Which of the following is not true of emotional intelligence and its benefits on projects?

As a project manager, you are hired by a projectized organization. You have been working on a 1-year agile project for 9 months since you joined the company. The project is on track to meet its upcoming releases when one of the functional managers tells you the resources committed to the project are no longer available.

After further investigation, you discover the company has another project that just started and is using the resources committed to your project. You believe the new project is not critical, but the project manager is the CEO’s son. What is the best course of action in this situation?

Which of the following statements is true for improving the quality of the project’s processes?

You are managing a project, and you know that the first phase of the project is completed. What will you make sure is done before starting the second phase of the project?

You are weighing the different alternatives that you have to make a career shift. One of your alternatives is a company with a projectized organizational form. In your assessments, which one of the following would be considered a drawback of such an organizational form?

At the end of a major project that came in over budget and behind schedule, the project manager analysed the root cause of the poor performance. He noticed that a key keyholder had been vocal towards the latter half of the project about the direction the project was going and was quite critical of it. The project manager recalled that he had to make several changes to accommodate them. What could the project manager have done better to avoid this issue?

You are in the process of conducting procurement management, and you are about to award a contract to a subcontractor for a portion of the project scope. This portion, described at a high level, will cost $4 million, with a standard deviation of $500,000. What type of contract do you recommend in this situation?

You just finished acquiring the members of your project team for your new project. You now need to ensure that each person is associated with a project activity and their roles and responsibilities are documented. What is the term for this project artifact?

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You are leading a change-driven project, and the first iteration of the project has been completed. Which TWO activities need to be completed before the next iteration begins?

As the manager of a construction project, you are reviewing an earned value analysis report that includes only the variance information. The schedule variance is $320,000, and the cost variance is $100,000. You estimate the project’s planned value at this point to be $2,000,000.

It is after regular office hours, and you don’t have access to the analyst who prepared the report, though you see that the report shows an SPI of 1.16 and a CPI of 1.05. What does this information tell you about the project?

Which one of the following options best describes the role of a sponsor in a project?

A software project at a business analytics company just completed its third of 12 planned sprints. The scrum master is meeting with the team during the sprint retrospective, where team members note that the planned number of user stories was not completed. Team members are now pointing fingers at each other, accusing certain members of working too slowly and not fully understanding how to accomplish the tasks. What should have been done to prevent this issue?

During the Plan Procurement process, you are performing the make-or-buy analysis. Apart from the costs, which one of the following options will convince you to do the work yourself instead of hiring another company to do it for you?

As the project manager, you have just made a change to the project. What should be your next course of action?

A project manager is going on vacation and is considering who would be best to moderate her weekly project status meeting. She has four candidates and decided to attempt to match them based on their Myers-Briggs personality indicator results learned early in the project. Which of the four should she choose for this position?

A project manager has increased the project costs by $200,000, but he has completed the project 4 weeks earlier than planned. What activity is best described in this situation?

As a project manager, you have just been assigned to a new project, and you have received the approved project charter from the sponsor. What is the first thing that you will do now?

You are the project manager on a large IT project and have noticed that the project team can’t easily find the correct information to make good decisions, and there is a lot of confusion about which document versions are the most up-to-date. You are also having a tough time integrating the various processes. As a result, you suggest improvements be made to which of the following?

You are managing a design project, and one of the project deliverables had a significant defect. You have involved the project management and project engineering teams in investigating the situation. The project management team believes the defect is due to poor software used to create the deliverable, while the engineering team believes it is due to incorrect data. Which tool would you use to aid in finding the cause of the defect?

You are a project manager of a waterfall project, and your team is executing the work packages to create a software package. Two of the project’s stakeholders have just asked for changes that each says should be the number one priority. What would be the BEST thing to do?