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You are a project manager of a construction project that is financially challenged and behind schedule. A foreman fails to deliver a deliverable of the project on time as promised. You need to address the issue with the foreman. How should you approach the foreman?
  1. You are the project manager responsible for the whole of the project. To ensure you have control, remain firm, and reprimand the foreman and the team to ensure they do not slow down.
  2. You disregard the issue, acknowledging that what is done is done and develop a plan for moving forward.
  3. You meet with the foreman inquiring about what happened and seek to understand and solve the problem.
  4. You reprimand the foreman n private and ask that he keep you better informed in the future.






Q2. Mandatory dependencies are those that are inherent in the nature of the work being done. They often involve physical limitations, such as on a construction project when it is impossible to erect the superstructure until the foundation is built. According to the PMBOK, a mandatory dependency is also:

  1. Soft logic
  2. Unilateral dependency
  3. Fixed logic
  4. Hard logic
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Q3. What is the best way to make an accurate forecast of ETC?

  1. EAC - AC
  2. BAC – EV
  3. Manual forecasting of cost of the remaining work.
  4. (BAC – EV)/CPI
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Q4. Instead of celebrating the end of the project, the stakeholders are breathing a sigh of relief. None of them were confident the product would meet the end date. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons this project had difficulty?

  1. Lack of payback period
  2. Lack of milestones
  3. Lack of a communications management plan
  4. Lack of a staffing management plan
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Q5. A project manager completed the work package estimating process and then performed a Monte Carlo analysis to determine the amount of risk reserve needed on the project. Why is this incorrect?

  1. The risks per work package have not been identified
  2. The critical path was not calculated
  3. The network diagram was not used
  4. The schedule was not developed.
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Q6. Your project is complete and the product is ready to be delivered. The client inspects the deliverable and accepts it. What process is this?

  1. Close procurement
  2. Close project
  3. Validate scope
  4. Verify scope
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Q7. A team of seven people adds two more people to the team. How many communication channels are there now?

  1. 9
  2. 36
  3. 18
  4. 81
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Q8. You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of the project. The project is within the baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

  1. Discuss it with the project team
  2. Recalculate baselines
  3. Renegotiate the contract
  4. Meet with the customer
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Q9. You have recently finished an advanced project management training course your project budget paid for. Because the budget for your project is not large enough to train any other resources on the project, your manager has asked you to make copies of the course materials and distribute them to the rest of the staff. What do you do?

  1. Make the copies
  2. Provide a single copy of the materials
  3. Scan the materials and place them on the corporate intranet for easy access
  4. Refuse the request
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Q10. Co-location can help with:

  1. Bringing customers together
  2. Building a team
  3. Decreasing project rental costs
  4. Decreasing project time.
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