You are a project manager for Snow Fun, a chain of retail shops specializing in winter spurts gear and clothing. You've been working on contract with Snow Fun and are ready to move on to your next assignment. As the project manager, you know all of the following are true regarding the project Closing processes except: A. Administrative Closure is always required at the close of the project. B. The Closing processes are the most often skipped processes. C. Administrative Closure should occur prior to Contract Closeout. D. Both Closing processes verify that the work and product of the project were completed satisfactorily.
You are a project manager for Cashiers Systems. Your company produces cashiering systems and software for the retail industry. Your customer has requested a change that will change the characteristics of the cashiering system. You've described the characteristics of the cashiering system using this tool and technique of the Integrated Change Control process: A. Product description B. Product analysis C. Decomposition D. Configuration management
The lowest level of the WBS is called what? A. Code of accounts B. Requirement C. Milestone D. Work package
Your organization regularly uses a tool and technique of the Contract Closeout process to identify lessons learned, including the successes and failures, which will benefit future activity on this project and on future projects. Which tool and technique arc they using? A. Product documentation inspection B. Contract process review C. Performance measurement review D. Procurement audit
You are a project manager for Safari Outfitters. Your company is going to offer a new product line in the upcoming spring catalog. Your project team has 10 months to secure contracts with suppliers, finalize the designs, get the product into the catalog, and stock the warehouse. This is an example of: A. An assumption because the project team has worked on projects like this before and know they can meet the 10-month deadline B. An assumption because the project team has a limited amount of time to complete the project C. A constraint because the project team has a limited amount of time to complete the project D. A constraint because the project team is working with a new product line that hasn't been developed before
What is the name of the unplanned response used to deal with negative risk events in the Risk Monitoring and Control process? A. Mitigation B. Contingency plans C. Workarounds D. Corrective action
You are ready to perform the Activity Sequencing process for your project. To make your job easier, you're going to use a software tool to help you draw a PDM network diagram. Most software programs use this technique. You know all of the following are true regarding the PDM except: A. It shows the activities on arrows and connects them to dependencies usually depicted as circles. B. It’s also called AON. C. It shows the activities in boxes with arrows connecting the dependent activities. D. It uses four types of dependency relationships of which finish to start is one.
Project managers have the greatest amount of authority in which kind of organizational structure? A. Functional B. Projectized C. Weak matrix D. Balanced matrix
You are a project manager for Snow Fun, a chain of retail shops specializing in winter sports gear and clothing. You’ve been working on contract with Snow Fun and are ready to move on to your next assignment. The customer has signed off on the project, formal acceptance notices have been distributed, and project closure procedures have been performed. What type of project ending is this? A. Extinction B. Starvation C. Integration D. Addition
Brainstorming and the Delphi technique are two types of information-gathering techniques found in which process? A. Risk Management Planning B. Risk Response Control C. Risk Identification D. Quantitative Risk Analysis
You are a project manager working for Mail House King. Your company processes orders for several mail-order catalog companies. Your project is to install new mail-sorting equipment and software. You’ve had some problems and experienced some variances so far during the project. Your project sponsor has asked for an EAC. You know the following information: PV = 800, BAC = 700, EV = 675, AC = 750, and ETC = 30. Which of the following is the correct EAC given the circumstances? A. 778 B. 780 C. 861 D. 833
What is the key activity during Contract Closeout and Administrative Closure? A. Documenting lessons learned B. Creating project archives C. Disseminating information to formalize project closure D. Documenting project closure
You know that change control systems are important as they describe how to submit change requests and document how to manage the change, track the status, and determine the management impacts of the change. Each of the following processes in the Controlling process group uses a change control system as one of its tools and techniques except: A. Integrated Change Control B. Quality Control C. Scope Change Control D. Schedule Control
You are in the Planning process of your project, and your project sponsor has requested an accurate cost estimate in two weeks from today. You'll use which of the following techniques to provide her with the most accurate cost estimate? A. Bottom-up B. Analogous C. Top-down D. Earned value
The Critical Path Method is a mathematical tool and technique of the Schedule Development process. All of the following are true regarding CPM except: A. Determines a single early and late start date and a single early and late finish date B. Calculates expected value C. Focuses on the calculation of float time D. Shows the critical path, or the path with the longest duration
