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Q2. Maintaining good supplier relationships should be important to all project managers. A good buyer-seller relationship is a partnership that results in a win-win situation that nurtures both parties. Which of the following is both a short- and long-term benefit of treating a supplier with courtesy, honesty, and fairness?

1. There is no need to have formal contracts in place
2. Delivery of quality products and services at the best price
3. The buyer can delay the payments without jeopardizing the relationship
4. The supplier can charge a price higher than the market price

Q3. 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.

Q4. The project manager of a highly visible project is new to project management. He has carefully followed the steps to create a project management plan. During a status meeting, two of the team members argue over what needs to happen next. Whose responsibility is it to correct the problem?

1. The team
2. The project manager
3. The functional manager
4. the individual team members who disagree

Q5. All of the following are parts of the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

1. Benchmarking
2. Cost-benefit analysis
3. Inspection
4. Design of experiments.

Q6. You are the project manager responsible for building a 100,000-squarefoot data center. One of the scheduled activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units. However, a raised floor must be installed in the data center before installation of the units can begin. This is an example of what type of precedence relationship?

1. Finish to Finish
2. Start to Finish
3. Start to Start
4. Finish to Start

Q7. A project manager has finished the project. He knows that the project scope has been completed and is within cost and time objectives set by management. Management, however, says that the project is a failure, because the original schedule was for 27 weeks and the project was completed in 33 weeks. If the project baseline was 33 weeks, the project is a success because:

1. It only had six weeks of changes
2. It was completed within the baseline
3. There were so few changes
4. There was good communication control.

Q8. A project manager is meeting with a team member and says, “I know you want to become involved in meetings with the customer. Because of the performance on the project so far, I have rearranged things so you can become involved with the customer.” This is an example of:

1. Team performance assessment.
2. Reward power.
3. Team building
4. Project performance appraisals.

Q9. Sandra is managing a complex ERP design and implementation project. The project team has recently been hired. It is an enterprise-wide project affecting many stakeholders. It is very important for each team member to properly understand and follow the project communication requirements in order to keep the stakeholders engaged and informed. Which of the following tools and techniques can Sandra use to ensure that team members properly understand the project’s communications requirements?

1. Ground rules
2. Training
3. Co-location
4. Recognition and rewards

Q10. Based on the chart, some of the identified risks do not occur and therefore activity B gets done in three. What is the effect on the project?

1. The project is complete
2. There will be three critical paths.
3. Activity A will have more float
4. The project will complete sooner if activity F starts immediately 58