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You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization’s new website. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with this type of website development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. Any delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan. Client personnel have been kept fully informed of the project's progress through status reports and regular meetings. The project is on schedule and within budget, and a final perfunctory review has been scheduled. Suddenly you hear that the entire effort may be cancelled because the product being developed is totally unacceptable. What is the MOST likely cause of this situation?
  1. A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project.
  2. The project charter and project management plan were not thoroughly explained to or adequately reviewed by the client.
  3. Communications arrangements were inadequate and did not provide the required information to interested parties.
  4. The project sponsor failed to provide adequate support for the project.






Q2. Your boss says that in order to your new product to market sooner, the project must be completed four months earlier. However, he does not want to shorten the schedule if the project cost will go up more than US $22,000. Provided with the chart, which critical path activity(s) would you crash?

  1. Activity D
  2. Activities A and F
  3. Activities A and H
  4. Activity C
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Q3. The sponsor and the project manager are discussing what type of contract the project manager plans to use on the project. The buyer points out that the performing organization spent a lot of money hiring a design team to come up with the design. The project manager is concerned that the risk for the buyer be as small as possible. An advantage of a fixed price contract for the buyer is:

  1. Cost risk is lower
  2. Cost risk is higher
  3. There is little risk
  4. Risk is shared by all parties.
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Q4. A project manager is trying to coordinate all the activities on the project and has determined the following: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1 week. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 4 weeks. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed has an estimated duration of 5 weeks. Activity 4 can start after activity 1 is completed and has estimated duration of 8 weeks. Both activities 3 and 4 must be completed before the end of the project. What is the duration of the critical path for this project?

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 14
  4. 8
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Q5. You are a project manager for one of many projects in a large and important program. At a high-level status meeting, you note that another project manager has reported her project on schedule. Looking back on your project over the last few weeks, you remember many deliverables from the other project that arrived late. What should you do?

  1. Meet with the program manager
  2. Develop a risk control plan
  3. Discuss the issue with your boss
  4. Meet with the other project manager
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Q6. Project A has had ineffective project meetings since its inception. There have been complaints that information does not get to the right people, some people are talking too much during meetings, and the right people are not there to resolve the issues. What is MOST likely missing from this project?

  1. A scope management plan
  2. A staffing management plan
  3. A communications management plan
  4. A process improvement plan
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Q7. Using the chart, a new activity, (R) with the duration of 5 is added to this project. Activity R has a predecessor as activity A, and a successor as activity B. How long will the project now take?

  1. 49
  2. 48
  3. 38
  4. 52
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Q8. If a project has a 60 percent chance of a $100,000 profit and a 40 percent chance of a $100,000 loss, the expected monetary value of the project is:

  1. $20,000 profit
  2. $40,000 loss
  3. $100,000 profit
  4. $60,000 loss
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Q9. Which of the following is not an interpersonal skill that the project manager will use to manage stakeholders' expectations?

  1. Active listening
  2. Overcoming resistance to change
  3. Punishment
  4. Building trust
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Q10. Which of the following enterprise environmental factors is not applicable to the Plan Resource Management process?

  1. Organizational culture and structure
  2. Existing resources, capabilities and competencies
  3. Marketplace conditions
  4. Lessons learned
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