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A project manager has finished the project. He knows that the project scope has been completed and is within cost and time objectives set by management. Management, however, says that the project is a failure, because the original schedule was for 27 weeks and the project was completed in 33 weeks. If the project baseline was 33 weeks, the project is a success because:
  1. It only had six weeks of changes
  2. It was completed within the baseline
  3. There were so few changes
  4. There was good communication control.






Q2. You are finalizing the monthly project status report due now to your manager when you discover that several project team members are not reporting actual hours spent on project activities. This results in skewed project statistics. What is the MOST appropriate action to be taken?

  1. Discuss the impacts of these actions with team members.
  2. Report the team members’ actions t their functional managers.
  3. Continue reporting information as presented to you.
  4. Provider accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.
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Q3. You are forming a virtual project team that includes members from four different countries around the world. What is NOT an obstacle you must overcome to build an effective team?

  1. Different time zones
  2. Communication issues
  3. Cultural differences
  4. Members wanting to work from home
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Q4. The success of your new project requires several of your people to work in a foreign country for six months. The team informs you that in this country a payment is required to obtain visas. What should you do?

  1. Cancel the project.
  2. Make the payment
  3. Do not pay and see what happens.
  4. Do not send your people.
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Q5. You have recently joined a new company as a project manager. While reviewing the procurement plans for a project you will be taking over, you see that the company is considering using one of the most expensive manufacturers to provide certain equipment required for the project. At your previous employer, you had used a different supplier for the same equipment and had paid significantly less. Without telling your boss, you now call that supplier for a quote. Have you violated the rule of keeping proprietary information confidential?

  1. Maybe. You need to talk to your boss first.
  2. No. There is no harm in sharing the information with your current employer, because you are no longer working for your old employer.
  3. Yes. The supply source is proprietary information, and you should not contact the supplier.
  4. You have not violated any rule.
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Q6. Which of these statements is true?

  1. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is much less than the cost of preventing them.
  2. The cost of preventing mistakes is generally much less than the cost of correcting them as revealed by inspection.
  3. It does not matter where a defect is captured as long as the finished work product does not have a defect.
  4. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is more or less the same as the cost of preventing them since the same effort goes into both activities.
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Q7. A work authorization system can be used to:

  1. Manage who does each activity
  2. Manage when and in what sequence work is done
  3. Manage when each activity is done
  4. Manage who does each activity and when it is done.
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Q8. Which of the following is one of the most prominent features of a project following agile approach for product development?

  1. Produce defect-free deliverables
  2. Zero tolerance for rework
  3. Deliver incremental value to the customer
  4. Delivery of the product in a single sprint
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Q9. The CEO of the company has assigned a project manager to a project that the CEO has wanted to do for a long time. What should the project manager do FIRST?

  1. Assist the CEO in putting together a benefit cost analysis to show the need for the project.
  2. Work with the CEO to get buy-in from the other stakeholders
  3. Produce a ranking of all feasible projects, including the assigned project, in a weighted scoring of decision variables.
  4. Guide the creation of a project charter.
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Q10. You are managing a project with a large multinational staff. Susan, one of the engineers, was originally asked to deliver her part of the work on October 19. Due to a change in the critical path, her deliverable will be needed two days sooner. However, as the new deadline is still two weeks away and she is ahead of schedule, you are confident her delivery will be on time. During a staff meeting, you learn from John, her functional manager, that Susan celebrates a religious holiday on October 17. However, he also tells you that Susan is not particularly religious; if pushed a bit and offered some incentive, she may forego celebrating this holiday and come to work. What should you do?

  1. Check whether one of her colleagues can share some of her workload this week
  2. Increase her project incentive if she agrees to deliver her presentation on the 17th
  3. Let the critical path remain the same
  4. Ask her boss to ask her to skip the holiday
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