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Q2. Bill is the project manager of a software project that was originally estimated to be completed in 12 months. Two months into the project, it is discovered that the original estimating assumptions were fundamentally flawed. The Estimate at Completion (EAC) in such a project will be:

1. EAC = AC + Bottom-up ETC
2. EAC = BAC/CPI
3. EAC = AC + [BAC - EV]/CPI
4. EAC = AC + BAC - EV

Q3. After analyzing the status of your project, you determine that the project is two weeks behind schedule. You want to recover the original schedule if possible, and there is plenty of remaining in the budget for the current plan. What is the BEST option?

1. Crash the schedule
2. Inform the team that overtime will be required for a short time to recover the schedule
3. Reduce the project scope with a change request
4. Compress the testing and quality management portion of the project 54

Q4. A team of seven people adds two more people to the team. How many communication channels are there now?

1. 9
2. 36
3. 18
4. 81

Q5. You are in the planning phase of a project and you find that, due to a miscommunication, some additional features were added to the product which were not requested by any of your stakeholders. Which of the following could help you avoid such a situation?

1. Requirements traceability matrix
2. WBS
3. RACI chart
4. Checklist analysis

Q6. You have just been assisted as project manager for a large manufacturing project. This one-year project is about halfway done. It involves five different sellers and 20 members of your company on the project team. You want to quickly review where the project now stands. Which of the following reports would be the MOST helpful in finding such information?

1. Work status
2. Progress
3. Forecast
4. Communications

Q7. George is managing a telecommunication network deployment project. Most of the key project stakeholders are happy with the project so far. However, George has some potential concerns that might become issues in the near future. The next project status update meeting with the key stakeholders is the next day. What should George do?

1. Wait until the concerns become issues
2. Discuss these concerns with the key stakeholders
3. Do not report the concerns in the next meeting but try to mitigate these concerns
4. Briefly discuss these concerns in the next meeting but do not make them look significant

Q8. A project team member finds that the color scheme of the webpage he is designing appears too gaudy and decides to change it to a melloweddown color scheme. The customer approved the original color scheme and the color palette. The independent testing team flags this as a defect, and a heated discussion ensues between the team member and the testing team. What is your view?

1. The testing team is incorrect in flagging this as a defect. This is an example of expert judgment when historical expertise is brought into the project.
2. The testing team is correct. Even though the new color scheme is more pleasing than the old one, the appropriate change management process was not followed, and the work product is not as per design.
3. The testing team is not right in flagging this. The color scheme is a simple matter, and the new colors are definitely more pleasing than the old ones.
4. The testing team is correct in flagging this. The team member should have sent a note along with the work product indicating he or she made the color scheme change.

Q9. You are working as a project manager for a wind-powered vehicle manufacturing project which is in its planning phase. You carefully gathered all your requirements from your key stakeholders and prepared a system requirements specification and project requirements specification. While presenting your specifications to the project team, an enthusiastic project team member started talking about the duration estimates for each activity. Which of the following statements indicates your response to your team member?

1. WBS creation and Schedule development must be done after estimating durations.
2. Schedule development and Costs estimation must be done before estimating durations.
3. Scope definition, WBS creation, Quality planning, and Communication planning must be done before estimating durations.
4. Scope definition, WBS creation, Activity definition, and Activity sequencing must be done before estimating durations.

Q10. Cost performance measurement is BEST done through which of the following?

1. Asking for a percent complete form each team member and reporting that in the monthly progress report
2. Calculating earned value and using the indexes and other calculations to report past performance and forecast future performance
3. Using the 50/50 rule and making sure the life cycle cost is less than the project cost
4. Focusing on the amount expended last month and what will be expended the following month