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Q2. Using the chart, in order to handle some resources changes on your project, activity H is going to be done concurrently with activity G instead of after it. What impact will this have on the project?

1. It will cause the project to be completed four time periods sooner
2. It will cause a decrease in project risk
3. It will have no effect on the critical path
4. It will affect activity
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Q3. Outputs of the Develop Project Team process are:

1. Roles and responsibilities, project organization charts, and staffing management plan
2. Project organization charts, project staff assignments, and roles and responsibilities.
3. Project manager plan updates, staffing management plan, and project organization charts.
4. Roles and responsibilities, staffing management plan, and resource availability

Q4. During which stage of risk planning are risks prioritized based on their relative probability and impact?

1. Perform Qualitative risk analysis
2. Identify Risks
3. Perform Quantitative risk analysis
4. Plan Risk Responses

Q5. You are building a dam for a state government. Your organization is considered a specialist in dam design and overall management of construction activities. However, your organization lacks resources to execute the earth-works involved. You have subcontracted all the project’s earth-works to a local subcontractor. The quality of the subcontractor’s work is acceptable, but the subcontractor is not conforming to your organization’s health and safety standards. You escalated this to the subcontractor’s project manager, but he turned down your request. The subcontractor’s project manager is of the view that the request is out of the contract’s scope and none of the contract provisions require him to conform to your organization’s standards. You are agitated since you believe health and safety standards are globally accepted, and the contract does not have to explicitly state them. Further, according to the state law, you cannot terminate the contract since the subcontractor has not vio

1. Go for judicial arbitration as stated in the contact’s ADR provisions
2. Terminate the contract immediately since you will not compromise health and safety standards
3. Withhold the subcontractor’s payments to force compliance
4. Negotiate a contact amendment with the subcontractor requiring compliance to the standards

Q6. Identify stakeholders is a process where you identify stakeholders for your project. Which of the following statements is not true regarding this process?

1. This process happens throughout the project
2. This process happens in the planning phase
3. This process happens in the executing phase
4. This process is started only when the project charter is signed

Q7. Which of the following is not a part of the data gathering tools used in Control Quality process?

1. Checklists
2. Control Chart
3. Check sheets
4. Statistical sampling

Q8. You are the project manager of a large IT project. A manager from a company contracted to work on the project offers you free tickets to a local sporting event. The tickets are expensive, but your organization has no formal policy regarding gifts. What is the best way to handle the offer?

1. Refuse the tickets and report the offer to your employer
2. Accept the tickets but notify your employer
3. Politely refuse the tickets
4. Accept the tickets since there is no policy

Q9. A project manager is finalizing a project that has had repeated problems with cost conformance. He is concerned about what management will say. Which of the following types of information would be BES for the project manager to use to evaluate performance?

1. The cost performance index (CPI)
2. A list of complaints from senior management
3. The last bar chart
4. The project budget 11

Q10. The technique most commonly used by project management software packages to construct a project schedule model is:

1. Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
2. Finish-to-Start (FS)
3. Activity-In-Node (AIN)
4. Node-On-Activity (NOA)