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Q2. 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

Q3. A project manager is taking over a project from another project manager during the planning process group. If the new project manager wants to see what the previous project manager planned for managing changes to the schedule, it would be BEST to look at the:

1. Communications management plan
2. Update management plan
3. Staffing management plan
4. Schedule management plan 71

Q4. In a software development project, you are having joint application development (JAD) sessions to collect product requirements from stakeholders. Which of the following mandatory standards in the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is met by having JAD sessions while gathering requirements?

1. Honesty
2. Fairness
3. Responsibility
4. Respect

Q5. The purpose of status meetings is to:

1. Exchanges information about the project.
2. Have team members report on what they are doing.
3. Issue work authorizations.
4. Confirm the accuracy of the costs submitted by the team.

Q6. Your project will go through many phases to produce a high-priced product that will be sold to the public. You are currently starting the design phase. The price will include the product and scheduled maintenance. The team includes representatives from the engineering department, who will help determine the design of the project, the marketing department, who will determine the shape of the container for the product of the project and the accounting department who will help make sure the cost of the project allow ample profit margin. The project charter has been completed and signed by sponsors from all these departments. The product scope was completed in an earlier project that was two months delayed due to arguing over the scope. The team is now functioning well and past team building efforts have produced an effective team for this new project. Which of the following is the BEST thing to include that has not been included in planning?

1. The team working on the project does not include anyone from senior management and will thus not have enough support to be completed quickly and effectively.
2. There needs to be a representative from the quality department to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it is undertaken.
3. The project is not taking into account how the project work will affect future phases and thus future phases may cost more.
4. Team building efforts should still be done in the future to ensure an effective team.

Q7. A project manager first creates an assumption log during the Develop Project Charter process and records all project assumptions and constraints. During which of the following processes is the assumptions log updated and/or new assumptions and constraints added during the project execution?

1. Monitor and Control Project Work
2. Close Project or Phase
3. Direct and Manage Project Work
4. Collect Requirements

Q8. Which of the following documents the formal or informal assessments of the project team's effectiveness?

1. Team Performance Assessments
2. Project Performance Appraisals
3. Observations
4. Conversations

Q9. Eric, a project manager, is a certified PMP. He is responding to an RFP from a buyer and needs to fill in details on his company’s financial performance. His company has performed poorly during the current quarter, and the results will be published in two to three days. However, the company has done very well in the previous quarters. The RFP is due in 10 days, and all the information in the RFP is complete except the financial information. What should Eric do?

1. Eric should fill in the information for the previous quarter and ignore the current quarter. This is an aberration, and the company will eventually come out of the bad patch.
2. Eric should present the previous quarter's results as the latest results. This will give his company a better chance to win the project.
3. Eric should fill in the financial information for the previous quarter and send out the RFP response before the current quarter results are published.
4. Eric should wait until the current results are out and update the latest financial information before sending out the RFP response.

Q10. Which of the following is not an interpersonal skill that the project manager will use to manage stakeholders' expectations?

1. Active listening
2. Overcoming resistance to change
3. Punishment
4. Building trust