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You have been assigned to manage a portion of a larger project that is supposed to be finished within a two-week period. You have met with the leadership of the area to gather requirements, and you have a project charter, project scope statement and project management plan that have been approved by these individuals. You are told to meet with the actual user of the results of the project to to demonstrate how the system will work. When you give the demonstration, it is clear that the user’s requirements are very different from the ones you were initially given and to which both you and the client agreed. What is the BEST thing for you to do now?
  1. Generate a change request for the user’s requirements.
  2. Convene another meeting with the leadership of the area and the user to generate a revised set of requirements
  3. Attempt to meet as many of the user’s requirements as possible within the project’s established budget and schedule.
  4. Complete the work as originally specified and formulate a new project to meet the user’s requirements.






Q2. A project is over budget to date. Which of the following is NOT A REASON this could have occurred?

  1. More work than planned was accomplished.
  2. There was a cost increase from the supplier
  3. Work was delayed.
  4. Work was done inefficiently.
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Q3. The sponsor of the project you are managing asks you to compress the schedule. Which of the following is CORRECT?

  1. Crashing always shortens the timeline but often increases risk.
  2. Fast tracking often results in rework, and crashing often results in increased cost
  3. Crashing is only a viable alternative if earned value analysis indicates that the project is ahead of schedule and under budget
  4. Fast tracking will result in less parallel activities than crashing the project
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Q4. Which of the following BEST describes an opportunity on a project?

  1. Team members will learn more about spy satellites, and will be able to use that information on future projects.
  2. The requirements might need updating later.
  3. The quality requirements are hard to achieve.
  4. Additional engineering may be needed in order to get the satellite to meet the customer’s requirements.
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Q5. A project manager on a multinational website implementation project is at a party and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new website when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current website. The project manager takes this feedback to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

  1. Scope validation
  2. Integrated change control
  3. Stakeholder analysis
  4. Scope planning
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Q6. The principal use of a Pareto chart is to:

  1. Focus attention on the most critical issues
  2. Quantify risks
  3. Help predict future problems
  4. Improve risk management.
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Q7. A project manager has a project with a team member’s performance. What is the BEST form of communication for addressing this problem?

  1. Formal written communication
  2. Formal verbal communication
  3. Informal written communication
  4. Informal verbal communication
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Q8. Based on the chart, what is the float of activity B?

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 0
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Q9. Work on a project is ongoing when the project manager overhears two workers arguing over what a set of instructions means. The project manager investigates and discovers that the instructions for the construction of the concrete footings currently being poured were poorly translated between the different languages in use on the project. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do FIRST?

  1. Get the instructions translated by a more experienced party.
  2. Look for quality impacts o the poor translation of the instructions for the footings.
  3. Bring the issue to the attention of the team, and ask them to look for other translation problems.
  4. Inform the sponsor of the problem in the next project report.
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Q10. The project manager is looking at the project’s resource needs and lessons learned from past projects. This information causes the project manager to be concerned about the ability to acquire enough resources from the project in six months. Which of the following would be the LEAST effective preventive action?

  1. Make sure functional managers have a copy of the resource histogram
  2. Show the sponsor the data, and explain the project manager’s concern
  3. Determine metrics to use as an early warning sign that resources will not be available.
  4. Ask functional managers for their opinions.
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