PK0-005 Project Management Concepts Practice Question
A project manager learns that a key supplier will be three weeks late delivering a hardware component, which threatens the critical path. The PM has already asked the supplier to expedite at additional cost and has examined whether the component can be substituted. Which process is the project manager performing?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is jumping to integrated change control simply because a schedule threat exists, when the PM is still executing a risk response and has not yet requested a baseline change.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Implement risk responses
The PM is carrying out actions to reduce a threat to the critical path, which is the essence of implementing risk responses. Expediting delivery and evaluating substitution are response strategies, not baseline changes or risk-tracking activities. Only after the chosen response alters the schedule or cost baseline would the work move into integrated change control, so that process does not describe the current activity.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Monitor risks
Why it's wrong here
Monitoring risks involves tracking identified risks, watching for new ones, and evaluating how effective risk responses have been over time. While the supplier delay may be a risk materializing, the PM's actions of expediting, costing, and evaluating substitution are active response activities rather than tracking and reassessment, so this process does not describe what is happening.
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Control schedule
Why it's wrong here
Control schedule focuses on monitoring the status of the project to update schedule progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline. The PM has not yet modified the baseline; the work is about choosing and implementing a response to a supplier delay, which belongs to risk response rather than schedule control itself.
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Perform integrated change control
Why it's wrong here
Perform integrated change control evaluates, approves, and manages changes to baselines and documents after they are requested. The PM is still analyzing options and gathering information about the delay; no change request has been raised yet. Referring the situation to change control would be premature until the PM decides on a response and documents its impact on scope, schedule, or cost.
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Implement risk responses
Why this is correct
Implementing risk responses means executing the agreed response plans for identified risks, such as expediting a delivery at added cost or substituting a component. The PM is actively working to reduce the threat to the critical path, which is exactly this process, and the resulting cost or schedule effects would then be routed through integrated change control if baselines must change.
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