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You have just completed a solid waste management project in an underdeveloped country. The contractor you are working for has a strict policy of abiding by local laws and rules although the local resources working on the project have a much more lax approach to following laws and policies. Now at the end of the project, you are handing over the operational equipment to the local operators and disposing of the leftover inventory and other materials that were used during the project. More than 50 percent of the toxic materials used during the project remains in your inventory. There is no law that would prohibit you from disposing of either the type or quantity of remaining materials in the local sewage system. What should you do?
  1. Give the material to local resources to dispose of by selling it to a recycling facility
  2. Do not dispose of the materials improperly
  3. Dispose of the material in the local sewage system; there is no law applicable here
  4. Abandon the materials in the project facility you are handing over to the local operators






Q2. Your project sponsor is extremely happy with the project performance to date. To celebrate, he wants to hold a party with dancing and liquor for the entire team. You are concerned because the company policy states that “no alcohol can be served at company events.” What should you do?

  1. The project sponsor is responsible. Hold the event as a good teambuilding experience.
  2. Inform human resources that the sponsor is serving alcohol at a company function
  3. Tell the project sponsor that the party is a great idea, but no alcohol can be served.
  4. Suggest the event be held outside of working hours
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Q3. The project has been working through some difficult technical issues relating to how the work should be done. The most recent problem related to the way each test was to be completed. There have also been disagreements with two of the eight managers and the sponsor has had to intervene once. The testing work is done when the project manager discovers that one of the changes agreed to has not been adequately completed. What did the project manager NOT do?

  1. Ask those doing the work describe the change, to make sure they understood it.
  2. Get the sponsor to sign off on the change.
  3. Make sure the functional manager closely supervised the testing.
  4. Provider more training for those doing the testing.
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Q4. As you examine a list of job candidates for your project, you find that your cousin is one of the three shortlisted candidates. You know that she was desperately looking for a job. After reviewing the three resumes, you will send them to the electronics engineer for a technical interview. From your review of these resumes, you see that all three shortlisted candidates have similar qualifications and experiences. What should you do?

  1. To avoid conflict of interest, ignore your cousin’s resume but forward the other two resumes.
  2. Forward all three resumes.
  3. Call your cousin and conduct an informal interview yourself before forwarding the resumes.
  4. Consult your boss before forwarding the resumes for interview.
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Q5. You evaluate your critical path and determine the project will be completed two weeks ahead of management’s expected due date. What should you do?

  1. Delay the project for two weeks
  2. Prepare a list of identified risks that did not occur
  3. Pull resources off the critical path to work on noncritical path activities
  4. Add extra features that will enhance the project and require two more weeks to complete.
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Q6. You are a project manager for the construction of a major new manufacturing plant that has never been done before. The project cost is estimated at US $30,000,000 and will make use of three sellers. Once begun, the project cannot be cancelled, as there will be a large expenditure on plant and equipment. As the project manager, it would be MOST important to carefully:

  1. Review all cost proposals from the sellers.
  2. Examine the budget reserves.
  3. Complete the project charter.
  4. Perform an identification of risks.
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Q7. A resource assigned to your project contacts you, trying to get off the team. He knows that an important project in his department is going to be approved and will take place at the same time as yours. He wants to work on the other project. Under the circumstances, what is the BEST thing to do?

  1. Keep him if he is a valuable resource.
  2. Talk to the functional manager about releasing him from the team
  3. Release him after he finds a suitable replacement
  4. Wait until the last minute to see if the other project is approved.
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Q8. A functional manager meets with the project manager’s boss to discuss a change to the acceptance criteria for a major deliverable. After the meeting, the boss calls the project manager into his office and tells him to make the change. What is the BEST thing to do?

  1. Make the change as soon as possible.
  2. Understand the change.
  3. Supply the boss with a change form
  4. Evaluate the impact of the change.
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Q9. During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, a project manager is usually dependent on the voice of the project stakeholders to obtain expert opinion. Which of the following is an important tool available to the project manager for gathering and organizing stakeholders’ information?

  1. Fishbone diagrams
  2. Control charts
  3. Histograms
  4. Focus groups
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Q10. What is the decomposition process used to develop?

  1. Work breakdown structure
  2. Earned value
  3. Project management plan
  4. Communications management plan
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