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Q2. As project manager, you scheduled a status update meeting. During the meeting, a problem developed, and the group discussed it. The day after the meeting, Kevin approached you and expressed his concern that the problem was not truly resolved. After thinking about it, he felt that his concerns were still valid and should be addressed. What conflict resolution method was likely used at the status meeting?

1. Smoothing
2. Forcing
3. Withdrawal
4. Collaboration

Q3. You are in the middle of project executing and find that you are running out of money due to unanticipated changes. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Crash or fast track the project
2. Ask for a change to the project budget
3. Use resources that do not change against the project
4. Re-evaluate the risk analysis and contingency funding

Q4. A project manager asked various stakeholders to determine the probability and impact of a number of risks. He then analyzed assumptions. He is about to move to the next step of risk management. Based on this information, what has the project manager forgotten to do?

1. Evaluate tends in risk analysis.
2. Identify triggers.
3. Provide a standardized risk rating matrix.
4. Create a fallback plan.

Q5. 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.

Q6. Linda is currently drafting her project stakeholder management plan. Since she is a new hire, she is not aware of the company’s policies and procedures. If she wants to know more about the company’s general issues management procedures, where must she look?

1. Project charter
2. Scope statement
3. Organizational process assets
4. Issue register

Q7. Which of these is not an input to the Control Procurements process?

1. Agreements
2. Change requests
3. Work performance data
4. Project management plan

Q8. You have met with your project sponsor who told you that you must complete the project by the end of the year, no exceptions. This should be included in the project scope statement as a:

1. Project Constraint
2. Project Boundary
3. Project Acceptance Criteria
4. Project Assumption

Q9. During the execution of the project, a new ISO version of standard 9000 is issued and the project team is meeting with the quality department to determine how the standard will apply to the project. This is part of which quality process?

1. Plan Quality
2. Perform Quality Control
3. Quality Analysis
4. Manage Quality.

Q10. A project is in progress, and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department to improve stakeholders’ confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following is an output of this process?

1. Quality problems
2. Quality metrics
3. Recommend corrective action
4. Quality audits.