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Dina, the project manager of a hardware project, is performing a structured review of the procurement process. She would like to examine each document from the Plan Procurement Management process through the Control Procurements process to identify failures. What tool should Dina use?
  1. Procurement audits in the control procurements process
  2. Performance reports in the conduct procurements process
  3. Negotiated settlements in the control procurements process
  4. Procurement audits in the conduct procurements process






Q2. A project manager is appointed to head highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be:

  1. A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager.
  2. A team that is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high level of conflict and high turnover
  3. A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment.
  4. A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit
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Q3. A process that states how formal validation and acceptance of the completed project deliverables will be achieved is documented in the:

  1. Scope Management plan
  2. Procurement Management plan
  3. Risk Management plan
  4. Communications Management plan
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Q4. The highest point of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is called:

  1. Physiological satisfaction
  2. Attainment of survival
  3. Need for association
  4. Esteem.
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Q5. A project manager for a large international bank has a project team that just implemented an electronic funds project involving four large vendors. The project manager struggled through every part of the procurement process since the bank had a weak internal procurement department. What would be the MOST appropriate thing to do to ensure the problems are resolved for future projects?

  1. Document all of the issues in a memo, and schedule a meeting with the head of the procurement office.
  2. Include a agenda item in the project closedown to discuss these issues in a non-threatening manner
  3. Address this through contract change control.
  4. Conduct a procurement audit.
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Q6. A first-time project manager wanted to have a “perfect project.” This manager informed the customer that this project would not accept change requests of any kind and that the scope would need to be defined precisely at the very start of the project. The customer agreed to this request. What would your comment on this situation be?

  1. The is a good example of how the project management team can decide what is and what is not necessary for the project. Not allowing changes is a good way of ensuring that the project meets requirements as detailed in the project scope.
  2. This is unrealistic and impractical. Change is inevitable and rather than look at a 'no change' project, it would be more in the project interests to plan for a robust change control process.
  3. This indicates that the project manager is very aggressive and is likely to take the project to successful completion. Since he has announced the 'no change requests' policy, the customer manager can no longer request changes.
  4. This is unrealistic and impractical. The project manager should not have announced his intentions to the customer. He should have had an unofficial policy of rejecting all change requests.
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Q7. Your company is having problems delivering the finished product from the factory to the warehouses, which are located in different geographical areas. To smooth out the process, you have identified all critical stages for this procedure. What will be your next step?

  1. You will use a Tornado diagram
  2. You will use an Ishikawa diagram
  3. You will use a Scatter diagram
  4. You will use a Pareto analysis
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Q8. Julia is currently recruiting her project team. She has carried out various interviews and has shortlisted potential candidates. Now, according to the project communication management plan, she has to submit the shortlisted profiles to the project client (customer) for approval. Only then, can she formally hire the approved candidates for the project. The submission of the profiles to the client will go through which of the following processes?

  1. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
  2. Acquire Resources
  3. Manage Communications
  4. Plan Resource Management
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Q9. Performance reports should address all the needs of:

  1. Management.
  2. Team members.
  3. The project manager.
  4. Stakeholders.
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Q10. Your customer requested that the new railroad cars you are building for his company be constructed from heavy grade aluminium. After reviewing the requirements, two of your experts inform you that the customer would be better off with steel cars. You meet with the customer to discuss the issue, and he directs you to go ahead with the aluminium cars. What should you do?

  1. Meet with the customer again to ensure that he understands the expert opinions about using steel instead of aluminium
  2. Find a way to cut other costs, and upgrade the cars to steel.
  3. Provide aluminium cars that meet the customer’s requirements.
  4. Meet with your experts to find another proposal for the customer.
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