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Q2. At which stage in a project should the project manager begin to develop effective stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project lifecycle?

1. Initiating
2. Executing
3. Planning
4. Monitoring and Controlling

Q3. Which of the following BEST describes the difference between the Control Scope process and Perform Integrated Change Control?

1. Control Scope focuses on making changes to the product scope and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on making changes to integration.
2. Control Scope focuses on controlling the scope of the project and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on determining the impact of a change of scope on time, cost, quality, risk, resources, and customer satisfaction
3. Control Scope focuses on controlling the scope of the project and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on making changes to integration
4. Control Scope focuses on making changes to the product scope and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on determining the impact of a change to scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and customer satisfaction.

Q4. Each critical project communication requirement must be carefully analyzed. One good way is to use a communication model to design effective communications. What is the sequence of steps in a basic communication model?

1. Encode -> Decode -> Transmit -> Acknowledge -> Feedback
2. Encode -> Transmit -> Decode -> Acknowledge -> Feedback
3. Decode -> Encode -> Transmit -> Acknowledge -> Feedback
4. Encode -> Transmit -> Decode -> Feedback -> Acknowledge

Q5. Lucy has to brief her key project stakeholders on the recent approved changes to the project scope. Which of the following project documents will provide essential input to Lucy for preparing her presentation?

1. Change request form
2. Change control procedures
3. Change log
4. Issue management procedures

Q6. A project manager is taking over a project from another project manager during the planning process group. If the new project manager wants to see what the previous project manager planned for managing changes to the schedule, it would be BEST to look at the:

1. Communications management plan
2. Update management plan
3. Staffing management plan
4. Schedule management plan 71

Q7. You are a project manager on a US $5,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development journal. Which of the following BEST describes what this type of input is called?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Heuristic 33

Q8. You are working in a matrix organization and managing a project. You are having trouble working with one deliverable so you ask the functional manager to send you two team members who are experts in dealing with this type of work. She agrees and provides you with two of her best employees. They have joined your project and you have given them their roles and responsibilities. They are also made aware of who will be responsible or accountable for each deliverable. However, they are still not clear about their roles and responsibilities. So, to make it clear what document or chart will you show them?

1. RACI chart
2. OBS
3. RAM
4. RBS

Q9. A project manager is working with management to create the project estimate. During the initiating process group, what level of accuracy should the estimate have?

1. +/- 50 percent
2. -10 percent to +25 percent
3. -35 percent to +75 percent
4. -10 percent to +10 percent

Q10. During the status review with your stakeholders, one of the stakeholders told you that they were not asked for their opinion, and now they need a change in the product characteristics. This change may lead to a change in your cost and schedule baseline. Which of the following processes could have helped you prevent this issue?

1. Collect requirements
2. Control scope
3. Identify risks
4. Scope creep