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Q2. During project planning, you estimate the time needed for each activity and then add up the estimates to create the project estimate. You commit to completing the project by this date. What is wrong with this scenario?

1. The team did not create the estimate, and estimating takes too long using that method.
2. The team did not create the estimate, and a network diagram was not used.
3. The estimate is too long and should be created by management.
4. The project estimate should be the same as the customer’s required completion date.

Q3. ___________________ 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

Q4. The company has just announced that there will be a layoff in the next month, and there’s a good chance it will include some of the people from your project team. The team is discussing the layoff to the exclusion of everything else. If you tell the team, “Let’s calm down and get back to work, maybe our performance in the next month will keep us from losing our jobs.” Which conflict resolution technique are you using?

1. Compromising
2. Forcing
3. Smoothing
4. Withdrawal.

Q5. A project manager has just started planning his project. If he has only limited information about the project, he should use the following technique to estimate the duration for each activity using historical data from a similar project:

1. Four-point estimating
2. Three-point estimating
3. Analogous estimating
4. Parametric estimating

Q6. Your project is complete and the product is ready to be delivered. The client inspects the deliverable and accepts it. What process is this?

1. Close procurement
2. Close project
3. Validate scope
4. Verify scope

Q7. All of the following are factors in the assessment of project risk EXCEPT:

1. Risk event
2. Risk probability
3. Amount at stake
4. Insurance premiums.

Q8. A project manager wants to make sure his plans for meeting the training needs of resources, and plans for releasing resources are complete. All of the following are inputs to this activity EXCEPT:

1. Enterprise environmental factors
2. Historical information
3. Project organizational charts
4. Activity resource requirement.

Q9. Validate scope is the process which helps increase the chances that the client will accept the deliverable. Here, the client reviews the verified deliverable from the control quality process. Which of the following statements is true about validate scope process?

1. You complete this process with the client
2. You and your team members complete the process
3. It is performed by QA / QC personal
4. None of the above

Q10. When the project manager completes the detailed project schedule, it would be MOST important to get it approved by the:

1. Project sponsor
2. Team
3. Functional managers
4. Customer 42