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Q2. Which of the following BEST describes the difference between the Control Scope process and Perform Integrated Change Control?

1. Control Scope focuses on making changes to the product scope and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on making changes to integration.
2. Control Scope focuses on controlling the scope of the project and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on determining the impact of a change of scope on time, cost, quality, risk, resources, and customer satisfaction
3. Control Scope focuses on controlling the scope of the project and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on making changes to integration
4. Control Scope focuses on making changes to the product scope and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on determining the impact of a change to scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and customer satisfaction.

Q3. The project statement of work is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project. The procurement statement of work includes:

1. Project scope statement
2. WBS dictionary
3. WBS
4. None of the above

Q4. A company asks one of the project managers to lead a project to create a substantially improved version of one of the company’s best-selling products. The project manager is given total freedom of decision and resources, including whether to utilize contractor services and/or the company’s resource pool. Under these circumstances, which of the following would be the BEST way for the project manager to build the team?

1. She should choose her team from the top developers and fabrication workers in the company
2. She should create a team of company line workers and contract the development services under a cost reimbursable contract with provisions to protect confidentiality.
3. She should contract the entire team utilizing a cost plus incentive fee type of contract.
4. She should contract selected team members on an ad hoc and as needed basis utilizing a time and material contract.

Q5. A project team member has been having a big disagreement with another team member for over two months when the other team members become involved. The issues are complex, but you have specific experience in the area and know what needs to be done. The BEST choice would be to:

1. Make the decision yourself
2. Strive for fair resolution of the issue
3. Ask the other team members to stay out of the issue
4. Bring the team together and work out the issue to a win-win solution.

Q6. Midway through the Collect Requirements process, a project manager finds there are many unresolved issues regarding product requirements. Which of the following is usually the best way to discover and resolve issues?

1. Interviewing
2. Use of a stakeholder register
3. Questionnaires
4. Workshops

Q7. All of the following could occur during the Close Process or Phase process EXCEPT:

1. Creating lessons learned
2. Formal acceptance
3. Reducing resource spending
4. Performing benefit cost analysis

Q8. Gene is the project manager of a large highway expansion project. He has a number of stakeholders with competing priorities and agendas, and he often has to resolve conflicts among stakeholders. Which knowledge area manages communications with the project stakeholders?

1. Project Quality Management
2. Project Stakeholder Management
3. Project Communications Management
4. Project Resource Management

Q9. A project manager completed the work package estimating process and then performed a Monte Carlo analysis to determine the amount of risk reserve needed on the project. Why is this incorrect?

1. The risks per work package have not been identified
2. The critical path was not calculated
3. The network diagram was not used
4. The schedule was not developed.

Q10. You are a consulting project manager and an investment bank has a contract with you to run a large information technology project that is expected to last 15 months. During the Direct and Manage Project Work process, you discover that several regulatory requirements were addressed in the project management plan but missed from the scope statement. Failure to meet these requirements could result in legal action against the company. However, implementing the technology to comply with these regulations could exceed the budget and scope of the project and result in the cancellation of the project. What should you do?

1. Do not do anything as these requirements are not a part of the scope baseline.
2. Request additional funds to implement these requirements.
3. Submit a change request to incorporate the missed requirements in the project's scope.
4. This is a classic example of scope creep and such requirements must be ignored.