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21.

All of the following are true regarding the organizational process assets updates output of the Manage Communications process except for which one?

Select one

Stakeholder notifications are part of this output and go hand in hand with one of the areas covered in the Role Delineation Study in the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Project reports are part of this output and include status reports, among others, and according to the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, the status of projects should always be truthful.

Lessons learned documentation is part of this output, and lessons learned meetings should be conducted at the end of project phases and at the end of the project at a minimum.

Feedback from stakeholders is part of this output and can improve performance on future projects, but it is too late to incorporate the feedback on the current project.

22.

Wendy is a project manager for an IT data center installation in a country that recently established independence. The country is in a strategic location for fiber optic communications, but the political climate is highly unstable. In order to keep the data center in the country but avoid unnecessary influence from the political dynamics, Wendy has negotiated with the U.S. Department of State to establish the data center in the basement of the U.S. Consulate in the capital city. This is an example of:

Select one

Risk transfer

Risk avoidance

Risk acceptance

Risk mitigation

23.

In a steering committee meeting for a project to build a new state-of-the-art communications device, the committee chair reprimands the project manager for not using the company’s file sharing system as required by the organization. The project manager explains that the project team chose a newer tool for the project, as it was much better. What most likely caused this situation?

Select one

The project manager did not research the enterprise environmental factors

The project manager did not review the organizational process assets

The project team did not investigate communication tools

The project manager did nothing wrong

24.

You are developing the communications management plan for a construction project. You want to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders, specifically focusing on the type and the format of information that will be required to communicate with the stakeholders. What is your best course of action?

Select one

Develop the stakeholder register

Review the requirements documentation

Conduct a communication requirements analysis

Consult the stakeholder engagement plan

25.

A new project is starting, and the team members come from all over the world. The project manager has concerns about communications. What should the project manager do first?

Select one

Implement an online tool to enable the team members to chat among themselves

Enroll the project team members in cultural training to raise cultural awareness

Nothing; the business world has been multicultural for so long that there should be no issues

Funnel all communications through the project manager to avoid miscommunication

26.

You have just taken over a project to overhaul the company's telecommunications network. During your first week, you determine that the engineers spend at least 80% of their time responding to unexpected requests for information from different project stakeholders. Because of these interruptions, your engineers cannot focus on their assigned project activities, which is resulting in frequent network outages. What should you do first?

Select one

Push the engineers to respond to all the requests faster so that they can perform their assigned project activities

Ask the engineers to forward all stakeholder inquiries to you so that they can focus on their originally planned tasks

Immediately tell the engineers to stop responding to unexpected requests since it is not their responsibility

Review the communications management plan to understand how stakeholder requests should be handled

27.

A project manager has just taken over the project from another project manager during the executing process group. The previous project manager created a project budget. Determined communications requirements and went on to complete work packages. What should the new project manager do next?

Select one

Coordinate performance of work packages.

Begin risk identification.

Execute the project management plan

Identify quality standards.

28.

A project manager has just taken over the project from another project manager during project executing. The previous project manager created a project budget, determined communications requirements, and went on to the complete work packages task. What should the new project manager do next?

Select one

Begin the Identify Risks process

Validate Scope

Identify quality standards

Coordinate completion of work packages

29.

Stakeholder notifications must be archived for future reference. Whenever the Manage Communications process produces a stakeholder notification, the notification must be:

Select one

Updated to the organizational process assets

Updated to the project management plan

Updated to the project communications management plan

Updated to the stakeholder register

30.

Robert has recently joined an automobile manufacturer. He now has a project that was already in the execution phase. Recently, one of the key stakeholders has raised serious concerns over the project’s scope. Robert now wants to review the previous project communications to understand how the current project scope was agreed to by all key stakeholders in the past. Where can he find this information?

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