NPMA CPPS CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Individualized sessions - ✔✔Audience
New or temp employees
Departing employees
individuals with special needs
Types of Info
Training for specific tasks
Transfer of property custody
✔✔It is helpful to include some level of _________ in a given subject, presenting to a
wide variety of audiences, using multiple delivery methods - ✔✔redundancy
✔✔Most overlooked part of training - ✔✔documentation - text and visual aids
Enhances learning, more enjoyable
✔✔Examples of visual aids are - ✔✔Use guides
Tutorials
Quick reference cards
Intranet web sites
HTML files
✔✔Benefits of an effective property function - ✔✔-Maximize return on investment
-Facilitate compliance
-Maximize reutilization
-Depreciation expense
✔✔ - ✔✔
, ✔✔ Property Management - ✔✔The exercise of a retaining or governing influence over
the acquisition, use, and disposition of personal property
✔✔Property Control Variety of Names - ✔✔Property Accounting, Fixed Asset
Accounting, Inventory Control, Material, Property Control, Asset Management.
✔✔Property Management Office PMO - ✔✔Department within an org that is responsible
for controlling or managing property
✔✔Property Manager - ✔✔PMO is headed by
✔✔Property Manager is responsible for: - ✔✔establishing, guiding, managing, and
maintaining an efficient property system, communicating effectively with other
departments and functions, and developing and presenting training in property related
subjects
✔✔Property Control System is comprised of - ✔✔Property Management Personnel,
processes, and mgmt info. systems (MIS). (Written policies, procedures, operational
guidelines, and related records, and MIS that facilitates these functions).
✔✔If org contracts with the government, property manager must - ✔✔have a working
relationship with all sponsor reps
✔✔Ownership - ✔✔Having legal or rightful title to property
✔✔either owned by the org or is provided by a sponsor under some kind of agreement
(sponsor has ownership). - ✔✔Property is either owned by or provided.
✔✔Ownership of property allows the owner to - ✔✔make any and all decisions
regarding the property
✔✔It is the property professional job to support the property owner in - ✔✔making and
implementing effective decisions regarding the property
✔✔Duties, responsibilities, and potential penalties should be - ✔✔documented in a
formal agreement between the provider and the recipient (contract, grant)
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔means to posses and have use of the property of another with
delegated duties and responsibilities, subject to penalty in case of default.
✔✔Those accountable - ✔✔do not have legal or rightful title to the property
✔✔Key elements of property accountability - ✔✔provider, recipient, specific duties and
responsibilities, and penalties in case of default
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Individualized sessions - ✔✔Audience
New or temp employees
Departing employees
individuals with special needs
Types of Info
Training for specific tasks
Transfer of property custody
✔✔It is helpful to include some level of _________ in a given subject, presenting to a
wide variety of audiences, using multiple delivery methods - ✔✔redundancy
✔✔Most overlooked part of training - ✔✔documentation - text and visual aids
Enhances learning, more enjoyable
✔✔Examples of visual aids are - ✔✔Use guides
Tutorials
Quick reference cards
Intranet web sites
HTML files
✔✔Benefits of an effective property function - ✔✔-Maximize return on investment
-Facilitate compliance
-Maximize reutilization
-Depreciation expense
✔✔ - ✔✔
, ✔✔ Property Management - ✔✔The exercise of a retaining or governing influence over
the acquisition, use, and disposition of personal property
✔✔Property Control Variety of Names - ✔✔Property Accounting, Fixed Asset
Accounting, Inventory Control, Material, Property Control, Asset Management.
✔✔Property Management Office PMO - ✔✔Department within an org that is responsible
for controlling or managing property
✔✔Property Manager - ✔✔PMO is headed by
✔✔Property Manager is responsible for: - ✔✔establishing, guiding, managing, and
maintaining an efficient property system, communicating effectively with other
departments and functions, and developing and presenting training in property related
subjects
✔✔Property Control System is comprised of - ✔✔Property Management Personnel,
processes, and mgmt info. systems (MIS). (Written policies, procedures, operational
guidelines, and related records, and MIS that facilitates these functions).
✔✔If org contracts with the government, property manager must - ✔✔have a working
relationship with all sponsor reps
✔✔Ownership - ✔✔Having legal or rightful title to property
✔✔either owned by the org or is provided by a sponsor under some kind of agreement
(sponsor has ownership). - ✔✔Property is either owned by or provided.
✔✔Ownership of property allows the owner to - ✔✔make any and all decisions
regarding the property
✔✔It is the property professional job to support the property owner in - ✔✔making and
implementing effective decisions regarding the property
✔✔Duties, responsibilities, and potential penalties should be - ✔✔documented in a
formal agreement between the provider and the recipient (contract, grant)
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔means to posses and have use of the property of another with
delegated duties and responsibilities, subject to penalty in case of default.
✔✔Those accountable - ✔✔do not have legal or rightful title to the property
✔✔Key elements of property accountability - ✔✔provider, recipient, specific duties and
responsibilities, and penalties in case of default
