You are a project manager for an engineering company. Your company won the bid to add ramp-metering lights to several on-ramps along a stretch of highway at the south end of the city. You subcontracted a portion of the project to another company. The subcontractor's work involves digging the holes and setting the lamp poles in concrete. The subcontractor's performance is not meeting the contract requirements, because the poles are not buried to the correct depth. Which of the following is true?
A. You are in the Quality Assurance process and have performed a quality audit to assure correctness of work.
B. You are in the Scope Verification process and have performed a quality audit to assure correctness of work.
C. You are in the Contract Administration process and have completed a contract audit to assure the subcontractor's performance meets the contract requirements.
D. You are in the Performance Reporting process and have completed a performance review of the contractor's work.
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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
Which of the following is true regarding constraints and assumptions? A. Constraints restrict the actions of the project team, and assumptions are considered true for planning purposes. B. Constraints are considered true for planning purposes, and assumptions limit the options of the project team. C. Constraints consider vendor availability and resource availability to be true for planning purposes. Assumptions limit the project teamwork within predefined budgets or time lines. D. Constraints and assumptions are inputs to the Initiation process. They should be documented, as they will be used throughout the project Planning process.
You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your project is to develop a website for the company that allows retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered. This project involves coordinating the parent company, growers, and distributors. You are preparing a performance review and have the following measurements at hand: PV = 300; AC = 200; and EV = 250. What is the CPI of this project? A. 0.80 B. 1.25 C. 1.5 D. 0.83
You are a project manager working on contract. You’ve performed earned value analysis and discovered that the project will be completed on time and under the original estimated amount. This means the profit to your company will decrease as will your personal bonus. Which of the following should you do? A. Add activities to the project to increase the cost enough to meet the original estimated amount. B. Tell the customer you're adding additional requirements to the project chat were originally cut because of cost constraints. C. Inform the customer that the project is completed and has come in under budget. D. Bill the customer for the full amount of the contract as this was the original agreed-upon price.
You are the project manager for Changing Tides video games. You have gathered the inputs for the Activity Duration Estimating process. You will employ which tools and techniques to produce the outputs for this process? A. Activity list, analogous estimating, quantitatively based durations, and alternatives identification B. Activity list, analogous estimating, expert judgment, and quantitatively based durations C. Expert judgment, analogous estimating, quantitatively based durations, and reserve time D. Expert judgment, alternatives identification, quantitatively based durations, and reserve time
What are the Quality Planning process outputs? A. Quality management plan, bench marking, checklists, evaluation criteria B. Quality management plan, bench marking, operational definitions C. Quality management plan, checklists, inputs to other processes D. Quality management plan, operational definitions, checklists, inputs to other processes
What are the 10 knowledge areas of project management?
You are working on a project that is similar in scope to a project performed last year by your company. You might consider which of the following? A. Using the previous project's alternatives identification as a template B. Reusing the previous project's benefit/cost analysis as justification for this project C. Using the previous project's WBS as a template D. Reusing the previous project's product description when writing the scope statement
All of the following are true regarding configuration management except: A. Requires all acceptance decisions to be made through the CCB B. Serves as a change control system C. Describes the physical characteristics of the product of the project D. Controls changes to the characteristics of an item or system
All of the following are benefits of meeting quality requirements except: A. An increase in stakeholder satisfaction B. Less rework C. Low turnover D. Higher productivity
Which of the following is true regarding schedule variances? A. They impact scope, which impacts the schedule B. They sometimes impact the schedule C. They always impact the schedule D. They never impact the schedule
What are the triple constraints? A. Time, schedules, and quality B. Time, availability, and quality C. Time, money, and schedules D. Time, money, and quality