AnswersGHS Career Prep 1 creditUsing Your Time Effectively

Using Your Time Effectively Answers

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Painting your home is an example of a _____.

A
Two minute action task
B
Time sensitive task
C
One task in a project
D
Multi-task job
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A schedule is useful for _______.

A
Visualizing all your commitments
B
Solving workflow problems
C
Maintaining your responsibilities
D
All of the above
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The purpose of time management is to ________.

A
Maximize productivity
B
Write all your tasks out
C
Allow for delegation
D
None of the above
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If a person attempts to make a phone call while they are driving a car, they are _______.

A
Combining tasks
B
Multitasking
C
Sequential tasking
D
Cleaving tasks
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Sending an e-mail to a client to ask for certain data is an example of a _____.

A
Two minute action task
B
Time sensitive task
C
Locationally sensitive task
D
Multi-task job
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Procrastination is the process of _________.

A
Completing your task list
B
Delaying the completion of a task
C
Creating a schedule of events
D
Delegating tasks to subordinates
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When delegating a task, it is important to _______.

A
Give away the most difficult things on your task list
B
Go over everything quickly and return to your own work
C
Keep the responsibility for getting the tasks done
D
Report everything that is expected of the person
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A spreadsheet program allows a user to _______.

A
Perform complicated calculations automatically
B
Deliver elegant presentation to a large audience easily
C
Organize, send, and retrieve e-mails quickly
D
Keep viruses from infecting their computers
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Cloud computing will offer applications that are _______.

A
More expensive than most software
B
Only accessible over the Internet
C
Useable only from smart phones
D
Installed on your physical computer
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Imagine you work in a clothing store. Your manager asks you to set up a certain display in a particular aisle at the other end of the store. As you come to the area, you see that many customers are shopping in the area you need to set up the display, blocking your access to the display area. Using good time management skills, you should ________.

A
Walk back and tell your manager that you cannot complete the task
B
Clean the aisles near the display area until it is clear of customers
C
Ask the customers to move immediately so you don’t lose time
D
Stand quietly and wait patiently for the customers to leave the area
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What is attribution?

A
The decision whether works are public domain
B
Finding new customers online using social media
C
Giving credit to the creator of materials you use
D
Communicating product news to customers
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Which of the following activities would waste the most time?

A
Rich tries to multitask writing a report and reading a memo, and has to re-write the report and re-read the memo, which takes an hour.
B
During a departmental meeting, Barry and Scott make small talk for twenty minutes while the other six meeting members sit and listen.
C
Greg asks Tony a question about work and then talks to him for ten minutes about who will win the game tonight.
D
Barbara composes an e-mail during her thirty minute train ride to work.
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Time shifting occurs when _______.

A
Clocks move ahead one hour in the spring
B
Works are copied and kept for future generations
C
Individuals copy works to view at a later time
D
Copyrighted materials comes into the public domain

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