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You are building a mile-long bridge on a T&M contract. During the excavation activity, you learned some telephone cables are crossing the alignment where you have to construct the bridge. You need to relocate these telephone cables, but there is no provision of such an activity in the contract. Further, the relocation of the cables is a costly task, and you need to do a lot of government paperwork, as well. You requested an amendment in the contract, but the buyer rejected it. Despite many efforts, you both could not resolve this issue. What should you do next?
  1. Terminate the contract following the termination procedures mentioned in the contract.
  2. File a judicial petition in accordance with the state’s law.
  3. Seek arbitration following the ADR procedures in the contract.
  4. Relocate the cables at your own expense since the contract does not cover this activity.






Q2. Two people on the same project team have just found out that they are working on the same work. This situation can be BEST characterized as a lack of:

  1. A good work breakdown structure.
  2. A matrix organization
  3. Sponsor direction
  4. Effective status meetings.
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Q3. The agile technique of on-demand scheduling is not suitable when:

  1. Product deliverables can be incrementally developed.
  2. Project requirements can be decomposed into smaller chunks that are relatively similar in size and scope.
  3. Project tasks can be bundled by size and scope.
  4. The use of a predictive lifecycle is mandated by the customer.
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Q4. If a project has a 60 percent chance of a $100,000 profit and a 40 percent chance of a $100,000 loss, the expected monetary value of the project is:

  1. $20,000 profit
  2. $40,000 loss
  3. $100,000 profit
  4. $60,000 loss
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Q5. The project you are working on has an increase in cost effectiveness, increased productivity, and increased morale. What might be the reason for these changes?

  1. Project objectives are in line with those of the performing organization
  2. Increased quality
  3. Management’s focus on cost containment
  4. Rewards presented for individual efforts
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Q6. You are assisting Benjamin, another project manager, to interview candidates for a resource position on his project. While reviewing your interview notes together, you notice that he sorts the candidate‘s resumes into two piles: One pile for further interviews, the other for candidates that did not meet the requirements for the position. You also notice that he has placed several of the highly qualified candidates in the second pile, stating that those interviewees "did not fit the corporate profile." Upon further review, you discover that all these candidates are of the same ethnic group. What do you do?

  1. Excuse yourself from the interviewing process
  2. Report this to the appropriate management
  3. File a complaint with PMI
  4. Do nothing
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Q7. Halfway through the executing process of your project, a team member alerts you to a potential cost overrun for a specific deliverable. What do you do FIRST?

  1. Determine the projected actual cost
  2. Implement a change control process to track the change
  3. Inform the customer.
  4. Determine the cause of the overage
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Q8. A project has several teams. Team C has repeatedly missed deadlines in the past. This has caused team D have to crash the critical path several times. As the team leader for team D, you should meet with the:

  1. Manager of team D
  2. Project manager alone
  3. Project manager and management
  4. Project manager and the leader of team C.
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Q9. As part of earned value management (EVM), a project manager is calculating the to-complete performance index (TCPI) based on EAC. The data he has is as follows: The budget at completion for the project is $100,000. The earned value for the project is $25,000. The actual costs to date are $40,000, and the estimate at completion is $115,000. What is the TCPI that he will get?

  1. 1.1
  2. 0.9
  3. 1
  4. 0
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Q10. When do stakeholders have the MOST influence on a project?

  1. At the beginning of the project.
  2. In the middle of the project.
  3. At the end of the project.
  4. Throughout the project.
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