A project manager’s PDM network schedule gets audited by a scheduling expert.The expert tells the project manager to focus more on nodes with “path convergence,” also known as “sinks.” What is he referring to? Nodes in a WBS, where several branches are brought back together. Nodes in a decision tree, showing various branches with the same chance. Nodes in a network logic diagram, which have multiple predecessors. Nodes in a conditional network diagram, at which it becomes deterministic.

8. A project manager’s PDM network schedule gets audited by a scheduling expert.The expert tells the project manager to focus more on nodes with “path convergence,” also known as “sinks.” What is he referring to?

Nodes in a WBS, where several branches are brought back together.

Nodes in a decision tree, showing various branches with the same chance.

Nodes in a network logic diagram, which have multiple predecessors.

Nodes in a conditional network diagram, at which it becomes deterministic.

9. Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimension of individualism refers to:

the identification with the gender role of an individual.

the tolerance for ambiguity or uncertainty in the workplace.

the significance of the person versus that of the group.

the degree of dependence relationships between individuals.

10. What is typical for critical chain project management?

Management of leads and lags

Management of buffers

Management of total floats and free floats

Management of resource over-allocations

11. What is not true for change requests?

Question 11 options:

Change requests are always a sign of bad planning and therefore, should be avoided.

Change requests surpassing the formal change control processes can lead to scope creep.

Professionally managed, change requests can help in improving a project and resolving emerging problems.

Change requests should always be handled in a controlled and integrative fashion.

12. While applying procurement management processes in your project, you identified the need to gain a more objective understanding of sellers’ capabilities in order to rank proposals and develop a negotiating sequence. Which technique may help avoid bias and subjective decisions best?

Question 12 options:

Weighting system

Letter of intent

Bidder conference

Oral contract

13. You are running a major project with four sub-projects. Each of the sub-project managers has developed a risk management plan, identified many risks, analyzed them, and planned for risk response. It is now two months later. What should you not do?

Question 13 options:

Make sure that the sub-project managers keep track of the identified risks and those on the watch list.

Ensure that they handle all risks to save you from project level risk control.

Make sure that the sub-project managers monitor their project work for new and changing risks.

Make sure that the sub-project managers monitor trigger conditions for contingency plans.

14. Which statement best describes the purpose of the communications management plan?

Question 14 options:

The communications management plan focuses on the use of communications technologies by the project management team.

The communications management plan describes rules of behavior and respect for communications in cross-cultural teams.

The project management plan is a subsidiary document of the overall communications management plan.

The communications management plan describes the information delivery needs including format and level of detail.

15. Product acceptance criteria should be laid down in which document?

Question 15 options:

Work breakdown structure

Resource assignments

Project scope management plan

Project scope statement

16. During execution of a project, you observe that the performance of some of your team members is dropping while others are doing a consistently good job. What should you try first to bring the team as a whole back to performance?

Question 16 options:

Organize a team meeting and discuss openly the bad performance of the weak team members. Try to find a joint solution during the meeting.

Introduce a system of formal and informal performance appraisals, research causes for bad performance, and solicit mutual feedback.

Introduce a competitive incentive system with a bonus for the 20% of your team that is performing better than the other 80%.

Do not interfere, but give the team some time to organize and sort the problem out by low-level conflict management.

17. How should change management be planned for?

Question 17 options:

Changes are generally not predictable; therefore, planning for change management cannot be reasonable.

Planning for change management should be done while the various change control processes are being applied.

Changes are a sign of bad planning. One should avoid changes during a project, thus eliminating the need to manage them.

Change management can be planned in a set of management plans or a specific change management plan.

18. During code inspection in a major software development project, a project management team identified frequent occurrences of critical programming errors. These errors are scattered across the code and occur without a discernible pattern. Which tool is most likely to help the team identify areas of error concentration in order to develop a prioritized response strategy?

Question 18 options:

Check sheet

Process decision program chart

Decision tree

Influence diagram

 

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