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Q2. A project manager has completed risk response planning. She as planning to go on to risk monitoring and control when she found out from another project manager that she forgot to do something important in this step. Which of the following did she forget?

1. She has not created an overall risk ranking for the project
2. She has not analyzed secondary risks
3. She has not created workarounds
4. She has not created a prioritized list of quantified risks.

Q3. You are in the process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule. Which of the following is not a tool and technique of this process?

1. Expert judgment
2. Decomposition
3. Data analysis
4. Meeting

Q4. Risk response owners can potentially have conflict with risk auditors because risk auditors:

1. Report to the project manager
2. Investigate the effectiveness of the risk response owner
3. Measure the effectiveness of the risk thresholds.
4. Report to the stakeholders

Q5. A decision tree is a Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis technique. A decision tree is represented by a Decision Tree Diagram. The decision tree describes a situation under consideration, the implications of each of the available choices, and the possible scenarios. A Decision Tree Diagram shows how to make a decision among alternative capital strategies known as:

1. Alternative nodes
2. Question points
3. Decision nodes
4. Checkpoints

Q6. Warranty and inventory costs are going up, causing the project manager to worry about the costs of non-conformance. What is the BEST advice you can give the project manager?

1. Increase scrap.
2. Increase rework
3. Perform a quality audit.
4. Look for benchmarks.

Q7. All of the following are part of the Perform Quality Control process EXCEPT:

1. Pareto chart
2. Control charts
3. Inspection
4. Quality audits.

Q8. Which chart allows a project manager to indicate the number of resources used each month?

1. Responsibility assignment matrix
2. Resource histogram
3. Project organizational chart
4. Pareto chart.

Q9. A project manager says to a team member, “If you cannot complete this activity according to the quality standards you set in place, I will remove you from the team that is going Venezuela for the milestone party with the customer.” What form of power is the project manager using?

1. Reward power
2. Formal power
3. Penalty power
4. Referent power

Q10. The project manager has had some difficulty in getting the team to complete work efforts but he feels that the changes he made to the reward system will fix the problem. The number of stakeholders on the project has grown by 20 percent and the number of activities being completed late is growing. The project manager has heard from management that the project might become a higher priority if their competition comes out with a new product that uses wireless technology. Based on this, it would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Re-estimate the activities and prepare to create a new schedule
2. Perform configuration management
3. Recreate the project work authorization system
4. Better respond to risk event triggers 30