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Q2. The engineering department has uncovered a problem with the cost accounting system and has asked the systems department to analyze what is wrong and fix the problem. You are a project manager working with the cost accounting programs on another project. Management has issued a change request to the change control board to add the new work to your project. Your existing project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.2 and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.3 so you have some room to ad work without delaying your existing project. After some analysis, you determine that the new work and existing work do not overlap and can be done concurrently. They also require different skill sets. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Re-estimate the project schedule with input from the engineering department
3. Verify the scope of the new work with the help of the stakeholders
4. Identify specific changes to the existing work.

Q3. During a project management process, you are reviewing proposals from many bidders using some predetermined criteria. Based on this review, you prepare a final list of bidders and then select a bidder from this list. What project management process is this?

1. Plan procurement
2. Conduct procurement
3. Control procurement
4. Define scope

Q4. Which of these is not an established Estimate Activity Durations technique?

1. Three Point Estimating
2. Parametric Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. Critical Path Estimation

Q5. Based on the chart, a resource on your project from the consumer affairs department comes to you to tell you that he is taking a two-week leave from work due to a family emergency. He is assigned to activity F, which is currently in progress. This is a problem because activity F has:

1. One week of float
2. Two months of float
3. One month of float
4. No float

Q6. Which motivational theory says that what motivates people is the work itself, including such things as responsibility, self-actualization, and professional growth?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg.

Q7. Your project has successfully completed; the deliverable is handed over to the client, and you are in the close phase or project process. Which of the following activities will you not perform in the close phase or project process?

1. Update lessons learned
2. Release the resources
3. Acceptance of deliverables
4. All of the above

Q8. The scope baseline can BEST be said to include the:

1. WBS and project scope statement
2. Project scope management plan and project scope statement
3. Project scope management plan and WBS
4. WBS and project charter

Q9. Which of the following is not a true statement about control charts?

1. Control charts can be used to establish, as well as maintain process control.
2. Control charts are used to determine acceptance limits when no limits when no limits are stipulated by th eproduct specification; otherwise, one should use the limits dictated by the specification.
3. All data points outside the control chart limits are variations explained by assignable causes.
4. B and C.

Q10. You are managing a complex software development project for an external customer. You are using the waterfall approach to manage the project in line with the contractual requirements. However, you are not comfortable with this approach. You believe that customers don't really know what they want upfront; rather, what they want emerges out of repeated two-way interactions over the course of the project. In your current situation, the waterfall approach has its emphasis on upfront requirements capture and design, followed by product development and finally the system testing. The customer will only be involved during the requirements gathering and system testing stages and will be completely out of touch during the development activities. Which of the following can help you mitigate the risk created by the waterfall approach:

1. Adopt an iterative life cycle.
2. Divide the project into multiple phases and organize phase gates.
3. Adopt an incremental life cycle.
4. Adopt a hybrid life cycle.