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As part of a new project you just started on as project manager, you are assembling your team and discovering that one of the critical pieces of work requires a specialist from one of the functional departments. However, you are aware the functional manager may be reluctant to assign that resource to your project since your project is not a high-profile one. Which of the following techniques will you need to apply?
  1. Acquisition
  2. Coercion
  3. Politics
  4. Negotiation






Q2. A team member notifies the project manager after the fact that certain project deliverables have been attained without performing all the associated work packages in the WBS. What should the project manager do FIRST?

  1. Immediately communicate the changes to all team members and stakeholders and have team members’ performance reviewed.
  2. Review work packages and deliverables to determine impact, if any. Recommend changes to the project to the project management plan.
  3. Change the project performance measurement baselines and the WBS.
  4. Change the reporting process to get information sooner, then review the communications management plan to see if it is still appropriate to the needs of the project.
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Q3. Testing the entire population would:

  1. Take too long
  2. Provide more information than wanted
  3. Be mutually exclusive
  4. Show many defects.
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Q4. You are beginning a new project. When should you use the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

  1. Throughout the entire project
  2. Only when closing out the project
  3. Only after the project is completely funded
  4. Only after the project scope is clearly defined
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Q5. Which motivational theory uses the concepts of esteem and selfactualization?

  1. Maslow
  2. Deming
  3. McGregor
  4. Herzberg
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Q6. While rating a proposal, one of the requirements was: "The proposed project manager needs to be a certified Project Management Professional, PMP®" This is an example of:

  1. Constraints
  2. Source Selection Criteria
  3. Assumptions
  4. Good practice
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Q7. Key project stakeholders can significantly influence a project in many ways. During which stage of the project do these stakeholders have the maximum ability to influence a project?

  1. Planning
  2. Initiating
  3. Executing
  4. Monitoring & Controlling
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Q8. After analyzing the status of your project, you determine that the earned value (EV) is lower than the planned value (PV). What should you expect as an outcome if this trend continues?

  1. The actual cost will be lower than planned
  2. The estimate at completion will be lower than planned
  3. The project will finish behind schedule
  4. The project will finish below the original cost estimate
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Q9. You are about to take over a project from another project manager and find out the following information about the project. Activity Z has an early start (ES) of day 15 and a late start (LS) of day 20. Activity Z is a difficult activity. Cost performance index (CPI) is 1.1; schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.8. There are 11 stakeholders on the project. Based on this information, which of the following would you be the MOST concerned about?

  1. Schedule
  2. Float
  3. Cost
  4. The number of available resources.
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Q10. Which of the following is an output of the Define Activities process?

  1. A WBS
  2. An activity list
  3. A network diagram
  4. A project schedule
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