CAE STANDARD EXAMS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔IRS Form 990 - ✔✔Discloses:
Records retention policy
Conflict of interest policy
Whistle-blower policy
Investment/reserve policy
Anti-fraud policy
✔✔Test Taking: CSE Mindset - ✔✔Answer questions from the perspective of the Chief
Staff Executive.
- High level though process
- Systems Thinking
- Don't favor departments
- Focus: Bring value to members
✔✔Test Taking: SPIE - ✔✔Apply SPIE framework when answering questions.
Scan, Plan, Implement, Evaluate
✔✔Test Taking: CSE Decisions - ✔✔Scan the environment
Prioritize strategies
Evaluate opportunities
Collect, evaluate, analyze and make meaning of data before acting.
Cost of acting vs. Cost of not acting
✔✔Test Taking: LERP - ✔✔When making decisions, consider these:
Legal (most important)
Ethical (very important)
Responsible (important)
Practical/Procedural (not so important)
✔✔Test Taking: Communications - ✔✔Member to Member
Staff to Staff
Board to Board
, The Board and CSE are partners.
CSE implements ideas of the board
Board is accountable for governance to members
✔✔Test Taking: Handling Conflicts - ✔✔Address in this order:
Individual
Smallest possible group
Larger group
Example: Indv., Exec Comm., BOD.
✔✔Test Taking: Questions - Look at keywords (time) - ✔✔Words that indicate time:
Meantime, first, next, so far, subsequently
These words can alter the relationships presented in a scenario question.
✔✔Test Taking: Questions - Look at keywords (cause) - ✔✔Consequently
So that
On account of
Considering that
Presuming that
✔✔Test Taking: Questions - Look at keywords (addition) - ✔✔Furthermore
Besides
Similarly
Indeed
Overall
In short
To summarize
✔✔Test Taking: Questions - Look at keywords (reference) - ✔✔He, she, theirs, who,
whom, which, that, where, when or why.
Make sure you know exactly who is meant by these.
✔✔CEO - ✔✔Chief Elected Officer (the board president)
✔✔CSE - ✔✔Chief Staff Executive (the paid staff person)
✔✔FAR(R) - ✔✔If you have violated antitrust law, you have gone too FARR...
Fixed prices
Allocated Markets
Restricted access or Restraint of trade
✔✔LAI - ✔✔Related to fundraising...
Linkage
SET A+
✔✔IRS Form 990 - ✔✔Discloses:
Records retention policy
Conflict of interest policy
Whistle-blower policy
Investment/reserve policy
Anti-fraud policy
✔✔Test Taking: CSE Mindset - ✔✔Answer questions from the perspective of the Chief
Staff Executive.
- High level though process
- Systems Thinking
- Don't favor departments
- Focus: Bring value to members
✔✔Test Taking: SPIE - ✔✔Apply SPIE framework when answering questions.
Scan, Plan, Implement, Evaluate
✔✔Test Taking: CSE Decisions - ✔✔Scan the environment
Prioritize strategies
Evaluate opportunities
Collect, evaluate, analyze and make meaning of data before acting.
Cost of acting vs. Cost of not acting
✔✔Test Taking: LERP - ✔✔When making decisions, consider these:
Legal (most important)
Ethical (very important)
Responsible (important)
Practical/Procedural (not so important)
✔✔Test Taking: Communications - ✔✔Member to Member
Staff to Staff
Board to Board
, The Board and CSE are partners.
CSE implements ideas of the board
Board is accountable for governance to members
✔✔Test Taking: Handling Conflicts - ✔✔Address in this order:
Individual
Smallest possible group
Larger group
Example: Indv., Exec Comm., BOD.
✔✔Test Taking: Questions - Look at keywords (time) - ✔✔Words that indicate time:
Meantime, first, next, so far, subsequently
These words can alter the relationships presented in a scenario question.
✔✔Test Taking: Questions - Look at keywords (cause) - ✔✔Consequently
So that
On account of
Considering that
Presuming that
✔✔Test Taking: Questions - Look at keywords (addition) - ✔✔Furthermore
Besides
Similarly
Indeed
Overall
In short
To summarize
✔✔Test Taking: Questions - Look at keywords (reference) - ✔✔He, she, theirs, who,
whom, which, that, where, when or why.
Make sure you know exactly who is meant by these.
✔✔CEO - ✔✔Chief Elected Officer (the board president)
✔✔CSE - ✔✔Chief Staff Executive (the paid staff person)
✔✔FAR(R) - ✔✔If you have violated antitrust law, you have gone too FARR...
Fixed prices
Allocated Markets
Restricted access or Restraint of trade
✔✔LAI - ✔✔Related to fundraising...
Linkage
