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Q2. A project manager discovers a defect in a deliverable due to the customer under contract today. The project manager knows the customer does not have the technical understanding to notice the defect. The deliverable meets the contract requirements, but it does not meet the project manager’s quality standard. What should the project manager do in this situation?

1. Issue the deliverable, and get formal acceptance from the customer.
2. Note the problem in the lessons learned so that future projects do not encounter the same problem.
3. Discuss the issue with the customer
4. Inform the customer that the deliverable will be late.

Q3. Which of the following BEST describes the difference between the Control Scope process and Perform Integrated Change Control?

1. Control Scope focuses on making changes to the product scope and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on making changes to integration.
2. Control Scope focuses on controlling the scope of the project and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on determining the impact of a change of scope on time, cost, quality, risk, resources, and customer satisfaction
3. Control Scope focuses on controlling the scope of the project and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on making changes to integration
4. Control Scope focuses on making changes to the product scope and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on determining the impact of a change to scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and customer satisfaction.

Q4. Your project has a medium amount of risk and is not very well defined. The sponsor hands you a project charter and asks you to confirm that the project can be completed within the project cost budget. What is the BEST method to handle this?

1. Build an estimate in the form of a range of possible results.
2. Ask the team members to help estimate the cost based on the project charter.
3. Based on the information you have, calculate a parametric estimate.
4. Provide an analogous estimate based on past history.

Q5. Formal written correspondence with the customer is required when:

1. Defects are detected.
2. The customer requests additional work not covered under contract.
3. The project has a schedule slippage that includes changes to the critical path.
4. The project has cost overruns.

Q6. The project is mostly complete. The project has a schedule variance of 300 and a cost variance of -900. All but one of the quality control inspections have been completed and all have met the quality requirements. All items in the issue log have been resolved. Many of the resources have been released. The sponsor is about to call a meeting to obtain product verification when the customer notifies the project manager that they want to make a major change to the scope. The project manager should:

1. Meet with the project team to determine if this change can be made.
2. Ask the customer for a description of the change
3. Explain that the change cannot be made at this point in the process
4. Inform management

Q7. Which of the following is an agile prototyping technique showing sequence or navigation through a series of images or illustrations:

1. Nominal group technique
2. Mind mapping
3. Decision trees
4. Storyboarding

Q8. Which of the following is accurate regarding the Estimate Activity Resources process?

1. It produces project resource calendars as the output.
2. It determines dependencies that may require a lead or lag to define the relationship.
3. This process is coordinated independent of the Estimate Cost process.
4. It involves determining what and how many resources to use.

Q9. All of the following are outputs of Plan Resource Management EXCEPT:

1. Roles and responsibilities.
2. Project organizational charts.
3. The number of resources needed.
4. The staffing management plan.

Q10. During the middle of the project, things have been going well. The work authorization system has allowed people to know when to start work and the issue log has helped keep track of the stakeholders’ needs. The benefit cost ratio has been improving and the sponsor has expressed his appreciation for the team members’ efforts by hosting a milestone party for the team. The project manager gets a call from a team member saying that the results from the completion of their activity’s predecessor is two days late. Which of the following reasons would BEST describe why this occurred?

1. The project manager was focusing on the sponsor’s needs.
2. Functional management was not included in the communications management plan.
3. The successor activities should have been watched, not the predecessors.
4. The right people were not invited to the milestone party.