You are a project manager and are meeting with your team. The goal of this meeting is to determine which processes you should use to effectively manage the project. Which of the following describes what you’re doing?

You are a senior manager overseeing projects for Fun Days Vacation Packages. You manage groups of projects and weigh the value of each project against the business’s strategic objectives. You also monitor projects to make certain they adhere to those objectives and that you get the most efficient use of resources possible. Which of the following does this scenario describe?

You have been developing a next generation electric engine for high-speed electric trains. The project is 25% completed, you have spent 21% of your budget and you are slightly behind the schedule. The client is worried and asks you to provide him with the progress and forecasting report as soon as possible. So, you start collecting information such as the start and finish dates of scheduled activities, number of change requests, number of defects, actual costs, actual durations, etc. These are examples of:

Which of the following are the four basic elements of the PMI code of ethics and professional conduct?

A project manager is managing a research project. Typically, research projects are not clearly defined and involve a lot of uncertainty. The project has four phases in which a phase can only start when its previous phase is complete. What project lifecycle and phase-to-phase relationship should the project manager use for this project?

A first-time project manager was assigned to a project that had a duration of three months. In order to get a head start on the project, the manager took an older, completed the project and incorporated all the tools, techniques, and checklists in their entirety from that project into the current one. The older project was completed in 14 months’ time and was remarkably similar in nature. The most appropriate comment on this would be:

You have been invited for an interview at a prestigious bank, for the position of Senior Project Manager. You have many years of experience in a range of projects, in four different countries. “This job is mine”, you say to yourself as you approach the interview room. The interview starts well. Then the programManager says, “We are strong on methodologies here; which methodology are you most familiar with?” You reply confidently, “The PMBOK® Guide!” The Program Manager laughs and says, “The PMBOK Guide is not a methodology”. Which is the most likely reason for the Program Manager saying this?

“Do nothing”, “Do the minimum “ and “Do more than the minimum”, could be options presented in the________________?

Which of the following statements regarding a supportive PMO is incorrect?

In which of the following organization types is the project management administrative staff usually dedicated full-time to projects?

You are leading a project team in a matrix organization. You have found out the project team members are frequently distracted by their functional managers for petty tasks and the team responds by prioritizing that work on top of the project work. In this case, the functional managers are using which of the following powers to get their work done?

Project managers play a critical role in the leadership of their project teams. The project managers’ engagement and involvement with projects vary from organization to organization and from project to project. Which of the following gives the maximum level of engagement in a project?

Project Manager 1 accepts the status quo and asks “how and when”, focuses on near-team goals, and the bottom line. Project Manager 2 challenges the status quo and asks “what and why”, focuses on longrange vision, and the horizon. This means that:

You have been nominated as the Project Manager for the river water quality purification project, to enable local polluted river to once more be stocked with fish. You are reading the business documents, and a comprehensive report on the future project, produced by a consultant, and a scientific review of the processes. In particular you are studying the number of parts of the project, and how they interact and are connected. You are also studying the behaviours produced by those interactions. This means that you are trying to understand the project’s:

You are preparing to manage a project in Tanzania. This is the first time you will be managing a project outside your own country. Where would you look to find details of what you should and shouldn’t do when working in this country?

Amin has just been employed as a Project Manager with a broking company and has to take over a project from another Project Manager. He tells someone in the management that he needs to walk around the factory to speak with operational managers, to get a better feel for the business. But the manager says that the Project Manager is supposed to be an expert and it will look bad if he is seen taking with operational managers, and therefore should read a few procedure manuals to tell him how things work. What is the best path for Amin to do?

You have been working as Project Manager for a medium-sized local power generation company for several years, but you want to get international exposure. So, you apply for a project management position with a local branch of a much larger, international group. The job advertisement requires a Project Manager experienced in power plant and power transmission and who “manages projects in line with the PMBOK Guide”. You are not surprised when you get the job but you are surprised that you have been invited to a series of executive business-strategy meetings, as your first project (a wave-power generating plant) is not due to start for about 8 months. You are further puzzled because you have also been invited to a number of business analysis meetings. You are sure this is all a big mistake, especially when you receive an email to notify you that you will be managing follow-up work for several months after the project ends, to assist in ensuring that the expected business benefits are realized. You arrange to meet privately with an executive manager to explain that there appears to be a mistake. The executive manager says there is no mistake, and that all of the above duties are part of the Project Manager’s role, “in line with the PMBOK Guide”. You check the PMBOK Guide and find: