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Q2. Which of these is an input to the Monitor Risks process?

1. Risk audits
2. Change requests
3. Work performance information
4. Work Performance Reports

Q3. In order to keep costs low, a project management team decided to apply statistical sampling while inspecting some of the work products. They decided to select 10 out of 50 engineering drawings for inspection. During which process should the sample be collected?

1. Collect Requirements
2. Control Quality
3. Plan Quality Management
4. Manage Quality

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

Q5. You are working with your team and are looking at the cost risks in the project. You and your team are currently creating a tornado diagram for the project risks. You do this as a part of which of the following processes?

1. Qualitative Risk Analysis
2. Risk Response Planning
3. Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. Monitor Risks

Q6. The objective of a transformation project is to move an organization from one state to another state. The desired result of the change driven by the project is described as the:

1. Good state
2. Future state
3. Happy state
4. Transition state

Q7. A work breakdown structures numbering system allows the project staff to:

1. Systemically estimate costs of work breakdown structure elements.
2. Provide project justification
3. Identify the level at which individual elements are found
4. Use it in project management software.

Q8. A software vendor on your project is hoping to be awarded a contract providing software for another project at your company. You are not the manager of the other project. However, the vendor offers you tickets to an upcoming professional sports event if you will "put in a good word" for his company to the vendor selection team of the other project. What do you do?

1. Fire the vendor
2. Decline the tickets but provide a recommendation for the vendor
3. Decline the tickets and notify appropriate management of the situation
4. Accept the tickets if company policy allows it and provide a recommendation for that vendor to the other project team

Q9. Which of the following processes produces a work breakdown structure as an output?

1. Create WBS
2. Define Scope
3. Develop Project Management Plan
4. Define Activities

Q10. You are working on a large construction project that is progressing within the baselines. Resource usage has remained steady, and your boss has just awarded you a prize for your performance. One of your team members returns from a meeting with the customer and tells you that the customer is not happy with the project progress. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Tell your manager
2. Complete a team building exercise and invite the customer’s representatives
3. Change the schedule baseline
4. Meet with the customer to uncover details.