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You are working on an 18-month project with a small, co-located team. The project sponsor and senior management are in another city and have requested weekly updates. The customer requires monthly meetings. Because the team members are busy with the project executing processes, they would like to reduce the frequency of meetings. Which of the following BEST describes how status meetings should be managed on this project?
  1. During project executing, you do not need to hold status meetings as long as you send the key stakeholders a status report every week.
  2. Once a month the entire team, including senior management, should meet with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous month’s issues with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous months’ issues and the current status.
  3. During project executing, it is only necessary for the project manager to meet with the customer once a month to fulfil your contractual obligation. Provide the customer once a month to fulfil your contractual obligation. Provide the customer with the status report and copy this report to key stakeholders.
  4. The frequency and level of the meetings as well as the format and type of information to be exchanged should be defined in the project’s communications management plan during project planning.






Q2. Based on the chart, what will be the effect on the project if activity C now takes four months?

  1. There will be a new critical path
  2. The project will take longer
  3. There is no change to the critical path
  4. Activity B is now on the critical path
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Q3. Various tools and techniques determine project requirements during the Collect Requirements process. These requirements form the basis for defining the project scope. One of the responsibilities of a project manager is to identify key project deliverables during this exercise. Where are the key project deliverables documented?

  1. Scope Management Plan
  2. Requirements Management Plan
  3. Project Scope Statement
  4. Accepted Deliverables
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Q4. To create a quality product, the project management team invested in training the project team members and purchasing high-end equipment. Such costs are:

  1. Failure costs
  2. Costs of Nonconformance
  3. Appraisal costs
  4. Prevention costs
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Q5. As you create the Activity List, which technique is recommended for subdividing the project into smaller components called activities?

  1. Decomposition
  2. Rolling Wave Planning
  3. Expert Judgment
  4. Deconstruction
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Q6. 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
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Q7. As an independent consultant, you are working with a project manager of a spacecraft parts manufacturing project to ensure that the team complies with organizational quality policies and procedures. Since parts made in this project must be of high precision and accuracy, you are documenting shortcomings within the processes and procedures to improve the quality for customer acceptance. Which of the following best represents the project management activity you are doing?

  1. Statistical sampling
  2. Quality audits
  3. Quality control
  4. Inspection
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Q8. A fire has just destroyed a warehouse that was being constructed as part of a large project you are managing. What would have been the easiest way to ensure that this force majeure would not significantly impact the cost of the project?

  1. Reduce the impact of such risk by transference
  2. Reduce the probability that the event will take place
  3. Accept the risk
  4. Eliminate the threat by not building the warehouse.
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Q9. Which of the following is not a management skill that a project manager will use to get support from the stakeholders?

  1. Facilitate consensus
  2. Resolving conflicts
  3. Negotiate agreement to satisfy needs
  4. None of the above
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Q10. When the cost of an activity cannot be estimated with an adequate degree of certainty, the work within the activity can be decomposed. The resource requirements for each lower, more detailed work package can be estimated and aggregated to form a basis for estimating the cost for overarching scheduled activity. What is this type of estimating called?

  1. Bottom-up estimating
  2. Decomposed estimating
  3. Should-cost estimating
  4. Three-point estimating
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