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You are doing business in a foreign country and you are advised by your local contact that it will be necessary to make payments to certain officials in order to get the contract. Such payments are expected in another country, but are illegal for people from your country. What should you do?
  1. Have the local contact make the payments.
  2. Refuse to make the payment and hope to get the contract solely based on your company’s abilities.
  3. Call your government officials and ask for direction.
  4. Amend your price increasing the cost to reflect the payments to be made to local officials.






Q2. An activity-on-node (AON) network diagram shows the following activities on two critical paths; Start, D, E, J, L, End and Stat, D, E, G, I, L, End. Each activity is at least three days in duration, except for activity L, which is one day in duration. If you are directed to reduce the project by one day, which activities are MOST likely to change?

  1. Activity L
  2. Activity E or activity J
  3. Activity G or activity I
  4. Activity D or activity E
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Q3. The results of another project have just been posted. Substantial rework will be required in order to meet the project requirements. Because the cost is too high, effective immediately, the project management office will be requiring all projects to do statistical sampling. What is the project management office concentrating its efforts on improving?

  1. Quality management
  2. Manage Quality
  3. Plan Quality
  4. Perform Quality Control.
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Q4. You are in the identifying risks process. You are meeting with your team members and stated that the project may be delayed because of the late delivery of certain consumables for your project. Now you ask the team members to find ways in which this problem can occur. What technique are you using here?

  1. Assumption and constraint analysis
  2. Brainstorming
  3. Sensitivity analysis
  4. Root cause analysis
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Q5. The project manager is working on a high-profile project where completing the project within budget is critical. The project manager is new, but well trained and is excited to see that the project is spending less than budgeted. As a result, the project manager was planning to take a holiday when a more senior project manager warned him that he has some important work to do on the project. Why would the senior project manager give such a warning on this project?

  1. The project manager needs to create a project control system to make sure there are no problems in the future.
  2. Under budget could mean that work that was scheduled to e done has not been completed. The project manager should look at how the cost performance compares to the schedule performance
  3. A project that is under budget may also have contracts that need to be managed.
  4. Team meetings should be scheduled every week and a holiday would mean that one team meeting would have to be cancelled.
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Q6. A scope change is made on the project. You have determined the effect on the schedule, performed integrated change control, and adjusted the project baselines and the project management plan. What is the NEXT thing to do?

  1. Look for impacts to cost
  2. Notify stakeholders affected by the change.
  3. Submit the change to the change control board for approval
  4. Change the work breakdown structure.
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Q7. For which of the following actions could a project manager incur a fine and be jailed?

  1. Using people from outside the project manager’s country to work on the project
  2. Failing to file the necessary permits in their own country
  3. Paying a bribe to a foreign official
  4. Not using minority workers on the project
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Q8. The work breakdown structure can be BEST thought of as an effective aid for _________ communications.

  1. Team
  2. Project manager
  3. Customer
  4. Stakeholder 13
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Q9. You have a choice of four ongoing projects that you can take over as project manager. Project 1 has a benefit cost ratio (BCR) of 1.4, is a high priority project and has a critical path length of 16 months. Its cost performance index (CPI) is 1.2. Project 2 has a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.1, is using three critical resources, has a low priority, and has a BCR of 1.1. Project 3 has a CPI of 1.2, an SPI of 0.89, a BCR of 1.6, and a critical path length of 19 months. Project 4 has a CPI of 0.82, an activity with 33 days of float, a hard-to-get resource assigned to activity L, and a priority of keeping cost low. Based on the above, which project would you prefer to take over?

  1. Project 1
  2. Project 2
  3. Project 3
  4. Project 4
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Q10. What does a Cost Performance Index (CPI) of more than 1.0 indicate?

  1. The project is over budget.
  2. The project is right on budget.
  3. The project is under budget.
  4. The project is ahead of schedule.
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