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Q2. Which of the following best describes the Validate Scope process?

1. Validating that the project quality requirements are met
2. Controlling changes to the scope of the project
3. Obtaining the stakeholders' formal acceptance of the project deliverables
4. Validating that all of the project's objectives are met

Q3. A project manager is in a meeting with the customer when the customer starts to yell about the fact that a change she requested will result in a delay to the project schedule. Interestingly, yelling is not a common practice in the client’s culture. The project manager starts to explain why the change affected the schedule when the project manager’s boss stops the meeting and carefully removes the project manager from the room. Which of the follow would BEST describe what is going on?

1. There was an inadequate change control system.
2. The project manager did not inform the boss before the meeting.
3. The project manager did not properly interpret the customer’s communication.
4. There was an inadequate agenda for the meeting.

Q4. Management has promised you part of the incentive fee from the customer if you complete the project early. While finalizing a major deliverable, your team informs you that the deliverable meets the requirements in the contract, but will not provide the functionality the customer needs. If the deliverable is late, the project will not be completed early. What action should you take?

1. Provide the deliverable as it is.
2. Inform the customer of the situation, and work out a mutually agreeable solution.
3. Start to compile a list of delays caused by the customer to prepare for negotiations.
4. Cut other activities in a way that be unnoticed to provide more time to fix the deliverable.

Q5. Your project sponsor is extremely happy with the project performance to date. To celebrate, he wants to hold a party with dancing and liquor for the entire team. You are concerned because the company policy states that “no alcohol can be served at company events.” What should you do?

1. The project sponsor is responsible. Hold the event as a good teambuilding experience.
2. Inform human resources that the sponsor is serving alcohol at a company function
3. Tell the project sponsor that the party is a great idea, but no alcohol can be served.
4. Suggest the event be held outside of working hours

Q6. To demonstrate your product, you develop a small functional model of your real product and show to your stakeholders to get their feedback. This model is known as:

1. Simulation
2. Sampling
3. Prototype
4. None of the above

Q7. What term defines the work needed to deliver a product, service, or result?

1. Product scope
2. Scope creep
3. Scope verification
4. Project scope

Q8. A team member notifies the project manager that a quality requirement for the project cannot be met. What is the LEAST effective thing for the project manager to do?

1. Notify management
2. Hold a team meeting
3. Look for alternative ways to meet quality level.
4. Ask management to come up with options.

Q9. A project team is trying to decrease risk on the project. Management has a good relationship with a seller who is experienced in areas that your company is not experienced in. Management wants all activities with a US $50,000 or higher risk to be transferred to the seller. Management believes that this will remove the impact of those higher risks from the project. Why would this NOT be effective?

1. Working with sellers will add more than the $50,000 of risk to the project.
2. You would have to go through the contracting process.
3. The transference of a risk does not remove all impacts of the risk.
4. Management’s association with the seller is a conflict of interest for the project.

Q10. The highest point of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is:

1. Physiological satisfaction.
2. Attainment of survival.
3. Need for association.
4. Esteem.