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The sponsor has asked you to require that each piece of the project scope be planned, estimated, and scheduled. The sponsor also wants to authorize each piece of the project management plan after the documentation is assembled. What is the MOST appropriate response to these requests?
  1. Politely advise the sponsor to forego the authorization of work.
  2. Provide the sponsor with a schedule of when the components will be ready for authorization
  3. Ask the sponsor to authorize each piece before it is completed
  4. Tell the sponsor that the chance for authorization will come after the pieces of the project management plan are compiled






Q2. During project executing, a team member identifies a risk that is not in the risk register. What should you do?

  1. Get further information on how the team member identified the risk, because you already performed a detailed analysis and did not identify the risk
  2. Disregard the risk, because risks were identified during project planning
  3. Inform the customer about the risk.
  4. Analyze the risk.
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Q3. Which of the following BEST describes when the baseline can be changed?

  1. Only under emergency conditions
  2. The original baseline is always maintained throughout the project
  3. With any approved changes
  4. When the project sponsor determines it is appropriate
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Q4. The primary customer of a project has requested an application change during user testing. As project manager, how should you BEST address this issue?

  1. Develop a risk mitigation plan
  2. Through a formal change request
  3. Inform the project sponsor of changes to the scope cost and schedule
  4. Ensure that scope change complies with all relevant contractual provisions
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Q5. The cost contingency reserve should be:

  1. Hidden to prevent management from disallowing the reserve.
  2. Added to each activity to provide the customer with a shorter critical path.
  3. Maintained by management to cover cost overruns.
  4. Added to the base costs of the project to account for risks
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Q6. All of the following are relevant for analyzing a cost overrun, EXCEPT:

  1. Labor rates
  2. Resources used
  3. Communications management plan
  4. Lag
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Q7. During the Define Activities process, a team member begins to discuss activities that the project manager has never heard discussed. What should the project manager do?

  1. Make sure he has a good understanding of the activities and include the activities in the activity list.
  2. Ask the team member to explain why such activity would be needed to complete the work package
  3. Make sure the entire team agrees that the activities should be done
  4. Evaluate the impact of the change.
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Q8. You are making some changes to the scope and schedule baseline because you have identified a high-impact risk and management does not want to take a risk. What process is this?

  1. Plan scope management
  2. Plan risk response
  3. Develop schedule
  4. Control scope
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Q9. You are building a mile-long bridge on a T&M contract. During the excavation activity, you learned some telephone cables are crossing the alignment where you have to construct the bridge. You need to relocate these telephone cables, but there is no provision of such an activity in the contract. Further, the relocation of the cables is a costly task, and you need to do a lot of government paperwork, as well. You requested an amendment in the contract, but the buyer rejected it. Despite many efforts, you both could not resolve this issue. What should you do next?

  1. Terminate the contract following the termination procedures mentioned in the contract.
  2. File a judicial petition in accordance with the state’s law.
  3. Seek arbitration following the ADR procedures in the contract.
  4. Relocate the cables at your own expense since the contract does not cover this activity.
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Q10. What does the following sentence refer to? “The point where the benefits or revenue to be received from improving quality equals the incremental cost to achieve that quality.”

  1. Quality control analysis
  2. Marginal analysis
  3. Standard quality analysis
  4. Conformance analysis
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