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APHR EXAM AND PRACTICE EXAM NEWEST
2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 400
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
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are rescinded and the entities disband - CORRECT ANSWER-c)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

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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

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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

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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