AZ General Contractor study plan

Map the contractor license classifications and subcategories relevant to your intended work, stating the scope boundary of each.

Outline the lifecycle of a complaint against a contractor from filing through resolution, including the licensee's response and reporting duties at each step.

Assemble the elements a residential and a commercial construction contract must contain before work may lawfully begin.

Differentiate the bonding, insurance, and disclosure obligations that attach at initial licensure, at renewal, and at project start.

Identify the advertising, name-use, and recordkeeping rules that apply to a licensed entity.

Convert the lien, preliminary-notice, and stop-notice timelines into a dated checklist anchored to a sample project calendar.

Distinguish contract formation, breach, and remedy concepts and match each to a concrete construction scenario.

Draft clause language covering scope, schedule, payment terms, changes, indemnity, and dispute resolution.

Summarize employment obligations for a small crew, including worker classification, payroll, and recordkeeping duties.

Explain how contract documents are prioritized when drawings, specifications, and addenda conflict.

Sequence the phases of a residential and a commercial build and name the workmanship standard governing each phase.

Identify 25 field defects commonly found on inspections and cite the code or standard provision each one violates.

Explain accepted practice for sitework, concrete placement and curing, framing, roofing, waterproofing, and interior finish.

Compare the tolerances allowed in framing, flatwork, and finish work, and describe how to verify each in the field.

State the inspection points at which work must be held for verification before being covered up.

Apply fall-protection, scaffold, ladder, and excavation requirements to five written site scenarios and identify every violation.

Determine when a site-specific safety plan, a competent-person designation, and hazard communication are triggered on a project.

Explain the correct installation sequence for the trades most frequently cited during rough-in inspections.

Interpret an inspection report and a citation document, and draft the abatement response each requires.

Build a site-specific safety plan outline for a small commercial project, covering orientation, hazard assessment, and emergency response.

Write a change order and a delay notice that preserve both time and cost entitlement without waiving either.

Design a supervision routine that includes toolbox talks, daily hazard briefings, incident investigation, and documentation.

Summarize how insurance, bonds, and indemnity clauses transfer risk, and identify the gaps a contractor commonly leaves open.

Perform a quantity takeoff from written dimensions for concrete, framing, roofing, and interior finishes.

Compute labor, material, equipment, overhead, contingency, and markup to arrive at a defensible bid price.

Build a critical-path schedule showing durations, dependencies, float, and a recovery plan for a two-week delay.

Differentiate bid delivery methods and contract types, and state which best fits each project profile.

Check your takeoff arithmetic against a second method and reconcile every variance over two percent.

Complete two timed 40-question sets in your two weakest domains and log every miss by root cause.

Re-teach each missed concept from week six by writing a short explanation in your own words.

Re-run the takeoff for one trade using a different estimating method and reconcile the result.

Recite the regulatory deadlines and notice periods you have learned without referring to notes.

Sit two full-length timed exams under simulated test conditions, with no notes and strict time limits.

Re-teach the ten concepts you have missed most often across all eight weeks.

Audit your error log for any unresolved item and resolve each to a rule, standard, or formula.

Rehearse a personal test-day routine covering pacing, flagging, and time checkpoints.