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Q2. A project manager is finalizing a project that has had repeated problems with cost conformance. He is concerned about what management will say. Which of the following types of information would be BES for the project manager to use to evaluate performance?

1. The cost performance index (CPI)
2. A list of complaints from senior management
3. The last bar chart
4. The project budget 11

Q3. Which of these precedence relationships is most commonly used in the Precedence Diagramming Method?

1. Finish-to-Start
2. Start-to-Finish
3. Start-to-Start
4. Finish-to-Finish

Q4. All of the following are part of a communications management plan EXCEPT:

1. Names of the stakeholders who can talk to the project manager.
2. Names of those receiving telephone call when the system crashes
3. Methods used to collect and store information
4. Names of the stakeholders and instructions on sending project status o them

Q5. You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Show how the resources were originally promised to your project.
2. Re-plan the project without the resources
3. Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available
4. Crash the project

Q6. You are managing an electronic chip design project for a customer. There are a number of engineers and subject matter experts from the customer’s organization that have been assigned as resources to the project plus several additional design engineers that your company has supplied. All the engineers were involved in the development of a prototype chip, an extremely time-consuming and expensive process. Upon the completion of the prototype, you submit it for review to ensure there are no patent infringement issues with the design. However, the review determines there are several issues that could result in an intellectual property dispute with the patent owners should the prototype design be released commercially. Resources from your company developed the affected prototype elements, as well as from your customer’s organization. What should you do?

1. Ask the engineers to revise the design and resubmit it
2. Notify the project stakeholders immediately
3. Request permission to use the copyright material
4. Submit the prototype as is since the budget and schedule do not accommodate rework

Q7. Your boss tells you that one of your resources is needed on another project. All the activities in the chart are occurring at the same time. Assuming that all the resources listed have the necessary skills to work on the other project, who would you pick to move to the other project?

1. The resource working on Activity D
2. The resource working on Activity C
3. The resource working on Activity H
4. The resource working on Activity B

Q8. An employee approaches you and asks to tell you something in confidence. He advises you that he has been performing illegal activities within the company for the last year. He is feeling guilty about it and is telling you in order to receive advice as to what he should do. What should you do?

1. Ask for full details.
2. Confirm that the activity is really illegal.
3. Inform your manager of the illegal activity.
4. Tell the employee to inform his boss.

Q9. Over the last few weeks, the team has made three changes to the activities on the project. The project manager must be MOST careful to:

1. Record all the changes
2. Provide documentation on all the changes to the sponsor
3. Make sure the changes are reflected in the project scope baseline
4. Prevent more changes from occurring

Q10. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work the project team will execute to accomplish the project objectives and create required deliverables. The Create WBS process falls under which knowledge area?

1. Project Schedule Management
2. Project Integration Management
3. Project Scope Management
4. Project Cost Management