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3. 1. Your Risk Register says if your IT Administrator is unavailable for a period
longer than a week then it will cause serious issues for your project. You
have just learned from you Human Resource Department that your IT
Administrator has resigned with a one-month notice period, during which
time the company will have to find a replacement. This situation is an
example of which of the following:
A. Secondary Risk
B. Residual Risk
C. Contingency Plan
D. Trigger
Hint:You have found out that a risk is about to occur.
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4. The correct answer is D
Explanation:As you have just discovered that one of
your project's identified risk is about to happen, this is
an example of a risk trigger.
Answer and Explanation

5. 2. You managed a project with over 60 team members to design a new sports car. In the
project kickoff meeting you assured the team that good performers would be rewarded.
At the project closing meeting, you only awarded incentive bonuses to two team
members. A client who was present asked why only two team members were rewarded
with bonuses.What did you miss while defining rewards and recognition?
A. You didn't realize recognizing cultural differences may offend people
B. You defined objectives on work that was supposed to performed
C. You set criteria for rewards that made the team over confident
D. You made the targets unachievable on the project
Hint:Team recognition should be based on individual tasks that are achievable and clear.
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6. The correct answer is D
Explanation:The entire team worked together to
complete the project but only two members were
rewarded.This implies that the targets were unachievable
and that the expectations set by you were unrealistic.
Answer and Explanation

7. 3. You are the project manager on a new nationwide telecom network. Your client
told you that conformance to the highest quality standards is mandatory but this
client is new to the telecom industry and is unable to provide specific technical
parameters. Your client said that the network's conformance should be graded against
the leading telecom operator in the country.What is this practice called?
A. Cost-BenefitAnalysis
B. Pairwise Comparison
C. Benchmarking
D. Quality Metrics
Hint: Your client has an existing telecom network in mind against which they are setting their
quality requirements.
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8. The correct answer is C
Explanation:This is an example of benchmarking.
According to the PMBOK Guide, "Benchmarking
involves comparing actual or planned project practices to
those of comparable projects to identify best practices,
generate ideas for improvement, and provide a basis for
measuring performance.These other projects can be
within the performing organization or outside of it and
can be within the same or in another application area."
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9. 4. You are managing a software development project. You want to create the basis that
will be used later on for estimating, scheduling, executing, monitoring, and
controlling the project work.Which process performs this activity?
A. CreateWBS
B. Define Scope
C. Define Activities
D. Create Project Management Plan
Hint: Estimating is performed when the activities are defined and the schedule is prepared.
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10. The correct answer is C
Explanation:Activities form a basis for estimating,
scheduling, executing, and monitoring and controlling the
project work.This is performed in the Define Activities
process.
Answer and Explanation

11. 5. Estimating costs demands expert skills. Which of the following is most important
to document when estimating costs?
A. Documentation of all assumptions made
B. Documentation of any known constraints
C. Indication of the range of possible estimate
D. Documentation of the basis of the estimate
Hint: All of the choices are examples of the supporting details you must attach to each cost
estimate.But which one is the most important?
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12. The correct answer is D
Explanation: "All of the choices are examples of the
supporting details you must attach to each cost estimate.
However, the documentation of the basis of the estimate
is most important since this will be the justification for
and reasoning behind the estimate you are presenting to
your management for approval.All other information is
secondary."
Answer and Explanation