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281.

A project manager needs to outsource 1,200 resource hours. Due to internal policies, each provider must understand the requirements. What should the project manager do to ensure this?

Select one

Send the procurement management plan to each provider.

Hold a bidder conference with the providers.

Conduct direct negotiations with each provider.

Add the providers to the stakeholder register.

282.

During project execution, a functional manager identifies a new internal risk about the outsourcing team. The functional manager asks the project manager for a fast solution that will not negatively impact the project. What should the project manager do?

Select one

Develop a risk breakdown structure (RBS).

Implement the risk strategy.

Assess the risk in terms of severity of impact.

Use the change management plan.

283.

A senior manager wants to use an essential project resource for another project. What should the project manager do?

Select one

Ask the senior manager to provide a replacement.

Inform the team and reassign that resource's responsibilities to other team members.

Explain to the senior manager that this resource is fully committed to the project and is unavailable.

Escalate the issue to the program manager for resolution.

284.

A marketing team identifies the target audience for their new website. They want to know the preferred tastes of this target audience. What tool or technique should the project manager use?

Select one

Benchmarking

Focus groups

Expert judgment

Brainstorming

285.

A project manager is working with stakeholders to identify strategic and operational assumptions and constraints. However, not all stakeholders are consistently providing input. What should the project manager use to enhance stakeholder input?

Select one

Political awareness

Meeting management

Checklists

Facilitation

286.

An experienced project manager resigns, and a new project manager joins the team. During the initial assessment of project documentation, the new project manager discovers that the risk register has not been updated for the past month. What should the project manager do first?

Select one

Consult the risk management plan to determine how often the risk register must be updated.

Hold a meeting to identify and prioritize risks so that the risk register can be updated.

Update the risk register and inform the team of the changes.

Meet with the project team to monitor risks, then update the risk register.

287.

A project's workload is high and resources are overloaded. When management decides to outsource some services to keep the project on schedule, what document should the project manager revise?

Select one

Resource management plan

Communications management plan

Procurement management plan

Project organization chart

288.

A project to migrate an organization's email system to another platform creates an unexpected, but significant, issue on another business-critical system. What should the project manager do?

Select one

Inform the stakeholders of the issue.

Revise the project management plan to include the issue.

Ask the project team to resolve the issue.

Update the issue log.

289.

A project manager is reviewing approved change requests made within the past month. The process has been efficient, but implementation is taking longer than originally planned. What should the project manager do?

Select one

Follow change management procedures to monitor implementation.

Return the change requests to the change control board (CCB) for further review.

Request additional resources.

Ask stakeholders to raise only critical changes.

290.

A project is in its execution phase. Due to a new regulation, the client asks for additional documentation to be delivered within the contract. What should the project manager do?

Select one

Negotiate with the client.

Review the risk register.

Execute change management procedures.

Update the project management plan.

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