CPM 100- Construction project management

Assignment Review
Student’s name: Lekhanath Paudel
Student ID: A00140975
Date: 1st July 2022
Please use red color font for your answer
Note: Find the best answer, as sometimes you could find two very close answers then you
choose the best of them.

1. A vendor did not perform as contracted, so you are withholding payment as stipulated by the
contract. The vendor started using impropriate language and is calling you names. your team
members are furious and some of them have responded similarly even though you are angry
as well you stay calm and handle the situation with respect, which of the following have you
demonstrated by responding to the situation this way
a. Conduct yourself in a professional manner
b. Proved to be loyal to the vendor
c. Protected team member from the fight
d. Boost team morale
2. Which of the following choices represents the correct sequence of action a project manager
should take before project planning starts:
a. Perform stakeholders’ analysis, create stakeholder register, resolve the issue raised by
stakeholders
b. Define scope, collect requirements, and create the work breakdown structure
c. Plan stakeholder engagement, creates power interest grid, manage stakeholder
engagement
d. Create the project charter, create a stakeholder register, and inform stakeholders
of the approved project charter
3. A project manager is informed by a project stakeholder that the newest project team member
has on more than one occasion arrived to work more than 30 minutes late, this news comes
as a sort of surprise, and you haven't had any similar issues with the project team previously.
what may have prevented this situation:
a. Training for the project team on cultural awareness
b. Conflict management training for the project team member
c. Capturing the issue by waiting at the door everyday morning to force the employee to
come early or on time
d. Reviewing the team charter periodically with the team
4. While the first phase of a construction project was a success, one of the two lead architects
suddenly had to resign from the position due to a conflict of interest within the company, what
should the project manager do immediately to manage the team composition:
a. Update the stakeholder register to reflect the team change
b. Inform immediately the project sponsor about the series of the situation
c. Do nothing, just to proceed to finish the job on time
d. Establish an urgent site meeting to address the situation
5. You have just been named a project manager for a Newcomb company project the project
sponsor asks you to provide a few ways that the work can be carried out based on your
understanding of the key deliverable meanwhile the project sponsor is working on completing
the project charter, in order to prepare your proposal, you would like to be aware of the basic
project risk that may have already been identified which of the following would be the best
document to reference:
a. Project scope statement
b. Statement of work
c. Project business case
d. Project charter
6. The project is in execution, but your project team is unable to stop arguing about identifying
the project milestones, this ongoing conflict puts the project at risk of running behind the
schedule. what would you likely have helped avoid this conflict if had it been probably created
first:
a. Project charter
b. Business case
c. Scope of work
d. WBS
7. You are leading a meeting with the project sponsor and key stakeholders to review the project
performance; the goal of the meeting is to establish a common understanding of the project
situation and answer all the questions and or concerns. what of the following interpersonal
and team skill is the least beneficial to the project manager to use to achieve the meeting goal
a. Conflict management
b. Facilitation
c. Meeting management
d. Team building
8. You have just taken over as manager of a project and have immediately noticed that the
stakeholders are showing little to no interest in the project status and projections, as the
project manager you feel that having more interest from the stakeholder with ultimately benefit
the success of the project, what is the best course of action to determine which stakeholders
would be the best to communicate with first:
a. Meet with each of the stakeholders individually as it is always important to get to know
them
b. Review the stakeholder register to determine key stakeholders to reach out to,
and provide project status
c. It is best to do nothing as stakeholder interference may cause sometimes a problem
 d. Organized a meeting in which all stakeholders are invited to discuss the project status
9. You and your team are currently developing the stakeholder engagement plan a project team
member has already created the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix below which
answer choice presents the most important element to be included in the stakeholder
engagement plan
a. A plan to improve Mary Smith’s engagement level
b. An engagement level improvement plan for Todd’s young
c. A strategy to address the engagement level of Jon Snow
d. A strategy to improve the engagement level of Tony Stewart

10. Your employee is 3 days late with the report. 5 minutes before the meeting where the topic of
the report is to be discussed, she hands you the report. You notice some serious errors in it.
What should you do:
a. Cancel the meeting and reschedule when the error is fixed
b. Go to the meeting and tell the other attendees there is an error in the report
c. Ask the employee to do the presentation and remain silent as the other attendees find
the error
d. Cancel the meeting and re-write the report yourself
11. You are managing a project which is in the planning phase. You have completed helping in
developing the project charter and this project contains multiple phases with multiple
contractors. The contract contains proprietary(private) information from the vendor. One of the
functional managers of your organization wants to view this information. What should your
response to them?
a. The functional manager is not part of this project, you should deny it
b. You can share the information with them because they belong to the same
organization
c. Deny the request to protect the confidentiality of the information,
d. Accept the request but tell them not to share the information with anyone else.
12. You have been asked to create a user manual for a call center’s day-to-day tasks. What is the
correct term for this scenario?
 a. Project
b. Program
c. Portfolio
d. Operation
13. You are a newly assigned PM, and you are working on a new implementation project. In order
to understand the scope of the project, you meet with associates who have worked on similar
projects in the past. You analyze their feedback and identify a change in the project scope
they have missed but you have no experience in handling. What should you do in such a
scenario?
a. Do nothing as the new scope is related to the previous project manager
b. Document it immediately
c. Document it and try to analyze its impact of it on the schedule
d. Do nothing as at least no one knows about it
14. You are an experienced PM who has worked for many years with your company. You have
complete knowledge of the processes and how things work in your organization. However,
you have limited knowledge about the project selection method. Recently, you have been
tasked with choosing the best project out of multiple selections, what should be the first step
a. Select the project using the best judgment
b. As you have no knowledge, refuse to take the assignment
c. Get an expert’s help to select the best project
d. Inform the management about your lack of knowledge in this particular area.
15. Your customer requested a scope-related change during a project. The change was formally
approved by the CCB change control board and you are in the process of implementing it.
You are providing regular implementation status to the customer. What is the correct term for
the information you provide?
a. Work Performance Data
b. Work Performance information
c. Work performance report
d. Project management info system PMIS
16. You are chosen to be the project manager for a job in another country. The customer hosted
a project kick-off party and gave valuable gifts to all the project team members. The customer
also requested that you complete the project sooner than anticipated. What should you do?
a. Accept the offer because it is not considered a bride
b. Reject the offer because it violates the code of ethics and professional conduct
c. Politely refuse the offer and accept the customer’s demands of completing the
project sooner
d. Politely refuse the offer and do not do anything
17. You are in the process of gathering high risks for the project that has to be documented in a
project charter. One of the key stakeholders tells you that this project will not succeed
because you do not have support from the local government of the developing country where
majority of the work will be done. What should you do in this situation?
a. Immediately stop the work and reach out to the sponsor for his / her advise
b. Find the reasons behind the stakeholders’ comments
 c. Document the stakeholders’ comments in the project charter and continue with
the project as this risk will not affect you in anyway
d. Ignore the stakeholders’ comments because the project sponsor already knows about
them
18. You are a PM and have borrowed two resources from the functional manager for a product
development project. The two resources Ryan and Henry constantly argue about two product
features. Due this, the deliverables have missed some deadlines. What should you do in this
scenario?
a. Remove them and request two new resources
b. Meet with them and try to find the root cause of the situation
c. Escalate it to their functional manager
d. Request the remaining resources to work on the missed deliverables.
19. You have been assigned as PM for a software development project. The cost estimate for the
project is 100,000 $. However, you feel that you cannot complete the project within this
budget. As per your analysis, the estimates should be at least 125,000 $ . Your sponsor is
willing to start the project with other PM if you do not accept it. What should you do in this
scenario?
a. Stop the work until sponsor accept your estimate
b. Ask the sponsor to assign this project to other PM
c. Do your best to reduce the cost to 100,000 $
d. Submit detailed facts supporting your estimate and then let the sponsor make
the decision
20. The duration of the activity is affected by all of the following EXCEPT:
a. The estimated activity resources requirements
b. The type of resources assigned to the activity
c. The availability of the resources assigned to the activity
d. Using the precedence diagram method for scheduling activities instead of using
the critical path method
21. The control schedule process for a project.
a. Focuses on starting the project earlier than scheduled to help mitigate schedule risk
and to achieve the approved schedule baseline
b. Is the process of monitoring the status of project activities to updated project
progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline to achieve the plan?
c. In concerned mainly with activities that are on the critical path
d. Should focus primarily on activities that are difficult to carry out.
e. Document the limited budget as a constraint and continue working on the project
22. A project manager wants to track team member performance provide feedback resolve issues
and manage change to optimize project performance. In what process will the project
manager carry out these activities
a. Develop team
b. Manage team
c. Control team
d. Acquire resources
23. One of the project team member who was responsible for several deliverables has suddenly
left the company, you over here a heated debate among the team members over what to do
next, it sounds as it as if the team is split half want to hire A new team member and the other
half want to contract out the work, as the project manager you want to resolve this conflict in a
way that solves the problem and keeps the team unified, which of the following approach
should you take:
a. Tell the team that you are in charge and will take disciplinary action if consensus is not
reached
b. Agree with the team that our resources needed and urge one side to take down for the
sake of the agreement
c. Ask the team member to find compromise that would be acceptable to both sides
d. Request that the team researched different option, present ideas, and work out a
solution
24. A project is behind schedule because department managers reassign project team member to
work on other assignments, after negotiations with the function managers you agreed to a
temporary solution where core group of a project resources is the dedicated to performing the
work until more resources are approved, what conflict resolution technique did you most likely
employ in this situation:
a. Compromise: compromise approach to conflict resolution is characterized by
searching for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in
order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict
b. Force
c. Collaborate
d. Smooth or accommodate
25. Due to a large number of team members working remotely and the time differences between
them, you are having difficulty coordinating meeting with team members, this situation
negatively impact team cohesion, which of the following tools would be the most beneficial for
you to use:
a. Interpersonal skills
b. Conflict management
c. Communication technology.
d. Team performance assessment
26. Two project team members are having disagreement over how to approach a minor technical
detail the project manager has little experience working with them and her technical
knowledge is limited, in this matter: what is the best action for the project manager to take
a. Abide by the decision of the most senior team member
b. Avoid being involved in the discussion and decision-making
c. Stop the discussion and direct the team member to get back to work
d. Request the human resources department representative to step in
27. During a status meeting, a team member states that he is having trouble getting the
necessary information from the customer and as a result will not get an important deliverable
completed on time, you have not previously heard of any issues with the customer and
 suspect the team member is simply making excuses for poor work performance, what is the
best course of action
a. Tell the team member not to make any further execute and get the job done or risk
disciplinary action
b. Contact the customer right away to discuss the issue
c. Schedule a one-on-one meeting with the team member to discuss the issue
d. Escalate this issue to the project sponsor and ask his help
28. You were informed buy an informal that one of your project members falsified the certification
on her resume, you verify the information as accurate, and want to terminate the team
member employment, what you should do first:
a. Approach the employee immediately and discuss with him the mater
b. Share your finding with the informant
c. Immediately terminate the employee for cause
d. Contact the HR department immediately
29. Two project team members have had frequent clashes, which have at times resulted in
shouting matches during team meeting, the project manager has mediated, ask them to
resolve their differences and even facilitated a meeting between them, but things have gotten
worse, the project manager is concerned that the situation is negatively affecting team
cohesion and is placing the successful completion of the project at risk, what should the
project manager do next:
a. Use formal procedures including disciplinary actions
b. Allow the team members to resolve their differences on their own
c. Facilitate many meetings between the two team members till the issues are
resolved
d. Request that other project team member plead as a form of peer pressure
30. Your project team is about to begin the adjuring stage of team development, how can you
best support your team during this process:
a. Reward the team with a celebration meeting and ensure that the team members are
reassigned
b. Conduct a kickoff meeting so the team can learn about the project and their rules
and responsibilities
c. Provide support as needed so the team can continue to function as well-organized unit
d. You utilize conflict management skills to ensure the environment does not become
counter productive
31. A project is reporting negative cost variance, what does this mean:
a. The project is under budget
b. The project is over budget
c. The project on budget
d. Cost will be over budget at the end.
32. A project is over budget when:
a. CPI and SPI >1
b. CPI>1
c. SPI>1
 d. CPI<1
33. Cost performance baseline of project is a time phased budget and is used as a basis to measure,
monitor and control overall cost performance of the project. What is the graph called as;
a. An Inverted S curves
b. A bell Curve
c. An S-Curve
d. A normal curve
34. A project is over budget when:
a. CPI and SPI >1
b. CPI>1
c. SPI>1
d. CPI<1
35. An employee refuses good pay job offers because he did not like his office set up is an example of the
following theory:
a. Hierarchy of need
b. Leadership Theory
c. Herzberg Hygiene Theory
d. Reinforcement theory
36. As per the following motivation theory, project managers or leaders should not reward or
acknowledge bad behaviour (like bad improper joke during important meeting):
a. Hierarchy theory
b. Herzberg Hygiene Theory
c. Reinforcement theory
d. Leadership Theory