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Q2. Another project has had a major defect, and the project manager has gotten the project team and the process engineers involved in analyzing how this might affect their project. Which of the following would BEST describe what the group is involved in?

1. Quality Analysis
2. Plan Quality
3. Manage Quality
4. Perform Quality Control.

Q3. You are an experienced project manager and have managed several data center migration projects. You are currently conducting training on the databases, spreadsheets, and management plans you will use during the lifecycle of the project. This training is a tool and technique in what process?

1. Manage Team
2. Acquire Resources
3. Develop Team
4. Control Quality

Q4. The principal use of a Pareto chart is to:

1. Focus attention on the most critical issues
2. Quantify risks
3. Help predict future problems
4. Improve risk management.

Q5. You have just been assigned as the project manager for a sizeable engineering project, and you want to quickly review the project project’s procedures for managing risk. What would be the MOST helpful in finding this information?

1. A risk identification plan.
2. A risk management plan.
3. Environmental process assets.
4. A risk impact matrix.

Q6. Variance analysis refers to cost performance measurements used to determine the magnitude of variation in comparison to the original cost baseline. What is the trend on the percentage range of acceptable variances as the project progresses?

1. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to decrease as the project progresses.
2. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to increase as the project progresses.
3. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to decrease first and then increase as the project progresses beyond 50 percent completion.
4. The percentage range of acceptable variances remain the same as the project progresses.

Q7. Your company is way behind schedule in the deployment of a government-mandated change to a health care processing system that must be in production by the end of the year. To meet the due date, you and your team have met and decided to hire an additional 50 programmers to work with the existing staff. This is an example of what?

1. Resource Leveling
2. Fast Tracking
3. Crashing
4. Risk Transference

Q8. Gordon is currently developing his project‘s stakeholder engagement strategy. All enterprise environmental factors should be considered during this process. Which of the following enterprise environmental factors should receive particular attention during this process?

1. Project templates
2. Lessons learned from past similar projects
3. Commercial databases
4. The organization‘s culture and political climate

Q9. You are a consulting project manager and an investment bank has a contract with you to run a large information technology project that is expected to last 15 months. During the Direct and Manage Project Work process, you discover that several regulatory requirements were addressed in the project management plan but missed from the scope statement. Failure to meet these requirements could result in legal action against the company. However, implementing the technology to comply with these regulations could exceed the budget and scope of the project and result in the cancellation of the project. What should you do?

1. Do not do anything as these requirements are not a part of the scope baseline.
2. Request additional funds to implement these requirements.
3. Submit a change request to incorporate the missed requirements in the project's scope.
4. This is a classic example of scope creep and such requirements must be ignored.

Q10. In the earned value management technique, the cost performance baseline is:

1. Cost Measurement Baseline (CMB)
2. Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
3. Performance Base Value (PBV)
4. Actual Baseline (AB)