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You have taken over a project from another manager who left the firm. This is a functional organization and the different units are often rather hostile to each other. The project is a large one involving activities that the organization has never done before. You find that the project has what appear to be adequate documentations, including an agreed-to project charter, project management plan, WBS, etc. The project is on schedule and within budget. However, the atmosphere in meetings with the project members often seems tense, and offhand comments made by participants seem to indicate a high level of dissatisfaction with the project. You review all of the major project documents with the key stakeholders and get agreement that they are still accurate, but this does not seem to solve the problem. What is the MOST likely explanation for this situation?
  1. There are personality conflicts amount the project team members that you need to uncover and resolve.
  2. The project does not have an effective sponsor and thus is not viewed as a high priority.
  3. Stakeholders have very different expectations about what the project is supposed to accomplish.
  4. The organizational structure and dynamics prevent people from working together effectively.






Q2. Project Team A has been hired to manage a transportation project very similar to dozens of projects the team has managed successfully in the past. The team has determined that the probability of achieving project objectives is 94 percent. What part of the risk process is the team in?

  1. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis.
  2. Plan Risk Responses.
  3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis.
  4. Identify Risks.
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Q3. Which of these statements is true?

  1. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is much less than the cost of preventing them.
  2. The cost of preventing mistakes is generally much less than the cost of correcting them as revealed by inspection.
  3. It does not matter where a defect is captured as long as the finished work product does not have a defect.
  4. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is more or less the same as the cost of preventing them since the same effort goes into both activities.
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Q4. What do the buyer and seller have in common with regard to Control Procurements?

  1. Both parties ensure that they meet their contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected.
  2. Both parties have specific resources that can be idle.
  3. Both parties have a contract change management plan.
  4. Each party has its own project plan and legal team.
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Q5. A team member comes to you (the project manager) privately and informs you that an employee of your customer is making unwelcome advances. The team member has repeatedly requested that this person stop, but the advances continue. What is the BEST course of action?

  1. Privatively confront the customer employee and threaten legal action if the advances do not stop.
  2. Suggest that the team member avoid contact with the customer employee.
  3. Contact the employee’s manager to arrange a meeting to discuss the matter.
  4. Facilitate a meeting with the team member, the customer employee, and yourself to allow the two to work it out amicably.
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Q6. You are the project manager for a large installation project when you realize that there are over 200 potential stakeholders on the project. Which of the following would be the BEST course of action for you to take?

  1. Eliminate some stakeholders.
  2. Contact your manager, and ask which stakeholders are most important.
  3. Gather the needs of all the most influential stakeholders.
  4. Find an effective way to gather the needs of all stakeholders.
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Q7. Which of the following is the highest point of Maslow’s hierarchy?

  1. Self-fulfillment
  2. Respect
  3. Affection
  4. Stability
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Q8. A project team has been arguing for days about the correct way to complete a high-level design. This argument has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to fall 0.89 and the cost performance index (CPI) to 0.8. If the project manager tells the team, “we will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week,” the project manager is:

  1. Using earned value
  2. Compromising
  3. Increasing costs even further
  4. Withdrawing.
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Q9. The project manager has had some difficulty in getting the team to complete work efforts but he feels that the changes he made to the reward system will fix the problem. The number of stakeholders on the project has grown by 20 percent and the number of activities being completed late is growing. The project manager has heard from management that the project might become a higher priority if their competition comes out with a new product that uses wireless technology. Based on this, it would be BEST for the project manager to:

  1. Re-estimate the activities and prepare to create a new schedule
  2. Perform configuration management
  3. Recreate the project work authorization system
  4. Better respond to risk event triggers 30
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Q10. About midway through the project, the project manager learns that most members of the project team are not reviewing the weekly project updates. What should the project manager do?

  1. Create a signature log so team members can indicate when they have read the project updates.
  2. Revise the communications management plan appropriately to meet the informational needs of the stakeholders.
  3. Improve the layout of the weekly project updates to encourage reading by team members.
  4. Require the reading of the project updates in order to receive any rewards on the project.
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