PMP Questions ID 1769 you are managing an electronic chip design project for a customer there are a number of engineer

You are managing an electronic chip design project for a customer. There are a number of engineers and subject matter experts from the customer’s organization that have been assigned as resources to the project plus several additional design engineers that your company has supplied. All the engineers were involved in the development of a prototype chip, an extremely time-consuming and expensive process. Upon the completion of the prototype, you submit it for review to ensure there are no patent infringement issues with the design. However, the review determines there are several issues that could result in an intellectual property dispute with the patent owners should the prototype design be released commercially. Resources from your company developed the affected prototype elements, as well as from your customer’s organization. What should you do?

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Notify the project stakeholders immediately

Request permission to use the copyright material

Ask the engineers to revise the design and resubmit it

Submit the prototype as is since the budget and schedule do not accommodate rework

Midway through the Collect Requirements process, a project manager finds there are many unresolved issues regarding product requirements. Which of the following is usually the best way to discover and resolve issues?

You are managing a project with more than 130 procurement contracts. Because of the number of contracts, your project team includes a procurement manager and a procurement assistant. Company policy requires that certain types of procurements be advertised to potential bidders by means of newspaper advertisements. The procurement assistant typically reviews the bids received and shortlists the suppliers for further review by the procurement team. During a meeting to review and select a vendor from the shortlisted suppliers, you discover that one of the suppliers is a company your cousin owns. Which of the following is your best course of action?

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Because the procurement assistant prepared the short list, not you, you do not need disclose your relationship with the supplier and may continue to participate in the selection process

Disclose your relationship with the provider and continue to participate in the selection process

Remove the supplier from the short list

Ask the procurement manager to lead the vendor selection process for this contract and excuse yourself from the review

Eric, a project manager, is a certified PMP. He is responding to an RFP from a buyer and needs to fill in details on his company’s financial performance. His company has performed poorly during the current quarter, and the results will be published in two to three days. However, the company has done very well in the previous quarters. The RFP is due in 10 days, and all the information in the RFP is complete except the financial information. What should Eric do?

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Eric should fill in the information for the previous quarter and ignore the current quarter. This is an aberration, and the company will eventually come out of the bad patch.

Eric should present the previous quarter's results as the latest results. This will give his company a better chance to win the project.

Eric should fill in the financial information for the previous quarter and send out the RFP response before the current quarter results are published.

Eric should wait until the current results are out and update the latest financial information before sending out the RFP response.

During a cost performance review with certain senior officers from the finance department, you discover there are certain inconsistencies in the way cost performance reporting is done, and you obtain data that shows these officers are deliberately misleading senior management. What should you do?

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Write an anonymous letter to senior management about these activities.

Bring this to the notice of senior management even though there are no formal policies in place for whistleblowers.

Do nothing but make sure that the data for your project is clean.

Do nothing. The corrupt behavior of the finance department officials has nothing to do with your project.

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