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Q2. You are a project manager for a US $3,000,000 product development project. Your project is well into the executing process group and remains on time, on budget, and on specification. This morning, a project team member alerts you to a newspaper article detailing unusually high defect rates in materials that your team has been using to develop your product prototype. You had no reason to suspect quality issues in these materials before now. What should you do FIRST in response to this concern?

1. Stop work on the prototype
2. Quantify the risk
3. Develop a risk mitigation plan
4. Determine a workaround.

Q3. You are in the executing process group of a major project with an estimated cost of US $22 million. Two team members are having a disagreement over the potential sellers of a project, and the project manager has offered to help. The project manager suggests a compromise, and the team members want to solve the problem. Who should decide on the BEST course of action?

1. Management
2. Team member
3. Project manager
4. Customer

Q4. The key difference between Validate Scope and Control Quality is:

1. Validate Scope is concerned with meeting the quality standards specified.
2. Validate Scope is concerned with the acceptance of deliverables.
3. Validate Scope does not apply in projects that have been cancelled.
4. Validate Scope can never be performed in parallel with Control Quality.

Q5. A project manager is trying to settle a dispute between two team members. One says the systems should be integrated before testing, and the other maintains each system should be tested before integration. The project involves over 30 people, and 2 systems need to be integrated. The sponsor is demanding that integration happens on time. What is the BEST statement the project manager can make to resolve the conflict?

1. Do it my way.
2. Let’s clam down and get the job done.
3. Let’s deal with this again next week after we all calm down.
4. Let’s do limited testing before integration and finish testing after integration.

Q6. A project is over budget to date. Which of the following is NOT A REASON this could have occurred?

1. More work than planned was accomplished.
2. There was a cost increase from the supplier
3. Work was delayed.
4. Work was done inefficiently.

Q7. Monte Carlo analysis is used to:

1. Simulate the order in which activities occur
2. Prove to management that extra staff is needed.
3. Get an indication of the risk involved in the project
4. Estimate an activity’s length

Q8. Which of the following processes produces a Risk Register?

1. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
2. Plan Risk Management
3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
4. Identify Risks

Q9. Change control tool selection should be based on the needs of the project stakeholders, including organizational and environmental considerations and/or constraints. Which of the following is not a key change management consideration while selecting an appropriate change control tool for a project?

1. Identifying and selecting a change item
2. Configuration item verification and audit
3. Documenting the change into a proper change request
4. Tracking change requests

Q10. Which of the following best describes a control chart?

1. A bar chart showing project activities and their schedule
2. A chart showing the upper and lower control limits
3. A chart showing potential causes of issues
4. A chart showing loops between activities