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Diese Karteikarten behandeln fortgeschrittene Themen des Projektmanagements auf Universitätsniveau, mit Fokus auf Projektcharter, Risikomanagement, Stakeholder-Kommunikation und Konfliktlösung. Sie eignen sich für Studierende und Berufstätige, die ihr Wissen in Projektmanagement vertiefen möchten, insbesondere in den Bereichen Bau- und Softwareprojekte. Die Karteikarten decken auch Themen wie die Identifizierung von Risiken, die Verwaltung von Projektverträgen und die Anwendung von Tools wie Ishikawa-Diagrammen ab.
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111. Rekha is a project manager on a large construction project. Late in the project, her client demands a big change. She assesses the impact of the change and tells the client how much time and money it will cost. But the client says that he doesnÍt have the time or budget to allow the change. WhatÍs the BEST way for Rekha to handle this situation?
104. You are managing a project with AC = $25,100, ETC = $45,600, VAC = -$2,600, BAC = $90,000, and EAC = $92,100. Your sponsor asks you to forecast how much money you expect to spend on the remainder of the project. Which is the BEST estimate to use for this forecast?
105. Which is the BEST description of project scope?
107. A team member is showing up late to work and leaving early, and it is affecting the project. The project manager decides that the team member must be reprimanded. Which of the following is the BEST way to handle this situation?

155. A project manager on a construction project includes a line item in the budget for insurance for the equipment and job site. This is an example of:

156. You are talking to experts and gathering independent estimates for your contract. Which of the following BEST describes what you are doing?

153. Which of the following contracts has the MOST risk for the seller?

154. You are managing an industrial design project for an important client. Two of your team members have a disagreement on project priorities. One person wants to do certain activities first, while the other feels they should be left until the end of the project. You work with both people to forge a compromise where those activities are neither first nor last, but instead done in the middle of the project. Nobody is particularly unhappy with this solution. Another name for a compromise is a:

159. Information about the project must be distributed to all stakeholders. Which of the following process outputs is used to report the status and cost of project activities?
160. A company uses a management technique that employs quality assurance techniques to continuously improve all processes. This is called:

157. A project manager is creating a report of the final status of a closed project to the stakeholders. Which of the following is NOT used in a final project report to communicate the status of a project?

158. You are the project manager for a railroad construction project. Your sponsor has asked you for a forecast for the cost of project completion. Which of the following is the BEST metric to use for forecasting?

147. Which of the following is NOT true about the Project Charter?

148. YouÍre managing a construction project to install several hundred air conditioner panels in a new office building. Every floor has identical panels. The customer, a construction contracting company, has provided specifications for the installations. The team is using a process to install and verify each panel. As the team completes each panel, your teamÍs quality control inspector measures it and identifies defects. The root cause of each defect is identified. You want to identify the ongoing trends of defective installations. Which is the BEST tool to use for this?

145. A member of your seven-person project team comes up with a controversial idea. Two others agree that it should be pursued. Two members of the team are opposed to it, while the remaining two have a different approach. You end up going with the controversial idea. This is an example of:

146. You have been hired by a contractor, who wants you to manage a construction project for one of their clients. The project team has been working for two months, and is 35% done with the job. Two of your team members come to you with a conflict about how to handle the ongoing maintenance for a piece of equipment. You know that they can safely ignore the problem for a while, and youÍre concerned that if your project falls behind schedule before next weekÍs stakeholder meeting, it will cause problems in the future. You tell the two team members that the problem really isnÍt as bad as they think it is, and if they take a few days to cool off about it youÍll help them with a solution. This approach to conflict resolution is known as:

151. There have been several rounds of layoffs at your company. Now your project team is worried about their job security, and youÍve noticed that their performance has decreased significantly because of it. This is predicted by which motivational theory?

152. Which of the following is NOT included in a cost of quality calculation?
149. Which risk analysis tool is used to model your risks on a computer to show random probabilities?

150. You are a project manager for a software project. As you are defining the scope of the work you need to do, you sit down with all of the projectÍs stakeholders and record all of the requirements you can get from them. Which of the following is NOT a valid requirement from stakeholder analysis?

139. YouÍre managing a project that is currently executing. YouÍre evaluating the work being performed by constantly measuring the project performance, and recommending changes, repairs, and corrections where necessary. What process are you performing?

138. After a status meeting, one of your team members, John, pulls you aside and tells you that he was insulted by a comment from another team member. He felt that the comment was racist. You meet with the team member who made the comment, Suzanne, but she says that the other team memberÍs performance has been very poor. She has never made a comment like this before at the company. You review the records, and see that she is correct„he has consistently delivered lower-quality work than any other team member. What is the BEST way to handle this situation?
137. You are managing a software project. The stakeholders have found a few requirements that were missed in the initial Project Scope Statement. You put the requested changes through change control and they are approved so you need to update the Scope Statement to include the new work. Where can you find the most updated version of the Scope Statement?
136. Two of your project team members approach you with a conflict that they are having with each other over the technical approach to their work. One of the two people is very aggressive, and tries to get you to make a decision quickly. The other team member is quiet, and seems less willing to talk about the issue. The conflict is starting to cause delays, and you need to reach a decision quickly. You spend the weekend studying conflict resolution techniques, which is an example of:

144. Which of the following describes the contents of a staffing management plan?

143. Joe is an excellent programmer. He was promoted to a role of Project Manager because he understands technology better than anyone else in the company. Unfortunately, he is having trouble doing the project management job and his projects are failing. What is this an example of?

141. As you complete each deliverable for your project, you check that it is correct along with your stakeholders and sponsors. Which process are you performing?
140. Which of the following helps you identify the root cause of 80% of the defects in your project using the 80/20 rule?
131. Which of the following is the BEST example of a reward system?
130. YouÍre managing a project with a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.07 and a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.94. How would you BEST describe this project?
129. Which of the following are NOT all examples of project documents?
128. As you are executing your project you are constantly checking your risk register to be sure that you have planned responses for all of your risks. At one team status meeting, you find that a lower-priority risk has suddenly become more likely. Where do you keep information about low-priority risks?
135. The project charter is typically approved by the project sponsor, although some charters can be approved by key stakeholders instead. Which of the following BEST describes the role of the project sponsor on the project?
134. YouÍre holding a PMP study group so that you and your coworkers can work together to study for the exam. One person recently took and passed the exam, and has offered to give you all of the questions he can remember. How should you respond?
133. Which of the following project selection methods is NOT a comparative approach (or benefit measurement model)?
132. There are 17 people on a project. How many lines of communication are there?

186. A project manager is faced with two team members who have conflicting opinions. One team member explains her side of the conflict, and presents a possible solution. But before the other team member starts to explain his side of things, the project manager says, ñIÍve heard enough, and IÍve decided to go with the solution IÍve heard.î This is an example of:

187. As you determine the requirements, constraints, and assumptions for the project you record them in which document?

188. YouÍve been hired by a large consulting firm to evaluate a software project for them. You have access to the CPI and EV for the project, but not the AC. The CPI is .92, and the EV is $172,500. How much money has actually been spent on the project?

189. Approved changes are implemented in which process?

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