Abstract. The covers of cyclic acts over monoids were investigated by Mahmoudi and Renshaw (M. Mahmoudi and J. Renshaw, On covers of cyclic acts over monoids, Semigroup Forum 77 (2008), 325-338) and the authors posed some open problems. In the present paper, we give answers to their problems 1 and 5, and we also give a sufficient and necessary condition that a cyclic act has a weakly pullback flat cover.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 20M30 1. Introduction. Throughout this paper, S always stands for a monoid, and N for the set of natural numbers.Over the past several decades, the covers of modules have been investigated by many authors and ample results have been obtained (see [1, 3, 4, 12, 15]). Covers of acts over monoids are studied in [5,7,8]. Further investigations about this field were laid dormant until the recent appearance of [13].Let us recall results and definitions that we shall use below. We refer the reader to [11] for a detailed account of these.A monoid S is said to be right reversible if for any p, q ∈ S there exist u, v ∈ S such that up = vq. A monoid S is said to be weakly left collapsible if for any p, q, r ∈ S with pr = qr there exists u ∈ S such that up = uq.In [2], the acts, now called strongly flat, were introduced: A right S-act A S is strongly flat if the functor A S − preserves pullbacks and equalizers. In the same paper, strongly flat acts were characterized as the acts satisfying two interpolation conditions, later labelled as condition (P) and condition (E):