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I believe wind loads are part of the scope of the verticals exam. If so, and due to high wind loads shear walls or diaphragms are required, am I to bring SDPWS to the exam let alone study that? Or, are incidental lateral loads excluding the need to use SDPWS?

PowerStroke is right about his feeling that something was missing. What is missing is checking for minimum web thickness required for meeting weld rupture strength. After all, the load path is joist-weld-web. The devil is hiding in the middle.

Are there limits on number and size of boxes one can bring to the SE exam?

Any thoughts on COVID-19 safety during exam? I know NCEES is doing what they can and have some protocols in place. But exams are not administered directly by NCEES. They are done through the State Boards or are they again through private contractors? I do not know. Only thing is how early one...

Thanks everyone for the valued comments. The Alternate Heights Method is also a simplification of ASCE Directional Method which ASCE now has as a tabulated values version also which can be read off instead of calculating using formulae using IBC coefficients. 

If you need to construct a Design Response Spectrum according to ASCE 7, and site specific ground motion procedures are not used, that is where T comes into play. 

A bad doctor can end up killing one patient at a time. A bad structural engineer can end up killing dozens at a time. An SE license is a stamp of high credentialing and gives enhanced self worth as an engineer. At 52, having been licensed as P.Eng, in 4 Canadian Provinces (QC, AB, NC and ON), I...

There was a time when IL would not allow anything other than codes as reference in their exam rooms.  Even a certain publisher's prep books were named as no, no. But somewhere along the way, they fell in line with the other States. I do not know why. Maybe some legal issues, maybe NCEES had some...

If a problem involves common topics in IBC vis-a-vis ASCE can either be used if the problem mentions one, but does not exclude the other? e.g. Wind Loads - Alternate Heights Method in IBC.