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You are managing an electronic chip design project for a customer. There are a number of engineers and subject matter experts from the customer’s organization that have been assigned as resources to the project plus several additional design engineers that your company has supplied. All the engineers were involved in the development of a prototype chip, an extremely time-consuming and expensive process. Upon the completion of the prototype, you submit it for review to ensure there are no patent infringement issues with the design. However, the review determines there are several issues that could result in an intellectual property dispute with the patent owners should the prototype design be released commercially. Resources from your company developed the affected prototype elements, as well as from your customer’s organization. What should you do?
  1. Ask the engineers to revise the design and resubmit it
  2. Notify the project stakeholders immediately
  3. Request permission to use the copyright material
  4. Submit the prototype as is since the budget and schedule do not accommodate rework






Q2. Lucy is managing a high-tech software development project. She has luckily acquired the organization’s best performing employees. However, the project team is not communicating effectively, causing delays. The project communications plan is in place, but it seems as if the employees are not following it. The communications plan lays out the communications requirements but does not explicitly assign responsibilities. What should Lucy do first? (Assume that all the following actions need to be taken at some stage.)

  1. Persuade the team to follow the plan
  2. Motivate the team to effectively communicate
  3. Set and manage expectations
  4. Resolve conflicts to prevent disruptive behavior
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Q3. A software development project has been suffering through many major project changes. Because of this, the project manager has not been able to do much but complete change request forms. Which statement BEST describes the other activities the project manager should be doing?

  1. Determine that changes have been made and whether the changes are beneficial. List all of them in the scope management plan
  2. Determine if a change is needed. Determine whether that change is beneficial; notify stakeholders affected by the change.
  3. List all changes in the project charter, notify stakeholders affected by changes and ensure the team signs off on all changes
  4. Determine that a change has occurred. Notify all stakeholders affected by the change; list all the changes in the scope management plan
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Q4. Mary has just assigned Thomas as project manager of an upcoming railway construction project. She hands an approved project charter to Thomas. Once Thomas thoroughly reviews the project charter, what should he do next?

  1. Review the charter once again since one thorough review is never enough
  2. Kick-start the Develop Project Management Plan process
  3. Add the project charter to the organizational lessons-learned archive
  4. Distribute the charter to all key project stakeholders and ensure common understanding
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Q5. Two people on the same project team have just found out that they are working on the same work. This situation can be BEST characterized as a lack of:

  1. A good work breakdown structure.
  2. A matrix organization
  3. Sponsor direction
  4. Effective status meetings.
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Q6. You evaluate your critical path and determine the project will be completed two weeks ahead of management’s expected due date. What should you do?

  1. Delay the project for two weeks
  2. Prepare a list of identified risks that did not occur
  3. Pull resources off the critical path to work on noncritical path activities
  4. Add extra features that will enhance the project and require two more weeks to complete.
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Q7. It is not practical, and usually not necessary, to engage with all stakeholders with the same level of intensity at all times. A project manager must prioritize stakeholders depending upon on who they are, what level of influence they have on the project, and what their interests are. Which of the following techniques helps in stakeholder prioritization?

  1. Stakeholder engagement matrix
  2. Stakeholder register
  3. Stakeholder classification models
  4. Resource histograms
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Q8. Bill and Jake are two team members in a project. They do not get along well and are constantly involved in verbal conflicts. The project manager understands the characteristics of conflict and the conflict management process and tries to resolve the situation. Which of the following is not a correct statement?

  1. Openness resolves conflict
  2. Conflict is natural and forces a search for alternatives
  3. Conflict is inevitable in a project environment.
  4. The project manager is not responsible for conflict management.
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Q9. You are responsible for IT maintenance in your organization. The head of the IT department comes to you with an internet security expert and tells you to disable auto login and force authentic login based on a new password. The password will be 15 characters long and consist of letters, numerals, and one special character, and this password must expire after every 30 days. This is an example of:

  1. Operation
  2. Project
  3. Maintenance
  4. None of the above
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Q10. A watch list is an output of which risk management process?

  1. Plan Risk Responses
  2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
  3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
  4. Plan Risk Responses.
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