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Q2. Increasing the number of resources in order to crash a project schedule does not always cut the time by the same factor. In worst cases, too many resources assigned to an activity may actually increase the activity duration. This is because:

1. Decrease in cost budget
2. Required additional coordination
3. Funding limit reconciliation
4. Additional risk introduced due to crashing

Q3. 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.

Q4. During project executing, a team member identifies a risk that is not in the risk register. What should you do?

1. Get further information on how the team member identified the risk, because you already performed a detailed analysis and did not identify the risk
2. Disregard the risk, because risks were identified during project planning
3. Inform the customer about the risk.
4. Analyze the risk.

Q5. Conflict management is a tool and technique of which of the following processes?

1. Control Procurements
2. Identify Stakeholders
3. Close Project or Phase
4. Manage Team

Q6. In the course of completing work on the project, the project manager needs to complete an activity that she has never done before. During this time, the project manager attends a professional association discussion where the presenter discusses how he completed a difficulty activity on his project that is similar to the project manager’s activity. He provides a handout describing his process. The project manager should:

1. Use the process to complete the activity
2. Ask the speaker for permission to use the information
3. Ignore the information
4. Ask her manager for guidance.

Q7. You have just been assigned as the project manager for a project that is in the middle of the executing process group, and you are determining how you will control the project. The BEST way to control the project is to:

1. Use a combination of communication methods.
2. Hold status meetings because they have worked best for you in the past.
3. Refer to the bar chart weekly.
4. Meet with management regularly.

Q8. A project manager has scheduled technical training for his or her project team members to increase their skills. During which of the following processes will the team member receive this training?

1. Manage Quality
2. Acquire Resources
3. Develop Team
4. Plan Resource Management

Q9. Maintaining good supplier relationships should be important to all project managers. A good buyer-seller relationship is a partnership that results in a win-win situation that nurtures both parties. Which of the following is both a short- and long-term benefit of treating a supplier with courtesy, honesty, and fairness?

1. There is no need to have formal contracts in place
2. Delivery of quality products and services at the best price
3. The buyer can delay the payments without jeopardizing the relationship
4. The supplier can charge a price higher than the market price

Q10. You are reviewing the response to an RFP issued by your company for a project that will last a year and exceed US$5 million. Three vendors have been shortlisted. The first, Nosteltec, Inc., is a relatively new company in this industry. It has assembled a team of industry experts with vast industry experience and qualifications. The second company, Xen Contractor, has been in business for 20 years. You and your company have a long and positive history working with this vendor. The third company is SonoNet LLC. It has been in business for 10 years and has a reputation for extensive expertise and superior delivery. They are also well-known for being one of the more expensive providers in the market. You have many relationships with the Xen Contractor staff, which you established during prior procurement contracts with this company. As a result, a project manager from Xen Contractor, with whom you are friendly both personally and professionally, calls you for clarification on a point

1. Clarify via email
2. Clarify via phone call
3. Advise the vendor that the RFP is self-explanatory
4. Send the clarification to all three vendors