PMP Questions ID 2059 a large complex construction project in a foreign country requires the movement of heavy equipme

A large, complex construction project in a foreign country requires the movement of heavy equipment through crowded city streets. The officials in the city know that you have a large, complicated project and that staying on schedule and within budget is important to your company. You have coordinated moving equipment in other countries for other projects without problems. To ensure the equipment is transported successfully, your contact in the country informs you that you will have to pay the local police a fee for coordinating traffic. What should you do?

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Do not pay the fee if it is not part of the project estimate

Pay the fee

Eliminate the work

Do not pay the fee because it is a bribe

The organization that you work for supports the achievement of its strategic objectives by empowering project managers and teams. The project managers have the authority to structure their teams, plans, and work however they deem necessary to best ahieve results. They are responsible for controlling the schedule and the budget, and for providing the steering committee and other departments of the organizations with forecasts. Which part of the cost budget would these project managers not have control over?

Your company wants to assign a resource to your project and asks you to bill that resource to the customer. This concerns you because you get a bonus for maximizing billings to the customer. What is the best thing to do?

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Maximize customer billings in any ethical manner possible

Ask for clarification of the intent of adding the resource

Remind the appropriate members of the billing organization that monetary compensation is not worth compromising the integrity of the individual or the organization

Ask for the customer’s approval before adding the resource to the project scope

Your project is being completed in another country. It is going reasonably well and is ahead of the cost projections when one of the local officials informs you he will make sure the project work stops unless you pay him us $50. What is the best thing to do?

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Do not make the payment

Make the payment

Offer to pay a smaller amount to discourage future requests for larger amounts

Offer to pay more than the requested amount to get more support from the official in the future

You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into project planning when a project stakeholder asks you for the project's budget and cost baseline. What should you tell her?

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The project management plan will not contain the projects budget and baseline; this is a small project.

It is impossible to complete an estimate before the project management plan is created.

The project budget can be found in the project charter, which has just been completed.

The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed.

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