A design build firm has been retained by a client to construct an outpatient clinic. The client has hired an ICT distribution designer to review the DB firm's work product ensuring that the…

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Options

• AQuality Assurance (QA)
• BICT Designer of Record (DOR)
• CProject Management (PM)
• DQuality Control (QC)

• A
  76% (19)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  8% (2)
• D
  12% (3)

Explanation

Quality Assurance (QA) is correct because the ICT designer was hired by the client - an independent third party - to review the design-build firm's work product and verify that certification and material documents are complete. QA is defined by its independence from the producing party: a separate entity evaluating deliverables against standards, which precisely describes this scenario. Option B (Designer of Record) is wrong because the DOR is the licensed professional who owns and is responsible for the design itself - that role belongs to someone within the DB firm, not an outside reviewer. Option C (Project Management) is wrong because PM governs schedule, budget, and coordination, not technical document review. Option D (Quality Control) is the most common distractor: QC is performed internally by the firm doing the work to self-check before delivery, whereas QA is the external, independent review layer - since this designer was retained by the client, not the DB firm, the role is QA by definition.

Memory tip: Think QC = "self-check" (internal) and QA = "outside eyes" (external/independent). Whenever someone is hired by a different party to audit work they didn't produce, that's QA.

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