Free CPFP Practice Questions

Question 1

An eight-year-old utility truck could sell for $18,000 now or $10,000 after another year. Keeping it for that year would require $13,000 in maintenance and $7,000 in fuel. A replacement available today costs $62,000, would be worth $50,000 after one year, and would require $5,000 in maintenance and $6,000 in fuel. The existing truck received a $9,000 overhaul last year. Both choices meet the same service and availability requirements; all other costs are equal. Ignoring financing and discounting, which choice has the lower one-year economic cost?

Accepted Answer

Replace the existing truck; its economic cost is $5,000 lower.

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Keep the existing truck; its economic cost is $3,000 lower.

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Replace the existing truck; its economic cost is $14,000 lower.

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Keep the existing truck; its economic cost is $35,000 lower.

Question 2

A diesel refuse truck develops recurring particulate-filter warnings after reassignment to short runs with prolonged idling. Diagnostics show interrupted regenerations, normal pressure-sensor operation, and soot loading within the manufacturer's range for regeneration. No filter damage is found. Diesel exhaust fluid quality and selective catalytic reduction operation are normal. Which repair recommendation follows the evidence?

Accepted Answer

Complete an approved regeneration and address the interruptions to subsequent cycles.

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Replace the exhaust-fluid dosing assembly, then check whether particulate warnings recur.

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Keep the truck out of service until a new particulate filter can be installed.

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Replace the particulate-filter pressure sensors, then return the truck to its current route.

Question 3

A street-sweeper dashboard reports 98% availability, although missed sweeping assignments are increasing. Its calculation treats a sweeper as available whenever no technician is actively repairing it. Units awaiting diagnosis, parts, or release inspection remain in the available total. Before this percentage is used to size the spare fleet, what needs to change?

Accepted Answer

Count all unserviceable time within the required service window as downtime.

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Use all calendar hours rather than the hours sweepers are required for service.

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Count a failed sweeper as available whenever a rental covers its assignment.

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Measure technician repair efficiency instead of elapsed equipment downtime.

Question 4

A proposed crane truck has a gross vehicle weight rating of 33,000 lb and axle ratings of 12,000 lb front and 21,000 lb rear. An engineering review includes the installed body, crane, occupants, fuel, tools, and required cargo. At that working load, the truck would weigh 31,600 lb: 9,600 lb front and 22,000 lb rear. The full cargo is required on every shift. What is the appropriate disposition of the design?

Accepted Answer

Require a revised configuration that meets both axle ratings at the required load.

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Approve it using the unused capacity below the gross vehicle weight rating.

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Approve it after fitting higher-capacity tires to the existing rear axle.

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Accept it with a payload restriction below the cargo required for the assignment.

Question 5

Uniform stock reductions raise annual parts-inventory turnover from 3.2 to 6.1. Inventory value falls, but first-request fill rate declines and emergency pump outages lengthen. Inexpensive seals with long replenishment lead times account for most of the added downtime; the supplier cannot shorten those lead times. A separate review finds stock for vehicles already disposed of. Which stocking decision best addresses the result?

Accepted Answer

Set seal safety stock from lead-time demand and outage consequences, while removing obsolete inventory.

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Keep raising the turnover target and expedite replacement seals whenever a stockout occurs.

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Allocate safety stock according to unit purchase price, giving expensive parts the largest buffers.

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Restore every item to its former quantity until the overall fill rate returns to its previous level.

Question 6

At a budget meeting, the finance director says, "We recover depreciation in full, so vehicle replacements are funded." The charges use historical purchase costs, all receipts are held in cash, and forecasts show substantially higher prices at the scheduled replacement dates. Which comparison would establish whether the funding is actually adequate?

Accepted Answer

Forecast replacement costs less sale proceeds with projected reserve cash at the purchase dates.

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The cash reserve with the vehicles' remaining book value at the end of the current fiscal year.

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Original acquisition costs with the reserve plus accumulated depreciation recorded on those same vehicles.

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The current reserve balance with the total of this year's approved vehicle purchase orders.

Question 7

During an after-hours callout, a technician is about to enter beneath a raised dump body to replace a hydraulic hose. The engine is off, the ignition key is controlled, and the hydraulic controls are locked. Only the hydraulic cylinder supports the body. The agency has adopted OSHA's hazardous-energy-control requirements. Which additional protection is essential before entry beneath the body?

Accepted Answer

Secure the body with its specified mechanical support and verify control of the remaining stored energy.

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Close the hydraulic shutoff valve and confirm that the body does not drift during a brief observation.

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Station another employee at the cab controls to prevent operation while the technician replaces the hose.

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Record the hydraulic pressure and tag the hose connection before loosening the fitting for replacement.

Question 8

A refuse truck's odometer is replaced at 86,400 miles. The new display starts at zero, but the truck remains in service under the same asset number. Several maintenance tasks are mileage-based. Which entry preserves usable maintenance and utilization records in the fleet management information system?

Accepted Answer

Record the meter change and both readings, preserving cumulative mileage and the existing asset history.

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Create a new asset number starting at zero and retire the previous number from operating reports.

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Reset the asset mileage to zero and restart its mileage-based service intervals from the installation date.

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Post 86,400 miles as current-period usage before importing readings from the replacement odometer.

Question 9

An electric-vehicle charging project can begin utility service work and civil work immediately. Utility work takes 7 weeks; civil work takes 4. Charger installation takes 2 weeks and must wait for both. Commissioning then takes 1 week. The manager can shorten either utility work or civil work by 2 weeks at the same cost, with no other schedule changes or resource constraints. Which acceleration plan produces the earliest completion?

Accepted Answer

Shorten utility work; finish the project in 8 weeks.

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Shorten civil work; finish the project in 8 weeks.

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Shorten utility work; finish the project in 6 weeks.

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Shorten civil work; finish the project in 5 weeks.

Question 10

Next year's shop forecast includes 15,000 paid technician hours, of which 10,000 will be billable direct work. Technician compensation and shop overhead total $900,000. An additional $240,000 of parts will be billed separately at cost. What hourly labor rate recovers the stated compensation and overhead without also recovering parts a second time?

Accepted Answer

$90 per billable hour.

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$60 per billable hour.

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$76 per billable hour.

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$114 per billable hour.

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