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Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
When communicating with large audiences, which communication method works most effectively?
The degree of risk shared between the buyer and seller is determined by the:
Smoothing out resource requirements from period to period is called resource _____.
What tool or technique of Estimate Activity Durations uses parameters such as duration, budget, size, weight, and complexity from a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measure for a future project?
In which of the following contract types is a price ceiling set and any additional costs above the price ceiling becomes the responsibility of the performing organization?
Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?
There are seven members on the project team not counting the project manager and the sponsor. How many communication channels are there?
What defines the portion of work included in a contract for items being purchased or acquired?
A project manager discovers an urgent need for outsourced resources on the project. He knows he has the money to cover the cost of these resources. He goes to the procurement manager and explains the situation, insisting a contract be drawn up today so he can obtain resources and circumvent the standard procedure. Is this the correct process to follow?
As project manager, you wish to impose a standard method by which subordinates calculate project costs.
Which level of communication should be required for this effort?
While project work is being done, conflicts can arise between the procurement officer and the project manager because the procurement officer:
What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?
The project manager decides to conduct a meeting with the team and management after a new risk has been identified. After the meeting, the decision is to allow the risk to occur.
This is an example of which type of risk response strategy?
What tool and technique includes all costs incurred over the life of a product by investment in preventing nonconformance to requirements?
Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution Process?
Mathematical models using linear programming, dynamic, or algorithm models are considered:
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 computer tape which contains historical project information is called ____ tape.
A project manager for a small construction company has a project that was budgeted for US $130,000 over a six-week period. According to her schedule, the project should have cost US $60,000 to date. However, it has cost US $90,000 to date. The project is also behind schedule, because the original estimates were not accurate.
Who has the PRIMARY responsibility to solve this problem?
A project team member tells you that she went to her project manager with a good idea for a useful change to the project. Instead of giving her approval to make the change, the project manager asked her to write a report describing the benefits of the change.
What is the MOST appropriate advice for the situation?
You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards.
What should you do in this situation?
While reviewing project performance, the project manager determines that the schedule variance is -500.
What is the BEST thing to do?
Which of the following does NOT assess the value a project brings to an organization?
EAC (estimate at complete) is typically based on actual cost (AC) for work completed plus an ETC (estimate to complete) the remaining work.
Which of the following is a valid formula for calculating EAC?
Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
The Japanese Quality Control (QC) Circle movement motivated its participants in many ways.
Which of the following represents the most important motivation for the QC circle participants?
The use of group creativity techniques as a tool and technique is done in which of the following processes?
When working in a matrix environment, all of the following are true regarding the Manage Project Team process except for which one?
Which of the following will be required to perform simu-lation for schedule risk analysis?
Which of the following is the LEAST effective way to influence the factors that create changes to the cost baseline?
History has shown that project managers can be trained in a combination of ways.
Which method is usually preferred by most companies?
Using the chart, what is the lowest cost of crashing this project to save four weeks?
During the opening rounds of contract negotiation, the other party uses a fait accompli tactic. Which of the following statements is true about fait accompli tactics?
Which process group can be performed outside the project's scope of control?
Your management has decided that all orders will be treated as "projects" and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, to resolve issues, and to ensure that the customer formally accepts the product within 30 days of completion. Revenue from the individual orders can vary from US $100 to US $150,000. The project manager will not be required to perform planning or provide documentation other than daily status.
How would you define this situation?
Which of the following is not true for a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM):
Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?
Rolling wave planning is used as a tool and a technique in which of the following processes?
You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on _______ during planning to improve your chance of success.
Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the planning process group?
Stakeholder analysis identifies what information and relates it to the purpose of the project?
Draw the precedence diagram for the dependencies and activity times below to answer the question. Use AON or another technique to derive the answer using F-S relationships.
What is the critical path duration for the given schedule network?
Which of the following is a conflict resolving technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
Which quality assurance tool and technique confirms the implementation of approved change requests, corrective actions, defect repairs, and preventive actions?
As the project manager, you are preparing your methods for quality management. You are looking for a method that can demonstrate the relationship between events and their resulting effects. You want to use a method to depict the events that cause a negative effect on quality.
Which of the following is the BEST choice for accomplishing your objective?
Which technique is commonly used for the Quantitative Risk Analysis activity?
In which of the following team development stages does the team begin to work together, develop trust, and adjust to the work habits and behavior?
You are in a meeting with someone who just ate a slice of garlic bread. You are distracted by his pungent breath.
Which of the following communication barriers describe these distractions?
A(n) _____ system is designed to ensure the timely availability of nonhuman resources, and includes the cost in procurement, shipping/freight, storage and loss.
A new project manager is having difficulty creating a WBS with the team. To alleviate this situation, the project manager should ask for help from:
Which of the following lists contain processes that are included within Project Procurement Management?
Which of the following is an example of a technique used in quantitative risk analysis?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships among schedule activities?