Welcome to the Language and Literacy Pre-Training Assessment Tool!

This tool has been developed to evaluate your skills in learning, reading and writing. It will help you to check whether you have the minimum skills required to complete the course and assessment that you would like to enrol in and to decide if this course is right for you.

This Pre-Training Assessment Tool consists of six (6) questions and should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

You are required to achieve a score of 100% to pass. If you do not pass, you will receive feedback from the Assessor and you may re-sit the assessment again.

When you attempt the assessment you will need to complete it in full before you exit.

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Question 1

You have just been promoted to 'senior manager' and your first job is the review the budgets for your department and work out how to reduce costs due to a drop in sales revenue.

You have no knowledge, skills or experience working with budgets.

What are two methods you could use to develop your knowledge and skills in budgets and cost reductions?

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Question 2

As 'senior manager' it is your job to ensure the required training is available to everyone in your department.

During your budget review, you need to remove 'non-essential' training in order to reduce costs.

Which two of the following training courses would you remove?

  • 'Filling in your timesheet' training
  • Mandatory 'health and safety' training
  • Yearly 'Drugs and Alcohol policy' training
  • 'Maximising teamwork' training

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Question 3

Read the excerpt from the CEO Update Report and then answer the question.

CEO Update Report (excerpt only)

CEO Welcome

Welcome to the annual CEO Update Report. This report will provide a summary of our activities for the past year and the direction of our company for the next year.

Market Activity

In the past we have focused our attention on the domestic market, however with the recent economic changes and challenges we have decided to expand into international markets in the next financial year to reduce our dependency on domestic economic stability. Our first international target market will be China due to its size, demographics and economic growth. Further international markets will be targeted later in the financial year.

Sales Revenue Summary

Over the past financial year our sales revenue (refer to diagram below) has experienced a significant decline which has prompted a detailed budget review to identify areas where we can reduce our costs. This review will impact all departments as we work to improve our ongoing financial viability.

Question 3

Which section of the report relates most to your current budget review and cost-reduction tasks?

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Question 4

Review the Board Meeting Agenda and then answer the question.

Question 4

Which agenda item would be most appropriate for you to do a presentation and provide the Board with an update on your budget review and cost-reduction tasks?

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Question 5

You are writing your presentation for the Board Meeting.

Write three complete sentences to summarise what you would say to explain the:

  • background for the budget review
  • reason for the cost-reductions
  • type of training courses you have decided to remove to reduce costs.

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Question 6

During your presentation, the Board asks you to prepare a report on the impacts of removing all training courses across your department (essential and non-essential). You do not think this is a good course of action.

Based on your experience, write three complete sentences to summarise the impacts (both positive and negative) of removing all training courses across your department and your recommendation. Ensure your answer is clear and professional.

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