CMCA Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers
Table a motion - ANSWER- Incomplete items on the agenda should be rescheduled for another meeting.
Robert's Rules of Order - ANSWER- Provides common rules and procedures for deliberation and debate in order to place the whole membership on the sam...
CMCA Exam Questions With 100%
Correct Answers
Table a motion - ANSWER- Incomplete items on the agenda should be rescheduled for
another meeting.
Robert's Rules of Order - ANSWER- Provides common rules and procedures for
deliberation and debate in order to place the whole membership on the same footing
and speaking the same language
Timed agenda - ANSWER- Limits the amount of time focused on specific areas, so as
to move the meeting along at a more thorough and prompt pace
Second a motion - ANSWER- Once the motion has been proposed, consideration by
the assembly occurs only if another member of the body immediately concurs with the
motion
Amend a motion - ANSWER- A motion is used to modify another motion. Takes three
basic forms: inserting or adding words, striking out words, striking out and inserting or
substituting a paragraph for another
Ballot - ANSWER- Device used to record choices made by voters
Quorum - ANSWER- is the number of members required to be present to transact
business legally
Proxy - ANSWER- Function or power of a person authorized to act or vote in place of
another resident who could not be present
Plurality - ANSWER- Awards the election to the candidate with the most votes,
regardless of whether or not they received the majority established in the association's
by-laws
Committee report - ANSWER- Reports should highlight matters to be decided and
recommendations by the committee. Supporting research should be included in the
reports. Committees need to clearly state the actions they are asking the board.
Debate - ANSWER- During an elections, a formal discussion involving opposing
candidates vying for the same position.
Executive session - ANSWER- When a board must hold a discussion or make decisions
of a sensitive nature.
Financial report - ANSWER- report on the community's fiscal condition
, Parliamentary procedure - ANSWER- The body of rules, ethics, and customs governing
meetings and other operations.
Minutes - ANSWER- Meeting document the decisions made during the meeting. This
provides a permanent public record of positions and actions taken by the board.
Majority - ANSWER- Over 50% of the votes needed to win an election. The majority
vote can come from those owners who tend the meeting, in person, or by proxy, to
decide all matters except special issues.
Motion - ANSWER- A formal proposal stating that the association took a certain action.
Notice of meeting - ANSWER- An official announcement that a meeting will take place,
which should be sent in writing to board members at least a week before a meeting.
Management report - ANSWER- Report on the association's current management and
administrative activities.
Absentation - ANSWER- When a participant in a vote either does not go to vote or, in
parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast ballot. May be
used to indicate the voting individual's ambivalence or mild disapproval. They do not
count in tallying the vote and attend the meeting to constitute a quorum.
Action item list - ANSWER- a documented event, task, activity, or action that needs to
take place. Usually documented in the meeting minutes and are recorded in the task list
of the group. At the next meeting the action item list is reviewed by the group and at the
meeting the facilitator will check the status of these items.
Agenda - ANSWER- a list of meeting activities in the order in which they are to be taken
up, beginning with the call to order and ending with the adjournment.
Section 2: Governance and Legal Issues - ANSWER-
Planned community - ANSWER- the most common type of community association,
where an owner owns his or her lot and/or living unit and the community owns any
common areas, such as tennis courts and roads for the use and benefit of the lot
owners
Fiduciary duty - ANSWER- requires director to act in the best interests and for the
benefit of the corporation, this the community as a whole. This has two components: the
members are required to avoid conflicts of interest and acting out of self-interest, and
the members are also required to act as reasonable people in managing the
association's affairs.
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