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Q2. You are in the process of reviewing bids from various vendors for work on your project. One of the bidding vendors has a history of delivering on time and within budget, and you have personally worked with this company successfully on previous engagements. You receive a call from the manager submitting the bid inquiring about how the process is going. He asks to have lunch with you to discuss the bid. What is the BEST response?

1. Do not mention the other bidders but simply inform him that based on past experience, he has a good chance of winning the business.
2. Inform him that it would be inappropriate to discuss the matter at all and document the conversation.
3. Inform him that it would not be appropriate to discuss the matter over the phone during business hours, but that an informal lunch discussion would be more appropriate.
4. Politely avoid continuing the conversation and disregard the bid.

Q3. Your project team is spending so much time reviewing potential changes to a project that you do not have time to complete project work. Which of the following is the LEAST likely reason for this problem?

1. No change control board
2. Not enough of an effort to identify the project stakeholders
3. A poor communications management plan
4. An unclear project charter 0

Q4. Greg’s project is in the initiating stage. The sponsor of the project has asked Greg to present a list of the identified project stakeholders at the next project update meeting. The sponsor has also asked Greg to present the project stakeholders’ current and desired engagement levels so they can brainstorm on the stakeholder engagement strategy. Which of the following is a presentation tool that can help Greg summarize all this information in a tabular format?

1. Communications management plan
2. Stakeholder register
3. Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
4. Stakeholder engagement plan

Q5. If the probability of one event occurring does not affect the probability of another event occurring, the events are:

1. False events
2. Mutually exclusive
3. Statistically independent
4. Just in-time.

Q6. The WBS, estimates for each work package, and the network diagram are completed. The NEXT thing for the project manager to do is:

1. Sequence Activities
2. Develop Schedule
3. Verify Scope
4. Resource Simulation 37

Q7. A project manager has put in place rules covering who will have access to controlled documents, how changes to these items will be recorded and approved, and how everyone will know what the current version is. The project manager is therefore creating a:

1. Work authorization system
2. Change control system
3. Configuration management system
4. Project management information system

Q8. Gordon is currently developing his project‘s stakeholder engagement strategy. All enterprise environmental factors should be considered during this process. Which of the following enterprise environmental factors should receive particular attention during this process?

1. Project templates
2. Lessons learned from past similar projects
3. Commercial databases
4. The organization‘s culture and political climate

Q9. What is the duration of the near-critical path based on the chart?

1. 33
2. 44
3. 31
4. 43

Q10. You are a project manager who is in charge of an important project for your company. The project is 40 percent complete after three months and has cost $350,000. The budget for the project is $950,000 and is scheduled to last eight months. How is the project performing?

1. The project is behind schedule and over budget.
2. The project is ahead of schedule and under budget.
3. The project is behind schedule and under budget.
4. The project is ahead of schedule and over budget.