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691.

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

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.

693.

Roshoud is the VP of customer operations for Galactic Kidz and the project sponsor of the latest project, called Project G. He sits down with Sally, the project manager, to discuss resource utilization on the project. He expresses concern after recently hearing in the hallway that planned resources have been unavailable. Sally admits that this has been the case and that it has set the project back unexpectedly. What did Sally fail to do in this scenario?

Select one

Properly plan the schedule

Keep the sponsor informed

Procure the right resources

Build the right relationships

694.

Nicolas is the project manager of a project that has been described as revolutionizing the mobile fitness tracking industry. He prepares for a meeting with the project’s sponsor to discuss the performance of their largest vendor. What information will Nicolas need to reference to provide this information?

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Data analysis

Project management plan

Agreement

Procurement documentation

695.

A project manager has been asked to calculate the payback period for her project. The project’s investment is $500,000, with expected cash inflow of $50,000 for the first two quarters and $100,000 for every quarter thereafter. What is the payback period?

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6 months

12 months

18 months

24 months

696.

You are in the process of attaining and assigning resources to the project. You have both internal and external resources. You will be hiring your external resources using a work order against a contract you have with a local staffing agency. All of the following are true except for which one?

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The project manager might not have the ability to hire or select all of the project team members.

The team members coming from the consulting company are accounted for in the Plan Procurement Management process and Plan Resource Management process, not this process.

Checking for availability and considering personal interests and characteristics are an important part of this process.

The project manager is responsible for assuring the resources are skilled and available for the project and for documenting their reporting responsibilities. This is accomplished in this process and in the Plan Resource Management process.

Select one

Deliverables are specific items that must be produced for the project or project phase to be considered complete. Each project phase has only one deliverable, which might have multiple requirements.

Requirements are measurable items that must be produced for the project or project phase to be considered complete. Each project phase might have multiple deliverables with multiple requirements.

Requirements are measurable items that must be produced for the project or project phase to be considered complete; deliverables are the specifications used to tell you what you are trying to produce.

Deliverables are specific items that must be produced for the project or project phase to be considered complete; requirements are the specifications of the deliverables used to tell you whether the deliverables were produced successfully.

698.

A project sponsor asks the project manager to observe nonverbal feedback in the upcoming status meeting and adjust his presentation based on these observations. Which process is associated with these activities?

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Plan Communications Management

Manage Communications

Monitor Communications

Control Communications

699.

The project team recently participated in a working session to examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with overall project risk. What project management process are they performing?

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Identify Risks

Plan Risk Responses

Implement Risk Responses

Monitor Risks

700.

769 New PMP Process Questions & Answers with explanation