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There have been many work packages completed successfully on the project, and the sponsor has made some recommendations for improvements. The project is on schedule to meet an aggressive deadline when the successor activity to a critical path activity suffers a major setback. The activity has 14 days of float and is being completed by four people. There are two other team members with the skill set to assist the troubled activity, if needed. The project manager receives a call that three other team members are attempting to be removed from the project because they do not feel the project can be successful. When the project manager pursues this, he discovers that those team members have issues that have not been addressed. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do to improve the project?
  1. Have the team members immediately assist the troubled activity.
  2. Investigate why the project schedule is aggressive.
  3. See who can replace the three team members.
  4. Create an issue log.






Q2. All of the following statements concerning procurement documents are incorrect EXCEPT:

  1. Well-designed procurement documents can simplify comparison of responses.
  2. Procurement documents must be rigorous with no flexibility to allow consideration of seller suggestions.
  3. In general, procurement documents should not include selection criteria.
  4. Well-designed procurement documents do not include a procurement statement of work.
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Q3. A project involved team members situated in Arizona, Nebraska, New York, and Ireland. Which of the following activities becomes crucial in such a team environment?

  1. Team-building
  2. Status reporting
  3. Conflict resolution
  4. Communication planning
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Q4. A work breakdown structure is an input to all of the following processes EXCEPT:

  1. Define Activities
  2. Estimate Costs
  3. Perform Quality Assurance
  4. Plan Procurements
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Q5. A decision tree is a Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis technique. A decision tree is represented by a Decision Tree Diagram. The decision tree describes a situation under consideration, the implications of each of the available choices, and the possible scenarios. A Decision Tree Diagram shows how to make a decision among alternative capital strategies known as:

  1. Alternative nodes
  2. Question points
  3. Decision nodes
  4. Checkpoints
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Q6. Dina, the project manager of a hardware project, is performing a structured review of the procurement process. She would like to examine each document from the Plan Procurement Management process through the Control Procurements process to identify failures. What tool should Dina use?

  1. Procurement audits in the control procurements process
  2. Performance reports in the conduct procurements process
  3. Negotiated settlements in the control procurements process
  4. Procurement audits in the conduct procurements process
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Q7. Which process is MOST responsible for managing changes to the schedule components of the Project Management Plan?

  1. Control Schedule
  2. Create WBS
  3. Develop Project Management Plan
  4. Develop Schedule
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Q8. During a weekly status meeting, a team member suggests adding a component to the project. As the project manager, you maintain that all focus should stay on the current scope and not on any enhancements. Focusing on the current scope is an example of:

  1. Gold-plating
  2. Scope verification
  3. Scope management
  4. Change control
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Q9. You are working on a new oil purification project in a foreign country. A person informs you that you will have to pay him a “transfer fee” for the permit to move heavy equipment through the city. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

  1. Pay the fee, but only to the city
  2. Do not pay the fee
  3. Make sure the person is really a government official
  4. Negotiate openly with the city officials.
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Q10. Although the stakeholders thought there was enough money in the budget, halfway through the project the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.7. To determine the root cause, several stakeholders audit the project and discover the project budget was estimated analogously. Although the activity estimates add up to the project estimate, the stakeholders think something was missing in how the estimate was completed. Which of the following describes what was missing?

  1. Estimated costs should be used to measure CPI.
  2. SPI should be used, not CPI
  3. Bottom-up estimating should have been used
  4. Past history was not taken into account.
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