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Q2. You are managing two projects. The first project is to design a simulator for a client which he will use in his driving school. The second project is to install a security system on a client’s premises to ensure its security around the clock. What is your role here?

1. Project manager
2. Portfolio manager
3. Program manager
4. Project coordinator

Q3. You are assisting Benjamin, another project manager, to interview candidates for a resource position on his project. While reviewing your interview notes together, you notice that he sorts the candidate‘s resumes into two piles: One pile for further interviews, the other for candidates that did not meet the requirements for the position. You also notice that he has placed several of the highly qualified candidates in the second pile, stating that those interviewees "did not fit the corporate profile." Upon further review, you discover that all these candidates are of the same ethnic group. What do you do?

1. Excuse yourself from the interviewing process
2. Report this to the appropriate management
3. File a complaint with PMI
4. Do nothing

Q4. Your team has built an exotic sports car for a wealthy client. The project team verified every deliverable against the quality requirements, and the client accepted. Now the project manager is arranging for the car delivery. This is part of which process group?

1. Closing
2. Monitoring and Controlling
3. Planning
4. Execution

Q5. The customer is repeatedly requesting changes. You discover the contract does not include procedures or implementing change. There are no available funds in the customer’s budget to accommodate change. What should you do?

1. Ask your management to use money from the company’s cost reserve.
2. Tell the customer there is no budget for changes in the project
3. Discuss the situation with the customer to decide how to remedy this problem
4. Make only those changes that do not impact cost.

Q6. Based on the network diagram in the chart, the resource working on activity G is replaced with another resource with 50 percent of the productivity of the previous resource. How long will this project take?

1. 44
2. 51
3. 52
4. 36

Q7. During a team meeting, the team has been arguing about the method of integration for over 20 minutes without getting anywhere. The project manager reschedules the issue for the next team meeting. This is an example of:

1. Compromising
2. Forcing
3. Smoothing
4. Withdrawal.

Q8. Mary is managing an organizational transformation project. The nature of the project would require responding to high levels of change and would also require continuous stakeholder engagement. Which of the project lifecycles should be chosen for this project?

1. Predictive life cycle
2. Plan-driven life cycle
3. Waterfall life cycle
4. Adaptive life cycle

Q9. During a project update meeting, one of the key stakeholders expressed his displeasure over the project management approach. One percent of the produced deliverables had minor defects which required a rework. This stakeholder has been a resisting stakeholder so far. What must the project manager do to bring the future project performance in line with the approved quality requirements?

1. Investigate the root cause and identify the required defect repair.
2. Investigate the root cause and identify the required preventive action.
3. Investigate the root cause and identify the required corrective action.
4. Ignore the complaint from the resisting stakeholder.

Q10. During the control quality process, you are reviewing a chart which has some lines above and below the x-axis and a cyclic line between them. What is the purpose of this chart?

1. To gather quality control data
2. To find the dependency between the variables
3. To find the trend
4. To determine if the process is stable