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Q2. A project manager has completed identification of stakeholders and has started planning for a flow instruments installation project in a hospital. While developing the project management plan, a team member states that a stakeholder in the X-ray department is missing from the stakeholder list. Which of the following would be the best response from the project manager?

1. Authenticate the information from the team member
2. Include and involve the stakeholder immediately
3. It is too late to involve a stakeholder in the planning, so ignore the stakeholder
4. Wait until the execution phase to involve the new stakeholder

Q3. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s role relating to changes?

1. Serve the customer and do what the customer wants.
2. Monitor and track changes to ensure they benefit the project.
3. Influence the factors that cause changes
4. Deny change requests whenever possible 9

Q4. You are working with your team and are looking at the cost risks in the project. You and your team are currently creating a tornado diagram for the project risks. You do this as a part of which of the following processes?

1. Qualitative Risk Analysis
2. Risk Response Planning
3. Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. Monitor Risks

Q5. As the Project Manager for Midway Carnival Rides, you are beginning the Define Scope process. Which of the following is a key input to this process?

1. Project Scope Statement
2. Expert Judgment
3. Project Charter
4. WBS

Q6. During project planning, you estimate the time needed for each activity and then add up the estimates to create the project estimate. You commit to completing the project by this date. What is wrong with this scenario?

1. The team did not create the estimate, and estimating takes too long using that method.
2. The team did not create the estimate, and a network diagram was not used.
3. The estimate is too long and should be created by management.
4. The project estimate should be the same as the customer’s required completion date.

Q7. 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.

Q8. Inputs to the Report Performance process include all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Completion forecasts.
2. Change requests.
3. Details of work performance.
4. Deliverable status

Q9. The resource optimization technique during the Control Schedule process allows a project manager to:

1. Schedule training sessions for the project team members to optimize their performance.
2. Schedule activities considering both the resource availability and the project time.
3. Provide monetary incentives to project team members to boost their performance.
4. Allow overtime so that team members get motivated to work during nonworking hours.

Q10. A project manager is trying to coordinate all the activities on the project and has determined the following: Activity A can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1 week. Activity B can start after activity A is completed and has an estimated duration of 4 weeks. Activity C can start after activity B is completed and has an estimated duration of 5 weeks. Activity D can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 8 weeks. Both activities C and D must be completed before the end of the project. If there is an approved change to activity D and it now takes 10 weeks, what is the duration of the critical path?

1. 10 weeks
2. 11 weeks
3. 14 weeks
4. 8 weeks 70