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Q2. To a project manager, which of the following is the BIGGEST disadvantage of progress reports as compared to watching what is going on in a project, asking questions, and assisting team members?

1. Progress reports include information from all team.
2. Progress reports require expending time gathering information from stakeholders.
3. Progress reports generally show problems after they have occurred.
4. Progress reports supply information about trends.

Q3. Performance reporting is important during administrative closure, in order to:

1. Show progress made on activities.
2. Communicate the team’s success.
3. Gain approval to start the lesions learned.
4. Prove formal acceptance has been achieved.

Q4. You have assumed responsibility for a complex, business-critical project involving new technology and approaches. All of the project’s stakeholders have emphasized to you that this is a high-risk effort, and that you are responsible for effectively identifying and addressing the project’s risks. There are a number of risk management tools and approaches you have been encouraged to use, but there is no agreement from the stakeholders as to which is the superior approach. The organization sponsoring the project has recommended risk management methodologies and templates, but does not consistently or effectively use them. In addressing risk management planning for this project, what is the MOST important consideration you should keep in mind?

1. Ensure risks have been identified and mitigation strategies have been developed for the most important ones.
2. Complete at least a moderately thorough examination of available risk management tools and methodologies to select the best ones for the project.
3. Create a high quality risk management plan and risk response plan.
4. Tailor the level, type and visibility of risk management to match the risks associated with the project and the project’s importance.

Q5. Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long. If the project network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Fast track the project.
2. Level the resources
3. Crash the project
4. Monte Carlo analysis

Q6. The project has been working through some difficult technical issues relating to how the work should be done. The most recent problem related to the way each test was to be completed. There have also been disagreements with two of the eight managers and the sponsor has had to intervene once. The testing work is done when the project manager discovers that one of the changes agreed to has not been adequately completed. What did the project manager NOT do?

1. Ask those doing the work describe the change, to make sure they understood it.
2. Get the sponsor to sign off on the change.
3. Make sure the functional manager closely supervised the testing.
4. Provider more training for those doing the testing.

Q7. Which of the following is not an enterprise environmental factor influencing the Develop Project Management Plan process?

1. Project management body of knowledge
2. Governmental or industry standards
3. Project Management Plan template
4. Legal and regulatory requirements

Q8. In the earned value management technique, the cost performance baseline is:

1. Cost Measurement Baseline (CMB)
2. Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
3. Performance Base Value (PBV)
4. Actual Baseline (AB)

Q9. Which of the following is the correct logical sequence of the five process groups?

1. Planning, Monitoring and Controlling, Initiating, Executing, Closing
2. Planning, Initiating, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing
3. Initiating, Monitoring and Controlling, Planning, Executing, Closing
4. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing

Q10. Bill is the project manager of an external project for a customer. The project is expected to take about a year to complete. Six months into the project, the customer informs Bill that he or she needs to scrap the project. During which of the following processes would procedures be developed to handle early termination of a project?

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Close Project or Phase
3. Define Scope
4. Monitor Risks