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1.  The members of your project team have been assigned to your project with general availability levels of 50%. Yesterday, they reported to you that significant variances occurred during project execution. You have noted that the team members have been spending less than 50% of their time working on your project. Your project schedule is about to become heavily delayed, and deadlines are in jeopardy. What should you do?

   A) Talk to your sponsor and try to get more resources assigned on similar conditions as the existing ones.
   B) Talk with functional managers. Negotiate clear and written assignments with reliable scheduling priorities.
   C) Ignore the difficulties, adjust your schedule and negotiate new deadlines according to the slower progress.
   D) Focus on internal charges. Make sure that your project is not getting charged for more than the actual work.
   

2.  Following the cultural approach of the corporation for which you are starting to manage a project, you are guiding your project team through the first life-cycle phase of conceptualization. Your next step is to call for a team meeting to let ideas emerge in an unrestricted creative process. What exactly should that look like?

   A) You write down the ideas of team members and structure them into categories of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats during the session.
   B) You creatively gather thoughts and ideas without any discussion or frowning. These ideas are only filtered and structured after the end of the brainstorming session.
   C) Your team members wear hats with different colors, each of which stands for a way of thinking. Each member discusses topics from the viewpoint of their thinking.
   D) You try to eradicate deviating ideas and concepts of team members during the meeting, so that the entire project team follows your principles.
   

3.  Your management announced that they want to put you on a stretch assignment. In this situation, you should consider that…

   A) …a stretch assignment is going beyond your qualifications right from the start. Whatever your education, knowledge and skills are, you cannot fail personally. Congratulations.
   B) …key stakeholders must have timely and complete information regarding your qualifications to make decisions regarding your suitability for the assignment.
   C) …stretch assignments bear an increased risk of failure, and this is rarely outweighed by the learning and development experience expected to come with the assignment.
   D) …you should avoid the increased hassle coming with the assignment. It will not be enough for you to simply satisfy requirements and achieve objectives. You will have to learn a lot.
   

4.  A review of your project team member’s most recent performance reports shows a major drop in output. Which is the best approach to raise team productivity in a project?

   A) Increase the frequency of team review meetings and status reports.
   B) Increase the pressure on each team member to adhere to deadlines.
   C) Post a special reward for the best performing team member.
   D) Improve feelings of trust and cohesiveness among team members.
   

5.  Which of the following are not common barriers to project team building?

   A) Differing outlooks, priorities, and interests
   B) Role conflicts
   C) Excessive team member commitment
   D) Unclear project objectives/outcomes