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Q2. The project CPI is 1.02, the benefit cost ratio is 1.7 and the latest round of performance reviews identified few needed adjustments. The project team was co-located into a new building when the project started. Everyone commented on how excited they were to have all new facilities. The sponsor is providing adequate support for the project and few unidentified risks have occurred In an attempt to improve performance, the project manager spends part of the project budget on new chairs for the team members and adds the term “senior” to each team member’s job title. Which of the following is the MOST correct thing that can be said of this project or the project manager?

1. The project manager has misunderstood Herzberg’s theory
2. The project is slowly spending more money than it should. The project manager should begin to watch cost more carefully
3. The performance review should be handled better to find more adjustments
4. The project manager should use good judgment to determine which variances are important.

Q3. You have overheard two functional managers arguing about the impacts that your project will have on their departments. What is your best response?

1. Do nothing
2. Analyze and report to each manager the impact your project will have on their departments in terms of time and resources required and the relative enterprise priority of your project
3. Inform the managers that the project sponsors already considered this impact when they decided to implement the project
4. Put in advance requests for resources from each department

Q4. A project manager discovers hat a work package has been completed for substantially less cost than planned. Which of the following is NOT among the first things to consider doing?

1. Make sure all project processes were followed.
2. Make sure the right resources were used
3. Make sure all the work was done
4. Identify ways to increase the result.

Q5. You are in the process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving, and the ultimate disposition of project information in accordance with the communications management plan. What is the output of this process?

1. Project management plan update
2. Communication management plan
3. Change requests
4. Work performance information

Q6. PMBOK recognizes five process groups typical of nearly all projects. Which of the following is not one of them?

1. Executing
2. Monitoring and Controlling
3. Planning
4. Pre-Inception

Q7. The objective of a transformation project is to move an organization from one state to another state. The desired result of the change driven by the project is described as the:

1. Good state
2. Future state
3. Happy state
4. Transition state

Q8. The approximate resource costs necessary for completing project activities are compiled during which project management process?

1. Cost Reserve Analysis
2. Estimate Costs
3. Cost aggregation
4. Forecasting.

Q9. David was required to investigate a business problem and describe the higher-level needs of the business as a whole. David’s final reports describes in detail the features, functions and characteristics of the product that will meet the business and stakeholder requirements. What is wrong with David’s report?

1. David was asked to analyze the solution requirements, but he focused on the business requirements.
2. David was asked to analyze the business requirements, but he focused on the solution requirements.
3. David was asked to analyze the functional requirements, but he focused on the non-functional requirements.
4. David was asked to analyze the non-functional requirements, but he focused on the functional requirements.

Q10. The project manager is working on a high-profile project where completing the project within budget is critical. The project manager is new, but well trained and is excited to see that the project is spending less than budgeted. As a result, the project manager was planning to take a holiday when a more senior project manager warned him that he has some important work to do on the project. Why would the senior project manager give such a warning on this project?

1. The project manager needs to create a project control system to make sure there are no problems in the future.
2. Under budget could mean that work that was scheduled to e done has not been completed. The project manager should look at how the cost performance compares to the schedule performance
3. A project that is under budget may also have contracts that need to be managed.
4. Team meetings should be scheduled every week and a holiday would mean that one team meeting would have to be cancelled.