HRCI PHR Free Practice Questions

NEW QUESTION 1
Martha is the HR Professional for her organization and she's working with her team to complete non-quantitative job evaluations. Martha wants to stress the available types of non-quantitative job evaluation techniques that are appropriate for her team to be communicated to managers. Which one of the following is not a non-quantitative job evaluation technique that Martha should share?

• A. Whole job ranking
• B. Job slotting
• C. Factor comparison
• D. Job classification

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 2
As an HR Professional you must be familiar with several different lawsuits and their affect on human resource practices today. What did the legal case, the United Steelworkers of America versus Weber regard?

• A. The United States Supreme Court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did bar employers from favoring women and minoritie
• B. The United States Supreme Court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did bar employers from using racial criteria as a method to determine workplace advancemen
• C. The United States Supreme Court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not bar employers from favoring women and minoritie
• D. The United States Supreme Court held that the Civil Rights Actof 1964 did bar employersfrom favoring minorities, but could do gender based favo

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 3
Which of the following are established by Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.

• A. Criteria for exempt and nonexempt employees
• B. Minimumwage requirement
• C. Laws for protecting American children against labor exploitation
• D. Health insurance requirement

Answer: ABC

NEW QUESTION 4
Which of the following is a communication that damages an individual's reputation in the community, preventing them from obtaining employment?

• A. Gainsharing
• B. Constructive discharge
• C. Duty of loyalty
• D. Defamation

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 5
An organization is considering services it can successfully provide to its customers. One of the services, however, is deemed to be difficult to offer with a high degree of certainty of success. The organization has decided not to offer the service because of the risk in offering the service, and failing. What risk response is used in this scenario?

• A. Transference
• B. Sharing
• C. Avoidance
• D. Mitigation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 6
As an HR Professional you must be familiar with several laws and pieces of legislation that affects your practices. What act makes it illegal to discriminate against older workers with respect to benefits or to target older workers for layoffs?

• A. OWBPA
• B. OASDI
• C. HIPAA
• D. MHPA

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 7
You are a HR Professional for your organization and you're preparing your team for a series of interviews. You want the team to be familiar with the validity types you'll use and encourage in the series of interviews. One of the requirements for the open position is that the candidates are fluent in both English and Spanish. This is based on the high performers among current employees that have this trait. This is an example of what type of validity?

• A. Criterion-related validity
• B. Predictive validity
• C. Construct-related validity
• D. Content validity

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 8
Which one of the following best describes Progressive discipline?

• A. Discussion of substandard performance, written warning, final writtenwarning, terminatio
• B. Series of documents of employee's incompetence or insubordination that precedes an employee's terminatio
• C. Discussion of substandard performance, verbal warning, written warning, and final written warnin
• D. Series of documents of employee's substandard performance prior to each step of discipline or terminatio

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 9
Which one of the following presents the seven stages of internal consulting in the correct order?

• A. Exploring the situation, Gathering data, analyzing, and identifying findings, Gathering agreement to the project plan, Developing recommendations, Implementing, Presenting the findings and recommendations, Reviewing, transitioning, and evaluating the projec
• B. Exploring the situation, Gathering agreement to the project plan, Gathering data, analyzing, and identifying findings, Presenting the findings and recommendations, Developing recommendations, Implementing, Reviewing, transitioning, and evaluating the projec
• C. Gathering agreement to the project plan, Exploring the situation, Gathering data, analyzing, and identifying findings, Developing recommendations, Presenting the findings and recommendations, Implementing, Reviewing, transitioning, and evaluating the projec
• D. Exploring the situation, Gathering agreement to the project plan, Gathering data, analyzing, and identifying findings, Developing recommendations, Presenting the findings andrecommendations, Implementing, Reviewing, transitioning, and evaluating the projec

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10
You are an HR Professional for your organization. You and your supervisor are reviewing the EEO reporting requirements for your company to comply with the reports your firm should file. Which EEO Report is a survey, collected every other year on even calendar years?

• A. EEO-4 Report
• B. EEO-5 Report
• C. EEO-3 Report
• D. EEO-1 Report

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 11
Which one of the following is the best example of a disparate treatment of discrimination?

• A. All project team members are asked to take turns keeping meeting minutes in a rotatio
• B. The meeting minutes will be kept by both men and women in a rotatio
• C. The meeting minutes will be kept by female members of the project team because they have neater handwritin
• D. All junior project team members are required to take turns keeping meeting minutes in a rotatio

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 12
HR Professionals must recognize types of unlawful discrimination to be in compliance with US law. One type of discrimination is disparate treatment. Which one of the following is the best definition of disparate treatment?

• A. When an employer treats all applicants the same regardless of their race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or military or veteran statu
• B. When an employer creates a quid pro quo status based on an employee's rebuttal of unwelcome sexual advance
• C. When an employer treats a candidate differently based on the person's race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or military or veteran status
• D. When an employee treats other employees differently based on their past work effort

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 13
Which of the following is the process of systematically determining a relative internal value of a job in an organization?

• A. Job evaluation
• B. Broadbanding
• C. SWOT Analysis
• D. Gainsharing

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 14
As an HR Professional you should be familiar with OSHA forms for maintaining employee records. Which OSHA form is used to cover the what, how, when, where, and who or work-related injuries?

• A. Form 301
• B. Form 300
• C. Form 300A
• D. Form 3165

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 15
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

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