California Civil: Surveying

The California Civil: Engineering Surveying exam is open book – make sure you have everything you need.

Give yourself the best opportunity to pass the California Civil: Engineering Surveying exam with PPI’s California Civil Engineering Surveying Complete Exam Bundle. This comprehensive collection of resources provides EVERYTHING you need to pass the PE California Civil: Engineering Surveying exam the first time. The review materials in this bundle are updated to the current exam specs, contains thorough coverage of engineering surveying principles and codes, as well as numerous practice problems to challenge your knowledge of those concepts. The California Civil: Engineering Surveying exam is a difficult exam to pass, with an average pass rate of 54%. This curated bundle includes the #1 reference manual in the industry, practice problems and the most realistic practice exam on the market. 

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Completely up-to-date to the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists exam specifications, this book contains two full 55 question multiple-choice exams that match the California Civil: Engineering Surveying Exam’s overall question count for each knowledge area. Importantly, the topics within each knowledge area are fairly represented to ensure a wide range of test challenges as might be seen on the exam, to help analyze your strengths and weaknesses and guide your study.

Consistent with the actual exam, the problems in this book require an average of six minutes to solve. Enhance your time-management skills by taking each exam within the same 2.5-hour time limit as the actual exam. Then, evaluate your performance using the individual answer keys. Comprehensive step-by-step solutions demonstrate accurate and efficient problem-solving approaches.

California Civil Surveying Practice Exams, Fourth Edition (CSPE4) will help you:

• Effectively familiarize yourself with the exam scope and format
• Quickly identify accurate and efficient problem-solving approaches
• Successfully connect relevant theory to exam-like problems
• Efficiently navigate through exam-adopted codes and standards
• Confidently solve problems under timed conditions

Pair these practice exams with the California Civil Surveying Reference Manual and Solved Problems for a comprehensive review with the California Civil Engineering Surveying Complete Exam Bundle.

About the exam

The California Civil Engineering Surveying exam is a 2.5-hour, multiple-choice, computer-based (CBT) exam that contains questions pertaining to Topographic Surveys (35%), Construction Surveys (35%), Preparation of Reports and Maps (20%), and Accuracy and Error Analysis (10%).

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Topics Covered Include:

• Atomic Theory
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Computer Programming
• Dynamics
• Electrical Circuits
• Engineering Licensure
• Ethics and Law 
• Fluids
• Heat Transfer
• Management Science
• Material Science
• Mathematics
• Mechanics of Materials
• Plans and Drawings
• Physics
• Statics
• Systems Analysis
• Thermodynamics

PPI Study Schedule for the California Civil Surveying Reference Manual (CSRMSS)

The PPI Study Schedule for the California Civil Surveying Reference Manual (CSRMSS) is a necessary study tool designed to be paired with the California Civil Surveying Reference Manual (CSRM). 

This PDF version of the PPI Study Schedule for the California Civil Surveying Reference Manual (CSRMSS) breaks down the topics found in the California Civil Surveying Reference Manual (CSRM) into chapters and provides a thorough list of content areas for the California Civil: Engineering Surveying exam.

The California Civil Surveying Reference Manual (CSRM):

• time-tested organization and clear explanations start with the basics to help you quickly get up to speed on common mechanical engineering concepts
• 28 chapters provide an in-depth review of the topics listed in the California Civil: Engineering PE Surveying Exam specifications
• the extensive index contains thousands of terms, most indexed in a variety of ways, in anticipation of how you will search for them.