PMP Question

Submitted by munishmsh on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:12

You are managing a project and the customer’s engineer visits your facility on an inspection and general getting acquainted tour. During the tour they make the comment that the parts that are being designed should be in stainless steel instead of plain steel with enamel. What should you do?


a. Authorize the change in design to your engineers
b. Continue with the present design
c. Speak to the visiting engineers and discuss having an informal meeting between
your engineers and the visiting engineers
d. Ask the visiting engineers to submit a change proposal to the change system


You are the project manager for a large project that is completed on time and on budget. The customer and all of the stakeholders are pleased with the results. As a direct result of the successful completion of the project, your manager approves a bonus of $25,000 for you. There are fifteen members of the project team. One of the people in the project
team has been a very low contributor to the project; the other fourteen have all been above standard. What should you do with the money?


 


a. Keep the money yourself; you deserve it. And the manager gave it to you
b. Divide the money equally among all the team members
c. Ask the team members how they would divide the money
d. Divide the money equally among the team members except for the substandard
team member


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Msh

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Fezi

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:24

 D and D

nbk

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 18:01

Can you explain why D & D ?


1) I think it should be C , have experts make a decision on what should be used , remember choice D is not submitting a change request. Only best choice available is C


2) B distribute money among all team memmbers.


 

Fezi

Mon, 07/25/2011 - 04:53

 Q1:

expert is by the client .. so we must understand that expert as client .. if project manager get expertise from the that expert that scenario is changed but here he representing a client .. so he advicing for the change in scope ( the question doe't not decribe also that the work not being doen according to the scope) so i thinkg choice D is the best. 

 

Q:2  reffer the Apraisal and reward in HR management , there is the example that if the estimated duration is hard to achive .. means its planning engineer's mistake .. but the other team members are doing hard to achive the estimated duration .. 

in that case i think Planning engineer should not be rewarded .. nor be  punished.

so choice would be D as well 

Sandhya Cherukupalli

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 18:31

 answers are D & C

Have2passfirsttry

Sun, 07/24/2011 - 23:12

1.D...I would think ....Change requests are subject to the processes specified in the change control and configuration control systems.By submitting their proposal to the change system ensures that the change goes through the integrated change control to be reviewed,analyzed and approved promptly.This also allows for the change to be coordinated across the entire project on its effect on on other project constraints.PMBOK section 4.5

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RP

Mon, 07/25/2011 - 07:10

1. D - There could be many reasons for the client requesting a change in the actual material used and in this case, my assumption would be that the requirements were not adequately collected at the onset. Such a change would now have to follow the integrated change control and since this request comes during the execution phase.


2. D - I was undecided between B or D but generally, you would assume that a performance management system exists (as per HRM). It is also dependant on the professional discretion of the PM.