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Q2. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager made a long list of risks identified by all the stakeholders using various methods. He then made sure that all the risks were understood and that triggers had been identified. Later, in the Plan Risk Responses process, he took all the risks identified by the stakeholders and determined ways to mitigate them. What has he done wrong?

1. More people should be involved in the Plan Risk Responses process
2. Triggers are not identified until the Identify Risks process.
3. The project manager should have waited until the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process to get the stakeholders involved.
4. The project manager should have created workarounds

Q3. A critical project rollout was delayed because one of the stakeholders did not receive necessary communication on time. On further analysis, the project manager discovered that the communication was sent to the wrong teams. This could have happened because:

1. Communication broke down between the project team and the stakeholder.
2. The project manager failed to manage stakeholder expectations.
3. The stakeholder communications requirements were not properly analyzed during the Plan Communications Management process.
4. The stakeholder did not proactively ask for updates.

Q4. You are project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?

1. The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.
2. The project manager should add an activity to he project management plan with no associated time.
3. The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.
4. The project manager should create a change control form, and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.

Q5. You are developing a product for your client. During the development of the product, the client has indicated that he needs some changes in the product, so you process his request. How do you manage changes in product specification?

1. Change management
2. Integration management
3. Product management
4. Configuration management

Q6. You have just joined the project management office after five years of working on projects. One of the things you want to introduce to your company is the need to create and utilize WBSs. Some of the project managers are angry that you are asking them to do “extra work.” Which of the following would be the BEST thing you could tell the project managers to convince them to use WBSs?

1. Tell them it will prevent work from slipping through the cracks.
2. Tell them that it is not needed.
3. Tell them it is required only if the project involves contracts.
4. Tell them it is the only way to identify risks.

Q7. Estimating the type and quantities of material, people, equipment, and supplies required to perform each activity is:

1. Estimate Activity Workload
2. Estimate Activity Input
3. Resource calendars
4. Estimate Activity Resources

Q8. Upon obtaining the project charter, the Project Manager of a project starts acquiring the project team immediately. Is this correct?

1. Yes. Acquisition of the project team is primarily an Initiating Process Group activity.
2. Yes. The project manager needs to get the team together as soon as the project starts.
3. No. It is the responsibility of the project sponsor to provide the team for execution.
4. No. Acquisition of the project team is primarily an Executing Process Group activity.

Q9. What is the duration of the near-critical path based on the chart?

1. 33
2. 44
3. 31
4. 43

Q10. Quality is:

1. Meeting and exceeding the customer’s expectations
2. Adding extras to make the customer happy
3. The degree to which the project meets requirements
4. Conformance to management’s requirements.