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Your team is split between two buildings on either side of town. As a result, the team isn't very cohesive because the members don't know each other very well. The team is still in the storming stage because of the separation issues. Which of the following should you consider? A. Corrective action B. Collocation C. Training D. Conflict resolution
1240Your project team is a close group all busily working on project activities. They're close to approaching the performing stage of Team Development. All six members must communicate frequently with each other. How many lines of communication are there? A. 12 B. 15 C. 18 D. 14
1009Project managers use this conflict resolution technique most often： A. Smoothing B. Confronting C. Naming D. Forcing
1067You 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.
1021You are a fabulous project manager, and your team thinks highly of you. You are well respected by the stakeholders, management ream, and project team. When you make decisions, others follow your lead as a result of which of the following? A. Referent power B. Expert power C. Legitimate power D. Punishment power
1057Theory Y managers believe which of the following? A. That people are motivated only by money, power, or position B. That people will perform their best if they're given proper motivation and expectations C. That people are motivated to achieve a high level of competency D. That people are motivated by expectation of good outcomes
1055You have accumulated project information throughout the project and need to distribute some important information you just received. All of the following are part of information distribution methods except; A. Electronic mail B. Videoconferencing C. Electronic databases D. Voice mail
1081You know that the next status meeting will require some discussion and a decision for a problem that has surfaced on the project. In order to make the most accurate decision, you know that the number of participants in the meeting should be limited to: A. 1 to 5 B. 5 to 11 C. 7 to 16 D. 10 to 18
991You are a project manager for Dakota Software Consulting Services. You're working with a major retailer that offers their products through mail-order catalogs. They're interested in knowing customer characteristics, the amounts of first-time orders, and similar information. As a potential bidder for this project, you worked on the RFP response and submitted the proposal. When the selection committee received the RFP responses from all the vendors bidding on this project, they used a weighted system to make a selection. Which process did this occur in? A. Source Selection B. Solicitation C. Requisition D. Contract Administration
1130You have been asked to submit a proposal for a project that has been put out for bid. First, you attend the bidders conference to ask questions of the buyers and to hear the questions some of the other bidders will ask. Which of the following is true? A. Bidders conferences are a tool and technique of the Source Selection process. B. Bidders conferences are an output of the Source Selection process. C. Bidders conferences are an output of the Solicitation process. D. Bidders conferences are a tool and technique of the Solicitation process.
955You 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.
901The tools and techniques of the Source Selection process include all of the following except: A. Contract negotiation B. Correspondence C. Independent estimates D. Screening system
947Which of the following processes negotiates the sequence of award by rank ordering the proposals? A. Source Selection B. Solicitation C. Contract Administration D. Procurement
1176During the opening rounds of contract negotiation, the other party uses a fait accompli lactic. Which of the following is true? A. One party agrees to accept the offer of the other party but secretly knows they will bring the issue hack up at a later time. B. One party claims the issue under discussion was documented and accepted as part of Scope Verification. C. One party claims the issue under discussion has already been decided and can't be changed. D. One party claims to accept the offer of the other party provided a contract change request is submitted describing the offer in detail.
974Your procurement department has obtained independent estimates. The vendor's proposal is substantially different than the independent estimates. All of the following are true except: A. The SOW was not detailed enough. B. The vendor failed to respond according to the terms of the proposal. C. The vendor failed to respond to all items in the SOW. D. The vendor failed to respond to all items in the contract.
1058Post New Project Management Questions
Your hardware vendor left you voicemail saying that a snowstorm in the Midwest will prevent your equipment from arriving on time. You identified a risk response for this risk and have arranged for a local company to lease you the needed equipment until yours arrives. This is an example of which risk response strategy? A. Transference B. Acceptance C. Mitigation D. Avoidance
How will you measure software quality?
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
Your project sponsor has requested a cost estimate for the project. She would like the cost estimate to be as accurate as possible as this might be her one and only chance to secure the budget for this project due to recent cuts in special projects. You decide: A. To use analogous estimating techniques B. To use bottom-up estimating techniques C. To use top-down estimating techniques D. To use expert judgment techniques
Project managers have the greatest amount of authority in which kind of organizational structure? A. Functional B. Projectized C. Weak matrix D. Balanced matrix
You've constructed the WBS for your recent project. Level two assignments have been made, and you've requested that the sub project manager’s report back to you in 3 weeks with each of their individual WBS constructed. All of the following are true except: A. The work package level facilitates resource assignments. B. The work package level is the lowest level in the WBS. C. The work package level defines the agreed-upon deliverables. D. The work package level facilitates cost and time estimates. ?
Which of the following is true? A. Discounted cash flow analysis is the least precise of the cash flow techniques as it does not consider the time value of money. B. NPV is the least precise of the cash flow analysis techniques as it assumes reinvestment at the discount rate. C. Payback period is the least precise of the cash flow analysis techniques as it does not consider the time value of money. D. IRR is the least precise of the cash flow analysis techniques because it assumes reinvestment at the cost of capital.
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.
You are the project manger for Xylophone Phonics. They produce children's software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You're performing cost estimates for your project and don't have a lot of details yet. You will use which of the following techniques? A. Analogous estimating techniques, because this is a form of expert judgment that uses historical information from similar projects B. Bottom-up estimating techniques because this is a form of expert judgment that uses historical information from similar projects C. Monte Carlo Analysis, because this is a modeling technique that uses simulation to determine estimates D. Parametric modeling, because this is a form of simulation used to determine estimates
What are the tools and techniques used in the Initiation process? A. Project selection criteria, historical information, expert judgment B. Project selection methods, historical information, expert judgment C. Project selection criteria, expert judgment D. Project selection methods, expert judgment
Which performance measurement is the cost of work budgeted for an activity within a certain time frame? A. AV B. PV C. EV D. EAC
The amount of authority a project manager possesses can be related to: A. The project manager’s communication skills B. The organizational structure C. The amount of authority the manager of the project manager possesses D. The project manager's influencing skills
All of the following are types of project closures or endings except: A. Addition B. Integration C. Verification D. Extinction
All of the following are true regarding the WBS except: A. It is a deliverables-oriented grouping of project deliverables and elements. B. It defines and organizes the work of the project in a hierarchical form. C. It provides a framework for the work of the project, and work not shown on the WBS is not included in the project. D. It defines all the deliverables of the project, but the activities level should not be listed on the WBS.
Which of the following is true regarding product descriptions? A. The product description is an output of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service. B. The product description is an output of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service and less detail in the early phases of the project. C. The product description is an input of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service and contains a lot of detail in the early phases of the project. D. The product description is an input of the Initiation process. It describes the characteristics of the product or service.
