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A project team has been arguing for days about the correct way to complete a high-level design. This argument has caused the schedule performance index (SPI) to fall 0.89 and the cost performance index (CPI) to 0.8. If the project manager tells the team, “we will schedule this discussion for our team meeting next week,” the project manager is:
  1. Using earned value
  2. Compromising
  3. Increasing costs even further
  4. Withdrawing.






Q2. You are looking at the standard reports that the project management office has supplied, you see network diagrams and bar charts. In which of the following circumstances would you ALWAYS use a network diagram instead of a bar chart?

  1. To track progress or to report to the team
  2. To show logical relationships
  3. In the Define Activities process
  4. To report to senior management
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Q3. Your project calls for communication with an extremely large audience. What communication method would be appropriate under such circumstances?

  1. Pull communication
  2. Interactive communication
  3. Two-way communication
  4. Verbal communication
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Q4. Activity attributes extend the description of the activity by identifying various components associated with the activity. Typically, how many attributes are associated with each activity?

  1. They should be between five and ten.
  2. The number of attributes varies by application area.
  3. They should be fewer than five.
  4. The number of attributes depends on the activity duration.
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Q5. You have just learned that one of your team members has not been adequately trained to complete project activities as assigned to him. How will you handle this situation?

  1. Replace this team member with someone more qualified
  2. Request proper training be provided and paid for by the functional manager
  3. Revise the schedule to account for the decreased effectiveness on this resource.
  4. Mentor this resource during the remainder of project duration.
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Q6. The communication model helps you communicate information to stakeholders smoothly. Which of the following is not a basic step in the communication model?

  1. Encode
  2. Transmit message
  3. Remove noise
  4. Decode message
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Q7. You are managing a large project with many contractors working on it. A stakeholder comes to you and informs you that he never received the status report from one of your contractors. What will your next step be?

  1. Stop the payment and ask for clarification
  2. Call the contractor
  3. Review the communications management plan
  4. Inform management
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Q8. A summary milestone schedule would normally be part of which document?

  1. Project sign-off document
  2. Project charter
  3. Project requirements document
  4. Project scope statement
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Q9. Skills such as empathy, influence, creativity, and group encouragement are valuable assets when managing the project team. These skills are often referred to as ______________.

  1. Effort-based management
  2. Feedback-based skills
  3. Ad hoc skills
  4. Soft skills
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Q10. A project manager is working on his first project with outside sellers. He is familiar with project change control systems but not contract change control systems. In explaining how a contract change control system differs from a project change control system, it is BEST to point out that a contract change control system:

  1. Includes procedures
  2. Includes trend analysis
  3. Requires more sign-offs
  4. Requires less documentation.
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