What is the name of the unplanned response used to deal with negative risk events in the Risk Monitoring and Control process?
A. Mitigation
B. Contingency plans
C. Workarounds
D. Corrective action
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You’ve just accepted a new project management assignment. The project is for a customer in a foreign country. You've requested a business analyst and two other project team members from the country the customer resides in to participate on your team. The remaining team members are from your country. You know that the best way to ensure the project team doesn’t get bogged down in cultural differences and hold up project progress is to: A. Perform team-building exercises using videoconferencing to allow team members to get to know each other and get to the performing stage of team development as soon as possible. B. Provide diversity training for all the team members to make them aware of cultural differences and teach them to function effectively as a team despite these differences. C. Establish your role as project manager as the first order of business and require compliance to company policies. D. Require project team members to read and sign the organization’s diversity policy.
Comparative methods, scoring methods, and economic and cash flow analysis are all part of which of the following? A. Benefit measurement methods, which are a tool and technique in Initiation B. Constrained optimization methods, which are a tool and technique C. Benefit measurement methods, which are an input to Initiation D. Decision models, which are an output of Initiation
Information-gathering techniques used in the Risk Identification process include all of the following except: A. Brainstorming B. Delphi technique C. Interviewing D. Kaizen technique
You are a project manager for Star Light Strings. Star Light manufactures strings of lights for outdoor display. Their products range from simple tight strings to elaborate lights with animal designs, bug designs, memorabilia, and so on. Your newest project requires a change. One of the business unit managers submitted a change through the change control system, which utilizes a CCB. Which of the following is true regarding the CCB? A. Describes how change requests are managed B. Requires all change requests in writing C. Approves or denies change requests D. Requires updates to the appropriate management plan
You have been hired as a contract project manager for Grapevine Vineyards. Grapevine wants you to design an Internet wine club for their customers. Customers must pre-register before being allowed to order wine over the Internet so that legal age can be established. You tested using data from Grapevine's existing database. This new module cannot be tested until the data from the existing system is loaded. This is an example of which of the following? A. Preferential logic B. Soft logic C. Discretionary dependency D. Hard logic
What is the purpose of the project charter? A. To recognize and acknowledge the project sponsor B. To recognize and acknowledge the existence of the project and commit organizational resources to the project C. To acknowledge the existence of the project team, project manager, and project sponsor D. To describe the selection methods used to choose this project over its competitors
Which of the following is true regarding the scope statement? A. It describes how to make changes to project scope. B. It describes project deliverables and serves as a baseline for future project decisions. C. It assesses the stability of the project scope and is a baseline for future project decisions. D. It assesses the reliability of the project scope and describes the frequency of changes and their impacts.
You are a project manager for Dutch Harbor Consulting. Your latest project involved the upgrade of an organization’s operating system on 236 servers. You performed this project under contract. You are in the Closing process and know that product verification is for what purpose? A. To verify the goals of the project and assure the product of the project is complete B. To evaluate all the work of the project and compare results to project scope C. To verify all the work was completed correctly and satisfactorily D. To evaluate project goals and assure the product of the project meets the requirements
Your company is going to introduce a new service called Phone Home. This service will allow you to speak the name of the person you want to call into your cellular phone. To call home, you would simply speak the word home into the phone, and it will dial that number for you. Your company is taking advantage of the progress that has been made recently with voice recognition software. Initial projections show that market demand is very high for this product. This project came about as a result of which of the following? A. Marketing demand B. Customer request C. Business need D. Technological advance
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 rime during the day. The project sponsor has promised you a bonus if you get this project completed two weeks sooner than the scheduled project end date. The bonus will come in handy on your trip to the Bahamas planned for later this spring. You've got a few remaining project activities to wrap up before you can close out the project. Which of the following is the most appropriate response? A. You tell the sponsor the project is complete and treat the remaining activities as though they're problems that came up after project closure so that you can still get the bonus. B. You tell the sponsor the remaining activities are outside the scope of the project so the project really is completed and collect your bonus. C. You tell the sponsor the stakeholders added these requirements after the project was well under way and you never agreed to include them in the project so the project really is complete, and you collect your bonus. D. You tell the sponsor you aren't going to make the two-week early completion date as there are remaining activities to finish up.
This tool and technique of Quality Control keeps errors from reaching the customer: A. Inspection B. Prevention C. Corrective action D. Performance measurement
Which of the following brings together a set of tools and techniques used to describe, organize, and monitor the work of project activities? A. Project managers B. Guide to the PMBOK C. Project management D. Stakeholders