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Q2. A project manager has scheduled technical training for his or her project team members to increase their skills. During which of the following processes will the team member receive this training?

1. Manage Quality
2. Acquire Resources
3. Develop Team
4. Plan Resource Management

Q3. The Manage Team process is part of what process group?

1. Planning
2. Executing
3. Monitoring and Controlling
4. Closing

Q4. Senior management has imposed a project delivery date prior to acceptance of the project scope statement. To whom is the project manager MOST accountable?

1. Project sponsor
2. Project team
3. Customer
4. Senior management

Q5. You have been managing a research project to create genetically modified fruits using genetic engineering techniques. Since many legal issues are involved in this process, you created contingency allowances by using various quantitative analysis methods to account for cost uncertainty. You have just concluded a brainstorming session with your team in the execution phase to monitor risks that have developed in the project over the past few weeks and to establish new risk response plans. What should you do if you want to allocate more contingency reserves to account for new risks?

1. Perform the reserve analysis to compare the amount of contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining
2. Perform Monte Carlo analysis to compare the amount of contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining
3. Perform the variance and trend analysis to compare planned results to the actual results
4. Perform the quantitative risk analysis to determine the outstanding risks

Q6. A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) dictionary supports the WBS and is a companion document to the WBS. Which of the following is not included in the WBS dictionary?

1. List of schedule milestones
2. Resource assigned
3. Agreement Information
4. Code of Account Identifier

Q7. The success of your new project requires several of your people to work in a foreign country for six months. The team informs you that in this country a payment is required to obtain visas. What should you do?

1. Cancel the project.
2. Make the payment
3. Do not pay and see what happens.
4. Do not send your people.

Q8. While working on a deliverable which is 95% complete, two stakeholders come and enquire about it. They argue with you that this deliverable was not part of the project and it was not requested by any stakeholders, which you disagree with. Therefore, to prove your point, which document will you show them?

1. Requirements traceability matrix
2. WBS
3. Project scope statement
4. Product scope

Q9. The communications management plan for the project has been completed and approved by the customer when a major stakeholder requests that the project manager issue reports on the amount o testing done throughout the life of the project. However, testing is only a minor aspect of the quality control plan. It would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Issue the report, as this is a major stakeholder. Her needs would have been included in the staffing management plan.
2. Not issue the report. Project resources should be expended on communication information that contributes to success.
3. Request details of the information the stakeholder needs in the report. Provide that information to those handling the quality control function on the project.
4. Have the stakeholders meet with the project sponsor to get the sponsor’s agreement that project funds should be expended on this effort.

Q10. During a project management process, you are reviewing proposals from many bidders using some predetermined criteria. Based on this review, you prepare a final list of bidders and then select a bidder from this list. What project management process is this?

1. Plan procurement
2. Conduct procurement
3. Control procurement
4. Define scope