PMI PMP-Project Management Professional Practice Exam Q. 1441 to 1450
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Q. 1441: The workaround that you used to deal with a risk that occurred should be documented and included in which following processes?
A. Report performance and monitor and control risks
B. Validate scope and perform quality assurance
C. Direct and manage project work and perform integrated change control
D. Monitor and control project work and control risks
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
A workaround is a form of corrective action, as it is a response to a threat that has occurred for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
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Q. 1442: Contested changes are requested changes when the buyer and seller cannot agree on compensation for the change. They are also known as all but which one of the following?
A. Disputes
B. Demands
C. Appeals
D. Claims
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Claims administration is a tool and technique in the control procurements process. When the buyer and seller cannot agree, this is also called claims, disputes, or appeals and should be documented, processed, monitored, and managed throughout the contract life cycle.
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Q. 1443: A structured review of the seller’s progress to deliver project scope and quality within cost and schedule is known as a(n):
A. Procurement performance review
B. Procurement audit
C. Inspection
D. Status review meeting
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
These reviews are a tool and technique of the control procurements process, which can include a review of seller-prepared documentation and buyer inspections. They seek to identify performance successes or failures, progress with respect to the contract statement of work and contract non compliance.
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Q. 1444: Within your company’s portfolio, your project is ranked in the top five in terms of the importance of the 60 projects underway; however, the number of resources available to you is still limited. You have decided to pilot test the use of critical chain on your project. You have calculated your critical path. You want to ensure that your target finish date does not slip in the critical chain method. To do so you should:
A. Add a project buffer
B. Put in three feeding buffers
C. Determine the drum resource
D. Manage the total float of the network paths
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
After the critical path is identified using the critical chain method, resource availability is entered and a resource-constrained schedule results. This schedule may have an altered critical path that is known as the critical chain. The critical chain method adds duration buffers that are non-work schedule activities to manage uncertainty. To protect the target finish date from slippage on the critical chain, a project buffer is placed at the end of the critical chain.
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Q. 1445: The greatest degree of uncertainty is encountered during which phase of the project life cycle?
A. Concept
B. Planning
C. Implementation
D. Closeout
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The greatest degree of uncertainty about the future is encountered during the concept phase or at the start of the project. The direction of the project is determined in this phase, and the decisions made have the greatest influence on scope, quality, time, and cost of the project.
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Q. 1446: A team-building approach that facilitates concurrent engineering is:
A. Matrix management
B. Fast-tracking
C. Tight matrix
D. Task force
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
A “tight” matrix refers to team members working in close proximity to one another. Studies have demonstrated that such a team approach facilitates concurrent engineering by having designers working next to manufacturing engineers, for example, to help ensure that the project is designed in such a manner that it is also cost-effective to manufacture.
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Q. 1447: A number of different decision-making styles can be used in a team environment. When quality and acceptance are both important, which of the following styles should be used?
A. Command
B. Consultation
C. Consensus
D.Coin flip
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Project managers tend to use four basic decision styles: command, consultation, consensus, and coin flip or random. If acceptance and quality are both important, the consultation style is preferred. It allows for some involvement of team members but allows project managers to maintain control over the final decision. In this style, team members are free to express their opinions, but the project manager makes the final decision.
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Q. 1448: Historical information is used:
A. To compare current performance with prospective lessons learned
B. To prepare the stakeholder management plan
C. To evaluate the skills and competencies of prospective team members
D. As an input to develop project charter
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Historical information is an organizational process access in the develop project charter process. Other organizational process assets are organizational standard processes, policies, and process definitions; templates from other project charters; and the lessons learned data base.
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Q. 1449: Work completed, key performance indicators, technical performance measures, start and finish dates of schedule activities, number of change requests, number of defects, actual costs, and actual decisions are examples of work performance data are an output of:
A. Project plan development
B. Risk control
C. Monitor and control project work
D. Direct and manage project work
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Work performance data containing these examples are an output of direct and manage project work. They are raw observations and measurements identified as activities are being performed to complete the work of the project. These data often are viewed at the lowest level of detail from which information is derived by other processes. The data then are gathered as the work is done and passed to the controlling processes of the various processes for further analyses.
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Q. 1450: Two team members on your current construction project are engaged in a major argument concerning the selection of project management software. They refuse to listen to each other. The most appropriate conflict resolution approach for you to use in this situation is:
A. Accommodating
B. Compromising
C. Collaborating
D. Forcing
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Forcing, using power or dominance, implies the use of position power to resolve conflict. It involves imposing one viewpoint at the expense of another. Project managers may use it when time is of the essence, when an issue is vital to the project’s well-being, or when they think they are right based on available information. Although this approach is appropriate when quick decisions are required or when unpopular issues are an essential part of the project, it puts project managers at risk.
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