QUIZ 3 - Being Professional
- Landscape Practice Class
- Apr 26, 2020
- 3 min read
In-class Session 3 quiz - Are You a Landscape Architect?
12/02/2020
Q1. When I am working, my employer expects me to…..
Select one:
a. ……not be more than 5 minutes late to work or an appointment
b. ……wear what feel comfortable
c. …….have read or prepared any relevant documents in advance
d. ……come up with great ideas
Q2. (What?) exists when a person allows harm to occur in circumstances in which they ought to have taken precautions to prevent it’s occurrence. Any person alleging this (claimant) must show that:
Defendant owed him a duty of care
Defendant breached that duty of care to them (causation)
Claimant suffered actual loss or damage recognized by law
Defendant does not have any mitigating defense
Select one:
a. Damage
b. Tort
c. Breach
d. Negligence
Q3. Why is there a Code of Standards of conduct & Practice for Landscape Professionals? What’s the point?
Select one or more:
a. To make Landscape Architects appear professional
b. To be able to charge professional scale of fees
c. To make sure everyone knows you are qualified
d. To protect the public
e. To protect yourself (The Landscape Architect)
f. To protect your client
g. To restrict the number and quality of professionals
Q4. An Architect appoints you to work on a government project as it requires a “landscape Architect”. You are Professional Member of the HKILA but have not yet applied for RLA status. What should you do?
Select one or more:
a. Accept the work. You are not authorized
b. Turn down the work. You are not authorized
c. Refer the Architect to another Landscape Architect
d. Hire a “Landscape Architect” to work on the project with you and inform the Architect. In the meantime register with LARB as soon as possible
Q5. Your Client asks you to instruct the contractor to fell trees on a site without government approval having been received yet since the delay will critically affect the project. What do you do?
Select one
a. As a professional, do what you client instructs you
b. Tell your client you won’t do it and why
c. Inform the government if the illegal action intended
d. Get someone else to inform the contractor instead of yourself
Q6. You partner in practice has a verbal agreement from an existing client for the design of a city public square. Can you commence working on the project?
Select one:
a. No
b. Yes
c. Only if you trust the client and have worked with them before
d. Not until the agreement is written down
Q7. A potential client approaches you to work on a design project for his new garden. He tells you that he is unhappy with the Landscape Architect who is working on it at the moment. What do you do?
Select one:
a. Report the Member to the Institute about his poor performance for the Client
b. Report the Client to the Institute about his slander of your professional colleague
c. Report the Client to your colleague for approaching you behind his back
d. No need for any action
Q8. Which of the following “liabilities” might you potentially be held responsible for as a landscape designer hired in an Architects’ practice?
Select one:
a. Negligence
b. Misrepresentation
c. Vicarious
d. Employers
Q9. What is Professional Indemnity Insurance? (PII)
Select one:
a. An insurance savings scheme for professionals to save money towards any future problems they might have
b. An insurance scheme covering potential risk through professional liability
c. An insurance scheme to exempt professionals from future liability
d. None of the above
Q10. If your potential negligence has caused harm to others, does a claimant in Hong Kong have to start legal action against you within a certain time period?
Select one:
a. There is no time limitation on liability
b. Yes, there is a limitation, it depends on the type of the damage
c. Yes, there is a limitation, it depends on when the damage becomes known
d. My responsibility remain even after I have died.
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