IIEI Certification Sample Test Questions

To give you an idea of the type of questions that will be on the examination, we have provided several questions from previous exams. These questions came from the IIEI Certification Examination for Certified Exporter®. These samples are intended to give you insight into the style and types of questions that may be on the examination. The questions shown should not be considered as setting up limits to the style or complexity of the questions asked. The scope of the exam will cover the entire broad expanse of international trade as it relates to the title of the exam you are taking. For example, if your are sitting for the Certified International Trade Logistics Specialist® exam, your test will be drawn from the prerequisite courses for that exam- Exporting Importing Environment and 21st Century Logistics.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

This type of question typically comprises approximately 2/3 of the exam. Choose the best answer from those given. Test questions are broken into sections that each are one hour in length.

STORY PROBLEMS

The remainder of the exam consists of critical thinking questions, which are derived from a given REAL LIFE scenario. To answer these questions, pick the answer that is best from what is stated or implied in the passage.

SAMPLE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

What is defined as an “isolated, enclosed, and policed area, operated as a public utility, in or adjacent to a port of entry, furnished with facilities for lading, unlading, handling storing, manipulating, manufacturing, and exhibiting goods, and reshipping them by land, water, or air”?

a. Customs Warehouse
b. Brokerage and Bonding Facility
c. Free Trade Zone
d. Manufacturing Facility

Knowledge of the market and non-compete agreements are two services that would be customarily be provided to a US exporter by:

  1. foreign brokers
  2. foreign distributors
  3. freight forwarding companies
  4. B and C
  5. All of the above

The role of a freight forwarder can include all of the following except:

  1. pre-shipping counseling
  2. production of the shipping documents
  3. negotiation of payment terms
  4. handling of credit transactions between banks
  5. tracking and follow up from loading of goods to payment of letter of credit
  6. insurance and bonds

SAMPLE STORY PROBLEM

SITUATION: You were just notified by your customer in Italy that there is a typing error between the letter of credit and the commercial invoice for the order of waffle irons recently shipped to him. You are concerned because this order represents the largest single order your company has ever shipped internationally. On this particular order, you did not use a freight forwarder because you felt that the expense would be too great on a order of this size. Instead, you did the paperwork and arrangements yourself.

  1. What course of action might you take?
  1. Fly to Italy and meet with your customer and “straighten out” the problem.
  2. Call the customers authorities in Italy and then fax them the correct papers.
  3. Notify your international banker– the one who initiated the letter of credit– of the problem and let the banker solve the problem.
  4. Call a local international freight forwarder who has local representation at the port of entry in Italy and ask that their Italian person handle the problem.
  5. Nothing. The shipment will be impounded and sold by the Italian authorities.
  1. Irregularities in the international “paperwork”, as a rule,
  1. exist on nearly every shipment
  2. seldom occur
  3. cause little real lasting problems to the exporter
  4. can almost always be fixed by paying additional fees at the point of entry
  5. A and C

Typically a scenario situation will have four to five related questions immediately following it.