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Q2. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager made a long list of risks identified by all the stakeholders using various methods. He then made sure that all the risks were understood and that triggers had been identified. Later, in the Plan Risk Responses process, he took all the risks identified by the stakeholders and determined ways to mitigate them. What has he done wrong?

1. More people should be involved in the Plan Risk Responses process
2. Triggers are not identified until the Identify Risks process.
3. The project manager should have waited until the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process to get the stakeholders involved.
4. The project manager should have created workarounds

Q3. A project manager is in the process of scope verification of a deliverable with the customer. What is the MOST important thing the project manager should ensure?

1. Accuracy
2. Timeliness
3. Acceptance
4. Completeness 7

Q4. Public recognition of superior performance creates positive reinforcement for the team members. When is the best time for a project manager to recognize team members' performance?

1. At the end of the project
2. During the lifecycle of the project
3. At the end of every phase of the project
4. As mandated by the HR department

Q5. Linda is currently drafting her project stakeholder management plan. Since she is a new hire, she is not aware of the company’s policies and procedures. If she wants to know more about the company’s general issues management procedures, where must she look?

1. Project charter
2. Scope statement
3. Organizational process assets
4. Issue register

Q6. During a work breakdown structure meeting, you have decomposed the deliverables into work packages and created your WBS dictionary. However, you now want to decompose the work packages to assist you in estimating, executing, and controlling the project. These decomposed work packages are:

1. Work packages can't be decomposed into smaller units
2. Activities
3. Milestones
4. Control Accounts

Q7. A project manager is putting her project control system in place. After a few meetings with others, she realizes that there a few effective measures of progress that can be used on the project. If you were to advise her, what would be the BEST thing the project manager can plan to do the control the project?

1. Emphasize the creation of milestones.
2. Add more people to the project team to help control it.
3. Have meetings every week versus every month.
4. Break the project into phases.

Q8. Which of the following statements most accurately describes a project scenario?

1. Changes in project scope during the initial phases of the project are very expensive.
2. The influence of the stakeholders is the same all through the project.
3. Staffing peaks during the execution phase of a project.
4. The next phase of a project should never start until the deliverables for the previous phase are completely reviewed and approved.

Q9. Which of the following BEST describes an opportunity on a project?

1. Team members will learn more about spy satellites, and will be able to use that information on future projects.
2. The requirements might need updating later.
3. The quality requirements are hard to achieve.
4. Additional engineering may be needed in order to get the satellite to meet the customer’s requirements.

Q10. Though it was difficult, the project manager received agreement to the project charter from all four sponsors involved on the project and the US $400,000 project was approved. Now the cost variance for the project is -$500 and the last performance review was positive. Just when the project entered its second phase, a team member on a noncritical path activity announced she was leaving the company. The float of activity L changed from two to four days. Only one unidentified risk has occurred with a minor impact. The last quality review showed that the project has made use of the results of the last design of experiments. Based on this information, what should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Complete closure of the first phase
2. Fast track the project to add more float
3. Review the management plans
4. Investigate additional risks caused by the difficulty with the senior managers.