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Near the end of your last project, additional requirements were demanded by a group of stakeholders when they learned they would be affected by your project. This became a problem because you had not included the time or cost in the project management plan for these requirements. What is the BEST thing you can do to prevent such a problem on future projects?
  1. Review the WBS dictionary more thoroughly, looking for incomplete descriptions.
  2. Review the project charter more thoroughly, examining the business case for “holes.”
  3. Do a more thorough job of procurement planning.
  4. Pay more attention to stakeholder management.






Q2. Visiting a construction site to ensure the completed work is the same work specified in the requirements is:

  1. Milestone
  2. Scope validation
  3. Variance Analysis
  4. Requirements traceability
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Q3. You have completed a milestone in your software development project, and you are now verifying that the product meets the specifications outlined in the project management plan. In which process group is this process?

  1. Closing
  2. Monitor and Controlling
  3. Executing
  4. Planning
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Q4. During a discussion with the quality department, Dave, a project manager, was told that as applied to projects, the terms “prevention” and “inspection” are synonymous. However, his understanding of the terms is different. What would you comment on this situation?

  1. The project manager is correct. Prevention is about keeping errors out of the process; inspection is about keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
  2. The project manager is correct. Inspection is about keeping errors out of the process; prevention is about keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
  3. The project manager is wrong. Both inspection and prevention are about keeping errors out of the customer’s hands. They are used in different contexts.
  4. The project manager is wrong. Both inspection and prevention are about keeping errors out of the process. They are used in different contexts.
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Q5. All of the following are parts of the project initiating processes EXCEPT:

  1. Develop product acceptance criteria
  2. Determine project boundaries
  3. Develop project objectives
  4. Develop performance measurement baselines
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Q6. You have been hired as a consultant for a project that is in trouble. You meet the project manager and ask several questions regarding the project budget, the project end date, etc. The project manager was not able to answer some of these questions properly, so you decided to verify them yourself. What document will you refer to in order to verify such facts?

  1. Project management plan
  2. Cost and schedule baselines
  3. Project charter
  4. Performance report
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Q7. Based on the chart, a resource on your project from the consumer affairs department comes to you to tell you that he is taking a two-week leave from work due to a family emergency. He is assigned to activity F, which is currently in progress. This is a problem because activity F has:

  1. One week of float
  2. Two months of float
  3. One month of float
  4. No float
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Q8. A new project manager has been hired in your company, and you have been asked to mentor her. Because she is well trained, she is planning her project in great detail. Her first project for the company is relatively low priority, and you feel that the project manager is planning too many project control meetings. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to tell her?

  1. Strike a balance between the extent of the control system and the risk of unfavorable project outcomes.
  2. Make sure you identify more than 40 risks, and then have more than one meeting a month
  3. A good project management plan should be about90 percent complete before starting work
  4. Make sure you include milestones to help plan the project charter.
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Q9. Which of the following BEST describes what a network diagram is used for when the work is being completed?

  1. To track the flow of information in system, looking at all the interfaces
  2. To determine if the evaluation criteria should be created before the contract statement of work is written
  3. To see if the cost of a change exceeds the project cost baseline
  4. To evaluate the reward system’s effectiveness 35
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Q10. The manager of a project that your company is running in another country is at the corporate headquarters for a company-wide project management meeting. During a break, you overhear the project manager discussing payments made to local municipal governments for construction permits for the project. Your company has a strict policy about paying or taking bribes. What should you do?

  1. Report him to PMI
  2. Report him to his manager
  3. Notify his project stakeholders
  4. Do nothing
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