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Kevin is assigned to a software development project that will start in the near future and is currently tailoring the PMBOK processes to satisfy the project’s specific needs. Kevin wants to introduce a new process, “Identify Key Deliverables”, to the existing six project scope management processes. Although he understands that project deliverables identification is already in the PMBOK scope management processes, he believes that having a dedicated process will stress the importance of determining and agreeing to key project deliverables. The best position for the new “Identify Key Deliverables” process should be between which of the following two processes?
  1. Define Scope and Create WBS
  2. Create WBS and Validate Scope
  3. Plan Scope Management and Collect Requirements
  4. Collect Requirements and Define Scope






Q2. Which of the following is a type of leadership style in which leaders are hands-off and allow group members to make the decisions:

  1. Transactional
  2. Servant leader
  3. Transformational
  4. Laissez-faire
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Q3. A cause and effect diagram and an Ishikawa diagram are both:

  1. Flowcharts
  2. Fishbone diagrams
  3. Control charts
  4. Pareto charts
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Q4. You are managing a heavy equipment manufacturing project that involves many mechanical, electrical, and IT staff. Your team prepared a schedule network diagram using duration estimates with dependencies and constraints. Your team also calculated the critical path for the project using late and early values. Today, your project office has indicated to you that some of the resources you had planned for the project will be unavailable. To deal with this, you explore the possibility of modifying the schedule to account for limited resources. What is your best possible step in such a situation?

  1. Recalculate critical path after applying the resource constraints
  2. Perform Resource Leveling to account for limited resources
  3. Use crashing or fast tracking to level resources across the project
  4. Apply leads and lags to develop a viable schedule
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Q5. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager identifies a risk that, no matter what the company does, a dire could occur in the building during the test. It would be BEST to _____ the risk.

  1. Deflect.
  2. Accept
  3. Avoid
  4. Change
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Q6. Analogous estimating:

  1. Uses bottom-up estimating techniques
  2. Is used most frequently during the executing processes o the project.
  3. Use top-down estimating techniques
  4. Uses actual detailed historical costs
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Q7. Your new project to outsource work has been going badly. The project deliverables have changed three times, the functional managers keep removing people from the team, and the project schedule baseline has been adjusted four times in the first week. This is MOST likely due to the lack of:

  1. A staffing management plan
  2. A signed project charter
  3. Clear direction from the sponsor
  4. A scope management plan
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Q8. The costs on a project are typically classified as direct and indirect costs. The cost of electric utilities for the office is:

  1. An indirect cost
  2. Appraisal cost
  3. A specific cost
  4. A direct cost
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Q9. Work Performance Information is not an output of which of the following processes?

  1. Validate Scope
  2. Manage Communications
  3. Monitor Risks
  4. Control Scope
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Q10. Which of the following is one of the most prominent features of a project following agile approach for product development?

  1. Produce defect-free deliverables
  2. Zero tolerance for rework
  3. Deliver incremental value to the customer
  4. Delivery of the product in a single sprint
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