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Your project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.1, and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.03. All the deliverables to date have been completed to the customer’s satisfaction. Getting formal acceptance of the project management plan was difficult because the schedule was compressed beyond reason. Actvity B has float of 2 weeks, activity C has float of zero, activity D has zero float and activity E is being done by a new employee and has a float of 3 weeks. The hardest part of the project is about to start and even the project management office has asked you to increase your management oversight and report more often on the status of the project. In preparing your report you find out that the team member completing activity D reports a one day delay, the team member completing activity D reports that the material needed t o complete the activity has not arrived. The team member for activity B tells you his activity will be delayed by two days because the customer has delayed formal acceptance during the Validate Scope process. Another team member reports that the earned value-related trend report is favorable. What would you do if you were the project manager?
  1. Investigate why it was difficult to get formal acceptance of the project management plan and whether that problem added any risks to the project.
  2. Hold a meeting to walk through the upcoming difficult activities with those doing the work.
  3. Investigate the reason for the delayed material and the effect on the project
  4. Reassign resources from noncritical path activities to critical path activities and meet with the customer about activity B.






Q2. You have been assigned to manage a portion of a larger project that is supposed to be finished within a two-week period. You have met with the leadership of the area to gather requirements, and you have a project charter, project scope statement and project management plan that have been approved by these individuals. You are told to meet with the actual user of the results of the project to to demonstrate how the system will work. When you give the demonstration, it is clear that the user’s requirements are very different from the ones you were initially given and to which both you and the client agreed. What is the BEST thing for you to do now?

  1. Generate a change request for the user’s requirements.
  2. Convene another meeting with the leadership of the area and the user to generate a revised set of requirements
  3. Attempt to meet as many of the user’s requirements as possible within the project’s established budget and schedule.
  4. Complete the work as originally specified and formulate a new project to meet the user’s requirements.
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Q3. The project manager has just received a change from the customer that does not affect the project schedule and is easy to complete. What should the project manager do FIRST?

  1. Make the change happen as soon as possible.
  2. Contact the project sponsor for permission
  3. Go to the change control board
  4. Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints
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Q4. Project stakeholders are individuals and organizations who are actively involved in the project or who have an interest in it. Which of the following is not an internal stakeholder?

  1. Program Manager
  2. Project Sponsor
  3. Competitor
  4. Project Manager
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Q5. In an underground highway construction project, the project stakeholders have suggested many changes to the project scope. You had already defined the cost baseline in your project, and you would like to revisit the baseline to see how these changes might affect the overall cost of the project. You start an impact analysis to determine the impact and inform the concerned stakeholders of all approved changes and the corresponding costs. You perform these activities in which process?

  1. Control Scope
  2. Monitor Risks
  3. Control Costs
  4. Monitor Communications
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Q6. Daniel is managing the development of an e-commerce website for his organization. Daniel enjoys coercive powers. He has assigned Julie, a project team member, to facilitate the team meetings. During any team meeting, Julie must:

  1. Influence team members to support the project manager's decisions
  2. Support the team members to challenge the project manager's decisions
  3. Negotiate with team members to achieve the project objectives
  4. Remain neutral and conduct the meetings
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Q7. Which term best describes the Identify Risks process?

  1. Finite
  2. Redundant
  3. Iterative
  4. Inconsequential
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Q8. A project manager is having problems with how two of the parts fit together on the new computer and the software uploads to the system. To plan a strategy for resolving these problems, it is BEST to determine if the problems are:

  1. Nonconforming
  2. Statistically independent
  3. Impacting quality
  4. Normally distributed.
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Q9. A project manager overhears a conversation between two stakeholders who are talking about how unhappy they are with the impacts of the project on their own departments. Stakeholder A asks I the project is on time, and Stakeholder B replies that the SPI is 1.05. Stakeholder A asks if the project manager for the project knows o Stakeholder B’s concern. Stakeholder B responds that he is not sure. What is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

  1. Make sure stakeholders see that the project manager overheard. Then ask them to direct any questions to the project manager in writing.
  2. Make a presentation to all the stakeholders regarding the status of the project.
  3. Send both stakeholders a copy of the issue log, and ask for additional comments.
  4. Arrange a meeting with both stakeholders to allow them to voice any concerns they may have.
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Q10. The project manager must identify ____________, determine their requirements, and then manage and influence those requirements to ensure a successful project.

  1. Functional managers.
  2. Stakeholders
  3. Scope.
  4. End users
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