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Which of the following BEST describes the meaning of the 50/50 rule?
  1. Grant 50 percent progress on an activity when it begins and 50 percent upon completion
  2. 50 percent of the work is done by 50 percent of the people on the project
  3. Identify 50 percent of risks before you start to develop responses.
  4. The project is given credit for completing 50 percent of the work when it starts.






Q2. A project has three critical paths. Which of the following BEST describes how this affects the project?

  1. It makes it easier to manage
  2. It increases the project risk
  3. It requires more people
  4. It makes it more expensive 51
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Q3. The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle as the basis for quality improvement is usually attributed to:

  1. Deming
  2. Crosby
  3. Juran
  4. Pareto
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Q4. What is the LAST thing to do in project closure?

  1. Complete the lessons learned
  2. Provide the client with all pertinent documentation
  3. Update the archives
  4. Release the team
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Q5. Which of the following processes deals with maintaining the integrity of baselines by releasing only approved changes for incorporation into the project management plan?

  1. Perform Integrated Change Control
  2. Direct and Manage Project Work
  3. Develop Project Management Plan
  4. Monitor and Control Project Work
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Q6. The project manager notices that project activities being completed by one department are all taking slightly longer than planned. To date, none of the activities/work packages have been on the critical path, nor have they affected the critical chain planning that has occurred. The project manager is bothered by the problem, since four of the next five critical path activities are being completed by this department. After making three calls, the project manager is finally able to converse with the department manager to determine what is going on. The conversation is slow because both speak different native languages and they are trying to converse in French, a shared language. To make communication easier, the project manager frequently asks the department manager to repeat back what has been said. The department manager communicates that his staff is following a company policy that requires two of the project manager to believe that the policy may include excessive work. This is the fourth time the project manager has heard such a comment. What is the BEST thing to do?

  1. Create a better communications management plan that requires only one language to be the universal language on the project and have translators readily available on a moment’s notice
  2. Contact someone else in the department who speaks the project manager’s native language better to confirm the department manager’s opinion
  3. Find out if the upcoming activities should be re-estimated
  4. Work on increasing the effectiveness of the performing organization by recommending continuous improvement of the policy in question.
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Q7. Which of the Project Schedule Management processes involves identifying and documenting dependencies among schedule activities?

  1. Sequence Activities
  2. Define Activities
  3. Develop Schedule
  4. Control Schedule
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Q8. After identifying a risk to your project, you determine that there is a high probability of risk occurring with a low consequence. What mitigation strategy is BEST to adopt?

  1. Eliminate the consequence of the risk.
  2. Avoid the risk
  3. Add the risk to the watch list
  4. Insure against the risk.
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Q9. Outputs of the Plan Resource Management process are:

  1. Roles and responsibilities, project organization charts, and staffing management plan.
  2. Project organization charts, project staff assignments, and roles and responsibilities
  3. Project management plan updates, staffing management plan, and project organization charts.
  4. Roles and responsibilities, staffing management plan, and resource availability.
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Q10. During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to do is to:

  1. Let the sponsor know of the stakeholders’ request
  2. Evaluate the impact of adding the scope
  3. Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added
  4. Add the work if there is time available in the project schedule
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