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Question 1.
When (if ever) does a purchaser have the right to resell nonconforming goods and deduct reasonable sales costs from proceeds? (Choose all that apply)
A. If the purchaser has paid for the goods and owns them
B. If the purchaser has rejected the goods, and the supplier has not responded in a reasonable
time
C. If the purchaser has accepted the goods and then found them in nonconformance
D. Never.
Answer: A, B
Question 2.
Which of the following is NOT a technique for increasing minority business participation?
A. negotiation
B. expediting supplier payment
C. establishing reasonable specifications
D. cooperative purchasing
Answer: D
Question 3.
Which of the following is the PRIMARY purpose of a trade association?
A. To advance the cause of the profession
B. To continually search for best practices in the industry
C. To lobby for the interests of the industries represented
D. To provide educational and research benefits to members
Answer: C
Question 4.
What is the MOST important thing a purchasing manager should do when meeting with outside organizations?
A. Make sure that all presentations are given in a professional manner
B. Avoid any impression of impropriety
C. Know as much about the audience as possible
D. Take meeting notes and reviewing them with the legal department
Answer: B
Question 5.
With which of the following does responsibility for resolving the cost aspects of a defective purchased product usually lie?
A. The manufacturing manager.
B. The financial manager.
C. The purchasing manager.
D. The accounting manager.
Answer: C
Question 6.
If a purchasing manager is represented by buying an organization in a meeting with a governmental body. The manager could possibly embark in the following:
A. explaining the organization's new MRP system
B. promoting the business to other participants
C. negotiating for the buying organization
D. discussing the advantages and disadvantages of various types of contractual arrangements
Answer: C
Question 7.
Which of the following procedures for dealing with businesses that have social or economical
disadvantages, if a purchasing manager considers: (Choose all that apply)
A. That the staff of such businesses may have had limited exposure to technical contract
language
B. That exceptions may be needed to accommodate faster payment of invoices from such
businesses
C. That goods or services of lower than usual quality may be accepted from such businesses
D. That such businesses may need information on the bidding process
Answer: A, C, D
Question 8.
Choose two of the following options that are usually amongst the functions of the material manager of? (Choose two)
A. Stores and receiving
B. Quality control
C. Traffic management
D. Accounts payable
Answer: A, C
Question 9.
With regard to decision-making capability of cross-functional sourcing teams which of the following is TRUE?
A. Better decisions than individuals.
B. Quick decisions than individuals.
C. Requiring the input of suppliers.
D. Poor substitute for individual decisions.
Answer: A
Question 10.
Which software type is BEST applicable when using in the analysis of a competitive bid?
A. Application
B. Interface
C. Scientific
D. Operating system
Answer: A
Question 11.
You work as a buyer at Company.com. A piece of capital equipment is designed and specified so as to force the purchasing department into a sole supplier situation. You still want to affect the procurement process.
Which of the following support items from the sole supplier would you negotiate?
(Choose all that apply)
A. Technical documentation, including data sheets, performance specs, maintenance and
operating manuals, supplier-furnished training programs, and full supplier documentation
B. The initial provisioning of high-risk spare parts for start-up and a one-year period thereafter
C. A promise to maintain equipment on an annual basis by the manufacturer or its authorized
service agent
D. A determination of whether equipment or services are taxable or tax-exempt
Answer: A, B, C
Question 12.
Which of the following phrases are used to refer to the receipt of a functional acknowledgment after sending a purchase order via EDI?
A. transmission received
B. accepted purchase order
C. valid contract exists
D. goods have been shipped
Answer: A
Question 13.
With which of the following would purchasing management be MOST concerned in day-to-day operational control in a manufacturing firm?
A. labor utilization variance
B. materials utilization variance
C. labor cost variance
D. materials cost variance
Answer: D
Question 14.
Which of the following tools are MOST important for achieving continuous improvements in an organization's integration with its supplier?
A. Quality inspection at the plant
B. Involvement in product design
C. Suppliers input in forms design
D. Joint examination of costs structure
Answer: B
Question 15.
Which of the following terms is NOT associated with the Internet?
A. Browsers
B. Home pages
C. Web sites
D. Time sharing
Answer: D
Question 16.
Which statement about setting negotiating objectives is FALSE?
A. It should be defined with sufficient specificity to permit measurements.
B. It should be established for each issue or condition to be negotiated.
C. They should establish a supplier's strengths and avoid reference to its weaknesses.
D. It should be based on databases derived from cooperative efforts of purchasing, production,
and engineering.
Answer: C
Question 17.
If a supplier's level of quality was unsatisfactory on past orders and the level of quality on current orders is critical, which of the following options would be the BEST way to handle the situation?
A. Timely inspection by the buyer's company at the supplier's plant
B. Requiring the supplier to supply extra products to cover rejects
C. Require 100% inspection before the products leave the warehouse of the order by the buyer's
company's quality control department
D. Label "Quality of Material is Critical" on the purchase order
Answer: A
Question 18.
If a manufacturer establishes all the population needed for a round-bar machining process being 5.76 centimeters, with a standard deviation of 15. The acceptable quality limits are estimated at about 3 standard deviations. On day one, the sample means are taken by the operator, 5.80, 5.46, and 6.20 centimeters. These means indicate if the process is
A. controlled
B. reckless
C. statistically perfect
D. leaning towards the lower side of the mean
Answer: A
Question 19.
Which of the following factors are causing growth in complexity of much procurements leading to an increased trend towards:
A. suppliers partnering
B. cross-functional teams
C. risk factor management
D. strategic supplier alliances
Answer: B
Question 20.
Which of the following options are key actions that senior management should take into account when establishing a purchasing department?
A. Select a purchasing system
B. Develop list of suppliers
C. Hire qualified buyers
D. Establish a policies authorizing purchasing authority
Answer: D
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Question 1.
What is the network layer responsible for?
A. Providing the physical address to the packet.
B. Determining the path to the remote host.
C. Providing reliable communications from host to host.
D. Formatting the PDU.
Answer: B
Question 2.
Which of the following are basic router functions? Choose two.
A. Perform a Layer 2 header lookup
B. Broadcast a Layer 2 packet to all the interfaces.
C. IP header examination.
D. Determine the best path to the destination.
Answer: C, D
Question 3.
Which ATM adaptation layer is usually used for transporting IP datagrams?
A. AAL1
B. AAL2
C. AAL 3
D. AAL 5
Answer: D
Question 4.
Which of the following are data rates defined for Ethernet operation over copper and fiber optic cabling? (Choose three.)
A. 1 Mbps
B. 10 Mbps
C. 1000 Mbps
D. 10,000 Mbps
Answer: B, C, D
Question 5.
An Ethernet switch receives a frame addressed to an unknown destination.
Assuming the frame is error-free, what will the switch do with the frame?
A. Hold it in a buffer until it learns the port on which the destination is located
B. Flood the frame out all ports except the source port
C. Filter the frame and restrict it only to the source port
D. Age out the source address forwarding table entry
Answer: B
Question 6.
How does collision detection operate in the CSMA/CD algorithm?
A. It allows multiple hosts to exchange data simultaneously on the same medium
B. It allows multiple hosts to share the same medium by ensuring that only one host can transmit
at a time
C. Detects collisions on a full-duplex link
D. A host will only transmit upon receipt of the token
Answer: B
Question 7.
The Media Access Control (MAC) sub-layer is responsible for which two functions? (Choose two.)
A. Directly interface with the transport layer
B. Link integrity testing
C. Physical addressing
D. Data transmission synchronization
Answer: C, D
Question 8.
What is the purpose of carrier sense in the CSMA/CD algorithm?
A. To ensure the host is able to detect an operational physical link before transmitting.
B. The host is able to detect the transmission speed of the Ethernet switch port to which the host
is connected
C. The host will only transmit data when it detects that no other devices are transmitting
D. The host will only transmit upon a timer expiry
Answer: C
Question 9.
Which statement best describes a Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) root bridge/switch?
A. It is the switch on the network with the lowest bridge priority value
B. It is the switch with the highest numeric Media Access Control (MAC) address
C. It is the only switch on the network through which traffic flows
D. It is responsible for removing duplicate frames from the network
Answer: A
Question 10.
An Ethernet switch with redundant links has the following entries in its Forwarding Data Base (FDB):
MAC Address Port
00:60:AC:1F:E0:11 1
00:F0:DE:12:3C:87 2
It receives on port 2 a frame with the source Media Access Control (MAC) address 00:60:AC:1F:E0:11, and destination address 00:F0:DE:12:3C:87.
What will the switch change in its FDB?
A. It will remove the previous entry for MAC 00:F0:DE:12:3C:87 and replace it with a new one
mapping this address to port 1
B. It will set a timer on the previous entry for MAC 00:60:AC:1F:E0:11 and create a new entry
mapping this address to port 2
C. Replace the previous entry for MAC 00:60:AC:1F:E0:11 with a new one mapping this address
to port 2
D. It will create a new entry for MAC address 00:60:AC:1F:E0:11 mapping this address to port 2
and a new entry for MAC address 00:F0:DE:12:3C:87 mapping this address to port 1
Answer: C
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