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A project manager approaches you to understand the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in better detail. You tell her that:
  1. The WBS is a detailed project plan and includes the effort, resources, and dates on which the tasks for the project are complete.
  2. The WBS is a task-oriented decomposition of work that identifies each task and the resource required to accomplish the task.
  3. The WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work the project team must accomplish to meet project objectives.
  4. The WBS is a Gantt chart that contains details about the project deliverables the project team must do.






Q2. Based on the chart, if you needed to shorten the duration of the project, which activity would you to shorten?

  1. Activity B
  2. Activity D
  3. Activity H
  4. Activity C 39
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Q3. The project manager has just received a change from the customer that does not affect the project schedule and is easy to complete. What should the project manager do FIRST?

  1. Make the change happen as soon as possible.
  2. Contact the project sponsor for permission
  3. Go to the change control board
  4. Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints
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Q4. Which of the following would not be considered an Enterprise Environmental Factor during the Develop Project Charter process?

  1. Scope Statement
  2. Organizational infrastructure
  3. Governmental standards
  4. Marketplace conditions
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Q5. The list of identified risks is found in the risk register. However, the overall high-level project risks is first listed in the:

  1. Scope statement
  2. Requirement document
  3. Project charter
  4. Risk management plan
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Q6. You are working on a waste management project that, upon completion, will be turned over to the local municipality for steady-state operation. Parking of trucks and other vehicles has become a serious problem because no parking area was allotted to you on the main dumping site. As a result, your trucks are parked on nearby roadsides. One of the fleet supervisors informs you that close to the main site, there is a large tract of land a local charity owns. Many locals park their cars on this tract of land. What should you do?

  1. Since the piece of land is already used as parking, you can park your trucks over there.
  2. Don’t park the trucks on that piece of land because it will be a violation of other’s property rights.
  3. Check the local parking laws.
  4. Ask the supervisor to get contact information of the local charity.
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Q7. You are a project manager who is in charge of an important project for your company. The project is 40 percent complete after three months and has cost $350,000. The budget for the project is $950,000 and is scheduled to last eight months. How is the project performing?

  1. The project is behind schedule and over budget.
  2. The project is ahead of schedule and under budget.
  3. The project is behind schedule and under budget.
  4. The project is ahead of schedule and over budget.
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Q8. The project has 13 team members and affects over 15 departments in the organization. Because the project is 20 percent complete to date and the team has had successful performance reports from five of the affected departments, the project manager holds a party to celebrate. The project manager invites key stakeholders from all of the departments to the party, in order to give those providing good reviews an informal opportunity to communicate good things to those departments that have not yet been affected by the project. At the party, the project manager walks around to try to discover any relevant information that would help the project be more successful. He happens to hear a manager of one of the departments talking about setting up more regular meetings on the project. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to FIRST:

  1. Record the effectiveness of the part in the project lessons learned.
  2. Review the information distribution methods on the project.
  3. Hold a meeting of all the stakeholders to discuss their concerns.
  4. Make sure the manager has a copy of the communications management plan so he is reminded that such concerns should be sent to the project manager.
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Q9. The Verify Scope process is different than the Perform Quality Control process in that:

  1. Perform Quality Control focuses on the quality of the project, while Verify Scope focuses on customer acceptance
  2. Verify Scope is performed throughout the project and Perform Quality Control is done throughout the project.
  3. Perform Quality Control is considered part of Plan Quality while Verify Scope is not.
  4. Scope verification is provided to the project management team while quality control is provided to the project.
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Q10. There is a probability of 0.1 that a given risk will occur in a project. If it occurs, it will result in a loss of US $10,000. The insurance cost for this event is US $700, with a deductible amount of US $250. Should a rational project manager buy this insurance?

  1. Yes, since $1,000 > $950.
  2. Yes, since $1,000 > $700.
  3. No, since the deductible amount changes the expected monetary value of the risk event.
  4. No, since $1,250 > $1,000.
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