ARE 5.0 PA Practice Questions EXPLAINED — Module 2: Programming & Requirements | 12 Qs Solved

Every ARE 5.0 PA practice question for Module 2: Programming & Requirements (Advanced) — solved and explained. 12 NCARB-style questions with full reasoning, distractor analysis, and the primary source behind each answer. This is a practice-question walkthrough, not a drill. The goal isn't to memorize these exact questions — NCARB rarely asks the same question twice. The goal is to absorb the reasoning patterns so you can work out new questions testing the same concepts. ⏱ QUESTIONS COVERED 0:00 Intro 0:48 Q1 — A hospital program requires 80,000 SF of net assignable area. Hospitals typically have… 2:23 Q2 — An architect is programming a new headquarters building. The CEO insists on an open office… 3:20 Q3 — A mixed-use building contains Group A-2 (restaurant) on the ground floor and Group B (office)… 4:33 Q4 — When programming a building with a below-grade parking garage, the architect should… 5:29 Q5 — The architect is programming a 200-seat lecture hall. Using the IBC occupant load factor of 7… 6:51 Q6 — During a programming charrette, the architect notices that different user groups have… 7:47 Q7 — A building program calls for a 500-person dining hall with movable tables and chairs. Using… 8:58 Q8 — When developing a space program for a medical office building, the architect discovers that… 9:53 Q9 — The IBC determines the maximum allowable building height and area based on: 10:50 Q10 — Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) data from previous projects is MOST valuable during which… 11:41 Q11 — A building's construction type directly determines its: 12:29 Q12 — When programming a laboratory building, the architect should account for the fact that… 🎯 WHAT'S IN EACH EXPLANATION • Correct answer + why it's right (not just announced) • The tempting wrong answer + why it fails — every time • Exam tip tying the concept to the broader PA pattern • Primary source citation on every answer (AHPP, AIA, IBC, NCARB, or federal code) 📚 HOW TO USE THIS VIDEO • Pause on each question slide — work the reasoning before the answer drops • If you miss one, pause the answer and rewatch the reasoning • Re-do missed questions 72 hours later (spaced repetition) • Pair this walkthrough with the Complete Guide for the same module ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ WATCH FIRST — Complete Guide (Advanced) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Programming & Requirements — Advanced Concepts (long-form): https://youtube.com/watch?v=vDdzPsDgDqU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 LICENSURA — FREE ARE 5.0 EXAM PREP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Licensura is free, source-cited ARE 5.0 prep for all 6 architect registration exam divisions. No paywall, no upsell, no filler. Every module has two tracks — foundational concepts first, advanced concepts next — and every track has a Complete Guide video plus a practice-question walkthrough like this one. 🎯 THE 6 ARE 5.0 DIVISIONS • PcM — Practice Management • PjM — Project Management • PA — Programming & Analysis • PPD — Project Planning & Design • PDD — Project Development & Documentation • CE — Construction & Evaluation ▶ ALL PLAYLISTS: https://youtube.com/@licensura/playlists 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for new modules every week. 💬 COMMENT with your exam date + which division you're tackling. 🌐 WEBSITE: https://licensura.com Licensura — pass the ARE once, not pay for exam prep forever. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TOPICS: Hospital planning · departmental grossing factors · medical equipment space · Stakeholder engagement · conflict resolution · evidence-based design · IBC Section 508 · fire barriers #ARE5 #NCARB #AREPA #PAPractice #ARE2026 #ArchitectureExam #PassTheARE #FreeARE #ARE50 #Licensura