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Q2. Communications management plans should include all of the following except:

1. Stakeholder communication requirements
2. Reasons for information distribution
3. Escalation process
4. Risk Register

Q3. You are managing a project with a large multinational staff. Susan, one of the engineers, was originally asked to deliver her part of the work on October 19. Due to a change in the critical path, her deliverable will be needed two days sooner. However, as the new deadline is still two weeks away and she is ahead of schedule, you are confident her delivery will be on time. During a staff meeting, you learn from John, her functional manager, that Susan celebrates a religious holiday on October 17. However, he also tells you that Susan is not particularly religious; if pushed a bit and offered some incentive, she may forego celebrating this holiday and come to work. What should you do?

1. Check whether one of her colleagues can share some of her workload this week
2. Increase her project incentive if she agrees to deliver her presentation on the 17th
3. Let the critical path remain the same
4. Ask her boss to ask her to skip the holiday

Q4. Which of the following are ALL tools and techniques of the Manage Project Team process?

1. Watch the team, report on team member’s performance, and issue conflict resolutions
2. Use appropriate conflict resolution techniques, do a 360-degree feedback assessment, and update the project management plan
3. Perform a 360-degree feedback assessment, verify critical resource availability, and watch the team.
4. Report on team members’ performance, use appropriate conflict resolution techniques, and do a 360-degree feedback assessment.

Q5. While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only. Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?

1. Compromise
2. Smoothing
3. Forcing
4. Withdrawal.

Q6. An activity needs more time because an identified risk has occurred. The project manager determines that there is enough reserve to accommodate the change. Who needs to approve the change?

1. Management
2. Project manager
3. Team member
4. Functional manager

Q7. During the completion of project work, the sponsor asks the project manager to report on how the project is going. In order to prepare the report, the project manager asks all the team members what percent complete their work is. There is one team member who has been hard to manage from the beginning. In response to being asked what percent complete he is, the team member asks, “Percent complete of what?”. Tired of such comments, the project manager reports to the team member’s boss that the team member is not cooperating. Which of the following is MOST likely the real problem?

1. The project manager did not get buy-in from the manager for the resources on the project.
2. The project manager did not create an adequate reward system for team members to improve their cooperation.
3. The project manager should have had a meeting with the team member’s boss the first time the team member caused trouble.
4. The project manager does not have the work packages.

Q8. Nancy has recently become the project manager for a project already in execution. Nancy has learned the previous project manager did a good job so far and religiously followed the PMBOK guiding principles. However, some of the project communications don’t make sense to her. Which of the project artifacts should Nancy refer to in order to determine reasons for distribution of some reports?

1. Stakeholder engagement plan and the scope management plan
2. Stakeholder engagement plan and the communications management plan
3. Scope management plan and the communications management plan
4. Scope management plan and the risk management plan

Q9. A project manager is concerned about the amount of gold plating that has occurred on past projects. All the following would NOT be of use in controlling gold plating EXCEPT:

1. A staffing management plan
2. A project charter
3. A work breakdown structure dictionary
4. A risk management plan

Q10. As a project manager, you are in the process of preparing the project schedule for the project. Which of the following accurately depicts the sequence of your activities before you began to prepare the project schedule?

1. Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule
2. Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Define Activities
3. Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence Activities, Develop Schedule
4. Define Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence Activities