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Q2. Based on the chart, if the duration of activity F changes to 8, what is the effect on the project?

1. There is no effect on the critical path
2. The duration of the critical path becomes 16
3. The critical path changes
4. Activity A is now on the critical path

Q3. Your company is having problems delivering the finished product from the factory to the warehouses, which are located in different geographical areas. To smooth out the process, you have identified all critical stages for this procedure. What will be your next step?

1. You will use a Tornado diagram
2. You will use an Ishikawa diagram
3. You will use a Scatter diagram
4. You will use a Pareto analysis

Q4. Which factor would NOT be considered when choosing between two projects to undertake?

1. Net present value (NPV)
2. Benefit cost ratio (BCR)
3. Payback period
4. Law of diminishing returns

Q5. As a project manager, you are concerned with both prevention and inspection of errors in a work product. The difference between prevention and inspection is:

1. Inspection is work the Quality Control (QC) team does; the Quality Assurance (QA) team does Prevention.
2. Inspection refers to keeping errors out of the process; prevention refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
3. Prevention refers to keeping errors out of the process; inspection refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
4. Inspection and prevention refer to the same activity depending on what stage of the project the activity is done.

Q6. Daniel is managing the development of an e-commerce website for his organization. Daniel enjoys coercive powers. He has assigned Julie, a project team member, to facilitate the team meetings. During any team meeting, Julie must:

1. Influence team members to support the project manager's decisions
2. Support the team members to challenge the project manager's decisions
3. Negotiate with team members to achieve the project objectives
4. Remain neutral and conduct the meetings

Q7. To demonstrate your product, you develop a small functional model of your real product and show to your stakeholders to get their feedback. This model is known as:

1. Simulation
2. Sampling
3. Prototype
4. None of the above

Q8. While staffing a project in another country, the project leader from that country comes to you with a suggested team consisting of members of the project leader’s family. Your FIRST course of action should be to:

1. Inquire if hiring only through family lines is common practice in the project leader’s country.
2. Review the resumes of the individuals to see if they are qualified.
3. Ask the project leader to provide additional names of people unrelated to him/her.
4. Use a different project leader to prevent problems later in the project.

Q9. Risk response owners can potentially have conflict with risk auditors because risk auditors:

1. Report to the project manager
2. Investigate the effectiveness of the risk response owner
3. Measure the effectiveness of the risk thresholds.
4. Report to the stakeholders

Q10. Which of the following BEST describes a risk response owner?

1. The person who identified the risk
2. The department or company that is the source of the risk and most knowledgeable on the risk
3. The department or company that will be most affected by the risk
4. The person who will be responsible for implementing the risk response strategy.