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CMP: Certified Meeting Professional
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1. Official authorization or approval; to provide with credentials; to send (an envoy) with letters of authorization; to recognize or vouch for as conforming with a standard; to recognize a college as maintaining academic standards; to consider or recog
Accreditation
Value-added tax (VAT)
Flying
Lectern microphone
2. A term used in food and beverage that refers to the purchasing option based on the amount utilized by the group. The organization pays for the food and beverage based on the actual food and beverage served.
Hospitality suite
On consumption
Paid-out
Exhibition service contractor
3. Guest holding confirmed sleeping room reservation is denied accommodations at the hotel where to reservation is held upon their arrival and is relocated to another hotel.
Transfer
Walk
Tone
Barrier-free
4. The organization who provides accrediation for Continuing Medical Education (CME).
Arrival pattern
Straight time
Pre-registration
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
5. 1) The jobs that may be performed by a specific labor union. 2) The locality where a contractual dispute is decided. 3) In law - the ability of a court to hear and decide a matter brought before it.
APEX
Mailing list
Jurisdiction
2-D bar code
6. Web browser-based videoconferencing.
Good faith
Webconferencing
Digital video
Customs
7. Facility form to advise departments of changes in reservations or functions.
Set top box solutions (STBS)
Sales lead
Special event professional
Change order
8. Facility that combines an exhibition space with a substantial number of smaller event spaces. The purpose of these buildings is to host trade shows - public shows - conventions - large food functions and other functions related to the convention indu
Yield management
Application service provider (ASP)
Caterer
Convention center
9. 1) Platforms of varying heights used together to create a stage - such as the rows of steps a choral group would use during a performance. 2) Stage background scene giving illusion or depth. Also called CYC.
Export declaration
CYC
Audiovisual A/V
Group specifications guide
10. A system in which revenue and expenses are counted as they are actually received.
Line array
Uplink
Cash accounting
Russian restaurant service
11. A process of identifying human wants and needs - and developing a plan to meet those wants and needs. Refers to everything involved with convincing an attendee to come to the event. Also refers to providing information to support the exhibit sales fu
Marketing
Stacked speaker system
Exclusive
Overhead
12. The organization who administers Continuing Legal Education and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education courses (CLE and MCLE).
Attrition clause
American Bar Association (ABA)
Online registration
Needs assessment
13. An email marketing campaign that only sends messages to users who have requested (or opted-in) to receive specific types of information. Email conference reminders and newsletters are examples of opt-in email marketing campaigns based upon permission
Videoconferencing
Pre-con
Opt-in
Mediation
14. Requirement of many professional groups by which members must certify participation in formal educational programs designed to maintain their level of ability beyond their original certification date. CEUs are non-academic credit. One CEU is awarded
Tip
Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
LCD projector
Non-performance
15. Mandatory continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Arrival pattern
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)
Set top box solutions (STBS)
On-demand
16. Large theatrical floodlight usually used for work lights or occasionally in place of strip lights to light a cyclorama or sky drop.
Waiver of subrogation
Scoop
Foreign exchange currency risk
Quick set
17. A supplier of a specific event service - such as photography - rental of furniture or audiovisual equipment - or floral decoration.
Booth
Cut-off date
Specialty contractor
Sponsorship
18. Required for shipments valued at more than $2500; used by the U.S. government to monitor the dollar volume of export shipments.
Export declaration
Authorized signatory
Line array
Floor plan
19. Total number of sleeping rooms that are utilized and attributable to one event.
Room block
Exhibitor-appointed contractor (EAC)
Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
Contract
20. 1) The back wall (either hardwall or draped) of a perimeter - booth/stand/exhibit - or inline. 2) Panel arrangement at rear of booth/stand area.
Flying
Blog
Priority point system
Backwall
21. In which rows of tables with chairs face the front of a room and each person has a space for writing.
ducational programming committee
Music licensing
E-conferencing
Schoolroom set-up
22. A bill of lading issued by the airline that covers both domestic and international flights transporting goods to a specified destination. Technically - it is a non-negotiable instrument of air transport that serves as a receipt for the shipper - indi
Audience polling
Tone
Air waybill
APEX Post Event Report (PER)
23. Provision in a contract which outlines damages to be paid to the non-canceling party if cancellation occurs - due the canceling party's breach of the contract.
Cancellation Clause
Customs broker
Hundredweight (CWT)
Front projection
24. The activities that are undertaken to either reduce the probability that an emergency or crisis will occur or reduce the consequences if it does occur.
Mitigation
Hold harmless
Etiquette
Return on investment ROI
25. An informal meeting for the purpose of discussion; usually of an academic or research nature and in order to ascertain areas of mutual interest through exchange of ideas. Conducted as and when convenient - but with little regularity.
Colloquium
Catering manager
Theater set-up
Manifest
26. Two or more computers or peripherals that are linked together for the purpose of sharing data.
Pad-wrapped
Digital marketing
Network
Leko
27. Notice as to how charges for an event should be handled and to whom invoices should be addressed.
Shoulder season
Yield management
Interface
Billing instructions
28. A type of exhibit construction in which the walls are of solid material - rather than fabric.
Two-tiered set-up
Hardwall
Audiovisual A/V
Colloquium
29. The process whereby exhibitors receive a potential customer's contact information in a standardized manner. A system for capturing and following-up on leads generated at an exhibition.
Change order
Professional congress organizer (PCO)
Sponsorship
Lead retrieval
30. A single source provider of goods or services.
Booth
Network
Budget
One-stop shop
31. Continuning education requirements for legal professionals are adminstered by the American Bar Association (ABA).
Attrition clause
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Return on investment ROI
Rigging
32. Business-to-Business.
B2B
Ultraviolet lighting
Post-con
Walk
33. 1) Certified Meeting Professional. 2) Complete Meeting Package at conference centers; includes lodging - all food and beverage - support services - including audio visual equipment - room rental - etc.
U-shape set-up
Whiteboarding
Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
Cash bar
34. Computer application that enables voting and then collects and displays the results - simplifying decision-making among event participants.
Cut-off date
Audience polling
Resolution
DSL
35. 1) Merchandise or refreshments sold on site - to individuals - in conjunction with an event. 2) Contractual agreement where one party provides something of value to the other party in exchange for something else - pending certain conditions.
Force majeure
Authorized signatory
Concession
Cash accounting
36. A customs document permitting the holder to carry or send merchandise temporarily into certain foreign countries (for display - demonstration or similar purposes) without paying duties or posting bonds.
Fixed costs
Carnet
Colloquium
Fresnel
37. Time worked by an employee outside of - or in addition to - regular working time or beyond the standard forty-hour workweek.
Overtime
B2B
Ground support
Category cable
38. Procurement - maintenance and transportation of materials. Involves all related functions and services.
Lifelong learning
Logistics
Open bar (host bar)
Room block
39. A document - required by some countries - describing a shipment of goods and showing information such as the consignor - consignee - and value of the shipment. Certified by a consular official of the foreign country - it is used by that country's cus
Press release
Variable costs
Advance registration
Consular invoice
40. Structure of event program elements to achieve specific goals and objectives.
Pre-con
Schoolroom set-up
Program design
Post-event report PER
41. An ongoing effort by an organization to develop relationships with key media representatives before - during - and after an event.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Media relations
Special event professional
Hand carry
42. I&D. 1) The set-up and teardown of exhibits. 2) Firm that does I&D work.
Installation and dismantle (I&D)
ISDN
Scoop
Blog
43. Contract wording that outlines potential damages or fees that a party may be required to pay in the event that it does not fulfill minimum commitments in the contract.
Attrition clause
Blog
Confrontation
Sales lead
44. Integrated services digital network. A single ISDN line carries data at 128 Kbps. Although video conferences are possible at slower speeds - ISDN is considered to be the minimum for acceptable-quality video transmission.
Clause
American Society of Composers - Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
ISDN
In-house contractor
45. An electronic message center or online discussion group - usually serving a special-interest group. They allow you to review messages left by others - and leave your own message if you choose. Also known as bulletin board systems or electronic forum.
Theater set-up
Objective
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Message board
46. Placing plated foods on banquet tables prior to seating guests.
Download
T-1 line
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Pre-set
47. A company that offers complete turnkey organization support for an event - including administrative and event management services.
Housing company
Multi-management firm
Hand carry
Banquet event order (BEO)
48. (Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable or UTP) Usually referred to as Cat 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 or 5 cable. Cat 5 transmits data the fastest. Fast Ethernet requires enhanced Cat 5 cable or Cat 5 to operate at its full potential.
Category cable
Modified American Plan MAP
Cafeteria service
Bid
49. Average (power) level at which a signal is output from devices like mixers - cassette decks and other devices which process sound. Technically - this corresponds to -30 dBM (one microwatt) to +30 dBM (one watt).
Line level
Force majeure
Packing list
Colloquium
50. Business-to-Business.
Podcast
B2B
Rider
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)