| 1. | You are a project manager working for a large utility company. You have been assigned the responsibility to manage a project that performs monthly security vulnerability assessments and addresses any identified vulnerabilities. You question the assignment because: 
| A. | Security vulnerability assessments do not materially contribute to your organization's products and should not be considered important enough to be classified as a project. |
| B. | This endeavor cannot be considered a project because no start date is specified. |
| C. | The recurring nature of the assessment with no ending date means this endeavor is not a project at all. |
| D. | Because a security vulnerability assessment produces no specific product, it is not a project. |
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| 2. | You are managing a project that will implement a new accounting software package. You have assigned the resources, both personnel and equipment, and want to keep the IT manager in the loop by informing her of your decisions. Which type of organizational structure are you working in?
| A. | Projectized |
| B. | Strong matrix |
| C. | Weak matrix |
| D. | Functional |
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| 3. | Which process group contains the processes that ensure the project includes the work required to successfully complete the project, and no more?
| A. | Project scope management |
| B. | Project quality management |
| C. | Project integration management |
| D. | Project risk management |
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| 4. | While building your project team, you decide to include a business analyst with extensive experience implementing, using, and managing tasks with the new chosen accounting software. This individual has managed and participated in other projects that are similar and knows how to work well with users, technical personnel, and management to get the software up and running. Your choice to include him is due to the fact that he possesses expertise in which PMI knowledge area?
| A. | General management knowledge and skills |
| B. | Interpersonal skills |
| C. | Application knowledge and standards |
| D. | Software implementation |
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| 5. | At what point in a project do you have the highest probability that it will fail?
| A. | The beginning of the project |
| B. | After the initial project plan is published but before work actually begins |
| C. | After the halfway point of the project is reached |
| D. | Just before the end of the project |
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| 6. | Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders over the life of a project?
| A. | Stakeholders ultimately direct all project activities. |
| B. | Stakeholder influence is low at the beginning and tends to grow throughout the project. |
| C. | Stakeholder influence is the highest at the beginning and tends to decrease throughout the project. |
| D. | Stakeholders do not directly influence the project's outcome; they only provide authority and resources. |
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| 7. | During your accounting software implementation project, you find that training is not progressing as quickly as the schedule requires and the users are not well trained after the sessions are over. After investigating the cause, you find that the trainers you have retained do not have the proper experience and knowledge to effectively train your users. Which statement best describes the effect on the project and the effect of the action required to fix the problem ?
| A. | The schedule is suffering. To fix the situation, you will have to hire more experienced trainers and schedule extra training sessions. Your schedule will return to planned values while cost will increase. |
| B. | The quality and schedule are being negatively impacted. To fix the situation, you will likely have to hire more experienced trainers at a higher rate and schedule extra training sessions. Quality and schedule will return to planned values while cost will increase. |
| C. | This problem is the responsibility of the organization that provided the trainers. They will provide replacement trainers who are qualified at the same price to continue the training required. |
| D. | Although your training looks like it is behind schedule, you wisely built in enough slack time to cover such a problem. You simply find replacement trainers and continue the training. |
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| 8. | During your accounting software implementation project, two project team members have difficulty working together. They come to you, the project manager, for help resolving the issues. You immediately set up a meeting that includes the functional manager. After the meeting you and the functional manager discuss the issues and agree on a solution. This type of management probably indicates you are working in what type of organizational structure?
| A. | Functional |
| B. | Weak matrix |
| C. | Balanced matrix |
| D. | Projectized |
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| 9. | You have just completed the scope planning and scope definition. What should you do next?
| A. | Scope verification |
| B. | Activity definition |
| C. | Create WBS |
| D. | Scope control |
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| 10. | You have just completed the activity definition, activity resources estimating, and activity duration estimating processes. Which process have you left out?
| A. | Activity sequencing |
| B. | Schedule development |
| C. | Schedule control |
| D. | Create WBS |
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