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Q2. During Control risks process, the risk response owner should be:

1. Identifying which risks he/she wants to monitor
2. Controlling the identification of response strategies
3. Informing the project manager of any midcourse correction needed
4. Updating stakeholders of new strategies for mitigating risks.

Q3. The project has 13 team members and affects over 15 departments in the organization. Because the project is 20 percent complete to date and the team has had successful performance reports from five of the affected departments, the project manager holds a party to celebrate. The project manager invites key stakeholders from all of the departments to the party, in order to give those providing good reviews an informal opportunity to communicate good things to those departments that have not yet been affected by the project. At the party, the project manager walks around to try to discover any relevant information that would help the project be more successful. He happens to hear a manager of one of the departments talking about setting up more regular meetings on the project. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to FIRST:

1. Record the effectiveness of the part in the project lessons learned.
2. Review the information distribution methods on the project.
3. Hold a meeting of all the stakeholders to discuss their concerns.
4. Make sure the manager has a copy of the communications management plan so he is reminded that such concerns should be sent to the project manager.

Q4. Which of the following scenarios is likely to occur in a project?

1. Cost and staffing levels are low at the start of the project.
2. Stakeholders' influence on the project is lowest at the start of the project.
3. Risk and uncertainty are lowest at the start of the project.
4. Cost of changes are the highest at the start of the project.

Q5. You have been given a project to clean an area where hundreds of families are living and to develop residential flats for them. Since there so many stakeholders involved, how will you manage them?

1. Ignore low-power stakeholders
2. Pick the dominating stakeholders
3. Find a way to manage them all
4. Manage only high power and high-interest group stakeholders

Q6. 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.

Q7. You just found out that a major subcontractor for our project consistently provides deliverables late. The subcontractor approaches you and asks you to continue accepting late deliverables in exchange for a decrease in project costs. This offer is an example of.

1. Confronting.
2. Compromise.
3. Smoothing.
4. Forcing.

Q8. The new software installation project is in progress. The project manager is working with the quality assurance department to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Quality problems.
2. Quality improvement
3. Quality control measurements
4. Rework

Q9. You are a project manager who was just assigned to take over a project from another project manager who is leaving the company. The previous project manager tells you that the project is on schedule, but only because he has constantly pushed the team to perform. What is the FIRST thing you should do as the new project manager?

1. Check risk status
2. Check cost performance
3. Determine a management strategy
4. Tell the team your objectives

Q10. All of the following are used in quality management EXCEPT:

1. Marginal analysis
2. Selected sellers
3. Standard deviation
4. The Delphi technique.