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Q2. What is the duration of the near-critical path based on the chart?

1. 33
2. 44
3. 31
4. 43

Q3. A project manager knows that she can delay the start of certain activities within the project schedule to coincide with the mitigation of a known risk. She knows exactly the work and duration needed, should the risk event occur. She is confident that the finish date will not be impacted by the time delay. Which of the following aspects of schedule development has the project manager used in this situation?

1. She has relied on her certainty that, for risk planning purposes, assumptions are considered to be true, real or certain.
2. GERT probability factors provide her with certainty that there will be activities in the current schedule that will not be performed at all.
3. Her float calculations have revealed those activities that allow sufficient time for the inserted activities.
4. The project manager’s risk management plan was to build in buffer time to all the project activities during schedule development in order to cover any risk event occurrence

Q4. While working on a project in another country, you are asked to make a “facilitating” payment so the country officials will issue a work order. What should you do?

1. Make the payment
2. Ask the person for proof the payment is required.
3. Seek legal advice on whether such a payment is a bribe
4. Do not pay and see what happens.

Q5. One of the stakeholders on the project contacts the project manager to discuss some additional scope he would like to add to the project. The project manager asks for details in writing and then works through the Control Scope process. What should the project manager do NEXT when the evaluation of the requested scope is complete?

1. Ask the stakeholder if there are any more changes expected.
2. Complete integrated change control
3. Make sure the impact of the change is understood by the stakeholder
4. Find out the root cause of why the scope was not discovered during project planning.

Q6. 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

Q7. You are in a process whose objective is outlining and guiding team selection and responsibility assignment to obtain a successful team. Which of the following is an output of this process?

1. Virtual team
2. Human resource management plan
3. Project staff assignments
4. Change request

Q8. Which of the following helps determine the probability of completing a project on any specific day?

1. Network diagram.
2. Monte Carlo analysis.
3. Qualitative risk analysis.
4. Precision testing.

Q9. Lag means:

1. The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the project finish date
2. The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of its successor.
3. Waiting time
4. The product of a forward and backward pass

Q10. The work breakdown structure can be an effective aid for the communication in which situation (s)?

1. Internal within the project team
2. Internal within the organization
3. External with the customer
4. Internal and external to the project