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Q2. Linda has been assigned to establish a PMO in her organization. Linda believes this project cannot succeed unless all the key project stakeholders support the project. She also believes she needs to pay special attention to stakeholder management to ensure success of this project. First, she needs to develop her stakeholder register. To produce the project stakeholder register, which of the following processes must Linda start?

1. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
2. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
3. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
4. Identify Stakeholders

Q3. A project manager has just been assigned to a project that has been in progress for two months when a team member requests more time on an activity he is working on. The project manager discovers that the only impact to the project will be a delay on a noncritical path activity. The customer has emphasized the importance of completing the project on schedule. What should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Submit the information to the change control board, determine if this event might impact the team member’s future work, inform the team member of the board’s decision
2. Ask the team member why they need more time, begin integrated change control, adjust the project schedule as needed
3. Look for impacts to quality, cut unneeded scope from the project, ask for more resources
4. See if any stakeholders object to the change, calculate the exact impact on the project, look at removing this resource from the project

Q4. Cost of quality includes all costs incurred over the lifetime of the product by investing in the prevention of nonconformance to requirements, appraising the product or service for conformance to requirements, and failing to meet requirements. Which is not an example of the cost of non-conformance?

1. Rework
2. Scrap
3. Liabilities
4. Destructive testing loss

Q5. Which of the following methods of forecasting EAC and ETC is the most accurate?

1. ETC based on CPI
2. ETC based on BAC
3. ETC based on CPI and SPI
4. ETC based on new estimate

Q6. If the team cannot identify a suitable response to identified risk, which risk response strategy, would they apply?

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

Q7. Once a project’s business case has been approved, what should be done next?

1. Identify and analyze project stakeholders and associated risks
2. Create the project charter
3. Identify market demand
4. Conduct and cost-benefit analysis

Q8. Inputs to Define Activities include all of the following EXCEPT:

1. WBS
2. A project scope statement
3. A team
4. A project schedule

Q9. The project manager notices that project activities being completed by one department are all taking slightly longer than planned. To date, none of the activities/work packages have been on the critical path, nor have they affected the critical chain planning that has occurred. The project manager is bothered by the problem, since four of the next five critical path activities are being completed by this department. After making three calls, the project manager is finally able to converse with the department manager to determine what is going on. The conversation is slow because both speak different native languages and they are trying to converse in French, a shared language. To make communication easier, the project manager frequently asks the department manager to repeat back what has been said. The department manager communicates that his staff is following a company policy that requires two of the project manager to believe that the policy may include excessive work. This is the fourth time the project manager has heard such a comment. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Create a better communications management plan that requires only one language to be the universal language on the project and have translators readily available on a moment’s notice
2. Contact someone else in the department who speaks the project manager’s native language better to confirm the department manager’s opinion
3. Find out if the upcoming activities should be re-estimated
4. Work on increasing the effectiveness of the performing organization by recommending continuous improvement of the policy in question.

Q10. A project has a payback period of nine months. What does this mean?

1. It will take the project nine months to start incurring costs
2. The project will be complete in nine months
3. The first nine months of the project will provide profit to the company
4. It will take the project nine months to cover the investment and start generating revenue