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While completing the Plan Resource Management process on your project, you visited the functional manager of engineering many times, but she refused to supply resources for the project. First, the excuse was that her department was too busy. The next time, the department was undergoing a re-organization. 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.






Q2. Your team is analyzing the project and comes up with the information in the chart. What activities are on the critical path?

  1. Not enough information
  2. Activities B, C, and I
  3. Activities B, C, E, F, H
  4. Activities D, G, I Activity Baseline Crash Time Cost Time Cost A 10 $4,000 8 $6,000 B 2 $6,000 2 $6,000 C 14 $22,000 12 $26,000 D 6 $9,000 5 $10,000 E 9 $14,000 7 $19,000 F 8 $18,000 4 $36,000 64
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Q3. A project manager is working on his first project with outside sellers. He is familiar with project change control systems but not contract change control systems. In explaining how a contract change control system differs from a project change control system, it is BEST to point out that a contract change control system:

  1. Includes procedures
  2. Includes trend analysis
  3. Requires more sign-offs
  4. Requires less documentation.
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Q4. You are in a process whose objective is outlining and guiding team selection and responsibility assignment to obtain a successful team. Which of the following is an output of this process?

  1. Virtual team
  2. Human resource management plan
  3. Project staff assignments
  4. Change request
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Q5. All of the following are part of a communications management plan EXCEPT:

  1. Names of the stakeholders who can talk to the project manager.
  2. Names of those receiving telephone call when the system crashes
  3. Methods used to collect and store information
  4. Names of the stakeholders and instructions on sending project status o them
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Q6. Bill and Jake are two team members in a project. They do not get along well and are constantly involved in verbal conflicts. The project manager understands the characteristics of conflict and the conflict management process and tries to resolve the situation. Which of the following is not a correct statement?

  1. Openness resolves conflict
  2. Conflict is natural and forces a search for alternatives
  3. Conflict is inevitable in a project environment.
  4. The project manager is not responsible for conflict management.
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Q7. Which term best describes the Identify Risks process?

  1. Finite
  2. Redundant
  3. Iterative
  4. Inconsequential
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Q8. Establishing control accounts for the work packages and a unique identifier from a code of accounts finalizes the WBS. This provides a structure for hierarchical summation of:

  1. Schedule and requirements information
  2. Cost and requirements information
  3. Cost and resource information
  4. Scope, budget and schedule information
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Q9. You are reviewing a chart which looks like an S-Curve during the execution phase of your project. What kind of chart is this?

  1. Cause and effect diagram
  2. Pareto diagram
  3. Cost baseline
  4. Sensitivity diagram
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Q10. Two team members are having a big disagreement over the type of computer hardware to use on the project. Who should resolve this dispute?

  1. Two members and their project manager
  2. Project manager
  3. Management
  4. System supervisor
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