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Q2. A project manager on a multinational website implementation project is at a party and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new website when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current website. The project manager takes this feedback to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

1. Scope validation
2. Integrated change control
3. Stakeholder analysis
4. Scope planning

Q3. What is the difference between the Monitor and Control Project Work process and the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. The Monitor and Control Project Work and the Direct and Manage Project Work processes are the same.
2. The Monitor and Control Project Work process monitors the project performance while the Direct and Manage Project Work process is concerned with performing the activities to accomplish project requirements.
3. The Monitor and Control Project Work process is a sub-process of the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
4. There is no such thing as the Monitor and Control Project Work process.

Q4. A large project is underway when one of the team members reviews the project status report. He sees that the project is currently running late. As he looks at the report further, he notices that the delay will cause one of his activities to be scheduled during a time he will be out of the country and cannot work on the activity. This is of great concern because he is very committed to the project being successful and he does not want to be the cause of the project being further delayed. What is the BEST THING for him to do?

1. Contact the project manager immediately to provide the project manager with his schedule.
2. Include the information on his next report
3. Request that the issue be added to the project issue log
4. Recommend preventive action.

Q5. The cost of running a project management office is an example of what type of cost?

1. Reimbursable
2. Fixed
3. Direct
4. Indirect

Q6. A customer is not happy with a project deliverable. What is your BEST course of action?

1. Tell the customer the deliverable meets the scope of work and get the customer’s agreement to proceed.
2. Determine why the customer is unhappy with the deliverable.
3. Meet with the team to determine changes needed.
4. Meet with the customer and offer a substitute project deliverable.

Q7. You are constructing a school building and due to some unforeseen incidents, your project is delayed. To bring the project on schedule, you are thinking about running several activities in parallel which were earlier planned to run sequentially. So, you started reviewing activities such as excavation of foundation, building walls, carpentry work, electrical work, and plumbing work, etc. After the review, you decide to run the carpentry, electrical, and plumbing works together. Excavating the foundation for the construction of a wall is an example of which of the following?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Internal dependency

Q8. Which of these tools and techniques is common to all seven Project Integration Management processes?

1. Meetings
2. Data analysis
3. Data gathering
4. Expert Judgment

Q9. You have joined AVC Corp and are immediately assigned a project. The project charter is signed, stakeholders have been identified and now you are classifying them according to the direction of influence. Which of the following is not a way to classify the project stakeholders under this technique?

1. Upward
2. Downward
3. Inward
4. Outward

Q10. Project coordination is enhanced through progress reporting, variance reporting, and team meetings. These are all forms of:

1. Staffing management.
2. Risk management.
3. Time management.
4. Communications management.