1. There are 30 stakeholders on your project.

The project is being done in country X

with team members from three different countries as team members. Which of the
following is the most important thing to keep in mind?
a) There must be one sponsor from each country.
b) Conflicts of interest must be disclosed.
c) The communications channels will be narrow.
d) Many competing needs and objectives must be satisfied.

2. What is the ethical code you will be required to adhere to as a Project

Management Professional?
a) Project Management Professional Standards.
b) Project Management Professional code of Professional conduct.
c) Project Management policy of ethics.
d) Project Management Code of Professional ethics and standards.

3. Which of the following rules should apply to international dealings on your

project?
a) Do whatever it takes to manage project successfully.
b) Do not violate any basic fundamental human rights.
c) Always apply the business practices of your own country.
d) You have your way, I have mine.

4. On Christmas, you give your government client a leather briefcase. You are in
violation of the responsibility to
a) Provide accurate information.
b) Protect Conflict of interest.
c) Comply with law.
d) Comply with regulations.

5. During planning a project manager discovers that part of the scope of work is
undefined. What should the Project Manager do?
a) Remove the scope of work from the project and include it in the upgrade to the
project.
b) Continue to plan for the project until the scope of the work is defined.
c) Ask management to help get the work defined.
d) Issue a change to the project when the scope is defined.

6. Manager of your company is writing a proposal for services for a new client. The
client’s Request for Proposal requires that the Project manager assigned have a PMP
Certification. Your name was placed on the proposal but you do not have PMP
certification. After confronting your manager about this he mentions that your exam is in
few weeks and by the time the proposal is reviewed you will be a PMP. What should you
do?
a) Ask your manager to put someone else’s name as the Project Manager.
b) Do nothing the situation is solved.
c) Ask your manager to reword the proposal to indicate anticipated PMP certification.
d) Call the potential client and explain the situation.

7. You just found out that a major subcontractor for your project consistently
provides deliverables late. The subcontractor approaches you and asks you to continue
accepting late deliverables in exchange for a decrease in project costs. This offer is an
example of :
a) Confrontation
b) Compromise
c) Smoothing
d) Forcing

8. While reading a magazine article, you discover that there is a tool of project
management that other companies are using, but that your company has never heard of.
What should you do?
a) Copy the article and pass it around your company.
b) Talk to your colleagues and see if they know about it.
c) Arrange a meeting with your manager to discuss it.
d) Review the benefits of using it in your company and present them to your manager

9. You have a cost plus fixed fee contract with the customer and an arrangement
with your manager whereby you will receive 10 percent of the contract fee as your
payment for services. While completing the project, you discover that the actual cost will
be lower than expected, thus decreasing your fee. What should you do?
a) Find ways to add tasks to the project that provide more customer benefits and
increase costs.
b) Expand more of the critical path tasks so they cost more.
c) Purchase more expensive equipment.
d) Notify your manager of the probable decreased cost.

10. You've been assigned to take over managing a project that should be half-
complete according to the schedule. You discover that the project is running far behind
schedule, and that the project will probably take double the time originally estimated by
the previous project manager. However, upper management has been told that the
project is on schedule. What is the BEST course of action?
a) Try to restructure the schedule to meet the project deadline.
b) Report your assessment to upper management.
c) Turn the project back to the previous project manager.
d) Move forward with the schedule as planned by the previous project manager and
report at the first missed milestone.
11. You are in the middle of a new product development project for your publicly
traded company when you discover that the previous project manager made a $3 million
payment that was not approved in accordance with your company policies. Luckily, the
project CPI is 1.2. What should you do?
a) Bury the cost in the largest cost center available.
b) Put the payment in an escrow account.
c) Contact your manager.
d) Ignore the payment.

12. Although your company is not the lowest bidder for a project, the client has come
to expect good performance from your company and wants to award the contract to you.
To win the contract, the client asks you to eliminate your project management costs.
The client says that your company has good project processes, and project controls
unnecessarily inflate your costs. What should you do under these circumstances?
a) Eliminate your project management costs and rely on experience.
b) Remove costs associated with project team communications, meetings and customer
reviews.
c) Remove meeting costs but not the project manager's salary.
d) Describe the costs incurred on past projects that did not use project management.

13. A major negotiation with a potential subcontractor is scheduled for tomorrow

when you discover there is a good chance the project will be cancelled. What should
you do?
a) Do not spend too much time preparing for the negotiations.
b) Cut the negotiations short.
c) Only negotiate major items.
d) Postpone the negotiations.

14. You are doing business in a foreign country and you are advised by your local
contact that it will be necessary to make payments to certain officials in order to get the
contract. Such payments are expected in the other country, but are illegal for people
from your country. What should you do?
a) Have the local contact make payments.
b) Refuse to make the payment and hope to get the contract solely based on your
company's abilities.
c) Call your government officials and ask for direction.
d) Amend your price increasing the cost to reflect the payments to be made to local
officials.

15. An employee approaches you and asks if he can tell you something in
confidence. He advises you that he has been performing illegal activities within the
company for the last year. He is feeling guilty about it and is telling you to receive advice
as to what he should do. What should you do?
a) Ask for full details.
b) Confirm that the activity is really illegal.
c) Inform your manager of the illegal activity.
d) Tell the employee to inform their boss.
16. During construction of a new manufacturing facility in another country, one of
your team members complains to you that the wage paid to the workers is below the
acceptable wage in your home country. In this situation it is BEST to:
a) Pay the workers at the new facility the same wage as your country.
b) Pay the workers at the new facility a little less than the same wage as your country.
c) Pay the workers an appropriate wage for the country within which they work.
d) Ignore the issue, as you have not heard the workers complain.

17. On one of your company's medical research projects, you object to how the
research is being handled. However, you signed a confidentiality agreement with the
company that prohibits you from talking about your research. It would be BEST to:
a) Quit and do not talk about what you know.
b) Quit and begin talking to the community.
c) Continue working and begins to talk about your objections to the research to
newspapers in other cities.
d) Destroy the research.

18. The project has a critical deliverable that requires certain expertise to complete.
The person who was going to complete the task has left the company and there is no
one who can complete the work within the company. For this reason, the project
manager needs to acquire the services of a consultant as soon as possible. To do this,
the project manager should:
a) Follow the legal requirements set up by the company for using outside services.
b) Bypass the company procedures, as they are not relevant to the situation.
c) Expedite and go directly to his/her preferred consultant.
d) Ask his/her manager what to do.

19. All of the following are the responsibility of a project manager EXCEPT?
a) Maintain the confidentiality of customer confidential information.
b) Determine the legality of company procedures.
c) Ensure that a legal conflict of interest does not compromise the legitimate interest of
the customer.
d) Provide accurate and truthful representations in cost estimates.

20. While testing the strength of concrete poured on your project, you discover that
over 35% of the concrete does not meet your company's quality standards. You feel
certain the concrete will function as it is, and you don't think the concrete needs to meet
the quality level specified. What should you do?
a) Change the quality standards to meet the level achieved.
b) List in your reports that the concrete simply “meets our quality needs”.
c) Ensure the remaining concrete meets the standard.
d) Report the lesser quality level and try to find a solution.
21. In order to complete work on your projects, you have been provided confidential
information from all of your clients. A university contacts you to help it in its research.
Such assistance would require you to provide it with some of the client data from your
files. What should you do?
a) Release the information, but remove all references to the client's name.
b) Provide high-level information only.
c) Contact your clients and seek permission to disclose the information.
d) Disclose the information.

22. A floor in one of the office buildings a company owns is now available for rent. It
is imperative that the space be rented within one month. The only offer that has been
received is from a company that is a competitor. What is the BEST thing to do in this
situation?
a) Offer the space to the customer under a short-term lease agreement.
b) Report the issue to management and inform the customer of their decision.
c) As part of the lease agreement, include a non-competitive agreement.
d) Tell the customer that your company has decided to use the space.

23. You are a project manager for one of many projects in a large and important
program. At a high-level status meeting, you note that another project manager has
reported her project on schedule. Looking back on your project over the last few weeks,
you remember many deliverables from the other project that arrived late. What should
you do?
a) Meet with the program manager
b) Develop a risk control plan
c) Discuss the issues with your boss
d) Meet with the other project manager

24. Under which of the following circumstances could a project manager incur a fine
and be jailed?
a) For using people from outside the project manager's country to work on the project.
b) For failing to file the necessary permits in their own country.
c) For paying a bribe to a foreign official.
d) For not using minority workers on the project.

25. Your company is very excited to work on a major new project. Although the
contract is not yet signed, your management wants you to go ahead and begin to staff
the project. What should you do?
a) Wait until the last minute to do so.
b) Ask the customer for a letter of intent.
c) Only start to collect resumes and not commit any funds.
d) Explain to management that this would not be a good idea at this point
Answers:

1D
2B
3B
4D
5B
6C
7A
8D
9D
10 B
11 C
12 D
13 D
14 B
15 C
16 C
17 A
18 A
19 B
20 D
21 C
22 B
23 D
24 C
25 B