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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've been told that it is culturally unacceptable to eat certain foods in this country. You know that one of these foods happens to be a secret ingredient in the pizza sauce. What is the most appropriate response? A. Inform the potential partners that your sauce recipe is secret, but you’re certain there are no forbidden ingredients in it. B. Inform the potential partners that you suspect there might be a forbidden ingredient in the sauce and you'll request an investigation to determine if any of them exist in the sauce. C. Inform the potential partners that a forbidden ingredient exists in the sauce and determine to work with them to come up with another ingredient to replace that one. D. Don't tell the potential partners about the ingredient because the sauce they'll be using in the stores is shipped to them already prepared in cans. They won't know the ingredient is in the sauce.
You are the project manager for the Late Night Smooth Jazz Club chain, with stores in 12 states. Smooth Jazz is considering opening a new club in Kansas City or Spokane. You have derived the following information: Project Kansas City: The payback period is 27 months, and the IRR is 35 percent. Project Spokane: The payback period is 25 months, and the IRR is 32 percent. Which project should you recommend to the selection committee? A. Project Spokane because the payback period is shortest B. Project Kansas City because the IRR is highest C. Project Spokane because the IRR is lowest D. Project Kansas City because the payback period is longest ?
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.
As a project manager, you're responsible for maintaining and ensuring integrity for all of the following except: A. Personal integrity of others B. Project management process C. Personal integrity D. Product integrity
Each of the following describes an element of the Scope Definition process except: A. Breaking down the major deliverables of the project into smaller, manageable components B. Supporting detail C. Decomposition D. Improving the accuracy of time and cost estimates
All of the following are types of project closures or endings except: A. Addition B. Integration C. Verification D. Extinction
Your company manufactures small kitchen appliances. They are introducing a new product line of appliances in designer colors with distinctive features for kitchens in small spaces. These new products will be offered indefinitely starting with the spring catalog release. Which of the following is true? A. This is a project because this new product line has never been manufactured and sold by this company before. B. This is an ongoing operation because the company is in the business of manufacturing kitchen appliances. Introducing designer colors and features is simply a new twist on an existing process. C. This is an ongoing operation because the new product line will be sold indefinitely. It's not temporary. D. This is not a project or an ongoing operation. This is a new product introduction not affecting ongoing operations.
You are the project manager for a web development project. You hold regular project status meetings and publish status reports on a timely basis. You know that communication is one of your most important functions. As such, all of the following are true except: A. Senders are responsible for sending clear, concise, complete messages. B. Receivers are responsible for understanding the message. C. Communication can be vertical or horizontal or both. D. Effective communication techniques include making eye contact, nodding, and asking clarifying questions.
Which of the following might require rebaselining of the cost baseline? A. Corrective action B. Revised cost estimates C. Updates to the cost management plan D. Budget updates
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 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 to identify the variables that will have the greatest effect on project outcomes? A. Design of experiments B. Bench marking C. Benefit/cost analysis D. Flow charting