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Q2. A project manager is using weighted average duration estimates to perform schedule network analysis. Which type of mathematical analysis is being used?

1. Critical path method
2. PERT
3. Monte Carlo
4. Resource leveling

Q3. A project manager is putting her project control system in place. After a few meetings with others, she realizes that there a few effective measures of progress that can be used on the project. If you were to advise her, what would be the BEST thing the project manager can plan to do the control the project?

1. Emphasize the creation of milestones.
2. Add more people to the project team to help control it.
3. Have meetings every week versus every month.
4. Break the project into phases.

Q4. Because of the huge size of your project, you have divided it into several phases. After completing each phase, you hand it over to the client and then move on to the next phase. Which process ensures that the previous phase has met all of its requirements so you can move on to the next phase?

1. Close procurement
2. Validate scope
3. Control scope
4. Control quality

Q5. What is one of the KEY objectives during contract negotiations?

1. Obtain a fair and reasonable price.
2. Negotiate a price under the seller’s estimate
3. Ensure that all project risks are thoroughly delineated
4. Ensure that an effective communications management plan is established.

Q6. A project manager wants to make sure his plans for meeting the training needs of resources, and plans for releasing resources are complete. All of the following are inputs to this activity EXCEPT:

1. Enterprise environmental factors
2. Historical information
3. Project organizational charts
4. Activity resource requirement.

Q7. Over the last few weeks, the team has made three changes to the activities on the project. The project manager must be MOST careful to:

1. Record all the changes
2. Provide documentation on all the changes to the sponsor
3. Make sure the changes are reflected in the project scope baseline
4. Prevent more changes from occurring

Q8. A project manager discovers a defect in a deliverable due to the customer under contract today. The project manager knows the customer does not have the technical understanding to notice the defect. The deliverable meets the contract requirements, but it does not meet the project manager’s quality standard. What should the project manager do in this situation?

1. Issue the deliverable, and get formal acceptance from the customer.
2. Note the problem in the lessons learned so that future projects do not encounter the same problem.
3. Discuss the issue with the customer
4. Inform the customer that the deliverable will be late.

Q9. The client has given you a project to construct a cold storage plant. Everything was going as planned, however, due to some unforeseen incidents, your project is delayed. The client is in a hurry and has threatened you with a large penalty if you are not able to complete the project on time. So, you started working hard to complete the project and avoid the fine. You are working overtime, bringing in more resources from other projects, and renting extra equipment; finally, you complete the project on time. This is an example of:

1. Critical chain
2. Fast tracking
3. Crashing
4. Resource leveling

Q10. Analogous estimating:

1. Uses bottom-up estimating techniques
2. Is used most frequently during the executing processes o the project.
3. Use top-down estimating techniques
4. Uses actual detailed historical costs