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You are the project manager for Lucky Stars nightclubs. They specialize in live country and western band performances. Your newest project is in the Planning process. You've published the scope statement and scope management plan. The document that describes who will receive copies of this information as well as future project information, how it should be distributed, and how the information should be stored and filed is which of the following? A. Scope management plan B. Communications management plan C. Information distribution plan D. Project charter
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.
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
You are a project manager for a manufacturing firm that produces Civil War-era replicas and memorabilia. You discover a design error during a test production run on your latest project. Which of the following is the most likely response to this problem? A. Reduce the technical requirements so that the error is no longer valid. B. Go forward with production and ignore the error. C. Go forward with production but inform the customer of the problem. D. Develop alternative solutions to address the error.
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 contracts should you use for projects that have a degree of uncertainty and require a large investment early in the project life cycle? A. Fixed price B. Cost reimbursable C. Lump sum D. Unit price
You are a project manager for Bluebird Technologies. Bluebird writes custom billing applications for several industries. A scope change has been requested. You know change is concerned with all of the following except: A. Managing change B. Verifying change C. Influencing causes of change D. Determining that a change occurred
You are a project manager working on a new software product. Your company plans to market to businesses. The project sponsor told you that the project must be completed by September 1. The company plans to demo the new software product at a trade show in late September and therefore needs the project completed in time for the trade show. However, the sponsor has also told you that the budget is fixed at $85,000 and cannot be increased by even $10 due to overall budget cuts this year. You must complete the project within the given time frame and budget. Which of the following is the primary constraint for this project? A. Budget B. Quality C. Time D. Schedule
You work for a large manufacturing plant. You're in the Initiation process of a new project for an overseas product release. This is the company's first experience in the overseas market, and they hope to make a big splash with the introduction of this product. The project entails producing your product in a concentrated formula and packaging it in smaller containers than the U.S. product uses. A new machine is needed in order to mix the first set of ingredients in the concentrated formula. Which of the following actions should the project manager take? A. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and recommend the project proceed. B. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and assume the project is a go. C. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and recommend a feasibility study be performed. D. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and deliver it to the stakeholders.
During a recent team meeting, you reached a resolution to a problem that's been troubling the team for several weeks. You took responsibility for searching out the facts of this problem and uncovered the right answer to this problem. You presented the facts at the project status meeting, and everyone reached agreement on the recommended solution based on the facts you presented. This is an example of what type of conflict resolution technique? A. Compromise B. Smoothing C. Confrontation D. Forcing
You are a project manager for Penguin Software. Your company creates custom software programs for hospitals and large dental offices. You have just completed a project and are performing earned value analysis, trend analysis, and performance reviews. Which of the following is true? A. This is performance measurement documentation, which is an input to the Contract Closeout process B. This is performance measurement documentation, which is an input to the Administrative Closure process C. These are performance reporting tools and techniques of the Administrative Closure process D. These are performance reporting tools and techniques of the Contract Closeout process
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