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391. The purpose of a dummy activity in an activity-on-arrow diagram is to:
A. Identify a task that could be replaced by another.
B. Take the slack time into account.
C. Show a task that is not necessarily needed.
D. Denote a milestone.
E. Show a dependency relationship.
ANS: E
392. When planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling a project an important human resources skill or ability would be
A. Building multi-disciplinary teams
B. Managing conflict
C. Communicating orally and in writing with all levels of personnel
D. Involving senior management
E. All are important
ANS: E
393. Which is not a negotiation tactic?
A. Imposing deadlines
B. surprises
C. person with authority is absent
D. reasoning together
E. all are negotiations tactics
ANS: E
394. Which of the following is referred to as sunk cost:
A. management reserve
B. contingency fund
C. cost budgeted for construction under water
D. expended funds over which there is no further control
E. forecasted budget over-runs
ANS: D
395. A project manager believes that modifying the scope of the project may provide added value for the customer. The project manager should:
A. Change the scope baseline
B. Prepare a variance report
C. Call a meeting of the configuration control board
D. Change the project's objectives
E. Postpone the modification until a separate enhancement project is funded after this project is completed according to the original baseline
ANS: E
396. As a project is carried out and slack time is consumed on individual tasks, the slack left over for the remaining tasks is:
A. Insignificant.
B. Reduced.
C. Unchanged.
D. Increased.
E. Doubled.
ANS: C
397. Group brainstorming encourages all of the following except:
A. Team building
B. Uninhibited verbalization
C. Decision making
D. Analysis of alternatives
E. Convergent thinking
ANS: E
398. Non-conformance penalties are a form of _____.
A. quality incentive
B. risk sharing
C. contract negotiations
D. quality assurance programs
E. None of the above.
ANS: C
399. Risk Event Status is defined as _____ .
A. Risk Probability x Amount At Stake.
B. the severity of the consequences.
C. how likely the event is to occur with risk.
D. (Cost + Benefit + Business Risk) / Insurable Risk.
E. B and C
ANS: A
400. There are hard causes of conflict (e.g. conflicting schedules) and soft causes. Soft causes are as important as hard causes. Soft causes
include diversity of disciplinary expertise, _____, and the project manager's power of reward and punishment.
A. Performance tradeoffs
B. Ambiguity of roles
C. Administrative procedures
D. Determining earned value
E.
ANS: B
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