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Q2. As a project manager, you are responsible for determining and delivering the required levels of both grade and quality. Select which of the following statements you disagree with.

1. Grade relates to the product's characteristics.
2. Grade relates to the customer requirements.
3. Quality relates to the customer requirements.
4. Quality and grade of a product must be carefully managed.

Q3. As the project manager of a development project, you are aware that there is a slight defect in the developed product; as a result, it will fail to meet certain regulatory standards. This was due to faulty requirements. You are also aware that the product will continue to function properly even though it fails to meet those standards. Your customer manager asks you to certify that the product meets the necessary regulatory standards, stating that this will not be verified when the report is submitted to the necessary authorities. Your stance is that:

1. You certify the product. Regulations are only guidelines in the industry. Not meeting a regulation does not mean anything.
2. As a one-off instance, you will certify the product to make sure the project goes through successfully.
3. You will not certify that a product meets certain regulations when it does not, even though the product continues to function well.
4. You certify the product, but you document your conversation with your customer manager for future purposes.

Q4. After conducting a bidder conference, you receive an email from one of the bidders requesting additional information. The information was neither included in your request for proposal, nor did anyone ask for it during the bidder conference. You realize the answer to this question is critical to understanding the scope of the project. If the answer is not communicated to bidders, they cannot size their teams accurately or estimate the total duration of the project. The answer also greatly affects cost. However, the answer contains some proprietary information that, if disclosed to a competitor, may reveal the future product strategy of your company. Such a disclosure could be disastrous for a major product launch you are planning next year. You decide to send the answer to all the bidders, but you realize one of the bidders is also working closely with one of your competitors on a similar project. What should you do?

1. Don’t send this information in writing; instead, telephone each bidding company.
2. Send this information to all bidders except the bidder working with your competitor.
3. Send this information to only the supplier who requested it.
4. Require all bidders to sign a nondisclosure agreement. You may then send the information to each company that signed the NDA.

Q5. You have just received an invoice from your supplier that contains some uncertified items. Payments to the supplier are processed through your corporate accounts payable system only after certification of satisfactory work by the project quality control specialist. What should you do?

1. Process the supplier’s invoice since this is your liability
2. Call the supplier and obtain more information
3. Ask the supplier to stop all deliveries until the matter has a resolution
4. Seek judicial arbitration

Q6. A project manager holds a meeting with his manager to explain that an activity has been delayed and the project manager will need additional resources to complete the project. The manager stops the meeting because the project manager has forgotten something. What might it have been?

1. To investigate undoing previous fast tracking activities
2. To try to compress the project schedule before asking for additional resources
3. To look for options with the customer before meeting with management
4. To eliminate float in the near-critical path

Q7. All of the following are outputs of the Control Scope process EXCEPT:

1. Change requests
2. Updated organizational process assets.
3. Updates to the project management plan
4. Accepted deliverables.

Q8. Project performance measurements assess the magnitude of variation from the original cost baseline. Once the degree of cost variation is known, what step is performed next?

1. Audit the project team
2. Upgrade the configuration management database with new controls.
3. Replanning
4. Perform root cause analysis of the variance’s cause relative to the cost baseline

Q9. The business case to justify a project typically contains:

1. The project's BAC and ETC
2. Identification of alternatives
3. Project WBS
4. Variance Analysis

Q10. A project manager is trying to settle a dispute between two team members. One says the systems should be integrated before testing, and the other maintains each system should be tested before integration. The project involves over 30 people, and 2 systems need to be integrated. The sponsor is demanding that integration happens on time. What is the BEST statement the project manager can make to resolve the conflict?

1. Do it my way.
2. Let’s clam down and get the job done.
3. Let’s deal with this again next week after we all calm down.
4. Let’s do limited testing before integration and finish testing after integration.