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Your project is behind schedule due to conflict between team members. Having resolved the conflict, to get the project back on schedule, you should consider:

A control chart helps the project manager :

One common way to compute estimate at completion (EAC) is to take the budget at completion (BAC) and :

Characteristics of a good project manager include all of the following except :

A process is a series of actions to bring about a result. In a project, the five basic process groups (PG) are:

During the contract close-out, the project manager needs to document the:

You are managing a group of related or unrelated projects or programs and other work and achieve specific strategic business objectives and goals. You are a................

Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include:

Elements of changing a project schedule include all of the following EXCEPT:

The decomposition process is a technique used to construct a:

Virtual team is a tool for which of the following processes ?

A controlling process is necessary in project management to ensure planned actions are executed and measured for progress. The controlling process for the schedule typically will focus on:

Which one of the following is FALSE about change management in a project ?

The subprocesses of a project are linked by one subprocess providing an output that feeds one or more subprocesses as an input. Thus, subprocess are defined by PMI as  having an input,________,, and an output.

All of the following will occur during project initiating EXCEPT :

One way that the graphical evaluation and review technique (GERT) differs from the program evaluation and review technique (PERT) is that it:

You just identified a new external risk during the executing phase that may impact your project positively. What is your first step ?

Effective stakeholder management includes all of the following  project elements EXCEPT:

Which of the following techniques is used to control the project  schedule?

Which of the following is output of Manage Project Knowledge process ?

All of the following assist in determining the impact of a scope change EXCEPT:

When a product or service completely meets customer's requirements :

Planning a project is a process that develops products such as a schedule. This process produces the following for a schedule:

A project management professional can compare earned value performance data to all of the following project management tools EXCEPT:

An individual's willingness to take a risk can be determined by:

A project was estimated to cost \$1.5 million and scheduled to last six months. After three months, the earned value analysis shows the following: BCWP = \$650,000 BCWS = \$750,000 ACWP = \$800,000 What are the schedule and cost variances?

You have just taken control of a project in the middle of execution and need to learn who has approval authority for revisions in scope.  Which document provides this information?

As of the data date, your project schedule has a BCWS of 100. The BCWP, however, is  90. This tells you that your project is currently 10 percent:

Sometimes a project coordinator is an assigned role of organization. which of the following statements is NOT true for a project coordinator ?

The sender-receiver model is a basic model of communication that demonstrates how information is sent from the sender and how it is received by the receiver. This model is designed to assist project managers and team members in improving their communication skills. This communication model highlights mostly on which one of the following ?

During project executing, a team member comes to the project manager because he is not sure what work he needs to accomplish on the project. Which of the following documents contain detailed descriptions of the work packages ?

When should the Validate Scope process be done ?

Which of the following is a KEY output of the Validate Scope process ?

A project loses a contractor in the middle of a project. A new project team is formed to replace the role of the lost contractor and his/her  team. As a project manager, what is the FIRST topic to address to the team in the kick-off meeting?

You are asked by management to select a contract type that will obligate the seller to accept all liability for poor workmanship, engineering errors, and consequential damages in the project. Which of the following contact types will you select ?

if the optimistic estimate for an activity is 12 days, and the pessimistic estimate is 18 days, what is the standard deviation of this activity ?

Which of the following is driven by the organization's risk tolerance ?

The primary purpose of the stakeholder register is :

Which of the following is NOT a typical characteristic of a project management office (PMO) ?

The disorientation experienced by people who suddenly find themselves living and working in a different environment is known as:

At your project, EV = \$130,500 ; PV = \$125,000 ; and AC = \$129,000. Which one the following statement is true ?

In which project phase do you have the GREATEST influence on project risk?

A KEY activity for achieving customer satisfaction is to define:

A project manager has a problem with a team member's performance. What is the BEST form of communication for addressing this problem ?

Which of the following is true regarding the project charter ?

You will be overseeing a project to develop a smartphone application. While analyzing your project, you identify that there is a 55 percent probability of making \$120,000, a 45 percent probability losing \$55,000. What does \$41,250 represent in this case ?

Configuration management is a technique for:

As part of the quality audit, the scope statement is checked against the work results to ensure the conformance to the customer  requirements. The results should be documented and used for:

A likely result of using "compromise" to resolve a two-party conflict is:

A project manager has six stakeholders during requirement gathering phase but the number increase to eleven in the design phase. How many additional channels communication were added at design phase ?

All of the following should be done during the closing process group EXCEPT :

In a fixed price incentive fee contract, the target cost is estimated at \$250,000 and the fee at \$35,000. The actual cost came to be \$210,000, since there was a cost saving, the seller shares the saving at a 70/30 ratio ( 70% to the buyer and 30% to the seller). What the final fee and final price ?

You are considering the idea of putting all team member in the same physical location for the first time. All of the following is true about colocation, reporting structure, and other items. Which of the following is not true about co-location ?

Negotiating across international cultures involves mutual interdependence between parties. The negotiating MUST be conducted in

A project's payback period ends when:

A project had a list of identified risks. This list was the risks register. Where can one find the high-level risk ?

 A CPI value of 1.20 and an SPI value of 1.30 for a project mean which of the following ?

Risk response development is intended to:

You have just been assigned as project manager for a large telecommunications project. This one year project is about halfway done. The project team consists of 5 sellers and 20 of your company's employees. You want to understand who is responsible for doing what on project. Where would you find such information ?

Project sponsors have the GREATEST influence on the scope, quality, time, and cost of the project during the: