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You are managing a construction project. Your company does not specialize in construction design so you outsourced the construction design to a third party. You are conducting regular procurement performance reviews and are dissatisfied. You want to carry out a detailed audit of the design supplier’s work processes to determine the root cause. Can you do that?
  1. Yes, it is a good project management technique advocated by the PMBOK guide.
  2. Yes, if there is a provision in the contract allowing work process audits.
  3. No, you are only authorized to perform quality audits on the delivered products and not the supplier’s internal work processes.
  4. No, a detailed procurement audit cannot be performed until you terminate the contract.






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. All of the following are part of the Close Project or Phase process EXCEPT:

  1. Collection of records
  2. Analysis of project success and effectiveness
  3. Coordinating the operations and maintenance phase of the project
  4. Archiving project information
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Q4. Using the chart, what is the lowest cost of crashing this project to save four weeks?

  1. $18,000
  2. $6,000
  3. $7,000
  4. $9,000
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Q5. Which of these precedence relationships is most commonly used in the Precedence Diagramming Method?

  1. Finish-to-Start
  2. Start-to-Finish
  3. Start-to-Start
  4. Finish-to-Finish
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Q6. On one of your company’s medical research projects, you object to how the research is being handled. However, you signed a confidentiality agreement with the company that prohibits you from talking about your research. It would be BEST to:

  1. Quit and do not talk about what you know.
  2. Quit and begin talking to the community.
  3. Continue working and begin to talk about your objections to the research to newspapers in other cities.
  4. Destroy the research.
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Q7. At the end of a two-year project, the key stakeholders agree that the project has met all its objectives outlined in the project charter and further defined in the scope and statement of work. The project was within budget and has finished on time. The management of one of the functional areas is quite upset because over half of his staff quit during the project citing long hours and lack of management support. What is the MOST correct statement about this project?

  1. The project was within budget and time and achieved its objectives. Upper management is responsible for providing adequate resources, and the project manager successfully managed the project with available resources.
  2. The project should be measured against how successfully it met its project charter. This was not done during this project.
  3. The project manager did not obtain adequate resources and did not set a realistic deadline based on resources available.
  4. The functional manager is responsible for his staff and obtaining adequate resources to meet the schedule once it has been set. The project and project manager achieved all of its objectives set forth in the project charter.
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Q8. Bill is the project manager of an external project for a customer. The project is expected to take about a year to complete. Six months into the project, the customer informs Bill that he or she needs to scrap the project. During which of the following processes would procedures be developed to handle early termination of a project?

  1. Develop Project Charter
  2. Close Project or Phase
  3. Define Scope
  4. Monitor Risks
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Q9. Anna has recently taken over a project as the project manager. The project is early in the executing phase. Although all the key stakeholders signed off on the project scope statement, Anna learns that some of the key stakeholders do not fully understand the project scope. The stakeholders’ constant support is crucial for the success of the project. What must Anna do?

  1. Email the copy of the scope management plan to the key project stakeholders
  2. Don’t do anything since all the key project stakeholders signed the scope statement.
  3. Email the copy of the scope statement to the key project stakeholders.
  4. Conduct one-to-one meeting sessions with these key stakeholders to ensure they understand the project scope
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Q10. During project executing, a team member comes to the project manager because he is not sure of what work he needs to accomplish on the project. Which of the following documents contain detailed descriptions of work packages?

  1. WBS dictionary
  2. Activity list
  3. Project scope statement
  4. Project scope management plan
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