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Integration Management

1. The process which project manager integrates the effort to produce project deliverables is called:

A. Direct and manage project execution.

B. Manage project team.
C. Control scope.
D. Develop project management plan.

2. You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to
plan a new project. It would be best in this situation to rely on __________ during planning in order
to improve your chance to success.

A. Your intuition & training.

B. Stakeholder analysis.
C. Historical Information.
D. Configuration management.

3. Which of the following is TRUE regarding the development of project charter:

A. The sponsor creates the charter and project manager approves it.
B. The project team creates the charter and PMO approve it.
C. The executing manager creates charter and the functional manager approves it.
D. The project manager creates the charter and sponsor approves it.

4. All of the following are parts of an effective change management plan EXCEPT:

A. Procedures.
B. Standards for reports.
C. Meetings.
D. Lessons learned.

5. Which of the following BEST describes a project management plan?

A. A printout from project management software.

B. A bar chart.
C. Risk, staffing, process improvement, and other management plans.
D. The project scope.

6. Which of the following best describe formal acceptance of a project?

A. Substantial completion is reached.

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 B. Customer sign-off.
C. Final payment is made.
D. Final deliverable sent to customer.

7. Which of the following BEST describes the deference between Control Scope (CS) process and
Perform Integrated Change Control (PICC) process?

A. CS focuses on making change to the project scope and PICC focuses on making change
to the integration.
B. CS focuses on controlling the scope of the project PICC focuses on determining the
impact of a change of scope.
C. CS focuses on controlling the scope of the project and PICC focuses on making change to
the integration.
D. CS focuses on making change to scope of the project and PICC focuses on determining
the impact of a change of scope.

8. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager's role as an integrator?

A. Help team members become familiar with the project.

B. Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole.
C. Put all the pieces of a project into a program.
D. Get all team members together into a cohesive whole.

9. Approved corrective action is an input to:

A. Verify Scope.
B. Direct and Manage Project Execution.
C. Develop Project Charter.
D. Develop Schedule.

10. A primary customer has requested a change during project execution, as a project manager what
should u do first?

A. Develop risk mitigation plan.

B. Create formal change request.
C. Inform the sponsor of changes to scope, time and cost
D. Ensure scope change complies with all relevant contractual provisions.

11. You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of the project. The project is within the
baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST
thing you should do?

A. Discuss it with the project team.

B. Recalculate baselines.
C. Renegotiate the contract.
D. Meet with the customer.

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12. An output of Close project or phase process is the creation of?

A. Project archives.
B. A Project charter.
C. A project management plan.
D. A risk management plan.

13. During project executing, the project manager determines that a change is needed to material
purchased for the project. The project manager calls a meeting of the team to plan how to make
the change. This is an example of:

A. Management by objectives.
B. Lack of a change management plan.
C. Good team relations.
D. Lack of a clear work breakdown structure.

14. Project A has an internal rate of return (IRR) of 21 percent. Project B has an IRR of 7 percent.
Project C has an IRR of 31 percent. Project D has an IRR of 19 percent. Which of these would be
the BEST project?

A. Project A.
B. Project B.
C. Project C.
D. Project D.

15. All of the following would occur during the Close Project or Phase process EXCEPT:

A. Creating lessons learned.

B. Formal acceptance.
C. Reducing resource spending.
D. Performing benefit cost analysis.

16. Which of the following is included in a project charter?

A. A risk management strategy.

B. Work package estimates.
C. Detailed resource estimates.
D. The business need for the project.

17. A project manager is trying to convince management to use more formal project management
procedures and has decided to start improving the company's project management by obtaining a
project charter. Which of the following BEST describes why the project charter would help the
project manager?

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 A. It describes the details of what needs to be done.
B. It lists the names of all team members.
C. It gives the project manager authority.
D. It describes the project's history.

18. You have created the project charter, but could not get it approved. Your manager and his boss
have asked that the project begin immediately. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

A. Set up an integrated change control process.

B. Show your manager the impact of proceeding without approval.
C. Focus on completing projects that have signed project charters.
D. Start work on only the critical activities.

19. The project manager has just received a change from the customer that does not affect the project
schedule. What should the project manager do FIRST?

A. Make the change happen as soon as possible.

B. Contact the project sponsor for permission.
C. Go to the change control board.
D. Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints.

20. Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at US
$2,000,000. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you
should do once you hear of the new project?

A. Ask management how the new project will use resources.

B. Perform Resource leveling for the project.
C. Crash your project.
D. Ask management how the new project will affect your project.

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