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A team member comes to you to tell you that there is a problem on her activity. It cannot be started on the day it is scheduled to start. A manager overhears this conversation and reports that the project will be late. Later the project manager completes his own report saying “the project is still scheduled to be completed on time.” Which of the following could be the reason the project manager made such a statement?
  1. The activity has free float and can be rescheduled later in its early-start to late-finish window
  2. The activity is on a near-critical path with less float than the length of the delay
  3. The activity is on the critical path but is to be done after another activity that does have float.
  4. The activity has a mandatory dependency, allowing the project manager to place it in the pro schedule at any location that he wants it be done.






Q2. The termination clause and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism for each procurement in a project is in the:

  1. Scope Statement
  2. Agreement
  3. Resource Calendars
  4. Source Selection Criteria
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Q3. Testing the entire population:

  1. Take too long.
  2. Provide more information than wanted.
  3. Be mutually exclusive.
  4. Show many defects.
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Q4. Melissa is managing a hardware deployment project and is creating a risk management plan. Which of the following would not be included in this plan?

  1. Templates
  2. Roles and responsibilities
  3. Budgeting
  4. Methodology
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Q5. What might historical records from previous projects used as an input to the Define Activities process include?

  1. Activities
  2. Resources
  3. Costs
  4. Schedule
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Q6. A project manager is performing an audit on a deliverable when she hears that the team member who did the work is complaining to everyone that he is being picked on by having his activity audited. You know this is not true. What lesson learned could you take to future projects?

  1. Tell all the team members at the beginning of the project that their deliverables will be audited
  2. Set an audit policy in the scope management plan
  3. Audit less frequently
  4. Use a walk-through instead of audits
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Q7. Which of the following BEST describes when a project baseline should be changed?

  1. When a major delay occurs
  2. When an official change is made
  3. When a cost increase occurs
  4. Changes should never be made to the baseline
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Q8. An experienced project manager has just begun working for a large information technology integrator. Her manager provided her with a draft project charter and immediately asks her to provide an analysis of the risks on the project. Which of the following would be the BEST help in this effort?

  1. An article from PM Network Magazine.
  2. Her project scope statement from the project planning process.
  3. Her resource plan from the project planning process.
  4. A conversation with a team member from a similar project that failed in the past.
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Q9. As part of Define Activities, you are looking at dependencies used to define the sequence among the activities. Which of these is not a valid type of dependency?

  1. Linked dependency
  2. External dependency
  3. Discretionary dependency
  4. Mandatory dependency
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Q10. The project has been working through some difficult technical issues relating to how the work should be done. The most recent problem related to the way each test was to be completed. There have also been disagreements with two of the eight managers and the sponsor has had to intervene once. The testing work is done when the project manager discovers that one of the changes agreed to has not been adequately completed. What did the project manager NOT do?

  1. Ask those doing the work describe the change, to make sure they understood it.
  2. Get the sponsor to sign off on the change.
  3. Make sure the functional manager closely supervised the testing.
  4. Provider more training for those doing the testing.
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