PMP Questions ID 1757 your company is planning to bid on a project in an application area you have never worked before

Your company is planning to bid on a project in an application area you have never worked before. You are aware your company does not have any resources with the necessary expertise, but you are confident of ramping up the necessary skills and delivering the project successfully. Further, the buyer has not specifically asked for prior experience of completed projects of similar size and scope. Your management is pressuring you to submit a bid. What should you do?

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Refuse to do what your company management asks you to do since it violates the code of ethics and professionalism.

Explain the gaps to your management clearly and also explain that this will be a stretch assignment. You can further explain to them that it is best to reveal to the potential buyer that your company does not possess the necessary skills but that you are confident of ramping up the necessary skills and delivering the project successfully, based on your company’s track record.

Do what your management asks you to do, but inform them that you do not want to be associated with the project since it violates the code of ethics and professionalism.

Do what your management asks you to do. Your loyalty needs to be with your company. As long as management has the confidence you can do the project, you can go with the plan.

Anna has recently taken over a project as the project manager. The project is early in the executing phase. Although all the key stakeholders signed off on the project scope statement, Anna learns that some of the key stakeholders do not fully understand the project scope. The stakeholders’ constant support is crucial for the success of the project. What must Anna do?

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Email the copy of the scope management plan to the key project stakeholders

Don’t do anything since all the key project stakeholders signed the scope statement.

Email the copy of the scope statement to the key project stakeholders.

Conduct one-to-one meeting sessions with these key stakeholders to ensure they understand the project scope

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Defining Activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity durations, and developing the schedule could be viewed as a single process.

Estimating activity durations may be skipped for the project.

Developing and Controlling the schedule could be viewed as a single process.

Defining Activities, estimating activity durations, developing the schedule, and controlling the schedule could be viewed as a single process.

Mark is managing a telecom network deployment project. The buyer of the telecom network is an external entity. Recently, the customer requested that all future project updates be posted to their information system automatically. In order to implement this, the project team needs to customize their project management information system so it can be integrated with the customer’s information system. This is a new customer requirement that was not a part of the original project’s scope. What should the project manager do?

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