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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. As the project manager, you are about to start the define scope process. You have the project charter and the organizational process assets list. Because there are no change requests in your project at this point, what must you have before you begin?

1. Product analysis
2. Requirements documentation
3. Updates to project documents
4. WBS

Q4. The project charter is the document that authorizes the existence of the project and contains a great deal of important information. Which of the following options shows the correct content of a project charter?

1. Project purpose, high level requirements, assumptions and constraints, summary budget
2. High-level risk, summary milestone, project management plan, summary budget
3. Project objective, stakeholder list, WBS, project approval authority
4. Name of the sponsor, name of the project manager, schedule baseline, summary budget

Q5. The Requirements Traceability Matrix helps in tracing all the following except:

1. Requirements to project objectives
2. Requirements to project scope
3. Requirements to test strategy
4. Requirements to project risk

Q6. It is the middle of the project when the project manager is informed by her scheduler that the project control limits are secure. That same morning she receives a note from a team member about a problem he is having. The note says, “This activity is driving me crazy and the manager of the accounting department won’t help me until the activity’s float is in jeopardy.” In addition, the project manager has e-mails, a team member walks in to the project manager’s office to tell her that a corrective action was implemented by a team member from the project management office, but was not documented. What should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Add the implemented corrective action to the historical records, discuss the value documentation at the next team meeting, and smooth the team member with the accounting department problem.
2. Report the documentation violation to the project management office, evaluate the security of the control limits, and review the e-mailing rules in the communications management plan
3. Clarify the reasoning behind documentation being a problem, get the accounting department to assist the team member, and respond to the minor stakeholder
4. Find out who caused the problem with the accounting department, respond to the minor stakeholder before responding to the other emails, and review the process listed in the communications plan for reporting concerns with the team member having the documentation problem.

Q7. Risks may be identified during the entire lifecycle of a project. Identify Risks is what type of process?

1. Qualitative
2. Effort-driven
3. Discrete
4. Iterative

Q8. You are busy with an important milestone, and after that, you have to deliver a deliverable to the client. Since the client is known for his difficult behavior, management is worried whether the client will accept the deliverable. Therefore, they tell you to check the product acceptance criteria again before calling the client. What document will you look at to get this information?

1. WBS
2. WBS dictionary
3. Project scope statement
4. RACI matrix

Q9. All of the following are parts of the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

1. Benchmarking
2. Cost-benefit analysis
3. Inspection
4. Design of experiments.

Q10. Which of the following tools and techniques is useful to process work performance data to identify sources of project defects during the Control Quality process?

1. Data analysis
2. Salience model
3. Schedule model
4. Communication model