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Q2. Sheila is a project manager who manages a global project. She has stakeholders located in various parts of the globe. Due to the nature of the project, she also has large volumes of information she needs to share with the recipients. What type of communication method should she prefer for this purpose?

1. Pull communication
2. Push communication
3. Request-based communication
4. Interactive communication

Q3. Purchasing insurance is BEST considered an example of risk:

1. Mitigation
2. Transfer
3. Acceptance
4. Avoidance.

Q4. All of the following are tools for of the Determine Budget process EXCEPT:

1. Aggregation
2. Reserve analysis
3. Funding limit reconciliation
4. Bottom-up estimating

Q5. The most recent analysis of Microcorp's new fabrication facility renovation project shows a CPI value of less than 1.0. What does this indicate?

1. The cost has overrun estimates.
2. The cost has underrun estimates.
3. The project is running ahead of schedule.
4. The schedule has slipped.

Q6. You are constructing a school building and due to some unforeseen incidents, your project is delayed. To bring the project on schedule, you are thinking about running several activities in parallel which were earlier planned to run sequentially. So, you started reviewing activities such as excavation of foundation, building walls, carpentry work, electrical work, and plumbing work, etc. After the review, you decide to run the carpentry, electrical, and plumbing works together. Excavating the foundation for the construction of a wall is an example of which of the following?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Internal dependency

Q7. Andy’s project stakeholders are not happy as the project is lagging behind schedule. During the executive committee meeting, Andy requests all stakeholders to keep their calm as most of the project deliverables have been completed and only quality inspections of these deliverables is pending. He assures the stakeholders that he is planning to crash the project to meet the completion deadline. What should be the stakeholders’ biggest concern now?

1. Crashing at this stage might result in an exponential cost increase and more time will be required to recover that cost.
2. Crashing at this stage might result in undetected errors, decreased profits, and increased post-implementation risks.
3. Why Andy hasn’t chosen to fast-track the project instead of crashing the project.
4. Stakeholders do not know the PMBOK jargon; crashing is a valid schedule compression technique.

Q8. One of the senior team members, who is the best performer in your project, plays favorites. A few of the other team members who work closely with this team member have gotten exceptionally good appraisal reports in the past, even though they may not have deserved them. As the project manager, what do you need to actively do?

1. Ask all the members of your team who are appraisers of other team members to be liberal in their appraisals. This will help compensate for the appraisals the senior team member does.
2. Speak to the senior team member and ask him or her to do appraisals fairly, in accordance with the appraisal guidelines.
3. Ignore the matter since you would otherwise lose a senior team member who is key to your project.
4. Ensure that the senior team member does not get to appraise anybody.

Q9. A project manager has received activity duration estimates from his team. Which of the following does he need in order to complete the Develop Schedule process?

1. Change requests
2. Schedule change control
3. Recommend corrective actions
4. Reserves

Q10. 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.