Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
Evaluation - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) Critiquing and rating the overall success of an event. 2)
Developing an event profile from accurate event statistics.
Objective - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Formalized statement of outcomes to be anticipated as a result
of the educational process.
Outsourcing - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Hiring an outside firm or individual to perform the task
instead of using in-house staff; to subcontract a task or responsibility to a third party.
Return on investment - Correct Answer✔️✔️-ROI. Net Profit divided by Net Worth. A financial
ratio indicating the degree of profitability. To calculate, use event revenues minus program expenses
divided by program expenses, multiplied by 100 to get the ROI %.
Stakeholder - Correct Answer✔️✔️-All individuals who are invested in a project or event such as
the sponsors, attendees, vendors, media and others.
Strategic plan - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Long range plan of action for a company or organization.
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,Educational programming committee - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A group of voluntary committee
members with vested interests in program content who are commonly used to establish direction for
educational programs offered at association meetings.
Focus group - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Method of doing research using a small group led by a
facilitator.
Kiosk - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) Free-standing pavilion or light structure, often inside a facility,
where printed or electronic information is available. 2) A small enclosure for ticket sales,
information, etc.
Program design - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Structure of event program elements to achieve specific
goals and objectives.
Sampling - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) A research method based upon selecting a portion of a
population for study. 2) Paperwork and fees paid to a building by exhibitors for the right to serve
food product.
Survey - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Solicitation of opinions regarding services; questionnaire.
Audience reaction team - Correct Answer✔️✔️-4 or 5 participants query the main speaker from
the stage with questions from the audience and follow up questions.
Buzz session - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Method to increase audience participation by dividing all
participants in discussion groups each of which reports the group's findings and opinions during a
following plenary session.
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,Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-CSP. Accredited designation offered
by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive, documented
speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Colloquium - Correct Answer✔️✔️-An informal meeting for the purpose of discussion; usually of
an academic or research nature and in order to ascertain areas of mutual interest through exchange
of ideas. Conducted as and when convenient, but with little regularity.
Debate - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A discussion which takes place within a meeting, a public or private
sitting or in one of the various types of assembly or meeting.
Facilitator - Correct Answer✔️✔️-An individual who guides discussion and/or decision making.
Fishbowl - Correct Answer✔️✔️-An interchange between an inner circle debating an issue and an
outer circle of observers. Individuals occasionally move from one circle to the other.
Interview - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The presenter is questioned by a moderator on behalf of the
audience.
National Speakers Association (NSA) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-National Speakers Association. A
member of the Convention Industry Council.
Seminar - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) Lecture and dialogue allowing participants to share experiences
in a particular field under the guidance of an expert discussion leader. 2) A meeting or series of
meetings of from 10 to 50 specialists who have different specific skills but have a specific common
interest and come together for training or learning purposes. The work schedule of a seminar has
the specific object of enriching the skills of the participants.
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, Speakers bureau - Correct Answer✔️✔️-An organization who locates and books speakers
according to my specifications and budget.
Symposium - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A meeting of a number of experts in a particular field, at which
papers are presented and discussed by specialists on particular subjects with a view to making
recommendations concerning the problems under discussion.
Workshop - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) Meeting of several persons for intensive discussion. The
workshop concept has been developed to compensate for diverging views in a particular discipline
or on a particular subject. 2) Informal and public session of free discussion organized to take place
between formal plenary sessions or commissions of a congress or of a conference, either on a
subject chosen by the participants themselves or else on a special problem suggested by the
organizers. 3) Training session in which participants, often through exercises, develop skills and
knowledge in a given field.
Accreditation - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Official authorization or approval; to provide with
credentials; to send (an envoy) with letters of authorization; to recognize or vouch for as conforming
with a standard; to recognize a college as maintaining academic standards; to consider or recognize
as outstanding; approval given by various trade associations to a travel agency allowing the sale of
tickets and other accommodations.
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The
organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
American Bar Association (ABA) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The organization who administers
Continuing Legal Education and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education courses (CLE and MCLE).
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Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
Evaluation - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) Critiquing and rating the overall success of an event. 2)
Developing an event profile from accurate event statistics.
Objective - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Formalized statement of outcomes to be anticipated as a result
of the educational process.
Outsourcing - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Hiring an outside firm or individual to perform the task
instead of using in-house staff; to subcontract a task or responsibility to a third party.
Return on investment - Correct Answer✔️✔️-ROI. Net Profit divided by Net Worth. A financial
ratio indicating the degree of profitability. To calculate, use event revenues minus program expenses
divided by program expenses, multiplied by 100 to get the ROI %.
Stakeholder - Correct Answer✔️✔️-All individuals who are invested in a project or event such as
the sponsors, attendees, vendors, media and others.
Strategic plan - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Long range plan of action for a company or organization.
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,Educational programming committee - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A group of voluntary committee
members with vested interests in program content who are commonly used to establish direction for
educational programs offered at association meetings.
Focus group - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Method of doing research using a small group led by a
facilitator.
Kiosk - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) Free-standing pavilion or light structure, often inside a facility,
where printed or electronic information is available. 2) A small enclosure for ticket sales,
information, etc.
Program design - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Structure of event program elements to achieve specific
goals and objectives.
Sampling - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) A research method based upon selecting a portion of a
population for study. 2) Paperwork and fees paid to a building by exhibitors for the right to serve
food product.
Survey - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Solicitation of opinions regarding services; questionnaire.
Audience reaction team - Correct Answer✔️✔️-4 or 5 participants query the main speaker from
the stage with questions from the audience and follow up questions.
Buzz session - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Method to increase audience participation by dividing all
participants in discussion groups each of which reports the group's findings and opinions during a
following plenary session.
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,Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-CSP. Accredited designation offered
by the National Speakers Association. This designation is earned for extensive, documented
speaking experience and client satisfaction.
Colloquium - Correct Answer✔️✔️-An informal meeting for the purpose of discussion; usually of
an academic or research nature and in order to ascertain areas of mutual interest through exchange
of ideas. Conducted as and when convenient, but with little regularity.
Debate - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A discussion which takes place within a meeting, a public or private
sitting or in one of the various types of assembly or meeting.
Facilitator - Correct Answer✔️✔️-An individual who guides discussion and/or decision making.
Fishbowl - Correct Answer✔️✔️-An interchange between an inner circle debating an issue and an
outer circle of observers. Individuals occasionally move from one circle to the other.
Interview - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The presenter is questioned by a moderator on behalf of the
audience.
National Speakers Association (NSA) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-National Speakers Association. A
member of the Convention Industry Council.
Seminar - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) Lecture and dialogue allowing participants to share experiences
in a particular field under the guidance of an expert discussion leader. 2) A meeting or series of
meetings of from 10 to 50 specialists who have different specific skills but have a specific common
interest and come together for training or learning purposes. The work schedule of a seminar has
the specific object of enriching the skills of the participants.
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, Speakers bureau - Correct Answer✔️✔️-An organization who locates and books speakers
according to my specifications and budget.
Symposium - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A meeting of a number of experts in a particular field, at which
papers are presented and discussed by specialists on particular subjects with a view to making
recommendations concerning the problems under discussion.
Workshop - Correct Answer✔️✔️-1) Meeting of several persons for intensive discussion. The
workshop concept has been developed to compensate for diverging views in a particular discipline
or on a particular subject. 2) Informal and public session of free discussion organized to take place
between formal plenary sessions or commissions of a congress or of a conference, either on a
subject chosen by the participants themselves or else on a special problem suggested by the
organizers. 3) Training session in which participants, often through exercises, develop skills and
knowledge in a given field.
Accreditation - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Official authorization or approval; to provide with
credentials; to send (an envoy) with letters of authorization; to recognize or vouch for as conforming
with a standard; to recognize a college as maintaining academic standards; to consider or recognize
as outstanding; approval given by various trade associations to a travel agency allowing the sale of
tickets and other accommodations.
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The
organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
American Bar Association (ABA) - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The organization who administers
Continuing Legal Education and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education courses (CLE and MCLE).
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