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PMHub now offers you the benefit of daily guidance to help you stay on the road to success with the project management exam or to sharpen and exercise the project management skills you already possess. Each edition of the PMHub/Crosswind Tip of the Day will give you a question of the day, daily terminology booster, and links to other helpful tools that will prepare you for exam success.

Question of the Day

All of the following are examples of communication infrastructure that a Project Manager could encounter on a project except ______

A) Conference rooms

B) Spreadsheet applications

C) Intranet site

D) E-mail system

Terminology of the Day

Exception Report

A report that includes significant variations from the planned activities

Answer and Explanation to Yesterday's Question

The construction project has some challenges. The Project Manager has continually had to tell the team what to do. The team members also do not seem to trust management that much and often appear unmotivated. This is an example of what?

A) Bad performance

B) Theory X environment (Correct)

C) Forcing

D) Theory Y environment

Explanation: A theory X environment typically will have employees having to be told what to do, having distrust for management, and lacking motivation. Theory Y is the opposite. The other two answers are noise.

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