CMCA Practice Test Questions (Under
Construction) with 100% Correct Answers
d. Be the time keeper - It is the manager's responsibility to ensure meetings are efficient and
that the Board conducts its business in a timely fashion, particularly if a timed agenda is being
used. - ✔✔Which of the following is a duty of a manager attending a board meeting?
a. Call the meeting to order.
b. Establish the agenda.
c. Take the minutes of the meeting.
d. Be the time keeper
d. Preventive maintenance - Preventive maintenance contracts are used for such items as pool
and A/C equipment, boilers and water heaters where regular service is likely to reduce the
chance of expensive emergency repairs.
INCORRECT:
A. Time and material contracts are typically used when the amount of time and/or material
cannot be determined in advance.
B. Specific repair contracts are for such things as painting, re-roofing and other specific repairs
such as paving and concrete and major building repairs.
C. Service contracts are used for ongoing services such as landscaping, website maintenance,
trash removal, etc. - ✔✔In older condominiums, an association should have what type of
contract covering mechanical equipment?
a. Time and materials
b. Specific repair
,c. Service
d. Preventive maintenance
b. Repairing and/or replacing all roofs - An outside consultant is most likely to be used in a
large, complicated project, such as replacement of all roofs in a HOA. - ✔✔For which project
would a board most likely want to use a consultant to help develop bid specifications?
a. Landscape renovation project
b. Repairing and/or replacing all roofs
c. Painting the interior of lobbies and hallways
d. Repairing HVAC and boilers
c. Specific state statues - There may be specific state statues addressing regulations which
effect the management of a community association. - ✔✔Which of the following has the
greatest regulatory influence on the management of a community association?
a. Federal statues
b. Articles of Incorporation
c. Specific state statues
d. General state statues
FALSE - ✔✔TRUE OR FALSE:
Employees are finished with training after they receive their initial training for a job.
a. Frequent neighborhood inspections - The key for the correct answer is "control" and the only
response that speaks to an overall system of control is frequent neighborhood inspections.
Incorrect:
,B, C, D - A methodology that can contribute to control, but A is the only answer that speaks to
an action that create a control. - ✔✔Which of the following is an example of an association
control system?
a. Frequent neighborhood inspections
b. Owner garage door locks
c. Telephone entry system
d. Posting police department information on building bulletin boards
TRUE - ✔✔TRUE OR FALSE:
The "business judgement rule" means that if a board has exercised reasonable business
judgement in making a decision, the court will generally not consider the board negligent in its
fiduciary duty.
d. mandatory committees - ✔✔Which of the following community association committees
typically are assigned responsibilities related to elections, nominations, and architectural
standards?
a. standing committees
b. professional committees
c. ad hoc committees
d. mandatory committees
b. goals - ✔✔Performance _____________ are those regular and special tasks management
expects an employee to perform during a certain time period.
a. evaluation
b. goals
, c. planning
d. standards
d. Board resolutions - Maintenance guidelines are established by Board action. - ✔✔Where
would a manager find guidelines regarding the association's responsibility for maintaining the
physical assets?
a. equipment warranties
b. Real estate sales contract
c. Governing documents
d. Board resolutions
c. Assigns maintenance tasks. - The purpose of the work order is to capture needed work to be
done and assign the work to the appropriate party/parties.
Incorrect:
A. References standards which are not part of a written work order.
B. References items to be completed during the year (a maintenance calendar).
D. Creates a listing of items needing maintenance attention. - ✔✔A work order:
a. Documents current maintenance standards.
b. Identifies what needs to be done during the year.
c. Assigns maintenance tasks.
d. Is a punch-list of maintenance needs.
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