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Q2. A project manager and team from a firm that designs railroad equipment are tasked to design a machine to load stone onto railroad cars. The design allows for two percent spillage, amounting to over two tons of spilled rock per day. In which of the following does the project manager document quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvements for this project?

1. Quality management plan
2. Quality policy
3. Control charts
4. Project management plan

Q3. You are performing the inspection of a deliverable with your contractor to determine if the deliverable is meeting requirements. After being satisfied with the inspection, you accept the deliverable. Which process are you in?

1. Quality control
2. Validate scope
3. Close procurement
4. Procurement audit

Q4. Which document describes the project's deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables?

1. Project authorization document
2. Project scope statement
3. Project scope management plan
4. Project charter

Q5. You identified a risk in your project that is difficult for you to manage, therefore, you give the responsibility to manage this risk to an outside source. What kind of risk response strategy is this?

1. Accept
2. Avoid
3. Transfer
4. Exploit

Q6. An experienced project manager was assigned a project of small scope. Which of the following could be true of the project?

1. Defining Activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity durations, and developing the schedule could be viewed as a single process.
2. Estimating activity durations may be skipped for the project.
3. Developing and Controlling the schedule could be viewed as a single process.
4. Defining Activities, estimating activity durations, developing the schedule, and controlling the schedule could be viewed as a single process.

Q7. Pareto charts help the project manager:

1. Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality
2. Focus on stimulating thinking.
3. Explore a desired future outcome
4. Determine if a process is out of control.

Q8. Dina, the project manager of a hardware project, is performing a structured review of the procurement process. She would like to examine each document from the Plan Procurement Management process through the Control Procurements process to identify failures. What tool should Dina use?

1. Procurement audits in the control procurements process
2. Performance reports in the conduct procurements process
3. Negotiated settlements in the control procurements process
4. Procurement audits in the conduct procurements process

Q9. You are the project manager responsible for building a 100,000-squarefoot data center. One of the scheduled activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units. However, a raised floor must be installed in the data center before installation of the units can begin. This is an example of what type of precedence relationship?

1. Finish to Finish
2. Start to Finish
3. Start to Start
4. Finish to Start

Q10. You have two activities with Finish to Start sequences. The duration of the first activity is 10 days, and the duration of the second activity is 8 days. The estimated time completed for these activities is 18 days. The client asks you complete these activities within 15 days; you review his request and agree to do so at no extra cost. Now, you plan to start the second activity three days before the first activity completes so that both activities can be completed in 15 days. This process is known as:

1. Schedule modification
2. Fast tracking
3. Crashing
4. None of the above