Top 350+ Solved Training and Development MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Fitts (1962) proposed that skill development occurs in which of the following orders?
a. Affective, cognitive, associative, autonomous
b. Associative, cognitive, autonomous
c. Cognitive, affective, associative, autonomous
d. Cognitive, associative, autonomous
Q. Declarative knowledge refers to:
a. The ability to explain how to perform a task
b. Knowing what is required in order to perform a task
c. Factual or explicit knowledge
d. Knowing how to do something
Q. Reaction level data can be improved by asking trainees
a. How much they enjoyed the training
b. How difficult and useful they found the training
c. How useful and enjoyable they found the training
d. How difficult they found the training
Q. Which of the following factors did Baldwin and Ford (1988) not identify as
a. Important in the transfer of learning to the workplace?
b. Financial support (resources, funds for training)
c. Work environment (support and opportunities to use)
d. Trainee characteristics (ability, personality and motivation)
Q. What are the three main groups of learning outcomes according to Kraiger, Ford andSalas (1993)?
a. skill-based, cognitive and affective
b. Skill-based, motivational and affective
c. Affective, motivational and cognitive
d. Motivational, skill-based and cognitive
Q. Training needs analysis can take place at organizational, task, and person levels. At the Organizational level, it broadly examines what are the organization’s strategic plans and where is training and development needed to fit into the planning. Organizational training needs generally occur when:
a. Government provides additional funding.
b. Information technology systems need upgrading.
c. There is some kind of barrier hindering the achievement of organizational aims and objectives which is best removed by training.
d. Other competing organisations are conducting extensive training programmes.
Q. The first phase of a training programme is a training needs analysis. What does this aim to do?
a. Identify the training objectives
b. Produce selection criteria
c. Establish the training resources required
d. All of the above
Q. Communicating leadership' is included in
a. personal competencies
b. interpersonal competencies
c. business management
d. Both A and C
Q. The unique characteristics of a learning organization is that the members learn about each other
a. it has the capacity to gather new information and use it for improvement
b. it focuses on selecting new employees who love learning and are highly skilled
c. employees are rewarded for submitting creative suggestions and participating in their implementation
d. none
Q. The systems model of training contains three phases: __________, training and Development, and evaluation.
a. Preparation
b. Assessment
c. Introduction
d. Organizing
Q. In assessing training needs, an examination of production efficiency, labor costs, turnover, and accidents would be part of which training needs analysis?
a. Personnel
b. Task
c. operations
d. organizational
Q. The major difference between training and education is that
a. education refers more to acquiring specific skills.
b. education is more closely related to learning a particular job.
c. training provides more general knowledge.
d. training narrows the range of responses while education broadens the range.
Q. As a marketing agent, the CEO of a company is responsible for:
a. Promoting the company’s commitment to learning by advocating it in speeches, annual reports, interviews, and other public relations tools.
b. serving as a role model for learning for the entire company and demonstrating a
c. Willingness to learn constantly.
d. developing new learning programs for the company and providing resources online
Q. _____ refers to the company’s decisions regarding where to find employees, how to select them, and the desired mix of employee skills and statuses.
a. Concentration strategy
b. Staffing strategy
c. External growth strategy
d. Disinvestment strategy
Q. Companies that emphasize innovation and creativity are labeled as _____.
a. clubs
b. academies
c. fortresses
d. baseball teams