CERTIFIED MEETING PROFESSIONAL CMP LATEST 2026
REVISION TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
MARKED A+
✔✔Life Cycle of Event Phases - ✔✔1. Initiation (Research)
2. Planning (requirements and specs determined)
3. Implementation (contract and coordinate)
4. Event (execution of event)
5. Closure (billing, feedback, evaluation)
✔✔Project Plan - ✔✔a document that shows how a project will be completed within a
certain time frame
✔✔Milestones - ✔✔key events that occur during the project and ultimately drive the
project schedule
✔✔Gantt Chart - ✔✔A time and activity bar chart that is used for planning, managing,
and controlling major programs that have a distinct beginning and end.
✔✔Quality Management - ✔✔1. Quality Planning (Plan how product with maintain
quality)
2. Quality Assurance (Confirmation that quality plan is in place and is appropriate)
3. Quality Control (checking product quality)
✔✔Procurement Plan - ✔✔acquisition of goods and services; includse:
-Planning (identifying goods and services required)
-Conducting (contracting)
-Administering (managing relationships and meeting milestones)
-Closing (evalu`ate, confirm requirements were met)
✔✔Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - ✔✔organizes and describes in detail the total
scope of the project;
-tasks and milestones
-estimated resources
-part of the critical path
-visual
✔✔Project Status Report - ✔✔used to give regular updates on progress of event
✔✔Scope Creep - ✔✔changes or issues that alter the critical path
✔✔Communications Plan - ✔✔A living, breathing document that guides the project;
manager and stakeholders throughout life of booking
, ✔✔Communication Matrix - ✔✔Who, To Whom, Who, When, How, and Why of
Messages/communications
✔✔Best Practices for Contracts - ✔✔- Review Carefully
- Should be in writing
- Authorized signers
- Clear, straightforward language
- negotiate in good faith
- identify how risks are allocated
✔✔Basic Elements of a Contract - ✔✔Offer, Acceptance, Consideration
✔✔Indemnification - ✔✔one party agrees to cover another party from libaility as a result
of a lawsuit by a 3rd party; should always be mutual
✔✔Crisis - ✔✔Has a small chance of occuring, but when it does, it threatens the
existence of an entity; decisions must be made quickly
✔✔Disaster - ✔✔High impant event, occurs abruptly; unforeseen and usually results in
significant loss or damage
✔✔Emergency - ✔✔unforeseen and has significant ipant; will result in the suspension
of activities of an entity
✔✔4 Stages of Risk Management - ✔✔1. Preparedness
2. Response
3. Recovery
4. Mitigation
✔✔Risk Management Process - ✔✔1. Risk assessment (Identify risks)
2. Risk Analysis (analyse, evaluate risks)
3. Crisis Planning (develop risk management plan)
4. Crisis Response (implement rmp)
✔✔Risk Analysis - ✔✔consider all the risks identified and narrow them down, as you
cannot plan for every risk; examine damage, loss, liability, potential to occur and timing
✔✔Ways to Handle Risk - ✔✔1. Accept (do nothing)
2. Mitigate (manage or reduce)
3. Transfer (ex: insurance)
4. Avoid (eliminate element that leads to risk)
✔✔Elements of a Risk Management Plan - ✔✔1. Chain of Command
2. Emergency and control procedures
3. Spokesperson
REVISION TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
MARKED A+
✔✔Life Cycle of Event Phases - ✔✔1. Initiation (Research)
2. Planning (requirements and specs determined)
3. Implementation (contract and coordinate)
4. Event (execution of event)
5. Closure (billing, feedback, evaluation)
✔✔Project Plan - ✔✔a document that shows how a project will be completed within a
certain time frame
✔✔Milestones - ✔✔key events that occur during the project and ultimately drive the
project schedule
✔✔Gantt Chart - ✔✔A time and activity bar chart that is used for planning, managing,
and controlling major programs that have a distinct beginning and end.
✔✔Quality Management - ✔✔1. Quality Planning (Plan how product with maintain
quality)
2. Quality Assurance (Confirmation that quality plan is in place and is appropriate)
3. Quality Control (checking product quality)
✔✔Procurement Plan - ✔✔acquisition of goods and services; includse:
-Planning (identifying goods and services required)
-Conducting (contracting)
-Administering (managing relationships and meeting milestones)
-Closing (evalu`ate, confirm requirements were met)
✔✔Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - ✔✔organizes and describes in detail the total
scope of the project;
-tasks and milestones
-estimated resources
-part of the critical path
-visual
✔✔Project Status Report - ✔✔used to give regular updates on progress of event
✔✔Scope Creep - ✔✔changes or issues that alter the critical path
✔✔Communications Plan - ✔✔A living, breathing document that guides the project;
manager and stakeholders throughout life of booking
, ✔✔Communication Matrix - ✔✔Who, To Whom, Who, When, How, and Why of
Messages/communications
✔✔Best Practices for Contracts - ✔✔- Review Carefully
- Should be in writing
- Authorized signers
- Clear, straightforward language
- negotiate in good faith
- identify how risks are allocated
✔✔Basic Elements of a Contract - ✔✔Offer, Acceptance, Consideration
✔✔Indemnification - ✔✔one party agrees to cover another party from libaility as a result
of a lawsuit by a 3rd party; should always be mutual
✔✔Crisis - ✔✔Has a small chance of occuring, but when it does, it threatens the
existence of an entity; decisions must be made quickly
✔✔Disaster - ✔✔High impant event, occurs abruptly; unforeseen and usually results in
significant loss or damage
✔✔Emergency - ✔✔unforeseen and has significant ipant; will result in the suspension
of activities of an entity
✔✔4 Stages of Risk Management - ✔✔1. Preparedness
2. Response
3. Recovery
4. Mitigation
✔✔Risk Management Process - ✔✔1. Risk assessment (Identify risks)
2. Risk Analysis (analyse, evaluate risks)
3. Crisis Planning (develop risk management plan)
4. Crisis Response (implement rmp)
✔✔Risk Analysis - ✔✔consider all the risks identified and narrow them down, as you
cannot plan for every risk; examine damage, loss, liability, potential to occur and timing
✔✔Ways to Handle Risk - ✔✔1. Accept (do nothing)
2. Mitigate (manage or reduce)
3. Transfer (ex: insurance)
4. Avoid (eliminate element that leads to risk)
✔✔Elements of a Risk Management Plan - ✔✔1. Chain of Command
2. Emergency and control procedures
3. Spokesperson
