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711.

The project management plan might require changes and updates as the Planning processes proceed. These updates are decided upon and managed through which of the following?

Select one

Approved change requests

Perform Integrated Change Control process

Control Communications process

Control Scope process

712.

Alyssa is a project manager tasked with managing an infrastructure project that will consolidate five data centers into one. Alyssa is in the process of determining whether communications-related artifacts and activities that she had planned earlier had the intended effect. She also recently launched a customer satisfaction survey to get feedback on how stakeholders feel things are progressing thus far within the project. What project management process is she performing?

Select one

Manage Communications

Monitor Communications

Plan Communications Management

Monitor and Control Project Work

713.

Kaylee is a risk manager working for a top healthcare company. She was recently brought in to support a project that has been plagued with a multitude of issues. The project sponsor informs her that the issues were a result of not implementing documented risk response plans. Kaylee clarifies to the sponsor that this is not the root cause of the issues at hand but is instead caused by the most common problem with project risk management. What problem is Kaylee referring to?

Select one

Risks are not fully analyzed, and therefore, the risk responses are not effective.

A full-time risk manager is often not allocated to a project, causing poor risk management to occur.

Project teams spend effort in identifying, analyzing, and developing responses for risks but do not manage them.

Risk triggers are not clearly documented in the risk register, causing the response plans to be ineffective.

714.

You are a project manager for Rhone Valley Importers. Your buyer has found a new product that she’s convinced will sell well in this country. Taking on this new product introduces considerable opportunity for the company but at the same time is also a considerable threat. The cost of this product exceeds anything your company has imported before, and if it doesn’t sell as well as the buyer thinks it will, the company could go into bankruptcy. You determine that a feasibility study is in order. Which of the following statements is not true?

Select one

A feasibility study should be conducted to determine the potential market, costs, risks, and other factors.

One purpose of the feasibility study is to determine marketing demand for the new product that could in turn become the demand that drives the project.

During the feasibility study, you could use the Project Risk Management processes to identify all opportunities and exploit their possibilities, determine the potential threats, and minimize the probability and consequences of those threats.

One of the end results of the feasibility study might be to produce a project charter that will include a description of the intended outcome of the project, a budget, and a detailed project schedule for management review.

715.

While performing activities associated with controlling project and product scope, a project manager uncovers scope creep. What is the project manager likely to do next to take corrective action?

Select one

Scold the individual(s) responsible

Update the scope baseline

Submit a change request and analyze the impact

Notify the project team

716.

The project manager is in the process of bringing the relevant parties together, along with a neutral party, to discuss a contested change to a procurement agreement. Which of the following is a valid tool or technique to assist the project manager in performing this activity?

Select one

Claims administration

Change control system

Audit

Inspection

Select one

Project phases

Project management plan

Project life cycle

Project management

718.

You are in the Planning stage of the project and have just begun to generate the cost baseline. In what activity are you engaged as a project manager?

Select one

Performing the Plan Cost Management process

Performing the Estimate Costs process

Performing the Determine Budget process

Performing the Control Costs process

719.

During this contract life-cycle phase, the vendors are asked to compete for the contract and respond to the RFP. What contract life-cycle phase is this?

Select one

Requirement

Solicitation

Requisition

Award

720.

A project manager has facilitated the decomposition of work packages into activities. She next carries the team through several exercises to sequence the activities and determine what and how many resources will be needed to perform the work. What is she likely to do next?

Select one

Estimate how long each activity will take

Develop the schedule

Run various what-if scenarios against the schedule

Break down the activities into deliverables

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