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Q2. Which of the following is NOT part of the Define Scope process?

1. Facilitated workshops
2. Identifying alternatives
3. Product analysis
4. Inspection 11

Q3. To communicate with stakeholders on the resolved issues and the issues that are hard to resolve, you use an issue log in your project. Since you assign an owner for every issue and resolve it by working on it, your stakeholders actively support all your efforts in managing the project. This method of actively resolving issues and reducing risks to the project is known as:

1. Quality management
2. Scope Management
3. Communications management
4. Stakeholder management

Q4. Management wants to be sure that the project is following defined quality standards. Which of the following should they look at?

1. Risk management plan
2. WBS
3. Statement of work
4. Quality audit

Q5. A project manager discovers a defect in a deliverable due to the customer under contract today. The project manager knows the customer does not have the technical understanding to notice the defect. The deliverable meets the contract requirements, but it does not meet the project manager’s quality standard. What should the project manager do in this situation?

1. Issue the deliverable, and get formal acceptance from the customer.
2. Note the problem in the lessons learned so that future projects do not encounter the same problem.
3. Discuss the issue with the customer
4. Inform the customer that the deliverable will be late.

Q6. You are a project manager who was just assigned to take over a project from another project manager who is leaving the company. The previous project manager tells you that the project is on schedule, but only because he has constantly pushed the team to perform. What is the FIRST thing you should do as the new project manager?

1. Check risk status
2. Check cost performance
3. Determine a management strategy
4. Tell the team your objectives

Q7. A project activity on the critical path is delayed. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Obtain more resources
2. Tell the customer the project will be late
3. Compress the schedule
4. Cut scope.

Q8. What is the decomposition process used to develop?

1. Work breakdown structure
2. Earned value
3. Project management plan
4. Communications management plan

Q9. You are a project manager on a US $5,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development journal. Which of the following BEST describes what this type of input is called?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Heuristic 33

Q10. Which of the following includes the processes required to ensure the project includes all the work and only the work required to complete the project successfully?

1. Cost management
2. Scope management
3. Time management
4. Customer satisfaction management