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Q2. Julia is currently assessing her project stakeholders’ engagement levels. During this exercise, she finds she also needs to document an escalation process, which will come in handy in the future. Where does she need to document the project’s escalation process?

1. Communications management plan
2. Stakeholder engagement plan
3. Either the stakeholder engagement plan or the communications management plan
4. Both the stakeholder engagement plan and the communications management plan

Q3. You are about to take over a project from another project manager and find out the following information about the project. Activity Z has an early start (ES) of day 15 and a late start (LS) of day 20. Activity Z is a difficult activity. Cost performance index (CPI) is 1.1; schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.8. There are 11 stakeholders on the project. Based on this information, which of the following would you be the MOST concerned about?

1. Schedule
2. Float
3. Cost
4. The number of available resources.

Q4. Fill in the blank. _______________ indicates that planning and documentation are iterative or ongoing activities.

1. Progressive management
2. Iterative elaboration
3. Waterfall development
4. Progressive elaboration

Q5. All of the following relate to controlling the schedule EXCEPT:

1. Value analysis
2. Crashing
3. Float
4. Mandatory dependencies 66

Q6. All of the following are needed to create the WBS EXCEPT:

1. Organizational process assets
2. Quality measurements
3. Requirements documentations
4. Project scope statement 01

Q7. Your company has just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at US $2,000,000. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new project?

1. Ask management how the new project will use resources.
2. Resource level your project.
3. Crash your project.
4. Ask management how the new project will affect your project.

Q8. During the Define Activities process, a team member begins to discuss activities that the project manager has never heard discussed. What should the project manager do?

1. Make sure he has a good understanding of the activities and include the activities in the activity list.
2. Ask the team member to explain why such activity would be needed to complete the work package
3. Make sure the entire team agrees that the activities should be done
4. Evaluate the impact of the change.

Q9. The results of another project have just been posted. Substantial rework will be required in order to meet the project requirements. Because the cost is too high, effective immediately, the project management office will be requiring all projects to do statistical sampling. What is the project management office concentrating its efforts on improving?

1. Quality management
2. Manage Quality
3. Plan Quality
4. Perform Quality Control.

Q10. A control chart helps the project manager:

1. Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality
2. Focus on stimulating thinking
3. Explore a desired future outcome
4. Determine if a process is functioning within set limits.