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Q2. A project manager holds a meeting with his manager to explain that an activity has been delayed and the project manager will need additional resources to complete the project. The manager stops the meeting because the project manager has forgotten something. What might it have been?

1. To investigate undoing previous fast tracking activities
2. To try to compress the project schedule before asking for additional resources
3. To look for options with the customer before meeting with management
4. To eliminate float in the near-critical path

Q3. If planned value (PV) is US $29,000, actual cost (AC) is US $32,000, and earned value (EV) is US $30,000, what is the schedule variance (SV)?

1. 0.938
2. $1,000
3. 1.034
4. ($2,000) 19

Q4. Risks will be identified during which risk management process(es)?

1. Identify Risks.
2. Identify Risks and Control Risks
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Identify Risks
4. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Control Risks 07

Q5. No matter how good you are in communicating, information distribution to stakeholders as planned is a challenging task. Many tools and techniques are used during the Manage Communications process except:

1. Project reporting
2. Work performance reports
3. Communication technologies
4. Communication skills

Q6. The Project Charter defines the high level scope and objectives of a project. Which of the following is not a correct statement about inputs to the Project Charter?

1. Government or industry standards cannot be used as an input to develop a project charter.
2. The project's business case is an input to the Develop Project Charter process.
3. Organizational process assets are input to the Develop Project Charter process.
4. When projects are executed for external customers, a contract or an agreement is used as an input to the charter.

Q7. You are analyzing the risk in a project. You decide to do a sensitivity analysis to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. You consider using a tool to help compare the relative importance of variables that have a high degree of uncertainty with those variables that are more stable. One such tool is:

1. Beta Distribution
2. S-Curve
3. Control Chart
4. Tornado Diagram

Q8. David was required to investigate a business problem and describe the higher-level needs of the business as a whole. David’s final reports describes in detail the features, functions and characteristics of the product that will meet the business and stakeholder requirements. What is wrong with David’s report?

1. David was asked to analyze the solution requirements, but he focused on the business requirements.
2. David was asked to analyze the business requirements, but he focused on the solution requirements.
3. David was asked to analyze the functional requirements, but he focused on the non-functional requirements.
4. David was asked to analyze the non-functional requirements, but he focused on the functional requirements.

Q9. A project has three critical paths. Which of the following BEST describes how this affects the project?

1. It makes it easier to manage
2. It increases the project risk
3. It requires more people
4. It makes it more expensive 51

Q10. A project team member has just completed work on the microprocessor for the new human system performance monitor and is now finished with the project. The project manager should:

1. Evaluate the project’s resource requirements
2. Provide input to the team member’s performance appraisal
3. Re-evaluate the activity duration estimates.
4. Change the staffing management plan