Free practice questions for Nevada's Contractor Management Survey — the business-and-law exam every Nevada license applicant takes — 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.
Practice across the full question bank.
Understand why the correct answer works — not just which letter is right.
Spend more time on the questions you miss.
Practice under exam-style time pressure before exam day.
Every question tells you why the correct answer is correct and defines the terms it uses — so you learn the rule, not just the answer.
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The full Nevada CMS course is 500 questions across 5 blocks that follow PSI's own subject areas — Financial Management 12, Licensing 10, Estimating and Bidding 7, Contracts 6, Tax Laws 5, Labor Laws 5, Environmental and Safety 5, Risk Management 4, Lien Law 3, Project Management 3 — written from the Nevada Revised Statutes themselves.
Exam structure, topics, study areas and official resources.
The Contractor Management Survey is Nevada's business-and-law exam, required of every license applicant in every classification. It is open book: 60 scored questions (plus 3 unscored pretest items) in 120 minutes with a 45-of-60 — 75 percent — pass bar, and the one reference allowed in the center is PSI's Construction Business and Law Manual for Nevada. Try it in the free sample above: no sign-up, with a written explanation on every question.
Whatever license you are after — General Building, B-2, electrical, plumbing, any of them — the Nevada State Contractors Board requires the CMS, and most classifications add a separate PSI trade exam on top. The CMS format, from PSI's Nevada Candidate Information Bulletin (Updated 3/25/2026): 60 scored questions plus 3 unscored pretest items, 120 minutes, and 45 of 60 — 75 percent — to pass. It is open book with a single allowed reference, PSI's Construction Business and Law Manual for Nevada; the subject matter underneath it is Nevada statute, which is exactly what LICENA's course drills — with the NRS section cited on every answer.
The outline weights the money side of contracting: Financial Management 12 items, Licensing 10, Estimating and Bidding 7, Contracts 6, then Tax, Labor, Environmental and Safety at 5 each, Risk Management 4, Lien Law 3 and Project Management 3. In statute terms that means NRS 624 — who needs a license, the monetary limit, discipline, and the prompt-payment sections 624.606-624.630 — NRS 108's mechanic's-lien notices, NRS 338's public-works and prevailing-wage rules, and the labor chapters: NRS 608 on wages and daily overtime, unemployment and industrial insurance beside it. The math questions are business math: markup versus margin, job costing, payment chains.
CMS questions concentrate on statutory numbers with conditions attached. The ones worth knowing cold: work under $1,000 including labor and materials is exempt from licensing — unless a permit is required or the work is of a licensed-trade type (NRS 624.031); retention on private jobs is capped at 5 percent of each progress payment (NRS 624.609); an unpaid prime may stop work 10 days after written notice to the owner; a notice of right to lien protects the 31 days before it is given plus everything after (NRS 108.245); prevailing wage attaches to public works estimated at $100,000 or more (NRS 338.080); and daily overtime hits past 8 hours for workers earning under 1 1/2 times minimum wage (NRS 608.018). Each number carries its conditions — the exam tests those, not just the figure.
The full LICENA course is 500 questions in five blocks that follow the outline's own areas, every answer explained with its NRS citation. At 30 questions a day that is under three weeks: one pass to find what you do not know, a second on the blocks you missed, then the timed final that mirrors the real 60-question, 120-minute, 75-percent format. Because the exam is open book, the skill is knowing where the rule lives — that retention is in 624.609, liens in 108.245, overtime in 608.018 — and drilling questions builds that map faster than reading the manual cover to cover. Schedule both exams through PSI and keep the NSCB's license-examinations page as your source of truth for logistics.
Try the full bank free for 3 days — no card needed. Then $9.99 for your first month and $19.99/month after that if you decide to continue, cancel anytime — far less than the hundreds a trade school costs, and you study on your phone, in your language, whenever you have a few minutes.
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LICENA provides online practice only. Registration, testing and licensing are handled by the Nevada State Contractors Board (NSCB) and PSI — not by LICENA. LICENA is not affiliated with the NSCB or PSI.