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Q2. The Project Charter defines the high level scope and objectives of a project. Which of the following is not a correct statement about inputs to the Project Charter?

1. Government or industry standards cannot be used as an input to develop a project charter.
2. The project's business case is an input to the Develop Project Charter process.
3. Organizational process assets are input to the Develop Project Charter process.
4. When projects are executed for external customers, a contract or an agreement is used as an input to the charter.

Q3. A project manager and his team are using an Ishikawa diagram, trying to determine how various factors might have contributed to project problems. The project manager is involved in which part of the quality management process?

1. Plan Quality
2. Utilize Quality tools
3. Manage Quality
4. Perform Quality Control

Q4. The project manager wishes to use the Delphi technique to obtain expert opinion on some difficult technical issues she’s facing. What should she be careful to do?

1. Make sure the experts consulted are recognized for their input.
2. Compare information and work toward a single opinion.
3. Consult the stakeholders.
4. Meet together with the experts to obtain consensus.

Q5. Projects operating in agile environments where a high degree of uncertainty exists and where the scope is not yet fully defined, may not benefit from detailed cost calculations due to frequent changes. Instead, lightweight estimation methods can be used to generate a fast, high-level forecast of project labor costs, which can then be easily adjusted as changes arise. Detailed estimates are:

1. Reserved for short-term planning horizons in a just-in-time fashion.
2. Never developed in an agile project.
3. Only developed if the project stakeholders allow the project manager to do so.
4. Developed early during the project but are never updated due to frequent changes.

Q6. You are working on a waste management project that, upon completion, will be turned over to the local municipality for steady-state operation. Parking of trucks and other vehicles has become a serious problem because no parking area was allotted to you on the main dumping site. As a result, your trucks are parked on nearby roadsides. One of the fleet supervisors informs you that close to the main site, there is a large tract of land a local charity owns. Many locals park their cars on this tract of land. What should you do?

1. Since the piece of land is already used as parking, you can park your trucks over there.
2. Don’t park the trucks on that piece of land because it will be a violation of other’s property rights.
3. Check the local parking laws.
4. Ask the supervisor to get contact information of the local charity.

Q7. Robert wants to assign a risk owner for every project risk for which a risk response action is planned. Where must he update this information?

1. Resource management plan
2. Risk register
3. Stakeholder register
4. Project charter

Q8. All of the following are tools of Plan Quality EXCEPT:

1. A scatter diagram
2. Benchmarking
3. Cost-benefit analysis
4. Cost of quality

Q9. In which of the following contract types does the seller have the most cost risk?

1. Fixed price incentive fee (FPIF)
2. Time and material (T&M)
3. Cost plus award fee (CPAF)
4. Cost plus percentage of costs (CPPC).

Q10. If the optimistic estimate for an activity is 12 days, and the pessimistic estimate is 18 days, what is the standard deviation of this activity?

1. 1
2. 1.3
3. 6
4. 3