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You are a project manager on a software development project. There are several changes that need to be made, and you need to decide how to apply project resources in order to implement these changes. What should you do?
A. Consult the Change Prioritization plan for guidance on prioritizing new changes.
B. Call a team meeting and invite the stakeholders, so that everyone can reach a consensus on the priority.
C. Deny the changes because they will delay the project.
D. Decide the priority of the changes and announce them to the team.
A - Consult the Change Prioritization plan for guidance on prioritizing new changes.
On the middle path of your construction project, you received an approved change request from the change control board (CCB) on the project governance framework. Which of the following best described your next step?
A. Implement the approved change request
B. Update the project management plan accordingly
C. Get formal approval from the steering committee
D. Communicate the change with concerned stakeholders
D. Communicate the change with concerned stakeholders
The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on the cost-plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract, each month he requires the project manager to submit CPI calculations and analysis of the cost to complete. The project manager explains to the sponsor that extra profits should not be a worry on this project because of which of the following reasons?
A. The team is making sure the seller does not cut scope.
B. The fee is only received by the seller when the project is completed.
C. All costs invoiced are being audited.
D. There can only be a maximum 10% increase if there is an unexpected cost overrun.
C. All costs invoiced are being audited.
A project manager working in your organization has just finished a critical construction project that has not gone well. Apart from cost overruns and schedule overruns, there have been a lot of quality defects and the project required a lot of senior management intervention to finally reach completion. Among the listed options, what should be the project manager’s action?
A. Mask bad data and only present good data since his performance appraisal will otherwise be impacted.
B. Focus on presenting the data in positive light while ensuring that the reasons for the delays and problems are appropriately documented.
C. Document lessons learned from the project and update the lessons learned knowledge database.
D. Focus on closing the project and moving on to the next one. Lessons learned is not applicable to this project since it has done badly.
C. Document lessons learned from the project and update the lessons learned knowledge database.
You have completed the process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. What is your next step?
A. Implement risk response plans, track identified risks, monitor residual risks, identify new risks, and evaluate risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
B. Assess the priority of identified risks using their probability of occurrence.
C. Define how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
D. Determine which risk may affect the project and document their characteristics.
A. Implement risk response plans, track identified risks, monitor residual risks, identify new risks, and evaluate risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
As a project manager for a large construction project, assume you have two activities (X, Y). Activity Y cannot start until activity X is finished. Activity X with a budget constraint and only 40% completed, and there is a delay in activity X. What should you do as the project manager to start activity Y without any delay?
A. Crash activity X
B. Outsource the work of activity Y
C. Issue a change request
D. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor
C. Issue a change request
During the control procurements process, a junior team member asked you about the difference between an audit and an inspection, which of the following best describes your answer?
A. The audit reviews the products being created, while the inspection is used to examine which resources should be assigned to which tasks.
B. The inspection reviews the products being created, while the audit reviews the procurement process.
C. The inspection reviews the quality, schedule, and cost performance versus the initial contract, while the audit reviews how well the procurement process is going.
D. The audit reviews the products being created, while the inspection is used to examine successes and failures and gather lessons learned.
B. The inspection reviews the products being created, while the audit reviews the procurement process.
Shadi is working as a project manager of a software development project. The project is following a Scrum methodology. In the daily scrum meeting, the development team always come to meetings late. Which of the following is most likely to be the cause of this problem?
A. The team resents the work that they’re doing.
B. The team is in the storming phase of team development.
C. The project manager was late to meetings himself, and this influenced the team.
D. The project manager needs to schedule meetings later in the day.
C. The project manager was late to meetings himself, and this influenced the team.
Recently, your company introduced a new processing system for its products. You were the project manager for this system and now have been asked to lead a team to implement needed changes to increase efficiency and productivity. To help you analyze the process outputs, you and your team have decided to use which following technique?
A. Design of experiments
B. System flowcharts
C. Pareto analysis
D. Control charts
D. Control charts
You are considering whether to buy or lease lab equipment for your construction project; the daily lease cost is $100, in order to purchase this item the cost will be $1,500 with daily maintenance cost of $20. How many days it will take for the lease cost to be equal to purchasing cost?
A. 9.75 Days
B. 10.25 Days
C. 18.75 Days
D. 12.50 Days
C. 18.75 Days
In the project execution phase, deliverables are produced, while in monitoring and controlling project work, you track, review, and regulate the progress to meet the performance objectives. In this context, what is not performed in the monitor and control project work process?
A. Provide forecasts to update current cost and current schedule information.
B. Monitoring implementation of approved changes as they occur.
C. Provide information to support status reporting and forecasting.
D. Comparing expected performance against project plan.
D. Comparing expected performance against project plan.
Activity A has a pessimistic (P) estimate of 36 days, a most likely (M) estimate of 21 days, and an optimistic (O) estimate of 6 days. What is the probability that activity A will be completed in 16 to 26 days?
A. 55.70 %
B. 9.73 %
C. 68.26 %
D. 95.46 %
C. 68.26 %
You’re managing a project to fulfill a new governmental contract. Your project team is assembled, and work has begun. Your government project officer informs you that a supplier that you depend on has lost the contract to supply a critical part. You consult your risk register and discover that you did not plan for this. What’s the best way to handle this situation?
A. Recommend preventive actions
B. Look for a new supplier for the part
C. Consult the Probability and Impact matrix
D. Perform Quantitative and Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
B. Look for a new supplier for the part
As part of your planning efforts on the project, you want to plan for risk management by developing a risk management plan: identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing project risk; creating the risk register; and defining risk response strategies. For which of the following reasons you are performing these activities?
A. To establish detailed project deliverables.
B. To manage uncertainty and opportunity throughout the project life cycle.
C. To obtain approval to proceed with project execution.
D. To inform and engage stakeholders and gain commitment.
B. To manage uncertainty and opportunity throughout the project life cycle.
You are the project manager for your organization. Management has asked you to document the national holidays, weekends, and other corporate working hours, which will supersede the project timings for your schedule. Which calendar will communicate to the project stakeholders, when the project work will take place within the organization?
A. Company calendar
B. Project calendar
C. Resource calendar
D. Organizational calendar
B. Project calendar
Shadi is managing a large infrastructure project for his organization. The main asphalt levelling equipment daily rental is $200. The area of the asphalt streets this equipment will be used for is 1,200 meter square, and the equipment capacity is 50 meter square per day. A team member recommended for you to purchase this equipment as he got an offer for a very good condition equipment to be sold for $4,000. And that the daily maintenance cost will be $20. Based on this information, what shall be Shadi’s recommendation?
A. Lease the equipment.
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B. More information is needed to decide.
C. Purchase the equipment.
D. Both decisions will have the same impact.
C. Purchase the equipment.
A large warehouse construction project for a logistics company will require the expenditure of a large amount of capital. The finance group works with the project manager to project set limits when expenses will be incurred in a given project and determine if there are ways to smooth out or level the spending to avoid a single large expenditure one quarter and none the next. This is an example of which of the following?
A. Funding Limit Reconciliation
B. A financial review
C. Levelized Billing
D. Rescheduling
A. Funding Limit Reconciliation
Sami was assigned as the project manager for the highest priority project within the organization. A constraint of the project is that the budget is very tight, and the senior management wants to monitor the project cash out closely. Due to this constraint, and after the first couple of months, Sami realized it takes an extra two weeks to get approvals on any purchase order over $10,000. Out of the listed options, which should be Sami's best action?
A. Ignore the situation; Sami is not responsible for the approval of purchase orders.
B. Record the information in the project records.
C. Document the information in your Lessons Learned.
D. Adjust the purchasing practices to keep all purchases under $10,000.
C. Document the information in your Lessons Learned.
You are the project manager managing a project to design a print head for dot matrix printers. In order to determine ideal settings for print quality, the quality manager of the company suggests trying out various scenarios for printing by varying certain parameters on the print head. Identifying such variables which influence the product or process under development is called:
A. Design of Experiments
B. Brainstorming
C. Benchmarking
D. Statistical Sampling
A. Design of Experiments
Assume you had a phase gate meeting with your project steering committee board for your project. At this meeting, the board approved your project management plan. However, as you begin to execute your plan, an organizational process asset to consider is which of the following?
A. The organization’s culture
B. Hiring and firing guidelines
C. Process measurement database
D. Stakeholder risk tolerances
C. Process measurement database
You are working on identifying possible risks to your project to develop a nutritional supplement. You want to develop a comprehensive list of risks that can be addressed later through qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. Which of the following is an information gathering technique that can be used to identify project risks?
A. Brainstorming
B. Probability and impact analysis
C. Checklist analysis
D. Documentation reviews
C. Checklist analysis
You are the project manager overseeing the construction of a baseball stadium, the activity of laying the grass sod has an optimistic estimate for 10 days, pessimistic estimate for 16 days and most likely estimate of 13 days. What is the duration within which the task must be completed?
A. 10 Days to 16 Days.
B. 13 Days.
C. 12 Days to 14 Days.
D. 11 Days to 15 Days.
C. 12 Days to 14 Days.
You're a project manager and you've completed your project schedule. The schedule will take 24 months to complete the project work. Throughout the schedule there are instances that the project work will require the project team members to work more than fifty hours per week. If you must adhere to a maximum of 45 hours of project work per team member, per week, what will likely happen to your project schedule as it stands right now?
A. Nothing, the 45 hours limit is a guideline.
B. The project will take longer to complete.
C. The project will require more resources.
D. The project will take less time to complete.
B. The project will take longer to complete.
Change management is critical for project success and it should be managed carefully. In this context, all of the following are parts of an effective change management plan except for which one?
A. Lessons Learned
B. Procedures
C. Meetings
D. Standard for reports
A. Lessons Learned
Shadi is the project manager for constructing a new hospital, he is working with his team Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis. During this process, they discovered several new risks which were not identified earlier. What is the first thing Shadi should do with those risks?
A. Continue with quantitative analysis and return back to those risks once they are done.
B. Add them to the risk register.
C. Plan responses for those risks.
D. Review the risk management plan.
B. Add them to the risk register.