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Q2. Which of the following is CORRECT in regard to the Control Scope process?

1. Effective scope definition can lead to a more complete project scope statement
2. The Control Scope process must be done before scope planning
3. The Scope Control process must be integrated with other control processes
4. Controlling the schedule is the most effective way of controlling scope.

Q3. If you are working on a project with constantly changing scope, which type of contract would work best when hiring an outside vendor to complete a portion of the work?

1. Lump sum
2. Cost-reimbursable
3. Time and material
4. Fixed price

Q4. The Cost Performance Baseline is a time-phased budget and is used as a basis to measure, monitor, and control overall cost performance of the project. It is usually displayed in the form of:

1. An S-curve
2. An inverted S-curve.
3. Pie-chart
4. A Z curve

Q5. The X in the DfX can be:

1. Competing project constraints
2. Different aspects of product development
3. Design assumptions
4. Discretionary dependencies

Q6. You are in the process of defining policies, procedures, and guidance to help you manage the project costs. In which process you are working?

1. Determine budget
2. Develop schedule
3. Control costs
4. Plan cost management

Q7. As the project manager, you are preparing your methods of quality management. You are looking for a method that can demonstrate the relationship between events and their resulting effects. You want to use a method to depict the events that cause a negative effect on quality. Which of the following is the BEST choice for accomplishing your objective?

1. Histogram
2. Pareto chart
3. Ishikawa diagram
4. Control chart.

Q8. You are reviewing seller-prepared documents and quality audits are conducted during the seller’s execution of the work with an objective to identify performance success and failure. What process is this?

1. Conduct Procurement
2. Control Procurement
3. Close Procurement
4. Verify Scope

Q9. A project team is trying to decrease risk on the project. Management has a good relationship with a seller who is experienced in areas that your company is not experienced in. Management wants all activities with a US $50,000 or higher risk to be transferred to the seller. Management believes that this will remove the impact of those higher risks from the project. Why would this NOT be effective?

1. Working with sellers will add more than the $50,000 of risk to the project.
2. You would have to go through the contracting process.
3. The transference of a risk does not remove all impacts of the risk.
4. Management’s association with the seller is a conflict of interest for the project.

Q10. You have been assigned as project manager to conduct a study to find the impact of pollution on the environment. After the project charter is signed, you have completed the identify project stakeholders process and are now about to classify them. Which of the following models of classifying the project stakeholders is not mentioned in the PMBOK Guide 6th Edition?

1. Power / Interest grid
2. Power / Influence grid
3. Impact / Influence grid
4. Impact / Power grid