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Q2. Which of the following statements regarding Resource Leveling and Resource Smoothing is correct:

1. Resource Smoothing can cause the original critical path to change, while Resource Leveling doesn’t alter the project’s critical path.
2. Both Resource Leveling and Resource Smoothing can alter the project’s critical path.
3. Neither Resource Leveling nor Resource Smoothing alters the project’s critical path.
4. Resource Leveling can cause the projects’ critical path to change, while Resource Smoothing doesn’t alter the project’s critical path.

Q3. You are working in a large organization and managing a project to construct a road. To help you in your project, your PMO is providing you with their support and require you to comply with them. What kind of PMO is this?

1. Supportive
2. Controlling
3. Directive
4. Helping

Q4. Which of the following BEST describes the Validate Scope process?

1. It provides assurances that the deliverable meets the specifications, is an input to the project management plan, and an output of Perform Quality Control.
2. It ensures that the deliverable is completed on time, ensures customer acceptance, and shows that the deliverable meets specifications.
3. It ensures customer acceptance, shows that the deliverable meets specifications, and provides a chance for differences of opinion to come to light.
4. It is an output of Perform Quality Control, occurs before Define Scope, and ensures customer acceptance.

Q5. What is the name of the process required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, and disposal of project information?

1. Quality management
2. Communications management
3. Procurement management
4. Scope management

Q6. As per the PMBOK Guide, which of the following is not a communication method that you use to share information among project stakeholders?

1. Online communication
2. Interactive communication
3. Push communication
4. Pull communication

Q7. During the executing process group of the project, you realize the subcontractors are working with incomplete and different project scope statements. As the project manager, what should you do FIRST?

1. Check the work completed against the correct project scope statement.
2. Review the scope with the stakeholders.
3. Document the inconsistencies to the sponsor, calculating the cost of non-conformance.
4. Stop work until the scope issue is resolved.

Q8. You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards. What should you do in this situation?

1. Assure senior management that during the Plan Quality process it was determined that the project would meet the quality standards
2. Analogously estimate future results.
3. Form a quality assurance team
4. Check the results from the last quality management plan.

Q9. Management has promised you part of the incentive fee from the customer if you complete the project early. While finalizing a major deliverable, your team informs you that the deliverable meets the requirements in the contract, but will not provide the functionality the customer needs. If the deliverable is late, the project will not be completed early. What action should you take?

1. Provide the deliverable as it is.
2. Inform the customer of the situation, and work out a mutually agreeable solution.
3. Start to compile a list of delays caused by the customer to prepare for negotiations.
4. Cut other activities in a way that be unnoticed to provide more time to fix the deliverable.

Q10. A project manager may use _________ to make sure the team members clearly know what work is included in each of their work packages.

1. The project scope statement
2. The product scope
3. A WBS dictionary
4. A schedule