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Question - 42 As a manager on a project your key outlook is to ensure that the project delivers within the scheduled timelines with minimal rework and customer delight. For some time now the project work is proceeding smoothly with a CPI and SPI a perfect 1.One of your team members approaches you and indicates that she might possibly need a long vacation on personal grounds. She indicates this could possibly occur in two months from now. You look up the schedule and as luck would have it - this team member happens to be scheduled to execute activities which are on the critical path - and her absence in two months’ time would cause a delay in schedule. You decide to take some action and reschedule task allocation to ensure that this team member is not planned to work on any of the critical path activities. What did you just do?

CIPM. Reducing the impact of a risk event by reducing the possibility of its occurrence is:

Question - 15 You head the engineering department in your company. Lately you have observed that certain deliveries are missing the schedule. On closer scrutiny you observe this to be occurring with a specific team member. You decide to discuss it out with the team member. Initially the team member is reluctant to discuss but finally opens up and indicates that the cause of the delays is often different instructions coming in from you as well as the project manager. She indicates that at such times she is confused related to whose instructions to follow - thereby causing delays - what kind of an Organizational structure is this most likely to be ?

Question - 38 A friend of yours approaches you seeking advice. She indicates she has offers from two organizations. Her role in one of the organization is that of a project Co-ordinator while in the other organization her role is that of a Project expediter. She is not quite clear of the difference between the two roles and seeks your advice. Which of the following statement is true

CFM 23 - Who are the facility manager’s customers?

Question - 45 Of the following types of contracts - which has the HIGHEST risk for the buyer ?

Question - 22 You are the project manager and have decided to outsource a part of the project to a vendor. You have offered a bonus to the vendor if the work is completed in two months. This is an example of _____________.

Question - 27 As a project manager you understand the importance of identifying all relevant stakeholders, their interest and influence and their needs and expectations. You have been assigned to handle a large construction project. You decide to do a thorough stakeholder analysis and you identify Bob and Kelly. Based on your interactions and analysis - you know that Bob wields a lot of authority and also has a huge interest in the project. Kelly too wields a lot of power but is largely uninterested. You decide to plot them in a Power / Interest grid to help determine how you would manage these stakeholders. Which of the following is the best approach to handle these two stakeholders?

Question - 49 Your company has won a large project for one of the fund houses to administer their funds. The project work has been going on smoothly and the customer has been singing praises about the work done so far. The client has planned a visit the next month to go over the plans for the next phase of the project as well as to meet with the project team. Your senior management realizes that this client could potentially need additional capabilities in the derivatives segment. Your company happens to have a strong exposure to this segment having executed numerous such projects. Your senior manager also invites key managers from the derivatives segment to showcase the organizations abilities in the derivates vertical - this is an example of ?

CIPM. Which of the following is NOT a process of project human resources management?

CIPM. Three Point Statistical Estimating Formula Group. Expected Value =

CIPM. Which of the following are examples of indirect costs?

CIPM   You are a project manager who was just assigned to take over a project from another project manager who is leaving the company. The previous project manager tells you that the project is on schedule, but only because he has constantly pushed the team to perform. What is the FIRST thing you should do as the new project manager?

CIPM. Financial controls that need to be considered for project plan development do not include:

CFM 25 - ______________ can be defined as an interdisciplinary business function has the objective to coordinate demand and supply of facilities and services within public and private organizations

Question - 30 You have received a number of seller responses for contracting work related to setting up office cubicles. One of the bids received happens to be from a very good friend of yours. You know she has done good work in the past. What should be the BEST course of action?

CIPM. Which of the following Project Scope Management processes involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components?

CIPM  When checking the calendar of a team member to schedule a meeting, you see she has scheduled a meeting with a key stakeholder that you were not informed of. The best approach would be to:

CIPM.  Includes the processes required to ensure that the project include all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the work successfully

. CIPM.--------------------------- is defined as the processes required for managing the timely completion of the project

Question - 24 Of the following types of contracts - which has the HIGHEST risk for the seller?

Question - 36 As a manager on a project you have identified and created the WBS and WBS Dictionary. You now plan to ensure that each deliverable gets the blessings of your stakeholders and sponsors. Which process are you planning to perform?

CIPM   A team is using a fishbone diagram to help determine what quality standards will be used on the project. What part of the quality management process are they in?

Question - 45 Of the following types of contracts - which has the HIGHEST risk for the buyer ?

Question – 16 As a project manager you understand the importance of identifying all relevant stakeholders , their interest and influence and their needs and expectations. You have been assigned to handle a large construction project. You decide to do a thorough stakeholder analysis and you identify Laura and Sean. Based on your interactions and analysis - you know that both Sean and Laura are low in the pecking order so they do not wield any significant authority or power. However where it differs is in their interest in the project. Laura has a lot of interest while Sean is disinterested. You decide to plot them in a Power / Interest grid to help determine how you would manage these stakeholders. Which of the following is the best approach to handle these two stakeholders?

CIPM   The WBS and WBS dictionary are completed. The project team has begun working on identifying risks. The sponsor contacts the project manager, requesting that the responsibility assignment matrix be issued. The project has a budget of U.S. $loo,ooo and is taking place in three countries using 14 human resources. There is little risk expected for the project and the project manager has managed many projects similar to this one. What is the next thing to do?

CIPM   The project manager is making sure that the product of the project has been completed according to the project management plan. What part of the project management process is he in?

CIPM. Which of the following is one of organizational charts used to develop human resources plan

Question - 48 You are responsible for managing a project that deals with laying out a freeway connecting two major port cities. Progress in the past has been smooth but lately in the past few months you have observed a schedule and budget overrun. You decide to hold a meeting with your team members. On discussions you realize team members went ahead and made changes at the behest of the client requests on site. You are pretty sure the changes were not a part of the project scope statement – which of these project management concept did the team member refuse to follow?

CIPM. One  of  the following is NOT among tools & techniques used to conduct procurements

CFM 19 - First step in managing ergonomic stressors in the workplace is to analyze _____________

CIPM    Before reporting a perceived violation of an established rule or policy the project manager should:

Question - 15 You head the engineering department in your company. Lately you have observed that certain deliveries are missing the schedule. On closer scrutiny you observe this to be occurring with a specific team member. You decide to discuss it out with the team member. Initially the team member is reluctant to discuss but finally opens up and indicates that the cause of the delays is often different instructions coming in from you as well as the project manager. She indicates that at such times she is confused related to whose instructions to follow - thereby causing delays - what kind of an Organizational structure is this most likely to be ?

Question - 17 You have replaced an earlier project manager. The project is already in its third month of execution. You need to determine if the project is ahead or behind schedule. What would be the BEST source of this information?

CIPM -Earned value can be described as:

Question - 19 The following are the processes in Project Risk Management?
1. Plan Risk Management 2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis 3. Identify Risks 4. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis 5. Plan Risk Responses 6. Control Risk.
Which of these is the correct sequence?

CIPM. Constructive Team Role includes :

CFM 26 - Recycling is the reuse and reclamation/recovery of premises or environment

CIPM    Which of the following is not an input to Activity Definition process:

CIPM. Pareto Analysis, cause and effect diagrams and flow charts are used in quality.

CIPM. Pareto Analysis, cause and effect diagrams and flow charts are used in quality.

CIPM. Using the PMBOK definition of contingency reserve, which of the following statements about contingency reserves is false?

CIPM. The acronym SOW stands for what?

CFM 24 - Which of the following explain the need for facility location selection?

CIPM  Configuration management is:

CFM15.

What is the advantage of good layout design in the case of service organizations?

CIPM  Which of the following is an advantage of centralized contracting?

CIPM.   One of the following is a tool or technique used in plan procurement

CFM13.

Which factor influence location for a service organization?

CIPM. Which of the following is NOT an example of a type of schedule report?

CFM10.

Space management benefits are except

Question - 18 You have just completed developing the Schedule Network Diagram for a project that deals with building supersonic state of the art Jet planes. You have identified your critical path which includes building a wind tunnel. You see that in addition there is another path which deals with building the tail of the plane - whose duration is close to the critical path. You also notice considerable floats on the other paths. You now need to assign resources to the tasks - you have a few team members who are highly skilled and a team of resources who are relatively inexperienced. What would be the best course of action while assigning resources

CIPM   In the Monte Carlo technique, what is the criticality index?

Question - 39 You are managing a project which involves building software for the aeronautical domain. The nature of the work is complex and needs a lot of research. During Quality assurance both the development team and testing team suggest that the quality assurance process be changed to also include White Box testing and not only rely on Black box testing. The team wants to make this shift in approach as they believe this would lead to better quality of deliverables - what is the best course of action ?

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CIPM. The major purpose of project status reports is to:

CIPM. ------------------------Comprises of the top management of a project

Question - 28 Over lunch you meet a colleague who is managing a large turnover project for setting up a chemical plant. Your colleague is worried because the client is being unreasonable and asking for changes that will have a severe impact to the scope schedule and also cost. The client is also not ready to absorb the additional impact to schedule and cost. She seeks your advice - what should she do?

Question - 22 You are the project manager and have decided to outsource a part of the project to a vendor. You have offered a bonus to the vendor if the work is completed in two months. This is an example of _____________.

Question - 26 You are in charge of a software project and you are almost 40% complete. The project stakeholders want a [performance report to date. You had planned to use Earned Value Management methodology. You come up with the following numbers: EV = 100 AC = 300 PV = 150 BAC = 600. You and your team have faced numerous issues till now. However, you choose to ignore the current work performance and decide to go with what was originally planned. Based on this information what would be the EAC for the project?

CIPM. Write in full PDM

Question - 34 Earned Value Analysis is used to measure performance based on following parameters:

CIPM   The five types of conflict resolution are listed below and represent, in general order of importance, the methods a project manager should use to manage conflict. The one used most often by project managers to resolve conflict is:

.All  the followings are the out puts of administer procurement except on

CIPM.

Project Risk Management includes all of the following processes except:

Question - 30 You have received a number of seller responses for contracting work related to setting up office cubicles. One of the bids received happens to be from a very good friend of yours. You know she has done good work in the past. What should be the BEST course of action?

CIPM   During the full life cycle of the project, a plot of the project.s expected expenditures will usually follow a characteristic ..S.. shape. This indicates that:

Question - 48 You are responsible for managing a project that deals with laying out a freeway connecting two major port cities. Progress in the past has been smooth but lately in the past few months you have observed a schedule and budget overrun. You decide to hold a meeting with your team members. On discussions you realize team members went ahead and made changes at the behest of the client requests on site. You are pretty sure the changes were not a part of the project scope statement – which of these project management concept did the team member refuse to follow?

CIPM. The review of key deliverables and project performance at the conclusion of a project phase is called

CIPM. Which of the following methods is least likely to be used for explaining project planning guidelines to the team?

CFM 26 - Recycling is the reuse and reclamation/recovery of premises or environment

CIPM. One of these is NOT an input  of plan procurement

CIPM.     A fundamental tool used by the project manager to deliver the successfully is known as

CIPM. Is the process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risk on overall project objectives.

CFM 17 -The HVAC systems designed with a capacity is based on ________________

CIPM   A rough order of magnitude estimate is made during which project management process group?

CIPM. The receiver filters messages based on all but the following:

CFM1. People negotiate daily, often without considering it a negotiation

CIPM In the communication process, "noise" is the word used to describe factors and forces inhibiting the exchange of information between two or more parties. Noise includes all of the following but __________

CIPM. The three major types of communication are:

Question - 25 What is the BEST use of a Work Authorization System?

CIPM. As project manager you should dedicate a primary focus to:

CIPM. Which of the following acronyms stand for fixed price with economic price adjustment contracts

Question - 26 You are in charge of a software project and you are almost 40% complete. The project stakeholders want a [performance report to date. You had planned to use Earned Value Management methodology. You come up with the following numbers: EV = 100 AC = 300 PV = 150 BAC = 600. You and your team have faced numerous issues till now. However, you choose to ignore the current work performance and decide to go with what was originally planned. Based on this information what would be the EAC for the project?

CIPM. You manage a project whose team members have diverse skills and expertise. You want to encourage your staff to pool its knowledge on project issues to make the best decisions possible. The most appropriate management style to use is:

CFM 21 - In order to best serve user needs, facility standard must be ______________

Question - 44 Which of the following activities is not performed as a part of Project Closure?A. Ensure all the deliverables as per contract are met

CIPM  You are a project manager leading a cross-functional project team in a weak matrix environment. None of your project team members report to you functionally and you do not have the ability to directly reward their performance. The project is difficult, involving tight date constraints and challenging quality standards. Which of the following types of project management power will likely be the most effective in this circumstance?

CIPM. Provides a comprehensive, consistent method of controlling the project and ensuring its success

CIPM. Gantt charts are great for:

CFM12. Which factor influences location strategy for facility location?

CFM 16 - What does a good maintenance ensure?

CIPM. -------------------------Is an enterprise environment factor which can affect the availability of resources and influence how projects are conducted

CFM 23 - Who are the facility manager’s customers?

CFM9. _____________ is the management of persons and their needs and deficiencies in a particular environment.

CIPM. Network planning methods(PERT/CPM/PDM):

CIPM. One of the following is NOT an input used for control communication

Question - 42 As a manager on a project your key outlook is to ensure that the project delivers within the scheduled timelines with minimal rework and customer delight. For some time now the project work is proceeding smoothly with a CPI and SPI a perfect 1.One of your team members approaches you and indicates that she might possibly need a long vacation on personal grounds. She indicates this could possibly occur in two months from now. You look up the schedule and as luck would have it - this team member happens to be scheduled to execute activities which are on the critical path - and her absence in two months’ time would cause a delay in schedule. You decide to take some action and reschedule task allocation to ensure that this team member is not planned to work on any of the critical path activities. What did you just do?

Question - 27 As a project manager you understand the importance of identifying all relevant stakeholders, their interest and influence and their needs and expectations. You have been assigned to handle a large construction project. You decide to do a thorough stakeholder analysis and you identify Bob and Kelly. Based on your interactions and analysis - you know that Bob wields a lot of authority and also has a huge interest in the project. Kelly too wields a lot of power but is largely uninterested. You decide to plot them in a Power / Interest grid to help determine how you would manage these stakeholders. Which of the following is the best approach to handle these two stakeholders?

CIPM. Which of the following is the most efficient means of product quality inspection