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This project is chartered to determine new ways to extend the product life of one of the company’s medium-producing products. The project manager comes from the engineering department and the team comes from product management and marketing departments. The project scope statement and project planning are completed when a stakeholder notifies the team that there is a better way to complete one of the work packages. They even supply a technical review letter from their department proving that the new way to complete the work package will actually be faster than the old way. The project manager has had similar experiences with this department on other projects, and was expecting this to happen on this project. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?
  1. Contact the department and complain again about their missing the deadline for submission of scope.
  2. Look for how this schedule change will impact the cost to complete the work package and the quality of the product of the work package.
  3. See if there is a way to change from a matrix environment to a functional organization so as to eliminate all the interference from other departments.
  4. Ask the department if they have no other changes.






Q2. John, a project manager for Code Crashers, Inc., has a project with a group of inexperienced programmers that will develop a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This situation strongly resembles a project his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?

  1. Parametric Estimating
  2. Bottom Up Estimating
  3. Three-point estimate
  4. Analogous Estimating
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Q3. Which of the following processes involves creating a coherent, consistent document that can be used to guide all the work in both project executing and project monitoring and controlling?

  1. Risk management
  2. Develop Project Management Plan
  3. Develop Project Scope Statement
  4. Plan Quality Management
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Q4. You are managing a fund-raising golf tournament that has a hole-in-one contest. However, your company cannot afford to pay the $1,000,000 award if someone does get a hole in one, so it has elected to take out an insurance policy in the event someone does get lucky. This is an example of:

  1. Sharing
  2. Mitigation
  3. Transference
  4. Avoidance
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Q5. A project manager has made a change to the project. What should she do NEXT?

  1. Assign resources
  2. Revise the project management plan and/or project documents
  3. Evaluate impact
  4. Request change control board involvement
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Q6. _______________ is the authorized budget for the work scheduled to be completed on an activity or WBS component.

  1. Planned Value
  2. Earned Value
  3. Midpoint cost
  4. Interim cost
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Q7. Visiting a construction site to ensure the completed work is the same work specified in the requirements is:

  1. Milestone
  2. Scope validation
  3. Variance Analysis
  4. Requirements traceability
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Q8. The customer’s expectations for quality are shown on a control chart as the:

  1. Mean
  2. Specification limits
  3. Rule of seven
  4. Upper and lower control limits
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Q9. Your employee is three days late with a report. Five minutes before the meeting where the topic of the report is to be discussed, she hands you the report. You notice some serious errors in it. What should you do?

  1. Cancel the meeting and reschedule when the report is fixed.
  2. Go to the meeting and tell the other attendees there are errors in the report
  3. Force the employee to do the presentation and remain silent as the other attendees find the errors.
  4. Cancel the meeting and rewrite the report yourself.
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Q10. A project manager is trying to manage a complex project at a 6 sigma level with 5 people. The project manager decides to use a trend report because it will help him:

  1. Evaluate earned value.
  2. Examine project results over time
  3. Analyze the level of project complexity.
  4. Determine the level of quality.
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