Project Stakeholder Management

181. A team member approaches you with a change that could cut your
schedule down by a month. What is the first thing you should do?
A. Write up a change request and see if you can get it approved
B. Make the change; its going to save time and nobody will want the project to
take longer than it should
C. Figure out the impact on the scope of the work and the cost before you write
up the change request
D. Tell the team member that youve already communicated the deadline for
the project, so you cant make any changes now

182. You have been hired by a contractor, who wants you to manage a
construction project for one of their clients. The project team has been
working for six weeks. You need to determine whether the team is ahead
of or behind schedule. Which of the following tools and techniques is the
BEST one for you to consult?
A. Performance Measurement
B. Project Management Software
C. Schedule Change Control System
D. Bottom-Up Estimating

183. Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Perform

Quality Control process?
A. Inspection
B. Quality audits
C. Pareto charts
D. Statistical sampling

184. Brandi is a project manager on a software project. About halfway

through development, her team found that they had not estimated
enough time for some of the technical work they needed to do. She
requested that the new work be added to the scope statement and that
the time to do the work be added to the schedule. The change control
board approved her change. Whats her next step?
A. Update the scope and schedule baselines to reflect the approved change
B. Start doing the work
C. Gather performance metrics on the teams work so far
D. Perform Quality Assurance

185. You are initiating project that has a virtual team. Half of your team
members will be located in another country, where they are working for a
subcontractor. The subcontractors team members speak a different
dialect of English than your team does. After a conference call to review
the project charter, two of your team members make jokes about the way
your subcontractors team members speak. What is the BEST way to
handle this situation?
A. Inform the subcontractor that they must adopt a non-discriminatory policy
or you will be forced to terminate the contract and find a subcontractor that
does not discriminate against women
B. Do nothing, because discrimination against women is a cultural norm in the
subcontractors country
C. Update the project charter to add a requirement that teams expect cultural
differences
D. Promote another team member, but find a different way to reward the
woman for her work

186. When do you perform stakeholder analysis?

A. When managing communications on your project
B. When developing the project charter
C. When creating the project management plan
D. When putting changes through change control

187. A particular stakeholder has a reputation for making many changes

on projects. What is the best approach a project manager can take at the
beginning of the project to manage this situation?
A. Say "No" to the stakeholder a few times to dissuade him from submitting
more changes.
B. Get the stakeholder involved in the project as early as possible.
C. Talk to the stakeholder's boss to find ways to direct the stakeholder's
activities to another project.
D. Ask that the stakeholder not be included in the stakeholder listing.