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Ten questions from our Traffic Enforcement Agent practice exams, including the number facility questions this title's notice calls for.

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A summons is issued for a violation the agent has personally observed. Where the violation is a standing or parking violation, the agent shall record the plate, the make, the location and the time observed before preparing the summons.

An agent shall not issue a summons to a vehicle that is moving, and shall not signal a moving vehicle to stop.

Where a summons is prepared electronically and the device fails before it is served, the agent shall prepare a paper summons for the same violation and shall note the device failure on it. A violation shall not be recorded twice.

Where the operator returns to the vehicle before the summons is served, the summons is served on the operator. Where the summons has already been prepared, it is served whether or not the vehicle is moved.

Question 1

According to the passage, a summons is issued for a violation the agent has
  1. A. been told about by a member of the public at the location
  2. B. recorded on an electronic device before the tour started
  3. C. personally observed
  4. D. confirmed with a supervisor by radio at the time
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The answer is C. The first line states it: a summons is issued for a violation the agent has personally observed.

  • A is wrong: The passage requires the agent's own observation, not a report from someone else.
  • B is wrong: The device records the summons; it does not supply the observation.
  • D is wrong: The passage names no confirmation step.

Question 2

Before preparing a summons for a parking violation, the passage requires the agent to record all of the following EXCEPT
  1. A. the time observed
  2. B. the plate
  3. C. the location
  4. D. the color of the vehicle
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The answer is D. The passage lists four things: the plate, the make, the location and the time observed. Color is not among them.

  • A is wrong: The time observed is one of the four listed.
  • B is wrong: The plate is one of the four listed.
  • C is wrong: The location is one of the four listed.

Question 3

A rule states: "An agent shall issue a summons to a vehicle standing within fifteen feet of a hydrant. Where the vehicle is a marked emergency vehicle, no summons is issued. Where the vehicle displays a doctor's emergency placard, a summons is issued and the placard number is recorded." A car with a doctor's emergency placard is standing eight feet from a hydrant. Under the rule, the agent shall
  1. A. issue no summons, because the placard is displayed
  2. B. issue a summons and record the placard number
  3. C. issue no summons, because the vehicle is within fifteen feet
  4. D. record the placard number and refer it to a supervisor
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The answer is B. Eight feet is within fifteen. The placard is not the emergency-vehicle exemption; the third sentence covers it and requires both the summons and the placard number.

  • A is wrong: The exemption is for a marked emergency vehicle, not for a placard.
  • C is wrong: Being within fifteen feet is what triggers the summons, not what prevents it.
  • D is wrong: The rule names no supervisor step.

Question 4

A rule states: "A vehicle in a bus lane during restricted hours is issued a summons. Where the vehicle is actively engaged in expeditious delivery, no summons is issued. Where the vehicle is unoccupied, it is treated as not engaged in delivery." An unoccupied van with commercial plates is in a bus lane at 8:20 a.m., during restricted hours. Under the rule, the agent shall
  1. A. issue no summons, because the plates are commercial
  2. B. issue no summons, because delivery vans are exempt
  3. C. issue a summons
  4. D. wait for the operator
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The answer is C. The third sentence settles it: unoccupied means not engaged in delivery, so the exemption does not apply and the first sentence stands.

  • A is wrong: The exemption turns on active delivery, not on the plates.
  • B is wrong: There is no exemption for delivery vans as such, only for active delivery.
  • D is wrong: The rule already tells the agent how to treat an unoccupied vehicle.

Question 5

A block has produced eleven complaints of vehicles blocking a driveway. All eleven were between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. All eleven involved vehicles with out-of-state plates. A construction site on the block starts work at 7:00 a.m. Which conclusion is best supported?
  1. A. Out-of-state drivers are less careful about driveways than local drivers
  2. B. The complaints share an hour, a plate type and a location
  3. C. The construction workers are the ones parking across the driveways
  4. D. The block should be posted with additional driveway signs at once
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The answer is B. The same hour, the same plate type and the same block hold across all eleven. That is what the facts jointly establish.

  • A is wrong: Nothing given compares out-of-state drivers with any other group.
  • C is wrong: The timing is suggestive, but nothing given links the vehicles to the site.
  • D is wrong: This is a recommendation rather than a conclusion the facts establish.

Question 6

A directive lists the steps for issuing a parking summons, in this order: (1) observe the violation; (2) record the plate and the location; (3) prepare the summons; (4) affix the summons to the vehicle. An agent has observed the violation and recorded the plate and location. Which step comes next?
  1. A. Affix the summons to the vehicle
  2. B. Prepare the summons
  3. C. Observe the violation a second time
  4. D. Photograph the vehicle for the file
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The answer is B. Recording the plate and location is step 2, so the next step in the stated order is step 3, preparing the summons.

  • A is wrong: Affixing is step 4 and comes after the summons exists.
  • C is wrong: The violation was observed at step 1 and the directive does not repeat it.
  • D is wrong: A photograph is not one of the four steps listed.

Question 7

An agent is checking a summons before serving it. The summons records the violation observed at 11:20. The memorandum book records the plate at 11:32, and the agent's tour began at 11:30. Which is the most significant problem?
  1. A. The memorandum book entry should have come first
  2. B. A gap of twelve minutes between observing the violation and recording it is long
  3. C. The summons does not record the make of the vehicle
  4. D. The violation is recorded as observed before the tour began
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The answer is D. A summons is issued for a violation the agent personally observed, and at 11:20 the agent was not yet on tour. The times cannot all be right.

  • A is wrong: The order of recording is not what makes these three times impossible.
  • B is wrong: Twelve minutes between observing a violation and writing the plate down is unremarkable.
  • C is wrong: A missing make is a gap to fill, not a contradiction.

Question 8

An agent issues 19, 26, 31 and 24 summonses over four days. How many in all?
  1. A. 90
  2. B. 110
  3. C. 120
  4. D. 100
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The answer is D. 19 + 26 = 45; 45 + 31 = 76; 76 + 24 = 100.

  • A is wrong: This is ten short, which is a carry dropped in the tens column.
  • B is wrong: This is ten over, which is a carry counted twice.
  • C is wrong: This is twenty over, which usually means one figure was added twice.

Question 9

A route has 284 meters. 57 are reported broken and 38 are repaired. How many remain broken?
  1. A. 95
  2. B. 19
  3. C. 246
  4. D. 265
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The answer is B. 57 reported broken less 38 repaired leaves 19 still broken. The 284 is not needed.

  • A is wrong: This adds the two figures instead of taking the repairs off the faults.
  • C is wrong: This subtracts the faults from the total meters, which answers a different question.
  • D is wrong: This subtracts the repairs from the total meters.

Question 10

Facts: At 09:12 Agent Marchetti observed a van standing in a bus lane. The lane is restricted from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. The van was unoccupied. Which sentence reports these facts most accurately?
  1. A. At 09:12 a van was left standing in a bus lane by a driver who must have known perfectly well that the lane was restricted at that hour.
  2. B. At 09:12 Agent Marchetti observed an unoccupied van standing in a bus lane restricted from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.
  3. C. A bus lane was found blocked at 09:12 by Agent Marchetti, who had been watching the van since the restriction began at 7 a.m.
  4. D. Agent Marchetti observed a van that had been standing in a restricted bus lane since some point earlier that morning.
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The answer is B. It keeps the time, who observed it, the vehicle, that it was unoccupied and the restricted hours, and attributes each to the right person.

  • A is wrong: 'Must have known' asserts a state of mind nobody observed.
  • C is wrong: This has the agent watching from 7 a.m., which the facts do not say.
  • D is wrong: 'Since some point earlier' asserts a duration nobody observed.
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