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ATD CPTD - The Certified Professional in Talent Development

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Total 148 questions

Which is the best step to take first when developing leadership competencies?

A.

Develop criteria to rate leaders at all levels in the organization

B.

Research key leadership skills of similar organizations

C.

Determine what leadership abilities the organization needs

D.

Determine development needs of existing leaders in the organization

A claims employee at an insurance company is transferred to the talent development (TD) department. This new TD team member has previously delivered departmental on-the-job training on an informal basis, but does not have any formal TD training. A TD manager has been assigned to help the new TD team member develop TD skills.

Several years have passed, and the former claims employee is now an experienced TD professional. The TD manager asks this TD professional to create a training plan for a new claims process. Some claims employees work remotely in three different countries. The TD manager requests a draft of the training plan in 30 days.

The TD manager approves the TD professional's training plan draft. What should the TD professional do to implement this project?

A.

Complete a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis.

B.

Define project roles.

C.

Schedule training sessions.

D.

Determine the project resources needed.

E.

Create a project definition checklist.

F.

Prepare a communication plan for stakeholders.

G.

Rotate project members on and off the project team.

A talent development (TD) professional is working as an independent consultant for a company. The TD professional signs a nondisclosure agreement and gains access to protected company data and information. Which type of law would the TD professional most likely be breaking if the information is misused?

A.

Fair use law

B.

Copyright law

C.

Trade secret law

D.

Intellectual property law

Which metric would show the most alignment with senior management and organizational goals?

A.

Market share

B.

Engagement

C.

Attrition

D.

Productivity

When creating a talent development (TD) initiative, which activity will best help a TD professional gain leadership support for the plan?

A.

Preparing a detailed budget

B.

Drafting a business case for learning

C.

Outlining a list of learning resources

D.

Identifying target participants

A TD professional at an online retail company is approached by one of the company's cloud services managers, who is concerned about the cloud services team's recent work performance. The manager states that the team members repeated the same mistakes from past teams. The TD professional performs a needs analysis and determines that the team members did not leverage information, best practices, and historical data recorded by past teams in the company's knowledge management system (KMS).

The TD professional determines that the team members are not motivated to use the KMS because they find it too time-consuming to access useful information.

The TD professional implements strategies to engage and motivate the cloud services team members in using the KMS. The TD professional now wants to enlist the cloud services managers to ensure continued use of the KMS by the team members.

What should the TD professional do?

A.

Provide all managers with a brief guide on follow-up techniques to use with their teams.

B.

Create opportunities for managers to share best practices and brainstorm solutions to challenges.

C.

Recommend that manager bonuses be tied to usage statistics.

D.

Suggest that the human resources team add a line to manager job descriptions stating their responsibility for creating a culture of knowledge sharing.

E.

Encourage managers to recognize and reward team members who increase their KMS usage appropriately.

F.

Request that managers be provided with regular reports on KMS usage by their team members.

G.

Have managers sign a contract to ensure they will support the KMS effort to the fullest extent.

A talent development professional has been asked to provide feedback to a trainer about an in-person session that received poor evaluation responses. The training was for senior-level management to learn to be more strategic and collaborative in their annual planning session. The trainer presented the learners with theories and methods for strategic planning and how to collaborate. Survey responses revealed learners felt they had not learned what they expected to learn. What was the most likely problem?

A.

The presentations were not polished enough, and the trainer should have practiced more before the session

B.

The learners were not motivated to learn the content presented to them and did not see how it related to the task at hand

C.

The training did not take into account the fact that the learners were experienced and motivated to learn

D.

The training did not provide situations where the learners could practice working as a group to come up with strategic priorities

Which is the best rationale for using text messaging in a business environment?

A.

It enables people to communicate in real time while engaged in something else, such as attending a presentation or group meeting

B.

It is private and is a good choice to communicate sensitive information through a channel that cannot be subjected to legal review

C.

It allows the sender to convey emotion with emojis and is a good choice to create a more personal connection with the recipient

D.

It implies urgency in situations where the sender faces tight deadlines or needs an immediate answer

Which activity represents the best example of a meaningful diversity and inclusion strategy in a workplace?

A.

Establish an executive-sponsored mentoring program with a designated budget and practices designed to support employees to increase the value they bring to the company

B.

Implement a fixed hiring model that will ensure at least one person from every type of diversity group is represented in the local/regional workforce

C.

Solicit input from employees and gather interest in various topics to offer targeted webinars to the organization around diversity and inclusion

D.

Issue an invitation to all employees to join the company's diversity committee so they can direct the company's activities around diversity and inclusion

A talent development (TD) professional is starting to plan an organizational development strategy. Which task should the TD professional perform first?

A.

Define the goals of the strategy

B.

Determine the scope of the learning plan

C.

Make an itemized budget

D.

Specify the skills that will be developed by the participants