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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)






Q2. You are responsible for IT maintenance in your organization. The head of the IT department comes to you with an internet security expert and tells you to disable auto login and force authentic login based on a new password. The password will be 15 characters long and consist of letters, numerals, and one special character, and this password must expire after every 30 days. This is an example of:

  1. Operation
  2. Project
  3. Maintenance
  4. None of the above
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Q3. The requirements of many stakeholders were not approved for inclusion in your project. Therefore, you had a difficult time receiving formal approval of the project management plan for this project. The stakeholders argued and held up the project while they held meeting after meeting about their requirements. The project was finally approved and work was begun six months ago. All of the following would be good preventive actions to implement EXCEPT:

  1. Keep a file of what requirements were not included in the project.
  2. Make sue the change control process is not used as a vehicle to add back the requirements into the project.
  3. Maintain an issue log.
  4. Hold meetings with the stakeholders to go over the work that will not be added to the project.
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Q4. Which of the following estimating techniques will cost less but is also typically less accurate?

  1. Parametric Estimating
  2. Analogous Estimating
  3. Resource Cost-based Estimating
  4. Bottom-up Estimating
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Q5. Which part of the risk management process receives input from risk response owners?

  1. Identify Risks
  2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
  3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
  4. Plan Risk Responses.
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Q6. Your company has a policy that only a certain hotel chain may be used for business travel. You discover that a more expensive hotel is offering a discount on the days you need to be in town. What should you do?

  1. Ask your manager for permission to use the other hotel chain
  2. Contact the hotel chain to negotiate a better rate
  3. Use the company’s hotel chain
  4. Provide justification on your expense report for using the other hotel chain.
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Q7. Which of these items are important to address when determining each person's role in the project team?

  1. Role, authority, responsibility, and competency
  2. Role, responsibility, and competency
  3. Role and responsibility
  4. Role, authority, and competency
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Q8. Senior management has imposed a project delivery date prior to acceptance of the project scope statement. To whom is the project manager MOST accountable?

  1. Project sponsor
  2. Project team
  3. Customer
  4. Senior management
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Q9. A company is attempting to select the BEST project from a list of possible choices. If the information they have includes the following benefit cost ratios, which project should they pick?

  1. 2.2
  2. 1.3
  3. 0.8
  4. 1.6
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Q10. Which of the following is a TRUE statement about a risk rating matrix?

  1. It should be changed for every product
  2. It should never be used on a large project
  3. It should be standardized between projects
  4. It should be developed by the project manager.
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