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Q2. A project team member finds that the color scheme of the webpage he is designing appears too gaudy and decides to change it to a melloweddown color scheme. The customer approved the original color scheme and the color palette. The independent testing team flags this as a defect, and a heated discussion ensues between the team member and the testing team. What is your view?

1. The testing team is incorrect in flagging this as a defect. This is an example of expert judgment when historical expertise is brought into the project.
2. The testing team is correct. Even though the new color scheme is more pleasing than the old one, the appropriate change management process was not followed, and the work product is not as per design.
3. The testing team is not right in flagging this. The color scheme is a simple matter, and the new colors are definitely more pleasing than the old ones.
4. The testing team is correct in flagging this. The team member should have sent a note along with the work product indicating he or she made the color scheme change.

Q3. After analyzing the status of your project, you determine that the earned value (EV) is lower than the planned value (PV). What should you expect as an outcome if this trend continues?

1. The actual cost will be lower than planned
2. The estimate at completion will be lower than planned
3. The project will finish behind schedule
4. The project will finish below the original cost estimate

Q4. John, a project manager for Code Crashers, Inc., has a project with a group of inexperienced programmers that will develop a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This situation strongly resembles a project his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?

1. Parametric Estimating
2. Bottom Up Estimating
3. Three-point estimate
4. Analogous Estimating

Q5. Your company wants to assign a resource to your project and asks you to bill that resource to the customer. This concerns you because you get a bonus for maximizing billings to the customer. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Maximize customer billings in any ethical manner possible.
2. Ask for the customer’s approval before adding the resource to the project scope.
3. Ask for clarification of the intent of adding the resource.
4. Remind the appropriate members of the billing organization that monetary compensation is not worth compromising the integrity of the individual or the organization.

Q6. Which of these is not a legitimate model used to analyze stakeholders?

1. Influence/impact grid
2. Power/influence grid
3. Sufficiency model
4. Salience model

Q7. Total float is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the:

1. Project
2. Completion date required by the customer
3. Early start of its successor
4. Project completion date 34

Q8. A project has a payback period of nine months. What does this mean?

1. It will take the project nine months to start incurring costs
2. The project will be complete in nine months
3. The first nine months of the project will provide profit to the company
4. It will take the project nine months to cover the investment and start generating revenue

Q9. A document provides detailed deliverables, activities, and scheduling information about components. Other information includes the code of account identifier, assumptions and constraints, schedule milestones, resources required, and acceptance criteria. This document can possibly be:

1. WBS dictionary
2. Scope statement
3. WBS
4. Statement of work

Q10. Which of the following is a set of technical guidelines that may be applied during the design of a product for the optimization of a specific aspect of the design?

1. Scope creeping
2. Rolling-wave planning
3. Design for X
4. Scrum master