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A project manager for a large information technology consulting firm was assigned to manage a software integration project for a large client. The schedule was already established. Management at the client site responsible for the project explained to the project manager that the project duration was too long. Changing market pressures require the project to be brought in one month earlier than scheduled. He has already reviewed the scope of the project and nothing can be cut. He requested that the project manager cut each activity by 10 percent duration to accomplish the goal. What would be the MOST appropriate thing for the project manager to do in this situation?
  1. Initiate change control processes, explain that the project schedule needs to stand, and review the risks involved.
  2. Meet with the team and evaluate how each activity can be cut by 10 percent to accomplish the goal.
  3. Do more critical path activities in parallel.
  4. Meet with management to review the original project management plan and discuss scope changes that would reduce project timeline






Q2. Another project manager in your company is having difficulty managing his project. You have found that he has not used a project charter and that is probably the cause of the problem. How can you help?

  1. Provide him with a copy of an article about project charters
  2. Work with his boss to get him a mentor
  3. Develop a draft project charter for his use.
  4. Talk to him about his project and offer help in creating a project charter.
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Q3. The success of your new project requires several of your people to work in a foreign country for six months. The team informs you that in this country a payment is required to obtain visas. What should you do?

  1. Cancel the project.
  2. Make the payment
  3. Do not pay and see what happens.
  4. Do not send your people.
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Q4. A project manager is managing a project in which there are teams located in remote locations in order to obtain cost savings. This is in accordance with organizational guidelines that require that at least 25 percent of the work should be done from a remote location. This is an example of:

  1. A constraint
  2. A necessity
  3. A choice
  4. An assumption
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Q5. Probabilistic analysis o the project and probability of achieving the project cost are completed during:

  1. Identify Risks
  2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
  3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
  4. Plan Risk Responses.
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Q6. You have just been assigned as the project manager for a project that is in the middle of the executing process group, and you are determining how you will control the project. The BEST way to control the project is to:

  1. Use a combination of communication methods.
  2. Hold status meetings because they have worked best for you in the past.
  3. Refer to the bar chart weekly.
  4. Meet with management regularly.
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Q7. You are managing the project when you discover an estimated completion date will occur after the desired date. What should you do FIRST?

  1. Add resources to the project.
  2. Evaluate the possibility of doing more activities in parallel.
  3. Negotiate for more time
  4. Explain to the customer that the project cannot be done on schedule.
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Q8. A project manager is analyzing the relationship between the consumption of project funds and the work being accomplished for such expenditures. In which project management process would this be done?

  1. Determine Budget
  2. Estimate Costs
  3. Control Costs
  4. Manage Costs
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Q9. All of the following are outputs of the Estimate Costs process EXCEPT:

  1. An understanding of the cost risk in the work that has been estimated.
  2. The prevention of inappropriate changes from being included in the cost baseline.
  3. An indication of the range of possible costs for the project
  4. Documentation of any assumptions made during the Estimate Costs process.
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Q10. The critical path method (CPM) calculates the theoretical early start and finish dates and late start and finish dates. The difference between the late and early start of a task is a:

  1. Free float
  2. Feeding buffer
  3. Danger zone
  4. Total float
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