Question: A calendarized budget is calculated by each week to pay for costs as they occur. What does the resulting report generate?
Answer Options:
Release of resources
Project closure
Contract closure
Cost flow requirements
Answer: Cost flow requirements
Question: Ject in Neshat’s art is Islamic women and femininity in a country where women’s actions and rights are limited by law.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Extra Credit: Ritual tattooing was often used on the eastern islands of the South Pacific as part of initiation rites that prepared an individual for adulthood.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: A city project to build a soccer complex with six fields is in the planning phase of the project life cycle. One of the project team members shares details from a project he worked on to build two soccer fields completed a year ago. Which estimation method should the project team use for the new project?
Answer Options:
Top-down
Bottom-up
Template
Ratio
Answer: Ratio
Question: A project team is gathered together to begin the planning process to create a new website for its client. One of the project team members is a code specialist and will provide the necessary information for the associated coding activities. What estimating technique will be used?
Answer Options:
Parametric
One-point
Three-point
Analogous
Answer: Analogous
Question: The project team is determining the duration for upgrading the software on the app used on its mobile devices. A technician indicated it takes approximately 15 minutes per mobile device. With four technicians, how many days does a one-point estimate indicate it will take to upgrade 256 mobile devices?
Answer Options:
3
2
4
5
Answer: 2
Question: The project team is determining the duration for upgrading the software on the app used on its mobile devices. Using one-point estimating, how many days does it take to upgrade 384 mobile devices with four technicians?
Answer Options:
5
3
4
2
Answer: 3
Question: A project manager is working on a large two-year project. At the end of the first year, the project is two months behind schedule because the interface programming is taking longer than planned. The sponsor will not extend the deadline or reduce the scope. What is the risk if the project manager compresses the schedule to meet the project deadline?
Answer Options:
Improved quality of deliverables
Reduction in rework
Increase in total costs
Use of fewer resources
Answer: Increase in total costs
Question: A movie in production is scheduled for release in six months, which is next February. However, the studio wants to accelerate the schedule and release the movie this December in time for the holidays. The studio will not authorize increasing the movie’s budget. The project manager is responsible for the production schedule. Which compression technique can the project manager use with these constraints?
Answer Options:
Fast-tracking
Determining the critical path
Crashing
Parallel processing
Answer: Fast-tracking
Question: A general contractor is managing a construction project that will add a new conference room to an existing office building. The project was documented in a fixed-price contract. The contract includes a damages clause imposing a late completion penalty if the conference room is not ready for use by the contracted deadline. The project has fallen behind schedule. Therefore, to avoid the contractual penalty, the project team will use fast-tracking to compress the duration of the remaining schedule. Which change management phase does this scenario describe?
Answer Options:
Preparing for the change
Upgrading the change
Reinforcing the change
Managing the change
Answer: Managing the change
Question: What should the team do to plan the quality of this scope upgrade?
Answer Options:
Repair any defective workstations detected prior to closing down the project.
Identify and apply the relevant ANSI standards.
Inspect the nonconforming hardware after it had been installed.
Apply post-project job shadowing techniques to detect the misuse of workstations.
Answer: Identify and apply the relevant ANSI standards.
Question: Which process would increase confidence that the crashing effort will not reduce the project’s quality?
Answer Options:
Resource multitasking
Progressive elaboration
Quality assurance
Risk exposure
Answer: Quality assurance
Question: Which two actions should the project team perform to prepare for the potential scope change?
Answer Options:
Pad the contingency allowances for time and cost.
Establish a change request form and a change log.
Use the contract to define the requirements for notification.
Inflate the price charged for making a change.
Finish the existing scope before implementing the mandatory scope changes.
Answer: Pad the contingency allowances for time and cost.
Establish a change request form and a change log.
Question: When does a negative cost variance (CV) occur in earned value management?
Answer Options:
When the actual cost is more than the earned value
When cost variance is more than schedule variance
When schedule variance is more than cost variance
When the earned value is more than the actual cost
Answer: When the actual cost is more than the earned value
Question: What is the documentation that provides assurance that products or services have been delivered on time and as ordered?
Answer Options:
Procurement voucher
Vendor invoice
Vendor closing checklist
Vendor account statement
Answer: Vendor invoice
Question: What are two purposes of project closeout?
Answer Options:
To keep the project on schedule
To modify scope to meet client needs
To derive lessons learned and best practices
To make sure the project remains within budget
To ensure completion of the project
Answer: To derive lessons learned and best practices
To ensure completion of the project
Question: The customer of a project has validated that scope has been completed for a beta test. Which closure phase does this describe?
Answer Options:
Stage completion
Deliverable completion
Iteration completion
Phase completion
Answer: Deliverable completion