Q.
Unspoken and often unwritten set of informal

rules that govern individual behaviors in a

group are called "Group Norms". Without group norms,

individuals would have no understanding of how to act in social situations.

How this "Group Norms" are helpful in a project management:

1.     Reduce the amount of conflict among that group.
2.     It is a cultural diversity and people concerned will act friendly together
3.     Solve the unforeseen issues among group members
4.     It maintains social activity while members are at Company Social Responsibility (CSR)

Question: 22
As the project activities are being performed, the majority of effort in Time Management Knowledge Area will occur in the ------- process to ensure completion of project work in a timely manner.
A. Define activities 
B. Schedule activities
C. Control schedule
D. Estimate activities durations

Risk if occurs it can affect at least one objective of a Project, that objectives are:

A.    Cost, Quality, Time and Scope

B.    Cost, Scope and Time

C.    Cost, Scope, Time, Quality and Procurements

D.    Cost, Scope, Time,  Quality and Communication

Causes of happening a risk is not

A.    Requirements

B.    Constraints and Assumptions

C.    Priorities

D.    Conditions

Risks are uncertain events in Projects, which statement is true regarding

A.    Risk exists the moment Project is conceived

B.    Risk can exist only when risk is identified

C.    Risk response is a process that can avoid any risk

D.    Throughout the life cycle risks are certain

Q

 Stakeholder register includes information about all below except one

1. Stakeholder Groups
2. Stakeholder Identification
3. Stakeholder assessment
4. Stakeholder classification

One way of classification of Stakeholders, is Internal/ External, like they may also classify as:

A.    Supporter/ Neutral/ Resistor

B.    Negative / Neutral/ Integrative

C.    Supportive/ Idle/ Negative

D.    Positive / Dual/ Negative

To whom, what, when, how and by whom information will be dealt is a subject matter of

In a project most of the expenses incurred in executing process group, like Most of the expenses in a project incurred in which head:

1. Organizations assets and administrative activities
2. Salaries and H R related activities
3. Procurements
4. Labour and equipment

Q1 on conflicts causes

Schedule, Priorities and Resources are the main causes of Conflicts among Project team. How will you describe schedule and priorities?

A.    Schedule means Staff schedule on resource calendar and Priorities means priorities of Schedule of works and activities

B.     Resource calendar is related to the causes of Resources and schedule and priorities are the same

C.    All cases except schedule and resources comes under priorities

D.    Schedule means work and activities schedule related to conflicts, and priorities means any case of priorities among individuals

Q 2 on communications

 Efficient communication means:

A.    How promptly a system work in response

B.    Only or most of required information is communicated

C.    How much impact of information is measured

D.    All above

Q3 on communications

Effective communication means

A.    Communicated in required time

B.    Communicated in required format

C.    Communicated with a required impact

D.    All above

Your project team members are collecting requirements in categories. They are summarising performance requirements, security requirements and technical requirements, in one category this category would be 

A.     Project requirements

B.     Product requirements

C.    Both Project and Product requirements

D.    Business requirements

There are various tools used for collecting requirements, regarding focus group and interviews which statement would be true among these four.

A.     Focus groups are more conversational than face to face interview

B.     Interviews involve face to face talk where focus groups involve one to all.

C.    Interviews are often conducted one on one, and become more conversational than focus groups.

D.    Interviews are typically performed asking prepared questions where focus groups involve spontaneous talks.

Job shadowing is a term

A.     Of human resource pulling in team Acquisition

B.     Of down time of a market due to migration of manpower to abroad

C.    Of method of a tool of collect requirement for recruiting project team

D.    Usually called as an observation technique to observe the peoples on job  

Prototypes are one the way for collecting feedbacks in collect requirement process, these are generally a

A.     Working model based on  progressive elaboration concept

B.     Tangible nonworking tool, a copy of future real out come

C.    3 d model for presenting in high level management meetings

D.    Ideology based mini model of a highly complex project

One of your team member was entering the lowest levels of Risk break down structure (RBS), in a document, he was documenting

A.    Risk register

B.    RBS

C.    Risk Checklist

D.    Risk categorization

Inaccuracy, incompleteness, instability, and inconsistency of Risk data are generally should be reviewed and re-entered during project life cycle in

A.    Risk data quality assessment

B.    Assumptions analysis

C.    Risk probability and impact assessment

D.    Risk prioritization analysis

One of the type of Information gathering technique used for Identification of risk is

A.    Root cause analysis

B.    Observations

C.    Diagramming techniques

D.    Documentation reviews

Feasibility Study in an organization is an important part of Business and Project, it may treated in respect of project as a

A.    Pre-Project Work

B.    Phase of The Project

C.    A Separate Project

D.    Any of the above

Project Governance is an approach which is responsible to make projects success and its controlling; it should be described in

A.    Project success criterion

B.    Project management plan

C.   Project Charter

D.   Project Scope

Q

Negative stakeholders have very different and conflicting objectives, you as a project manager, authorised to develop a chemical plant, how do you handle the situation with your project objectives with them:

A.   Exaggerate the principle that any project comes at ground with due sanction of Government and thus local bodies are legally bound to support the project.

B.   By balancing their interest and ensuring that project team is interacting with stakeholders in professional and cooperative manner.

C.   Motivating by this thought that every negative stake could be made in favour by serving their interest in other way.

D.   By providing and engaging project team in infrastructure and basic services developments of affected communities of surroundings.

Q

In collect requirement process, Requirements are defined as the needs of stakeholders, it can be defined in many ways, in one way these are

A.   Objectives of the management

B.   Other name of Deliverables

C.   Foundations of WBS

D.   Project Products

Operational managers are all below, from except :

A.     Core business areas

B.     Manufacturing and capital areas

C.    Maintenance departments

D.    Utilities and functional departments

At phase closure within organizations, project manager will hand off final product/ssrvice /result to

A.     Operational manager

B.     Functional manager

C.    Sponsor

D.    owner

In a matrix structure, Authority and Controlling of Project Budget are being shared by functional manager and project manager, whereas project manager is in full time role,  it is a

A.     Strong Matrix

B.     Balance matrix

C.    Weak matrix

D.    Tight Matrix

Many process groups exist at a time during phase or project life cycle, but generally which process group could exist throughout the life cycle along with any of the 5 process groups.

A. Planning process group

B. Executing Process Group

C. Monitoring and controlling process group

D. Closing Process group

Iterative relationship is how different from overlapping relationship while in both the cases consecutive phases overlap within a project life cycle:

A.    Because in iterative relationship skilled staff and workers will be the same through the life cycle and in overlapping relationship they must be changed.

B.    Because In Iterative relationship, only one phase is planned at a time while second phase planned during execution of first phase and in overlapping relationships all phases are planned initially.

C.   In Iterative relationship, phases are undefined and varying largely by scope schedule cost etc and only one phase is planned to start and next phase is planned during the work of first phase and In overlapping relationship, phases may be entirely different in nature but they overlaps.

D.   Iterative means repeating of similar phase but not overlapping while overlapping means overlaps but not similar at all.

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Generally risk processes are performed in sequence of “Qualitative Risk Analysis” then “Quantitative risk analysis” then “Plan Risk Responses” but this is also true,

A.    In some cases “Perform Quantitative risk analysis” again follows Plan Risk Responses and then Monitor and Control Risk are processed.

B.    In some cases direct after Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis (without Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis), Risk Responses is planned /processed.

C.    In some cases, both “Qualitative Risk Analysis” and “Quatitative Risk Analysis” are revisited during the project‘s life cycle as to stay current with changes.

D.    All above

One of your team member engaged for Quantitative risk analysis, is using data gathering and representation technique for certain outcomes, he would be using

A.    Three point estimation technique

B.    Tree diagram method

C.    Monte Carlo Simulation

D.    Gama distribution theory

A risk was occurred at place and you are there to make funding for its contingent plan, you may be supposed as a

1.     Project manager

2.     Risk response owner

3.     Sponsor

4.     PMO

Fall back plan can be implemented,

A.     When the 1^st strategy plan has been failed or not fully effective

B.     When accepted risk has been occurred

C.    When passive accepted risk action has been materialized

D.    When plan A has been failed or not turned as effective or an active accepted risk is occurred

Positive risk is if observed and management decide to implement Accept strategy, it means:

A.    Management is willing to take advantage of opportunity which comes along on the way as it is.

B.    Management will actively pursuing it, for owning it’s all possible advantages.

C.    Management will eliminate the uncertainty to ensure that opportunity could realize.

D.    All Above

Q

In the initiation stage Management was facing lot of problems and project was almost becoming unviable. Then they acquired few experts and obtained more information and changed their strategy and plan, and succeeded in their new business and project. What kind of risk strategy they adapted:

A.    Avoid

B.    Mitigation

C.   Transfer

 D. Accept