NCEES TEST - PS

1. You are a surveyor who has prepared an "as-built" plan, without certification, for a developer showing the recently completed improvements on a parcel of land with relationships to the boundary lines. The developer now asks you to certify the boundary locations in order to obtain an insurance policy. If another surveyor had done the original boundary line work for that parcel, you should provide the certification if:

(A) the original surveyor has a good reputation

(B) the developer allows you to resurvey the boundary line

(D) the original surveyor's work was performed in recent times so that it is subject to current standards of practice

2. On an ALTA/ACSM survey, you find a building that overlaps the property boundary. For this situation, on the survey map, you show it as:

(A) an adverse possession

(B) a prescriptive easement

(D) a license to possess

3. In performing an ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey, the allowable relative positional accuracy for measurements controlling land boundaries is:

(A) 0.05 ft (or 15 mm)+ 50 ppm

(B) 0.07 ft (or 20 mm)+ 50 ppm

(D) 0.12 ft (or 36 mm)+ 50 ppm

4. U.S. National Map Accuracy Standards require that at least 90% of the field check elevations be accurate within:

(A) one-half of the contour interval

(B) the contour interval

(D) 1 foot

5. The individual authorized by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) to issue flood plain certificates on property in subscribing jurisdictions is the:

(A) local flood plain administrator

(B) local surveyor, engineer, or architect

(D) local county commissioner

6. Your client wishes to obtain a mortgage for a house. A flood hazard certification is required for mortgage approval. From which of the following sources can Flood Hazard Boundary Maps be obtained?

(A) Federal Emergency Management Agency

(B) Army Corps of Engineers

(D) National and Geodetic Survey

7. Your client requests a conference with you to discuss the relationship between boundary locations and fences. You should Advise the client that fences have control as to boundary location when the:

(A) fences exist along the property lines of ad joiners whose property was simultaneously created

(B) fences are less than 20 years old from the time of the original survey

(D) fences were built in accordance with the original survey and no original or other monuments exist

8. An obvious error exists in the calls of a patent. This error became apparent during a survey in which all the original corners involved were found. Which of the following is true concerning this situation?

(A) The problem must be corrected by the surveyor, who will be governed by the Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public lands of the United States.

(B) The calls in the patent will control because they indicate intent.

(D) The original corners are unchangeable and will control.

9. The owner of a large tract of land sold several lots over a period of many years. The surveying work was done by different surveyors. The owners of the separate lots have quarreled continually over the location of their property lines. You have been engaged to help resolve the difficulties and have plotted the map shown below from the legal descriptions and plats called for in their deeds. The original owner claims to have retained the NW quarter of the original plot. Your office decides to prepare a perpetual map file showing probable resolutions to location conflicts. How would you apply the controlling standards of surveying to resolve the overlap conflict between Lots A and D?

(A) The correct property line should be established midway between the east line of Lot A and the west line of Lot D.

(B) The east line of Lot A should be established by a thorough analysis of possession lines such as fences, walls, and general actions of the parties involved.

(D) The location of the dividing line depends purely upon matters of acquiescence and estoppel.

10. A portion of the original subdivision plat of 1926 and today's resurvey notes of the same block are shown in the figure. Iron pipes have been set on all Lot corners. All angles are 90° unless otherwise shown. The northwest corner of Lot 5 would be reset by:

(A) measuring 100 ft from the southwest block comer on a line toward the northwest block comer

(B) intersecting a line through the found northwest comer of Lot 8 parallel to the south block line with the west block line

(D) measuring 100.00 ft along a line from the southwest block comer perpendicular to the south block line

11. Referring to the figure below, the N 1/16 section corner between Sections 1 and 2 was not set in the original survey. Which of the following is the proper position of the N 1/16, given the data shown?

(A) The midpoint between a and b

(B) A point set proportionally between a and b

(D) 1,320 ft northerly of a

12. Prior to the extension of the Public Land Survey System, bona fide citizens of the United States were allowed to claim public lands for purposes of developing a home. What was the title of the surveys executed to segregate these claims?

(A) Homestead Entry Survey

(B) Homesite Boundary Survey

(D) Homestead Entry Patent

13. In legal descriptions, certain terms are often used interchangeably and yet they are not strictly synonymous. If a given easement is intended to touch upon and maintain constant and continuous contact along a certain line, the term that is most likely to ensure the proper conveyance of this meaning is:

(A) coincident with

(B) adjacent to

(D) contiguous with

14. Analyze the following legal description. The only corner of the property that has been monumented is the beginning point. Assume the true bearing of the Benson Grant boundary is N 0°04' W and that Nancy's Creek appears to be in its original location.

Legal Description

"Beginning at the Southeast Corner of Benson's Grant. thence northerly along the Grant boundary, 462 feet; thence N 39°30' W, 436.03 feet; thence S 18°45' W. 468 feet to Nancy's Creek; thence downstream with Nancy's Creek the following meanders: N 40°15' E. 62 feet; thence N 46°30' E. 102 feet; thence N 89°15' E, 66 feet; thence S 88°15' E. 121 feet to the old ford .... "

Which of the following would be best for establishing the direction of the second course called for in the description?

(A) Deflect left 39°34' from the Grant boundary.

(B) Deflect left 39°26' from the Grant boundary.

(D) From the north end of the first course, backsight the southeast comer and tum 140°30' to the right.

15. A description of record calls for a property line to run S 45°34' W. 900 ft to an old iron stake in place. A present-day survey finds the old iron stake called for in the record to be S 46°42'31" W, 910.52 ft. What should the surveyor do?

(A) Hold the old iron stake called for in the deed and show old and new bearings and distances.

(B) Hold the old bearing but use the new distance.

(D) Set a new monument at the record bearing and distance with reference to the old iron stake.

16. You are asked to survey a property whose description runs to the thalweg of a river. You determine the thalweg at the:

(A) high waterline on the bank of the river at the JOO-year flood level

(B) midpoint of the river by splitting the high waterlines

(D) deepest single center point of the channel proportioned between existing bank lines

17. You establish the correct title line between Lots 7 and 8. This title line falls 3 ft west of an old fence. The two adjoining owners always thought that the old fence was their boundary line. While you are performing the survey, they once again orally agree and tell you that, regardless of your survey. they are going to mutually observe the fence line as their boundary line. In order to best preserve the evidence discovered by your survey, it would be best to show:

(A) only the surveyed title line on your plat of survey

(B) the fence line and the title line on your plat of survey, and record the plat in the public records

(C) the fence line and the title line on your plat of survey, and add a surveyor's note concerning the adjoiners' agreement and record the plat in the public records

(D) the fence line and the title line on your plat of survey, and add a surveyor's note concerning the adjoiners' agreement

18. A deed reads as follows:

"Beginning at the point of intersection of the centerlines of Rains Road and Sky Road; thence, westerly along centerline of Rains Road for 100 feet to a point; thence northerly through the lands of the party of the first part in a straight line 1,000 feet more or less to a point at the lands of Gull: thence easterly along the lands of Gull 100 feet to the centerline of said Sky Road; thence southerly along the centerline of said Sky Road to point of beginning, containing 6 acres, more or less."

Your survey will most probably indicate that the westerly line of the parcel surveyed was determined by holding:

(A) the acreage in the deed and the distance along the centerline of Rains Road

(B) a line 100 ft westerly of Sky Road

(C) the distance from the Sky Road centerline intersection along Rains Road and the distance from the centerline of Sky Road along the lands of Gull and using a straight line between the points

(D) the acreage and a straight line from Rains Road to the lands of Gull

19. In preparation for the sale of property. J. Smith has requested a resurvey and a written deed description. The draft of the work of surveyor G. Allen is provided. Assume all values shown are correct. It is Smith's intention to transfer all the grantor's property, rights, and interest to the grantee. The area defining rights and interests to be transferred is:

(A) subject to easements in favor of the public for a strip of land 22 ft wide and a strip of -right-of-way of 25 ft

(B) excepting the strip of beach 12 ft wide

(D) subject to two easements in favor of the public for a strip of beach approximately 12 ft wide and strip of right-of-way of25 ft

20. The deed for the property you are surveying has a call of N 10º 30' E, 422.63 ft to the south right-of-way line of a state highway. The monuments recovered during your initial field investigation indicate the above call to be N 10º 30' E, 646.81 ft. What should be your immediate primary task?

(A) Set your point at 422.63 ft, and show the location of the existing right-of-way.

(B) Set your point at 646.81 ft, and show the deed call of 422.63 ft parenthetically on your plat.

(C) Perform additional research of the records, and try to determine if the highway has been relocated since the call was first used.

(D) Advise your client to seek legal counsel regarding the discrepancy.

21. You have located two triangulation stations near your project. The position information for the two stations can be obtained from:

(A) your state office of the BLM or other designated depository in your state

(B) the Bureau of Land Management

(D) the National Geodetic Survey

22. You have been hired to place vertical control monumentation on a 3-mile section of highway. You are provided with the existing monumentation listed below:

Station: Headwall

WTRl5 Datum: NGVD 1929

Description: Station "Headwall WTR15" is a chisel cut in a wall at the northeast comer of Schwartz Road and Elm Street. The benchmark was set in 1973 (1 /2 mile south of south end of job site).

Elevation: 512.2 m

Station:Radio X41I

Datum: NGVD 1929

Description: Station "Radio X41I" is a brass disc set in the concrete base on a radio tower on River Road, east of Main Street. The benchmark was set by USC&GS in 1952 (2 miles southeast of job site).

Elevation: 1,437.543 ft

Station: School B342

Datum: NAVO 1988

Description: Station "School B342" is a chisel cut in the northeast doorway of the Cousteau Elementary School on Ocean Blvd. The benchmark was set by NGS in 1987 (3 mi north of north end of job site).

Elevation: 532.317 ft

NOTE: Conversion data from NGVD 1929 to NA VD 1988 are available from NGS.

Which of the following alternatives would provide the highest accuracy benchmark for your project?

(A) Start on Radio X41I, run through your project benches, and close on School B342.

(B) Start at Headwall WTR15, run through your project benches, and close on School B342.

(D) Start on Radio X41I, run through your project benches, and close on Headwall WTR15.

23. A topographic survey of a parcel is required by FEMA for the determination of the base flood elevation. The vertical datum should be based on:

(A) NAD83

(B) USGS

(D) NGVD

24. A properly monumented and surveyed geodetic control point may be accepted into the National Spatial Reference System through a process commonly known as:

(A) post positioning review

(B) blue booking

(D) geodetic positioning

25. In one of the simplest procedures for calibrating GPS rod collimation, a plumb bob is suspended from the top of a doorway and a point marked on the floor. The rod's point is placed on the floor point, the rod's bubble is centered, and the position of the raised plumb bob is observed in relation to the pole's top. This method will check:

(A) rod bubble and receiver phase center

(B) receiver phase center and rod straightness

(D) rod straightness, rod bubble, and receiver phase center

26. As survey crew party chief, you have been instructed to go to a large construction site located 140 miles from your office. Once at the site, you are to take ground elevations immediately over a 3-acre area to be used for stockpiling sand. These elevations will be the base from which stockpile volumes are to be calculated.

When you arrive at the site the contractor has four earthmovers ready to stockpile the sand. Your crew now discovers they did not put the total station or level in the truck. The contractor has a 1935 dumpy level to lend you. As the surveyor in charge, you should:

(A) tell the contractor that it will be 3 hours before the sand can be stockpiled

(B) call the office and have the instruments brought to you

(D) tell the contractor that to do this job right you must have your total station and will need to return to your office to get it

27. Ground control surveys for photogrammetric mapping are used to:

(A) control the direction of the flight line of the airplane or helicopter

(B) verify the accuracy of NGS geodetic marks

(D) analyze the results from high-accuracy reference networks (HARN)

28. You have completed a closed traverse between two pairs of published NGS control monuments. The monuments appear to be undisturbed yet the traverse has a raw closure of less than 1:5,000 and was completed using a total station. In seeking the appropriate source of error, you should investigate:

(A) whether the scale factor was applied incorrectly

(B) refraction corrections

(D) PPM correction

29. The figure shows an area of roadway to be abandoned. Assuming the curve to be tangent to the parallel lines, the area (ft²) is most nearly:

(A) 9.483

(B) 8,919

(D) 8,122

30. Topographic considerations have determined that a proposed cul-de-sac at the end of a subdivision roadway will have its center 60 ft north and 100 ft east of P.C. B. The known geometry is shown on the figure. All curves are arcs of circles. The length of arc (ft) of Curve B is:

(A) 116.62

(B) 118.44

(D) 160.00

31. In preparing a plan of a subdivision, the client has expressed a concern that there should be restrictions on the lots above and beyond government zoning and subdivision requirements.

Consider the following possible courses of action:

1. Recommend the client consider adopting covenants and seek legal aid in drafting them.

2. Ignore the client's concern since the surveyor has no duty to furnish legal advice.

3. Make every effort to show the bounds of restriction and other covenants on the subdivision plans if possible.

4. Show only the government restrictions on the plat.

Which of these actions would be appropriate?

(A) 1, 2 only

(B) 1, 3 only

(D) 2 only

32. You are a recently licensed surveyor conducting a boundary survey of a town lot fronting on Holmes Boulevard and extending through the block to Carman Road. Each right-of-way has been conveyed, in fee simple, to the State Department of Transportation. Your research and measurements reveal that the improvements of Carman Road were constructed 4 ft off center toward the southwest, in 1920. In the course of your field work you discover that the stone monuments called for in your deed and in other deeds dating back to 1930 are in place and undisturbed, and located 33 ft as measured at right angles from the centerline of the improvements on Carman Road. The previous surveyor has maintained an office in the town for many years and has resurveyed this lot three times in the past 30 years. Each time the previous surveyor has held the stone monuments. Which of the following is the best description of the beginning point for Lot 17?

(A) Beginning at a point marking the intersection of the southwesterly line of Holmes Boulevard with the line of lands now or formerly of Amurol Products, Inc., said point marked by a stone monument, and ....

(B) Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the herein described premises, and ....

(C) Beginning at a stone monument marking the intersection of the southwesterly line of Holmes Boulevard, in the line of lands now of Amurol Products, Inc., and ....

(D) Beginning at a stone monument marking the intersection of the southwesterly line of Holmes Boulevard, with the southeasterly line of lands of Amurol Products, Inc., and ....

33. When developing a street layout plan for a new subdivision, a surveyor should first:

(A) run an elevation grid across the tract to be subdivided and set temporary stakes along the proposed street centerline

(B) consult with the local planning authorities for the existence of a street master plan for the municipality

(D) develop a preliminary plan that minimizes the number of streets

34. A preliminary route survey is to be prepared for a proposed pipeline. Consider the following procedures:

1. Notify all utility companies along the potential route of the client's intention to extend a new pipeline.

2. Thoroughly examine a wide area from one terminal point to the other to identify feasible route alternatives.

3. Perform a reconnaissance survey of the alternative routes in sufficient detail to select the best route. 4. Use the same degree of accuracy from the first stage to the last.

5. Perform a detailed survey of the best route for the preparation of plans.

6. Prepare deeds of easements for the affected landowners.

The procedures that must be performed are:

(A) 1, 2, 4, 5 only

(B) 1, 3, 5 only

(D) 3, 4, 5, 6 only

35. You have been hired on a time-and-material basis to provide a topographic survey. You will be working with several of the client's other consultants in the process. You are working on a limited schedule and discover that the field naturalist who will be flagging the wetlands will not be able to complete that work for 4 weeks. You will be finished in 3 weeks. What should you do?

(A)Contact your client and explain all the options and let the client decide how to proceed.

(B)Schedule your work to minimize your time on the project.

(C)Do what you can and go back later to pick up the wetlands.

(D)Contact the field naturalist and tell him he will hold you up.

36. Your firm has professional liability (errors and omissions) insurance but the court found your firm not liable for a surveying error. The firm is now free from:

(A)any cost arising out of the litigation

(B)any cost arising out of the litigation except the deductible

(C)any cost arising out of the litigation except the deductible and the legal fees

(D)any cost arising out of the litigation except that portion of the deductible needed for legal fees

37. You are a licensed surveyor. In performing a survey of a tract of approximately 100 acres, you discover that some of your measurements vary significantly when compared to the dimensions on a plat of the adjoining tract. Following resolution of the discrepancy, good professional practice would suggest that you:

(A) make no reference to the adjacent plat/deed dimensions on your plat since they have no effect on your client's title

(B) inform the owner of the adjacent tract of the discrepancies you have found in the adjacent plat/deed

(D) show on your plat the dimensions from the plat/deed of the adjoining tract and your measurements

38. You have a written survey agreement with a client to survey a 10-acre parcel of land for a set fee. After obtaining a deed and survey for the parcel you are to survey, you also obtain adjoining deeds on all sides. You find serious discrepancies between the available records. After beginning the fieldwork, you feel you will be able to solve the problems, but only after extensive work. You should:

(A) consult your attorney before proceeding

(B) tell your client's attorney you will require more money to complete the job

(D) proceed with the survey and bill only the original fee

39. You have been asked to testify as an expert witness in court regarding the plat of a survey performed by another surveyor. You might legally and ethically testify as to:

(A) the competency of the surveyor

(B) the accuracy of the plat

(D) your conclusions regarding the plat

40. You have established a property line that has been contested in court by your client's adjoiner. Upon taking the witness stand under cross-examination you should:

(A) recite only the evidence that will support the line that you established

(B) answer all questions promptly, volunteering all the information you know

(D) answer all questions factually, without prejudice to either side, volunteering nothing

41. In researching the official county records, you discover the attorney has erroneously transposed figures from your survey in recording a deed. You should:

(A) request that a corrected deed be recorded

(B) record an affidavit with the county clerk/recorder's office

(D) request that the county clerk/recorder correct the deed

42. Consider the following survey-related information:

1. Easements and right-of-way

2. Zoning requirements

3. Recorded deeds and maps

4. Original government field notes

5. Government patents

Which of these are most probably available in Title Company or Abstract Company records?

(A) 1, 2, 3 only

(B) 1, 3, 4, 5 only

(D) 2, 3, 4 only

43. NOAA and its subordinate offices NOS and NGS establish horizontal and vertical geodetic control networks. These geodetic surveys are affected by and take into account:

(A) astronomic observations

(B) curvature of the earth

(D) all of the above

44. Your firm is performing an ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey, and you have been furnished with a new title report and copies of all easements listed as exceptions to title. Your responsibility toward the information contained in the title report is to:

(A) certify that the legal description contained in the title report is correct

(B) list on your survey all the easements in the title report

(D) plot or otherwise note the effect (or non-effect) of each easement listed in the title report

45. Under a state plane coordinate system, grid azimuth would equal geodetic azimuth at a survey station located:

(A) along an agonic line

(B) on the central meridian of the zone

(D) on one of the lines of intersection of the developable surface with the sea level surface of the earth

46. You must establish state plane coordinates in a project. You have contacted NGS for a listing of horizontal monumentation in the area. A brass disk was established by them in the northwest corner of a concrete headwall on your project site. You have searched for the monument and have not found it. You should:

(A) use given descriptions to replace the point if not found

(B) instruct your field crew to look in a larger area for the monument

(C) seek further information on the brass disk monument from other sources such as USGS or the Department of Transportation to help you locate the monument.

(D) search for other monumentation since it appears that the monument has been destroyed

47. You have decided to do the control for a photogrammetric survey using Global Positioning System (GPS). To determine an unknown static GPS vector you must use at least:

(A) one SV (satellite)

(B) two SVs (satellites)

(D) four SVs (satellites)

48. A survey party has set offset stakes for the construction of an 8-in. sewer branch line. When the existing 12-in. sewer is uncovered for the purpose of constructing a maintenance hole (MH 1) to tie in the branch line, it is found that the actual flow line in the 12-in. sewer is 1,488.76 ft rather than the design elevation of 1,489.00 ft. Stationing for the 8-in. sewer construction begins at the 12-in. line. At Station 3+07.10 along the 8-in. line, another maintenance hole (MH 2) is to be constructed. The design flow line elevation of MH 2 is 1,489.86 ft for a design grade of +0.280% for the 8-in. line. The gradient to meet the existing 12-in. sewer must be revised while holding the flow line elevation of MH 2 at 1,489.86 ft. If the offset stake at Station 1+25 had been set at elevation 1,494.38 ft, the new cut (ft) to adjust for the revised gradient is most nearly:

(A) 5.27

(B) 5.17

(D) 4.93

49. Which of the following are true with respect to boundary survey plats?

1. A plat depicting a survey is usually made following a survey of land boundaries.

2. Standards for preparation of subdivision plats are to be followed.

3. A plat may be considered as part of a description even if the plat is not of public record.

4. An original plat shows the results of a resurvey of a boundary.

5. A resurvey plat serves as evidence of what the surveyor did in following the record and considering evidence on the ground.

(A) 1, 2, 5 only

(B) 1, 3,4 only

(D) 2, 3, 4 only

50. When a property is being assessed for a topographic survey, the methods of contouring can be divided into two categories: direct method and indirect method. The direct method can best be described as:

(A) a series of spot elevations

(B) contour lines physically located on the site

(D) reproduction of aerial mapping contours

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