APSE CESP CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Business Proposals (Job Carving).
Answer: The process of listing the key components of jobs and
employment needs to develop a written proposal for an employer on
how those needs can be met. A proposal typically includes language
identifying job tasks for increased work efficiencies and the matching of
an individual's skills with workplace needs. This process can result in
either job restructuring or job creation.
●● Career Seeker Portfolio.
Answer: A job-hunting tool that developed to provide employers a
complete picture of the job seekers experience, education,
accomplishments, skill sets, and potential.
●● Employment.
Answer: Competitive employment is work performed in the integrated
labor market in which the individual is compensated at or above
minimum wage, but not less than the customary wage and benefits paid
for the same or similar work performed by individuals who do not have
a disability. "The philosophy that presumes employability of all people
in the community regardless of
disability. Components include:
,• Being the first and preferred outcome for working-age youth and adults
with disabilities, including those with complex and significant
disabilities, for whom working in the past has been limited, or has not
traditionally occurred,
• Using typical or customized employment techniques to secure
membership in the workforce, where employees with disabilities are
included on the payroll of a competitive business or industry or are self
employed business owners,
• Where the assigned work tasks offer at least minimum or prevailing
wages and benefits,
• And where typical opportunities exist for integration and interactions
with co-workers without disabilities, with customers, and/or the general
public. "
●● Employment First.
Answer: A set of services that are used to introduce, prepare, monitor,
and facilitate individuals with disabilities to seek and maintain
employment. These may also include supports provided to or by an
employer.
●● Employment Support Professional (ESP).
Answer: "A professional who assists individuals in obtaining and
maintaining integrated employment by meeting the needs of businesses
in the community. There are three levels of certification to become an
ESP.
"
, ●● Job Developer.
Answer: "Professional who matches employers to employees through
pairing targeted business needs with
an individual's transferable skills."
●● Job Trainer/Job Coach.
Answer: A professional who provides necessary supports during the
initial employment period to assist the employee to perform their job
tasks to the employer's specifications and then facilitates the transition to
natural workplace supports while reducing his or her role.
●● Natural Supports.
Answer: Support from supervisors and co-workers occurring in the
workplace to assist employees with disabilities to perform their jobs,
including supports already provided by employers for all employees.
These natural supports may be both formal and informal, and include
mentoring, supervision (ongoing feedback on job performance), training
(learning a new job skill with a co-worker) and co-workers socializing
with employees with disabilities at breaks or after work.
●● Person-Centered Planning.
Answer: Person Centered Planning is an ongoing problem-solving
process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. In
person centered planning, groups of people focus on an individual and
that person's vision of what they would like to do in the future. This
TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Business Proposals (Job Carving).
Answer: The process of listing the key components of jobs and
employment needs to develop a written proposal for an employer on
how those needs can be met. A proposal typically includes language
identifying job tasks for increased work efficiencies and the matching of
an individual's skills with workplace needs. This process can result in
either job restructuring or job creation.
●● Career Seeker Portfolio.
Answer: A job-hunting tool that developed to provide employers a
complete picture of the job seekers experience, education,
accomplishments, skill sets, and potential.
●● Employment.
Answer: Competitive employment is work performed in the integrated
labor market in which the individual is compensated at or above
minimum wage, but not less than the customary wage and benefits paid
for the same or similar work performed by individuals who do not have
a disability. "The philosophy that presumes employability of all people
in the community regardless of
disability. Components include:
,• Being the first and preferred outcome for working-age youth and adults
with disabilities, including those with complex and significant
disabilities, for whom working in the past has been limited, or has not
traditionally occurred,
• Using typical or customized employment techniques to secure
membership in the workforce, where employees with disabilities are
included on the payroll of a competitive business or industry or are self
employed business owners,
• Where the assigned work tasks offer at least minimum or prevailing
wages and benefits,
• And where typical opportunities exist for integration and interactions
with co-workers without disabilities, with customers, and/or the general
public. "
●● Employment First.
Answer: A set of services that are used to introduce, prepare, monitor,
and facilitate individuals with disabilities to seek and maintain
employment. These may also include supports provided to or by an
employer.
●● Employment Support Professional (ESP).
Answer: "A professional who assists individuals in obtaining and
maintaining integrated employment by meeting the needs of businesses
in the community. There are three levels of certification to become an
ESP.
"
, ●● Job Developer.
Answer: "Professional who matches employers to employees through
pairing targeted business needs with
an individual's transferable skills."
●● Job Trainer/Job Coach.
Answer: A professional who provides necessary supports during the
initial employment period to assist the employee to perform their job
tasks to the employer's specifications and then facilitates the transition to
natural workplace supports while reducing his or her role.
●● Natural Supports.
Answer: Support from supervisors and co-workers occurring in the
workplace to assist employees with disabilities to perform their jobs,
including supports already provided by employers for all employees.
These natural supports may be both formal and informal, and include
mentoring, supervision (ongoing feedback on job performance), training
(learning a new job skill with a co-worker) and co-workers socializing
with employees with disabilities at breaks or after work.
●● Person-Centered Planning.
Answer: Person Centered Planning is an ongoing problem-solving
process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. In
person centered planning, groups of people focus on an individual and
that person's vision of what they would like to do in the future. This
