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Q2. A Responsibility Assignment Matrix illustrates the connections between the work that needs to be done and the project team members. A RACI chart is a type of Responsibility Assignment matrix in which the names of the roles being documented are:

1. Responsible, Administration, Check, and Inform
2. Reportable, Actionable, Check, and Inform
3. Responsible, Accountable, Consult, and Inform
4. Reportable, Actionable, Consult, and Implement

Q3. You have been developing a next generation electric engine for high-speed electric trains. The project is 25% completed, you have spent 21% of your budget and you are slightly behind the schedule. The client is worried and asks you to provide him with the progress and forecasting report as soon as possible. So, you start collecting information such as the start and finish dates of scheduled activities, number of change requests, number of defects, actual costs, actual durations, etc. These are examples of:

1. Work performance measurements
2. Work performance data
3. Work performance information
4. Parameters

Q4. You are managing a two-year project involving staff from several departments. The project is on schedule and within budget. A key team member leaves for a four-week vacation without completing a highly technical and specialized activity assigned to him (activity A). The project team cannot begin activity B or active E (a critical path activity) until activity A is completed. Activity A has three days float and is not on the critical path. A team member, a vendor, and a non-team member work overtime to complete activity A within its float time. You need to reimburse the nonteam member’s department and pay the vendor at an overtime rate. What action should you take?

1. Send a complaint letter to the key team member’s boss, and ask him to fund the extra cost expended.
2. Re-evaluate your communications management plan
3. Thank the others for filing in, but tell them not to waste time on noncritical path activities
4. Pay the cost out of your project reserves 5

Q5. If a project manager is using observation and conversation to help control the project, she must be involved in which process?

1. Develop Project team
2. Distribute information
3. Manage Stakeholder Expectations
4. Manage Project team.

Q6. A team member notifies the project manager after the fact that certain project deliverables have been attained without performing all the associated work packages in the WBS. What should the project manager do FIRST?

1. Immediately communicate the changes to all team members and stakeholders and have team members’ performance reviewed.
2. Review work packages and deliverables to determine impact, if any. Recommend changes to the project to the project management plan.
3. Change the project performance measurement baselines and the WBS.
4. Change the reporting process to get information sooner, then review the communications management plan to see if it is still appropriate to the needs of the project.

Q7. You are a project manager for the construction of a major new manufacturing plant that has never been done before. The project cost is estimated at US $30,000,000 and will make use of three sellers. Once begun, the project cannot be cancelled, as there will be a large expenditure on plant and equipment. As the project manager, it would be MOST important to carefully:

1. Review all cost proposals from the sellers.
2. Examine the budget reserves.
3. Complete the project charter.
4. Perform an identification of risks.

Q8. Mandatory dependencies are those that are inherent in the nature of the work being done. They often involve physical limitations, such as on a construction project when it is impossible to erect the superstructure until the foundation is built. According to the PMBOK, a mandatory dependency is also:

1. Soft logic
2. Unilateral dependency
3. Fixed logic
4. Hard logic

Q9. You have decided to apply Resource Leveling to a project because of a critically required resource being available only at certain times. Which of the following will likely be true?

1. Resource Leveling can often cause the original critical path to change.
2. Resource Leveling will over-allocate resources to schedule the project before the deadline.
3. Resource Leveling will require additional resources to complete the project.
4. Resource Leveling will never alter the original critical path.

Q10. All of the following are inputs to the procurement process EXCEPT:

1. Project scope statement
2. Market conditions
3. Product description
4. Procurement statement of work.