Michigan Residential Builder Exam — All Questions

To renew a Michigan residential builder license, a licensee must generally complete what during each three-year cycle?

• a.Board-approved continuing-competency education✓
• b.A new 60-hour prelicensure course each year
• c.Nothing; the license auto-renews
• d.A second NASCLA exam

Michigan requires continuing-competency education during each three-year license cycle to renew, keeping licensees current on code and law without repeating the full 60-hour prelicensure course.Michigan continuing-competency / three-year cycle

A Michigan builder hires a crew of employees. What coverage does Michigan law generally require?

• a.No insurance of any kind
• b.Only professional liability insurance
• c.Workers' compensation coverage under the Worker's Disability Compensation Act✓
• d.Flood insurance on every jobsite

A Michigan employer with employees generally must carry workers' compensation coverage under the Worker's Disability Compensation Act. Builders should verify the current employee thresholds with the state, but a crew triggers the requirement.Michigan Worker's Disability Compensation Act

Which set of topics is covered by the Michigan Residential Builder Business and Law (Part 1) exam?

• a.Only carpentry framing techniques
• b.Regulatory and statutory rules, insurance/bonds/liens, contracts, project management and administration, accounting and finance, business organization, personnel, and estimating✓
• c.Only federal income-tax preparation
• d.Only OSHA fall-protection standards

Part 1 (Business and Law) draws from regulatory/statutory topics, insurance/bonds/liens, contracts, project management and administration, accounting and finance, business organization, personnel, and estimating — the business side of running a residential building company.Michigan Part 1 exam content outline

Because the Michigan Business and Law exam is closed book, how should a candidate prepare for Michigan-specific rules like the $600 threshold and the lien deadlines?

• a.Plan to look them up in the NASCLA guide during the exam
• b.Rely on notes brought into the exam room
• c.Ignore them, since state rules are not tested
• d.Memorize them, since no reference material is allowed in the exam room✓

The Michigan exam is closed book, so no reference material is allowed in the room. Candidates must commit Michigan-specific facts — the $600 license threshold, the no-suit rule for unlicensed builders, and the 90-day/one-year lien deadlines — to memory.Michigan Part 1 exam format (closed book)

For the Michigan Residential Builder Part 2 (Trade) exam, how many questions must a candidate answer correctly, and out of how many?

• a.80 of 110 (73%)✓
• b.36 of 50 (72%)
• c.81 of 115 (70%)
• d.45 of 60 (75%)

Part 2 (Trade) is a 110-question, 180-minute closed-book exam requiring 80 correct answers (73%) to pass, separate from the 50-question Part 1 Business and Law exam (36 of 50).Michigan Part 2 trade exam parameters