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Q2. A project manager has been working on a project for six months with the same team, yet the team still shows a lack of support for the project. The BEST thing the project manager can do to obtain the team’s support for the project is to:

1. Re-evaluate the effectiveness of the reward system in place.
2. Talk to each team member’s boss with the team member present.
3. Find someone else to be project manager.
4. Tell the team members he needs their support, and ask the team members why they do not support the project.

Q3. The on-demand scheduling approach used in agile environments is based on the theory-of-constraints and pull-based scheduling concepts from lean manufacturing to limit a team’s work in progress. This is also called:

1. 5S
2. Kanban
3. Andon
4. Gemba

Q4. During project executing, the forecasted remaining hours exceed planned remaining hours. Consequently, the project takes on a negative variance. Which analysis method is the project manager likely to use as a measurement tool to validate this information?

1. EV-PV
2. EV/AC
3. EV/PV
4. EV-AC 75

Q5. A functional manager meets with the project manager’s boss to discuss a change to the acceptance criteria for a major deliverable. After the meeting, the boss calls the project manager into his office and tells him to make the change. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Make the change as soon as possible.
2. Understand the change.
3. Supply the boss with a change form
4. Evaluate the impact of the change.

Q6. A project manager is trying to coordinate all the activities on the project and has determined the following: Activity A can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1 week. Activity B can start after activity A is completed and has an estimated duration of 4 weeks. Activity C can start after activity B is completed and has an estimated duration of 5 weeks. Activity D can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 8 weeks. Both activities C and D must be completed before the end of the project. If there is an approved change to activity D and it now takes 10 weeks, what is the duration of the critical path?

1. 10 weeks
2. 11 weeks
3. 14 weeks
4. 8 weeks 70

Q7. Testing the entire population:

1. Take too long.
2. Provide more information than wanted.
3. Be mutually exclusive.
4. Show many defects.

Q8. The enterprise environmental factors play an important role during the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan. The following list gives the most significant enterprise environmental factors considered during the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process except one. Which one is it?

1. Organizational culture
2. Organizational communication requirements
3. Organizational structure
4. Political climate

Q9. You are analyzing a particular task with your team members to determine if the task should be done by your team, or if it should be contracted out to a contractor. Which process is this?

1. Conduct procurement
2. Plan cost management
3. Plan human resource
4. Plan procurement

Q10. Your customer requested that the new railroad cars you are building for his company be constructed from heavy grade aluminium. After reviewing the requirements, two of your experts inform you that the customer would be better off with steel cars. You meet with the customer to discuss the issue, and he directs you to go ahead with the aluminium cars. What should you do?

1. Meet with the customer again to ensure that he understands the expert opinions about using steel instead of aluminium
2. Find a way to cut other costs, and upgrade the cars to steel.
3. Provide aluminium cars that meet the customer’s requirements.
4. Meet with your experts to find another proposal for the customer.