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Q2. A functional manager meets with the project manager’s boss to discuss a change to the acceptance criteria for a major deliverable. After the meeting, the boss calls the project manager into his office and tells him to make the change. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Make the change as soon as possible.
2. Understand the change.
3. Supply the boss with a change form
4. Evaluate the impact of the change.

Q3. While the project is being completed, management requests a change. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. Comply with the request if possible
2. Obtain an understanding of the scope of the change
3. Tell the customer that a change will be coming
4. Ask the team to accept the change

Q4. You have a choice of four ongoing projects that you can take over as project manager. Project 1 has a benefit cost ratio (BCR) of 1.4, is a high priority project and has a critical path length of 16 months. Its cost performance index (CPI) is 1.2. Project 2 has a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.1, is using three critical resources, has a low priority, and has a BCR of 1.1. Project 3 has a CPI of 1.2, an SPI of 0.89, a BCR of 1.6, and a critical path length of 19 months. Project 4 has a CPI of 0.82, an activity with 33 days of float, a hard-to-get resource assigned to activity L, and a priority of keeping cost low. Based on the above, which project would you prefer to take over?

1. Project 1
2. Project 2
3. Project 3
4. Project 4

Q5. On-demand scheduling is one of the techniques used in agile environments. This type of scheduling ______ work from a backlog as resources become available.

1. Extrapolates
2. Predicts
3. Pulls
4. Pushes

Q6. The six-month project has 300 work packages and a US $600,000 budget. Three months into the project 150 work packages are complete and US $300,000 has been spent. Which of the following is CORRECT?

1. The project is on time and on budget
2. The project manager should reevaluate cost performance but not worry about time.
3. The project needs 50 more work packages to be completed to be on time.
4. There is not enough information

Q7. Which of the following is Deming's method for continuous improvement?

1. Plan-Act-Check-Do
2. Plan-Do-Check-Act
3. Check-Plan-Do-Act
4. Plan-Check-Do-Act

Q8. A project manager received executive orders to deliver the project two weeks earlier than scheduled, doing whatever it takes. He decided that the least costly means would be to add resources to critical path activities in order to shorten the time of those activities. In this case, the project manager has:

1. Fast tracked the critical path part of the project schedule
2. Decomposed the critical path WBS
3. Leveled resources
4. Crashed the critical path

Q9. Validate scope is the process which helps increase the chances that the client will accept the deliverable. Here, the client reviews the verified deliverable from the control quality process. Which of the following statements is true about validate scope process?

1. You complete this process with the client
2. You and your team members complete the process
3. It is performed by QA / QC personal
4. None of the above

Q10. As project manager, you find you are constantly dealing with conflict among your team members. Everyone argues over sharing available project resources, so you plan to use a conflict resolution method to alleviate the tension among team members. What conflict resolution method is not recognized by the Project Management Institute?

1. Forcing
2. Withdrawal
3. Elaboration
4. Smoothing