1.

Your organization has to follow some guidelines and policies while recruiting people to
the company. From your project perspective, these guidelines and policies will be
classified as:

1 Regulations

2 Best practices

3 Assumptions

4 Constraints
2. As a project manager, you advocate active participation of your team members - this is
because you believe in:

1 Theory Y (McGregor Model)

2 Theory X (McGregor Model)

3 Maslow`s hierarchy of needs

4 Referent power

3. You have been given a high priority task that needs to be completed within a short time
frame. Since you know what has to be done, you assign tasks to the different team
members and tell them when and how the tasks should be done. The management style
that you are following is:

1 Directing

2 Laissez Faire

3 Delegating

4 Task-oriented

4. As a project manager, you are interested in the personal activities of

team-members. Other than working with you on the project, the team
members love to go out with you for lunch or an occasional game of golf.
The power that you have over the team members is:

1 Penalty

2 Expert

3 Legitimate

4 Referent
members regarding some pressing issues. You ask them to stop arguing
and do the tasks in the way in which you want them to be done. Your
conflict handling approach is:

1 Smoothing
6. In your project, you have started doing human resource planning and are studying
the Interpersonal relationships
Forcing among the candidates who are being considered for
2
the project team. Some factors you consider include:

- What type
3 Confrontation
of formal and informal reporting relationships exist amongst the
candidates for the project team?
- What are the candidates` job descriptions?
- What are Withdrawal
4 the supervisor-subordinate relationships?
- What cultural or language differences will affect working relationships among team
members?
- What levels of trust and respect currently exist?

All this information will be available as a part of :

1 Enterprise environmental factors

2 Organization hierarchy

3 Informal reporting relationships

4 Job staffing plan

7. Which of the following organizational charts has a hierarchical format?

1 RACI Chart

2 Organizational Breakdown Structure

3 Work Breakdown Structure

4 Text-Oriented Chart

8. In your project, you invest a lot of time in team development to increase the
team`s performance, which increases the likelihood of meeting project objectives.
Which of the following indicators would you use to evaluate your team`s
effectiveness?

1 Improvement in skills of team members

Improvement in competencies and sentiments that help the team

2 to perform better as a group

Decrease in staff-attrition (i.e. fewer people leaving the project

3 team)

4 All the above

9. In your project, you establish clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior

by project team members e.g. managing conflicts, resolving issues, timely
attendance at all meetings etc. You believe that early commitment to clear
guidelines will decrease misunderstanding and increase productivity. These
expectations and guidelines can also be referred to as:

1 Team-building activities

2 Ground rules

3 General management skills

4 Rules of conduct
14. Your project has two hundred and fifty people from five different
countries working to create a software solution which is going to be
deployed across fifteen countries. Managing your virtual team is a
challenge when compared with managing a collocated project. You
should spend more time working on enhancing your:

1 Integrated Change Control Process

2 Contract Management Skills

3 Staffing Management Plan

4 Communications Planning

15. You are the project manager managing the setting up of an oil rig in
the Pacific Ocean. Which of the following could be a valid constraint when
you are doing human resource planning for your project?

1 Weak matrix organization structure

Unlimited budget since the project is very critical to

2 meet compliance needs

3 Oil price increasing above $ 60 per barrel

4 None of the above

16. Ten members were assigned in advance to your project team. This
pre-assignment could be because of all the following reasons EXCEPT:

Specific people were promised as part of a competitive

1 proposal

Suitable people came forward and mentioned that they

2 wanted to work on the project

3 Staff assignments were defined in the project charter

 The project is dependent on the expertise of some of the
4 pre-assigned persons