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531.

You have been asked to submit a proposal for a project that has been put out for bid. First you attend the bidder conference to ask questions of the buyers and to hear the questions some of the other bidders will ask. Which of the following statements are true?

Select three

Bidder conferences are also known as procurement conferences.

Bidder conferences are also known as contractor conferences.

Bidder conferences are also known as vendor conferences.

Bidder conferences are also known as prebid conferences.

532.

Diversity and inclusion are important elements to consider when acquiring team members. Which of the following statements are true regarding diversity and inclusion?

Select three

Generational sensitivities involves understanding the differences in the generations in the workforce today and helps to build a team with diverse strengths, work ethics, and skills.

Diverse teams are more apt to explore new ideas and develop ideas to combat challenges and issues.

Millennials, or Gen Y, are the largest generation of workers in the workforce today.

Inclusion involves hiring team members from different religious backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, and experiences.

533.

You are preparing project performance appraisals and have decided you'd like each team member to receive feedback regarding their performance from several sources, including peers, superiors, and subordinates. Which of the following is true regarding this question?

Select three

This is called 360-degree review and is used for individual team member assessments.

Project managers should contribute to the performance appraisal of all project team members.

Performance appraisal time is a good time to explore training needs and clarify roles and responsibilities.

This is called 360-degree review and is often used for agile team assessments.

534.

You are a project manager for Laurel's Theater Productions. Your new project is coming in over budget and requires a cost change through the cost change control system. You know which of the following statements are true regarding Control Costs?

Select three

A description of how cost changes should be managed and controlled is found in the cost management plan.

Approved cost changes are reflected in the cost baseline.

EVM is used to determine the cost performance that must be realized for the remaining work of the project to meet the BAC goal.

This equation, EAC = BAC / cumulative CPI, is used to forecast an estimate at completion assuming future project performance will be the same as past performance.

535.

You are a project manager for Dutch Harbor Consulting. Your latest project involves the upgrade of an organization's operating system on 236 servers. You performed this project under contract. You are closing out the project and the procurement and know that you should document and file which of the following?

Select two

Administrative documents

The written notice that the contract is complete

Formal acceptance of the work of the project

Product verification of the work of the project

536.

You work for a small software development firm and use agile methodologies on all your projects. You learned that your company is being bought out by a larger company. The good news is that everyone on staff will retain their jobs with the new company, but your existing company will cease to exist. You are managing several projects that will be impacted by this. Which of the following are true regarding this?

Select three

Your organization is undergoing an acquisition.

You should assess and prioritize the impact of these changes to the projects and develop recommendations and action items and communicate them to the new management team.

Your organization is undergoing a merger.

This is a type of external business environment change.

537.

You are a project manager for Bluebird Technologies. Bluebird writes custom billing applications for several industries. One of your users asks for some changes to the invoice functionality during a status meeting. You explain to her that the change needs to go through the change control system, which is a subset of the configuration management system. You explain that a change control system does which of the following?

Select one

Documents procedures for managing change requests

Tracks the status of change requests

Describes the management impacts of change

Documents the process for approving changes

Defines the level of authority needed to approve emergency change requests

All are correct

538.

You are a project manager for Bluebird Technologies. Bluebird writes custom billing applications for several industries. A schedule change has been requested. From the perspective of the Perform Integrated Change Control process, change is concerned with which of the following?

Select four

Influencing factors that circumvent the change control process

Initiating change requests

Reviewing change

Maintaining the integrity of baselines

Coordinating and managing changes across the project

539.

Your project is in a bit of trouble. You are in the Control Resources process and the specialized equipment you were expecting for the next set of project tasks is not available. The truck with the equipment was stolen and the vendor providing the machine you need has only two of them. The other is already deployed on another job. Which of the following are true?

Select three

You decide to engage the vendor and some key project team members in problem solving to try to find a workaround for this situation. You will identify the problem, investigate and analyze the data, and determine and implement the best possible solution. Later, you'll check again on the solution to ensure that it fixed the problem.

Control Resources may have impacts on resource assignments that are beyond the control of the project manager.

You may need to engage in some preventive action since the resources are not being utilized as planned. You will document all of this in the lessons learned document.

Problems encountered outside the organization in the Control Resources process are usually related to the vendor providing the resources.

Select three

The results of the work of the project are often not delivered until the end of the project.

This methodology requires continuous feedback from your stakeholders throughout the project.

Changes to the project require a review of project plans and documenting the changes in the project plan.

Predictive methodologies might use a phased approach where deliverables are produced at the end of each phase.

The project team reviews the work of the project with the stakeholders in an iterative fashion so that they can incorporate modifications to functionality in the next phase.

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