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Project team members begin to address the project work and technical decisions. The project team is in which of the following stages of team development?

A.

Storming

B.

Forming

C.

Norming

D.

Performing

Your project sponsor has requested a cost estimate for the project on which you're working. This project is similar in scope to a project you worked on last year. She would like to get the cost estimates as soon as possible. Accuracy is not her primary concern right now. She needs a ballpark figure by tomorrow. You decide to use ___________________.

A.

parametric modeling techniques

B.

analogous estimating techniques

C.

bottom-up estimating techniques

D.

computerized modeling techniques

Which of the following is closest to Juran's definition of Quality?

A.

conformance to requirements.

B.

fitness for use.

C.

customer focus.

D.

continuous improvement.

E.

All of the other alternatives apply.

When managing a project team, what helps to reduce the amount of conflict?

A.

Clear role definition

B.

Negotiation

C.

Risk response planning

D.

Team member replacement

What are assigned risk ratings based upon?

A.

Root cause analysis

B.

Assessed probability and impact

C.

Expert judgment

D.

Risk Identification

What is the purpose of a decision tree?

A.

It demonstrates the path of events in a project.

B.

It calculates the probability of an outcome.

C.

It determines what events may take place.

D.

It takes into account future events for today's choices.

A project manager convenes a meeting to determine why the time to produce one product according to specifications has increased from one day to three days over the past month.

Which tool or technique is used in this case?

A.

Expert judgment

B.

Quality assurance

C.

Quality control

D.

Variance analysis

The project team reviews identified risks and the risk response strategy. For one of the risks, the team realizes that the implementation of the risk response would generate another risk.

This new risk is which of the following types of risk?

A.

Secondary

B.

Primary

C.

Residual

D.

Tertiary

A non-critical path activity is completed in half the time. Then, ___________.

A.

All of the other alternatives apply.

B.

The slack in the path containing this activity will increase.

C.

The total cost for this activity has decreased.

D.

The critical path is also reduced.

E.

Manpower from this activity can be assigned to other activities.

Verification of project deliverables occurs during which process?

A.

Develop preliminary project scope statement.

B.

Close Project or Phase.

C.

Develop project charter.

D.

Create WBS.

Many companies self-insure against some risk. Problems which can arise from self-insurance include:

A.

confusion of business risks with insurable risks.

B.

Both 1) failure to reserve funds to handle worst case scenarios (low probability events) resulting in severe financial damage to the company, and 2) confusion of business risks with insurable risks.stiff competition from insurance companies

C.

All of the other alternatives apply.

D.

failure to reserve funds to handle worst case scenarios (low probability events) resulting in severe financial damage to the company

Job descriptions are examples of ______communications.

A.

horizontal

B.

downward

C.

diagonal

D.

upward

E.

None of the other alternatives apply

A problem occurs on an activity with free float and the project manager has extended its duration.

What is MOST likely to be affected?

A.

Project duration

B.

Resource schedules

C.

Project scope management plan

D.

The latest start for the successor activity

In which type of organization does a project manager have a moderate-to-high resource availability?

A.

Functional

B.

Weak

C.

Balanced

D.

Strong

Which tool or technique uses the 80/20 principle?

A.

Pareto chart

B.

Cause and effect diagrams

C.

Control charts

D.

Flowcharting