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Q2. While visiting the country where a new branch office is being built, you are told that you must pay a US $5,000 fee to the government permit office to obtain the facility permit required by law to start construction. The construction company tells you this is standard practice and is required by law. What should you do?

1. Pay the fee
2. Refuse to pay the fee
3. Have the construction company pay the fee
4. Have the customer pay the fee

Q3. A project manager and his team are using an Ishikawa diagram, trying to determine how various factors might have contributed to project problems. The project manager is involved in which part of the quality management process?

1. Plan Quality
2. Utilize Quality tools
3. Manage Quality
4. Perform Quality Control

Q4. Ben is the project manager for a mobile application development project. Due to a recent technological development, a significant change in the product design is required. This change would require a 25 percent increase in the project budget. Ben prepares a detailed report and emails it to the project sponsor, and the sponsor acknowledges the receipt of the report. What should Ben do next?

1. Update the cost management plan
2. Update the project budget
3. Update the project schedule
4. Wait for the formal approval of the new budget

Q5. A project manager is estimating project costs and needs to decide whether the estimates will include direct costs only or include indirect costs, as well. In which of the following phases does this decision need to take place?

1. Define Scope
2. Estimate Costs
3. Plan Expenses
4. Determine Budget

Q6. Your project is nearing completion, but a previously unidentified risk has arisen, and it could significantly affect one of the project deliverables. What do you do?

1. Transfer the risk
2. Develop a risk mitigation plan
3. Include the issue in the project risk log
4. Notify the project stakeholders immediately

Q7. People associated with the organization in which you are working with have been complaining about the lack of information regarding upcoming changes and want to get information now. Some of them feel what they have heard about your project means they will lose their job or be forced to find a different position with the company. Luckily for you, the SPI is at 1.08 and the CPI is at .99, so you feel confident of success. What is the BEST way to deal with this situation?

1. Update the organizational process assets and reassess the risks of this type of situation occurring again.
2. Use face-to-face meetings to gather further information about the issues and use the issue log to tract the issues to completion.
3. Use smoothing to let the people know they are not in act going to lose their jobs, and fight for better feedback in the future.
4. Have the people submit a change request so their concerns may be addressed and have the change control board review the change for merit.

Q8. Management is sending a team of experts for a risk audit. You inform management that you have already completed the risk review process and did not find any shortcomings, so there is no need for a risk audit. However, management is firm on their decision. Which of the following is true about the risk audit and risk review?

1. A risk audit is performed to see the effectiveness of a risk response plan
2. A risk audit is performed to see if you are following the correct procedures
3. A risk review is performed to see if you are following the correct procedures
4. Both are the same but an audit is done by external experts and a review is done internally

Q9. Henry is the project manager for a process improvement project. Henry is a recently hired Six Sigma expert. David is the process owner of the process Henry must optimize. During the project kick-start meeting with the project sponsor, David said he supports all continuous improvement efforts. However, David is unaware of the Six Sigma technique and feels threatened by the newly hired expert, and as a result, is blocking Henry’s ideas. What is David’s current engagement level with the project?

1. Unaware
2. Supportive
3. Resistant
4. Neutral

Q10. The level of detail of performance reports is described in the:

1. Project charter.
2. Communications management plan.
3. Monthly requests for information by management.
4. Project’s monthly needs.