..do u need lor for that?
2) If client want to do mix develipment(mall/office tower),then client want to take the mall
to be occupied 1st..u as the architect,wht is your advice.
3) In a housing project, after u issue out the ccc,the client call & ask u to issue the vp..what
is your advice.
4) Can u explain the carftsmen & tradersmen under pam contract
5) CMGD implication & whats the process?
6) What is your opinion on virtual inspection.
7) What is preliminaries & give example
8) What is pc sum & provisional sum...can the provisional change to pc sum?Whats the
process?
9) What is latent & patent defect

13 1) Please introduce yourself

2) Where exactly is your workplace in JKR? Design office or management?

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3) Tell me the process of APDL in HDA?

4) Tell me the difference between PAM and JKR Contract?
5) Explain penultimate certificate?
6) How do you promote your ACS with LAM guidelines? Can you enter a competition?
7) How do you respond to a potential client if he doesn't have enough budget to pay
according to SOMF? Why is minimum and not maximum? Even in trying times?
8) What do you do if the employer want to determine the contractor because the
contractor failed to deliver his work?
9) Can you explain pre q and open tender? If your client doesnt agree with the result, what
do you do? Who has the final say?
10) If you get your Part 3, would you set up your own firm?
11) Is there anything you want to ask us?

14 1) Please introduce yourself

2) Compare Sole Prop with Body Corporate, what the difference between Body Corporate
with MDP.
3) As per circular 1/1997, an Architect shall only participate in architectural competitions
approved by the Board, how do you relate to Code of Professional Conduct for
Architects under the Architects Rules?
4) What is architect's duties under the Conditions of Engagements?
5) What is CPC?
6) You just said one of the CPC implications contractor's ceased to insure works and the
employer to take new insurance for the completed building, what insurance is that?
7) What is EOT? How do you assess EOT?
8) You just said the cpc for your project extended due to MCO, how does the MCO relate to
the Relevant Events? Does the Contractor entitled for Lost and Expense?
9) You are doing shopping mall (looking at the logbook), what happen if during the
construction (before ccc) without your knowledge the Employer allows the one tenant
to come into the building and start do the fit out work, let say they add mezzanine floor
inside their lot only after that you realised of their activity, what is your action as an
architect?
10) You have any question to ask?

15 1) Why do you think you're ready to practice?

2) Office tower- how do you apply for strata title
3) Housing complex- if there's a complex project that requires more than 36month? What
do you do?
4) What do you do if cannot issue Strata title?
5) Whats the difference between Quantities and Without Quantities?
6) If there's dengue and half of the contractors work force were infected, can contractor
claim for EOT?
7) What Relevant Event?
8) If the Arch issue progress cert and the client did not pay within POH, can contractor
apply for EOT?
9) If late 10 days from POH, will you grant 10 days extension?
10) Can client ask Architect not to issue EOT?
11) Form G1-G21 from whom do you require sokongan from relevant authority?
12) Can arch certify G21?

16 1) Introduction straight to work experience (check logbook)

2) What’s the highlight of your working experience?

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3) How many types of CPC in PAM Contract? CPC issuance? Implication of partial CPC? (One
of the panel doesn’t prefer using the term “moiety”)
4) Can you accept a trip offered from supplier/contractor, if the material is in the contract
and visit factory to check on the material?
5) What’s your plan after Part 3? Why sole prop? Explain procedure?
6) Another architect criticize your design negatively through a publication, what should you
do?
7) If Client come to you with a huge land (agriculture), want to build housing project, please
advise? Explain all the development process?
8) Can do conversion before KM? What to check on Local Plan?
9) A land owner got a nice land by a river, please advise?
10) What’s your view on such new regulation if architects should just need to deposit KM and
BP drawings to authority?

17 1) Where are you working now?

2) Where did you graduate from?
3) When you started to work at your current firm?
4) Your company let you to handle big projects while you are just 3 years experience?
5) What is EOT? Give me a few relevant events?
6) What is CCC process?
7) Your project has been abandoned for 5 years. Your client come to you and wishes to
resume the project. What should you do?
8) What are external technical agencies?
9) You have resigned from your current body corporate and started your new firm. Can you
bring your current jobs out of the BC?
10) Tell us how do you do that.
11) Can you tell us how do you assess EOT? When it related to Inclement weather?
12) Can you grant EOT for that inclement weather?
13) Say it’s already proven it’s unordinary weather. Can you grant EOT?
14) What is latent and patent defects?
15) Tell me the differences between Litigation and Arbitration
16) When do you issue defect lists?
17) What is penultimate certificate and when do you issue them?
18) What is LAD?
19) How do we decide the amount of LAD?
20) Can contractor challenge for that LAD?

18 1) Please introduce yourself

2) What is your role as an Ar in private firm vs gov sector ? What is the difference?
3) Tell me about APDL in HDA? What is the process
4) What is Bomba lift, wet riser, dry riser & break tank?
5) Explain contingency sum?
6) Explain time at large ?
7) Contractor start delay his work due to non payment from Employer. Employer ask u to
8) Give CNC & dont allow for EOT. What is your action? Does contractor entitle for EOT?
9) What are the types in Relevant Event for Contractor to apply EOT?
10) Does your fee will be revised if cost of work ada addition? Will u revise your fee to your
client?
11) How many services in SOMF
12) NSC comes to you asking for payment from Employer due to non payment from the
Contractor. What so you do?

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19 1) When did you graduate? Mostly working on apartments projects?

2) Type of ACP you can set up
3) Salient points of each ACP
4) Difference of Partnerships and Body Corporate
5) Difference of PC Sum and Provisional Sum
6) How do you assess EOT with reason of inclement weather
7) What are the other relevant events for EOT
8) Whats the client's responsibilities under COE
9) Whats the employer's responsibilities under PAM Contract
10) Type of Tender
11) What is preliminaries in Contract, give examples
12) What is the major preliminaries item in relation to MCO

20 1) Intro
2) What proj involved
3) What is mixed development
4) What is the diff between strata landed housing and landed housing. How would you
advise client which one to go for.
5) What kind of landed housing that you would advice client must go for strata landed
housing.
6) Explain Strata title application and individual title application
7) What ACP you would like to set up after getting Registered Ar.? And why? I answer sole
prop.
8) In case client approve you with hospital proj would you accept? And what kind of ACP you
will form? I answered MDP
9) If a foreign architect wants to join you for that proj what choise he has? I answer gov
funded, or employed under me and he give hint can the foreign at be park under the 30 %
of my MDP?
10) Are you familiar with ubbl bomba requirement?
11) Shoplot convert to hotel. Tell me about bomba requirement. - I just bla bla any point I
know. N he caught me tikam. My mind was Kan Cheong because I X have BOMBA n not
familiar.
12) What is Penultimate cert.
13) CMGD, Final cert, final account. - I honestly messed up this part. Not sure they try to
putar putar me or not.
14) Have you done this stage before.?

21 1) Explain roughly your working experience?

2) According to JKR Contract, can Architect get 'clearance'� ('pelepasan') not to release
CCC?Why?
3) Explain borang F?
4) JKR Contract vs PAM Contract?
5) PAM Contract with Quantities vs PAM Contract without Quantities?
6) Is it compulsory for Architect to appoint QS in PAM Contract with Quantities?Why?
7) Can Architect provide BQ in PAM Contract with Quantities?Why?
8) PAM Contract vs PAM Sub-Contract?
9) Can MC refuse to accept NSC?
10) Explain NSC for bungalow project?
11) What are the fire requirements?
12) Explain fire containment?

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13) Wet Riser vs Dry Riser?

14) Explain how Dry Riser works?

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