Ace the Customer Information Representative Exam | Guide and Practice

The Customer Information Representative Exam is a multiple-choice exam used by the NYC Civil Service to assess potential candidates for the position. Properly practicing for the different sections will help you pass the test and kickstart your Civil Service Career.

This Guide will provide all the required info about the test and position and practice questions.

While the Customer Information Representative Exam will take place starting January 6, 2025, it will be open for application until October 29, 2024

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Comprehensive practice for the Multiple-Choice test:

  • 10 Inductive Reasoning practice tests
  • 11 Written Comprehension practice tests and guide
  • 13 Written Expression practice tests

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What is a Customer Information Representative

If you enjoy helping people and working with cutting-edge technology, this role is for you! As a Customer Information Representative, you'll provide essential customer service using advanced computer systems to access and manage crucial information. You'll handle inquiries across phone, email, and in-person channels, providing solutions, recording requests, and ensuring that unresolved matters are directed to the right teams for quick resolution. You'll perform important administrative tasks and offer tech support while entering and managing customer data. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment with flexible shifts, including nights and weekends, where your problem-solving skills and calm communication will help you thrive in high-pressure situations. 

About the Customer Information Representative Exam

The Customer Information Representative Exam is a multiple-choice test, which plays a crucial role in determining your eligibility. To pass, you must score at least 70%. This exam assesses key abilities, such as:

  • Inductive Reasoning: Combining information to draw conclusions, like using multiple databases to address customer inquiries.
  • Written Comprehension: Understanding written material to solve customer problems.
  • Written Expression: Clearly communicating in writing, such as when entering customer information into a tracking system.

Additional Customer Information Representative Requirements

In addition to the multiple-choice test, there is also a computerized practical test. This part evaluates your ability to navigate a computer system, requiring you to manage a call-taking scenario and input information accurately and efficiently.

The last assessment is called the Education and Experience Exam (EEE) and, surprisingly, relates to your education and experience. You can read more about the EEE and related requirements here.

Ace the Customer Information Representative Exam

Our Customer Information Representative Prep includes:

  • 10 Inductive Reasoning practice tests
  • 11 Written Comprehension practice tests and guide
  • 13 Written Expression practice tests

Customer Information Representative Exam - Sample Questions

Inductive Reasoning Sample Question

Inductive reasoning involves combining different pieces of information or specific solutions to problems to develop general rules or conclusions. This involves the ability to identify potential reasons why certain things are connected. 

Customer Information Representative Exam — Inductive Question

Choose the image that completes the pattern

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The correct answer is square 1.

First visible pattern: Between squares 3 and 4, as well as between squares 5 and 6 each of the upper letters rotates by 180 degrees from left to right; the lower letter is mirrored across a horizontal axis mirrored. This understanding is sufficient in order to solve the question, regardless of the unknown nature of transformation from one pair to the other.

Second visible pattern: in frames 4 and 5 – both letters maintain their orientation but switch places. Although only a single example for this alternation is offered (4 -> 5), applying it on 2 -> 3 will also reveal the correct answer.

Recommended work approach - Elimination: One may notice that all upper ‘F’s and lower ‘P’s are different from one another in their orientation. In order to preserve this pattern, answer choices 4 and 5 must be eliminated. If one considers the sequence as made out of two parts, three squares each, then both answer choices 2 and 3 must be eliminated. In each part, both letters maintain their orientation between the first and second step and then change them in the third step. Choices 2 and 3 are inconsistent with this logic.

Another point of view that you might find helpful: focusing on objects instead of locations may reveal that when an object maintains its location the orientation changes, and vice versa. These two changes occur alternately, meaning that the missing frame should differ from frame 1 in the objects’ orientation but not in location, and differ from frame 3 in location but not in orientation. This logic will also lead you to the correct answer- 1.

Written Comprehension Sample Question

Written Comprehension requires reading texts written in English, understanding the ideas presented and answering accordingly.

Customer Information Representative Exam — Reading Comprehension Question

Companies wishing to increase their growth rate occasionally employed the method of franchising, which provides a new owner with a permit to use their business identity and in return they purchase products exclusively from the company. Today, however, most companies aim to minimize use of this method and often prefer expansion of the companies' own branches. Companies that have previously used franchising have learned the necessity of monitoring the business operation of the franchised branch. Inadequate attention to the monitoring of franchisees on the part of the companies was typically the cause of sundry problems. Difficulties arose from franchisees and companies disagreeing on business policies such as customer care, service delivery efficiency and quality of human interaction.

Companies are now more aware of the need to monitor franchisees.

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The passage describes a shift from using franchising as a method of company growth to preferring the expansion of the companies' own branches. The reason given for this change in preference is: ‘companies who have previously used franchising have learnt the necessity of monitoring the business operation of the franchised branch’. Namely, companies are now more aware of the need to monitor franchisees.

Written Expression Sample Question

Written Expression requires communicating ideas in writing using English words or sentences in a way that is easy for others to understand.

Customer Information Representative Exam — Written Expression Question

  • The Supreme Court ruled that personal space was not an issue in this case; the real issue was privacy.
  • The plaintiff argued in front of the Supreme Court that her personal space was violated when she entered the cruise ship.
  • The defendants argued that once you enter a cruise ship, you sign off on all personal space since there is a limited amount of shared space available.

Select the sentence that best expresses the ideas contained in the sentences above.

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Answer A is incorrect because the plaintiff argued about personal space, not shared space.

Answer B is incorrect because the plaintiff argued about personal space, not privacy.

Answer C is incorrect because the plaintiff and defendants did not agree.

Answer D is correct because it best express the ideas in the sentences above.

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