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2321.

Julia is currently assessing her project stakeholders’ engagement levels. During this exercise, she finds she also needs to document an escalation process, which will come in handy in the future. Where does she need to document the project’s escalation process?

Select one

Communications management plan

Stakeholder engagement plan

Either the stakeholder engagement plan or the communications management plan

Both the stakeholder engagement plan and the communications management plan

2322.

As part of a new project you just started on as project manager, you are assembling your team and discovering that one of the critical pieces of work requires a specialist from one of the functional departments. However, you are aware the functional manager may be reluctant to assign that resource to your project since your project is not a high-profile one. Which of the following techniques will you need to apply?

Select one

Acquisition

Coercion

Politics

Negotiation

Select one

Fixed Price contracts

Performance bonds

Use of a Cost Reimbursable contract

Warranties

Select one

When some future scenarios are unknown

When you need to look at the implications of not choosing certain alternatives

When the future scenarios are known

When the outcomes of some of the actions are uncertain

2325.

You have been assigned as a project manager of a new project to be executed out of New York. However, you determine the project requires a Global Positioning Systems expert who is not available within the company in New York. After doing a little checking, you determine that the company has an expert based in London who is suitable for the project. However, the London-based employee is not willing to relocate to New York for the project. In such a case:

Select one

Write to the manager of the London-based employee and inform him that the employee needs to be convinced to relocate to New York due to project requirements.

You look at the option of moving ahead with the project by using a virtual team.

Manage the project without the key resource and flag this as a risk.

Co-location of resources is a key factor for the success of projects. As per PMI guidelines, you cannot proceed with the project since the resources are not available in New York.

2326.

While planning the schedule for your project, you frequently refer to the project calendar. The project calendar is:

Select one

A calendar containing the days on which various meetings are scheduled with the project team.

A calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked.

A calendar containing the list of days on which the project team members will be on leave or take an “off.”

A calendar that establishes the dates on which project deliverables go to the customer.

2327.

As a project manager, you are in the process of preparing the project schedule for the project. Which of the following accurately depicts the sequence of your activities before you began to prepare the project schedule?

Select one

Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule

Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Define Activities

Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence Activities, Develop Schedule

Define Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence Activities

2328.

After one year of construction, an office building is scheduled for completion on 30 January. The landscaping work needs to start 15 days prior to the building’s completion. Which of the following relationships most likely represents the relationship of the start of landscaping work to the completion of the office building?

Select one

Finish-to-start with a 15-day lead

Start-to-finish with a 15-day lead

Finish-to-start with a 15-day lag

Start-to-finish with a 15-day lag

2329.

You are the project manager of a project. As part of the planning process, you use a planning technique to subdivide the project scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. What is this technique called?

Select one

Rolling wave planning

Arrow Diagramming Method

Unit task analysis

Decomposition

Select one

The project is only considered complete once all requirements defined in the original scope statements have been completed.

The project is only considered complete once all requirements in the last approved scope baseline have been completed.

The final deliverables should fully conform to product requirements; nothing less, nothing more.

The total of the work at the work package level should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed.

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