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What should a project manager do with low-priority risks?

A.

Ignore low-priority risks

B.

Monitor periodically with other low-priority risks

C.

Create a mitigation plan for the low-priority risks

D.

Increase the contingency reserve

You are the project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost.

What action should be taken?

A.

The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.

B.

The project manager should add an activity to the project management plan with no associated time.

C.

The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.

D.

The project manager should create a change control form and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.

Management styles associated with production environments, such as assembly lines commonly include:

A.

assumption that workers lack ambition and dislike responsibility

B.

All of the other alternatives apply.

C.

a directing style of leadership.

D.

a lack of confidence in their workers

E.

a Theory X style of leadership

A project manager has finished the project. He knows that the project scope has been completed and is within cost and time objectives set by management. Management, however, says that the project is a failure, because the original schedule was for 27 weeks and the project was completed in 33 weeks. If the project baseline was 33 weeks, the project is a success because:

A.

It only had six weeks of changes.

B.

It was completed within the baseline.

C.

There were so few changes.

D.

There was good communication control.

Which of the following is NOT included in a schedule change control system?

A.

Approval levels necessary for authorizing changes

B.

Tracking systems

C.

Paperwork necessary for making changes

D.

Limitations on the scope of changes

What component of the project scope definition defines project exclusions?

A.

Project boundaries

B.

Project constraints

C.

Project assumptions

D.

Project objectives

Which of the following is an output of the Estimate Activity Resources process?

A.

Alternative analysis

B.

Bottom-up estimating

C.

Resource breakdown structure

D.

Enterprise environmental factors

The seller tells you that your activities have resulted in an increase in their costs. You should:

A.

Recommend a change to the project costs.

B.

Have a meeting with management to find out what to do.

C.

Ask the seller for supporting information.

D.

Deny any wrongdoing.

The performing organization is trying to decide whether to split the contracts department and assign procurement responsibilities to departments directly responsible for the projects. A procurement professional might not want this split to occur because they would lose ___________ in a decentralized contracting environment.

A.

Standardized company project management practices

B.

Loyalty to the project

C.

Experience

D.

Access to others with similar expertise

What is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?

A.

Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)

B.

Work Performance Information

C.

Work Package

D.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?

A.

Risk response planning

B.

Manage stakeholders

C.

Scope definition

D.

Performance reporting

The basic elements of communication include:

A.

Reading, writing and listening

B.

Communicator, encoding, message, medium, decoding, receiver, and feedback

C.

All of the other alternatives apply

D.

Clarity of speech and good listening habits

E.

Listening, talking and sign language.

Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?

A.

Marketplace conditions and commercial databases

B.

Marketplace conditions and company structure

C.

Commercial databases and company structure

D.

Existing human resources and market place conditions

A new project manager is having difficulty creating a WBS with the team. To alleviate this situation, the project manager should ask for help from:

A.

The sponsor.

B.

Other project managers.

C.

The project management office.

D.

The team.

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Which schedule format usually shows both the project network logic and the project’s critical path

A.

schedule activities with activity date information?

B.

Schedule table

C.

Schedule network diagram

D.

Bar chart

E.

Milestone chart