HRCI PHR Exam Practice Test Instant Access

Question 1

As an HR Professional you must recognize, and be aware of several pieces of legislation that affects your performance as an HR Professional. Which one of the following acts used the terminology "work now, grieve later" to describe the urgency of performing work?

AClayton Act

BNational Labor Relations Act

CRailway Labor Act

DNational Industrial Recovery Act

Answer : C

The Railway Labor Act was a critical win for the management, in that it helped keep trains, and later airlines, from striking - to disrupt travel of citizens. The act was created to keep the trains moving - with a few exceptions, such as safety.

Answer option A is incorrect. The Clayton Act clarified language in the Sherman Antitrust Act, and deemed labor unions and agricultural unions exempt from the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Answer option D is incorrect. The National Industrial Recovery Act guaranteed laborers the right to organize and bargain collectively.

Answer option B is incorrect. The National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, guaranteed the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organization, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choice.

Question 2

As an HR Professional, you must be familiar with collective bargaining agreements and the process that rights are given, contracts, and union and management cooperation. With this in mind, what is a rights arbitration?

AIt is a lawsuit between the collective management and the collective union.

BIt is a formal hearing between the management and the union, to resolve grievances during the construction of a contract.

CIt is a formal hearing between management and union members to resolve grievances during the administration of a contract.

DIt is a not a lawsuit, but a resolution of laws and their impact on existing contracts.

Answer : C

Rights arbitration is like a hearing, but it doesn't take place in the court of law. Rights arbitration aims to resolve grievances between union members and management, that have happened during the administration of a contract.

Answer option B is incorrect. Note that this answer is close, but it defines rights arbitration as something that occurs during the construction of the contract, not during the actual administration of the contract.

Answer option A is incorrect. Rights arbitration is not a lawsuit.

Answer option D is incorrect. Rights arbitration is not an interpretation of laws and their affect on existing contracts.

Question 3

Gary is an HR Professional for his organization that has several federal contracts of $100,000 or more. His organization, as required by VEVRAA, files what form by September 30 each year, which provides the details of the veterans employed by the federal contractor?

AGary must file the EEO-VETS form

BGary must file the VEVRAA ACT-1 report

CGary must file the EEO-1 report

DGary must file the VETS-100 form

Answer : D

Under VEVRAA, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act, Gary must file the VETS-100 form by September 30 each year. This form reports information on the veterans employed by Gary's company.

Answer options C, B, and A are incorrect. These are not correct forms for the VEVRAA requirements.

Question 4

As a HR Professional you must be familiar with several different lawsuits and their affect on human resource practices today. What did the Regents of the University of California versus Bakke lawsuit primarily accomplish?

AUniversities could not use race as the reason to exclude an applicant to a college admissions program, but the university could use race as one of the reasons to include a person as an applicant to a college admissions program.

BUniversities could not hire a person based solely on their race.

CUniversities could not use race as a reason to not hire a person, but could use race as a reason to hire a person.

DUniversities could not use race as a reason to include or to exclude a person from a college admissions program.

Answer : A

The Regents of the University of California versus Bakke lawsuit, barred race as the sole criteria for excluding an applicant from consideration to an admissions program, but did allow race to be one of the factors for admission to the program.

Answer options B, C, and D are incorrect. These are not valid definitions of University of California versus Bakke lawsuit.

Question 5

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?

AWhen an employer treats all applicants the same regardless of their race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or military or veteran status.

BWhen an employer creates a quid pro quo status based on an employee's rebuttal of unwelcome sexual advances.

CWhen an employer treats a candidate differently based on the person's race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or military or veteran status

DWhen an employee treats other employees differently based on their past work efforts.

Answer : C

Disparate treatment is when an employer treats an employee or applicant differently based on the person's race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or military or veteran status. Disparate treatment is an unlawful discrimination.

Answer option B is incorrect. This statement defines a type of sexual harassment.

Answer option A is incorrect. Employers should treat all applicants the same regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or military or veteran status.

Answer option D is incorrect. This is not an example of harassment, but a workplace environment.

Question 6

As an HR Professional you should be familiar with the terminology, practices, and rules governing union-based strikes. What term is assigned to a group of employees who are not directly affected by a group of striking employees, but they choose not to cross a picket line of strike?

ACommon situs picketing

BScabs

CSympathy strike

DWildcat strikes

Answer : C

A sympathy strike occurs when non-striking workers don't cross the picket line of striking workers. Answer option B is incorrect. The term scab is a derogative term by which picketers often call workers who cross the picket line. Answer option A is incorrect. The common situs picketing happens when members of a picketing labor union picket a workplace in which multiple employers work. This could include employers who the picketers don't have a disagreement with. Answer option D is incorrect. A wildcat strike is when a collective bargaining agreement restricts strikes, but workers strike anyway.

Question 7

What is the time limit for filing a charge of discrimination with the EEOC?

A90 days

B60 days

C180 days

D30 days

Answer : C

The individual filing the claim has 180 days from the date of the alleged violation. In some instances the 180-day limitation may be extended

to 300 days if the charge is covered by a state or local anti-discrimination law.

Answer option D is incorrect. The limit is 180 days, not 30 days.

Answer option B is incorrect. The limit is 180 days, not 60 days.

Answer option A is incorrect. The limit is 180 days, not 90 days.

HRCI PHR - Professional in Human Resources Exam Practice Test