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Q2. A project manager has scheduled technical training for his or her project team members to increase their skills. During which of the following processes will the team member receive this training?

1. Manage Quality
2. Acquire Resources
3. Develop Team
4. Plan Resource Management

Q3. The work breakdown structure is created by:

1. The team
2. The project manager
3. Management
4. The sponsor

Q4. You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization’s new website. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with this type of website development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. Any delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan. Client personnel have been kept fully informed of the project's progress through status reports and regular meetings. The project is on schedule and within budget, and a final perfunctory review has been scheduled. Suddenly you hear that the entire effort may be cancelled because the product being developed is totally unacceptable. What is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

1. A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project.
2. The project charter and project management plan were not thoroughly explained to or adequately reviewed by the client.
3. Communications arrangements were inadequate and did not provide the required information to interested parties.
4. The project sponsor failed to provide adequate support for the project.

Q5. The best practice to gather and document lessons learned is during weekly progress meetings. The agenda can have a lessons-learned brainstorming item at the end of these meetings. You can ask team members to put forward their recommendations, but it is always better to adopt a more structured way to gather lessons learned. Which of the following approaches will ensure you capture important lessons learned on your project?

1. Planning risk responses
2. Determining estimate to complete
3. Review of project variances
4. Signing off on the minutes of the meeting

Q6. You are managing a project with a large multinational staff. Susan, one of the engineers, was originally asked to deliver her part of the work on October 19. Due to a change in the critical path, her deliverable will be needed two days sooner. However, as the new deadline is still two weeks away and she is ahead of schedule, you are confident her delivery will be on time. During a staff meeting, you learn from John, her functional manager, that Susan celebrates a religious holiday on October 17. However, he also tells you that Susan is not particularly religious; if pushed a bit and offered some incentive, she may forego celebrating this holiday and come to work. What should you do?

1. Check whether one of her colleagues can share some of her workload this week
2. Increase her project incentive if she agrees to deliver her presentation on the 17th
3. Let the critical path remain the same
4. Ask her boss to ask her to skip the holiday

Q7. The Plan Stakeholder Engagement process has many inputs. Which of the following is an input to the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process that comes from the Conduct Procurements process?

1. Project management plan
2. Project charter
3. Historic stakeholder engagement plans
4. Agreements

Q8. Which of the following BEST describes when additional risk responses are documented?

1. When you are in the Plan Risk Management process
2. When an unknown risk occurs
3. When the impact of a known risk event is more significant than expected
4. When a risk due to happen multiple times on a project does not occur the first time it is expected.

Q9. Many organizations consider contract administration to be an administrative function separate from the project organization. Who carries out the function of contract administration in such organizations?

1. The Project Manager
2. The Procurement Advisor
3. The Procurement Administrator
4. The Contract Advisor

Q10. A project manager needs team members that report to a functional manager. What technique is the project manager most likely to use to obtain these resources?

1. Pre-assignment
2. Authority
3. Negotiation
4. Coercion