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Q2. A project manager is taking over a project from another project manager during the planning process group. If the new project manager wants to see what the previous project manager planned for managing changes to the schedule, it would be BEST to look at the:

1. Communications management plan
2. Update management plan
3. Staffing management plan
4. Schedule management plan 71

Q3. 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.

Q4. The project was going well when all of a sudden there were changes to the project coming from multiple stakeholders. After all the changes were determined, the project manager spent time with all the stakeholders to find out why there were changes and to discover any more. The project work has quieted down when a team member casually mentions to the project manager that he added functionality to a product of the project. Do not worry he says, “I did not impact time, cost, or quality!”

1. Ask the team member how the need for functionality was determined
2. Hold a meeting to review the team member’s completed work
3. Look for other added functionality.
4. Ask the team member how he knows there is no time, cost, or quality impact.

Q5. The project manager has worked closely with the team to come up with contingency plans. Which of the following BEST describes contingency plans?

1. Planned responses to risk events
2. Planned risk control procedures
3. Planned workarounds
4. Planned responses based on probability analysis.

Q6. A project is considered closed when the:

1. Client accepts the product
2. Lessons learned are completed
3. Archives are completed
4. Contract is finished

Q7. Which of the following processes produces a work breakdown structure as an output?

1. Create WBS
2. Define Scope
3. Develop Project Management Plan
4. Define Activities

Q8. The WBS, estimates for each work package, and the network diagram are completed. The NEXT thing for the project manager to do is:

1. Sequence Activities
2. Develop Schedule
3. Verify Scope
4. Resource Simulation 37

Q9. Risks will be identified during which risk management process(es)?

1. Identify Risks.
2. Identify Risks and Control Risks
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Identify Risks
4. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Control Risks 07

Q10. Andrew is a project management guru hired by a retail giant in your country. Andrew finds out there is a wide array of projects that need to be managed from a central PMO; from a number of small projects to large initiatives requiring long-term roadmaps to manage the development of these programs. What project management approach should be recommended for such projects?

1. A predictive approach, adaptive approach, or a hybrid of both, may need to be adopted.
2. A predictive approach may need to be adopted.
3. An adaptive approach may need to be adopted.
4. Setting up PMOs for such a wide range of projects is not recommended.