PMP Questions ID 1929 you have recently joined a new company as a project manager while reviewing the procurement plan

You have recently joined a new company as a project manager. While reviewing the procurement plans for a project you will be taking over, you see that the company is considering using one of the most expensive manufacturers to provide certain equipment required for the project. At your previous employer, you had used a different supplier for the same equipment and had paid significantly less. Without telling your boss, you now call that supplier for a quote. Have you violated the rule of keeping proprietary information confidential?

Select one

Maybe. You need to talk to your boss first.

You have not violated any rule.

No. There is no harm in sharing the information with your current employer, because you are no longer working for your old employer.

Yes. The supply source is proprietary information, and you should not contact the supplier.

The customer requests a change to the project that would increase the project risk. Which of the following should you do first?

Select one

Talk to the customer about the impact of the change

Change the risk management plan

Include the expected monetary value of the risk in the new cost estimate

Analyze the change‘s impact of the change with the team

As you examine a list of job candidates for your project, you find that your cousin is one of the three shortlisted candidates. You know that she was desperately looking for a job. After reviewing the three resumes, you will send them to the electronics engineer for a technical interview. From your review of these resumes, you see that all three shortlisted candidates have similar qualifications and experiences. What should you do?

Select one

To avoid conflict of interest, ignore your cousin’s resume but forward the other two resumes.

Forward all three resumes.

Call your cousin and conduct an informal interview yourself before forwarding the resumes.

Consult your boss before forwarding the resumes for interview.

You are working on a waste management project that, upon completion, will be turned over to the local municipality for steady-state operation. Parking of trucks and other vehicles has become a serious problem because no parking area was allotted to you on the main dumping site. As a result, your trucks are parked on nearby roadsides. One of the fleet supervisors informs you that close to the main site, there is a large tract of land a local charity owns. Many locals park their cars on this tract of land. What should you do?

Select one

Since the piece of land is already used as parking, you can park your trucks over there.

Don’t park the trucks on that piece of land because it will be a violation of other’s property rights.

Check the local parking laws.

Ask the supervisor to get contact information of the local charity.

You are in the process of collecting and disseminating performance information to the stakeholders in the project. You want to predict the future performance of the project based on the current information. This performance information includes status reports, current status of risks, and summary of changes approved in the period. Which of the following methods will help you in predicting the future performance of the project?

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