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I’m a student at Kaplan University as of now but I’m beginning to second guess their project management courses. I’m studying to get my bachelors in business administration with a concentration in project management. I have recently found that this program is not accredited by PMI (project management institute), therefore I’m wondering if there is a more qualified program to prepare me for the CAPM (certified associate in project management) certification.

I wouldn’t worry too much whether your Kaplan program is accredited by PMI or not. Not a lot of programs are, and you’re not required to take an accredited program to qualify to sit for the CAPM exam.

However, does your program make use of PMI’s PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge)? If not, then it’s not helping you much towards your CAPM, even though it may still be a reasonable program. (However, project management is not an area that lends itself well to online training.)

Even if it does use the PMBOK, it’s unlikely to study the PMBOK to the level of detail, and in the correct manner, for the CAPM exam. I would suggest a dedicated CAPM prep course – which is specifically targeted at getting you ready for the CAPM exam. An in-person course would be best, but you can probably find something online.

I’m doing MBA and need to put up a questionnaire on portfolio management in a Project to be submitted titled : Portfolio Management having basics of it, and Research made on Kotak Mahindra

Do you really think some one will publish the research made on private company in Y/A ??

In a company there is one area that serves to manage the human resources of an enterprise, namely Human Resources (or Human Resources Management, or Human Capital). Then, have you ever heard about the Talent Management? What is the difference between Human Resources Management and Talent Management?

HR is quite administrative – pay, grievance, hire, fire. TM is more seeking out specialised needs of a job that require certain skills and expertise. hence search for talents fr within or without. then another category – where within the service esp in civil service where the top scholars are being groomed into positions of responsibility and power. here assessment of talent is VIP. choosing the right candidate from among 10 to 20 officers to handle the crucial job

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Question No: 1 – Please choose one

When the amount of government spending exceeds the amount of revenues, the result is called:

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Trade deficit

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Budget deficit

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Balance of payment

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Opportunity cost

Question No: 2 – Please choose one

What characteristic motivate a person to start his own business?

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Earning large incomes

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Being his own boss

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Challenge

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All of the given options

Question No: 3 – Please choose one

Firms can ensure responsibility to customers by:

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Safe manufacturing techniques

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Proper disposal of waste

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Seeking feedback about product

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Full financial disclosure

Question No: 4 – Please choose one

The position of “chief financial officer” is considered to be a:

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Supervisory position

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Top management position

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First-line management position

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Bottom-line position

Question No: 5 – Please choose one

The reinforcement theory that motivates employees by encouraging them to behave in a manner that avoids unfavorable consequences is __________ reinforcement.

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Positive

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Neutral

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Equity

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Negative

Question No: 6 – Please choose one

A Rolex watch and Mercedes car are considered:

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Convenience products

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Shopping goods

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Specialty products

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Industrial products

Question No: 7 – Please choose one

One way to accelerate the distribution process is to make sure that it is integrated with _______ process.

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Marketing

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Financing

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Advertising

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Production

Question No: 8 – Please choose one

Even a company’s product is properly produced, priced and distributed, it still needs to be:

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Manufactured

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Graded

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Promoted

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Market tested

Question No: 9 – Please choose one

_____________ is a management approach for an organization, centered on quality, based on the participation of all its members and aiming at long-term success through customer satisfaction and benefits to all members of the organization and to society.

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Total quality management

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Project management

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Personnel management

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Strategic planning

Question No: 10 – Please choose one

Information-systems applications, based on telecommunication technologies, that use networks of appliances or devices to communicate information by electronic means are:

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Electronic information technologies

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Management information systems

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Information management

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Transaction processing systems

Question No: 11 – Please choose one

Effective marketing are intended to affect the firm’s:

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Financial leverage

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Social responsibility

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Strategic plan

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Cash inflows

Question No: 12 – Please choose one

Arrangement whereby selected professional providers offer services at reduced rates and permit thorough review of their service recommendations is:

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Health maintenance organization

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Preferred provider organization

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Point-of-service

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Health Insurance

Question No: 13 – Please choose one

Process of conserving the firm’s earning power and assets by reducing the threat of losses due to uncontrollable events is:

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Risk Avoidance

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Risk Management

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Risk Control

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Risk Transfer

Question No: 14 – Please choose one

__________ requires that expenses incurred in producing revenues be deducted from the revenue they generated during the same accounting period in order to accurately present the profitability of a business.

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Revenue Recognition

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Full Disclosure

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Matching principle

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Solvency Ratios

Question No: 15 – Please choose one

According to ___________ principle, organizations should be able to retain or dismiss employees at their discretion.

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Employment-at-Will

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Hostile work environment

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Workforce Diversity

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Knowledge Worker

Question No: 16 – Please choose one

Capital is the lifeblood of every business and is the most essential and important element of business.

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True

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False

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I would suggest you to post each question separately to get a valid and relevant answer..

It would not be wise for me to set-up an account with aweber or something like that starting out but am willing to upgrade in the not so distant future. I just need a platform to get started with email marketing campaigns and opt-in forms.

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You are in the UK and I am in the US, so the laws are not going to be the same, but I suspect that the UK or EU has similar laws in this regard.
Here in the US we have the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act. ANy employer must make ‘reasonably accomodation’ to your epilepsy. THey are also forbidden from discriminating in hiring, assuming you are capable of doing the job.

As to what type of job, I suspect that there is some local governmental office that can help.

I am doing a project management course and have to find out which methodology is being used. Would the method be PRINCE2 or DSDM Atern (Agile)? Maybe a mixture of both? Could you give examples of why it would be a certain methodology and not another?

I dont think I am smart enough to answer your question. Sorry

Dear friends i am making an online e book store as my project in asp.net Visual studio 2008. I have downloaded few web templates from internet i want to know how can i use web template in my project.
Pls. guide
thanks in advance.

web templates usually have html, css stylesheet, images etc.. they are blueprint of your pages also called as mockup.

if you like any template, you can copy them on to .aspx pages. you can use those region where you want to show your content. if you are loading those from database, use .net controls to load.

you can use asp.net master pages or user controls if you want to share that mockup on other pages…

i hope me & you are in same track. i dont know if there is anything else called templates..

A Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan can be created for anything. Natural disasters, business plans, infrastructure projects, daily operations of a business, sports teams, really anything that has the possibility of not running right can have a plan. For this article the term will be project, which is open to your interpretation on what a project actually is.

Who takes the kids to schools when the primary driver has the flu? That is the most basic BC plan.

What do we do when we get a flat tire? That is the most basic DR plan.

These 2 examples may not be written out, but they are just as valid as any other plan, and there is usually a plan in place. And yes, you can have one half without the other or call the plan DRBC if recovering from the disaster is a higher priority than continuing business.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans are developed for certain circumstances that have the probability of occurring. Spending years of work and millions of dollars to secure a data center in the Atacama mountains desert region against flooding is useless. Equally useless is spending years of work and millions of dollars to prevent a New York snow in the winter.

There are 4 primary categories that are considered important in BCDR; avoidance, mitigation, transference and acceptance. Acceptance is contested as an option because there are not many people want to build a plan that says we accept a risk and a failure and can not mitigate, transfer or avoid it. There are cases when there is no real option other than accepting that there may be failure.

A sample project is to install a new telephone system in my office.

In a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan, avoidance is building steps into your project to eliminate the risk or to protect the project from anything negative by means that you will determine.

My project may be late because it takes place from 15 December to 15 January, a time when many of my staff will take vacation. I can avoid an impact on my project by requesting an extension on the project, requiring additional resources, requesting extra money or many other options – you are limited by your imagination.

The idea behind transference is that the possibility of financial impact to the project is limited by contracting out some aspect of the work. I transfer the responsibility for part of the project to someone else. Transferring responsibility does not transfer accountability. The person in charge still has to accept that a failure is related to improper planning.

My December project may be late so I have hired a company to accomplish 3 critical tasks. If these tasks are not finished on time and in sequence, the project will not finish on time. I have signed a service level agreement with the vendor and the company will put all the resources required to deliver on time. If they fail to deliver on time they will not be paid, it the overall project is late because they fail to deliver on time they will pay me $1000 per day for a maximum of 15 days.

Mitigation is the part of the plan that takes the most thought. If mitigation is done properly then avoidance, transference and acceptance are clear. Mitigation is something you do to reduce the probability or consequences of a risk impacting your project. You may also define an acceptable level of impact that does not threaten the completion of your project Mitigation is very often costly and time consuming.

My December project requires new telephones for each of the 500 desks in our office. My regular supplier can guarantee 400 telephones at an $262.50 per phone, a 25% discount. The supplier is also reasonably sure to deliver the 500 on time and at the same price. To mitigate the risk of having 100 people without phones I agree that the supplier contract with a third party and buy 100 phones at the standard $350 price

1. Total cost of 500 phones from one supplier 500*262.50=$131,250.
2. Total cost of my phones from two suppliers (400*262.50)+(100*350)= $140,000
3. Mitigation cost $8750
4. Solution, pay the slight increase.

Second scenario for a larger company:

My December project requires new telephones for each of the 5000 desks in our office. My regular supplier can guarantee 2500 telephones at an $262.50 per phone, a 25% discount. The supplier is unable deliver the 5000 on time and at the same price. To mitigate the risk of having 2500 people without phones discuss with senior management to contract with a third party and buy 2500 phones at the standard $350 price, plus 10% for shipping

1. Cost of 2500 phones from one supplier 2500*262.50=$656,250.
   
2. Cost of 2500 phones from second supplier 2500*385=$ 962,500.
   
3. Total budget for phones $ 1,312,500
   
4. Total cost of phones $1,618,750
   
5. Mitigation cost $ -306,250
   
6. Solution – do you have $306,250 spare, or do you delay project completion?

Acceptance is the decision to accept certain risks and live with them. This means you do not change the project plan to deal with a risk or identify any response strategy other than agreeing to accept the risk if it is too costly or time consuming. A decision must be made to accept the risk, and the consequences. This decision must be made by a person with the highest level of authority. If the risk comes to pass and something fails the decision may mean late delivery of a project or failure as a team.

Second scenario similar to the one above:

My December project requires new telephones for each of the 5000 desks in our office. My regular supplier can guarantee 2500 telephones at a $262.50 per phone, our standard 25% discount. The supplier is unable deliver the 5000 on time and at the same price. To mitigate the risk of having 2500 people without phones discuss with senior management to contract with a third party and buy 2500 phones at the standard $350 price, plus 10% for shipping

1. Cost of 2500 phones from one supplier 2500*262.50=$656,250.
2. Cost of 2500 phones from second supplier 2500*385=$ 962,500.
3. Total budget for phones $ 1,312,500
4. Total cost of phones $1,618,750
5. Mitigation cost $ 306,250
6. Management does not have $306,250 to spend on the project and accepts that there may be a late delivery on some phones.
7. A mitigation plan will be put in place to make sure that the problem is handled the best way possible.

As stated above, a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan can be created for anything. The coach of a team has a replacement in mind when players are injured, Floridians board up windows when a storm comes. The most important part of your BCDR is realizing that you need one and start defining the actions that people will take when things go wrong, and at one time or another – they will.

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