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During project planning, you estimate the time needed for each activity and then add up the estimates to create the project estimate. You commit to completing the project by this date. What is wrong with this scenario?
  1. The team did not create the estimate, and estimating takes too long using that method.
  2. The team did not create the estimate, and a network diagram was not used.
  3. The estimate is too long and should be created by management.
  4. The project estimate should be the same as the customer’s required completion date.






Q2. Which factor would NOT be considered when choosing between two projects to undertake?

  1. Net present value (NPV)
  2. Benefit cost ratio (BCR)
  3. Payback period
  4. Law of diminishing returns
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Q3. You were asked to prepare a budget for completing a project that was started last year and then shelved for six months. All the following would be included in the project budget EXCEPT:

  1. Fixed costs.
  2. Sunk costs.
  3. Direct costs.
  4. Variable costs.
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Q4. In which of the following is a scope management plan created?

  1. Validate Scope
  2. Develop Project Management Plan
  3. Define Scope
  4. Create WBS
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Q5. To manage a project effectively, work should be broken down into small pieces. Which of the following does NOT describe how far to decompose the work?

  1. Until it has a meaningful conclusion
  2. Until it cannot be logically subdivided further
  3. Until it can be done by one person
  4. Until it can be realistically estimated
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Q6. A team member comes to you (the project manager) privately and informs you that an employee of your customer is making unwelcome advances. The team member has repeatedly requested that this person stop, but the advances continue. What is the BEST course of action?

  1. Privatively confront the customer employee and threaten legal action if the advances do not stop.
  2. Suggest that the team member avoid contact with the customer employee.
  3. Contact the employee’s manager to arrange a meeting to discuss the matter.
  4. Facilitate a meeting with the team member, the customer employee, and yourself to allow the two to work it out amicably.
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Q7. After brainstorming potential project risks, what is the recommended method for prioritizing these risks and their mitigation plans?

  1. RACI chart
  2. Control chart
  3. Fishbone diagram
  4. Probability and impact matrix
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Q8. You are asked to select tools and techniques to implement a quality assurance program to supplement existing quality control activities. Which of the following would NOT be appropriate for this purpose?

  1. Quality audits
  2. Statistical sampling
  3. Pareto charts
  4. Focus groups.
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Q9. A project manager has a large team consisting of people from many functional areas of the company. The BEST method to get the team’s cooperation is to use _______ power.

  1. Formal
  2. Penalty
  3. Reward
  4. Referent.
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Q10. Five of the seven phases on the project contain work that is substantially similar. What MUST the project manager do?

  1. See what can be done to make sure the work is carefully reworded to remove the similarity
  2. Make sure the same resource completes all the similar work packages.
  3. Plan in continuous improvement activities
  4. Make sure the first and last of these work packages is scheduled close in time to each other
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