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Q2. 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

Q3. The project team has created a plan for how they will implement the quality policy. It addresses the organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, and other information about plans for quality. If this changes during the project, WHICH of the following plans will also change?

1. Quality assurance.
2. Quality management
3. Project management
4. Quality control.

Q4. Which of the following is not an example of data that may be presented in a performance report?

1. Earned value
2. Quality metrics
3. Schedule variance
4. Project charter

Q5. You are working on a medium-sized project and management has decided to forego the perform quantitative risk analysis process. So, after identifying risks, you start the qualitative risk analysis process and now you are going to prioritize them. Which of the following techniques are you going to use?

1. Probability and impact
2. Fishbone diagram
3. Scatter diagram
4. Sensitive analysis

Q6. What does a Cost Performance Index (CPI) of more than 1.0 indicate?

1. The project is over budget.
2. The project is right on budget.
3. The project is under budget.
4. The project is ahead of schedule.

Q7. Lucy has to brief her key project stakeholders on the recent approved changes to the project scope. Which of the following project documents will provide essential input to Lucy for preparing her presentation?

1. Change request form
2. Change control procedures
3. Change log
4. Issue management procedures

Q8. During project executing, the forecasted remaining hours exceed planned remaining hours. Consequently, the project takes on a negative variance. Which analysis method is the project manager likely to use as a measurement tool to validate this information?

1. EV-PV
2. EV/AC
3. EV/PV
4. EV-AC 75

Q9. Large variations in the periodic expenditure of funds are undesirable for organizational operations. Therefore, the expenditure of funds is frequently reconciled with the disbursement of funds for the project. According to the PMBOK, this is known as:

1. Disbursement Reconciliation
2. Expenditure Reconciliation
3. Budget Reconciliation
4. Funding Limit Reconciliation

Q10. You are authorized to approve expenditures above $15,000. For the last several weeks, you have been negotiating the terms and pricing of a contract with a vendor, and you want to keep costs as low as possible. This has been an exceedingly difficult negotiation process. A colleague suggests you tell the vendor you can only approve expenses below $10,000 as a way to keep the price low. What do you do?

1. Ask for binding arbitration
2. Tell the vendor you are only authorized to approve expenses under $10,000
3. Do not follow the colleague‘s advice
4. Put a deadline on the negotiation completion