Free practice questions for the two Division I trade exams — Contract Administration and Project Management — that Florida general (CGC), building (CBC) and residential (CRC) contractor applicants take, with a written explanation on every answer, in English, Spanish, and Russian.
8 questions, about 4 minutes. No account needed — pick an answer to see whether it's right and read the explanation, the same explanations you get on every question in the full course.
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The full course is 500 questions in 5 blocks — blocks 1–2 follow the Contract Administration outline, blocks 3–5 the Project Management outline — written from open sources: the Florida Building Code 2023 (Building, Residential, Existing Building, Energy Conservation), the 2010 ADA Standards, the 2026 Florida Statutes (chapters 489, 553, 713, 558 and others), the board's rules in chapter 61G4 F.A.C., and OSHA's 29 CFR 1926. Estimating and scheduling questions give every number in the question. Honest limit: the AIA contract documents (A201, A401, A701) and the commercial textbooks on the reference list are named by title only and are not reproduced, so questions that turn on their exact clauses or tables are not in this bank. Residential candidates may skip the few cranes and LEED items, which the Residential outline omits. Business & Finance, the third Division I exam, is a separate course.
Exam structure, topics, who needs it and official resources.
Florida's general, building and residential contractor licenses — Division I of the CILB — each need three exams: Business & Finance plus two trade exams, Contract Administration and Project Management. This course prepares the two trade exams. DBPR sets the format — 4.5 hours each, 60 questions per exam for General, 50 for Building and 45 for Residential, open book, 70% to pass each, by computer at Pearson VUE, in English or Spanish. Practice it in the free sample above: no sign-up, with a written explanation on every question.
Florida licenses contractors statewide through the Construction Industry Licensing Board (CILB) at the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). Division I covers the three broadest licenses — certified general (CGC), building (CBC) and residential (CRC) contractor — and DBPR's Examinations at a Glance requires each to pass three exams: Business & Finance, Contract Administration and Project Management. This course prepares the last two. Business & Finance is the same exam every CILB applicant takes, and it has its own LICENA course and a free Florida Business & Finance practice test.
The class decides what you may build. Under Florida Statutes 489.105(3), a general contractor's work is unlimited as to type (except as s. 489.113 provides); a building contractor is limited to commercial and residential buildings of no more than three stories, plus remodeling of any size that does not touch structural members; a residential contractor is limited to one-, two- and three-family homes of up to two habitable stories over at most one uninhabitable story. The exams follow the same outline for all three classes and differ mainly in length: Contract Administration and Project Management are each 4.5 hours, with 60 questions for General, 50 for Building and 45 for Residential. DBPR's Residential outline drops a few topics — cranes and hoisting, LEED-type sustainability and estimating software — and the Building and Residential percentages differ from General by a point or two.
DBPR's Examination Content Information (January 2020) for General contractors splits Contract Administration into four areas: Preconstruction Activities 27% — take-offs, unit-price and lump-sum bids, profit and break-even, square-foot estimating; Project Contracts 40% — contract types, subcontracts, changes, payment and retainage, liens, closeout; Obtaining Licenses, Permits and Approvals 20%; and Construction Procedures and Operations 13% — scheduling, submittals and coordination. The 40% contracts area is where the AIA documents on the reference list carry the most weight, so it pays to know A201's structure well before exam day; LICENA's bank teaches the Florida law around it — chapter 713 liens, chapter 715 prompt payment and retainage, chapter 558 defect claims, chapter 489 licensing — from the statutes themselves.
Project Management is mostly the building code. The General outline gives Construction Methods, Materials, Tools and Equipment 63% — site work, soils, foundations, concrete, masonry, wood and metal framing, roofing, energy and finishes; Safety 20% — the OSHA construction standards in 29 CFR 1926; and Reading Plans and Specifications 17%. Because the exam is open book, many questions are look-ups: a span, a fastener, a footing size, a guard height. The skill is finding the right table in the right volume quickly — Florida Building Code, Building for commercial work and Florida Building Code, Residential for one- and two-family homes — and doing the arithmetic (slopes, volumes, areas) without slipping on units.
Only the books on DBPR's GC, BC and RC reference list may come into the room, and they must be bound; highlighting is allowed, written notes and movable tabs are not. The list includes the Florida Building Code volumes — Building, Residential, Existing Building, Energy Conservation and Accessibility — the OSHA construction standards (29 CFR 1926), the AIA documents A201, A401 and A701, the Contractors Manual, Principles and Practices of Commercial Construction and BCSI. The 2023 (8th edition) Florida Building Code is the edition on the list until August 1, 2027, when the 2026 editions replace it. LICENA's code questions are keyed to the 2023 text and checked against the official Analysis of Changes for 2026: where the two editions differ, the question names the edition.
Apply first with Professional Testing, Inc. (PTI), which registers candidates and develops and scores the CILB exams; completed applications and fees must reach PTI at least 30 days before the exam date. Once approved, book with Pearson VUE online or at 888-204-6230. Bring two forms of signature identification, one of them government-issued. DBPR exams are offered in English and Spanish at no additional cost — ask for Spanish when you book — and a word-for-word translation dictionary is allowed. Each exam is graded on its own: 70% passes and scores are not rounded.
The full course is 500 questions in five blocks: Contract Administration I (estimating, licensing, CPM) · Contract Administration II (contracts, liens, permits) · Project Management I (site, soils, concrete, masonry) · Project Management II (framing, energy, roofing, cranes) · Project Management III (OSHA, plans, building code, accessibility). At 30 questions a day that is under three weeks: one pass to find the gaps, a second pass on the blocks you missed, then the timed final. The final exam mirrors the real pair — pick General, Building or Residential, then two timed parts, Contract Administration and Project Management, each 4.5 hours and each graded at 70% on its own. The free OSHA construction practice test drills the federal safety rules behind the 20% safety area.
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