You are project manager for an engineering company. Your company won the bid to add ramp-metering lights to several on-ramps along a stretch of highway at the south end of the city. You subcontracted a portion of the project to another company. The subcontractor's work involves digging the holes and setting the lamp poles in concrete. The subcontractor's performance is not meeting the contract requirements. All of the following are valid options except:
A. You document the poor performance in written form and send the correspondence to the subcontractor change request through Contract Administration.
B. You terminate the contract for poor performance and submit a change request through Contract Administration.
C. You submit a change request through Contract Administration to ask the subcontractor to comply with the terms of the contract.
D. You agree to meet with the subcontractor to see if a satisfactory solution can be reached.
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You have been assigned to a project that will allow job seekers to fill out applications and submit them via the company website. You report to the VP of human resources. You are also responsible for screening applications for the information technology division and setting up interviews. The project coordinator has asked for the latest version of your changes to the online application page for his review. Which organizational structure do you work in? A. Functional organization B. Weak matrix organization C. Projectized organization D. Balanced matrix organization
You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your project is to develop a website for the company that allows retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered. This project involves coordinating the parent company, growers, and distributors. You are preparing a performance review and have the following measurements at hand: PV = 300; AC = 200; and EV = 250. What is the CPI of this project? A. 0.80 B. 1.25 C. 1.5 D. 0.83
You are a project manager for Candy Works candy factory. Your project involves reporting information from the newly installed candy-counting machine to the financial system. This will give executives the ability to see production run counts at any time during the day. You need to purchase an expensive piece of hardware as part of this project. One of the vendors bidding on the project is a close friend. In order to win the bid, she needs to know how much money the company is willing to spend on the equipment and consulting. Your friend asks you to give her this confidential information and not tell anyone you did. Which of the following is the most appropriate response? A. Tell your friend that as a PMP, you're required to abide by the Project Management Professional Code of Professional Conduct and this would violate the code as it's a conflict of interest. B. Tell your friend that as a PMP, you're required to abide by the Project Management Professional Code of Professional Conduct and this would violate the code as it’s a personal gain. C. Tell your friend that as a PMP, you're required to abide by the Project Management Professional Standards and Ethics Code and this would violate the code as it’s a conflict of interest. D. Tell your friend that as a PMP, you’re required to abide by the Project Management Professional Standards and Ethics Code and this would violate the code as it’s an ethics violation.
You know that BAC = 375, PV = 300, AC = 200, and EV = 250. Variances that have occurred on the project to date are not expected to continue. What is the ETC? A. 75 B. 50 C. 125 D. 150
You are a project manager for a network cabling project for your organization. Your project team is made up of six full-time employees and three contractors. This is the first time they have all worked together. This project requires accurate information exchange at all times during the life of the project. How many lines of communication exist among the project team members? A.36 B.41 C.18 D.34
Which of the following describes a unique characteristic of the project Executing and Controlling processes? A. The core processes in the Executing and Controlling processes are from the Project Integration knowledge area from the Project Integration knowledge area. B. Both the Executing and Controlling processes measure variances in project performance and use corrective action to bring performance hack in line with the plan. C. Executing is an input to the Controlling processes, and Controlling is an input to Execution. D. Executing and controlling each have only one core process.
You are a project manager for Capella Systems. Your company writes custom software for accounting and financial systems for medium- to large-sized corporations. Your recent project has experienced some setbacks, and you've been forced to rework the design of one of the programs because it doesn't match the customer's requirements. Since some parts of the program have already been written, it will have to be rewritten so that it matches the design changes. This rework has increased costs, and you're beginning to notice some signs of poor morale because of the rework. Which of the following is true? A. The problems occurred because the WBS was not constructed properly. B. The quality assurance plan was carried out correctly, which is how the design problems were discovered. C. The problems occurred as a result of poor scope definition. D. The Risk Management Planning process details these kinds of risks and the responses you should put into place should they occur.
Which of the following are tools and techniques of the Initiation process? A. Project selection methods and expert judgment B. Project selection criteria and expert judgment C. Constraints and assumptions and expert judgment D. Expert judgment and project charter
You are a project manager for an agricultural supply company. You have just completed and obtained sign-off on the scope statement for your new Natural Bug Busters project. A key stakeholder has informed you that a deliverable is missing from the scope statement. This deliverable is a critical success factor. You should do which of the following? A. Inform the stakeholder that work not stated in the scope statement is excluded from the project. B. Modify the scope statement to reflect the new deliverable. C. Inform the stakeholder that this deliverable can be included in the next project since sign-off has already been obtained. D. Modify the scope statement after an approved change request has been received from the stakeholder.
You are the project manager for Heartthrobs by the Numbers Dating Services. You’re working on an updated Internet site that will display pictures as well as short bios of prospective heartbreakers. You have your activity list and resource requirements in hand and are planning on using qualitatively based durations and reserve time to determine activity durations. Which of the following is true? A. You are using inputs of the Activity Duration Estimating process. B. You are using tools and techniques of the Cost Estimating process. C. You are using tools and techniques of the Activity Duration Estimating process. D. You are using inputs of the Cost Estimating process.
You are a project manager for Fountain of Youth Spring Water bottlers. You are installing a new accounting system and have identified several problems and their causes. You decide to use which of the following flowcharts to diagram the problems' causes and effects? A. Decision tree diagram B. Fishbone diagram C. Benchmark diagram D. Simulation tree diagram
You are the project manager for Changing Tides video games. You have produced a project network diagram and have updated the activity list. Which process have you just finished? A. The Activity Sequencing process, which identifies all the specific activities of the project B. The Activity Sequencing process, which identifies all the activity dependencies C. The Activity Duration Estimating process, which diagrams project network time estimates D. The Activity Duration Estimating process, which identifies all the dependent activities of the project