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Q2. You manage an airport construction project. Since sophisticated technology and systems are involved, your project procurements require significant lead times. Your procurement specialist has recently proposed a new procurements management process that will significantly reduce these lead times and result in cost savings for the project. Besides implementing this new process, what else should you do?

1. Resell your current inventory at the purchase price
2. Shut down the project warehouse
3. Update the lessons-learned database
4. Do not include the over-processing costs

Q3. A software vendor on your project is hoping to be awarded a contract providing software for another project at your company. You are not the manager of the other project. However, the vendor offers you tickets to an upcoming professional sports event if you will "put in a good word" for his company to the vendor selection team of the other project. What do you do?

1. Fire the vendor
2. Decline the tickets but provide a recommendation for the vendor
3. Decline the tickets and notify appropriate management of the situation
4. Accept the tickets if company policy allows it and provide a recommendation for that vendor to the other project team

Q4. During the Control Scope process, analysis of the scope performance resulted in a change request to the scope baseline. This change request will be processed for review and disposition in the:

1. Control Quality
2. Perform Integrated Change Control
3. Monitor and Control Project Work
4. Validate Scope

Q5. During the planning phase of your project, your team decided to procure a certain brand of hardware because it had the lowest price and came with free shipping and installation. This approach saved $6,000 over the other brands. Since that purchase, however, you discovered the annual maintenance costs for this hardware are $2,500 per year, and $12,500 over the life of the hardware. These costs were not budgeted in the project, nor were they included in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis that was part of the project business case. What should you do?

1. Request a new budget
2. Notify the stakeholders immediately
3. Revise the business case
4. Do nothing. This will not affect the project budget

Q6. Jared is in the execution phase of a residential housing construction project. He has been informed of major scope changes from stakeholders in the middle of the project. These changes involve regulatory requirements from local authorities that may affect not only the scope but also the cost and duration of the project. What is the first step that Jared should take in considering these changes?

1. Meet with the change control board to solicit some ideas on the new project plan
2. Create a report detailing the impact of scope changes on project parameters such as cost, quality, and schedule
3. Add new tasks to the project plan and assign resources to account for regulatory changes
4. Escalate the scope changes to the sponsor and steering committee for their decision

Q7. Which of the following are ALL outputs of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

1. Approved corrective actions, validated defect repair, forecasts, deliverables
2. Deliverables, implemented corrective actions, rejected change requests, validated defect repair
3. Approved defect repair, validated defect repair, rejected change requests, approved corrective actions
4. Recommend corrective actions, validated defect repair, approved defect repair, and rejected change requests.

Q8. In the create WBS process, you sub-divide project deliverables and project work into smaller and more manageable components. The output of this process is the scope baseline and project document update. Which of the following truly represents the scope baseline?

1. Scope statement, scope management plan, schedule baseline
2. Scope statement, WBS, WBS dictionary
3. WBS, WBS dictionary
4. Scope statement, WBS, schedule baseline

Q9. A software team tracing the root cause of an application failure can use this to help determine the cause(s) of the failure:

1. Ishikawa diagram
2. Rummler-Brache swim lane diagram
3. Threading analysis
4. Deming chart

Q10. A project has a schedule reserve of 28 days when the customer adds scope not previously planned for. The change has a 40 percent chance of delaying the project by an additional 14 days. What should be done?

1. Add more resources to the project.
2. Look for ways to cut 14 days of work from another activity.
3. Add 5.6 days to the schedule reserve.
4. Plan to add 14 days of overtime to the project.