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141. Pre-qualification of contractors is used to ensure
  1. proper preparation of bidding documents
  2. a fair bidding process
  3. reputation, skills, and financial capacity of contractors
  4. reputation, skills, and financial capacity of the owner
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142. A Foreign Service Officer facilities manager has decided to hire a landscaping company to maintain the embassy grounds and has developed a statement of work (SOW) to fulfill the requirement phase of the contract life cycle. Which of the following steps should be taken next?
  1. Award
  2. Requisition
  3. Procurement
  4. Solicitation
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143. When a Foreign Service Officer faces an internal dispute between key players or stakeholders within an office, section, bureau, or embassy, an appropriate initial action would be to:
  1. speak to each person involved individually to gain more information
  2. tell the parties involved that they have a certain time frame to resolve their difficulties
  3. request a meeting with the parties involved and give them equal time to put forward their perspectives on the disputed issue
  4. bring the parties together, and make it clear that their behavior is unacceptable and needs to cease immediately
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144. As a Foreign Service Officer you are responsible for determining the cumulative effect of several delays in a project. You have access only to the project's bar chart. Which of the following outcomes can be predicted?
  1. The cumulative delay cannot be calculated by reviewing only the bar chart because bar charts do not show relationships among activities
  2. The cumulative delay is simply the sum of the individual activity delays
  3. The cumulative delay can be calculated by adding up the delays in the critical activities, only
  4. The cumulative delay cannot be calculated by reviewing only the bar chart because bar charts do not show the duration of all activities
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145. Groupthink, i.e., a dysfunctional mode of thinking that people engage in when their striving for unanimity overrides their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action, is present in a team when
  1. group members spontaneously express the same viewpoint
  2. group members have the same professional background
  3. all out-group stakeholders are viewed as experts
  4. out-group stereotyping is in evidence
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