CIPS Contract Administration L3M3 Exam Questions

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Question 1

Which one of the following could not be classed as a form of performance specification?



Answer : D

Since performance specifications are all to do with outputs, 'input-driven' leaps out as being the cor-rect answer here.


Question 2

A situation where suggestions made, often by a bidder, unnecessarily widen the scope of the requirement.



Answer : B

Specification creep - where the requirement becomes more complex or sophisticated than originally thought necessary for the buying organisation's purposes. Naturally, this can be expected to increase cost to the buying organisation.


Question 3

The official power to make legal decisions and judgments in a given location, for example



Answer : D

Jurisdiction.

American movies seem to spend half the time with law enforcement people arguing about who has jurisdiction.

Jurisprudence means the theory or study of law; Jurassic is about an age.

de jure means practices which are legally recognised, as opposed to de facto which is about the reali-ty (Wikipedia).


Question 4

A 'cause and effect' or 'fishbone' diagram is also commonly known as:



Answer : D

The answer is an Ishikawa Diagram.

Can be used in addressing quality problems, problems of under-performance, etc.

The other Japanese-sounding names shown as possible answers are spurious - two are novelists, and Fukushima was a serious environmental radioactive leak at a nuclear power station on the coast of Japan.


Question 5

Win-win negotiations can be described as expanding the:



Answer : A

This is the idea that negotiations can be of the sort which shares the (apple) pie, often aggressively and not 50/50 (win-lose); or it can seek to create additional value - expand the pie (win-win).


Question 6

How many 'Whys'?



Answer : A

'Five-Why Analysis' or 'Why-Why Analysis' is an approach to trying to determine the cause of an event. It can be used to link to / in conjunction with an Ishikawa diagram. The principle is that one repeatedly (as often as necessary, not necessarily limited to five) asks 'why?', and eventually an un-derlying reason will emerge, which if addressed effectively, will successfully resolve the problem. This is something which can often be observed naturally in small children. 'Why, Daddy?'. 'But why, Daddy?. Etc. (Or Mummy)


Question 7

In legal circles, ownership of something is often called:



Answer : C

Title. In order to be sure you own something, you have to make sure you have acquired 'good title'.


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