CIPS L5M2 Managing Supply Chain Risk Exam Practice Test

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As a consultant he will need Professional Indemnity insurance. This insurance is for roles that include providing advice, designs and services. Insurances comes up a bit in the exam so revise this from p.96-100

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A Business Continuity Plan is held at the top level. See p. 155

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monitor and review is the last stage. The full cycle is; establish context - identify risks - analyse and evaluate risks - treat -communicate and consult - monitor and review. See p. 142

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A Disaster Recovery Plan is to get critical systems operational following an emergency. This is implemented hours after the event. Option 2 describes Incident Response and Option 3 describes a Business Continuity Plan. Option 4 is made up. These definitions and the timeline of when they're activated is on p.108 of the study guide

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These are qualifications in business continuity. This comes from p.107 of the study guide. CBCI stands for Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute and DBCI Diploma of the Business Continuity Institute. Once you know what the acronyms stand for, the question is quite easy!

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The correct answers are reputational risks and geopolitical risks. This is according to p. 77 of the study guide. Although I personally feel this is a bit presumptive, painting all 'low-cost' countries with the same brush (are all 'low-cost countries' politically unstable and allow dodgy things that will affect your reputation?, this is what the textbook says ...

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This is the Yellow Book. This is briefly mentioned on p.74 and can often be missed by students. There is a question in the exam about which type of FIDIC contract can be used for construction projects and this is NOT explained in the study guide - so here is a link to FIDIC so you can revise this before the exam: https://fidic.org/sites/default/files/FIDIC_Suite_of_Contracts_0.pdf

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Indemnity clauses should contain duties of both parties, a monetary limit and a time limit (1 2 and 5). It should also detail what types of costs are covered. These four points are explained on p.61. An indemnity clause doesn't necessarily signal a breach in contract, and levels of insurance are not relevant here.

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This is a financial risk. A drop in share prices is a huge financial risk for a company. Having lots of items as WIP is also a financial risk as this signifies that a lot of money is tied up in stock being held on site. Types of risk are very popular exam questions for this module- for a full list of these and explanations see p.11

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analyse is the correct answer. The full process is: establish context- identify- analyse - evaluate - treat - monitor and review. This is from p.122

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2 'increase security of supply risks as there is less buffer stock held on site' is the correct answer. With Lean manufacturing there is little or no buffer stock held. This means that if a supplier doesn't deliver on time, the whole manufacturing process will have to come to a stop until new supplies arrive. A risk of Lean Manufacturing is that you become too reliant on suppliers, and if there is a scarcity of resources or an issue with the supply chain, you are more exposed. See p.26-27 for more information on Security of Supply Risks.

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1 and 5 are correct- it is the most common type of distribution and it looks like a bell curve when it's drawn as a graph. There's one on p.127 to look at. The other three statements are incorrect- it's a bell shape rather than a curve, it requires a large number of data points and most of the data points correlate around the middle.

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2 is the correct answer. Risk appetite is the level of risk that an individual or organisation is comfortable taking (p.4). Having a large risk appetite does not mean that you want to take every risk (as that would be irresponsible), rather, a large risk appetite means you're more likely to gamble and take calculated risks, even though they might not pay off. A small risk appetite would describe options 3 and 4 - taking few risks, or none at all.