Dutyman
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Archer, did you take your MM exam yet? I passed mine and can offer some study suggestions. I'm scheduled to take the Legal exam next month.
No, Not yet. I'm studying for it now. I can do the same with the legal exam for you.
I do. Scheduled for April 19th.Do you still need what is covered in the legal module?
Greetings gentlemen. I am new here and just passed my legal module for the CBO. I am starting to study for the management test. I'm looking for practice tests, study guides or anything else that would aid in passing. For anyone that has not passed the Legal module. Let me know and I can pass on what I have that would help.
Thanks
I'm studying for legal right now,can you please pass me on what you have to help me with legal. My email address is, myboyhaven@hotmail.com. l would appreciate all the help. Thank you.Greetings gentlemen. I am new here and just passed my legal module for the CBO. I am starting to study for the management test. I'm looking for practice tests, study guides or anything else that would aid in passing. For anyone that has not passed the Legal module. Let me know and I can pass on what I have that would help.
Thanks
Greetings gentlemen. I am new here and just passed my legal module for the CBO. I am starting to study for the management test. I'm looking for practice tests, study guides or anything else that would aid in passing. For anyone that has not passed the Legal module. Let me know and I can pass on what I have that would help.
Thanks
Greetings gentlemen. I am new here and just passed my legal module for the CBO. I am starting to study for the management test. I'm looking for practice tests, study guides or anything else that would aid in passing. For anyone that has not passed the Legal module. Let me know and I can pass on what I have that would help.
Thanks
I'm studying for legal right now,can you please pass me on what you have to help me with legal. My email address is, myboyhaven@hotmail.com. l would appreciate all the help. Thank you.
I'm studying for legal right now,do you have any thing I can use to help me with my legal. Thanks Rob.Here are some of the main areas that were covered. Most of the questions actually referenced the book that the question was for.
Budgeting: Go through the budget types and budget cycles. Get to know all the fund types and what they are used for as well. Know the equity types, finance dept duties and financial reports.
HR: Go through hiring process, performance evaluations and HR software systems and their uses.
Management: Go through supervisor/building officials roles, supervisor expectations from employees and evaluating employees
Inspector skills: Inspectors main role as an educator, customer service regarding listening and complaints, communication.
Only a few questions on IBC and IFC regarding who gets notice for violations and posting notices.
If anything else pops in my mind, ill add to it but this covers a majority of the topics. I hope this helps!
Me too! kurbere@hotmail.comI'm studying for my legal right now. Can you please pass on any thing that can help me in my study. My email address is myboyhaven@hotmail.com. I thank you for all the help.
I know Rob has posted that he passed the test but for future reference for anyone who takes the legal exam I just read this chapter of the legal aspects of code administration and it clearly explains the difference between misfeasance and nonfeasance is the difference between action and inaction nonfeasance as defined above by Rob is "the non performance of some act that a person is obligated or has the responsibility to perform" which would be if the inspector did not perform the inspection at all so that would be inaction and couldnt be the answer because according to the question they did perform an inspection they just did not do it properly...Misfeasance has the word "proper" in the definition and that was also in the question ( one thing I have realized from taking the ICC exams is they will usually either tell you the book it's out of in the actual question or they will word the question so when you look it up in the book you will find it word for word usually) and misfeasance is "the improper performance of some act that a person may lawfully do" question actually says the inspector did not properly perform the inspection which makes you think that they still did the inspection and that would be that act that they're lawfully doing but did not do it properly. So the answer would be A. MisfeasanceThanks all. Did anyone find the answer to the question posted about an emergency inspection after a deck collapse?
1 misfeasance
2 nonfeasance
3 malfeasance
4 liability
Lol if you read the post everyone has a different answer or view.
I think it’s b. Because the question states “ had not conducted a proper connection inspection “ and nonfeasance = nonperformance of some act that a person is obligated or has the responsibility to perform.
Thanks all I’ll keep you posted
I used the advice given by him in the above mentioned post including tabbing each of those sections (such as highlighting each budget type and putting a separate tab on each page that listed a different budget type with that budget types name written on the tab) so that way I could flip right to that page quickly and look for the highlighted section to re-read what that budget type was if I needed to verify it was in fact the correct answer. In addition to what he said I can also say there were a couple other questions that were mostly fluff questions like he mentioned from the IBC and IFC which were on things like how long a fire marshal is required to retain plans for and things like that which can all be found in chapter one of each of those books. I can definitely say going over what Dutyman recommended to study covered about 95% of the answers on the version of the management module that I had.Here are some of the main areas that were covered. Most of the questions actually referenced the book that the question was for.
Budgeting: Go through the budget types and budget cycles. Get to know all the fund types and what they are used for as well. Know the equity types, finance dept duties and financial reports.
HR: Go through hiring process, performance evaluations and HR software systems and their uses.
Management: Go through supervisor/building officials roles, supervisor expectations from employees and evaluating employees
Inspector skills: Inspectors main role as an educator, customer service regarding listening and complaints, communication.
Only a few questions on IBC and IFC regarding who gets notice for violations and posting notices.
I just recently passed the legal module and am currently studying for the management module. Thanks for the heads up. The budgeting guide is way more user friendly than the legal aspects of code.I know it's been awhile but I just wanted to give everyone a heads up. I took the management module first (I was told by somebody else I knew who recently took all three exams that he had the most trouble with that one) back in the last week of January this year and passed on my 1st try! I then took the legal module the first week of February and past that one on my first try also. Since then it has been a mixture of slacking on studying for the building code and standards module and being incredibly swamped at work with the amount of construction going on everywhere so I have not yet taken the last exam but I'm going to start cracking down on studying for it now.
I just wanted to let anyone else who plans on taking them know that I actually found the legal module a little more difficult than the management module. I read the entire legal aspects book front to back including adding my own tabs to it and highlighting the sections I thought were important and I would say maybe 5-10 questions total were out of that book on the entire legal exam. Most of the questions believe it or not were out of the building department administration book and the human resources book (at least on the version of the exam that I got).
I can definitely say anybody that is about to take the management module, a previous post on this thread by Dutyman hit the nail on the head.
I used the advice given by him in the above mentioned post including tabbing each of those sections (such as highlighting each budget type and putting a separate tab on each page that listed a different budget type with that budget types name written on the tab) so that way I could flip right to that page quickly and look for the highlighted section to re-read what that budget type was if I needed to verify it was in fact the correct answer. In addition to what he said I can also say there were a couple other questions that were mostly fluff questions like he mentioned from the IBC and IFC which were on things like how long a fire marshal is required to retain plans for and things like that which can all be found in chapter one of each of those books. I can definitely say going over what Dutyman recommended to study covered about 95% of the answers on the version of the management module that I had.
Also anyone that has recently taken the 2018 building code and standards module if you feel like you have any tips I would definitely appreciate them!
Congratulations!I just wanted to come on here to post an update to let everyone know that I finally ended up attempting the last exam I needed which was the building codes and standards module on Sunday and thankfully passed on my first try and have finally received my CBO certification! I wanted to thank everybody on here that posted tips and suggestions, I definitely could not have been as successful as I was without them. The last exam was definitely not easy and I ended up answering the last question with about 2 minutes left on the clock which did not give me a lot of time to go back over some of the questions I had bookmarked but was able to find 95% of the answers in the books during the exam to questions I was unsure about so before it was over I had a feeling that I was going to pass. The best tip I could give is to add additional tabs to the books so you can find sections faster. What I did is I used practice tests people had given me on here and a sort of study guide one of my co-workers had made up when he was taking the exams and based off those I tabbed the sections of the book where the answers to those practice questions were found and read through and highlighted those specific sections so if I needed to reference it during the test I would find my tab flip to that page and then look for the highlighted sections to locate them faster. That seemed to work pretty well. I would also say to anyone watch the clock if you're trying to find an answer to a question and you see that it's taking you longer than about 2 minutes I would pick whichever answer I thought was it bookmark the question and then move on to the next one that way you don't run out of time before all of the questions are answered and you're not leaving the question blank in case you don't have time to go back to it. I wish anybody else going through the process right now luck and if anybody has any questions about any of the exams feel free to ask I'll help the best I can!
Congratulations on your accomplishmentI just wanted to come on here to post an update to let everyone know that I finally ended up attempting the last exam I needed which was the building codes and standards module on Sunday and thankfully passed on my first try and have finally received my CBO certification! I wanted to thank everybody on here that posted tips and suggestions, I definitely could not have been as successful as I was without them. The last exam was definitely not easy and I ended up answering the last question with about 2 minutes left on the clock which did not give me a lot of time to go back over some of the questions I had bookmarked but was able to find 95% of the answers in the books during the exam to questions I was unsure about so before it was over I had a feeling that I was going to pass. The best tip I could give is to add additional tabs to the books so you can find sections faster. What I did is I used practice tests people had given me on here and a sort of study guide one of my co-workers had made up when he was taking the exams and based off those I tabbed the sections of the book where the answers to those practice questions were found and read through and highlighted those specific sections so if I needed to reference it during the test I would find my tab flip to that page and then look for the highlighted sections to locate them faster. That seemed to work pretty well. I would also say to anyone watch the clock if you're trying to find an answer to a question and you see that it's taking you longer than about 2 minutes I would pick whichever answer I thought was it bookmark the question and then move on to the next one that way you don't run out of time before all of the questions are answered and you're not leaving the question blank in case you don't have time to go back to it. I wish anybody else going through the process right now luck and if anybody has any questions about any of the exams feel free to ask I'll help the best I can!
I'll try asking this question differently.Out of curiosity does anybody from a state that uses Uniform Plumbing/Mechanical have experience taking the codes module (BC)? I'm in CA and so far I've taken all my inspector certification using the CA codes so I'm not familiar with IPC/IMC and I'm wondering how much I may need to study those before attempting the BC exam.