ARE 5.0 PDD Practice Questions EXPLAINED — Module 3: Code Compliance | 12 Qs Solved

Every ARE 5.0 PDD practice question for Module 3: Code Compliance (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 Group B (Business) building has a gross floor area of 30,000 SF per floor. Using an… 1:45 Q2 — An architect is designing a 4-story office building and wants to use Type IIB construction.… 2:52 Q3 — When documenting an area of refuge (area of rescue assistance) on life safety plans, the… 3:49 Q4 — A mixed-occupancy building contains Group B (office) on floors 1-3 and Group R-2… 4:45 Q5 — The egress capacity factor for stairways per IBC Table 1005.1 is 0.3 inches per occupant… 5:43 Q6 — An architect is documenting the energy code compliance path for a commercial building. The… 6:37 Q7 — A toilet room serving a floor with 150 male occupants in a business occupancy requires a… 7:35 Q8 — When a building uses the IBC's unlimited area building provisions under Section 507, which… 8:30 Q9 — The architect must document accessible toilet compartments (stalls). The minimum size for a… 9:20 Q10 — Under the IBC, when exit enclosures (stairway enclosures) are required, the minimum… 10:13 Q11 — The architect must document compliance with the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)… 11:06 Q12 — A building with Group H (High-Hazard) occupancy requires special documentation in… 🎯 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 PDD 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) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Code Compliance — Advanced Concepts (long-form): https://youtube.com/watch?v=nKX0QenFSpk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 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: Occupant load calculation · IBC Table 1004.5 · egress sizing · Sprinkler trade-offs · area increases · height increases · IBC Section 504 · Areas of refuge #ARE5 #NCARB #AREPDD #PDDPractice #ARE2026 #ArchitectureExam #PassTheARE #FreeARE #ARE50 #Licensura