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UNRWA EXAM PREPARATION 2015Dr. Azzam Abuhabib Projects Coordination Officer Donor Relations & Projects - UNRWA
Outlines
• Applications highlights
• What should I study and read?
• Exam highlights & advices
Application highlights
• Make sure you meet all the requirement
• Years of experience are crucial
• If you pass the exam, you’ll be asked to support what you mentioned in the application with documents & certificates
What should I study?
• Lecture notes
• UNRWA specifications
• UNRWA contracts
• Consult some UNRWA staff or senior engineers if you know some.
Exam highlights
• The exam is a comprehensive one (design, management, concrete technology, soil mechanics, infrastructure, tests, reinforcement)
• Full of Varity (multiple choices, calculations, qualitative and quantitative questions, drawings) but mostly implementation based.
• Academic, real cases, and case studies
• Contracts and claims
Exam highlights
• Design is classic.
• Settlement and deflection, failure shape.
• Management questions are mostly related to time schedules and Gantt chart.
• Concrete technology & tests: mixes, w/c, mostly related to implementation (cast, shuttering, support, vibration, curing,. Tests: cubes, Schmitt hammer, load test, core test, & slump.
Exam highlights
• Reinforcement: tests, spacing, hocks, cross-section limitations, cover limitation.
• Soil: types, bearing capacity, compaction, collapse angles, water table and content.
• Foundation & retaining walls: types, design, over-turning, sliding, discharge.
• Infrastructure: roads, survey, compaction water & wastewater piping, excavation. Tests: marshal and CBR.
Exam highlights
• Reinforcement: tests, spacing, hocks, cross-section limitations, cover limitation.
• Soil: types, bearing capacity, compaction, collapse angles, water table and content.
• Foundation & retaining walls: types, design, over-turning, sliding, discharge.
• Infrastructure: roads, survey, compaction water & wastewater piping, excavation. Tests: marshal and CBR.
Exam highlights
• Contractual questions: guarantees types, insurance, tender documents, special & general conditions, measurements, disputes & arbitration, claims.
• Tender documents priorities & order in case of contradiction (drawings & details, specifications, BOQ).
• Variation orders (VOs) & fines.
• Breach, cancelation, suspension, and termination (with guarantee liquidation).
Various questions • In case of cube results failure 7 or 28 days, standard
deviation, what would be your action? In case of core test failure?
• Difference between calendar/working days. • A contractor fail to do proper curing• A contractor not committed to proper inspection & approval
(e.g. cast with no approval). • A contractor dismantled slab support before time? • Can you terminate a contractor? • Can you suspend a contractor? • How to deal with a slow performing/delayed contractor? • Aggregate specifications.
Various questions
• Level percentage of error? • Checking a pipeline without survey device• Internal water piping checking• Drop manhole • Maximum and minimum slopes for sewage
pipes with justification.• Areas calculation (sphere, triangle,..etc).