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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.






Q2. An issue has arisen which forces you to schedule a meeting with your stakeholders. A project team member tells you that one of your influential stakeholders may not come to the meeting because of a personal issue. You choose not to take any action because you think that you will manage without the presence of this stakeholder. What kind of risk response strategy are you using here?

  1. Accept
  2. Avoid
  3. Neglect
  4. Mitigate
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Q3. You have assigned as the project manager on a new project. The organization uses a strong matrix structure. Computers needed to complete the project are an example of:

  1. Limited cost
  2. Diminishing cost
  3. Fixed cost
  4. Indirect cost.
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Q4. You are analyzing whether the stakeholders are resistant, neutral, or supporting and noting down all the information in a table. What tool is this?

  1. Stakeholder register
  2. Stakeholders engagement assessment matrix
  3. RACI chart
  4. RAM
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Q5. The technique most commonly used by project management software packages to construct a project schedule model is:

  1. Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
  2. Finish-to-Start (FS)
  3. Activity-In-Node (AIN)
  4. Node-On-Activity (NOA)
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Q6. Although it is highly recommended that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project lifecycle, lessons learned are finalized during project closure. At this stage, responses to high-level questions may be gathered and documented. Which of the following is not an appropriate question to ask at this stage?

  1. What were the top significant project successes?
  2. How relevant the historic lessons learned were to this project during execution?
  3. What obstacles or unanticipated circumstances made it difficult to complete the project?
  4. What should have been done differently in this project?
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Q7. John, a project manager for Code Crashers, Inc., has a project with a group of inexperienced programmers that will develop a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This situation strongly resembles a project his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?

  1. Parametric Estimating
  2. Bottom Up Estimating
  3. Three-point estimate
  4. Analogous Estimating
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Q8. Which of the following is the WORST way to resolve conflict?

  1. Compromising
  2. Forcing
  3. Smoothing
  4. Withdrawal.
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Q9. Communication is the key to the success of a project. As the project manager, you have three stakeholders with whom you need to communicate. As such, you have six channels of communication. A new stakeholder has been added that you also need to communicate with. How many communications channels do you have now?

  1. 7
  2. 10
  3. 12
  4. 16
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Q10. You have recently joined an ongoing project and you just had a meeting with the project sponsor and other important members. Since you are new to the project, how will you know their views about the project?

  1. You will ask team members about it
  2. You will arrange a party and invite them
  3. You will try to meet them again
  4. You will look into the Stakeholder Register
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