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Project Management- Q2. You have identified a risk that will negatively affect your security project. You and your team have decided to use an older encryption technology because of the high risk associated with the new technology. What type of risk strategy are you using?

1. Mitigation
2. Exploitation
3. Avoidance
4. Transfer

Project Management- Q3. As project manager, you are unable to allocate as much time to interact with your stakeholders as you would like. Which of the following stakeholders will you make it a priority to get to know?

1. The stakeholder who is an expert on the product of the project, but is not interested in implementing it in his department.
2. The manager of the department that will use the product of the project. She is known to be resistant to change.
3. The project sponsor, with whom you have successfully worked on many projects.
4. The department employee who is unfamiliar with the product of the project, but open to the positive impacts he believes the product will have on his work environment.

Project Management- Q4. Kevin is assigned to a software development project that will start in the near future and is currently tailoring the PMBOK processes to satisfy the project’s specific needs. Kevin wants to introduce a new process, “Identify Key Deliverables”, to the existing six project scope management processes. Although he understands that project deliverables identification is already in the PMBOK scope management processes, he believes that having a dedicated process will stress the importance of determining and agreeing to key project deliverables. The best position for the new “Identify Key Deliverables” process should be between which of the following two processes?

1. Define Scope and Create WBS
2. Create WBS and Validate Scope
3. Plan Scope Management and Collect Requirements
4. Collect Requirements and Define Scope

Project Management- Q5. The fundamental lesson from the Theory of Constraints by Goldratt is:

1. The project’s critical path is limited by the non-critical activities.
2. Managers who choose to lead from the front are more successful.
3. A system's throughput is limited by at least one constraint.
4. Managers who delegate more are more successful.

Project Management- Q6. In general, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis is:

1. Not often completed
2. Complete and 100 percent accurate
3. In-depth and thorough
4. focused on high-priority risks

Project Management- Q7. The project manager has worked closely with the team to come up with contingency plans. Which of the following BEST describes contingency plans?

1. Planned responses to risk events
2. Planned risk control procedures
3. Planned workarounds
4. Planned responses based on probability analysis.

Project Management- Q8. During the risk analysis process, you find that a specific risk has a remote chance of happening and if it occurs, it will have very little effect on the project objective. What will you do with this risk?

1. Analyze it further
2. Assign it a risk owner
3. Keep it in watch list
4. You will ignore it

Project Management- Q9. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do when asked to complete a project two days earlier than planned?

1. Tell senior management that the project’s critical path does not allow the project to be finished earlier.
2. Tell your boss.
3. Meet with the team to look at options for crashing or fast tracking the critical path.
4. Work hard and see what the project status is next month.

Project Management- Q10. You are planning resources for your project and the team charter has been established. This charter provides a clear guideline of the acceptable behavior of team members. Which of the following is not included?

1. Communication guidelines
2. Decision making criteria
3. Conflict resolution process
4. Motivational processes