The second California-specific exam for civil engineering licensure, covering survey planning, field data collection, traverse and level computation, mapping and construction surveying. The state board's published reference list for it includes the Subdivision Map Act, so California statute is fair game, though the test plan itself is written in technical rather than legal terms.
Start studying California Engineering SurveyingThe Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists (BPELSG) publishes a reference list for this exam, not a formula sheet.
| Exam | Eligibility summary |
|---|---|
| Civil Engineering Surveying | An application for California civil engineering licensure approved in technical review. |
Weights are published per content area: 25 / 15 / 30 / 10 / 20 percent in the order below. Candidates may bring bound references plus two measuring devices and two calculators. The Subdivision Map Act (Government Code sections 66410-66499.58) is public domain and is the one listed reference this app can quote from directly; the listed surveying textbooks are copyrighted and are used as topic guidance only. EXAM LENGTH IS NOT PUBLISHED, and the 60 below is this app's own figure. Verified 2026-09-12 across seven official documents: the Board's candidate information page, the 2022 Seismic Principles test plan, the 2022 Civil Engineering Surveying job analysis, the superseded 2018 seismic plan, and both Prometric Candidate Information Bulletins. Every one of them states the 2.5-hour limit and none states an item count, so questionCountPublished stays false. The figure was 100 until 2026-09-12, which paced the mock at 90 seconds per question on a calculation paper and was not defensible; 60 paces it at 2.5 minutes, which suits the work. Treat it as a presentation choice, not a claim about the exam. If a candidate count ever surfaces from the Board's Exam Unit, that supersedes this. Note also that these two are Board exams delivered by Prometric, not National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) papers, and the Prometric bulletins are stale against the test plans: they still describe six seismic content areas and four surveying ones, where the current plans have seven and five.
Topic coverage follows Civil Engineering Surveying (CES) Job Analysis Test Plan, effective 2022 (California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists). Practice questions are written only from publicly available sources (that outline and the regulations and references it cites); they are not real exam questions, which are confidential. Check current application requirements, fees and exam dates on the certifying body's own page: official certification page.
Questions, flashcards, and explanations are AI-written from publicly available sources only: the exam content outlines and candidate materials each certifying body publishes without restriction, and the regulations and technical references they cite. No confidential material is used, including actual exam questions, recollections of any exam sat by the author, or any handbook or document released under a confidentiality agreement. Content is then put through repeated review — regulatory values checked against primary sources, every calculation recomputed, and errors corrected — plus spot checks by the author, who holds California water operator certifications and a California civil engineering licence. Those spot checks are sampling, not a professional review: nothing here is stamped, sealed, or offered as engineering advice, and not every item has been individually verified, so mistakes can still slip through.