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You are an electrical engineer with extensive experience in managing transmission projects but limited experience with electronic design projects. However, in a stretch assignment, you were recently transferred to another department in your company that focuses on electronic design. Furthermore, you were asked to lead a highly important project involving both transmission and electronic design. In preparation for a meeting with your manager to discuss this opportunity, you review the initial project design brief. Due to your limited background in electronic design, a number of items in this document seem unclear to you. When you arrive at your meeting, your manager asks if you will be leading the project. How do you respond?
  1. Accept the project and tell your manager that your expertise in transmission makes you an ideal manager for this project.
  2. Decline the project, citing your lack of experience in electronics design.
  3. Accept the project, but do not discuss your qualifications or lack thereof.
  4. State that you would like to lead the project, but you must disclose that your primary domain of expertise is transmission, and that you may need supplementary training in electronics design.






Q2. A project manager is analyzing the relationship between the consumption of project funds and the work being accomplished for such expenditures. In which project management process would this be done?

  1. Determine Budget
  2. Estimate Costs
  3. Control Costs
  4. Manage Costs
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Q3. You are a project manager for a new product development project that has four levels in the work breakdown structure. The network diagram has been created, the duration estimates have been compressed, and a schedule has been developed. What schedule management activity should you do NEXT?

  1. Control Schedule
  2. Estimate Activity Resources
  3. Analogously estimate the schedule
  4. Gain approval
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Q4. All of the following are outputs of the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

  1. Quality management plan
  2. Validated deliverables
  3. Checklists
  4. Metrics.
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Q5. You have the project management responsibility of a virtual team comprising team members from the same company who live in widespread geographic areas, employees who work from home offices and employees with mobility impairments. Virtual teams are formed as a result of which of the following processes?

  1. Acquire Resources
  2. Plan Resource Management
  3. Estimate Activity Resources
  4. Develop Schedule
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Q6. All of the following are results of adding to the risk register in the Plan Risk Responses process EXCEPT:

  1. You are in control of the project as it progresses with few surprises
  2. By managing the plan, you are able to avoid risks while mitigating the effects of others
  3. The need for workarounds is minimized
  4. The need for contingency reserves is minimized.
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Q7. You have been asked to create a graphic display of schedule-related information, listing schedule activities on the left side of the chart, dates on the top, and activity durations as date-placed horizontal bars on the right side. What is such a chart called?

  1. PERT chart
  2. Gantt chart
  3. Hunt chart
  4. GERT chart
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Q8. You are in the middle of project executing and find that you are running out of money due to unanticipated changes. What is the BEST thing to do?

  1. Crash or fast track the project
  2. Ask for a change to the project budget
  3. Use resources that do not change against the project
  4. Re-evaluate the risk analysis and contingency funding
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Q9. As a project manager, you are responsible for determining and delivering the required levels of both grade and quality. Select which of the following statements you disagree with.

  1. Grade relates to the product's characteristics.
  2. Grade relates to the customer requirements.
  3. Quality relates to the customer requirements.
  4. Quality and grade of a product must be carefully managed.
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Q10. Various tools and techniques determine project requirements during the Collect Requirements process. These requirements form the basis for defining the project scope. One of the responsibilities of a project manager is to identify key project deliverables during this exercise. Where are the key project deliverables documented?

  1. Scope Management Plan
  2. Requirements Management Plan
  3. Project Scope Statement
  4. Accepted Deliverables
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