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Q2. Which of the following is the BEST method to control changes on the project?

1. Look for sources of changes.
2. Make the changes quickly when they occur.
3. Prevent changes from being made.
4. Direct all changes to the change control board.

Q3. The networking vendor has contacted the project manager to inform her that the recent earthquake will impact the delivery of critical components. The project team meets to determine the impact on the overall project and determines that staffing will not be affected, but that changes will need to be made in the areas of risk and cost management. It is too soon to tell if quality baselines will be affected by this schedule change. What is the project team involved in here?

1. Configuration management
2. Work authorization analysis
3. Status review meeting
4. Integrated change control

Q4. The project has been going well when one of the suppliers informs you that, as they warned you during project planning, they will deliver your equipment two days late. At the same time, you get a call from a team member informing you that the critical path activity she is working on will take longer to complete than planned. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Use a contingency reserve for the first, and find out how much later the activity will be
2. Ask for a change order for each
3. Have both reviewed with the change control board
4. Find out why the activity was late 8

Q5. Which of the following is not a true statement about control charts?

1. Control charts can be used to establish, as well as maintain process control.
2. Control charts are used to determine acceptance limits when no limits when no limits are stipulated by th eproduct specification; otherwise, one should use the limits dictated by the specification.
3. All data points outside the control chart limits are variations explained by assignable causes.
4. B and C.

Q6. The work breakdown structure (WBS) does all of the following except

1. Organizes and defines the entire scope of the project.
2. Divides the project into smaller, more manageable tasks.
3. Serves as a high-level planning tool for work planned but not yet approved.
4. Both A and B.

Q7. Based on historical data, the amount of overtime associated with the design effort of a project is estimated at 100 hours with 0.4 probability, 200 hours with 0.4 probability, and 300 hours with 0.2 probability. What is the expected monetary value of the amount of overtime?

1. 100 hours
2. 160 hours
3. 180 hours
4. 260 hours.

Q8. A project manager has increased project costs by US $100,000, but completed the project four weeks earlier than planned. What activity is BEST described here?

1. Resource leveling
2. Schedule compression
3. Critical chain
4. Adjusting leads and lags

Q9. What is a project management information system?

1. A computerized status tracking system
2. A manual status tracking system
3. A method to determine and archive how the project is doing
4. A method to gather, integrate and disseminate what or how the project is doing

Q10. Another project manager has a family emergency and must leave. He has asked you to fill in for him during a team meeting to discuss a minor problem with the project. He has already distributed a detailed agenda and provided with a copy. When you attend the meeting, several members of the team are making fun of the absent project manager’s ethnic heritage. Your company does not have a formal diversity policy covering such behavior. What should you do?

1. Because your company does not have a written diversity policy, there is nothing you can do.
2. Report the incident to the other project manager
3. Hold the meeting as if nothing happened
4. Begin the meeting with a discussion of diversity and professional behavior.