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B1 · area 01 · subtopic 0101

Project Administration

2 percent of the B1 Residential Building Inspector exam. At 60 questions, that is roughly 1 to 2 questions, each with about 120 seconds of budget including the lookup.

Exam
B1
Area
Code Administration
Weight
2%
Questions
~1 to 2

What this subtopic covers

Verifying project information is provided and adequate: design by approved persons where required, required approvals in place, products not detailed in the code approved by the building official and installed per their listing, and approved plans and specifications available and retained for the required period.

Paraphrased from the certification content outline published by the International Code Council for the B1 exam. This page cites no code sections and reproduces no code text: your code book carries the requirements, and the skill this site trains is finding them fast.

How to drill it

  • Find the chapter of the International Residential Code that carries this subject and read it once for structure, not retention: what lives here, what gets sent elsewhere, which tables exist.
  • Write your own plain-language phrases for what this subtopic covers, then note the code's terms beside them. Mismatches between the two columns are exactly where exam questions cost you time.
  • Run timed lookups: pick a requirement named in the descriptor above, start a stopwatch, find the governing text in your book, stop. Log the seconds. Past two minutes is a miss even when the answer is right.
  • Weight your reps to the number above. Roughly 1 to 2 questions means this subtopic needs a handful of confident reps, not a week.
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The rest of area 01: Code Administration (4%)

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