APA AICP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

APA AICP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  Krumholz's as Planning Director for the City of Cleveland utilized?

  A. Communicative planning
  B. Transactive planning
  C. Advocacy planning
  D. Rational planning
  B. Transactive planning

• Question 2:

  Echo Boomers (aka: Generation Y) are those born between the years of?

  A. 1977-2000
  B. 1965-1976
  C. 1940-1945
  D. 1946-1964
  A. 1977-2000

• Question 3:

  A local planner, an AICP member, participates on the site selection committee for a newreservoir. As a member of this committee, the planner must review draft technical reports. On the planner's own time, the planner is a member of the board of directors of a conservation society, which generally opposes facilities that encourage growth. In this situation, the planner should first:

  A. Resign from the society board.
  B. Abstain from any society board votes on the reservoir.
  C. Inform the city planning director of involvement with the society.
  D. Participate in the society's decision-making process.
  C. Inform the city planning director of involvement with the society.

• Question 4:

  A waterfront redevelopment plan for a typical large city in the Northeast United States will:

  A. Likely need to include brownfield remediation strategies.
  B. Not need to address the ecology of the water's edge.
  C. Likely propose significant centers of new industrial employment.
  D. Not need the involvement of any Federal Agency.
  A. Likely need to include brownfield remediation strategies.

• Question 5:

  Which component of zoning regulations would address equitable access to housing?

  A. Establishing an administrative process for reasonable accommodation requests
  B. Establishing both parking minimums and parking maximums
  C. Classifying assisted living facilities as a commercial use
  D. Expanding areas zoned for single-family residential use
  A. Establishing an administrative process for reasonable accommodation requests

• Question 6:

  Which of these metropolitan regions have appointed or elected regional governance systems that bridge city-suburb boundaries and manage transit, parks and recreation, affordable housing, wastewater, or urban growth boundaries?

  I- Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota II- Orlando, Florida III- Portland, Oregon IV- Phoenix, Arizona

  A. I and II
  B. I and III
  C. II and IV
  D. III and IV
  B. I and III

• Question 7:

  A planner provides an outline of steps to be undertaken to complete a visioning effort. These steps include inventorying land uses, meeting with key groups, holding meetings to develop alternative visions, developing analyses of different visions, and creating implementation programs. Which of the following should be an additional first step?

  A. Drafting a preliminary vision statement to generate comments and interest
  B. Researching past and current policies and goals of the community
  C. Identifying fiscal resources available to implement the vision statement
  D. Creating a public hearing schedule for review of the vision statement
  B. Researching past and current policies and goals of the community

• Question 8:

  The key distinction between estimates and forecasts is that estimates:

  A. Are generally done on small areas and forecasts are done on large areas.
  B. Are made for present or past dates and forecasts are made for future dates.
  C. Involve the use of data for other areal units of analysis and forecasts use data for the areal unit of concern only.
  D. Imply a range of possible outcomes and forecasts imply an exact figure.
  B. Are made for present or past dates and forecasts are made for future dates.

• Question 9:

  The largest water user of Colorado River water is:

  A. Oil and gas.
  B. Agriculture.
  C. Industrial.
  D. Housing.
  B. Agriculture.

• Question 10:

  A home rule state allows local governments to exercise all planning and zoning authority that is:

  A. Approved by a local initiative.
  B. Enabled by state legislation.
  C. Not restricted by local referendum.
  D. Not reserved to the state.
  D. Not reserved to the state.