While reviewing your project's performance, you discover a significant variance. If the issue is not fixed before the next customer inspection, your project might be canceled. However, after a further review conducted by the project team, you are glad to hear that bringing the project back on track requires only a minor correction to a configuration element.

What should you do first?

Implement the corrective action

Submit a change request

Consult the project sponsor

Delay the customer inspection

A project manager is leading a process improvement project for a factory operation. Currently, the project manager and the team are performing the Monitor and Control Project Work process.

Which of the following activities might be carried out during this process?

Comparing actual project performance against the project management plan

Implementing approved change requests to achieve the project's objectives

Analyzing change requests and either approving or rejecting them

Gaining formal acceptance of the deliverables by the customer or sponsor

An organization has a policy that a change control board (CCB) must review all change requests for every project in the organization, and that the CCB follows the recommended activities outlined in the PMBOK Guide. Project managers and the project team do not serve as members of the CCB.

Based on this scenario, which of the following activities might be performed by members of the CCB?

Submitting a change request

Implementing approved change requests

Initiating and closing a project

Monitoring implementation of approved changes

A company has authorized a dedicated change control board (CCB) to review and evaluate all change requests that are submitted for any project.

If the project sponsor is a member of the CCB, which of the following best describes an individual or group that can request a change on a project?

Project manager

Project sponsor

Project team

Any stakeholder

One of your contractors is not performing to the agreed-upon standards. You want to terminate the contract and engage another contractor for the same job. You need to determine the specific legal procedure for the early termination of the contract.

What should you do?

Check the procurement management plan

Look at the scope statement

Review the risk register

Consult the contract

A project is divided into four sequential phases. The second phase of the project has just been completed, and the third phase is about to begin.

What should the project manager do first?

Begin the process of directing and managing the project work

Perform the process of identifying the project stakeholders

Start the process of monitoring and controlling the project work

Begin the process of developing the project management plan

An organization has a project management office (PMO) that ensures all relevant project documents are created, and all project management processes are followed according to established best practices.

What should the project manager review first to identify stakeholders for a newly started project?

The business documents as a source of information about the project's stakeholders

The communications management plan to learn about the project's stakeholders

The stakeholder engagement plan to identify the management strategies and actions required to engage stakeholders effectively

The requirements documentation for information on potential stakeholders

There is a table with activity list that includes the duration and predecessor for a series of project activities.

What is the duration of the critical path?

A project manager is in the process of developing the stakeholder register. As the first step in this process, she needs a list of potential stakeholders and decides to use a data gathering technique called brain writing.

What is the first thing to do when using that technique?

Convene a data gathering meeting with the participants

Develop your own template for a stakeholder register

Send a list of questions to participants before the creativity session

Consult the stakeholder engagement plan to understand how the stakeholders are to be identified

A project manager does most of her communicating with team members, internal project stakeholders, and external project stakeholders via email. The project manager incorporates specific techniques when composing her emails to reduce any misunderstandings.

Which of the following is not considered one of these techniques?

Concise expression

Clear purpose directed to the needs of the reader

Controlled flow of words and ideas

Communications register

As the project manager, you are leading a brainstorming session with key stakeholders to identify project risks. Once the project risks are determined, you immediately proceed to nominate different team members as risk owners and assign them the task of developing individual risk response plans.

Have you properly conducted risk management planning?

No, you should be the one developing the risk response plans as you are ultimately responsible for the outcomes of the project.

Yes, the risk response plans are an output of the Identify Risks process and should be developed right after the risks have been identified.

No, before assigning risk responsibility to team members, you need to assess each risk's probability of occurrence and its impact.

Yes, the team members should be assigned responsibility for a risk as soon as possible and tasked with creating a risk response plan.

12. You are managing a project to build a database and need to acquire information from the stakeholders of the project. The team is using brainstorming, focus groups, interviews, questionnaires, and benchmarking to understand and document the stakeholders' needs.

The methods the team is using are representative of which tool and technique?

Data gathering

Data analysis

Decision making