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Q2. After conducting a bidder conference, you receive an email from one of the bidders requesting additional information. The information was neither included in your request for proposal, nor did anyone ask for it during the bidder conference. You realize the answer to this question is critical to understanding the scope of the project. If the answer is not communicated to bidders, they cannot size their teams accurately or estimate the total duration of the project. The answer also greatly affects cost. However, the answer contains some proprietary information that, if disclosed to a competitor, may reveal the future product strategy of your company. Such a disclosure could be disastrous for a major product launch you are planning next year. You decide to send the answer to all the bidders, but you realize one of the bidders is also working closely with one of your competitors on a similar project. What should you do?

1. Don’t send this information in writing; instead, telephone each bidding company.
2. Send this information to all bidders except the bidder working with your competitor.
3. Send this information to only the supplier who requested it.
4. Require all bidders to sign a nondisclosure agreement. You may then send the information to each company that signed the NDA.

Q3. Which motivational theory says that what motivates people is the work itself, including such things as responsibility, self-actualization, and professional growth?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg.

Q4. You take over a project hat is US $100,000 over budget. You know that he team has completed US $500,000 worth of work. Your sponsor has been calling all day leaving messages while you were in meetings asking for a quick update on the project status. What will you tell him when you return his call?

1. The CPI is 0.90
2. The SPI is 1.10
3. The CPI is 0.83
4. The SPI is 0.83 33

Q5. Which of the following BEST describes the phrase, “influencing the factors that affect change”?

1. Telling people that changes are not allowed
2. Determining the sources of changes and fixing the root causes
3. Adding more activities to the work breakdown structure to accommodate risks
4. Calculating the impact of changes to date on the project

Q6. Sandra is managing an ERP system deployment project. Due to the complexity of the project and the number of project stakeholders involved, she decides to use a multi-criteria decision analysis for reviewing all change requests. What should be her first step in establishing this?

1. Develop a decision matrix
2. Develop a decision tree
3. Develop a fishbone diagram
4. Develop a control chart

Q7. The customer’s expectations for quality are shown on a control chart as the:

1. Mean
2. Specification limits
3. Rule of seven
4. Upper and lower control limits

Q8. The project manager has completed the Plan Risk Responses process, and has identified risk management strategies with the team. The team’s manager has asked for the amount of risk reserves needed for the project. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. Create the risk reserves
2. Prioritize the list of risks
3. Create the overall risk rating for the project
4. Determine secondary risks.

Q9. Which of the following approaches deliberately spends less time trying to define and lock project scope early during the project and spends more time establishing the process for requirements gathering, scope definition and refinement?

1. Waterfall methods
2. Predictive methods
3. Agile methods
4. Kanban methods

Q10. Which statement BEST explains the phrase “Quality is planned in, not inspected in.”

1. It is more expensive to determine quality by inspection than by planning it.
2. Quality activities occur during the planning process group of the project
3. Quality is part of planning, not inspection
4. Planning for quality is after the fact.