Question 1
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Mary and Thomas are project managers for their organization and they’re discussing risk management and the risk responses. Thomas insists that an organization should never accept a project risk and Mary says that sometimes it’s okay. They’ve called on you, a project management expert, to help with this decision. When is it appropriate to accept a project risk?
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A. It is never appropriate to accept a project risk.
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B. All risks must be mitigated or transferred.
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C. It is appropriate to accept a risk if the project team has never completed this type of project work before.
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D. It is appropriate if the risk is in balance with the reward.
Question 2
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Frances is the project manager of the LKJ Project. Which of the following techniques will she use to create the risk management plan?
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A. Risk tolerance
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B. Status meetings
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C. Planning meetings
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D. Variance meetings
Question 3
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You are the project manager of the GHK Project. You and the manufacturer have agreed to substitute the type of plastic used in the product to a slightly thicker grade should there be more than 7 percent error in production. The thicker plastic will cost more and require the production to slow down, but the errors should diminish. This is an example of which of the following?
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A. Threshold
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B. Tracking
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C. Budgeting
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D. JIT manufacturing
Question 4
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You are a project manager consultant for the Allen T1 Company and you’re helping them create a risk management plan for their project management office. You’re explaining the concept of risk tolerance and how it affects the risk management policies. An organization’s risk tolerance is also known as what?
Question 5
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The customers of the project have requested additions to the project scope. The project manager notifies you that additional risk planning will need to be added to the project schedule. Why?
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A. The risk planning should always be the same amount of time as the activities required by the scope change.
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B. Risk planning should always occur whenever the scope is adjusted.
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C. Risk planning should only occur at the project manager’s discretion.
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D. The project manager is incorrect. Risk planning does not need to happen at every change in the project.
Question 6
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Jason is the project manager for his organization and he’s working with his project team to identify and analyze project risks. Jason begins to create a risk register as part of this process, but his team doesn’t understand what a risk register is or its purpose. Which one of the following best describes the risk register?
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A. It documents all of the outcomes of the other risk management processes.
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B. It’s a document that contains the initial risk identification entries.
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C. It’s a system that tracks all negative risks within a project.
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D. It’s part of the project’s project management information system (PMIS) for integrated change control.
Question 7
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You are a project management consultant for the Steinberg Organization and you’re helping them categorize risks they may encounter in their projects. For starters you identify some basic risk categories but your client wants to see some examples of these categories. You tell them, for example, that _______________________ include(s) fire, theft, or injury, and offer(s) no chance for gain.
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A. Business risks
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B. Pure risks
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C. Risk acceptance
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D. Life risks
Question 8
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Complete this sentence: A project risk is a(n )______________________ occurrence that can affect the project for good or bad.
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A. Known
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B. Potential
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C. Uncertain
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D. Known unknown
Question 9
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Bradley is the project manager for his organization and he’s working with his project team to identify risks. Some of the project team members are confused as to when risk identification should happen in the project. When should risk identification happen?
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A. As early as possible in the initiation process
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B. As early as possible in the planning process
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C. Throughout the product management life cycle
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D. Throughout the project life cycle
Question 10
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You are the project manager of the KLJH Project. This project will last two years and has 30 stakeholders. How often should risk identification take place?
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A. Once at the beginning of the project
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B. Throughout the execution processes
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C. Throughout the project
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D. Once per project phase
Question 11
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Ruth is a project management expert and consultant for businesses creating project management offices. Ruth’s current client wants help to better identify risks. Which one of the following is an acceptable tool for risk identification?
Question 12
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You are the project manager for a project that will create a new and improved web site for your company. Currently, your company has over 8 million users around the globe. You would like to poll experts within your organization with a simple, anonymous form asking about any foreseeable risks in the design, structure, and intent of the web site. With the collected information, subsequent anonymous polls are submitted to the group of experts. This is an example of _________________________________.
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A. Risk identification
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B. A trigger
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C. An anonymous trigger
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D. The Delphi Technique
Question 13
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Alice is a project manager for her organization and she’s working with the project team to identify project risks and rank them by impact and probability. Which risk analysis technique provides the project manager with a risk ranking?
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A. Quantifiable
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B. Qualitative
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C. The utility function
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D. SWOT analysis
Question 14
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A table of risks, their probability, impact, and a number representing the overall risk score is called a ____________________________.
Question 15
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You are presented with the following table:
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A. $135
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B. –$300
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C. $45
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D. –$135
Question 16
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You are presented with the following table:
Question 17
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The water sanitation project manager has determined that the risks associated with handling certain chemicals are too high. He has decided to allow someone else to complete this portion of the project, and so has outsourced the handling and installation of the chemicals and filter equipment to an experienced contractor. This is an example of which of the following?
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A. Avoidance
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B. Acceptance
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C. Mitigation
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D. Transference
Question 18
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A project manager and the project team are actively monitoring the pressure gauge on a piece of equipment. Sarah, the engineer, recommends a series of steps to be implemented should the pressure rise above 80 percent. The 80 percent mark represents what?
Question 19
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You are presented with the following table:
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A. .60, 45,000, 27,000
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B. .60, 52,000, 31,200
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C. .60, 7,000, 4,200
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D. .60, –7,000, –4,200
Question 20
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You are the project manager for your organization and you’re working with the project team to identify the project risks, rank the risks on probability and impact, and then create a risk contingency reserve. As part of these processes you want to explore multiple scenarios of risk events in the project so you’re utilizing different tools to analyze the project risk. Based on this information, which of the following can determine multiple scenarios, given various risks and the probability of their impact?
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A. Decision tree
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B. Monte Carlo technique
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C. Pareto chart
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D. Gantt chart