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Your company took over the management of a project from another company that went out of business. To minimize disruptions related to the transition, your company hired a number of the employees from the other company. One of these employees has delivered a 300-page document a week ahead of schedule. However, while walking past his desk, you notice that his computer is displaying a document with the logo of his former employer. You suspect that some of his work may have been based on documentation that is the property of the other company. What do you do?
  1. Report this to your project stakeholders immediately.
  2. Determine if any materials belonging to the other company have been copied.
  3. The copyright material is owned by the client, for whom you are working so this is not a copyright issue.
  4. Do nothing. Because the company is now out of business, no one now owns the copyright on that material.






Q2. You are in the middle of a complex negotiation when the other party says, “We need to finish in one hour because I have to catch my plane.” That person is using which of the following negotiation strategies?

  1. Good guy, bad guy
  2. Delay
  3. Deadline
  4. Extreme demands.
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Q3. During project executing, your project team member delivers a project deliverable to the buyer. However, the buyer refuses the deliverable, stating that it does not meet the requirement on page 300 of the technical specifications. You review the document and find that you agree. What is the BEST thing to do?

  1. Explain that the contract is wrong and should be changed.
  2. Issue a change order
  3. Review the requirements and meet with the responsible team member to review the WBS dictionary.
  4. Call a meeting of the team to review the requirement on page 300.
Correct Answer

Q4. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager identifies a risk that, no matter what the company does, a dire could occur in the building during the test. It would be BEST to _____ the risk.

  1. Deflect.
  2. Accept
  3. Avoid
  4. Change
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Q5. A project manager for a large information technology consulting firm was assigned to manage a software integration project for a large client. The schedule was already established. Management at the client site responsible for the project explained to the project manager that the project duration was too long. Changing market pressures require the project to be brought in one month earlier than scheduled. He has already reviewed the scope of the project and nothing can be cut. He requested that the project manager cut each activity by 10 percent duration to accomplish the goal. What would be the MOST appropriate thing for the project manager to do in this situation?

  1. Initiate change control processes, explain that the project schedule needs to stand, and review the risks involved.
  2. Meet with the team and evaluate how each activity can be cut by 10 percent to accomplish the goal.
  3. Do more critical path activities in parallel.
  4. Meet with management to review the original project management plan and discuss scope changes that would reduce project timeline
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Q6. You have a choice of four ongoing projects that you can take over as project manager. Project 1 has a benefit cost ratio (BCR) of 1.4, is a high priority project and has a critical path length of 16 months. Its cost performance index (CPI) is 1.2. Project 2 has a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.1, is using three critical resources, has a low priority, and has a BCR of 1.1. Project 3 has a CPI of 1.2, an SPI of 0.89, a BCR of 1.6, and a critical path length of 19 months. Project 4 has a CPI of 0.82, an activity with 33 days of float, a hard-to-get resource assigned to activity L, and a priority of keeping cost low. Based on the above, which project would you prefer to take over?

  1. Project 1
  2. Project 2
  3. Project 3
  4. Project 4
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Q7. Which of these is not a legitimate model used to analyze stakeholders?

  1. Influence/impact grid
  2. Power/influence grid
  3. Sufficiency model
  4. Salience model
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Q8. Which of the following represents the value of work we have actually completed?

  1. Earned value
  2. Planned value
  3. Actual cost
  4. Estimate to complete 23
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Q9. Which of the following is NOT a measure that determines if a business if a business practice used by another country is an unfair business practice?

  1. It hurts the right to physical movement
  2. It is a common practice in the other country
  3. It does not supply a decent wage for the country and the type of work
  4. It discriminates against women 3
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Q10. Lee is the project manager of a project, and he is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct result of implementing these risk responses, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These are:

  1. Secondary risks
  2. Primary risks
  3. Planned risks
  4. Workaround
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