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1.  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.
   

2.  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.
   

3.  During execution of a project, you observe that the performance of some of your team members is dropping, while others are doing a consistently good job. What should you try first to bring the team as a whole back to performance?

   A) Organize a team meeting and discuss openly the bad performance of the weak team members. Try to find a joint solution during the meeting.
   B) Introduce a competitive incentive system with a bonus for the 20% of your team which is performing better than the other 80%.
   C) Do not interfere, but give the team some time to organize, and sort the problem out by low-level conflict management.
   D) Introduce a system of formal and informal performance appraisals, research causes for bad performance and solicit mutual feedback.
   

4.  You recently assigned staff members to activities, estimated work and scheduled your project. You then created the following resource histogram for your staff:
   
   
   What does this diagram tell you?

   A) The project can probably not be finished as scheduled.
   B) You may be able to finish the project early by reassigning work.
   C) You should avoid network logic diagramming for scheduling.
   D) You may run into problems with dual reporting relationships.
   

5.  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.