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Q2. Christine is managing a healthcare software development project. At a PMI conference, she met George who is the project manager at a competitor organization. George is a PMP and has successfully delivered many successful healthcare related software development projects. If George shares his stakeholder management experience with Christine, will that be considered Expert Judgment?

1. No! George is a project manager at a competitor organization.
2. Yes! George is an expert in managing such projects.
3. Yes! All participants at a PMI conference are experts.
4. No! This would be an example of expert opinion and not expert judgment.

Q3. The project manager is in the process of staffing the project. Available resources are as following: Mary always works overtime. Whitney works very hard. Laure meets the project requirements. Jess is very enthusiastic about the project and will work overtime if necessary. Who is the MOST appropriate resource for this project?

1. Mary
2. Whitney
3. Laurie
4. Jess

Q4. While evaluating the bar chart, the project manager determines that the project is behind schedule. What should she do?

1. Obtain approval from the customer to slip the project.
2. Report findings to management
3. Evaluate the alternatives with the team
4. Evaluate the alternatives with the customer

Q5. Sensitivity analysis helps to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. A project manager prepared a display chart of sensitivity analysis for his project. The diagram contained a series of bars with the length of the bars corresponding to the risk impact on the project. The longer the bar, the greater was the risk presented. Such a chart is likely to be:

1. An assessment diagram
2. A triangular distribution
3. A tornado diagram
4. A funnel distribution

Q6. You are working on an 18-month project with a small, co-located team. The project sponsor and senior management are in another city and have requested weekly updates. The customer requires monthly meetings. Because the team members are busy with the project executing processes, they would like to reduce the frequency of meetings. Which of the following BEST describes how status meetings should be managed on this project?

1. During project executing, you do not need to hold status meetings as long as you send the key stakeholders a status report every week.
2. Once a month the entire team, including senior management, should meet with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous month’s issues with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous months’ issues and the current status.
3. During project executing, it is only necessary for the project manager to meet with the customer once a month to fulfil your contractual obligation. Provide the customer once a month to fulfil your contractual obligation. Provide the customer with the status report and copy this report to key stakeholders.
4. The frequency and level of the meetings as well as the format and type of information to be exchanged should be defined in the project’s communications management plan during project planning.

Q7. The most recent analysis of Microcorp's new fabrication facility renovation project shows a CPI value of less than 1.0. What does this indicate?

1. The cost has overrun estimates.
2. The cost has underrun estimates.
3. The project is running ahead of schedule.
4. The schedule has slipped.

Q8. Why must the Validate Scope process be completed in a project?

1. To obtain scope documents from recent similar projects for benchmarking
2. To determine whether the scope is at the correct complexity level
3. To obtain formal acceptance of deliverables by the customer or sponsor
4. To ensure the project team is all aware of the scope

Q9. A project manager is trying to manage a complex project at a 6 sigma level with 5 people. The project manager decides to use a trend report because it will help him:

1. Evaluate earned value.
2. Examine project results over time
3. Analyze the level of project complexity.
4. Determine the level of quality.

Q10. The Plan Stakeholder Engagement process has many inputs. Which of the following is an input to the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process that comes from the Conduct Procurements process?

1. Project management plan
2. Project charter
3. Historic stakeholder engagement plans
4. Agreements