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Q2. Jennifer has recently been asked to manage an office refurbishment project. She finds out that the chief financial officer of the company is resisting the project. The chief financial officer is a key project stakeholder. What must Jennifer do first?

1. Seek expert judgment from the project initiator
2. Seek support from the project sponsor to force project decisions
3. Conduct a team meeting to discuss this issue
4. Analyze options that might change or influence the chief financial officer‘s perception

Q3. Your project is ahead of schedule but over budget. Therefore, you ask your team member to collect data and compare it with the cost baseline. Which of the following is not included in the cost baseline?

1. Contingency reserve
2. Activity cost estimation
3. Management reserve
4. Activity contingency reserve

Q4. The Project Scope Management Knowledge Area is primarily concerned with:

1. Defining the scope of work that included in the project
2. Ensuring that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project
3. The scope of work required during the initiation phase
4. Defining the specifications and functionality of the work product

Q5. You have been assigned to manage a portion of a larger project that is supposed to be finished within a two-week period. You have met with the leadership of the area to gather requirements, and you have a project charter, project scope statement and project management plan that have been approved by these individuals. You are told to meet with the actual user of the results of the project to to demonstrate how the system will work. When you give the demonstration, it is clear that the user’s requirements are very different from the ones you were initially given and to which both you and the client agreed. What is the BEST thing for you to do now?

1. Generate a change request for the user’s requirements.
2. Convene another meeting with the leadership of the area and the user to generate a revised set of requirements
3. Attempt to meet as many of the user’s requirements as possible within the project’s established budget and schedule.
4. Complete the work as originally specified and formulate a new project to meet the user’s requirements.

Q6. A project manager ha a very large project budget, the team lacks experience and adequate management support. Under these circumstances, what is the MOST effective way to get the work completed?

1. Provide bonuses for meeting specific quality measures
2. Inform the team members that they will be fired if they do not perform
3. Spend some of the project budget taking the team member’s bosses to lunch and discuss the benefits of the project.
4. Inform the team they do not need to worry because the project manager will provide the technical expertise.

Q7. When planning risk responses, the strategy of changing the project management plan to eliminate the risk is known as:

1. Avoidance
2. Transference
3. Mitigation
4. Acceptance

Q8. An output of the Close Project process is the creation of:

1. Project archives
2. A project charter
3. A project management plan
4. A risk analysis plan

Q9. A project manager is spending most of the project funding in the current phase of the project. The manager is also managing various resources in the project. What is the stakeholder influence on the project now compared to earlier phases?

1. Cannot be determined
2. More
3. Less
4. Same

Q10. Which of the following is not a management skill that a project manager will use to get support from the stakeholders?

1. Facilitate consensus
2. Resolving conflicts
3. Negotiate agreement to satisfy needs
4. None of the above