You are managing a project for a customer that has just gone bankrupt and is subject to liquidation proceedings. There are several outstanding invoices that this customer has not paid to your company. What should you do now?
A. Go into alternate dispute resolution
B. Do nothing.
C. Contact the appropriate management at your company for advice how to proceed.
D. Send the invoices to the bankruptcy attorneys.
Peter works as a project manager for GOODSTEEL, a steel melting shop. He was assigned by his Executive Project Manager to study and prepare a report on the defects that eroded the blast furnace lining which has caused a drastic decline in production. Since this report will be used by the management to control the process and material quality, Peter performed a careful study and identified two major factors out of many factors related to refractories that caused majority of the lining problems. Which of the following statements BEST illustrate the technique Peter must have used in this scenario?
A. A Pareto chart indicates that the vital few sources of the problem.
B. A cause and effect diagram indicates how various causes show the history and variation of defects
C. A Pareto chart identifies the possible relationship between changes observed in two independent variables
D. A cause and effect diagram indicates how various factors or causes can be linked to potential problems
The Identify Stakeholders process is an initiating process. At this stage, which of the following organizational process assets is the most crucial input to this process?
A. Change control procedures
B. Lessons learned from previous projects.
C. Financial control procedures
D. Risk control procedures
You have been chosen by a program management office (PMO) to write a purchase order for your expertise in business writing. You have learned that the PMO has already selected a seller for a software product and would like to award the procurement contract to the selected seller as a purchase order which you must prepare. In this scenario, the PMO is administering:
A. The control resources process
B. The control procurements process
C. The plan procurement management process
D. The conduct procurements process
The morale of the team members of a project is very low. The team members feel that they were not given opportunities to participate in the organizational team development activities due to over allocations to project tasks, and hence they missed opportunities to grow. Which of the following is a primary factor for this situation?
A. Use of zero-sum rewards in the project
B. A poorly defined resource calendar
C. Too many senior team members
D. Poor interpersonal skills in the team
Calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for the uncompleted portion of the project is called .
A. Schedule compression
B. An arrow diagram
C. A backward pass
D. A forward pass
You are a Project Manager working on a project to create safe electric motors for Tessla introducing a new electric car. Your company’s president is keenly interested in the project and requests a chart that shows the number of defects by type ordered by their frequency of occurrence. Which type of chart would BEST meet this request?
A. Pareto diagram
B. Control chart
C. Statistical sampling
D. Scatter diagram
You have been managing a construction project in a developing country and are closing down the project. The tools and equipment that was used on the project has to be returned to your company’s European headquarters. A non-governmental organization that builds and repairs medical facilities in this country has come to you to request that this equipment be donated to them. What should you do?
A. Donate all tools and equipment.
B. Refuse the request.
C. Donate only the tools and equipment whose value is below your purchase approval limit.
D. Notify the appropriate management.
All of the following activities are performed in the Close Project or Phase process EXCEPT
A. Activities that fulfill the exit criteria of the project
B. Sending the deliverables to the customer for acceptance
C. Activities which are needed to transfer the completed products to operations
D. Documenting the reasons for projects terminated early
You are working for GOODROAD highway construction agency as a project cost estimator. The agency started a highway construction project which is in it’s planning phase. The rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost estimate for the project is expected to be between 3 and 5 million dollars in the planning phase with a ROM of -25% to +25%. What will be the ROM estimate in the execution phase if it changes to -10% to +10%?
A. Between 3.1 and 4.1 million dollars
B. Between 3.6 and 4.4 million dollars
C. Between 3.9 and 4.1 million dollars
D. Between 3.4 and 4.4 million dollars