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Andy is currently working for ABC Contractors as a quality control manager for a railway track construction project. National Railways awarded this cost-plus construction contract to ABC Contractors a few months ago. As a contractual requirement, ABC Contractors has to submit each completed deliverable for client acceptance. Reviewing project data, Andy found that the current submission rejection rate is 22 percent. He conducts a root cause analysis and submits his findings along with construction process improvement recommendations to the project director. In this scenario, Andy’s report is an example of:
  1. Work performance data
  2. Raw observations
  3. Work performance information
  4. Work control report






Q2. You are the project manager of a project whose team has interacted with a number of stakeholders. You believe that in order to have an objective project performance appraisal, you would like to obtain feedback for the project team members from all the people they have worked with, including superiors, peers and subordinates. Project performance appraisals are performed during which of the following processes?

  1. Close Project or Phase
  2. Acquire Resources
  3. Manage Team
  4. Develop Team
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Q3. You are reviewing the expense reports for one of your team members when you notice a payment he made in another country. You think the payment is a bribe. What is your FIRST course of action?

  1. Seek legal advice.
  2. Contact the payee in the other country and ask if the payment was a bribe.
  3. Ignore the problem. It is in the past
  4. File a permit authorizing the team to make such payments.
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Q4. During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager is usually dependent on the expert judgment of senior stakeholders to identify and plan effective stakeholder management strategies. Which of the following stakeholders cannot guide the project manager in developing effective strategies for internal stakeholders?

  1. Sponsor
  2. Identified key stakeholders
  3. Customers
  4. Project team members
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Q5. Which of the following helps the project team to look at many sources from which project risks may arise in a risk identification exercise?

  1. Work Breakdown Structure
  2. Risk Breakdown Structure
  3. Risk register
  4. Issue log
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Q6. Due to an error in the process, a defect is occurring in a deliverable. You identified the root cause of the problem and made some changes to the process to stop the defect from occurring. This process is known as:

  1. Root cause analysis
  2. Corrective action
  3. Defect repair
  4. Preventive action
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Q7. The testing results for the new computer modulation project have arrived from the seller. The results indicate the project is not meeting the overall requirements. If the project manager meets with the team members to analyze the situation, the project manager is involved in which process?

  1. Quality management
  2. Manage Quality
  3. Plan Quality
  4. Perform Quality Control.
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Q8. A project manager gathered data to perform earned value calculations on his project. He used the results to report to management that the project is under budget and on schedule. After reporting this information, he discovered that the base figures he used in the calculations were incorrect, as they came from an old copy o the project line which had not been updated. What should he do now?

  1. He should contact management to make them aware of the error, give the correct information, and explain how he made the mistake
  2. He should contact management and tell them to expect some changes in the next reporting period, and that things are starting to look gloomy
  3. He should use the correct figures to calculate the information when it is time for the next report and ignore the fact the he reported incorrect information.
  4. He should tell management that the data he received from team members was incorrect and thus the report was not accurate.
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Q9. A project manager on a multinational website implementation project is at a party and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new website when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current website. The project manager takes this feedback to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

  1. Scope validation
  2. Integrated change control
  3. Stakeholder analysis
  4. Scope planning
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Q10. A particular stakeholder has a reputation for requesting many changes on projects. What is the BEST approach a project manager can take at the beginning of the project to manage this situation?

  1. Say "No" to the stakeholder a few times to dissuade him from submitting more changes.
  2. Get the stakeholder involved in the project as early as possible.
  3. Talk to the stakeholder's boss to find ways of directing the stakeholder's activities to another project.
  4. Ask that the stakeholder not be included in the stakeholder listing.
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