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Q2. Based on the chart, what will be the effect on the project if activity C now takes four months?

1. There will be a new critical path
2. The project will take longer
3. There is no change to the critical path
4. Activity B is now on the critical path

Q3. Identifying ways to eliminate the causes of unsatisfactory performance would MOST likely lead to:

1. Quality audits
2. Work performance information
3. Recommend corrective actions
4. Updates to the performance measurement baseline.

Q4. Your project is very complex and due to a scope change, you need a few additional experts, which you did not think of earlier. You request that your company provide you with some experts for consultancy work. Although your company has provided you with those experts, they are located in a different geographical location. In this situation, how will you get their input?

1. Ask management to bring them to you
2. Recruit new members with same skills
3. Create a virtual team
4. None of the above

Q5. Which of the following is an output of the Create WBS process?

1. Scope baseline
2. Project scope statement
3. Decomposition
4. Requirements documentation

Q6. The project was going well when all of a sudden there were changes to the project coming from multiple stakeholders. After all the changes were determined, the project manager spent time with all the stakeholders to find out why there were changes and to discover any more. The project work has quieted down when a team member casually mentions to the project manager that he added functionality to a product of the project. Do not worry he says, “I did not impact time, cost, or quality!”

1. Ask the team member how the need for functionality was determined
2. Hold a meeting to review the team member’s completed work
3. Look for other added functionality.
4. Ask the team member how he knows there is no time, cost, or quality impact.

Q7. ___________________ is performed on risks that have been prioritized by the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process as potentially and substantially impacting the project's competing demands.

1. Perform Risk Cost Analysis
2. Perform Risk Exposure Analysis
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. Perform Risk Outcome Analysis

Q8. The Close Project process includes all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Analysis of project success
2. Ensuring that records include final specifications
3. Creating a project risk management plan
4. A collection of project records

Q9. You are working for an international construction company. Your project involves pulling together over 13 different subprojects. You are having difficulty in ensuring three subcontractors are doing their work correctly. As you review the project results you notice you have spent US $1,200,000 at the last reporting point. You know the schedule is not too bad, since your schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.1. Considering you feel you should have spent US $1,300,000 to this point, what is the cost performance index (CPI), and the schedule and cost variances?

1. 1.19, $130,000, and $$230,000
2. 1.1, ($230,000), and $130,000
3. 1.19, $230,000, and ($230,000)
4. 1.46, $130,000, and ($130,000)

Q10. A project manager has been working on a project for six months with the same team, yet the team still shows a lack of support for the project. The BEST thing the project manager can do to obtain the team’s support for the project is to:

1. Re-evaluate the effectiveness of the reward system in place.
2. Talk to each team member’s boss with the team member present.
3. Find someone else to be project manager.
4. Tell the team members he needs their support, and ask the team members why they do not support the project.