BCA Fundamentals/ Exam 1 - Business
Climate Analysis ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the six main things you should do in professional writing? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅1) know why you're writing
2) Understand your readers
3)Before writing, jot down your 3 main points
4)Write in full-rapidly
5) Improve what you've written
6) Use graphics to illustrate and clarify
What are the characteristics that lead to organizational action? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Attracting Attention, Conveying Importance, Signaling Feasibility
What are the principles that will attract attention? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Concrete and
Vivid Language, Keeping it Simple, Being Unexpected, Being Emotionally Involving,
When Upper Management considers ideas what do they do? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅they evaluate their merits, assess their consistency with current strategies,
and weigh whether changes in current strategies are necessary
What is issue selling? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the process by which individuals within
an organization bring ideas, concerns, solutions and opportunities together in ways that focus
other's attention and invite action
What are the principles of conveying importance? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅time
pressure, organizational threat, linkages to strategic priorities
How do we signal feasibility to a manager? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅offer a solution,
address counter arguments
, What is logic? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅logic is the study of argument
How do you define logic in two ways? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1) the study of how to
distinguish between successful and unsuccessful arguments
2) how to build strong, successful arguments
What is an argument? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a set of statements, some of which are
supposed to support or give reasons for the conclusion
What is a statement? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a declarative sentence, this is a sentence
which attempts to state a fact as opposed to a question, command, exclamation etc.
To build a strong argument, what must you do? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅you should
support all claims with appropriate evidence
Why should you study logic? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅improve reasoning and analytical
skills, increase the number of tools in your toolkit, become stronger communicator
What are cognitive biases? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅systematic flaws in how humans
think
What is manipulative rhetoric? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the presentation of information
in a misleading way
What is a logical fallacy? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅any mistake in reasoning
What is a hasty generalization? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅you have not studied enough
examples for such a conclusion
Slippery Slope - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the first event will not necessarily lead to such
an extreme result
Climate Analysis ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the six main things you should do in professional writing? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅1) know why you're writing
2) Understand your readers
3)Before writing, jot down your 3 main points
4)Write in full-rapidly
5) Improve what you've written
6) Use graphics to illustrate and clarify
What are the characteristics that lead to organizational action? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Attracting Attention, Conveying Importance, Signaling Feasibility
What are the principles that will attract attention? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Concrete and
Vivid Language, Keeping it Simple, Being Unexpected, Being Emotionally Involving,
When Upper Management considers ideas what do they do? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅they evaluate their merits, assess their consistency with current strategies,
and weigh whether changes in current strategies are necessary
What is issue selling? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the process by which individuals within
an organization bring ideas, concerns, solutions and opportunities together in ways that focus
other's attention and invite action
What are the principles of conveying importance? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅time
pressure, organizational threat, linkages to strategic priorities
How do we signal feasibility to a manager? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅offer a solution,
address counter arguments
, What is logic? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅logic is the study of argument
How do you define logic in two ways? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1) the study of how to
distinguish between successful and unsuccessful arguments
2) how to build strong, successful arguments
What is an argument? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a set of statements, some of which are
supposed to support or give reasons for the conclusion
What is a statement? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a declarative sentence, this is a sentence
which attempts to state a fact as opposed to a question, command, exclamation etc.
To build a strong argument, what must you do? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅you should
support all claims with appropriate evidence
Why should you study logic? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅improve reasoning and analytical
skills, increase the number of tools in your toolkit, become stronger communicator
What are cognitive biases? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅systematic flaws in how humans
think
What is manipulative rhetoric? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the presentation of information
in a misleading way
What is a logical fallacy? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅any mistake in reasoning
What is a hasty generalization? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅you have not studied enough
examples for such a conclusion
Slippery Slope - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the first event will not necessarily lead to such
an extreme result
