Ulster County Personnel Department
Civil Service Examination Announcement
A M E N D M E N T
FILING FEE: $20.00
#71876 SENIOR MOTOR VEHICLE CASHIER
PROMOTION EXAMINATION
LAST DATE FOR FILING APPLICATIONS: September 7, 2012
EXAMINATION DATE: October 20, 2012
AMENDED SUBJECT OF EXAMINATION: Written test will cover knowledge, skills, and/or abilities in such areas as:
1. Cashiering Principles and Practices
These questions are designed to test for an understanding of such things as proper cashiering practices; terminology; and cashiering issues pertaining to currency, checks and other negotiable instruments.
2. Coding/decoding information
These questions test for the ability to follow a set of coding rules. Some questions will require you to code information by converting certain information into letters or numbers. Other questions will require you to decode information by determining if the information that has already been converted into letters or numbers is correct. Complete directions will be provided; no previous knowledge of or training in any coding system is required.
3. Handling Money
These questions test for the ability to count money and make change correctly. Pictures of money will be used to simulate the transactions.
4. Name and number checking
These questions test for the ability to distinguish between sets of words, letters, and/or numbers that are almost exactly alike. Material is usually presented in two or three columns, and you will have to determine how the entry in the first column compares with the entry in the second column and possibly the third. You will be instructed to mark your answers according to a designated code provided in the directions.
5. Supervision
These questions test for knowledge of the principles and practices employed in planning, organizing, and controlling the activities of a work unit toward predetermined objectives. The concepts covered, usually in a situational question format, include such topics as assigning and reviewing work; evaluating performance; maintaining work standards; motivating and developing subordinates; implementing procedural change; increasing efficiency; and dealing with problems of absenteeism, morale, and discipline.
6. Understanding and interpreting written material based on the Vehicle and Traffic law, rules and regulations
These questions test for the ability to read, understand and interpret various provisions of the above named law, rules or regulations. This part of the test will contain several reading selections based on or extracted from a passage of legal text. The candidate must read each selection and then answer one or more questions based upon it. All factual information needed to answer these questions is contained in the reading selections. No prior knowledge of that information is necessary to answer the questions correctly.
The New York State Department of Civil Service has not prepared a test guide for this examination. However, candidates may find information in the publication "How to take a written test" helpful in preparing for this test. This publication is available on line at: www.cs.ny.gov/testing/localtestguides.cfm.
The remainder of this examination announcement remains as originally announced.
AMENDED ISSUE DATE: August 23, 2012
