Exam Code: PHR (Practice Exam Latest Test Questions VCE PDF)
Exam Name: Professional in Human Resources
Certification Provider: HRCI
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Q1. As an HR Professional, you must sometimes terminate employees from your organization. When an employee is terminated, there must be a just cause or a good cause for the termination. Which one of the following is not a valid just cause for the employee's termination?
A. Whether the employee is a member of a protected class
B. Whether the employee was warned in advance
C. Whether the rule has been applied consistently
D. Whether reasonable "proof" of the violation existed, or was obtained through investigation
Answer: A
Q2. As a HR Professional you must understand the laws and regulations, which affect employee compensation. If a non-exempt employee works more than 40 hours per week, what is their overtime pay rate?
A. 150 percent of their base pay
B. It depends on the state where the employee is employed
C. Non-exempt employees do not receive overtime pay
D. 50 percent of their base pay
Answer: A
Q3. As an HR Professional, you must be familiar with the collective bargaining agreements and the process that rights are given, contracts, and union and management cooperation. Consider an arbitration process between the management and the union. What term is assigned to the resolution of the disagreement, by an arbitrator's interpretation of the language of the contract?
A. Resolution
B. Interpretation
C. Decision
D. Outcome
Answer: C
Q4. You are the HR Professional for your organization and you're working with the management to define the role of contractors versus employees in your organization. According to the Internal Revenue Service, there are three categories of control that help determine whether a person is a contractor or an employee. Which one of the following is not one of the three levels of control as defined by the IRS for employee versus contractor?
A. Financial control
B. Locale of work performed
C. Behavioral control
D. Type of relationship
Answer: B
Q5. As an HR Professional, you must be familiar with certain theories and insights about organizational culture, organizational development, and management. Who addressed organizational culture as "that's the way we do things around here"?
A. Frederick Herzberg
B. Allen A. Kennedy
C. Edgard Schein
D. W. Edwards Deming
Answer: C
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Q6. A union is performing a jurisdictional strike in front of a construction site. What is a jurisdictional strike?
A. It is a strike through which the union seeks to pressurize an employer to assign a particular work to its members; rather than to members of other unions or to the non-union workers.
B. It is a strike through which the union seeks to pressurize an employer to agree to the terms ofa new contract although there is already an approved contract in place.
C. It is a strike through which the union seeks to pressurize an employer to agree to the terms of a new contract because the current contract between the employer and the union has expired.
D. It is a strike through which the union seeks to pressurize an employer to assign all work to its members, rather than to members of non-union workers.
Answer: A
Q7. You are leading a brief presentation for your company about the ERISA program your company participates in. What is ERISA used for?
A. It protects the interests of those who participate in employee benefit plans
B. It protects the workers of employee compensation plans
C. It protects private organizations that have profit sharing plans for employee compensation
D. It allows private organizations to create investments for workers in profit-sharing plans
Answer: A
Q8. Your organization has 80 full-time employees. Management has recently informed you that they have sold their business and they'll be releasing all employees in the organization. Based on the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988, how many days must management give in writing to the employees of this organization before the mass layoff?
A. 60 days
B. 120 days
C. Zero days
D. 30 days
Answer: C
Q9. Your organization has a no-solicitation rule in effect for all employees. How does this rule affect the internal organization of unions?
A. Unions can only solicit for members with the managements approval, when there's a no-solicitation rule in effect.
B. Unions cannot solicit for membership when there's a no-solicitation rule in an organization.
C. Unions can solicit for membership with the permission of more than 30 percentof the organization.
D. Unions are exempted from no-solicitation rules.
Answer: B
Q10. All organizations need prevoyance, or planning, as a part of a manager's duty. As an HR Professional what is the primary purpose of planning?
A. Directs the project team and staff to accomplish the project scope
B. Establishes groundwork for the managers to achieve the goals of the organization
C. Communicates the direction of the organization
D. Establishes groundwork for the managers to achieve their goals
Answer: B