Free Practice Questions for CIPS L3M5 Exam

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Cube.

Indicating that people, unless made consciously aware, tend to under-use the dimension of height, using depth and breadth readily. For illustrations, check aerial photographs of many US cities (sprawl), or check the inside of your fridge. In warehousing and storage, such an approach can be a very costly error - so 'maximise use of the cube'.

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The answer is 34%, so around one-third of all energy use on the planet is used for transportation.

(Source: IEA, 2017 quoted by Profex Publishing Ltd)

So, say, a European firm sourcing products from, say, China, uses a large amount of energy just to get goods from manufacturer to market. Or a US retailer buying from a supplier across the country, using road transport, is soaking up a large amount of energy.

I read something yesterday (Feb 2022) which I thought was interesting. Imagine someone drives a modern large 4 x 4 'car'. It might weigh, say, 1,500 kilos. The driver might weigh 100 kilos, say. Most such vehicles on the road have no passengers - they are transporting the driver from A to B. Thus to take something weighing 100 kilos from A to B, sufficient energy to transport (1,500 + 100 kilos) must be used.

Compare this to the same person going from A to B on a bicycle, even an electric bicycle.

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CH4 - methane - a greenhouse gas.

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The correct answer is 'green', which has become another term for 'environmentally friendly'. In some countries there are also, for example, Green political parties which campaign for environmentally-friendly policies.

This question is a bit of a free gift, frankly.

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Clearly this is auditing. Compliance, verification, legality, etc.

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The most appropriate answer is:

A socially responsible buying approach would require not only minimum wage, but in some circum-stances greater than minimum wage as this may not be sufficient to support an employee to live de-cently.

This question is inspired by a recent visit to a country where there is a statutory minimum wage, but it is so low that most people would be unable to provide shelter and food based on that income. The wage to which I refer is less than $1 per hour.

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H2O - water (vapour) - a naturally-occurring greenhouse gas.

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Over ninety per cent of transport energy is consumed by road transport.

Each time you see a heavy lorry on the road, ask yourself why the goods were not transported by train. In many cases (long journeys, non-perishable goods, heavy or bulky items), it would be per-fectly feasible to move goods by train instead of by road, and at vastly reduced cost to the envi-ronment.

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'Re-create' is a fiction for the purposes of this question.