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Q2. A new project manager is being mentored by a more experienced certified project management professional (PMP). The new project manager is having difficult finding enough time to manage the project because the product and project scope are being progressively elaborated. The PMP mentions that the basic tools of project management, such as a work breakdown structure, can be used during project executing to assist the project manager. For which of the following can a work breakdown structure be used?

1. Communicating with the customer
2. Showing calendar dates for each work package
3. Showing the functional managers for each team member
4. Showing the business need for the project 6

Q3. During project executing, the project manager is spending a lot of time solving problems that arise. It would be BETTER for the project manager to transfer his efforts to:

1. Having the team solve the problems, thus freeing his time to hold more meetings
2. Executing the project management plan and making sure the quality management plan is viable.
3. Identifying additional risks and following the risk management process
4. Performing sensitivity analysis on past problems and transferring them to other projects.

Q4. You are a project manager newly assigned to a large project for your organization. The project charter has been signed, and the stakeholders have been identified. What should you do next?

1. Ask appropriate team members to submit WBS input
2. Initiate the scope planning process
3. Start the develop project management plan process
4. Begin the activity definition process

Q5. A software vendor on your project is hoping to be awarded a contract providing software for another project at your company. You are not the manager of the other project. However, the vendor offers you tickets to an upcoming professional sports event if you will "put in a good word" for his company to the vendor selection team of the other project. What do you do?

1. Fire the vendor
2. Decline the tickets but provide a recommendation for the vendor
3. Decline the tickets and notify appropriate management of the situation
4. Accept the tickets if company policy allows it and provide a recommendation for that vendor to the other project team

Q6. Over lunch with another project manager, you discuss ways to identify risks on your project. The next day, the other project manager sends you risk identification software created by her company with a copyright date of 1998. What should you do?

1. Find out if using an old format would be acceptable
2. Obtain approval from your legal department
3. Share some of your templates with her to improve competencies
4. Send the software back

Q7. You have assigned as the project manager on a new project. The organization uses a strong matrix structure. Computers needed to complete the project are an example of:

1. Limited cost
2. Diminishing cost
3. Fixed cost
4. Indirect cost.

Q8. The project has been going well, except for the number of changes being. The project is being installed into even different department within the company and will greatly improve departmental performance when operational. There are 14 project management processes selected for use on this project. The project manager is a technical expert as well as having been trained in communications and managing people. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the project problems?

1. The project manager was not trained in understanding the company environment.
2. The project should have more management oversight since it will result in such great benefits to the company.
3. The project should have used more of the project management processes.
4. Some stakeholders were not identified

Q9. You are sitting with your team members and experts in a room and defining the definition of probability of events occurring and the impact. What process is this?

1. Identify risks
2. Perform qualitative risk analysis
3. Plan risk management
4. Plan risk responses

Q10. Which of the following conflict resolution techniques will generate the MOST lasting solution?

1. Forcing
2. Smoothing
3. Compromise
4. Problem solving.