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Q2. A project manager is managing a research project. Typically, research projects are not clearly defined and involve a lot of uncertainty. The project has four phases in which a phase can only start when its previous phase is complete. What project lifecycle and phase-to-phase relationship should the project manager use for this project?

1. Predictive lifecycle with sequential phase to phase relationship
2. Iterative lifecycle with sequential phase to phase relationship
3. Predictive lifecycle with overlapping phase to phase relationship
4. Iterative lifecycle with overlapping phase to phase relationship

Q3. Who of the following has primary responsibility for establishing design and test specifications?

1. Senior management
2. Procurement
3. Engineering
4. Quality control

Q4. During which risk management process is a determination to transfer a risk made?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Plan Risk Responses
4. Control Risks

Q5. You gave the responsibility of collecting requirements from project stakeholders to four of your team members. After starting the requirements collection process one of your team members left the job and the requirements could not be compiled properly. Initially, you did not notice this, however, during a product review, a few stakeholders told you that some of the features in the products were not requested by them. Therefore, to verify their comments you review the product requirements and identify the issue. This is an example of:

1. Scope creep
2. Scope slippage
3. Gold plating
4. Opportunity

Q6. The create WBS process is where you create the work breakdown structure. The WBS helps you immensely in developing the schedule and other project management activities. Which of the following is the highest element in the hierarchical breakdown of the work breakdown structure?

1. Control account
2. Project work
3. Deliverable
4. Milestone

Q7. If you had an experience with a particularly well or poorly performing vendor, what is the correct way to document this experience for future projects?

1. Call the vendor and talk to them about the experience
2. Tell all your friends about it
3. Create a seller performance evaluation
4. Vow to only work with that vendor from now on

Q8. Your project is nearing completion, but a previously unidentified risk has arisen, and it could significantly affect one of the project deliverables. What do you do?

1. Transfer the risk
2. Develop a risk mitigation plan
3. Include the issue in the project risk log
4. Notify the project stakeholders immediately

Q9. On-demand scheduling is one of the techniques used in agile environments. This type of scheduling ______ work from a backlog as resources become available.

1. Extrapolates
2. Predicts
3. Pulls
4. Pushes

Q10. A work breakdown structure is an input to all of the following processes EXCEPT:

1. Define Activities
2. Estimate Costs
3. Perform Quality Assurance
4. Plan Procurements