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Q2. Another project has had a major defect, and the project manager has gotten the project team and the process engineers involved in analyzing how this might affect their project. Which of the following would BEST describe what the group is involved in?

1. Quality Analysis
2. Plan Quality
3. Manage Quality
4. Perform Quality Control.

Q3. You have been managing a research project to create genetically modified fruits using genetic engineering techniques. Since many legal issues are involved in this process, you created contingency allowances by using various quantitative analysis methods to account for cost uncertainty. You have just concluded a brainstorming session with your team in the execution phase to monitor risks that have developed in the project over the past few weeks and to establish new risk response plans. What should you do if you want to allocate more contingency reserves to account for new risks?

1. Perform the reserve analysis to compare the amount of contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining
2. Perform Monte Carlo analysis to compare the amount of contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining
3. Perform the variance and trend analysis to compare planned results to the actual results
4. Perform the quantitative risk analysis to determine the outstanding risks

Q4. While working on a project in another country, you are asked to make a “facilitating” payment so the country officials will issue a work order. What should you do?

1. Make the payment
2. Ask the person for proof the payment is required.
3. Seek legal advice on whether such a payment is a bribe
4. Do not pay and see what happens.

Q5. Andrew is managing a construction project. He is using his communication, interpersonal and management skills to keep the key project stakeholders engaged with the project. Which of the following activities is not related to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. Addressing and resolving issues
2. Developing the stakeholder engagement plan
3. Confirming the stakeholders' continued commitment
4. Negotiating and communicating with the stakeholders

Q6. Which of the following processes produces a Risk Register?

1. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
2. Plan Risk Management
3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
4. Identify Risks

Q7. During a presentation to management, you want to display the project schedule with only the key deliverables displayed. What is the correct tool for this purpose?

1. Project schedule network diagram
2. Critical path network
3. Milestone chart
4. Critical chain diagram

Q8. Andy’s project stakeholders are not happy as the project is lagging behind schedule. During the executive committee meeting, Andy requests all stakeholders to keep their calm as most of the project deliverables have been completed and only quality inspections of these deliverables is pending. He assures the stakeholders that he is planning to crash the project to meet the completion deadline. What should be the stakeholders’ biggest concern now?

1. Crashing at this stage might result in an exponential cost increase and more time will be required to recover that cost.
2. Crashing at this stage might result in undetected errors, decreased profits, and increased post-implementation risks.
3. Why Andy hasn’t chosen to fast-track the project instead of crashing the project.
4. Stakeholders do not know the PMBOK jargon; crashing is a valid schedule compression technique.

Q9. There have been numerous changes on your project. All approved changes are BEST reflected in the:

1. Performance measurement variance
2. Validate Scope process
3. Change control procedures
4. Project management plan

Q10. While completing the Plan Resource process on your project, you visited the functional manger of engineering many times, but she refused to supply resources for the project. First, the excuse was that her department was too busy; next, the department was undergoing reorganization. This is causing your project to slip the schedule. Which of the following is the MOST probable reason for her lack of support?

1. The priority of the project has increased
2. The project does not have a project charter and the functional manager was not involved in approving the project management plan
3. The project schedule network diagram was not time-phased.
4. The WBS did not include all resources needed on the project.