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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

The functional manager is working on planning the data center project with the newest Project Manager at the company. In discussing this, the functional manager is focusing on the costs associated with running the data center after it is created, and for how many years the data center will be used. What best describes what the functional manager is focusing on?

A) Project life cycle

B) Product life cycle

C) Project management life cycle

D) Program management life cycle

Terminology of the Day

Matrix Organizational Str

A structure with a company where people are organized by (and report to) a combination of Project and Functional Managers

Answer and Explanation to Yesterday's Question

You learn that a former boss of yours who is a PMP has committed to his boss that 100% of the PMO that he manages at their company will be certified. They also don

A) Contact your former boss and let him know it's not appropriate.

B) ContContact PMI to report the name(s) of the person(s), the name(s) of supervisor(s), and the company. (Correct)

C) Tell your old boss to hire you back or you will turn them into PMI.

D) Ignore it because you don't work there anymore.

Explanation: As part of professional responsibility, you are responsible to report possible violations of the PMP Code of Professional Conduct. Contacting your former boss and letting him know it's not appropriate, ignoring it as you don't work there anymore, and telling your old boss to hire you back or you will turn them into PMI do not abide with the PMP Code of Conduct.