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Project Management- Q2. Which of the following is a basic rule or guideline for creating a work breakdown structure?

1. The first row should describe the products of the project
2. Each level of a work breakdown structure is a smaller segment of the level above
3. A work breakdown structure should be like a to-do list, listing in chronological order every activity that needs to be done to complete the project.
4. A work breakdown structure should be organized by functional areas.

Project Management- Q3. During what part of the project management process is the project scope statement created?

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and controlling

Project Management- Q4. A project team includes five people when the project manager adds two more. How many additional channels of communication are there?

1. 7
2. 10
3. 21
4. 11

Project Management- Q5. All of the follow are correct statements about a project manager EXCEPT:

1. He or she is assigned after the project chart is created.
2. He or she may initiate changes to the project
3. He or she manages changes and factors that create change
4. He or she is held accountable for project success or failure.

Project Management- Q6. You are the project manager of a project. As part of the planning process, you use a planning technique to subdivide the project scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. What is this technique called?

1. Unit task analysis
2. Decomposition
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Arrow Diagramming Method

Project Management- Q7. Based on the chart, what activities must be completed before activity H can start?

1. Activity B and activity E
2. Activity A, activity D, and activity G
3. Activity B, activity C, and activity E
4. Activity C and activity E

Project Management- Q8. James is managing a shopping mall construction project. During the project execution, he learns the project communications management plan is not effective and requires a major update. Which of the following processes will issue a change request for the required update?

1. Plan Communications Management
2. Manage Communications
3. Perform Integrated Change Control
4. Monitor Communications

Project Management- Q9. You are developing a quality management plan for your project. During the planning process, one of your team members tells you that, in the past, the organization has completed a similar project. You start to review the old project and find that some of its quality metrics can be used in your project as well. This technique is known as:

1. Reviewing organization process assets
2. Benchmarking
3. Process analysis
4. Prototyping

Project Management- Q10. A project is contracted on a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) basis with a fee of 10 percent of estimated costs. The estimated cost is US$50,000. If the project comes in at US$75,000 with no changes in project scope, what would be the total cost of the contract?

1. US$55,000
2. US$125,000
3. US$75,000
4. US$80,000