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CPRP Parks & Rec Exam Study Guide 1
with Complete Solutions
Operations management consists of what 3 components? - Answer✔️✔️-
Planning and Management, Maintenance Management and Facility
Operations
Purpose of needs assessment - Answer✔️✔️-To receive feedback from the
communities' attitudes, opinions and perceptions of the parks.
The recreation agency conducts a resources survey to provide the
community with what? - Answer✔️✔️-Programming, facilities, park areas,
and services
Assessing natural resources requires consideration from what 4 areas? -
Answer✔️✔️-Environmental Impact, Access, Developmental Features,
Maintenance and Operations
Environmental Impact - Answer✔️✔️-To develop a plan to preserve the
natural environment, resulting from an organization's activities, products,
or services that should be beneficial to both visitors and the environment
Access - Answer✔️✔️-A way of entering or leaving that requires the least
disturbance to the natural resource area.
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Developmental features - Answer✔️✔️-Man-made and natural resources
that enhances user participation and increases the aesthetic value of the
area.
Staffing and maintaining a natural resource area requires what 3 elements?
- Answer✔️✔️-Personnel, equipment and money
When conducting a needs assessment for facility development name some
areas of focus. - Answer✔️✔️-Demographic, current participation, attitudes
and opinions, barriers facing users, future interests and needs, current
satisfaction of facilities and services, safety issues, suggestions for
improvement
What are the 3 types of fixed asset inventories? - Answer✔️✔️-Real estate,
capital items, special assets
real estate - Answer✔️✔️-Deeds and legal descriptions of the land including
all the natural resources and permanent buildings on it.
Capital items - Answer✔️✔️-More expensive organizational products with a
longer useful life, ranging from office and fitness equipment to
automobiles
Name some examples of special assets that may be inventoried. -
Answer✔️✔️-Zoo animals, painting in an art gallery, plants in an arboretum
Commodities - Answer✔️✔️-Products or goods that carry little value but are
needed in maintaining the programs operation and day to day functions
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Why is it important to plan ahead for capital improvement programs? -
Answer✔️✔️-To identify future needs, provide long-term financing for
special projects and coordinate community growth.
True or False: A typical part of a checklist for opening a facility should be
to inspect the site or facility for potential hazards to staff and users. -
Answer✔️✔️-True
True or False: Assessing infrastructure (utilities, parking, floodplains)
should be solely done by the planning commission. - Answer✔️✔️-False -
This should be a cooperative effort in addition to the Parks & Recreation
personnel, local school district(s), planning commissions, other city
departments, and/ or local business
True or False: Site plans are an estimate of a proposed facility and/or park
area. - Answer✔️✔️-False - Site plans are an accurate, clear, scale depiction
of the dimensions and angles of a proposed facility or park area.
True or False: A site master plan should exist for each area and facility
within the park and recreation agency. - Answer✔️✔️-True
True or False: Any facility built or modified after 1992 must be readily
accessible for people with disabilities. - Answer✔️✔️-True
The park and recreation professional should adhere to 4 guidelines in
preparing for emergencies and the unexpected; what are they? -
Answer✔️✔️-1. Identifying potential treat 2. Create an emergency operations
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