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Your employee is three days late with a report. She walks into a meeting where the report is to be discussed and hands you a copy five minutes before the topic is to be discussed. You noticed some serous errors in the report. How could this have been prevented?
  1. Require periodic updates from the employee.
  2. Coach and mentor the employee.
  3. Make sure the employee was competent to do the work.
  4. Cancel the meeting earlier because you did not have a chance to review the reports.






Q2. While completing the Plan Resource process on your project, you visited the functional manger of engineering many times, but she refused to supply resources for the project. First, the excuse was that her department was too busy; next, the department was undergoing reorganization. This is causing your project to slip the schedule. Which of the following is the MOST probable reason for her lack of support?

  1. The priority of the project has increased
  2. The project does not have a project charter and the functional manager was not involved in approving the project management plan
  3. The project schedule network diagram was not time-phased.
  4. The WBS did not include all resources needed on the project.
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Q3. Which of the following analytical techniques evaluates investment potential considering time-value of money?

  1. Pareto analysis
  2. Discounted cash flow
  3. Earned value management
  4. Monte Carlo technique
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Q4. You are in the middle of a new product development project for your publicly traded company when you discover that the previous project manager made a $3,000,000 payment that was not approved in accordance with your company policies. Luckily, the project cost performance index (CPI) is 1.2. What should you do?

  1. Put the payment in an escrow account.
  2. Bury the cost in the largest cost center available.
  3. Ignore the payment
  4. Contact your manager
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Q5. The acceptable range of variation of a process is the ________ on a control chart.

  1. Mean
  2. Specification limit
  3. Rule of seven
  4. Upper and lower control limit.
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Q6. Which of the following BEST describes the relationship between standard deviation and risk?

  1. Nothing
  2. Standard deviation tells you if the estimate is correct
  3. Standard deviation tells you how unsure the estimate is.
  4. Standard deviation tells you if the estimate includes a pad.
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Q7. During the middle of the project, things have been going well. The work authorization system has allowed people to know when to start work and the issue log has helped keep track of the stakeholders’ needs. The benefit cost ratio has been improving and the sponsor has expressed his appreciation for the team members’ efforts by hosting a milestone party for the team. The project manager gets a call from a team member saying that the results from the completion of their activity’s predecessor is two days late. Which of the following reasons would BEST describe why this occurred?

  1. The project manager was focusing on the sponsor’s needs.
  2. Functional management was not included in the communications management plan.
  3. The successor activities should have been watched, not the predecessors.
  4. The right people were not invited to the milestone party.
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Q8. You have a choice of four ongoing projects that you can take over as project manager. Project 1 has a benefit cost ratio (BCR) of 1.4, is a high priority project and has a critical path length of 16 months. Its cost performance index (CPI) is 1.2. Project 2 has a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.1, is using three critical resources, has a low priority, and has a BCR of 1.1. Project 3 has a CPI of 1.2, an SPI of 0.89, a BCR of 1.6, and a critical path length of 19 months. Project 4 has a CPI of 0.82, an activity with 33 days of float, a hard-to-get resource assigned to activity L, and a priority of keeping cost low. Based on the above, which project would you prefer to take over?

  1. Project 1
  2. Project 2
  3. Project 3
  4. Project 4
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Q9. While staffing a project in another country, the project leader from that country comes to you with a suggested team consisting of members of the project leader’s family. Your FIRST course of action should be to:

  1. Inquire if hiring only through family lines is common practice in the project leader’s country.
  2. Review the resumes of the individuals to see if they are qualified.
  3. Ask the project leader to provide additional names of people unrelated to him/her.
  4. Use a different project leader to prevent problems later in the project.
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Q10. All of the following are parts of the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

  1. Benchmarking
  2. Cost-benefit analysis
  3. Inspection
  4. Design of experiments.
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