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A project manager is appointed to head highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be:
  1. A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager.
  2. A team that is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high level of conflict and high turnover
  3. A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment.
  4. A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit






Q2. All of the following are true of project baselines EXCEPT:

  1. They are included in the original approved project management plan.
  2. They include approved scope changes
  3. They are useful in detecting project variances.
  4. They are useful in preparing the WBS.
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Q3. The project has had a major defect, and the project manager has involved the project team and process engineers in analyzing the situation. Someone from the group says that the real fault is the age of the equipment. Another says it is the lack of material of the correct quality. To address the root of the problem, the project manager decides to use an Ishikawa diagram. Which of the following BEST describes the part of the quality management process in which the group is involved in this situation?

  1. Quality analysis
  2. Manage Quality
  3. Perform Quality Control
  4. Plan Quality.
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Q4. Visiting a construction site to ensure the completed work is the same work specified in the requirements is:

  1. Milestone
  2. Scope validation
  3. Variance Analysis
  4. Requirements traceability
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Q5. Workarounds are determined during which risk management process?

  1. Identify risks
  2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
  3. Plan Risk Responses
  4. Control risks
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Q6. Your project is behind schedule and over budget, and the actual cost is on its way to being higher than the target cost. You and the client both are worried about the project’s progress and there is a high probability that the point of total assumption will be crossed. Which of the following assumptions is true about the point of total assumption?

  1. Above PTA, you will bear the cost
  2. Above PTA, the client will bear the cost
  3. Above PTA, the cost will be equally shared
  4. Above PTA, the cost will be shared by a set ratio
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Q7. You are just starting on a project as project manager. The project sponsor asks you for weekly status updates by email and monthly project status meetings to review the project’s progress. These requirements are documented in the:

  1. Scope statement
  2. Communications management plan
  3. Project charter
  4. Organizational plan
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Q8. As project manager o a project, you just handled a risk event that impacted the project cost and schedule. Because the impact is 15 percent total project cost, what is the MOST appropriate action?

  1. Control the cost
  2. Inform the appropriate stakeholders
  3. Act to bring the cost of the event within acceptable limits
  4. Update the project budget.
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Q9. If you are working on a project with constantly changing scope, which type of contract would work best when hiring an outside vendor to complete a portion of the work?

  1. Lump sum
  2. Cost-reimbursable
  3. Time and material
  4. Fixed price
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Q10. 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
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