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Question 1

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A project manager has an issue

regarding the performance of a team member. What is the best form of
communication to address this issue?

Select one:
a. 
Formal verbal communication

b.
Informal written
communication

c. Formal written communication

d.
Informal verbal communication

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Question 2

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The major Project

Communications Management processes are:

Select one:
a. Distribute
Information, Report Changes, Update Project Documents, and Accept Project
Deliverables.

b.
Plan Communications,
Distribute Information, and Schedule Reporting.

c. 
Plan Communications
Management, Manage Communications, and Monitor Communications.

d.
Plan Communications
Management, Develop Responses, Report Progress, and Distribute Information.

Your answer is correct.

Question 3
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A
metric is meant to be intuitive and easy to understand; otherwise the metric
would be of no use and most likely not used.

Select one:
True 

False

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Question 4

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The
project has 13 team members and affects the organization’s more than 15
departments. Because the project has been completed by 20 per
cent to date and
the team has had successful performance reports from five of the departments
affected, the project manager is holding a
party to celebrate. The project
manager invites key stakeholders from all departments to the party to provide
an informal forum for those
giving positive feedback to convey good things to
other departments that the project has not yet impacted. The project manager at
the party is
wandering around trying to find some useful details that will help
her make the project even more successful. She
happens to hear one
department manager speaking about setting up more regular
meetings on the project. The best thing the project manager would do is to
first:

Select one:
a. 
Review the effectiveness of a communications management plan for the
project.

b.
Hold
an all the stakeholders meeting to discuss their concerns.

c. Make
sure the manager has a copy of the communications management plan, so that he
is reminded that the project manager should
be informed of such concerns.

d.
Record
the party 's effectiveness in the lessons learnt from the project.

Your answer is correct.

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Question 5

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What stage is this "The

main part of the phase is the project contract, which identifies the sponsors,
explains the timeframe of the project,
describes the basis for the project and
starts the successful actions."

Select one:
a. Planning

b. 
Evaluation

c. Initiation

d.
Closing

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Question 6
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A team that comes from many

countries including Brazil, Japan , the United States and Britain has just been
assigned to a project manager.
What is her best tool for success?

Select one:
a. The teleconference

b. Communication and
well-developed people skills

c. Team communication with the WBS

d. The responsibility assignment

matrix (RAM)

Your answer is correct.

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Question 7

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You were just appointed as project

manager for a large manufacturing project. This one-year project is around
halfway through completion. The
project team includes 5 different sellers and
20 members of your company. You want to revisit quickly where the project is
now. Which of the
following reports will help the most find this information?

Select one:
a. 
Progress

b. Forecast

c.
Work status

d. Communications

Your answer is correct.

Question 8
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The Communication
Management Plans normally includes all of the following except:

Select one:
a. 
Email archives,
correspondence, reports, and documents related to the project from all
stakeholders.

b. Time frame and

frequency for the distribution of required information and receipt of
acknowledgment or response, if applicable.

c. Information to be
communicated, including language, format, content, and level of detail.

d. Methods or
technologies used to convey the information, such as memos, email, and/or press
releases.

Your answer is correct.

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Question 9

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A project manager overhears a discussion

between two stakeholders who discuss how upset they are about the project 's
impacts on their own
departments. Stakeholder A asks if the project is on
schedule and stakeholder B replies that the SPI is 1.05. Stakeholder A
questions if project
manager knows about stakeholder B's concern for the
project. Stakeholder B responds he is not certain. What is the best thing for
the project
manager to do?

Select one:
a.
Have a presentation of the project
status to all stakeholders.

b. Make sure the stakeholders watch

noticed by the project manager. Then ask them in writing to direct any
questions to the project
manager.

c. 
Arrange a meeting with
all stakeholders so that they can share any issues that they might have.

d. Give a copy of the problem log to

all stakeholders, and ask for more feedback.

Your answer is correct.

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Question 10

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When
you take the position of the previous project manager, a big, one-year
telecommunications project is about half way completed. The
project includes
three separate vendors, and a 30-person project team. You would like to see the
communications requirements of the project
and what technology will be used to
help with project communications. Where are you going to find that information?

Select one:
a. 
The communications
management plan

b. The stakeholder management plan

c.
The information distribution plan

d. The bar charts

Your answer is correct.

Question 11
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To
produce a metric, data have to be collected. A metric should subsequently be
fairly simple and inexpensive to construct, and should not be
seen as a major
disruption.

Select one:
True 

False

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Question 12

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It
determines how they will provide the details. Possible forms include paper
records, face-to - face records, electronic files, emails, or some
other online
medium, like the Internet. Defining the model often sets priorities and helps
project managers to prepare the necessary resources
to help the communications
strategy.

Select one:
a. Timings/Availabilities

b. Information
requirements

c.
Stakeholders

d. Medium or format

Your answer is correct.

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Question 13

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The
project manager now expects a deliverable from a team member to be submitted by
e-mail. The project manager will contact the team
member at the end of the day
to notify him that they have not received it. The member of the team apologizes
and explains that he was
unable to send the deliverable by e-mail, and instead
it was sent by mail. The team member goes on to remind the project manager that
during a phone conversation, he had informed the project manager that this
would happen. "Was that the conversation we had when I told
you that, due
to poor cell phone coverage, I could not hear you well?" asks the project
manager. "Yes:' the team member answers.

Select one:
a. 
Feedback during the communication

b. Better
attention to determining communications requirements

c.
Paralingual
communication

d. Adding
to the issue log after the phone call

Your answer is correct.

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Question 14

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Which
of the following leadership aspects is MOST significant to a project manager?

Select one:
a. Project
control

b.
Team
building

c. 
Communication

d.
Technical
expertise

Your answer is correct.

Question 15
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A project manager has a project

team that includes people from four countries. The project is very important to
the company and its success
worries the project manager. The length of time for
the project is appropriate. What form of contact should he be using?

Select one:
a.
Informal verbal communication

b. Formal written
communication

c.
Informal written communication

d. Formal verbal communication

Your answer is correct.

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Question 16

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The
project team may present the project plan to a sponsor of the project. If the
scope, timetable, and budget is approved, then the project
plan will be
authorized and the project will proceed to the next stage.

Select one:
a. 
Progress
reporting

b.
Reviews

c. Forecast
reporting

d.
Status
reporting

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Question 17
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Individuals
or groups which have a claim in the outcome of the project and are therefore
the recipients of the project information that we send.
This group would
generally include the project sponsor or client, the project manager and the
project team because each would have a specific
interest in the performance and
progress of the project.

Select one:
a. 
Stakeholders

b.
Timings/Availabilities

c. Medium
or format

d.
Information
requirements

Your answer is correct.

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Question 18

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It
focuses on predicting the project's future status, or progress. It can include
a trend analysis telling us when the project is most likely to be
completed and
how much it will cost.

Select one:
a. Status
reporting

b.
Reviews

c. Progress
reporting

d. 
Forecast reporting

Your answer is correct.

Question 19
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The
ability to manage conflict requires an understanding of why conflicts occur,
the sources of conflict, and the stakeholders' specific needs.
Conflict starts
in many cases with poorly defined priorities, and undefined roles and
responsibilities.

Select one:
True 

False

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Question 20

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Many
stakeholders’ criteria for inclusion in your project have not been accepted.
So, you had a hard time getting formal project management
plan approval. The
stakeholders argued and held up the project after meeting about their
requirements while meeting. The project was finally
approved and, six months
ago, work began. All of the following would be good preventive actions to
implement except:

Select one:
a. Keep
a file of what requirements the project didn't include.

b. Make
sure the change control process is not used as a vehicle to add the
requirements back into the project.

c. 
Keep stakeholder meetings to go through the research that is not to
be applied to the project.

d. Maintain
a log of the issues.

Your answer is correct.

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