WorksheetsFront Office Midterm Exam
Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 2hrs 35mins
Who welcomes guests upon arrival?
Executive Assistant Manager
Reservation Supervisor
Concierge
Front Office Manager
Who is in-charge of posting charges into guest folios and
assisting guests in settling their accounts?
Reservation Agent
Front Desk Agent
Night Auditor
Front Office Cashier
Who works overnight and is responsible for checking and closing out hotel's financial activities?
Night Auditor
Concierge
Front Desk Supervisor
Front Desk Agent
Which of the following is NOT INCLUDED in uniformed service position?
Bell attendants
Door attendants
Transportation personnel
Switchboard/Telephone operator
Who reeceives and record room reservation requests and
creates reservation documents?
Front Desk Supervisor
Concierge
Reservation Agent
Night Auditor
Who reserve, register and assign rooms to guests and
maintain information about the availability of rooms for sale and vital facts about the hotel services and facilities?
Front Desk Supervisor
Front Office Manager
General Manager
Front Desk Agent
Use suggestive (a) techniques to sell rooms and promote other services of the hotel.
3. Guest Folio is considered as the master bill in the hotel which is also known as ____________?
Guest Account Card
Cash Receipt
Logbook
Message Slip
This kind of reservation ensures the hotel will hold a room until a specific time of guest’s scheduled arrival date.
Guaranteed Reservation
Non-Guaranteed Reservation
Hold Reservation
Scheduled Reservation
This kind of reservation system uses manual charts, calendar, booking sheets, diary, forecast board or room rack and used by smaller establishments.
Whitney Reservation System
Central Reservation System
It is the process of booking rooms before the arrival of the guest. This process involves recording request and confirming guest’s reservation.
Bookings
Reservation
Service
It applies when the terms of reservation have been verified. Both the hotel and the reserving party agree on the dates, rates and billing arrangements, room types and other arrangements.
Guaranteed Resrvation
Regular Reservation
Confirmed Reservation
What is the term that refers to a guest that goes to the hotel without prior reservation?
upscale guest
walk-in guest
sudden guest
unreserved guest
What does the abbreviation PMS stands for?
(a)
What do you call the record which contains the guest statement of accounts?
(a)
What is the folio that reflects transactions for non-resident guest?
(a)
When a guest checks in with no reserved room, offer first the standard room so they can afford it.
true
false
The guest will stay in your hotel from Sept 18 to Sept 24, how many days and nights will the guest be in your hotel?
8 D/ 7 N
6 D/ 5 N
7 D / 6 N
9 D / 8 N
26-100
101 to 300
more than 300
The front office can be divided into these four departments: ____.
account settlement, audit, check-in, and front desk
bell services, gift shop, recreational facilities, and telecommunications
check-in, checkout, reservations, and uniformed services
front desk, reservations, telecommunications, and uniformed services
Rate includes 3 meals a day- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner referring to ---
European Plan (EP)
Bed & Breakfast
Continental Plan
American Plan
The cost rate formula states that the average room rate should equal $1 per $1,000 of construction cost. So a 300 room hotel costing $14 million should have a room rate of (a) .
It is a computerized reservation system that reduces paperwork and can handle large amount of reservation data effortlessly
Whitney Reservation System
Central Reservation System
A reservation in which the hotel has accepted the room request of a guest but is not able to guarantee the availability of the room on the specific date due to unavailability of the requested guestroom.
Unguaranteed Resrvation
Unconfirmed Reservation
Confirmed Reservation
POS is the revenue generating place in the hotel where retail transactions are carried out. POS is an acronym of (a) system.
It is a report of accounts that represents ending balance of each account in the list. It is prepared at the end of an accounting period.
(a)
A variable pricing strategy, based on understanding, anticipating and influencing consumer behavior in order to maximize revenue from a fixed, perishable resource.
(a)
A guest who has reserved an accommodation neither turns up nor cancels it.
(a)
They are the charges borne by the guest on cancellation of a confirmed reservation or for not showing-up on confirmed reservation.
(a)
The front office staff needs to communicate with the staff of the same as well as all other departments of the hotel. This is termed as (a) communication.
When the front office communicates with the potential customers outside the hotel, corporate offices, and other ancillary service providers, then it is an (a) communication.
Sources of reservations. check all that applies.
guests
travel agents
airlines
SMERF
The first step in reserving an accommodation is to check if the requested kind of accommodation is available for selling for a specific period of time. It is done by checking the rack rate.
1st statement is CORRECT. 2nd statement is INCORRECT.
1st statement is INCORRECT. 2nd statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is INCORRECT.
Denial of reservation directly means loss of revenue. If all accommodations in the hotel are booked, the reservation staff refuses
the reservation politely and suggests an alternative hotel in the same area or
different property of the same owner in a nearby area.
1st statement is CORRECT. 2nd statement is INCORRECT.
1st statement is INCORRECT. 2nd statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is INCORRECT.
Some guests or agents are blacklisted due to their history of payment dues against the hotel. In such case that the guest comes back to check in and promise to leave his/her credit card, the reservation clerk should accommodate the guest.
1st statement is CORRECT. 2nd statement is INCORRECT.
1st statement is INCORRECT. 2nd statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is INCORRECT.
The hotels are mandatorily verifying guests’ identities by requesting valid government ID. If the guests are from a foreign country, the staff requests them to show (a) as proof of identification.
Bell man is sometimes called ____. check all that applies.
Porter
Belle
Bell hop
Bagman
It is vital to know who are guest with scanty baggage to avoid (a) .
They provide support to the arrivals and departures of guests and continuous source of services to guests during their stay.
Front of the House
Back of the House
All of the choices
It is an old system based on telephone lines that requires operators to man them as all incoming and outgoing calls are routed through operator.
Point of Sale (POS)
Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange (IP-PBX)
None of the choices
This is the final element of guest service. Checking the guest out of the hotel and creating a guest history record.
(a)
The center of front office activity, where the front desk is responsible for coordinating guest services.
(a)
A division of the flow of business through a hotel that identifies the physical contacts and financial exchanges between guests and hotel employees.
(a)
An agreement between the guest and the hotel in which the guests rent the room from the hotel at a given time, for a fixed period of time.
(a)
The doorman will inform the receptionist in case the guest has scanty baggage. Scanty baggage is a term used for guests with no baggage.
1st statement is CORRECT. 2nd statement is INCORRECT.
1st statement is INCORRECT. 2nd statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is INCORRECT.
Guests without reservations or walk-in guests, presents an opportunity for front desk agents to sell guestrooms. Based on information collected during the reservations process,a hotel may only share personal information of the guests to immediate family make a surprise visit at the hotel.
1st statement is CORRECT. 2nd statement is INCORRECT.
1st statement is INCORRECT. 2nd statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is INCORRECT.
The guestroom is usually the largest single charge on the guest account. Additional expenses can be charged to a guest’s account if he or she established acceptable credit at the front desk during the arrival stage.
1st statement is CORRECT. 2nd statement is INCORRECT.
1st statement is INCORRECT. 2nd statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is CORRECT.
Both statement is INCORRECT.
OHMS is acronym for (a)
It contains of any special guest specific request or room specific requests etc. of a guest.
Occupancy report
Special arrival report
Revenue forecast report
Turnaway report
In cancelling a reservation, the following steps must be done ___. check all that applies.
Verifying charges of cancellation, if any
Updating the system for accommodation availability.
Notifying the guest about cancellation charges.
Confirming the next guest about the cancellation.
"Stay Over" means ___
to stay longer than originally planned
to stay longer than agreed to
The following are different modes of receiving reservation request, EXCEPT for:
in person
telephone
word of mouth
internet
It provides a detailed monthly or yearly overview of your item availability, number of bookings, unbooked availability, average occupancy, and a few data points related to average revenue and actual revenue.
Occupancy report
Special arrival report
Revenue forecast report
Turnaway report
It provides a list of declined reservations from a guest or a denial of accepting a reservation from a hotel.
Occupancy report
Special arrival report
Revenue forecast report
Turnaway report
