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Q2. The project manager has a project that is three months behind but, surprisingly, markedly under budget. She has decided to try to make up some time, but needs to minimize the project risk. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Crash
2. Fast track
3. Redefine the scope
4. Resource level

Q3. A project is 50 percent complete when a schedule constraint is identified. Which of the following should be done FIRST?

1. Revisit all activities that have not yet started
2. Use a simulation technique such as Monte Carlo analysis, to calculate a distribution of probable results of the total project.
3. Rebaseline the project management plan to determine impacts on schedule, cost, and scope.
4. Level resources on the remaining activities to determine resource variances.

Q4. During the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process, a number of project documents might get updated. Which of the following project documents get updated the most during this process?

1. Stakeholder register
2. Risk register
3. Project reports
4. Project presentations

Q5. During the planning processes, activity G was estimated to take five days. Activity G is on the critical path. On day 2, it becomes clear that activity G will take 15 days, which will impact the imposed project end date. The project team meets to perform root cause analysis to identify the cause of the variance and to plan schedule recovery with activities performed later in the schedule. Which of the following should ALWAYS be of this kind of meeting?

1. Recommend corrective action
2. WBS updates
3. Activity list updates
4. Schedule updates

Q6. Your company is way behind schedule in the deployment of a government-mandated change to a health care processing system that must be in production by the end of the year. To meet the due date, you and your team have met and decided to hire an additional 50 programmers to work with the existing staff. This is an example of what?

1. Resource Leveling
2. Fast Tracking
3. Crashing
4. Risk Transference

Q7. Upon obtaining the project charter, the Project Manager of a project starts acquiring the project team immediately. Is this correct?

1. Yes. Acquisition of the project team is primarily an Initiating Process Group activity.
2. Yes. The project manager needs to get the team together as soon as the project starts.
3. No. It is the responsibility of the project sponsor to provide the team for execution.
4. No. Acquisition of the project team is primarily an Executing Process Group activity.

Q8. The project is mostly complete. The project has a schedule variance of 300 and a cost variance of -900. All but one of the quality control inspections have been completed and all have met the quality requirements. All items in the issue log have been resolved. Many of the resources have been released. The sponsor is about to call a meeting to obtain product verification when the customer notifies the project manager that they want to make a major change to the scope. The project manager should:

1. Meet with the project team to determine if this change can be made.
2. Ask the customer for a description of the change
3. Explain that the change cannot be made at this point in the process
4. Inform management

Q9. You have a project with the following activities: Activity A takes 40 hours and cant start after the project starts. Activity B takes 25 hours and should happen after the project starts. Activity C must happen after activity A and takes 35 hours. Activity D must happen after activities B and C and takes 30 hours. Activity E must take place after activity C and takes 10 hours. Activity F takes place after activity E and takes 22 hours. Activity F and D are the last activities of the project. Which of the following is true if activity B actually takes 37 hours?

1. The critical path is 67 hours
2. The critical path changes to Start, B, D, End
3. The critical path is Start, A,C, E, F, End
4. Critical path increases by 12 hours 67

Q10. You are asked to select tools and techniques to implement a quality assurance program to supplement existing quality control activities. Which of the following would NOT be appropriate for this purpose?

1. Quality audits
2. Statistical sampling
3. Pareto charts
4. Focus groups.