Andrew is the project manager of a project and is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct response of implementing this risk response, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These would be termed as:
A. Secondary risks
B. Primary risks
C. Planned risks
D. Workaround
A first-time project manager is advised by an experienced project manager that he needs to plan for cost of quality. The first-time project manager is not sure of what costs are included in the cost of quality. What would your advise be?
A. Cost of quality only includes cost of nonconformance
B. Cost of quality includes cost of conformance and cost of nonconformance
C. Cost of quality only includes prevention costs and internal failure costs.
D. Cost of quality only includes cost of conformance
You have just been hired by a waste management company to start a solid waste management program in an under-developed country. The project will be on a build-operate-transfer basis and have a duration of 2 years. At close of the project, the program will be run by local authorities. The project has been sponsored by the World Bank and has been awarded to a large international consortium. Your company has been subcontracted to do this project along with 2 more contractor companies. After the project scope was finalized, you developed a cost estimate of USD $5.5 million. The sponsor reviews your detailed costing sheets, and is concerned about the total cost figure. He tells you that the maximum allowable budget he can allocate for this project is USD $5 million. What should you do?
A. Ask for a reduction in scope.
B. Evaluate ways that can result in cost savings and re-estimate the project.
C. Advise the sponsor that the project cannot be completed within the available budget.
D. Begin the project with the intention of requesting a budget increase at a later point in time.
Which of the following is the process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations, address issues as they occur, and foster appropriate stakeholder engagement?
A. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
B. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
C. Manage Communications
D. Monitor Communications
In a project that was yet to begin, many of the project team members were known in advance. This is called:
A. Proactive-planning
B. Skill-matching
C. Pre-assignment
D. Staffing-assignment
Emily is the project manager for a dam construction project. All project communications are recorded and documented for future reference. It has been decided that the project team will maintain last three months of project communication records at any given point in time. It has also been decided that the older communication records will be archived on a monthly basis. Where these records must be archived?
A. Change log
B. Organizational process assets
C. Enterprise environmental factors
D. Issue log
Which of the following roles in a project is more likely to be involved in negotiations on procurements during the Conduct Procurements phase?
A. Procurement administrator
B. Project coordinator
C. Project manager
D. Project sponsor
Which of the following should be done FIRST during the Project Life Cycle?
A. List the key people and organizations that have a stake in the project.
B. Ascertain the stakeholder interests and expectations for the project.
C. Identify the key people and organizations that have a stake in the project.
D. Select and quantify the stakeholder interests and expectations for the project.
The method used in the plan quality management process to identify the factors that may influence specific variables of a product under development is known as:
A. The forecasting technique
B. The control chart
C. The statistical sampling
D. The design of experiments
A project manager is managing a project where there are teams located in remote locations in order to obtain cost savings. This is in line with organizational guidelines which require that at least 25% of work should be done from a remote location. This is an example of:
A. A constraint
B. A necessity
C. A choice
D. An assumption