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PMP Question of the Week: Risk Strategies

March 2, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

A real estate company wants to produce detailed maps of local communities to provide prospective customers with more information. The company has the software to produce the maps,however, it does not have a printer to print the maps. The company must decide to either purchase a new, expensive printer to produce the maps in-house or to send the map files to a local printer. Sending the files to a local printer would be an example of which of the following risk strategies?

PMP Question of the Week: Statement of Work

February 23, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

You are putting together a statement of work (SOW) to be included in a signed agreement with a seller. Which of the following statements about this SOW is false?

PMP Question of the Week: Estimate at Completion

February 16, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Your project is over budget, behind schedule, and has a constrained project finish date. What is the best Estimate at Completion (EAC) formula to use?

PMP Question of the Week: Legal Issues

February 9, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

A PMP certified project manager receives a contract from a client to manage a software development project and discovers that 25% of the software developers are also contractors and do not have legal software licenses. What is the project manager responsible to do in this situation?

PMP Question of the Week: Documented Scope Changes

February 2, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

You have taken on the role of project manager for a project already underway. Fortunately, the previous project manager maintained project documentation. What document should explain how scope changes will be managed?