You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store.
Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country. You have been invited to dinner with the prospective foreign business partners and their spouses upon your arrival. You know that all of the following are generally true except:
A. You should spend time building relationships with your prospective foreign business partners before getting down to business.
B. You should explain your company's rules, standards, and operating policies at your first meeting with the prospective foreign business partners.
C. You should build an atmosphere of mutual trust and cooperation.
D. You should respect the cultural differences you'll encounter when working with your prospective foreign business partners.
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The product description, strategic plan, project selection criteria, and historical information are considered: A. Inputs to the project Planning process B. Inputs to the project Overview process C. Inputs to the project Initiation process D. Inputs to the project Execution process
You are the project manager for Zippy Tees. Your company has decided to outsource the manufacturing of miniature bears to be attached to your trendy T-shirts. Which of the following is true? A. A good product description is all that's required. The project manager will supply this to the vendor. B. The contract can serve as the project charter. The product description will be included in the contract. C. The project manager should write the project charter because the project manager will be managing the vendor portion of this project as well. D. The vendor should write the project charter as they are responsible for manufacturing the bears.
You are a contract project manager working with the State of Bliss. Your latest project involves rewriting the Department of Revenue's income tax system. As project manager, you have taken all the appropriate actions regarding confidentiality of data. One of the key stakeholders is a huge movie huff, and she has the power to promote you into a better position at the conclusion of this project. She's reviewing some report data that just happens to include confidential information regarding one of her favorite movie superstars. What is the most appropriate response? A. Report her to the management team. B. Request that she immediately return the information, citing conflict of interest and violation of confidential company data. C. Do nothing as she has the proper level of access rights to the data and this information showed up unintentionally. D. Request that she immediately return the information until you can confirm that she has the proper level of access rights to the data.
Which of the following contracts should you use for projects that have a degree of uncertainty and require a large investment early in the project life cycle? A. Fixed price B. Cost reimbursable C. Lump sum D. Unit price
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
You have been asked to submit a proposal for a project that has been put out for bid. Prior to submitting the proposal, your company must register so that their firm is on the qualified seller list. Which of the following is true? A. The qualified seller list provides information about the sellers and is a tool and technique of the Solicitation process. B. The qualified seller list provides information about the project and the company that wrote the RFP and is an input to the Solicitation process. C. The qualified seller list provides information about the project and the company that wrote the RFP and is a tool and technique of the Source Selection process. D. The qualified seller list provides information about the sellers and is an input to the Solicitation process.
You are the project manager for Fun Days vacation packages. Your new project assignment is to head up the Fun Days resort opening in Austin, Texas. You are estimating the duration of the project plan activities, devising the project schedule, and monitoring and controlling deviations from the schedule. Which of the Project Management Knowledge Areas are you working in? A. Project Scope B. Project Quality C. Project Integration D. Project Time
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All of the following are benefits of meeting quality requirements except: A. An increase in stakeholder satisfaction B. Less rework C. Low turnover D. Higher productivity
What will you do, if your subordinate has a problem with you? How will you deal with this situation
A negative result from an SV calculation means which of the following? A. PV is higher than EV. B. PV equals one. C. EV is higher than PV. D. EV is higher than AC.
Performance reporting tools and techniques include all of the following except: A. Earned value analysis B. Statistical sampling C. Variance analysis D. Performance reviews