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Q2. Kelly is part of a project management office (PMO). Her office is responsible for the centralized and coordinated management of 18 projects. Each project has its own project manager. Which of the following will not typically be a responsibility of her PMO?

1. Coaching, mentoring, training, and oversight
2. Development of a detailed description of each project and the product it produces
3. Managing shared resources across all the projects administered by the PMO
4. Developing and managing project policies

Q3. What is one of the KEY objectives during contract negotiations?

1. Obtain a fair and reasonable price.
2. Negotiate a price under the seller’s estimate
3. Ensure that all project risks are thoroughly delineated
4. Ensure that an effective communications management plan is established.

Q4. The project has had a major defect, and the project manager has involved the project team and process engineers in analyzing the situation. Someone from the group says that the real fault is the age of the equipment. Another says it is the lack of material of the correct quality. To address the root of the problem, the project manager decides to use an Ishikawa diagram. Which of the following BEST describes the part of the quality management process in which the group is involved in this situation?

1. Quality analysis
2. Manage Quality
3. Perform Quality Control
4. Plan Quality.

Q5. Midway through the Collect Requirements process, a project manager finds there are many unresolved issues regarding product requirements. Which of the following is usually the best way to discover and resolve issues?

1. Interviewing
2. Use of a stakeholder register
3. Questionnaires
4. Workshops

Q6. An activity has been delayed and the project manager needs to deal with the situation. What is the NEXT thing she should do?

1. Determine how much of a problem it is.
2. Report to management
3. Crash or fast track
4. Use contingency reserves

Q7. A project manager has just finished the risk response plan for a US $387,000 engineering project. Which of the following should he probably do NEXT?

1. Determine the overall risk rating of the project
2. Begin to analyze the risks that show up in the project drawings
3. Add work packages to the project work breakdown structure
4. Hold a project risk assessment 06

Q8. You are two days late on reporting the status for a project you are managing. The status report indicates that the project is lagging behind schedule. During the current week, you are confident of making up some of the lost time. How should you report project status?

1. Since the status report is already due, do nothing. Send out the status report next week when the project is back on track.
2. Since the status report is already two days overdue, you may communicate to stakeholders that you will send a consolidated status report next week. In this manner, you can avoid being untruthful or falsifying reports.
3. Send out a status report to all stakeholders indicating that the project is on track. Once this week goes by, things will be fine, and the status reports will be back to normal.
4. You should report project status exactly as it is. You may also mention that you expect to make up some of the lost ground but will truthfully represent current status.

Q9. While completing the Plan Resource process on your project, you visited the functional manger of engineering many times, but she refused to supply resources for the project. First, the excuse was that her department was too busy; next, the department was undergoing reorganization. This is causing your project to slip the schedule. Which of the following is the MOST probable reason for her lack of support?

1. The priority of the project has increased
2. The project does not have a project charter and the functional manager was not involved in approving the project management plan
3. The project schedule network diagram was not time-phased.
4. The WBS did not include all resources needed on the project.

Q10. A project manager has just been assigned to a new project and has been given the approved project charter. The FIRST thing the project manager must do is:

1. Create a project scope statement
2. Confirm that all the stakeholders have had input to the scope
3. Analyze project risk
4. Begin work on a project management plan