You are working on a project that was proceeding well until a manufacturing glitch occurred that requires corrective action. It turns out the glitch was an unintentional enhancement to the product, and the marketing people are absolutely crazy about its potential. The corrective action is canceled, and you continue to produce the product with the newly discovered enhancement. As the project manager, you know that a change has occurred to the project scope. Which of the following is true?
A. Project scope changes do not require CCB approval.
B. Performance measurement baselines are affected by scope changes.
C. Project scope change uses inspection to determine if change has occurred.
D. Project scope change uses workarounds to correct unexpected problems with scope change.
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The purpose of a quality audit includes all of the following except: A. Examines the work of the project and formally accepts the work results B. Determines how the project is progressing and makes corrections C. Identifies lessons learned D. Reviews quality management activities to ensure the right quality elements are being examined
You are developing your project schedule and have decided to use the PERT method to determine project duration. The estimates you've gathered so far include the following: Most likely is 200 hours, optimistic is 180 hours, and pessimistic is 220 hours. Which of the following is the correct PERT estimate? A. 190 B. 266 C. 200 D. 210
Your project was just completed. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, the project was delayed causing cost overruns at the end of the project. Which of the following is true? A. You document the circumstances as lessons learned. B. You pay particular attention to archiving the financial records for this project. C. Your project ended due to starvation because of the cost overruns. D. You document the circumstances surrounding the project completion during the Scope Verification process.
The VP of marketing approaches you and requests that you change the visitor logon screen on the company’s website to include a username with at least six characters. This is considered: A. Project initiation B. Ongoing operations C. A project D. Project execution
Your project involves the research and development of a new food additive. You’re ready to release the product to your customer when you discover that a minor reaction might occur in people with certain conditions. The reactions to date have been very minor, and no known long-lasting side effects have been noted. As project manager you should: A. Do nothing because the reactions are so minor that very few people will be affected. B. Inform the customer that you've discovered this condition and tell them you'll research it further to determine the impacts. C. Inform your customer that there is no problem with the additive release the product to them. D. Tell the customer you'll correct the reaction problems in the next batch but you'll release the first batch of product to them now to begin using.
You are a project manager for Dutch Harbor Consulting. Your latest project involved the upgrade of an organization's operating system on 236 servers. You performed this project under contract. You are in the Contract Closeout process and have reviewed the contracting process to identify lessons learned. What is the name of the tool and technique of Contract Closeout you used to perform this function? A. Procurement audits B. Performance reviews C. Performance audits D. Procurement reviews
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All of the following are true regarding Pareto diagrams and Pareto theory except: A. Pareto diagrams are histograms. B. Pareto diagrams rank order factors. C. A small number of causes create the majority of problems. D. Pareto diagrams use two variables.
All of the following are true regarding parametric modeling except: A. It's a form of top-down estimating. B. It's a mathematical model. C. It's a tool used to estimate project costs. D. It's a tool used to estimate project time.
You’ve just accepted a new project management assignment. The project is for a customer in a foreign country. You've requested a business analyst and two other project team members from the country the customer resides in to participate on your team. The remaining team members are from your country. You know that the best way to ensure the project team doesn’t get bogged down in cultural differences and hold up project progress is to: A. Perform team-building exercises using videoconferencing to allow team members to get to know each other and get to the performing stage of team development as soon as possible. B. Provide diversity training for all the team members to make them aware of cultural differences and teach them to function effectively as a team despite these differences. C. Establish your role as project manager as the first order of business and require compliance to company policies. D. Require project team members to read and sign the organization’s diversity policy.
What are the Initiation process outputs? A. Project charter, historical information, and project manager identification and assignment B. Project charter, project manager identification and assignment, constraints, and assumptions C. Project charter, historical information, constraints, and assumptions D. Project charter, constraints, and assumptions
You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States Government. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is because getting top secret clearances for contractors takes quite a bit of time and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director's hot new project. Which of the following type of project ending is this? A. Starvation B. Extinction C. Addition D. Integration