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Question 1 of 50
1. Question
As a project manager, you are using root cause analysis to determine what the potential risks might be in your project. Which process best describes the process in which you are involved?
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Question 2 of 50
2. Question
You are a construction project manager. In a formal project management training you are told that you need to collect information on contract schedule, scope, quality, and cost performance along with all contract change documentation, payment records, and inspection results. You are also told by your instructor that this information can be used for lessons learned and as a basis for evaluating contractors for future contracts. Which document is your instructor talking about?
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Question 3 of 50
3. Question
You have just been assigned to the photo transfer project. You are beginning to meet with the stakeholders and have made some observations. You notice that the team of seven software developers has been given quite a bit of autonomy in how they conduct their work. The sponsor is pleased with the work so far, as is the business representative, who has been giving the team regular feedback on their deliverables. What methodology is the team most likely following?
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Question 4 of 50
4. Question
You are several weeks into a new project, which is one of the most visible ones in the company. You are still getting the lay of the land and meeting with various stakeholders that include suppliers, customers, functional managers, and individual contributors. At some of these meetings, you are beginning to hear talk that not everyone is pleased that this project is taking place and is being given such high priority. You realize you have some tools that might assist you in fleshing out this problem. Which one would be most appropriate for you to use?
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Question 5 of 50
5. Question
According to the latest update of the project schedule, you realize that the project will be completed one month after the desired completion date. You have extra resources on hand and the activity dependencies are preferential. The project is not of high risk and the SPI up to now is 0.89. As a project manager, what would be your best course of action under these circumstances?
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Question 6 of 50
6. Question
Conflicts are common and unavoidable in projects. Which of following are the three most common sources of conflicts in projects?
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Question 7 of 50
7. Question
As the manager of a highly critical project, you walk into your office and receive a phone call from your client notifying you that they need an urgent review meeting about the delay that occurred in the delivery of one of the major pieces of equipment for the project. You open your e-mail and you get bombarded with the emails coming from two of your team about a conflict that started between them this morning. After a few minutes you get a phone call from one of them while the other one shows up at your office. Which conflict resolution technique would you use immediately?
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Question 8 of 50
8. Question
You have recently been assigned as the manager of a highly critical national project which should be finished in a very short period of time compared to the similar projects. After developing the first draft of the project network diagram you see that the project cannot be finished on time. If the network diagram cannot be changed anymore and you have extra human resources, what would be the best approach?
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Question 9 of 50
9. Question
You have just been hired as the project manager in a large company and given the approved project charter. You know that your company always undertakes very challenging projects and your project is not an exception. What should be your first course of action?
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Question 10 of 50
10. Question
As the manager of a large project, including a huge part of procurement activities, you are about to start project closure activities. All final deliverable of the project are validated. What should be your first step in project closure?
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Question 11 of 50
11. Question
You are managing a project which is facing some minor delays in the submission of a few project deliverables. You have been asked to a meeting with the team members in charge of the delayed deliverables. Which one of the following tools do you think is the best to be used during the meeting to show the project schedule status to the responsible team members?
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Question 12 of 50
12. Question
Which one of the following items determines the acceptable range of variation of a process on a control chart?
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Question 13 of 50
13. Question
Which technique is not a helpful practice in creating cultural compatibility for an agile approach?
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Question 14 of 50
14. Question
You have recently been assigned as the manager of a project after the previous manager quit the company. From the first meetings with the project team you discover that the morale of the team is very low. You speak to some of the team members in private and you feel that they were not given opportunities to participate in team development activities and that they did not have opportunities to grow. Which of the following is a primary factor for this situation?
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Question 15 of 50
15. Question
You are a junior project manager, currently performing schedule controlling activities. You approach one of your experienced colleagues for advice on how to reanalyze the project and predict the project’s remaining duration. She tells you to analyze the sequence of activities with the least amount of scheduling flexibility. Which technique is she referring to?
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Question 16 of 50
16. Question
Tom is managing a project and he has scheduled a number of training programs for his team. However, he knows that apart from planned training, unplanned training also takes place in a number of ways. Which of these is not one of the ways in which unplanned training can happen?
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Question 17 of 50
17. Question
As the project manager, you are reviewing the control chart related to one of the project deliverables, and you find seven data points in a row on one side of the mean. What should be your next action?
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Question 18 of 50
18. Question
As the manager of a large construction project you are currently conducting a meeting with the project management team to decide on a procurement contract. There are opposing views among the team members on the type of contract that best suits your situation. Which one of the following types of contracts have the most cost risk for your organization as a buyer?
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Question 19 of 50
19. Question
As a project manager you are approached by one of the project stakeholders asking for a change in the project work breakdown structure. The stakeholder brings enough reasons to show that the change does not affect the project time or cost. What is the best action for you in this situation?
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Question 20 of 50
20. Question
As a project manager, Tom is currently involved in the Control Procurements process. According to the records, one of the vendors has not delivered the items on time. The root-cause analysis shows that the problem was in the proposal evaluation activities that could have been done more accurately. What should Tom do at this point?
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Question 21 of 50
21. Question
All of the followings are examples of the cost of nonconformance except?
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Question 22 of 50
22. Question
As a project manager of a challenging software development project, you are in the middle of project execution when one of your team members approaches you and notifies you about a problem that has just happened and that was not included in the risk register. What would be your first action in this situation?
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Question 23 of 50
23. Question
You are assigned as the manager of a construction project and the project sponsor has provided you with a draft project charter and immediately asks you to provide a preliminary analysis of the risks on the project. Which of the following would BEST help this effort?
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Question 24 of 50
24. Question
You are asked by your management to provide an estimation of the costs of a new residential building project using the costs of an earlier residential building project that your company had carried out as the basis for your estimation. What type of estimation is this called?
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Question 25 of 50
25. Question
A project manager is performing Reserve Analysis as a technique in one of the project management processes that he is currently working on. Which of these is likely to be that process?
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Question 26 of 50
26. Question
Knowledge management involves the recording and transferring of experiences and skills to the organization in order to achieve project objectives. Both explicit and tacit knowledge are important for this purpose. One of the advantages of tacit knowledge is that
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Question 27 of 50
27. Question
As a software development project manager, you are approached by one of the software developers telling you that he has added additional features to the end product which were not required in the scope. He also mentions that adding those features did not take any extra time or cost. What should be your action in this situation?
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Question 28 of 50
28. Question
Your team is involved in selecting a seller for one of the important systems of the project. Two of your team members have a conflict over selecting the seller. One of them believes that you should choose company X while the other argues that company Y should be awarded the contract. Which one of the following will you refer the team to make the decision?
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Question 29 of 50
29. Question
You are managing a project which is suffering many changes since the initiation. You had to process a lot of changes and you did not have enough time to do anything else. Which one of the followings best describes what you should do in such a project?
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Question 30 of 50
30. Question
You are a software development project manager and currently you are in the process of developing the project risk management plan. Which of the following is not part of such a plan?
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Question 31 of 50
31. Question
You have just been assigned to manage a new change-driven project to create a website for one of the company’s best customers. Your team of five is experienced with this project approach and with the customer, although they are starting on the same day as you are. Based on your expertise, what would be the best leadership style you should employ with the team?
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Question 32 of 50
32. Question
You are managing a software development project budgeted at $360,000 according to the earned value analysis report which you have on your desk. As of today, you have spent $110,000, and the earned value is $120,000. According to your earned value figures, your SPI is 0.8. Which one of the following options best describes your project status?
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Question 33 of 50
33. Question
Tom is a project manager managing a bridge construction project for the first time. He has set up a series of interviews with various stakeholders to gather some experiential and historical information on some of the risks. Which process is Tom most probably involved in?
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Question 34 of 50
34. Question
Which of the following project management processes covers formal completion and handover of the final product/service?
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Question 35 of 50
35. Question
The project charter provides the project manager with some benefits and information. Which one of the following is most important for the project manager?
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Question 36 of 50
36. Question
Which one of the following statements is correct?
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Question 37 of 50
37. Question
What is the most appropriate guideline for managing documentation artifacts at the start of your agile project?
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Question 38 of 50
38. Question
What is the critical path with reference to the following network diagram?
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Question 39 of 50
39. Question
Which one the following is not a benefit of quality audits?
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Question 40 of 50
40. Question
Tom is a construction project manager and recently approached an insurance company to insure the project against the possible damages of storms that are predicted to happen in the winter. Which risk response strategy is Tom undertaking?
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Question 41 of 50
41. Question
Your project team developed a team charter at the start of the project, which is now midway to completion. The charter included a list of ground rules involving decision-making, meeting etiquette, and interpersonal behavior. At a recent meeting, one of the team members began to belittle the idea of another member, causing a heated discussion and everyone leaving the meeting. As the project manager, what should you do?
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Question 42 of 50
42. Question
You are managing a project with a lot of different detailed activities. The project is within budget and the SPI according to the latest earned value report is 1.2. The project risk review meetings are held according to an organized schedule and you are satisfied with the risk management activities of the project. However, you get notified by two different stakeholders that some of the project status reports are not accurate. Which tool will you use to verify whether there is a problem?
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Question 43 of 50
43. Question
Which one of the following is not an input to the initiating process group?
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Question 44 of 50
44. Question
You are manager of a project and after a periodic project schedule update, the scheduler working on your team comes to you with the following list of activities. He also mentions that the project is faced with 2 weeks of delay and as a corrective action he proposes to change the sequence and perform activity H concurrent with activity G, instead of after it. What would be your reaction?
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Question 45 of 50
45. Question
You are managing an IT project for an external client. The project is ahead of schedule and your next activities are testing and hand over. Which one of the followings will you be more concerned about in this situation?
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Question 46 of 50
46. Question
As the product owner of an agile social media app project, you noticed that a competitor has just released an exciting new feature for their app. You realize that this feature will be well-received. What action should you take?
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Question 47 of 50
47. Question
A project manager is trying to plan for a contingency reserve as part of the cost estimates for the project. Which of these would be an incorrect way to plan for contingency reserves?
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Question 48 of 50
48. Question
As a project manager you are reviewing a report of the actual cost of the completed work packages. You realize that a few work packages are completed with an actual cost which is substantially lower than their budgeted cost. You will immediately do all of the following actions except?
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Question 49 of 50
49. Question
You are a project manager and your company has just completed an unexpected round of layoffs. Morale is low, and human resources are tighter than ever. Your project is now behind schedule because of the loss of resources. Overtime work will be required of everyone for the next several weeks in order to close the gap. One of the critical resources on your project has an upcoming vacation that was approved and scheduled months ago. However, without this resource you will be unable to get back on schedule. What do you do?
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Question 50 of 50
50. Question
As the project manager you are negotiating a contract with a seller. You want to go in for a fixed price type of contract. Which other terminology could be used to refer to the fixed price type of contract?
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