CSCP Exam Experience

Dear Aspirants,

In my last article , I have shared about strategy of preparation and approach of study which would have given a fair amount of idea about how you should channelise your preparedness towards achieving CSCP

Now I will share , how the real exam scenario appears while taking the exam. Before proceeding further, I hope you all have access to your APICS Learning System and you should have gone through the material , and online quizzes.

There is a video by Liezl Smith in your Learning System under Course Activities titled 'TAKING APICS EXAMS WITH CONFIDENCE VIDEO' . I would recommend all to go through the video .This video is quite significant where the presenter shows the nature of questions you will encounter in the exam and other techniques that are quite useful before taking real exam. Practise your Retired Exam Questions , Exam Like Questions and Post test after watching the video by Liezl Smith

Please note that questions which are asked in exam are different and unique than the ones you have practised in LMS . To be frank, not even a single question will be asked in the real exam scenario from LMS . Hence, understanding and relating concepts become paramount to be successful in this exam

Coming to the exam, 150 MCQ's (130 operational, 20 Pretest) needs to be answered in a span of 3.5 hours.You won't be able to know the questions used for Pretest and Operational as they are mingled. As for MCQ’s 2 options will be irrelevant and can be eliminated, while you need to select the best from the remaining 2 options.

Let's take some example from LMS- An organization has a reliable supplier who has never had order or lead time issues. Which of the following choices would be best when the price of the materials fluctuates strongly with the market and is currently low?

Temporarily increase cycle stock.

Temporarily increase safety stock.

Permanently increase cycle stock.

Permanently increase safety stock.

In this, 2 options can be easily be eliminated i.e. C and D . You need to select between A and B. Option B is incorrect as safety stock is used against supply disruptions . Hence, correct option will be A.This shows how it's important to study the question 3-4 times before opting the answer.

Lets take another example Which of the following actions would best aid a supply chain in becoming demand-driven?

Developing agility for more frequent changeovers or staffing or process switching

Adopting software to receive orders as quickly as possible

Producing to the forecast and sending finished products to inventory

Replenishing field inventories at a central supply facility

In this, option A is correct because to become demand driven;real time visibility, collaboration with partners, and agility is appropriate. No product is produced until order comes in

From the above, it's evident that merely reading the books is not enough to crack CSCP. The exam tests your potential to link multiple concepts together.Trust yourself that you have gone through the concepts multiple times and are able to relate them in the exam

All the best for your final exam!!

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