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Mark is managing a telecom network deployment project. The buyer of the telecom network is an external entity. Recently, the customer requested that all future project updates be posted to their information system automatically. In order to implement this, the project team needs to customize their project management information system so it can be integrated with the customer’s information system. This is a new customer requirement that was not a part of the original project’s scope. What should the project manager do?
  1. Request that the customer terminate the current contract and award a new contract.
  2. Ask the project team to customize the project management information system.
  3. Ignore the request; this is outside the project’s scope.
  4. Initiate the formal change control process.






Q2. You have a team of engineers working on your project. Two of the engineers have frequent disagreements. You ask them to resolve their differences through a discussion. However, that does not yield any results. Subsequently, you intervene, and based on your analysis of the situation, you suggest some changes in the way they work with each other. This still does not yield results, and you find that the project schedule is beginning to suffer. What is your next course of action?

  1. Take disciplinary action, if required, since the needs of the project are not being met.
  2. Don't do anything. Differences of opinion among the team members are a healthy situation.
  3. Speak to the two team members and ask them to resolve their conflict amicably.
  4. Ensure that they work in different shifts so that they don't clash with each other.
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Q3. Which of the following components of a project scope statement is useful in reducing scope creep?

  1. Acceptance criteria
  2. Deliverables
  3. Scope description
  4. Exclusions
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Q4. Your boss tells you that one of your resources is needed on another project. All the activities in the chart are occurring at the same time. Assuming that all the resources listed have the necessary skills to work on the other project, who would you pick to move to the other project?

  1. The resource working on Activity D
  2. The resource working on Activity C
  3. The resource working on Activity H
  4. The resource working on Activity B
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Q5. In adaptive lifecycles, such as the agile approach for product development, requirements are documented as user stories that are then __________ just prior to construction.

  1. Analyzed and curtailed
  2. Benchmarked and standardized
  3. Prioritized and refined
  4. Examined and outsourced
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Q6. If a risk has a 20 percent chance of happening in a given month, and the project is expected to last five months, what is the probability that this risk event will occur during the fourth month on the project?

  1. Less than 1 percent
  2. 20 percent
  3. 60 percent
  4. 80 percent.
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Q7. PMBOK offers a number of tools and techniques for all the project management processes. These tools and techniques must be carefully applied in order to meet the objectives of any process. Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process?

  1. Expert judgment
  2. Meetings
  3. Decision-making
  4. Interpersonal skills
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Q8. Instead of celebrating the end of the project, the stakeholders are breathing a sigh of relief. None of them were confident the product would meet the end date. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons this project had difficulty?

  1. Lack of payback period
  2. Lack of milestones
  3. Lack of a communications management plan
  4. Lack of a staffing management plan
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Q9. While constructing a new drug manufacturing plan, you discover a leak in a pipe which has released chemicals into the ground. It was difficult to acquire the necessary government approval and community support for the plant, and management has told you to be particularly careful to not upset the community. You are uncertain of whether the chemicals could leak into the groundwater or cause any damage. What should you do?

  1. Follow the instructions to avoid upsetting the community and do nothing
  2. Start to write articles in the local paper about how poorly treated the local drinking water is.
  3. Wherever possible, communicate all the great benefits of the plant to the community.
  4. Inform local officials and ask for their help 0
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Q10. The engineering department has uncovered a problem with the cost accounting system and has asked the systems department to analyze what is wrong and fix the problem. You are a project manager working with the cost accounting programs on another project. Management has issued a change request to the change control board to add the new work to your project. Your existing project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.2 and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.3 so you have some room to ad work without delaying your existing project. After some analysis, you determine that the new work and existing work do not overlap and can be done concurrently. They also require different skill sets. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

  1. Develop Project Charter
  2. Re-estimate the project schedule with input from the engineering department
  3. Verify the scope of the new work with the help of the stakeholders
  4. Identify specific changes to the existing work.
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