PMI PMP-Project Management Professional Practice Exam Q. 1391 to 1400
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Q. 1391: You are working on a project and want to know how many activities in the previous month were completed with significant variances. You should use a(n):
A. Control chart
B. Inspection
C. Scatter diagram
D. Trend analysis
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Trend analysis is used in many control processes in project management. The trend analysis examines the performance of the project over time to determine whether performance is improving or deteriorating. Graphical analysis techniques are valuable in trend analysis to understand performance to date and to compare it to future performance goals in the form of completion dates.
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Q. 1392: Your project has a budget of $1.5 million for the first year, $3 million for the second year, $2.2 million for the third year, and $800,000 for the fourth year. Most of the project budget will be spent during:
A. Starting the project
B. Organizing and preparing
C. Carrying out the work
D. Closing the project
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The implementation phase (carrying out the work) is when all interfaces affecting the project must be coordinated and when the product or service of the project is created. In most projects, this phase is also where a large portion of the project budget is spent.
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Q. 1393: If you decide to follow an open subordination approach to resolving conflict, you are using which style of conflict resolution?
A. Avoiding
B. Accommodating
C. Compromising
D. Collaborating
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Open subordination is much like an accommodating or smoothing style of conflict management in which negotiators are more concerned about positive relationships than about substantive outcomes. It can dampen hostility, increase support and cooperation, and foster more interdependent relationships. This is an effective style for project managers to use with support staff. It concedes one’s position to the needs of others to maintain harmony and relationships.
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Q. 1394: Typically, the seller receives formal written notice that the contract has been completed by the:
A. Project manager
B. Authorized procurement administrator
C. Member of the project management team responsible for daily contract administration
D. Purchasing department head
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The buyer, through its authorized procurement administrator, is responsible for providing the seller with formal written notice of contract completion. The procurement administrator does so when the seller has met all contractual requirements as articulated in the contract.
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Q. 1395: Working in the control procurements process since your project is using five contractors, you need to update a number of organizational process assets. An example is:
A. Procurement management plan
B. Procurement documentation
C. Correspondence
D. Warranties
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Contract terms and conditions often require written documentation of certain aspects of buyer/seller communications. Examples include any warnings of unsatisfactory performance and requests for changes in the contract or clarification. Other organizational process assets to update include payment schedules and requests and seller performance evaluation documentation.
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Q. 1396: You are beginning a new project staffed with a virtual team located across five different countries. To help limit conflict and misunderstandings concerning the justification, objectives, and high-level requirements of the project among your team members and their functional managers, you ask the project sponsor to prepare a:
A. Memo to team members informing them that they work for you now
B. Project charter
C. Memo to functional managers informing them that you have authority to direct their employees
D. Human resource management plan
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Although the project charter cannot stop conflicts from arising, it can provide a framework to help resolve them, because it describes the project manager’s authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. The project charter also documents the business needs, justification, objectives, and high-level requirements of the project.
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Q. 1397: To anticipate and help develop approaches to deal with potential quality problems on your project, you want to use a variety of root-cause analysis techniques including all the following approaches EXCEPT:
A. Fishbone diagrams
B. lshikawa diagrams
C. System or process flowcharts
D. Checklists
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Checklists are used to verify that the work of the project and its deliverables fulfill a set of requirements.
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Q. 1398: All of the following are examples of ways to generate options for mutual gain during negotiations EXCEPT:
A. Separating inventing from deciding
B. Options broadening
C. Zero-sum game analysis
D. Multiplying options by shuttling between the specific and the general
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Achieving mutual gain during negotiations means that each party benefits by the decisions made. A zero-sum game is where one side wins at the expense of the other.
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Q. 1399: Recently, your company introduced a new processing system for its products. You were the project manager for this system and now have been asked to lead a team to implement needed changes to increase efficiency and productivity. To help you analyze the process outputs, you and your team have decided to use which following technique?
A. System flowcharts
B. Design of experiments
C. Pareto analysis
D. Control charts
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Control charts help to determine whether or not a process is stable or has predictable performance. This function of control charts is achieved through the graphical display of results over time to determine whether differences in the results are created by random variations or are unusual events. In a manufacturing environment, such charts are used to track repetitive actions such as manufactured lots. In a project management environment, they can be used to monitor processes such as cost and schedule variances, number requirements, and errors in project documents.
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Q. 1400: Effective leadership is one key to successful project management. There are several theories of leadership. One model is Hershey and Blanchard’s situational leadership model that describes directive behavior and supportive behavior. Of the following, which one is NOT a keyword for supportive behavior?
A. Listen
B. Structure
C. Praise
D. Facilitate
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Supportive behavior is relationship oriented and is the extent to which the leader engages in two-way communication, listens, provides support and encouragement, facilitates interaction, and involves the followers in decision making. Structure connotes a certain level of rigidity and inflexibility and is not a term associated with supportive behavior.
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