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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






Q2. James has been managing a hotel construction project on a busy street. He is in the process of estimating activity durations for building walls, and he calculates the most likely estimate as 15 days. If prefabricated material is used, it would take no more than 12 days to finish the work. The work may be delayed and could take up to 18 days if less experienced construction workers build the walls. What is the expected duration of building walls using the three-point estimate?

  1. 12 days
  2. 11 days
  3. 16 days
  4. 15 days
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Q3. Long hours to meet a looming deadline and immense pressure for success from management are causing a decline in team morale. There are occasional conflicts between team members over priorities and resources. How should these non-disruptive conflicts be handled?

  1. Use of disciplinary actions
  2. Using a private, direct, and collaborative approach first
  3. Escalation to senior management
  4. Arbitration
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Q4. Which of the following are the tools and techniques used in both the Plan Communications Management and Manage Communications processes?

  1. Expert judgment
  2. Project reporting
  3. Communication requirements analysis
  4. Communication methods
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Q5. A project manager needs to assess quality on the project. To do so, he wants to measure the height of each table produced. However, that would be too expensive. In this case, it would be BEST to use:

  1. Benchmarking
  2. A sample
  3. A control chart
  4. A Pareto chart.
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Q6. A particular stakeholder has a reputation for making many changes on projects. What is the BEST approach a project manager can take at the beginning of the project to manage this situation?

  1. Say “No” to the stakeholder a few times to dissuade him from submitting more changes.
  2. Get the stakeholder involved in the project as early as possible.
  3. Talk to the stakeholder’s boss to find ways to direct the stakeholder’s activities to another project.
  4. Ask that the stakeholder not be included in the stakeholder listing.
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Q7. A project manager is unsure of how much cost reserve to add to the project. There is a 50 percent chance of a weather delay causing an impact of US $100,000 and a 30 percent chance of a delay in the testing center with a US $20,000 impact. How much should the cost reserve be?

  1. Less than $50,000
  2. More than $120,000
  3. Less than $20,000
  4. More than $56,000
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Q8. In predictive projects, the scope baseline for the project is used to analyze a project’s scope performance. On the other hand, projects with adaptive lifecycles use:

  1. WBS
  2. WBS dictionary
  3. Scope statement
  4. Backlogs
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Q9. The MOST common causes of conflict on a project are schedules, project priorities, and:

  1. Personality
  2. Resources
  3. Cost
  4. Management.
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Q10. All technical work is completed on the project. Which of the following remains to be done?

  1. Validate Scope
  2. Plan Risk Responses
  3. Create a staffing management plan
  4. Complete lessons learned.
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