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You have been assigned as a project manager of a new project to be executed out of New York. However, you determine the project requires a Global Positioning Systems expert who is not available within the company in New York. After doing a little checking, you determine that the company has an expert based in London who is suitable for the project. However, the London-based employee is not willing to relocate to New York for the project. In such a case:
  1. Write to the manager of the London-based employee and inform him that the employee needs to be convinced to relocate to New York due to project requirements.
  2. You look at the option of moving ahead with the project by using a virtual team.
  3. Manage the project without the key resource and flag this as a risk.
  4. Co-location of resources is a key factor for the success of projects. As per PMI guidelines, you cannot proceed with the project since the resources are not available in New York.






Q2. RACI stands for______________, ________________, ___________, _______________.

  1. Review, Analyze, Calculate, Implement
  2. Responsible, Actual, Complete, Informative
  3. Roles, Activities, Costs, Instructions
  4. Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform
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Q3. Sandra is managing a new supersonic aircraft design project. This is a huge project and the success of this project is very critical for her organization. For such mission-critical projects, which of the following is the most desirable engagement level for all major project stakeholders?

  1. Supportive stakeholders
  2. Resistant stakeholders
  3. Leading stakeholders
  4. Neutral stakeholders
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Q4. All of the following are parts of the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

  1. Benchmarking
  2. Cost-benefit analysis
  3. Inspection
  4. Design of experiments.
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Q5. All of the following are parts of effective problem solving EXCEPT:

  1. Waiting to make decisions
  2. Reviewing the decision
  3. Confirming that the decision solved the problem
  4. Analyzing the problem.
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Q6. Close Procurements is similar to Close Project in that they both involve:

  1. Product verification
  2. Kickoff meetings
  3. Quality assurance activities
  4. Creation of the scope verification plan
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Q7. As a project manager, you are responsible for determining and delivering the required levels of both grade and quality. Select which of the following statements you disagree with.

  1. Grade relates to the product's characteristics.
  2. Grade relates to the customer requirements.
  3. Quality relates to the customer requirements.
  4. Quality and grade of a product must be carefully managed.
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Q8. As project progress is tracked according to the project management plan, the project manager discovers that final deliverables will be completed two months after the deliverable dates imposed by management. What should the project manager do?

  1. Look for options with stakeholders using some combination of scaling back work, re-evaluating discretionary dependencies, and adding resources
  2. Evaluate the impact on the company of completing this project late.
  3. Drive the project team to work faster to make up for lost time
  4. Recalculate the project schedule and distribute it according to the communications management plan
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Q9. You are a project manager for a US $3,000,000 product development project. Your project is well into the executing process group and remains on time, on budget, and on specification. This morning, a project team member alerts you to a newspaper article detailing unusually high defect rates in materials that your team has been using to develop your product prototype. You had no reason to suspect quality issues in these materials before now. What should you do FIRST in response to this concern?

  1. Stop work on the prototype
  2. Quantify the risk
  3. Develop a risk mitigation plan
  4. Determine a workaround.
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Q10. While finalizing the WBS you assign each work package to a control account and establish a unique identifier for the same work from a code of account. These identifiers help you find a hierarchical sum of costs, schedule, etc. Which statement is true about the WBS?

  1. It contains all project work
  2. It authorizes the project manager
  3. It is a hierarchy of project staff
  4. It is a hierarchical breakdown of project resources
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