What are the skills required to be a project manager?
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Answer Posted / chandrajeet kishore
a PM SHOULB BE A COMPLETE PACKAGE OF MANAGERIAL
SKILL,FINANCIAL SKILL.HE &SHE SHOUL BE GO GETTER ATTITUDE&
LEADERSHIP QUALITY.A PM SHOULB BE MULTITASKING CAPABILITY.
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If you know expected value is 500 and the standard deviation is 12, you can say with approximately a 95 percent confidence rating which of the following? A. The activity will take between 488 and 512 days. B. The activity will take between 464 and 536 days. C. The activity will take between 494 and 506 days. D. The activity will take between 476 and 524 days.
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.
You are a project manager working on contract with a company in a foreign country. At the project kick-off meeting, you are given an expensive-looking gift. The person who presented this to you said that it is customary in their country to give their business partners gifts. What is the most appropriate response? A. Thank them and decline. Explain that this is considered personal gain, which is unacceptable in your country. B. Thank them and accept. You don't believe there is a conflict of interest or an integrity issue at stake. C. Thank them and decline. Explain that this is considered a conflict of interest, which is unacceptable in your country. D. Thank them and accept since you know that it would be considered offensive to decline the gift in their culture. Immediately report the acceptance of the gift to the appropriate parties at your company so that your actions are not called into question later.
All of the following are true about decomposition except: A. It's an output of the Scope Definition process. B. It's a tool and technique of the Scope Definition process. C. It is used to create a WBS. D. It subdivides the major deliverables into smaller components.
What is one of the problems with project management software? A. The project manager manages the software instead of the project B. Project duration calculations are sometimes approximate. C. You cannot override the project management software decisions regarding schedules. D. It’s expensive and difficult to use.
You are a project manager responsible for the construction of a new office complex. You are taking over for a project manager who recently left the company. The prior project manager completed the project charter and the scope statement for this project. In your interviews with some key stakeholders, you conclude that the scope statement was poorly constructed. You know all of the following are true except: A. It will be difficult to assess future project decisions from this scope statement. B. It will be difficult to decompose the deliverables from this scope statement. C. It will be difficult to assess cost and time estimates from this scope statement. D. It will be difficult to create an accurate WBS from this scope statement.
Your 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
You do not expect the types of variances that have occurred on the project to date to continue. If BAC = 300, ETC = 275, PV= 300, AC = 200, EV = 250, and CPI = 1.25, what is the EAC? A. 240 B. 250 C. 475 D. 150
You are a project manager for Giraffe Enterprises. You've recently taken over for a project manager who lied about his PMI certification and was subsequently fired. Unfortunately, he did a poor job of Scope Definition. You know if you don't correct this, one of the following could happen: A. The stakeholders will require overtime from the project team to keep the project on schedule. B. The WBS will adversely affect the deliverable breakdowns, and costs will increase. C. The scope management plan will require changes. D. The project costs could increase, there might be rework, and schedule delays may result.
What are the framework activities and umbrella activities?
How does a project manager can avoid the above given ten points for the success of project.
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You are a project manager for Bluebird Technologies. Bluebird writes custom billing applications for several industries. A scope change has been requested. You know change is concerned with all of the following except: A. Managing change B. Verifying change C. Influencing causes of change D. Determining that a change occurred
