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APHR EXAM AND PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST
2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 4 00
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
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GRADED A+
APHR EXAM
Which of the following best describes mergers and acquisitions (M&A)?
a) Mergers occur temporarily in order to consolidate resources
and beat out a competitor; acquisitions occur permanently
b) Mergers occur when one company purchases another without
a new company being formed.
c) Merger occur when two companies combine to form a new
one. Acquisitions occur when one company purchases another one without a new company being formed
d) Mergers and acquisitions often occur temporarily in order to
consolidate resources and beat out a competitor; then the actions are rescinded and the entities disband - CORRECT ANSWER -c) Merger occur when two companies combine to form a new one.Acquisitions occur when one company purchases another one without a new company being formed 1 / 4
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When performing a cost-benefit analysis of a proposed project, what is a project worker's salary an example of? - CORRECT ANSWER-A cost
Each fiscal quarter within a fiscal year is an example of which of the following?
a) Benchmarking
b) A milestone
c) Calendar divides
d) A dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER -b) A milestone
Myra and Angela are 2 HR professionals who work in the same organization. Recently, Myra successfully implemented a sustainability initiative with the marketing department, where she helped them reduce the amount of paper they use. This led to saved paper, printing and labor costs as well as reduced physical waste. Angela would like to try this initiative with the Finance department, which is welcome to this idea. Hw can Angela begin to allocate resources for this project?
a) Copy Myra's initiative as closely as possible, right down to
the budget and timeline 2 / 4
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b) Use her best guess to document what she believes the finance
department will need in order to reduce their paper waste and provide a written copy to the manager
c) Set up a meeting with Myra to discuss how she allocated
resources and what went successfully as well as what did not go successfully and use this data to plan
d) Ask the HR intern to devote all of - CORRECT ANSWER -c)
Set up a meeting with Myra to discuss how she allocated resources and what went successfully as well as what did not go successfully and use this data to plan
Michael leads an HR department at a federal agency. He is in the planning stage for the new fiscal year and is thrilled that he has created initiatives that are highly detailed and comprehensive and use the resources of contracts his agency currently has in place. He is very attracted to the outcomes of these initiatives. However, a presidential election is taking place in one month that will likely affect the contracts that are awarded to his agency. What can Michael do to protect his new fiscal year plans?
a) Ensure that there is leftover money from the previous fiscal
year to serve as a cushion should he not receive expected contracts 3 / 4
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b) Create backup plans for all of the contracts that may be
affected, while calmly accepting that some changes may be unanticipated and out of his control
c) Nothing, he has alley distributed them to employees and
archived them on the organization's servers
d) Find a new job - CORRECT ANSWER -b) Create backup
plans for all of the contracts that may be affected, while calmly accepting that some changes may be unanticipated and out of his control
Larry manages three HR employees. Jane is in charge of compensation and benefit tasks, Ira is in charge of risk management tasks, and Samir is in charge of recruitment and hiring. Samir has an illness that takes him out of the office for 6 weeks, and during this time, all recruitment and hiring processes freeze. This majorly impacts 2 other departments that were waiting on new employees to begin. How could this situation have best been prevented?
a) Larry should have cross-trained his 3 employees to fill in for
each other should emergencies come up
b) Samir should have worked remotely to handle the candidates
needed by the other 2 departments
c) Larry should have filled in for Samir's role for the entire
duration of his absence
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