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).

Word of advice

• Time management

• Do not start with design questions

• Do not panic

• Multiple choices are very tricky