Question 2 of 100Question ID: 612386

Who can terminate a contract on a project?

Question 3 of 100Question ID: 612940

The project team has spent a great deal of time reviewing a set of significant changes that a vendor proposed to the specifications of a project deliverable. Everyone eventually agrees that the changes would improve the deliverable without any net effect on the cost.

What should be done next?

Question 4 of 100Question ID: 612379

You have begun evaluating sellers' progress in producing project deliverables to see if there have been any reported issues with quality or availability as well as how the schedule and cost are comparing to the agreement with the vendor.

The activities you are performing can best be described by which of the following?

Question 5 of 100Question ID: 651302

A project requires consultant services. How much and for how long these services are needed is not known. The project needs to procure these services quickly.

Which contract type should be used?

Question 6 of 100Question ID: 613708

You as a project manager have outsourced a portion of your work to a vendor with whom neither you nor the sponsor has worked with before. You have a cost-reimbursable contract with the seller. The sponsor, on more than one occasion, has discussed his concerns with you that the seller could easily increase their profits with this type of agreement.

What should you tell the sponsor to decrease his apprehensions?

Question 7 of 100Question ID: 612352

The project manager reviews the issue log at the end of each day. One issue she recorded in the issue log stems from delays in the delivery of material from a contracted supplier. The project manager suspects the procurement process is flawed.

What tool should the project manager use to determine if any adjustments to the procurement process are required?

Question 8 of 100Question ID: 613625

A vendor, under a fixed price incentive fee (FPIF) contract, is inquiring about the incentive payment for building the fence for a new ballpark ahead of schedule. As agreed upon in the contract, the vendor was to receive a ten percent bonus if the fencing was delivered before the deadline.

In what process would the payments to the seller be made and monitored?

Question 9 of 100Question ID: 613776

Due to the length of the project and the volume of concrete involved, inflation is a concern for potential suppliers. You specify that bids be a set price per cubic yard of concrete plus a quarterly adjustment based on the Producer Price Index (PPI).

What is the appropriate type of contract for this situation?

Question 10 of 100Question ID: 612539

A project manager closes out the contracts for a project. A review of vendor performance suggests that it would have been beneficial to understand vendor capabilities better before conducting contract negotiations.

What should the project manager do first?

Question 11 of 100Question ID: 651436

Midway into project execution, a buyer has informed the seller that starting the next month, the payments will be released at the beginning, instead of the end, of each month. The seller welcomes the change as it would be beneficial for their company.

What should the seller do?

Question 12 of 100Question ID: 613784

A company stores all of its documentation on the corporate computer network. Each project is assigned a directory with folders. A team member has been tasked to send the request for proposal (RFP), source selection criteria, and procurement statement of work (SOW) to potential sellers.

Which folder from the project directory should the team member access to find these documents?

Question 13 of 100Question ID: 612050

A vendor notifies you that they will be unable to fulfill the terms of the contract after their manufacturing plant was severely damaged by a tornado. After reviewing the contract, you inform the vendor that they will have to fulfill the agreement or face litigation.

What clause was most likely missing from the contract?

Question 14 of 100Question ID: 613031

A project team is reviewing proposals submitted by several vendors. One project team member suggests selecting the vendor with the lowest cost since the project is over budget. Another project team member is advocating for the vendor with the most expertise since quality is an important factor.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

Question 15 of 100Question ID: 613043

As part of project procurement activities, the project manager needs to purchase corn for testing a new ethanol production facility. Corn represents the single biggest expense for the project. Due to a crash in the commodities market, the project manager is able to acquire corn at a dramatically lower price than expected.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

Question 16 of 100Question ID: 612402

You are managing a project to develop a robotic window washing system. Many of the necessary parts of the robotic system will be obtained from third-party vendors. At this point in the project, you have obtained the vendor responses for the electronics required for the robots, selected a vendor, and awarded a contract.

Which of the following should you do next in Project Procurement Management?

Question 17 of 100Question ID: 613779

A project manager is seeking a vendor. In an effort to streamline the seller selection process, the project manager checks the company's organizational process assets for a document that will provide the names of vendors that have already been properly vetted.

What document is the project manager searching for in this situation?

Question 18 of 100Question ID: 612584

You are planning a project, where you need several external contractors to complete the project deliverables. In past projects, internal developers have had disruptive personality conflicts with contractors. Therefore, before making any long-term commitments, you want to ensure that the contractors are a good fit for your corporate culture and work well with the internal team.

What is your best course of action?

Question 19 of 100Question ID: 612588

You are in the planning stage of a large project, which will require contracts with various vendors and suppliers to produce the project's deliverables. With the procurement management plan and make-or-buy analysis complete, you are about to begin the development of a document that will outline the procurement strategy for the project.

Which of the following are you least likely to include in this document?

Question 20 of 100Question ID: 612782

The project manager is currently closing a procurement with a contractor and has requested the final invoice. The contractor forwarded an invoice for $100,000. However, according to the project manager's calculation and the work delivered by the contractor, the invoice should be no more than $70,000.

What should the project manager do?

Question 21 of 100Question ID: 612194

The project you are managing has experienced quality issues, which were the fault of one of the suppliers. Much of the rework the supplier has billed for in the final invoice of $17,500 was created by their quality issues; therefore, you arrived at a revised amount of $15,300 to be paid. You sent the payment of $15,300 along with your justification, but the supplier reinvoiced with a balance due of $2,200.

What is your best course of action now?

Question 22 of 100Question ID: 612092

Two qualified vendors have been identified for a project. The requesting organization is capable of performing the work, but it was deemed less cost-effective to do so. During vendor selection, the project manager learns that one vendor already works with a competitor and are restricted by an exclusivity clause. The other vendor is not available during the required timeframe.

What might the project manager have done differently to avoid this situation?

Question 23 of 100Question ID: 613095

A project manager needs to secure a vendor to supply the avionics for a new line of small aircraft. There are only two vendors that are capable of meeting the requirements based on the procurement statement of work, and only one of the vendors has responded to a request for proposal (RFP). The project manager needs to evaluate the vendor’s proposal.

Which procurement document would provide a reasonableness check against the proposal submitted by the vendor?

Question 24 of 100Question ID: 613780

In order to procure required materials for a project, your team prepares documents that will be used to solicit information, quotations, and proposals from prospective sellers. The documents are structured to facilitate an accurate and complete response from each prospective seller and to facilitate the evaluation of the responses.

What type of documents is your team creating?

Question 25 of 100Question ID: 612560

You are leading a project in which a vendor appears to be off to a slow start. The vendor insists that they will complete on time, but you are still concerned. It is your first time to work with the vendor, but they are on the project management office (PMO)'s preapproved sellers list.

What is the best way to learn about the past performance history with the vendor?

Question 26 of 100Question ID: 612695

You are leading a large and complex project, which requires various vendors and suppliers to provide project deliverables. One of your vendors contacts you and states that they have just completed their contracted work and would like to know when they will receive final payment.

How might you respond to the vendor's question?

Question 27 of 100Question ID: 613782

A project manager will need to select an architect. The project manager plans to request that each of the candidates provide a detailed proposal including cost estimates, a portfolio of architectural drawings, capability, capacity, delivery dates, and technical experience.

Based on this information, what has the project manager created to evaluate the proposals?

Question 28 of 100Question ID: 612559

Several critical parts were chrome plated by a vendor instead of zinc plated as specified in the contract. The vendor states that zinc plating the parts would not offer the required corrosion resistance to meet project requirements and insists on a significant increase in payment for plating the parts in chrome. After long negotiations, the dispute is eventually resolved and the contract is closed out. The project manager is closing the project now.

What is the best way for the project manager to minimize the chance of a similar problem recurring in future projects?

Question 29 of 100Question ID: 613550

A project manager is leading a project to install self-service kiosks. After a bidder conference, one of the prospective vendors asks the project manager if a WiFi connection is required to establish connectivity with the kiosks. The project manager realizes that the WiFi is indeed required but was not discussed at the conference nor was it part of the bid documents.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

Question 30 of 100Question ID: 612903

An organization has a policy that directs to use only prequalified vendors. A project manager finds a logistics company that offers much better prices than its competitors. The project manager wants to add the vendor to the list, but the procedure can take several months due to the rigorous qualification process.

What should the project manager do?

Question 31 of 100Question ID: 613642

You are selecting the appropriate contract agreement for your project. The services to be provided will be well-defined. The schedule and price will be agreed up front. You expect that there will be no significant change in the work to be performed. The contract will include criteria that you and the seller agree on that will allow the seller additional earnings for completing the project work early.

What type of contract should you select?

Question 32 of 100Question ID: 612259

A project manager invited several vendors to a pre-bid conference. After a private conversation with one of the vendors who had an inquiry about a new mandatory government requirement, the project manager sent an email to the vendor to address the question. The project manager realizes that the requirement should have been included in the project scope baseline and the statement of work (SOW).

What should the project manager do in this situation?

Question 33 of 100Question ID: 613789

As a project manager for a small university, you are currently in the process of selecting a vendor to develop a textbook and other training materials for a new course. Several vendors are interested in bidding on the contract. During a bidder conference, one of the prospective suppliers asks about ownership of the intellectual property that will be created from the project.

Which project document should have this information at this stage of the project?

Question 34 of 100Question ID: 612617

You are a project manager for an engineering services company, in the process of bidding to work on a solar energy project for a utility company.

What is the first thing you should do to position your company as the best fit for the project?

Question 35 of 100Question ID: 612551

A project manager and team are in the process of finalizing all project activities. They have obtained final acceptance and transferred ownership of deliverables, obtained administrative closure, collated lessons learned, archived all project documents, and obtained feedback from relevant stakeholders. Finally, the project manager and team have been released and reassigned to other assignments.

Based on the information provided, what might have been forgotten?

Question 36 of 100Question ID: 612698

You have completed a nine-month project, and you are in the closing stage. The project completed on time and under budget and everyone in your department has congratulated you on your achievement. The vice president of your company heard about the success of your project and wants a summary overview of project performance so that he can talk about your success at the next board meeting.

What should you provide to him?

Question 37 of 100Question ID: 612202

You are the project manager for a large healthcare organization managing the installation of an electronic medical record (EMR) system. The installation requires a lot of different hardware purchases since this will be the first time an EMR has been used in the organization. You have been working through the procurement process, and you are now in the Control Procurements process.

Which of the following activities will you perform as part of that process?

Question 38 of 100Question ID: 612318

A vendor on your project missed an important deadline and has not been responsive to quality issues. You want to terminate the contract for cause and find another vendor to finish the work, but you learn that the vendor was paid in full upon delivery of the materials to the job site.

What could have been done differently to prevent the vendor from getting paid prematurely?

Question 39 of 100Question ID: 612295

As a project manager, you contracted with another company to develop a smartphone app. The company has demonstrated the completed app, and you have verified that it meets all technical and quality requirements. Overall, you are pleased with the performance of the seller and plan to use them again in the future.

Now that the project deliverables are complete, who is responsible for declaring the formal closure of the procurement contract?

Question 40 of 100Question ID: 651366

The project team is in need of additional resources to complete project work. They want to procure the items while keeping costs under control.

Which of the following should they reference to make their decisions?

Question 41 of 100Question ID: 613783

To complete the project you are leading, you will need to acquire services from several different vendors. You are concerned that research alone may not provide enough information to develop a procurement strategy without additional input from the potential bidders.

What tool or technique would be most helpful in this situation?

Question 42 of 100Question ID: 651408

The project manager is in discussions with vendors about their bids that came in higher than expected. Additionally, according to the vendors' responses, none of them will be able to deliver by the deadline requested. The project manager talks to the sponsor and other key project stakeholders to see if additional funds are needed to cover the extra costs and deliver on schedule.

Which process is the project manager performing?

Question 43 of 100Question ID: 612740

Your enterprise software integration project has just begun execution when your organization acquires a new subsidiary and involves them in the project. The new subsidiary recently finished a similar integration project using a compatible tool. Using the tool may accelerate both your project and the new subsidiary's assimilation into the organization. However, the schedule and cost variances to take this opportunity do not quite meet agreed-upon risk thresholds.

What should you do?

Question 44 of 100Question ID: 613785

You have been hired by the Department of Natural Resources to lead a project for the construction of new facilities at a local park. As the project manager, you are in the process of selecting the various vendors which will be required to complete the work.

In this situation, the use of what tool or technique is most likely to be legally mandated by the government agency?

Question 45 of 100Question ID: 613559

A vendor supplies highly specialized subject matter experts for the project you are leading. The vendor has just informed you that a key resource essential to the development of one of the project’s deliverables will not be available for one month due to unforeseeable circumstances beyond the vendor's control. The contract with the vendor contains a force majeure clause.

What should you do first?

Question 46 of 100Question ID: 612572

As a project manager, you are finalizing all of the activities related to your current project. As part of this process, you have prepared a report which summarizes the project performance.

What should you do to determine how to disseminate this information to the relevant project stakeholders?

Question 47 of 100Question ID: 612066

A project manager has ongoing issues with a pre-qualified seller who has repeatedly failed to meet quality standards specified in the contract. The seller has also been unresponsive when the project manager has tried to resolve the quality issues. The project manager wants to ensure that this seller will not be considered again for future contracts.

What is the best course of action for the project manager to take in this situation?

Question 48 of 100Question ID: 612311

As a result of the customer inspection, the project manager realizes that some of the components of the project management plan, such as the cost baseline, schedule baseline, and procurement management plan, should be updated.

What should the project manager do next?

Question 49 of 100Question ID: 612959

A domestic vendor that is supplying the most critical component for a project you are leading is acquired by a major foreign conglomerate. The conglomerate has a history of replacing the executive team in the companies they acquire with new people from their corporate office. The only change that affects your project is that invoices are now payable to the conglomerate's corporate office.

Which of the following project artifacts will you least likely need to update?

Question 50 of 100Question ID: 613787

During the vendor selection process, a start-up company has submitted a bid with a significantly lower price than the well-established vendor that you have always used in the past.

If you decide to award the contract to the start-up company, which project document is the most likely to be updated?

Question 51 of 100Question ID: 612021

You are leading a project in a small startup company with decentralized purchasing. A supplier informs you that they have excess inventory that can be purchased at a reduced price. You review the project's inventory needs and find that most of the excess inventory offered by the supplier can be used for the project.

What is your best course of action?

Question 52 of 100Question ID: 612335

An accounts payable manager withholds the payment for the rental of a piece of equipment. The rental company claims the money is due in full because the piece of equipment was necessary to fulfill the objectives of the statement of work defined in the contract. Further talks lead nowhere as both parties cannot come to an agreement.

What is the next step for them to take in this situation?

Question 53 of 100Question ID: 625080

For a project, strict quality specifications must be followed, and all project team members were required to read and sign off on the quality management plan, acknowledging complete understanding of the specifications. The project manager suspects that one or more of the project's primary material vendors is not supplying parts that meet project quality specifications.

What should the project manager do first?

Question 54 of 100Question ID: 612133

A vendor is using hexavalent chrome instead of the more environmentally friendly trivalent chrome. You check the contract terms, and there is no stipulation requiring trivalent chrome despite your company policy prohibiting the use of hexavalent chrome.

What was the most likely cause of this issue?

Question 55 of 100Question ID: 612020

Your procurement manager has asked you to compare the current schedule and cost performance of the installations against what was promised in the agreement with the vendor.

What comparative process does the procurement manager refer to?

Question 56 of 100Question ID: 613793

You are managing a project for a grocery store that is upgrading their retail management system. Your company contracts with a vendor for the supply, installation, and configuration of the point of sale systems. You have met with the seller to inspect the completed installation of the point of sale systems and have found they meet the technical and quality requirements outlined in the contract. The seller has received the final payment.

What should you do next?

Question 57 of 100Question ID: 612486

You are leading a project with some of the deliverables outsourced to a vendor. You have been working closely with your procurement administrator to ensure that all claims, invoices, and final payments have been finalized with the vendor. Terms and conditions of the contract have been met, and all deliverables have been accepted.

What should you do next?

Question 58 of 100Question ID: 613738

You and your team are meeting to evaluate vendor proposals. One of the team members previously worked with Company A and praised their professionalism and quality. Another team member prefers Company B. Several other team members join the conversation by adding their opinions.

What should you remind the team members to focus on to select a seller?

Question 59 of 100Question ID: 613839

You are managing a project that involves vendors. Midway into project execution, the sponsor hands you a formal letter from the customer informing you that your project has been terminated effective immediately. You are shocked since the project was going well and was forecasted to finish ahead of schedule and under budget.

What should you do first?

Question 60 of 100Question ID: 612616

When estimating resources for your project, you have determined that the company does not have enough developers to complete the required work. You can either hire additional developers as permanent employees or bring temporary contractors. The make-or-buy analysis resulted in a return on investment (ROI) of 25% if the project work is completed by adding permanent employees and an ROI of 20% if you bring in contractors. You decide to bring in the contractors.

Which of the following was the most likely reason for this decision?

Question 61 of 100Question ID: 612005

You are managing a project that is nearing its end and planning to settle all pending claims with the vendors. In one case, you are not satisfied with the delivery of their final product. All conversations with the vendor have ended in an impasse.

What should you do in this situation?

Question 62 of 100Question ID: 613786

A project manager evaluates sellers' proposals for the deliverables the company wants to outsource and selects sellers who are in a competitive range for the work required. Since the company considers this work to be complex and bear high value and risk, the project manager submits these sellers to senior management for approval before awarding the contract.

Which of the following would be the most likely result of the project manager's efforts?

Question 63 of 100Question ID: 613788

A project manager is in the process of selecting vendors for her project. She wants to ensure that individual vendors do not receive preferential treatment and that everyone has a clear and shared understanding of the procurement.

What tool or technique will best address the project manager's need?

Question 64 of 100Question ID: 651327

Services per the contract agreement with the vendor were delivered and signed off by the project manager.

What else must the project manager do?

Question 65 of 100Question ID: 612948

A key project deliverable has been outsourced to a vendor. The vendor delivered on contract, and the project manager has completed all activities associated with the Control Procurements process.

What should the project manager do next?

Question 66 of 100Question ID: 612482

You recently received an email from a client, which states, "Thanks. We have received the goods you just shipped." You begin to close out the project, send the final invoice to the client, and release all of your staff. As you are preparing to leave for the day, you receive a voicemail from the client stating that the deliverables do not meet the required specifications. This information comes as a shock because you are sure the client has accepted the deliverables.

What should you do now?

Question 67 of 100Question ID: 612429

Due to the complexity of a project, representatives from various departments of your company are invited to participate in seller proposal evaluation including Finance, Real Estate, Engineering, and Sales and Marketing.

Based on this situation, what tool or technique are you using?

Question 68 of 100Question ID: 612880

During your project, you had contracted with an electrician to perform the electrical work for constructing an office building. You have completed your project ahead of schedule and under budget. You want to close out this procurement. However, you are unsure where you can find the requirements for the formal procurement closure.

What should you do?

Question 69 of 100Question ID: 612925

As the deliverables from a vendor are accepted, and the project manager wants to close the contract, a procurement team indicates that the vendor never submitted a final invoice. The project manager contacts the vendor, who apologizes for the delay and promises to submit the final invoice within a week. The project manager is under a lot of pressure to close the project on schedule but knows that it will take two more weeks to process the vendor's final payment.

What is the project manager's best course of action?

Question 70 of 100Question ID: 612084

Where would you look to find what activities should be performed to close out contracts on your project?

Question 71 of 100Question ID: 612405

Nearing the end of the project, while reviewing the final invoices for payment, the project manager notices that one of the sellers performed some change requests that were not approved. After several conversations, the project manager and the seller cannot reach an agreement on compensation for the changes.

How should the project manager resolve this situation?

Question 72 of 100Question ID: 613781

The project has a fixed cost and schedule but has some flexibility in terms of scope. A request for proposal (RFP) is sent to a list of potential sellers. The RFP discloses the intent of the buyer to select the highest-ranking technical proposal within the stated budget. Because the sellers are subject to a cost constraint, they will have to adapt the scope and quality of their offer to that budget.

Which source selection method does the buyer use in this scenario?

Question 73 of 100Question ID: 651397

The project sponsor is concerned about possible ethics violations between the project and vendors.

What independent review can the sponsor order?

Question 74 of 100Question ID: 612671

You are satisfied with the vendor's deliverables and have sent the vendor the formal written notice that the contract has been completed.

Which of the following would not be updated during this process?

Question 75 of 100Question ID: 612196

You are managing a construction project with several contractors involved and want to finalize dates for painters to come on site. You do not recall the planned finish date for the drywall installation, which will need to be completed before painting work can begin.

Where do you find the dates when the drywall contractor is planned to start and complete their activities?

Question 76 of 100Question ID: 610055

One of your contractors is not performing to the agreed-upon standards. You want to terminate the contract and engage another contractor for the same job. You need to determine the specific legal procedure for the early termination of the contract.

What should you do?

Question 77 of 100Question ID: 651418

Your organization has a dedicated procurement department. Per your request, the department prepares the procurement documentation and, during the next week, will request bids from the prospective vendors. You really want XYZ Incorporated to be selected.

What can you say to XYZ Incorporated?

Question 78 of 100Question ID: 612591

A project manager is planning a project to build a new apartment complex on the site of a long-abandoned airport that was closed due to illegal dumping of fuel and oil. The project manager will need to provide a regulatory agency with a detailed explanation of how the cleanup will be performed before a permit can be issued.

What would be the most appropriate bid document to send to potential vendors for the environmental cleanup?

Question 79 of 100Question ID: 612467

You are assigned to a research and development project as a project manager. Since the scope of the project cannot be well defined, you have used a cost-reimbursable contract with a vendor to produce some of the deliverables for your project. A recent audit has uncovered an expense that appears unrelated to your project has been submitted for payment by the vendor.

What should you do first?

Question 80 of 100Question ID: 613823

In a meeting with your team, you discuss the importance of a process that ensures that both your company and the contractors meet procurement requirements. You explain that this process is key to managing the contract relationship, monitoring contract performance, and making changes and corrections as appropriate.

Which of the following are you describing to the team member?

Question 81 of 100Question ID: 612488

A project manager is leading a project in which a vendor was engaged under a time and materials contract. During a procurement audit, it was discovered that the vendor had been using ghost employees to inflate the cost of the project artificially. As a result, the vendor was terminated for cause.

Which organizational process asset is updated to ensure the vendor will not be allowed to work on future projects?

Question 82 of 100Question ID: 651377

Services are still being billed to the project even though the project manager believes no additional services are required or requested.

What is the best course of action for the project manager to take?

Question 83 of 100Question ID: 612048

You are managing a project for a customer with whom you have signed an Intellectual Property (IP) agreement requiring that the component design be unique. When the vendor to whom you outsourced the design makes a delivery, you are surprised to see that it is the same as one that the vendor had delivered to another of your clients. You review your contract with the vendor and realize that it does not include the uniqueness clause that would protect your customer's IP.

Which of the following actions should you take to resolve this situation?

Question 84 of 100Question ID: 612607

A project manager has just received formal acceptance and final payment from a client for a software development project. The project manager needs to begin preparing the final project report.

Which of the following will be most useful in creating the final report?

Question 85 of 100Question ID: 613825

You are managing a project that is nearing completion. You have asked one of your team members to collect status reports from your six vendors and add them to the lessons learned register and project management information system so that your project team can use these status reports for continuous improvement purposes.

What process are you in?

Question 86 of 100Question ID: 612479

You are leading a construction project that involves a vendor. A team member tells you that based on the rough assessment of the vendor's current work in progress, she suspects that the vendor will be unable to complete their work on time. You share your concerns with the vendor, but they claim that they are progressing as planned.

What is your best course of action to ensure a mutual understanding of the work in progress?

Question 87 of 100Question ID: 613822

You have been tasked to lead a high-priority project that will involve a very large number of stakeholders. Several project team members from various functional units within the organization have been pre-assigned to the project. You are currently working on the processes necessary to acquire goods and services needed from outside the organization.

In which Project Management Knowledge Area are you currently involved?

Question 88 of 100Question ID: 612096

A project manager has completed a project. A couple of months later, a vendor contacts the project manager stating that their invoice has not been paid and is past due, but the project manager believes that all invoices from the project have been paid and the procurements have been closed out.

What should the project manager do next?

ATell the vendor that all invoices have been paid since the procurements have been closed

BCheck with the accounts payable department to see if anyone remembers paying the invoice

CCheck the records in the procurement documentation

DProceed with claims administration to resolve the dispute

Question 89 of 100Question ID: 613243

A project to design and develop a new prototype medical device will require several vendors to develop the subcomponents. As you review the responses to the RFP, you realize that all the vendors plan to re-use your competitors' designs. This "re-use" is unacceptable for your company.

What is your best course of action?

Question 90 of 100Question ID: 651387

You are conducting the source selection analysis for a project that will procure services from a vendor. Since the value of the procurement is relatively small, you have decided that a full selection process does not make sense.

With three prospective vendors listed as pre-approved sellers, what is the best course of action?

Question 91 of 100Question ID: 612585

A project manager is working on a plan for how the project team will acquire goods and services from outside of the organization for an infrastructure development project. The project manager is seeking guidance on what type of contracts can be used on the project.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

Question 92 of 100Question ID: 610050

A buyer has subcontracted a critical component of their product and wants to ensure strict oversight over its development and manufacturing. To address this need, it has been suggested to carry out periodic performance reviews.

During which project management process will the buyer conduct these reviews?

Question 93 of 100Question ID: 651331

Three prospective vendors were selected and underwent high-level preliminary technical evaluations. Vendor X scored slightly higher than vendors Y and Z. Nevertheless, the top procurement manager in the company requests the project manager to select vendor Y over vendor X due to past experience, reliability scores, and contract dealings. These criteria were not included in the preliminary evaluations but specified in the procurement management plan.

What is the project manager's best response?

Question 94 of 100Question ID: 613209

Per organizational policy, vendors should be selected by an evaluation committee. The project manager schedules a meeting to discuss the proposals submitted by prospective vendors but, based on past experience, is concerned that the committee members may have preconceived opinions about which vendor should be selected based on personal preferences and relationships.

What is the best course of action for the project manager to select a vendor?

Question 95 of 100Question ID: 625083

A project manager has rejected a defective lot of A-frames. The contract with the vendor states that payment must be made upon delivery and does not explicitly contain a clause dictating whether payments should be released or held back in such instances. However, the project manager firmly believes that if she does not hold back the payment for the shipment of this particular lot, the vendor will not take timely corrective actions for further shipments.

What should the project manager do?

Question 96 of 100Question ID: 612107

A system delivered by a vendor on your project does not perform as specified. Your boss has instructed the procurement department to withhold the payment. The vendor has filed a claim for non-payment.

What should you do first?

Question 97 of 100Question ID: 612462

A project requires the use of various contractors to complete the project deliverables, and you have scheduled a bidder conference as part of the procurement process.

Which of the following values is best represented by holding a bidder conference?

Question 98 of 100Question ID: 613778

While planning the vendor selection process, you and your team are conducting market research by examining the industry and specific seller capabilities. Your project team leverages information gained at conferences, online reviews, and various other sources to identify market capabilities.

What tool or technique are you using for this process?

Question 99 of 100Question ID: 613790

The vendor selection process is underway for a natural gas pipeline project. The project manager has received numerous proposals in response to a request for proposal (RFP). He wants to ensure that the submitted proposals are complete and meet the requirements as specified in the procurement documentation provided to the prospective vendors.

What tool or technique should the project manager use in this situation?

Question 100 of 100Question ID: 612718

A project manager is in the process of conducting procurements for a large infrastructure development project, which involves multiple contractors from various countries.

How might the project manager reduce problems and claims during execution?