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You are managing a two-year project involving staff from several departments. The project is on schedule and within budget. A key team member leaves for a four-week vacation without completing a highly technical and specialized activity assigned to him (activity A). The project team cannot begin activity B or active E (a critical path activity) until activity A is completed. Activity A has three days float and is not on the critical path. A team member, a vendor, and a non-team member work overtime to complete activity A within its float time. You need to reimburse the nonteam member’s department and pay the vendor at an overtime rate. What action should you take?
  1. Send a complaint letter to the key team member’s boss, and ask him to fund the extra cost expended.
  2. Re-evaluate your communications management plan
  3. Thank the others for filing in, but tell them not to waste time on noncritical path activities
  4. Pay the cost out of your project reserves 5






Q2. A project post-mortem is an activity, usually performed at the project’s conclusion, to determine and analyze a project’s outcome which also includes a lessons-learned gathering exercise. Project post-mortems help to mitigate future risks and are often a key component of, and ongoing precursor to, effective risk management. Which of the following is a terrible mistake when collecting lessons learned?

  1. Documenting both the success stories and the failed attempts
  2. Calculating project’s final statistics
  3. Focusing purely on the negatives and analyzing failures
  4. Conducting a comprehensive performance review
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Q3. Tim is the project manager for a shopping mall construction project which is in its fourth month of execution. According to the project contract, Tim can only issue project invoices when the project is 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% complete in terms of the approved project schedule. Recently the 25% milestone has been reached and Tim is ready to issue his first invoice. According to the contract, the project must be completed in 12 months. What is the project’s SPI?

  1. 0.25
  2. 0.75
  3. 0.33
  4. 1.33
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Q4. If you are writing a proposal for additional funding, which communication style should you choose?

  1. Formal and horizontal
  2. Formal and upward
  3. Informal and downward
  4. Informal and horizontal
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Q5. There are numerous ways to share information among project stakeholders. Which of the following is the most efficient communication method?

  1. Push communication
  2. Interactive communication
  3. Pull communication
  4. Manual communication
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Q6. You are working on a medium-sized project and management has decided to forego the perform quantitative risk analysis process. So, after identifying risks, you start the qualitative risk analysis process and now you are going to prioritize them. Which of the following techniques are you going to use?

  1. Probability and impact
  2. Fishbone diagram
  3. Scatter diagram
  4. Sensitive analysis
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Q7. What percentage o the total distribution is 3 sigma from the mean equal to?

  1. 68.26 percent
  2. 99.99 percent
  3. 95.46 percent
  4. 99.73 percent
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Q8. Which of the following should be avoided while applying logical relationships to project activities:

  1. Applying the SS relationship with a lead
  2. Applying the SS relationship with a lag
  3. Applying the SF relationship
  4. Applying multiple relationships between the same activities
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Q9. When a project manager is engaged in negotiations, nonverbal communication skills are of:

  1. Little importance.
  2. Major importance.
  3. Importance only when cost and schedule objectives are involved.
  4. Importance only to ensure you win the negotiation.
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Q10. The sponsor of your facilities upgrade project has left the company to join another organization. Several weeks later, you are reviewing the business case for the project, and you find that there are several inconsistencies between what is stated in the business case and what is described in the project scope. Further research shows that the business case as a whole is based on inaccurate information. What do you do?

  1. Notify your project stakeholders immediately
  2. Add this to the risk log
  3. Update the requirements
  4. Call the sponsor for clarification
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