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Project Management- Q2. You are a project manager on a US $5,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development journal. Which of the following BEST describes what this type of input is called?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Heuristic 33

Project Management- Q3. During the weekly change control board meeting, you invited the facilities manager to speak about the change request to increase the BTUs of the air conditioning system in the new data center. This is an example of what type of tool and technique in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

1. Variance Analysis
2. Expert Judgment
3. Project Management Methodology
4. Project Management Information System

Project Management- Q4. Communications under a contract should tend toward:

1. Formal written communication.
2. Formal verbal communication.
3. Informal written communication.
4. Informal verbal communication

Project Management- Q5. A stakeholder’s engagement assessment matrix can be used to identify:

1. Communication gaps.
2. Additional stakeholders.
3. Key relationships between stakeholders.
4. Skill levels of stakeholders.

Project Management- Q6. Calculating estimate to complete (ETC) is done during the:

1. Planning process group
2. Initiating process group
3. Executing process group
4. Monitoring and controlling process group.

Project Management- Q7. Bill is the project manager of a software project that was originally estimated to be completed in 12 months. Two months into the project, it is discovered that the original estimating assumptions were fundamentally flawed. The Estimate at Completion (EAC) in such a project will be:

1. EAC = AC + Bottom-up ETC
2. EAC = BAC/CPI
3. EAC = AC + [BAC - EV]/CPI
4. EAC = AC + BAC - EV

Project Management- Q8. Based on the chart, how is the project doing?

1. You are in the trouble because there are three activities with no float
2. You have a lot of flexibility because you have activities with float
3. You do not have enough information to make a decision
4. Everything is fine because you have an even number of activities with and without float.

Project Management- Q9. An activity has an early start (ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an early finish (EF) of day 9 and a late finish (LF) of day 19. What is the activity’s float?

1. 10
2. 6
3. 3
4. 19

Project Management- Q10. Your company can accept one of three possible projects. Project A has a net present value (NPV) of US $30,000 and will take six years to complete. Project B has an NPV of US $60,000 and will take three years to complete. Project C has an NPV of US $90,000 and will take four years to complete. Based on this information, which project would you pick?

1. They all have the same value
2. Project A
3. Project B
4. Project C 4