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The project manager notices that project activities being completed by one department are all taking slightly longer than planned. To date, none of the activities/work packages have been on the critical path, nor have they affected the critical chain planning that has occurred. The project manager is bothered by the problem, since four of the next five critical path activities are being completed by this department. After making three calls, the project manager is finally able to converse with the department manager to determine what is going on. The conversation is slow because both speak different native languages and they are trying to converse in French, a shared language. To make communication easier, the project manager frequently asks the department manager to repeat back what has been said. The department manager communicates that his staff is following a company policy that requires two of the project manager to believe that the policy may include excessive work. This is the fourth time the project manager has heard such a comment. What is the BEST thing to do?
  1. Create a better communications management plan that requires only one language to be the universal language on the project and have translators readily available on a moment’s notice
  2. Contact someone else in the department who speaks the project manager’s native language better to confirm the department manager’s opinion
  3. Find out if the upcoming activities should be re-estimated
  4. Work on increasing the effectiveness of the performing organization by recommending continuous improvement of the policy in question.






Q2. The project manager is looking at the project’s resource needs and lessons learned from past projects. This information causes the project manager to be concerned about the ability to acquire enough resources from the project in six months. Which of the following would be the LEAST effective preventive action?

  1. Make sure functional managers have a copy of the resource histogram
  2. Show the sponsor the data, and explain the project manager’s concern
  3. Determine metrics to use as an early warning sign that resources will not be available.
  4. Ask functional managers for their opinions.
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Q3. A number of teams are developing an enterprise system using the agile approach for product development. Which of the following is a major risk item for such a complex project being performed in an agile environment?

  1. Number of interconnected dependencies between the features developed by different teams.
  2. Number and size of teams developing the larger features.
  3. Scope definition and freezing early during the planning phase.
  4. Emphasis on schedule control over risk management.
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Q4. 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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Q5. The work breakdown structure can be BEST thought of as an effective aid for _________ communications.

  1. Team
  2. Project manager
  3. Customer
  4. Stakeholder 13
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Q6. An increase in quality can result in increased productivity, increased cost effectiveness, and:

  1. Decreased cost risk
  2. Decreased morale
  3. Lower customer satisfaction
  4. Increased risk.
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Q7. Where would you find a detailed list and description of specific project assumptions associated with the project?

  1. Project charter
  2. Project scope statement
  3. Project configuration document
  4. Change management plan
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Q8. Mary has just assigned Thomas as project manager of an upcoming railway construction project. She hands an approved project charter to Thomas. Once Thomas thoroughly reviews the project charter, what should he do next?

  1. Review the charter once again since one thorough review is never enough
  2. Kick-start the Develop Project Management Plan process
  3. Add the project charter to the organizational lessons-learned archive
  4. Distribute the charter to all key project stakeholders and ensure common understanding
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Q9. While completing the Plan Resource Management process on your project, you visited the functional manager of engineering many times, but she refused to supply resources for the project. First, the excuse was that her department was too busy. The next time, the department was undergoing a re-organization. This is causing your project to slip the schedule. Which of the following is the MOST probable reason for her lack of support?

  1. The priority of the project has increased
  2. The project does not have a project charter and the functional manager was not involved in approving the project management plan.
  3. The project schedule network diagram was not time-phased
  4. The WBS did not include all resources needed on the project.
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Q10. How can changes be made to a project management plan once the project manager baselines it?

  1. By generating a change request and having it approved through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.
  2. This is typically done by using a version control system. The project manager creates a new version with the changes and baselines it as the new baseline.
  3. This is done by maintaining a revision history or log. The project manager documents the changes in detail and then baselines it.
  4. A project management plan cannot be changed once it is baselined. An addendum has to be created to incorporate the changes.
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