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681.

You are a project manager for an engineering company. Your company won the bid to add ramp-metering lights to several on-ramps along a stretch of highway at the south end of the city. You subcontracted a portion of the project to another company. The subcontractor’s work involves digging the holes and setting the lamp poles in concrete. You discover the end product does not meet safety standards, corrective action is needed to fix the problems and get the project back on track, and applicable standards were not followed. Which of the following is true?

Select one

You are in the Manage Communications process and have completed a performance review of the contractor’s work.

You are in the Manage Quality process and have performed a quality audit.

You are in the Manage Quality process and have performed process analysis.

You are in the Validate Scope process and have performed an inspection to ensure correctness of work.

682.

You are the project manager for a project that will produce a mobile phone application that sends alerts when the UV rays are at dangerous levels, alerting users to stay indoors. You are in the process of acquiring resources to staff the project and obtaining responses from bidders on work that is being outsourced. These activities are associated with what process group?

Select one

Planning

Executing

Monitoring and Controlling

Closing

683.

The project sponsor has approached you with a dilemma. The CEO announced at the annual stockholders’ meeting that the project you’re managing will be completed by the end of this year. The problem is that this is six months prior to the scheduled completion date. It’s too late to go back and correct her mistake, and stockholders are expecting implementation by the announced date. You must speed up the delivery date of this project. Your primary constraint before this occurred was the budget. What actions can you take to help speed up the project?

Select one

Hire more resources to get the work completed faster.

Ask for more money so that you can contract out one of the phases you had planned to do with in-house resources.

Utilize negotiation and influencing skills to convince the project sponsor to speak with the CEO and make a correction to her announcement.

Examine the project plan to see whether there are any phases that can be fast-tracked and then revise the project plan to reflect the compression of the schedule.

684.

You have used several cash flow methods to determine alternative ways of performing your current project. Which of the following do you know is true regarding the results of your cash flow analysis?

Select one

Payback period and IRR will generally give you the same accept/reject decision.

NPV and discounted cash flows will generally give you the same accept/reject decision.

Payback period and discounted cash flows will generally give you the same accept/ reject decision.

NPV and IRR will generally give you the same accept/reject decision.

685.

Alyssa is a project manager tasked with managing an infrastructure project that will consolidate five data centers into one. She pulls together a core set of experts who have worked on similar projects to discuss how scope should be managed. What tool or technique is Alyssa using?

Select one

Data analysis

Expert judgment

Alternatives analysis

Organizational process assets

686.

Plan Schedule Management, Estimate Activity Durations, and Control Schedule are processes that belong to what project management Knowledge Area?

Select one

Project Time Management

Project Integration Management

Project Schedule Management

Project Resource Management

687.

Which process is concerned with effectively engaging stakeholders, understanding their needs and interests, understanding the good and bad things they bring to the project, and understanding how the project will affect them?

Select one

Control Stakeholder Engagement

Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Identify Stakeholders

Manage Stakeholder Engagement

688.

You are a project manager working on a project involving a new scientific discovery in conjunction with your local university. Because of some changes that were approved during the Monitoring and Controlling processes, you discover that the descriptions of the deliverables that make up the final product of the project are no longer accurate or complete. Which of the following will you use to track the changes to the deliverables and ensure their descriptions are accurate and complete, and what process is this associated with?

Select one

Scope change control system in Control Scope

Quality control system in Control Quality

Configuration management system in Perform Integrated Change Control

Change control system in Monitor Communications

689.

The project manager has just determined that three functional managers with a high interest in the project hold a particularly high degree of influence in the allocation of enterprise resources. Armed with this new information, she updates her salience model and considers how it impacts the project. In what activity is the project manager engaged?

Select one

Stakeholder analysis

Resource analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Stakeholder monitoring

690.

The elements of communication are incorporated within the models of communication exchange. They are best explained as which of the following?

Select one

The elements of communication include encode, transmit, acknowledge, and feedback/response, and the communication model includes senders, receivers, and messages.

The elements of communication include senders, receivers, and messages and the communication model includes verbal and written.

The elements of communication include senders, receivers, and messages and the communication model includes encode, transmit, acknowledge, and feedback/ response.

The elements of communication include encode, transmit, acknowledge, and feedback/response, and the communication model includes verbal and written.

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