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Q2. A project post-mortem is an activity, usually performed at the project’s conclusion, to determine and analyze a project’s outcome which also includes a lessons-learned gathering exercise. Project post-mortems help to mitigate future risks and are often a key component of, and ongoing precursor to, effective risk management. Which of the following is a terrible mistake when collecting lessons learned?

1. Documenting both the success stories and the failed attempts
2. Calculating project’s final statistics
3. Focusing purely on the negatives and analyzing failures
4. Conducting a comprehensive performance review

Q3. All of the questions are common outputs of risk management EXCEPT:

1. Contract terms and conditions
2. A risk response plan
3. Schedule reserves
4. An approved project management plan.

Q4. Originally a project had four team members. Now the scope has expanded, and there are a total of six people on the project team. How many communication channels does the project have?

1. 6
2. 9
3. 12
4. 15

Q5. A company attorney, newly hired by the company, walks into the project manager’s office and tells her that he is ready to work with her on the procurement process. The project manager has little experience with procurement, so she is excited to have the assistance. With which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to ask the attorney to help?

1. Claims administration, audit results, and updating organizational process assets.
2. Contract change control system, payments, and change requests.
3. Recommend corrective actions, performance reporting, and records management system.
4. Procurement documentation, project management plan updates, and procurement management plan updates.

Q6. Key project stakeholders can significantly influence a project in many ways. During which stage of the project do these stakeholders have the maximum ability to influence a project?

1. Planning
2. Initiating
3. Executing
4. Monitoring & Controlling

Q7. If a project manager wants to report on the actual project results vs. planned results, he should use a:

1. Trend report.
2. Forecasting report.
3. Status report.
4. Variance report.

Q8. In order to complete work on your projects, you have been provided confidential information from all of your clients. A university contacts you to help it in its research. Such assistance would require you to provide the university with some of the client data from your files. What should you do?

1. Release the information, but remove all references to the client’s names
2. Provide high-level information only
3. Contact your clients and seek permission to disclose the information
4. Disclose the information

Q9. A project manager wants to decrease costs on a project that a consultant is completing for her company. What costs should the project manager consider to accomplish this?

1. Variable and fixed
2. Variable and direct
3. Fixed and indirect
4. Direct and indirect

Q10. You have been managing a construction project in a developing country, and now you are closing the project. The tools and equipment that were used on the project have to be returned to your company’s European headquarters. A nongovernmental organization that builds and repairs medical facilities in this country has come to you to request that this equipment be donated to them. What should you do?

1. Donate all tools and equipment
2. Refuse the request
3. Donate only the tools and equipment whose value is below your purchase approval limit
4. Notify the appropriate management