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Q2. A change log is an important input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process. Which process provides this input?

1. Plan Communications Management
2. Manage Communications
3. Perform Integrated Change Control
4. Monitor Communications

Q3. What should you do as a senior project manager if the PMP certification claimed by a recently recruited project manager does not appear in the PMI website?

1. Advise your new recruit to complete his certification
2. Report to the PMI
3. Report to the sponsor
4. Request more information from the new recruit

Q4. In the process of reviewing the status of your team’s work assignments, you learn that the project has fallen behind schedule by one week. The project has high visibility within the organization and is completely datedriven. The project finish date is still two months out and you think you can recover the time over the next month or so. What is the BEST course of action for reporting the project status?

1. Report the project on schedule. This is not a significant slippage and there is still time to recover
2. Report the project on schedule. Most project management plans are not accurate to less than one or two weeks anyway
3. Report the project one week behind schedule and include recommended corrective actions
4. Report the project one week behind schedule and then issue a new report next week showing them the problem fixed

Q5. At the end of a two-year project, the key stakeholders agree that the project has met all its objectives outlined in the project charter and further defined in the scope and statement of work. The project was within budget and has finished on time. The management of one of the functional areas is quite upset because over half of his staff quit during the project citing long hours and lack of management support. What is the MOST correct statement about this project?

1. The project was within budget and time and achieved its objectives. Upper management is responsible for providing adequate resources, and the project manager successfully managed the project with available resources.
2. The project should be measured against how successfully it met its project charter. This was not done during this project.
3. The project manager did not obtain adequate resources and did not set a realistic deadline based on resources available.
4. The functional manager is responsible for his staff and obtaining adequate resources to meet the schedule once it has been set. The project and project manager achieved all of its objectives set forth in the project charter.

Q6. A scope change has been approved by the change control board. Which of the following MUST be impacted?

1. The early start date of the activities later in the network diagram
2. The cost of the project
3. The expected monetary value of project risks
4. The number of resources used on the project

Q7. Although the stakeholders thought there was enough money in the budget, halfway through the project the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.7. To determine the root cause, several stakeholders audit the project and discover the project budget was estimated analogously. Although the activity estimates add up to the project estimate, the stakeholders think something was missing in how the estimate was completed. Which of the following describes what was missing?

1. Estimated costs should be used to measure CPI.
2. SPI should be used, not CPI
3. Bottom-up estimating should have been used
4. Past history was not taken into account.

Q8. Which of the following is NOT a stakeholder?

1. A project team member
2. An attorney from your company’s competitor
3. A representative from your project team’s union
4. The project sponsors

Q9. A project manager has access to a tremendous amount of historical information on a pr and charts it over time. Which of the following is the project manager MOST likely to use?

1. Benchmarking
2. Trend analysis
3. Variance analysis
4. Decision trees

Q10. Contingency Reserves are estimated costs to be used at the discretion of the project manager to deal with:

1. Scope creep
2. Anticipated but not certain events
3. Unanticipated events
4. Anticipated and certain events