8 questions:
1- When defining roles for staff and contractors, what is NOT part of the project manager's responsibility?
Select one:
a. Group work packages by similar requirements for technical and social skills.
b. Ensure staff has an optimum workload over contractors.
c. Assign work packages to each role.
d. Divide work packages among each planned position.
2- Why does the risk management team review contract details?
Select one:
a. To ensure the amount of risk transfer is appropriate and the cost is acceptable.
b. To ensure all fair hiring and employment laws and regulations are followed.
c. To ensure all contract details are standard boilerplate materials.
d. To ensure all high significance, high impact risks are transferred.
3- Why have a bid bond?
Select one:
a. It verifies that contractors have proper insurance or licensure.
b. It makes the proposal legally binding if accepted.
c. It commits the contractor to paying for deliverables if not fulfilled properly.
d. It commits the contractor to complete the work properly.
4- What is typically true when assigning internal staff for the project team?
Select one:
a. Project managers generally have no authority to acquire team members from other business units.
b. Project managers are typically considered line managers.
c. Project managers generally have no hiring authority.
d. Part-time project team members with line responsibilities generally have no scheduling conflicts.
5- What falls outside of a project manager's responsibility when integrating/coordinating tasks during the Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling phases of a capital construction project?
Select one:
a. Creating project charter and objectives documents.
b. Forecasting whether the project will stay on schedule.
c. Implementing standards and processes as planned.
d. Keeping records on schedule, cost, progress, and quality.
6- What is true when controlling the schedule during project execution and control?
Select one:
a. Small schedule slips are important and require immediate action.
b. Schedule creep is acceptable if it results in useful new features at an acceptable cost.
c. Project managers use schedule variance analysis as the primary guide for deciding whether to recommend actions or changes to the schedule.
d. If work cannot be brought back on schedule, changing the schedule is not an option.
7- What can a root cause analysis uncover when applied to quality assurance/quality control?
Select one:
a. Whether a variance from an original item price estimate is a factor.
b. The magnitude of deviations from the budget.
c. The reasons deliverables have defects.
d. Whether the budget is forecasted to be met or exceeded.
8- What effectively holds a project team together and enables stakeholders to feel a sense of participation?
Select one:
a. Quality management
b. Managing communications
c. Project scheduling technology
d. Integration/coordination