Part IIB - Michigan Principles & Practice of Professional Surveying Examination — Information & Free Practice
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Part IIB - Michigan Principles & Practice of Professional Surveying Examination
- Provider
- PSI Services LLC
- Format
- Computer-administered, closed book
- Exam questions
- 140 scored questions; the bulletin permits five to ten additional unscored experimental questions
- Time limit
- 240 minutes
- Passing score
- 70% (98 of 140 scored questions)
Examination outline
Michigan Laws: as they pertain to Land Surveying (43 items)
- MIOSHA
- Corner Recordation Act, Act 74 of 1970
- Revised Judicature Act of 1961, Act 236 of 1961 (excerpts: Sections 2567 & 2567a)
- Certified Surveys, Act 132 of 1970
- Right of Entry by Surveyors, Act 115 of 1976
- Affidavits Affecting Real Property, Act 123 of 1915
- Michigan Coordinate Systems, Act 9 of 1964; creating the Michigan Coordinate System of 1983
- Occupational Code, Act 299 of 1980 (excerpts: Articles 1-6 & 20)
- Drain Code, Act 40 of 1956 (excerpts: Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 8)
- Natural Resources & Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of 1994
- Revised Statutes of 1846, R.S. of 1846 (excerpts: County Surveyors, Sections 54.95 – 54.106)
- Remonumentation Act, Act 345 of 1990
- Condominium Act, Act 59 of 1978
- Land Division Act, Act 288 of 1967
- Highways and Private Roads Act, Act 283 of 1909, Chapter 1
- Records of United States Land Office Act, Act 54 of 1927
- United States Field Notes, Maps, Plats, and Records, Act 55 of 1927
- Uniform Electronic Transmission Act, Act 305 of 2000
Principles of the Profession: involving management, legal & technical aspects, and professional conduct (14 items)
- Liability
- Insurance
- Obligation to client
- Contracts
- Areas of practice
- Private claims
- Office management and practice
Public Land Surveying Systems in Michigan: including matters pertaining to retracement, and subdivision (32 items)
- Section Breakdown (Subdivisions of Sections)
- Original government survey closing corners
- Original government survey documents, notes & definitions
- bona fide rights
- General Sets of Instructions: 1815, 1833 & 1850
- Control monuments (natural & artificial)
- Section Line Retracement
- Preservation
- Restoration
- Single & Double proportionate
- Lost corners
- Obliterated corners
- Existent corners
- Meandered bodies of water
Property Surveys, Descriptions and Legal Implications: including legal, technical, historical aspects, and research (32 items)
- Writing & plotting descriptions
- Boundary survey problems
- Subdivision lot resurveys
- Prorate
- Monumentation
- Authority court survey
- Court testimony
- Field survey procedures
- Deeds & Abstracts
- Error in Measurement
- Riparian rights
- Junior & Senior rights
- Reversion rights
- Adverse possession
- Real property history
Special Surveying: encompassing measurements, mapping, design and planning & mathematics unique or applicable to surveying (19 items)
- Land planning for residential development
- Contour problems
- Surveying information for architects
- Photogrammetry & related topics
- Topographic surveys
- Hydrographic Mapping
- Geographic Information System
- Land Information System and Global Positioning System
- Control Surveys
- ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
- Floodplain Management
- FEMA/FIRM Insurance
- Elevation Certificates
- Letters of Map Revision
- Calculated Culvert
- Proposed Elevation
- Coordinate
- Elevation
- Unmanned aerial vehicles
Examination sources
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Content outline introductory scope, printed p.6
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Content outline row 1, printed p.6
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Content outline row 2, printed p.6
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Content outline row 3, printed p.6
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Content outline row 4, printed p.6
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Content outline row 5, printed p.6
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Score Reporting, printed p.4
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Test Question Screen, printed p.4
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Examination Summary Table, printed p.5
- PSI Michigan Part IIB Candidate Information Bulletin
Experimental Questions, printed p.5
- Michigan Professional Surveyor Licensing Guide
Licensure by examination: PSI scheduling, PDF p.2
- PSI MI Professional Surveyor test details
MI Professional Surveyor test detail: booking
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