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Project performance measurements assess the magnitude of variation from the original cost baseline. Once the degree of cost variation is known, what step is performed next?
  1. Audit the project team
  2. Upgrade the configuration management database with new controls.
  3. Replanning
  4. Perform root cause analysis of the variance’s cause relative to the cost baseline






Q2. A team member notifies you, after the fact, that she has added extra functionality to the project. There was no impact on the cost or schedule. What should be done as a result of this change?

  1. Inform the customer
  2. Make sure marketing is aware of the change
  3. Understand what functionality was added
  4. Implement change control processes to track the change
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Q3. You are a project manager of a construction project that is financially challenged and behind schedule. A foreman fails to deliver a deliverable of the project on time as promised. You need to address the issue with the foreman. How should you approach the foreman?

  1. You are the project manager responsible for the whole of the project. To ensure you have control, remain firm, and reprimand the foreman and the team to ensure they do not slow down.
  2. You disregard the issue, acknowledging that what is done is done and develop a plan for moving forward.
  3. You meet with the foreman inquiring about what happened and seek to understand and solve the problem.
  4. You reprimand the foreman n private and ask that he keep you better informed in the future.
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Q4. You have made John responsible for painting a certain portion of the building you are constructing. John completes the painting and submits his bills to you. You review his invoices, pay him and close the contract. What process is this?

  1. Close project
  2. Conduct procurement
  3. Close procurement
  4. Control procurement
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Q5. When the cost of an activity cannot be estimated with an adequate degree of certainty, the work within the activity can be decomposed. The resource requirements for each lower, more detailed work package can be estimated and aggregated to form a basis for estimating the cost for overarching scheduled activity. What is this type of estimating called?

  1. Bottom-up estimating
  2. Decomposed estimating
  3. Should-cost estimating
  4. Three-point estimating
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Q6. Which of the following allows a project management team to communicate all approved and rejected changes to the stakeholders consistently?

  1. Configuration management system
  2. Verification management system
  3. Configuration status accounting
  4. Change management board
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Q7. Gordon is currently developing his project’s stakeholder management strategy. All enterprise environmental factors should be considered during this process. Which of the following enterprise environmental factors should be paid special attention during this process?

  1. Project templates
  2. The organization's culture and structure
  3. Commercial databases
  4. Lessons learned from past similar projects
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Q8. You are managing a multi-million dollar project that is a joint venture between your company and another organization. You have repeatedly tried to get the contact and the project charter finalized between the two organizations, but there has been a great deal of arguing over language and details. The project’s scope has been expanding, cost has been increasing, and the schedule has regularly been lengthening. You learn very suddenly that the project has been cancelled because the other organization withdrew its share of the funding for the project. What is the MOST likely reason that this occurred?

  1. Failure to understand the budgetary process
  2. Inadequate scope management
  3. Lack of sponsor commitment
  4. Poorly done initial cost-benefit analysis
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Q9. What conflict resolution technique is a project manager using when he says, “I cannot deal with this issue now!”

  1. Problem solving
  2. Forcing
  3. Withdrawal
  4. Compromising.
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Q10. The project manager is expecting a deliverable to be submitted by e-mail from a team member today. AT the end of the day, the project manager contacts the team member to notify him that it has not been received. The team member apologizes and says that he was not able e-mail the deliverable, and it was sent through the mail instead. The team member goes on to explain that he notified the project manager that this would occur during a phone conversation they had while the or manager was traveling. “Wasn’t that the conversation we had when I told you I cold not hear you well due to poor cell phone coverage?” ask the project manager. “Yes,” replies the team member. What could have avoided this problem?

  1. Paralingual communication
  2. Adding to the issue log after the phone call
  3. Better attention to determining communications requirements.
  4. Feedback during the communication
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