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Question:

Which of these statements is true?
  1. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is much less than the cost of preventing them.
  2. The cost of preventing mistakes is generally much less than the cost of correcting them as revealed by inspection.
  3. It does not matter where a defect is captured as long as the finished work product does not have a defect.
  4. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is more or less the same as the cost of preventing them since the same effort goes into both activities.






Q2. Who should be responsible for defining project objectives?

  1. Project manager
  2. Sponsor
  3. Project management team
  4. Stakeholders
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Q3. A project manager analyzed the project’s communication requirements and decided that 10 out of the 30 stakeholders in the project would only need voicemail updates of certain information. This type of communication is:

  1. Push communication
  2. Pull communication
  3. Interactive communication
  4. On-demand communication
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Q4. Which of the following is the MOST likely outcome if you decide to crash the project?

  1. Increased cost
  2. Longer schedule
  3. Doing more activities in parallel
  4. Added schedule risk
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Q5. You are new to project management, but you have been managing a small project successfully. Now, management has given you another project to manage, something you are excited about. However, the new project is growing exponentially every day. You have also learned that a project manager you work with managed a similar project last year. What should you do?

  1. Wait to see if the scope of the project continues to grow
  2. Get the project assigned to the PM who managed the similar project
  3. Obtain historical records and get guidance from the project manager
  4. Speak to the other project manager to develop your project plans
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Q6. You are reviewing a plan which explains how changes to the product will be initiated, how impacts will be analyzed, and how they will be traced, tracked, and reported, as well as the authorization levels required to approve these changes. What document is this?

  1. Monitor and control project work
  2. Requirements management plan
  3. Control configuration
  4. Control change management
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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. A first-time project manager was assigned to a project that had a duration of three months. In order to get a head start on the project, the manager took an older, completed the project and incorporated all the tools, techniques, and checklists in their entirety from that project into the current one. The older project was completed in 14 months’ time and was remarkably similar in nature. The most appropriate comment on this would be:

  1. This is an excellent example of re-use of artifacts from prior projects.
  2. This may be unnecessary. The project management team needs to decide what is appropriate for the project.
  3. This is not the correct procedure. The project manager should always create processes and documents afresh for new projects.
  4. This is not correct. The project manager is violating copyright and intellectual property rights of the organization's prior customers.
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Q9. You’ve been assigned to take over managing a project that should be half complete according to the schedule. After an extensive evaluation, you discover that the project is running far behind schedule, and that the project will probably take twice the time originally estimated by the previous project manager. However, the sponsor has been told that the project is on schedule. What is the BEST course of action?

  1. Try to restructure the schedule to meet the project deadline
  2. Report your assessment to the sponsor
  3. Turn the project back to the previous project manager.
  4. Move forward with the schedule as planned by the previous project manager and report at the first missed milestone.
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Q10. Andrew was working as a senior project manager at a company when he resigned from his position. This company recently hired Jack to replace Andrew. Jack had worked with Andrew in the past, and he knows him personally. Jack is now in charge of a project that Andrew left in the middle. If Jack calls Andrew for an opinion on this project, this constitutes:

  1. Jack‘s incompetence since he is dependent on Andrew‘s opinion
  2. An example of obtaining expert judgment from a senior
  3. Unethical behavior by Jack since Andrew has already resigned from the company
  4. A conflict of interest situation as Jack knows Andrew
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