According to the PSI Nevada A-classification Candidate Information Bulletin (updated 3/25/2026), what is the scored length, extra time, and passing standard for the Contractor Management Survey (CMS) examination?
Licensing
Question · Easy
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What examination fee does the PSI Nevada bulletin charge for one examination portion, and when does the two-portion USD 140 fee apply?
Silver State agency that licenses construction businesses, checks applicants' qualifications and can suspend or revoke a license.
Contractor licensing
Guess the Term
Which reference may a candidate bring into the open-book Nevada CMS examination?
Read the clue and guess the term in 6 tries.
Game
A qualifier fails the CMS on the first attempt. Under NAC 624.600, the PSI bulletin, and NSCB policy, which statement is correct?
Question · Medium
The maximum contract a licensed contractor may undertake for one client at a single construction site is called the license ___.
What application and biennial license fees does the Nevada State Contractors Board currently publish for a contractor license?
Six feet: a hard-hat anthem
Under NRS 624.260, how much trade experience must a first-time applicant generally show, and in what look-back window?
Price proposal a contractor submits for a job; Nevada law makes submitting one without an active license unlawful.
Cost estimating
How much of the four-year experience requirement in NRS 624.260 may be satisfied with training from an accredited college, university, or equivalent Board-accepted program?
Swap tiles to line up three of the same term.
Term Match
Under NRS 624.260, when may one natural person qualify more than one active Nevada contractor license?
The catalog figure for a single measured item of work in a job order contract is called the ___ price.
What does NRS 624.305 say about using or transferring a Nevada contractor license?
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Under NRS 624.750, what is the criminal classification and fine range for a first offense of contracting or bidding without an active license in violation of NRS 624.700?
Statutory security interest in property or a construction disbursement account, perfected by recording a notice, for unpaid work by a worker or supplier.
Property claims
A person is convicted a third time of bidding and starting work without a Nevada contractor license. What does NRS 624.750 provide?
Question · Hard
Flip two cards at a time to find matching terms.
Term Pairs
Under NRS 624.031, which repair or maintenance job is generally exempt from contractor licensing if no other exception applies?
An item of economic value owned by a business, such as equipment or inventory, especially one that can be converted to cash.
Financial management
An unlicensed owner builds a house on the owner's property for personal occupancy under NRS 624.031. The owner lists the new house for sale eight months after completion. What is the legal effect?
What a Safety Data Sheet tells you
Under NRS 624.020, which person is not a contractor?
A business owner's residual interest after debts are subtracted from what the business owns.
The natural person who qualified a corporate Nevada license by examination resigns. What does NRS 624.285 require?
Find five hidden terms in a grid of letters.
Term Search
What is the legal status of a bid or contract submitted by a person who does not hold an active Nevada contractor license, under NRS 624.700?
Book of accounts that summarizes totals posted from journals.
An applicant is actively licensed in an endorsing state that Nevada treats as substantially equivalent and seeks licensure by endorsement. Which examination still generally must be passed?
A paving estimate uses a unit price of USD 18.40 per square yard. How much is the paving line item for 2,850 square yards before overhead and profit?
Estimating And Bidding
Federal business tax code a company requests on Form SS-4, also used by estates and trusts whose income must be reported on Form 1041.
Tax laws
A carpenter is paid USD 28.00 per hour. Employer burden is FICA at 7.65 percent of wages, state unemployment at 2.50 percent of wages, workers' compensation of USD 3.20 per hour, and health insurance of USD 4.00 per hour. What is the burdened hourly labor cost?
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Direct job cost is USD 80,000. The contractor applies a 25 percent markup on cost. What are the bid price and the profit margin on that price?
Nevada payroll levy on gross wages above a quarterly threshold, filed by most employers every three months.
In a construction estimate, what do overhead and profit represent?
A public owner requires a bid bond of 5 percent of the bid. If the contractor's bid is USD 640,000, what bid-bond penal sum is required?
Prevailing ___ is the hourly and daily pay a public-works contract must set at no less than the regional level for each class of worker.
Labor laws
What is an additive alternate in a bid form?
What is the primary purpose of a quantity takeoff?
Scheduling technique built on the consecutive chain of activities whose cumulative time sets the minimum total project time.
Project management
How does a specified allowance differ from a contractor-owned contingency?
Which bid type pays the contractor a stated price per measured unit of completed work, with the final contract amount equal to actual quantities times those unit prices?
Kind of order that modifies a construction contract's scope, payment, specifications or working time.
Construction contracts
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