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Q2. If a project manager believes that a particular subcontract needs to be terminated, which of the following can provide guidance on the contract termination procedure?

1. The contract termination procedures in the organizational process assets
2. The termination clause of the specific subcontract
3. The change control procedures in the project management plan
4. The contract termination procedures in the project procurements management plan

Q3. A management control point where scope, budget and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement is a:

1. Code of accounts
2. Control packages
3. Control account
4. Account Plan

Q4. Though you have tried to plan the project to accommodate all major contingencies, you are now asked for the fifth time to decrease the length of time the project will take to complete. The person completing activity C is no longer talking to you because of the added work she needed to do to accommodate previous decrease in time. She has already told you she cannot shorten her activity any more. The person doing activity D has been replaced by a new and less tested resource. The risk of crashing activity F is small. Based on this and the chart, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Determine why there have been so many decreases to the project length
2. Invite the person doing activity C to lunch to talk about her problems
3. Evaluate the risk added to the project with the change of resources on activity D
4. Make changes to the project to decrease the time the project will take.

Q5. Gordon is currently developing his project’s stakeholder management strategy. All enterprise environmental factors should be considered during this process. Which of the following enterprise environmental factors should be paid special attention during this process?

1. Project templates
2. The organization's culture and structure
3. Commercial databases
4. Lessons learned from past similar projects

Q6. A project manager is estimating the project duration and finds that the only information available to him is a previous project that was quite different from the current one. However, some portions of the previous project were similar to the current one. Which of the following tools is the project manager likely to use to compare current project's activity durations with the similar previous activities?

1. Analogous estimating
2. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
3. Three-point estimates
4. Parametric estimating

Q7. A complicated software project was authorized by a project sponsor. However, the users who were intended to use the product found it extremely difficult to articulate their requirements. What technique can be employed to elicit requirements for such a project?

1. Job overlaying
2. Hidden participant
3. Job duplication
4. Job shadowing

Q8. The objective of a transformation project is to move an organization from one state to another state. Before the project begins, the organization is commonly referred to as being in the:

1. Hot State
2. Ready State
3. Historic State
4. Current State

Q9. As per the chart, the resource completing activity E is not performing very well. After much argument, the functional manager agrees to assign a different resource to activity E, but this will increase activity E’s duration to seven months. What is the effect of this change?

1. None, because activity E was not on the critical path
2. The project will be delayed because activity E is on the critical path
3. The project will be delayed because activity E has float of five
4. None, because activity E has float of four.

Q10. Three calls were received today inquiring whether one of your resources could be released from your project. There were nine such calls last week. The project is going well and its risky rating is low. Activity R has an early start of 4 and a late start of 45 and an early finish of 14. The project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.05 and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 0.893. The project float is zero and even through tough times, the project manager believes the reward system he put in place during the project planning is working. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Crash the project
2. Crash activity R
3. Deal with diminishing the impact of the phone calls
4. Look for areas to cut cost 47