PLS Practice Exam

1. Which of the following corners should be restored to their original position when performing a retracement survey of a section subdivided by the Bureau of Land Management?

a) section and quarter section corners

b) center section corner

c) sixteenth section corners

d) all monumented corners

2. The boundary limits and configuration of any new parcel created within a platted industrial or commercial subdivision must be shown on _____________.

a) a parcel map

b) a record of survey

c) an amended industrial or commercial subdivision map

d) a division of land into large parcels

3. A boundary line adjustment can be done by _____________.

a) an attorney

b) a land title company

c) a licensed professional land surveyor

d) a licensed real estate agent

4. Which of the following is NOT required on a Record of Survey?

a) the person or entity for whom the survey was performed

b) whether monuments were found or set

c) the site address and assessor’s parcel number of the property

d) the general vicinity of the property being surveyed

5. The following can be used to proportion a lost corner except a _____________.

a) witness point

b) protraction corner

c) line tree

d) single topo feature

6. The performance of Water Rights Surveying in the State of Nevada is limited to _____________.

a) a licensed Professional Land Surveyor or Professional Engineer

b) the State Engineer

c) a licensed Professional Land Surveyor or Professional Engineer who is also certified by the State Engineer as a Water Rights Surveyor

d) officials within the Attorney General's Office

7. The number of lots or parcels created by a Boundary Line Adjustment are _____________.

a) no more than two

b) four or less

c) five or more

d) none

8. The use of the word “certify” or “certification” by a professional land surveyor constitutes a(n) _____________.

a) opinion

b) Warranty

c) Guarantee

d) statement of law

9. Research of BLM land records are an important part of conducting a boundary survey. Certified copies of the original field notes and special instructions for a Dependent Resurvey may be obtained from _____________.

a) the State Lands Office in Carson City, Nevada

b) the National Geodetic Survey office in Washington, DC

c) the Bureau of Land Management office in Reno, Nevada

d) the National Archives in Washington, DC

10. When surveying the oblique boundary between Nevada and California, from Lake Tahoe to the Colorado River, what survey monuments would you expect to find in this area due to the different attempts to define this line?

a) the only monuments found on this line would be the monuments from the Von Schmidt survey

b) the only monuments found on this line would be from the United States Coast & Geodetic Survey work completed in 1899.

c) monuments from the United States Coast & Geodetic Survey work completed in 1899 and monuments from the earlier Von Schmidt survey.

d) the Houghton & Ives survey monuments only, as they removed all other monuments with their effort to correct all discrepancies.

11. The location of a lode mining claim in Nevada _____________.

a) must have the boundaries and corners established by a US mineral surveyor or a licensed surveyor in this state

b) must have the boundaries and corners established by a federal surveyor employed by the Department of the Interior

c) must not be done until an ore sample has been assayed and found to be of value

d) may be done by any citizen of the United States or who has legally declared his or her intention to become a United States citizen

12. A firm, partnership, or corporation may engage in the practice of land surveying if _____________.

a) it has a Nevada Business License

b) it employs one full time Professional Land Surveyor licensed in Nevada

c) is registered with the Nevada Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

d) all of the above

13. Which NRS chapter contains laws the govern the subdividing of land _____________.

a) NRS 278

b) NRS 327

c) NRS 512

d) NRS 625

14. A bearing tree marked “X BT” indicates _____________.

a) there are multiple bearing trees located in the same section

b) the bearing tree was a small diameter tree when originally marked

c) the bearing tree marks the exact corner point location

d) both a) and b)

15. Which of the following is true related to condominiums per NRS 116.2111? Except as otherwise provided in this section and subject to the provisions of the “Declaration” and other provisions of law, a unit’s owner _____________.

a) may make any improvements or alterations to his or her unit that do not impair the structural integrity or mechanical systems or lessen the support of any portion of the common-interest community

b) may not change the appearance of the common elements, or the exterior appearance of a unit or any other portion of the common-interest community, without permission of the association

c) after acquiring an adjoining unit or an adjoining part of an adjoining unit, may remove or alter any intervening partition or create apertures therein, even if the partition in whole or in part is a common element, if those acts do not impair the structural integrity or mechanical systems or lessen the support of any portion of the common-interest community

d) all the above

16. If a subdivider does NOT furnish a performance bond, when are the final monuments for the subdivision required to be set?

a) 30 days after recordation of the Final Map

b) before recordation of the Final Map

c) up to 1 year after recordation of the Final Map

d) 90 days after recordation of the Final Map

17. As defined in the Nevada Administrative Code, the positional certainty of a point or monument or of the horizontal or vertical component of a survey must be based upon a confidence level of _____________.

a) not less than 95 percent

b) one standard deviation

c) not less than 67 percent

d) 90 percent

18. The projection used in the Nevada Coordinate System of 1983 is _____________.

a) Lambert Conformal Conic

b) Universal Transverse Mercator

c) Transverse Mercator

d) Oblique Mercator

19. The principle meridian for public land surveys in Nevada is _____________.

a) the Salt Lake meridian

b) the Mount Diablo meridian

c) the Nevada meridian

d) the San Bernardino meridian

20. According to Nevada Administrative Code 625.666, how many classification types of Topographic Surveys are there?

a) none

b) two

c) five

d) ten