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Q2. Christine is managing a healthcare software development project. At a PMI conference, she met George, who is the project manager at a competing organization. George, a PMP, has managed many successful healthcare-related software development projects. If George shares his stakeholder management experience with Christine, will that be considered expert judgment?

1. No! George is a project manager at a competitor organization.
2. Yes! All participants at a PMI conference are experts.
3. Yes! George is an expert in managing such projects.
4. No! This would be an example of expert opinion and not expert judgment.

Q3. During the status review with your stakeholders, one of the stakeholders told you that they were not asked for their opinion, and now they need a change in the product characteristics. This change may lead to a change in your cost and schedule baseline. Which of the following processes could have helped you prevent this issue?

1. Collect requirements
2. Control scope
3. Identify risks
4. Scope creep

Q4. A project manager received executive orders to deliver the project two weeks earlier than scheduled, doing whatever it takes. He decided that the least costly means would be to add resources to critical path activities in order to shorten the time of those activities. In this case, the project manager has:

1. Fast tracked the critical path part of the project schedule
2. Decomposed the critical path WBS
3. Leveled resources
4. Crashed the critical path

Q5. Company A is developing a project similar to one it delivered nearly 12 months earlier. What is the MOST likely approach to defining project activities?

1. Review organizational process assets
2. Add similar, if not the same, skill sets to the project team
3. Gather the team for a brainstorming session
4. Hire a third party expert to avoid mistakes that were encountered during previous projects.

Q6. The on-demand scheduling approach used in agile environments is based on the theory-of-constraints and pull-based scheduling concepts from lean manufacturing to limit a team’s work in progress. This is also called:

1. 5S
2. Kanban
3. Andon
4. Gemba

Q7. While finalizing the WBS you assign each work package to a control account and establish a unique identifier for the same work from a code of account. These identifiers help you find a hierarchical sum of costs, schedule, etc. Which statement is true about the WBS?

1. It contains all project work
2. It authorizes the project manager
3. It is a hierarchy of project staff
4. It is a hierarchical breakdown of project resources

Q8. The primary customer of a project has requested an application change during user testing. As project manager, how should you BEST address this issue?

1. Develop a risk mitigation plan.
2. Create a formal change request.
3. Inform the project sponsor of changes to scope, cost and schedule.
4. Ensure the scope change compies with all relevant contractual provisions.

Q9. The Budget at Completion (BAC) for a project is $50,000. The Actual Costs (AC) to date are $10,000. The Earned Value (EV) is $7,000. At this stage, the project management team did a manual bottom-up summation of costs and forecast an Estimate to Complete (ETC) of $50,000. What is the Estimate at Completion (EAC) for the project?

1. $57,000
2. $40,000
3. $60,000
4. $53,000

Q10. The customer on a project tells the project manager he has run out of money to pay for the project. What should the project manager do FIRST?

1. Shift more of the work to later in the schedule to allow time for the customer to get the funds
2. Enter project closure
3. Stop work
4. Release part of the project team