[单项选择]You are a project manager for residential construction. As a project manager, you must be especially concerned with building codes particularly in the quality planning process. You must ensure that building codes are reflected in your project plans because ______ .
A. standards and regulations are an input to quality planning
B. quality audits serve to ensure there is compliance with regulations
C. they are a cost associated with quality initiatives
D. compliance with standards is the primary objective of quality control

[单项选择]You are a project manager for residential construction. As a project manager, you must be especially concerned with building codes particularly in the quality planning process. You must ensure that building codes are reflected in your project plans because ______ .
A. standards and regulations are an input to quality planning
B. quality audits serve to ensure there is compliance with regulations
C. they are a cost associated with quality initiatives
D. compliance with standards is the primary objective of quality control

[单项选择]You are a project manager for a small project. Your project was budgeted for ￥500,000 over a six-week period. As of today, you’ve spent ￥260,000 of your budget to complete work that you originally expected to cost ￥280,000. According to your schedule，you should have spent ￥300,000 by this point. Based on these circumstances, your project could be best described as ______.
A. ahead of schedule
B. behind schedule
C. on schedule
D. having not enough information provided

[单项选择]As a project manager, you examine project results over time to determine how project is performing over time. This can be done through ______ .
A. performance reviews
B. variance analysis
C. trend analysis
D. earned value management

[单项选择]As a project manager, you realize the importance of team development for project human resource management. Team development helps in developing individual and group competencies to enhance project performance. All the following are tools and techniques for “Develop Project Team” EXCEPT ______ .
A. general management skills
B. pre-assignment
C. training
D. ground rules

[单项选择]As a project manager, you are aware that estimating schedule activity costs involves developing an approximation of the costs of the resources needed to complete each schedule activity. In approximating costs, the estimator considers the possible causes of variation of the cost estimates, including risks. Cost estimating includes identifying and considering various costing alternatives. For example, in most application areas, additional work during a design phase is widely held to have the potential for reducing the cost of the execution and product operations. The cost estimating process considers whether the expected savings can offset the cost of additional design work. Cost estimates are generally expressed in units of currency to facilitate comparisons both within and across projects. Cost estimates can also benefit from refinement during the course of the project to reflect on the additional detail available. For your project, which is in the initial phases, your team suggested a
A. -75% to+125%
B. -50% to+100%
C. -25% to+50%
D. None of the above

[单项选择]You are the project manager of a project which would do oil-exploration in the ocean．Since you cannot plan for all eventualities，you establish a contingency reserve，including amounts of time，money or resources to handle known or unknown risks．This is an example of______．
A. risk avoidance
B. risk transfer
C. active risk acceptance
D. improper risk planning since all risks should be identified and accounted for

[单项选择]You are the project manager for software development project．The feasibility study can start any time and takes 1 week and requirement gathering takes 2 weeks which can start only after feasibility study．The design and test plan development can start in parallel after the requirements gathering．Test plan preparation takes 8 weeks followed by a review by the customer and the time estimated for review is 1 week．After the review，Test data preparation takes 6 weeks．Design takes 6 weeks and it is followed by development and unit testing，for one module it takes 2 weeks and for the other module it takes 2 weeks．There are no dependencies between modules and they can be developed simultaneously．After test data preparation and development and unit testing of both the modules，there is 2 weeks system testing．What is duration of the critical path ？（）
A. 14 week
B. 15 week
C. 20 week
D. 19 week

[单项选择]You finally have been appointed project manager for a major company project．In your work for other project and functional managers as a team member，you have been frustrated because the entire team rarely met after the kickoff meeting．As a result，you felt that you did not know how the project was progressing．On some occasions，you did not receive copies of progress reports submitted to upper management．You believe it is important to share information with the team．One of your first activities as project manager has been to set up an information retrieval system．Your information sharing methods will include all the following except______．
A. manual filing systems
B. project management software
C. project intranet
D. electronic databases

[单项选择]You are the project manager of an IT company．You are in the process of creating a collection and filing structure that details what methods will be used to gather and store various types of information．Procedures should also cover collecting and disseminating updates and corrections to previously distributed material．Where will you include this information
A. Information retrieval syste
B. Information distribution method
C. Communications management pla
D. Project record

[单项选择]You are the project manager for a complicated construction project which involves building highways in the whole state of North Carolina. You have several groups working with you in the project. To plan resources for this project, you should preferably use a/an ______ .
A. staffing pool description
B. staffing management plan
C. responsibility assignment matrix
D. organization matrix

[单项选择]You are the project manager for a manufacturing company involved with making components for Internal Combustion Engines required for the automobile industry. In the past couple of days, there have been too many defects, and you would like to find out whether unusual events are occurring in your manufacturing process whose causes must be identified and corrected. For this purpose, you should use ______ .
A. inspection
B. Pareto charts
C. statistical sampling
D. control charts

[单项选择]In your organization, you are the project manager of the engineering department. But if questions related to manufacturing arise, they are passed up to the engineering department head, who consults with the head of the manufacturing department. Once the manufacturing head gets the answers, he passes it the engineering department head, who in turn passes answer back down to you. The organization structure you are working on is______.
A. Weak Matrix
B. Matrix
C. Strong Matrix
D. Functional

[单项选择]You are the project manager for a large government contract. The contract was signed a year ago for this three-year, multi-million dollar project. You were not involved in writing the contract or setting up change control procedures, but now you are being inundated with change requests from the project sponsor and from your own senior management. What should you do first
A. Ask senior management to set aside more management reserve to avoid potential financial problem
B. Tell the sponsor and your senior management that any changes are out of scope at his point and cannot be considere
C. Talk to your legal department to make sure you don’t do anything illega
D. Meet with the project sponsor and senior management to discuss this problem and potential solution

[单项选择]You are a project manager to upgrade the computer safety of your organization．Your project team is made up of four contractors and two full time employees．This is the first time they have all worked together．You know that the team will go through the stages of team development in the following order：（）.
A. Forming，storming，norming，and performin
B. Storming，norming，forming，and performin
C. Norming，storming，forming，and performin
D. Forming，norming，storming，and performin

[单项选择]You are a project manager of a small construction project. Your project was budgeted for US $72,000 over a six week period. As of today, you’ve spent US $22,000 of your budget to complete work that you originality espected would cost US $24,000. According to your schedule, you should have spent US $30,000 by this point. Based on these circumstances, you project could be BEST described as （）.
A. under budget
B. over budget
C. on budget
D. need more info