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You are working for a large project organization with several project managers working on 15 projects. All project managers submit their status reports at month’s end. One of your fellow project managers, Jane, has reported an error in the past two months. From discussions with one of her project’s team members who is also working on one of your projects, you realize Jane is deliberately misreporting the project’s status to inflate her performance for the annual performance appraisal next month. The monthend review meeting is in two days, and you are preparing your own presentation for it. What should you say about her status report?
  1. Investigate and verify the blame before reporting the incorrect status to the appropriate management.
  2. Since there is no direct relationship between your project and hers, there is no need to intervene in this issue.
  3. Prepare a brief of what you have discussed with her team member and report the inconsistency in the meeting
  4. Send an email to her boss asking to check the contents of her report






Q2. All of the following result from quality audits EXCEPT:

  1. Determination of whether project activities comply with organizational policies
  2. Improved processes to increase productivity
  3. Creation of quality metrics
  4. Confirmation of the implementation of approved change requests
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Q3. A team member notifies the project manager after the fact that certain project deliverables have been attained without performing all the associated work packages in the WBS. What should the project manager do FIRST?

  1. Immediately communicate the changes to all team members and stakeholders and have team members’ performance reviewed.
  2. Review work packages and deliverables to determine impact, if any. Recommend changes to the project to the project management plan.
  3. Change the project performance measurement baselines and the WBS.
  4. Change the reporting process to get information sooner, then review the communications management plan to see if it is still appropriate to the needs of the project.
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Q4. While developing your project schedule, you have asked everyone to provide a list of planned vacations over the next three months, and you have applied this information to the tasks that each person is responsible for. What also needs updating?

  1. Resource Calendars
  2. Leads
  3. Schedule Variances
  4. Lags
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Q5. Your project is very complex and due to a scope change, you need a few additional experts, which you did not think of earlier. You request that your company provide you with some experts for consultancy work. Although your company has provided you with those experts, they are located in a different geographical location. In this situation, how will you get their input?

  1. Ask management to bring them to you
  2. Recruit new members with same skills
  3. Create a virtual team
  4. None of the above
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Q6. The new project is exciting to both the project manager and the team. This is the project manager’s first assignment as project manager. The team has the feeling that they will be able to complete work that has never been tried before. There are 29 people contributing to the product description and the team consists of nine highly experienced experts in their field. Part of the way through planning, three highly technical team members are disagreeing about the scope o f two of the deliverables. One is pointing to the draft WBS and saying that two additional work packages should be added. Another is saying that a particular work package should not even be done. The third team member agrees with both of them. How should the project manager BEST deal with the conflict?

  1. He should listen to the differences of opinion, determine the best choice, and implement that choice.
  2. He should postpone further discussions, meet with each individual, and determine the best approach.
  3. He should listen to the differences of opinion, encourage logical discussions, and facilitate an agreement.
  4. He should help the team focus on agreeable aspects of their opinions and build unity by using relaxation techniques and common focus team building.
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Q7. Which of the following is not a Risk Diagramming technique?

  1. Influence diagrams
  2. Control charts
  3. Decision trees
  4. Tornado diagram
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Q8. An output of the Close Project process is the creation of:

  1. Project archives
  2. A project charter
  3. A project management plan
  4. A risk analysis plan
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Q9. Management wants to look at how a project is doing, as compared to past projects. To make a valid judgment, management should compare his project to:

  1. Benchmarks
  2. Flowcharts
  3. Bar charts
  4. Trend charts
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Q10. Many project managers have seen a graph that shows “Influence of Stakeholders” starting out high and declining as the project progresses. In contrast, it also shows the “Cost of Changes” starting out low and increasing as the project progresses. What is the key insight a project manager should gain from this graph?

  1. Stakeholder influence is not important at the end of the project.
  2. Make changes as early in the project as possible.
  3. Set aside money for expected changes at the end of the project.
  4. Place the project on hold until all changes are made.
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