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Q2. A project has a schedule reserve of 28 days when the customer adds scope not previously planned for. The change has a 40 percent chance of delaying the project by an additional 14 days. What should be done?

1. Add more resources to the project.
2. Look for ways to cut 14 days of work from another activity.
3. Add 5.6 days to the schedule reserve.
4. Plan to add 14 days of overtime to the project.

Q3. To create the status report, you have collected the data for value of completed work, actual duration, actual completed work, etc. These data are examples of:

1. Work performance data
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance measurement
4. Performance data

Q4. “What information needs to be collected when” is part of which of the following?

1. Formal reporting
2. Plan communications
3. Stakeholder management
4. Earned value

Q5. There have been many work packages completed successfully on the project, and the sponsor has made some recommendations for improvements. The project is on schedule to meet an aggressive deadline when the successor activity to a critical path activity suffers a major setback. The activity has 14 days of float and is being completed by four people. There are two other team members with the skill set to assist the troubled activity, if needed. The project manager receives a call that three other team members are attempting to be removed from the project because they do not feel the project can be successful. When the project manager pursues this, he discovers that those team members have issues that have not been addressed. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do to improve the project?

1. Have the team members immediately assist the troubled activity.
2. Investigate why the project schedule is aggressive.
3. See who can replace the three team members.
4. Create an issue log.

Q6. Crashing helps you bring the project back on schedule if it is late. Which of the following statements is true about crashing?

1. Crashing should be done on the critical path
2. Crashing does not increase the cost
3. In crashing, you don’t start activities in parallel
4. All of the above

Q7. A project manager is using weighted average duration estimates to perform schedule network analysis. Which type of mathematical analysis is being used?

1. Critical path method
2. PERT
3. Monte Carlo
4. Resource leveling

Q8. What is the BEST method of estimating the time for an activity that has never been done by your company before?

1. Analogous estimating
2. Three-point estimating
3. Monte Carlo analysis
4. Parametric estimating 60

Q9. You are in the executing process group of a major project with an estimated cost of US $22 million. Two team members are having a disagreement over the potential sellers of a project, and the project manager has offered to help. The project manager suggests a compromise, and the team members want to solve the problem. Who should decide on the BEST course of action?

1. Management
2. Team member
3. Project manager
4. Customer

Q10. A project manager and her team worked together to develop a work breakdown structure. However, it seems project team members are doing work that is not included in the work breakdown structure. The purpose of a work breakdown structure is to:

1. Guide the cost estimate for a project, not how the work is done.
2. Provide senior management with a high level view of the project scope.
3. Include the work required to create the products of the project.
4. Include the total project scope or all of the work that must be done to complete the project.