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.
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You are going to take some performance measurements for your current project. You know that PV = 450, AC = 500, and EV = 375. What is the CV and SV respectively? A. CV = 125, and SV = 75 B. CV=-75, and SV=-125 C. CV = 75, and SV = 125 D. CV=-125, and SV=-75
You are a project manager for a telecommunications firm. You're working on a project that entails upgrading technical hardware and equipment. The estimated cost of the hardware and equipment is $1,725,000. You are reviewing products from three different vendors. One of the vendors invites you to lunch. What is the most appropriate response? A. Thank them but let them know this could be a conflict of interest since you haven't made a decision about which vendor you're going to choose. B. Thank them and decline. You know this could be considered personal gain, which could call your integrity into question. C. Thank them and accept. You don't believe there is a conflict of interest or a personal integrity issue. D. Thank them and decline. You believe this could be a conflict of interest on the part of the vendor, and you don't want to encourage that behavior.
Project managers use this conflict resolution technique most often: A. Smoothing B. Confronting C. Naming D. Forcing
You’ve been assigned as a project manager on a research and development project for a new dental procedure. You’ve published the scope statement and are working on the scope management plan. What is the purpose of the scope management plan? A. It describes and documents a scope baseline to help make future project decisions. B. It decomposes project deliverables. C. It describes how project scope changes will be incorporated into the project and how project scope will be managed. D. It describes how cost and time estimates can be composed for project scope changes.
You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to direct customer calls to an Interactive Voice Response system before being connected to a live agent. You are in charge of the media communications for this project. You report lo the project manager in charge of this project and the VP of marketing, who share responsibility for this project. Which organizational structure do you work in? A. Functional organization B. Weak matrix organization C. Projectized organization D. Balanced matrix organization
What are the inputs to the Initiation process? A. Product description, strategic plan, project selection criteria, and historical information B. Product description, strategic plan, project overview document, and historical information C. Strategic plan, project overview document, feasibility study, and historical information D. Product description, strategic plan, constraints, and assumptions
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This process applies evaluation criteria to the bids and proposals received from potential vendors: A. Solicitation B. Contract Administration C. Source Selection D. Quality Assurance
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You are a project manager who believes people will always perform at their best if given the proper expectations and motivation. Which theory do you subscribe to? A. Theory X B. Hygiene theory C. Contingency theory D. Theory Y
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.
Mathematical models using linear, dynamic, integer, or algorithm models are considered: A. Project selection criteria B. A form of expert judgment C. Project selection methods D. A form of historical information