PE Civil — Free Demo (10 Questions)

A reviewer sees a superficially attractive answer that violates the governing limit state in a PE Civil hard mock pre-calculation audit. Case focus: the acceptance check and the design check are being performed at different limit states. The issue is that the settlement time-rate control result is numerically close to an option that violates the governing assumption. For the PE Civil Geotechnical item, which verification step must be completed before any numerical option can be trusted?