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You have recently joined a new company as a project manager. While reviewing the procurement plans for a project you will be taking over, you see that the company is considering using one of the most expensive manufacturers to provide certain equipment required for the project. At your previous employer, you had used a different supplier for the same equipment and had paid significantly less. Without telling your boss, you now call that supplier for a quote. Have you violated the rule of keeping proprietary information confidential?
  1. Maybe. You need to talk to your boss first.
  2. No. There is no harm in sharing the information with your current employer, because you are no longer working for your old employer.
  3. Yes. The supply source is proprietary information, and you should not contact the supplier.
  4. You have not violated any rule.






Q2. Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include confronting, smoothing, forcing, and:

  1. Withdrawing
  2. Directing
  3. Organizing
  4. Controlling.
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Q3. The Close Project process includes all of the following EXCEPT:

  1. Analysis of project success
  2. Ensuring that records include final specifications
  3. Creating a project risk management plan
  4. A collection of project records
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Q4. A technique that iterates the project schedule many times to calculate a distribution of possible project completion dates is:

  1. Monte Carlo Analysis
  2. Montford analysis
  3. Pareto Cost chart
  4. Deming Analysis
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Q5. Which of the following would generally lead to the LEAST amount of quality improvement?

  1. TQM
  2. Quality planning
  3. Implementing an ISO 9000 standard
  4. Increasing inspection
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Q6. You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into the planning processes when a project stakeholder asks you for the project’s budget and cost baseline. What should you tell her?

  1. The project budget can be found in the project charter, which has just bee completed
  2. The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed
  3. The project management plan will not contain the project budget and baseline; this is a small project
  4. It is impossible to complete an estimate before the project management plan is created.
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Q7. You are working in Lab-X, a laboratory experimental project to research the effect of a virus on human male bodies. This project needs local government approval for carrying out tests on living people. However, the local authorities informed you were informed it would take at least three weeks to obtain authorization for such approval because of the documents involved in the review and approval process. You consider this a risk to the project and would like to send the paperwork in advance to reduce the approval time to one week. Which of the following describes the risk response techniques being employed in this scenario?

  1. Risk mitigation
  2. Risk transfer
  3. Risk accept
  4. Risk avoid
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Q8. You work as an engineer for a large engineering firm. During this past week, you have corresponded with your department supervisor about the horizontal stabilizers required for the wings on a new aircraft you are designing. Which communication dimension does this represent?

  1. Horizontal
  2. Formal
  3. External
  4. Upward
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Q9. Which chart allows a project manager to indicate the number of resources used each month?

  1. Responsibility assignment matrix
  2. Resource histogram
  3. Project organizational chart
  4. Pareto chart.
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Q10. The morale of the team members of a project is very low. The team members feel they were not given opportunities to participate in the organizational team development activities due to over-allocation to project tasks, and so, they missed opportunities to develop. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this situation?

  1. Use of zero-sum rewards in the project
  2. A poorly defined resource calendar
  3. Too many senior team members
  4. Poor interpersonal skills in the team
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