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Another project manager has a family emergency and must leave. He has asked you to fill in for him during a team meeting to discuss a minor problem with the project. He has already distributed a detailed agenda and provided with a copy. When you attend the meeting, several members of the team are making fun of the absent project manager’s ethnic heritage. Your company does not have a formal diversity policy covering such behavior. What should you do?
  1. Because your company does not have a written diversity policy, there is nothing you can do.
  2. Report the incident to the other project manager
  3. Hold the meeting as if nothing happened
  4. Begin the meeting with a discussion of diversity and professional behavior.






Q2. You have just taken over a project from another project manager about six months into a 12-month project. As you get to know the staff on the project, you become aware that five staff members are relatives of the previous project manager. What do you do?

  1. Notify your project stakeholders there is a possibility that nepotism was behind some of the staffing decisions made on your project
  2. Check recruitment records of all employees
  3. Report the HR manager to PMI
  4. Interview these five employees
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Q3. You have floated a firm fixed price contract for some work. Since the scope of the work is not clear, the risk is higher and contractors are hesitant to bid for your contract. You are very busy and don't have time to monitor the contractor’s bill. In this case, what kind of contract will you select?

  1. CPIF
  2. CPAF
  3. T&M
  4. FPIF
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Q4. During the identification of risks on your project, you have determined that there is a very high probability of conflict among the team during project executing over one aspect of the final design of the project. Which of the following is an example of mitigating the impact of the risk to the project?

  1. Obtain an insurance policy for the anticipated cost of the impact.
  2. Outsource that part of the project to another company
  3. Provide the team with training on conflict resolution techniques
  4. Eliminate that part of the project.
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Q5. Vendor selection, vendor management, and documentation of lessons learned are tasks that fall under this process:

  1. Procurement management
  2. Deliverable management
  3. Conduct Procurements
  4. Scope management
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Q6. ___________________ is performed on risks that have been prioritized by the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process as potentially and substantially impacting the project's competing demands.

  1. Perform Risk Cost Analysis
  2. Perform Risk Exposure Analysis
  3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
  4. Perform Risk Outcome Analysis
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Q7. The project was going well until the director of marketing discovered that two of her staff members were working different versions of the sampling plan, a product of your project. Which of the following BEST describes what needs the attention of the project manager on this project?

  1. Stakeholder management
  2. Resource allocation
  3. Staffing management plan
  4. Configuration management
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Q8. George is managing a telecommunication network deployment project. Most of the key project stakeholders are happy with the project so far. However, George has some potential concerns that might become issues in the near future. The next project status update meeting with the key stakeholders is the next day. What should George do?

  1. Wait until the concerns become issues
  2. Discuss these concerns with the key stakeholders
  3. Do not report the concerns in the next meeting but try to mitigate these concerns
  4. Briefly discuss these concerns in the next meeting but do not make them look significant
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Q9. You are in the process of collecting and disseminating performance information to the stakeholders in the project. You want to predict the future performance of the project based on the current information. This performance information includes status reports, current status of risks, and summary of changes approved in the period. Which of the following methods will help you in predicting the future performance of the project?

  1. Forecasts
  2. A Pareto chart
  3. A run chart
  4. A Work Breakdown Structure
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Q10. Although the stakeholders thought there was enough money in the budget, halfway through the project the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.7. To determine the root cause, several stakeholders audit the project and discover the project budget was estimated analogously. Although the activity estimates add up to the project estimate, the stakeholders think something was missing in how the estimate was completed. Which of the following describes what was missing?

  1. Estimated costs should be used to measure CPI.
  2. SPI should be used, not CPI
  3. Bottom-up estimating should have been used
  4. Past history was not taken into account.
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