Traffic Rules and Road Signs
Armenian traffic rules follow the Vienna Convention structure, so signs are grouped by shape and colour, and questions often test whether you recognise the category before the specific meaning. Priority signs (the red-bordered triangle "give way" and the inverted triangle), prohibitory signs (red circles), mandatory signs (blue circles), warning signs (triangles), and information signs (blue/green rectangles) all carry meaning through form alone. Learn the eight sign groups and the logic behind them, then memorise the exceptions: a red circle with a white horizontal bar is "no entry", a blue circle with a white arrow is a mandatory direction, and a yellow diamond marks a priority road.
Traps in this domain cluster around near-identical signs and around signs combined with supplementary plates. A supplementary plate showing a distance extends the sign's effect; one showing a symbol restricts it to a vehicle type. A "no stopping" sign (crossed diagonals) is stricter than "no parking" (single diagonal), and both apply to the side of the road where they stand unless a plate says otherwise. Warning signs generally sit 50–100 m before the hazard outside built-up areas and closer inside them.
Rule of thumb: when two signs appear on one post, read top to bottom - the upper sign sets the general rule, the lower one or plate modifies it. For a worked example: a red circle containing a black car on a blue background is not a prohibition on cars but the start of a road reserved for motor vehicles; if a supplementary plate below reads "500 m", the restriction begins 500 m ahead, not at the sign.
Always ask: which category is this sign, and does a plate change its scope?