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Q2. A project manager is trying to budget time for the various processes in the Project Schedule Management Knowledge Area. As project activities are performed, in which of these processes will the majority of effort occur?

1. Control Schedule
2. Estimate Activity Durations
3. Define Activities
4. Develop Schedule

Q3. Who should be responsible for defining project objectives?

1. Project manager
2. Sponsor
3. Project management team
4. Stakeholders

Q4. The project has 13 team members and affects over 15 departments in the organization. Because the project is 20 percent complete to date and the team has had successful performance reports from five of the affected departments, the project manager holds a party to celebrate. The project manager invites key stakeholders from all of the departments to the party, in order to give those providing good reviews an informal opportunity to communicate good things to those departments that have not yet been affected by the project. At the party, the project manager walks around to try to discover any relevant information that would help the project be more successful. He happens to hear a manager of one of the departments talking about setting up more regular meetings on the project. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to FIRST:

1. Record the effectiveness of the part in the project lessons learned.
2. Review the information distribution methods on the project.
3. Hold a meeting of all the stakeholders to discuss their concerns.
4. Make sure the manager has a copy of the communications management plan so he is reminded that such concerns should be sent to the project manager.

Q5. The project manager had to request a change in the approved project budget because the WBS did not contain some work that needed to be done. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do as a result of this situation?

1. Redo the WBS and look for more missing scope.
2. Ask for a time extension
3. Redo the change control system
4. Recalculate the project scope variance

Q6. You have just been assigned as project manager for a large telecommunications project. This one-year project is about halfway done. The project team consists of five sellers and 20 of your company’s employees. You want to understand who is responsible for doing what on the project. Where would you find such information?

1. Responsibility assignment matrix
2. Resource histogram
3. Bar chart
4. Project organization chart.

Q7. Gordon is currently developing his project’s stakeholder management strategy. All enterprise environmental factors should be considered during this process. Which of the following enterprise environmental factors should be paid special attention during this process?

1. Project templates
2. The organization's culture and structure
3. Commercial databases
4. Lessons learned from past similar projects

Q8. A fellow project manager is retiring and moving to the mountains; you will take over his project. Before he leaves, he tells you the project is on schedule but only because he “put the hammer down” on his project team and pushed them relentlessly. Pushing the team to perform activities to accomplish project objectives is a part of:

1. Direct and Manage Project Work
2. Monitor and Control Project Work
3. Control Quality
4. Control Scope

Q9. You are taking over a project during the planning process group and discover that six individuals have signed the project charter. Which of the following should MOST concern you?

1. Who will be a member of the change control board
2. Spending more time on configuration management
3. Getting a single project sponsor
4. Determining the reporting structure

Q10. Changes in projects are inevitable. Therefore, project managers must develop or use a system to manage and control changes. There are four types of changes that need to be controlled in a project: Project changes, deliverable changes, process changes, and baseline changes. The impact of each of these changes must be evaluated, and approved or rejected changes must be communicated to all stakeholders, as and when required. Which of the following helps control these changes?

1. Configuration control and Control chart
2. Configuration control and Change control
3. Control chart and Cost control
4. Change control and Control chart