ASA Certified Staffing Professional
PRACTICE EXAM Study Guide Exam
(2025)
An employee may qualify for subsidized health coverage from a public health
insurance exchange under which of the following circumstances?
A. The employer offers a minimum essential coverage plan but the plan does
not provide "minimum value"
B. The employees share of the premium for self-only coverage under the
employers plan exceeds a specified percentage of the employee wages.
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above - -C
- Staffing agencies ________________ to protect the clients from workers
compensation tort liability through indemnification provisions in the contract.
- -may be able to
- Under FMLA's Military caregiver leave, eligible employees who are the
spouse, son, daughter, parent or next of kin of a covered service member to
take up to 26 weeks of leave during a 12 month period to care for a service
member who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy for a
serious illness or injury. True or False. - -True
- Under ADA, employers ______________ use a qualification test ( such as
lifting a certain number of pounds) to screen out candidates with a disability.
- -may not
- Generally, when may a staffing firm be held responsible for sexual
harassment committed by its clients? - -If the staffing firm knows or should
know of the harassment.
- While placing a job offer, your client indicates the position is exempt. What
do you need to consider to determine if the position should be classified as
exempt? - -The wage & the primary job duties.
- ABC staffing firm regularly contracts applicants' former employers as part
of a routine reference check, and then provides reference information to
their clients. Under these circumstances, which of the following is required to
exclude the reference information from being considered a consumer report?
, A. Written notification to the candidate of the right to request the nature and
substance of any information in the candidates file at the time the
information is requested.
B. Written disclosure to the candidate of the nature and substance of all
information in the file (sources need not to be disclosed) within five days of
request.
C. Written confirmation by the candidate of any oral consent within three
business days.
D. Prior consent (oral or written) from the candidate to make the reference
check.
F. Prior consent from the candidate to communicate the reference
information to the prospective employer. - -All of the above
- Staffing firms, and not clients, have primary responsibility for keeping
records reflection hours worked by temporary employees. True or False? - -
True
- By limiting temporary workers assignments to no more than________,
employers can protect themselves from benefits liability - -There is no
specific assignment limit that will fully protect a client from benefits liability.
- Staffing firms that classify workers as "independent contractors" expose
_____________ to liability for unpaid employment taxes. - -themselves and
possibly their clients
- Select the statement that is true:
1. PEOs are generally recognized as the employer for unemployment
insurance purposes.
2. Unemployment rules for PEOs vary from state to state.
3. PEO clients are generally recognized as the employer for unemployment
insurance purposes. - -2. Unemployment rules for PEOs vary from state to
state.
- Under the affordable care act, which of the following statements best
describes a "full time employment."? - -An employee who works on average,
30 or more hours per week or 130 hours per month.
PRACTICE EXAM Study Guide Exam
(2025)
An employee may qualify for subsidized health coverage from a public health
insurance exchange under which of the following circumstances?
A. The employer offers a minimum essential coverage plan but the plan does
not provide "minimum value"
B. The employees share of the premium for self-only coverage under the
employers plan exceeds a specified percentage of the employee wages.
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above - -C
- Staffing agencies ________________ to protect the clients from workers
compensation tort liability through indemnification provisions in the contract.
- -may be able to
- Under FMLA's Military caregiver leave, eligible employees who are the
spouse, son, daughter, parent or next of kin of a covered service member to
take up to 26 weeks of leave during a 12 month period to care for a service
member who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy for a
serious illness or injury. True or False. - -True
- Under ADA, employers ______________ use a qualification test ( such as
lifting a certain number of pounds) to screen out candidates with a disability.
- -may not
- Generally, when may a staffing firm be held responsible for sexual
harassment committed by its clients? - -If the staffing firm knows or should
know of the harassment.
- While placing a job offer, your client indicates the position is exempt. What
do you need to consider to determine if the position should be classified as
exempt? - -The wage & the primary job duties.
- ABC staffing firm regularly contracts applicants' former employers as part
of a routine reference check, and then provides reference information to
their clients. Under these circumstances, which of the following is required to
exclude the reference information from being considered a consumer report?
, A. Written notification to the candidate of the right to request the nature and
substance of any information in the candidates file at the time the
information is requested.
B. Written disclosure to the candidate of the nature and substance of all
information in the file (sources need not to be disclosed) within five days of
request.
C. Written confirmation by the candidate of any oral consent within three
business days.
D. Prior consent (oral or written) from the candidate to make the reference
check.
F. Prior consent from the candidate to communicate the reference
information to the prospective employer. - -All of the above
- Staffing firms, and not clients, have primary responsibility for keeping
records reflection hours worked by temporary employees. True or False? - -
True
- By limiting temporary workers assignments to no more than________,
employers can protect themselves from benefits liability - -There is no
specific assignment limit that will fully protect a client from benefits liability.
- Staffing firms that classify workers as "independent contractors" expose
_____________ to liability for unpaid employment taxes. - -themselves and
possibly their clients
- Select the statement that is true:
1. PEOs are generally recognized as the employer for unemployment
insurance purposes.
2. Unemployment rules for PEOs vary from state to state.
3. PEO clients are generally recognized as the employer for unemployment
insurance purposes. - -2. Unemployment rules for PEOs vary from state to
state.
- Under the affordable care act, which of the following statements best
describes a "full time employment."? - -An employee who works on average,
30 or more hours per week or 130 hours per month.
