Free CIMA CIMAPRA19-E03-1-ENG Exam Questions

PPP uses the Boston Consulting Group Matrix (BCG Matrix) to prioritise products for investment and divestment. PPP invests or divests according to the quadrant of the BCG Matrix that the product occupies.
Which TWO of the following quadrants might receive only as much investment as required to maintain PPP's relative market share?

JJJ is a publically quoted advertising agency. JJJ's competitive advantage is based on the expertise of its staff and its reputation in digital media advertising. JJJ has robust systems to protect its intellectual property. These include patents and copyrights. JJJ has also restricted access for most of its staff to its most sensitive data, such as studies of its customers' profitability.
JJJ's new Managing Director, Z, is concerned that when staff leave JJJ, the company loses whatever tacit knowledge they possess. These losses also impact on JJJ's reported profits. In order to remedy the losses of knowledge and the reduced profits Z wants to introduce a knowledge management strategy.
Which of the following steps support the introduction of a knowledge management strategy? (Choose all that apply.)

D is aProjectManager. D has just left a meeting with the Executive Team of his Organization. D is delighted that the Executive Team has given support to D's proposal to implement a knowledge management system in the Organization.
What should be the next activity that D undertakes in this project?

An organisation which exists in a fast-changing industry with managers who dislike formal planning would be best suited to using which of the following strategy models?

QWE is a private company belonging to a famous former sports professional. It operates gyms and fitness clubs across its home country. Each gym or fitness club is treated as a profit center and the manager of each center is paid bonuses based on its financial performance.
QWE introduced multidimensional performance measures into its management control systems 3 years ago. These measure competitiveness, financial performance, capacity utilization, innovation and the flexibility of its centers to cope with changing demands.
The managers of QWE's centers have been leaving at a very high rate over the last 2 years. They have claimed that the measures are too open to interpretation and when they think they are improving their center's performance they are told they are doing the wrong things. They also complain that the managers in the centers near big cities find it much easier to reach their targets than the managers of other centers.
According to Fitzgerald and Moon's Building Block model, where does the problem lie?