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Q2. The stakeholder engagement plan is developed early during project planning phase. However, as the project moves into its execution phase, project stakeholders’ needs, interests and/or influence might change. If a significant change happens, what should the project manager do?

1. Refer the issue to the project sponsor
2. Hold all project communications until the issue has a resolution
3. Seek expert judgment from the project sponsor
4. Revisit the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process

Q3. By policy, the project management office regularly evaluates project performance. This is done in order to ensure standards are being followed. This is an example of:

1. Plan Quality
2. Manage Quality
3. Control Quality
4. Quality Management

Q4. You are in the execution stage of your project, and you are informed that “corporate” will send in a team of consultants to review whether your project activities comply with your company’s and PMI’s policies, standards, and procedures. This is an example of:

1. Quality Audit
2. Organizational Process Assets
3. Process Analysis
4. Recommended Corrective Actions

Q5. If a project manager wants to examine the project results over time to see if performance is improving, she would use a:

1. Trend report.
2. Forecasting report.
3. Status report.
4. Variance report.

Q6. 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

Q7. Earned value measurement is an example of:

1. Performance reporting
2. Planning control
3. Ishikawa diagrams
4. Integrating the project components into a whole.

Q8. To a project manager, which of the following is the BIGGEST disadvantage of progress reports as compared to watching what is going on in a project, asking questions, and assisting team members?

1. Progress reports include information from all team.
2. Progress reports require expending time gathering information from stakeholders.
3. Progress reports generally show problems after they have occurred.
4. Progress reports supply information about trends.

Q9. A project manager is starting work on a complex project. There will be people from two different countries involved. The project sponsor is from a third country, and the work is being done on an expedited schedule in your country with 14 electrical engineers, 4 architects and their staffs, 3 mechanical engineers, and 2 maintenance experts. What should the project manager do to make sure all the work in this project is identified?

1. Create a clear management plan, and put it in writing.
2. Create a WBS with input from all parties involved.
3. Identify the laws of each country involved.
4. Create a scope control system.

Q10. A project manager has completed a detailed WBS and cost estimates for each work package. To create a cost baseline from this data, the project manager would:

1. Use the highest level of the WBS to estimate analogously
2. Sum up the work package and risk contingency reserve estimates
3. Roll up work package estimates into a project total and add management reserves.
4. Gain expert opinions of the project total costs.