apbm cabm practice test

Certified Associate Business Manager Exam

Last exam update: Dec 24 ,2025
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Question 1

Process of envisioning the organization’s future and developing the necessary procedures and
operations to achieve that future is called:

  • A. Foregoing planning
  • B. Strategic planning
  • C. Operational planning
  • D. Organizational planning
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Question 2

What focuses on the roles of senior managers in guiding an organization to fulfill its missions and
meet its goals?

  • A. Senior management
  • B. Operational control
  • C. Executive leadership
  • D. Board of Control
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Question 3

Effective leadership requires which core leadership skills?

  • A. vision, empowerment, intuition, self-understanding, and value congruence
  • B. vision, mission, intuition, process-control, and value congruence
  • C. mission, empowerment, perception, self-understanding, and value congruence
  • D. mission, presentiment, intuition, self-understanding, and correspondence
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Question 4

What is based on the presumption that it is determined by what a customer wants?

  • A. Property
  • B. Trait
  • C. Superiority
  • D. Quality
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Question 5

____________ are targets and tolerances determined by designers of products and services.

  • A. Terms
  • B. Specifications
  • C. Constraints
  • D. Provision
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Question 6

Total quality is based on which of the following fundamental principle?

  • A. Focus on customers and stakeholders
  • B. Participation and teamwork by everyone in the organization
  • C. Process focus supported by continuous improvement and learning
  • D. All of the above
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Question 7

What refers to both incremental improvements that are small and gradual as well as break through,
and large and rapid, improvement?

  • A. Continuous improvement
  • B. Re-growth
  • C. Streamlined improvement
  • D. Rationalized improvement
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Question 8

A learning cycle has which of the following four stages?

  • A. Planning, Organizing, Measurement, Revision
  • B. Planning, Implementation, Assessment, Adjustment
  • C. Planning, Execution, Assessment, Revision
  • D. Planning, Execution, Evaluation, Improvement
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Question 9

What refers to the basic management systems necessary to function effectively and carryout the
principles of total quality?

  • A. Infrastructure
  • B. Practices
  • C. Processes
  • D. None of the above
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Question 10

Which of the following is NOT the element of infrastructure?

  • A. Customer leadership management
  • B. Quality planning
  • C. Leadership and strategic planning
  • D. Process management
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Question 11

What include a wide variety of graphical and statistical methods to plan work activities, collect data,
analyze results, monitor progress, and solve problems?

  • A. Statistics
  • B. Techniques
  • C. system
  • D. Tools
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Question 12

An organization that is committed to total quality must apply it at which level?

  • A. organizational level
  • B. process level
  • C. job level
  • D. All of the above
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Question 13

A tool for organizing a large number of ideas, opinions and facts relating to a broad problem or
subject area is called:

  • A. Interrelationship diagram
  • B. Affinity diagram
  • C. Kinship diagram
  • D. Expansive diagram
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Question 14

Which of the following is NOT the management and planning tool?

  • A. Affinity diagrams
  • B. Tree diagrams
  • C. Process decision program charts
  • D. Product manufacturing flow charts
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Question 15

What are spreadsheets that graphically display relationships between ideas, activities, or other
dimensions in such a way as to provide logical connecting points between each item?

  • A. Matrix diagrams
  • B. Matrix data analyzed charts
  • C. Arrow diagrams
  • D. Process diagrams
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