HRCI HRCI-PHRCA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

HRCI HRCI-PHRCA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 71:

  As an HR Professional you must be familiar with the project management processes and the stakeholders of projects. All projects can map to the project management lifecycle. Which one of the following best describes the project management lifecycle?

  A. It is the aggregation of the nine knowledge areas of project management: integration management, scope, schedule, costs, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and procurement.
  B. It is the life of the management of the project -from initiation, planning, execution, controlling, through closing.
  C. It is the life of a project to interact with all areas including scope, schedule, costs, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and procurement.
  D. It is a unique life of each project -from its initiation through its closing.
  B. It is the life of the management of the project -from initiation, planning, execution, controlling, through closing.

• Question 72:

  Which of the following provides an informal setting for a group of employees to meet with their manager to learn more about the company?

  A. Brown-bag lunch program
  B. Department staff meetings
  C. Work team
  D. Word of mouth
  A. Brown-bag lunch program

• Question 73:

  The Taft-Hartley Act, also known as the Labor Management Relations Act, addressed unions and engaged in certain types of secondary boycotts. What is a secondary boycott?

  A. It is an effort to convince others to stop doing business with a particular organization that is the subject of a primary boycott.
  B. It is an effort to create more than one boycott on an organization, on two or more revenue streams.
  C. It is two or more boycotts by two or more union-backed organizations against one company.
  D. It is additional boycotts against companies that do business with a company which the union is boycotting.
  A. It is an effort to convince others to stop doing business with a particular organization that is the subject of a primary boycott.

• Question 74:

  As an HR Professional you must recognize, and be aware of several pieces of legislation that affects your performance as an HR Professional.Which one of the following acts exempted labor unions and agricultural organizations from The Sherman Antitrust Act?

  A. The Clayton Act
  B. The Railway Labor Act
  C. The National Labor Relations Act
  D. The National Industrial Recovery Act
  A. The Clayton Act

• Question 75:

  The management and union are proceeding to an arbitration hearing that will be conducted by an arbitration panel. Which one of the following best describes the makeup of the arbitration panel?

  A. There are three arbitrators all of whom are randomly selected to serve from a pool of pre-approved management and union arbitrators.
  B. There are three arbitrators all of whom must be approved to participate by the management and the union.
  C. There are three arbitrators, one selected by the management, one selected by the union, and a neutral arbitrator whom both management and union approve of.
  D. There are three arbitrators, all of whom are selected by the party not bringing the grievance.
  C. There are three arbitrators, one selected by the management, one selected by the union, and a neutral arbitrator whom both management and union approve of.

• Question 76:

  When must final wages be paid to a California employee who is terminated?

  A. Within 72 hours of termination
  B. On the next scheduled payday
  C. Immediately at the time of termination
  D. Within five business days
  C. Immediately at the time of termination

• Question 77:

  Your organization is using the whole job ranking technique as part of its non-quantitative job evaluation. Which one of the following best describes the whole job ranking technique?

  A. Jobs are ranked from lowest to highest according to the importance that each job holds.
  B. Jobs are reviewed based on the entire performance of the organization in each category.
  C. Jobs are categorized into broad categories or levels.
  D. New jobs are categorized into an existing hierarchy of jobs within the organization.
  A. Jobs are ranked from lowest to highest according to the importance that each job holds.

• Question 78:

  You are a HR Professional for your organization and you're preparing your team for a series of interviews. You want the team to be familiar with the validity types you'll use and encourage in the series of interviews. One of the requirements for the open position is that the candidates are fluent in both English and Spanish. This is based on the high performersamong current employees that have this trait. This is an example of what type of validity?

  A. Criterion-related validity
  B. Predictive validity
  C. Construct-related validity
  D. Content validity
  A. Criterion-related validity

• Question 79:

  Frank is an employee at the HBF Corporation, and he has recently been terminated because of poor company income. Frank visits the company's blog and saw a comment from his manager, which says, "We had to let Frank go today because he kept screwing up sales order. He's incompetent!" This is an example of which one of the following?

  A. Termination evidence
  B. Slander
  C. Libel
  D. Freedom of speech
  C. Libel

• Question 80:

  Which of the following assets consist of buildings, manufacturing machines and equipment, vehicles, furniture, and office equipment?

  A. Information assets
  B. Financial assets
  C. Physical assets
  D. Human assets
  C. Physical assets