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100
When should Lessons learned be organized? o During the project lifecycle and at the end. o At the end of the project during closing. o After the end of the project at a project post-mortem meeting. o Lessons learned can be organized when there is time available.
o During the project lifecycle and at the end.
100
Projects frequently do not meet customer expectations from which of the following reasons? o Poor risk management by the contractor running the project o Poor technical ability of the contractor running the project for the customer o Technical inability and poor risk management by the contractor o Unclear Scope definition by the customer for whom the project is performed
o Technical inability and poor risk management by the contractor
100
While planning a project, you are defining activities. Which of the following is not a result of that process? o Activity list o Work breakdown structure o Activity attributes o Milestone list
o Work breakdown structure
100
When running a project as a project manager, what should you focus on during the Executing processes? o Doing project work o Coordinating people and resources o Ensuring accountability for errors o Avoid third-party influence
o Coordinating people and resources
100
Who should always issue the project charter? o A person internal to the project organization o A project initiator or sponsor o A low-level manager of the performing organization o A high-level manager of the performing organization
o A project initiator or sponsor
200
Your project had a cost overrun in the past and you tried to obtain funding on top of the original Budget at completion (BAC). Management has told you that they cannot make additional funding available. You have to increase cost performance so that the project will be finished with costs not exceeding the original BAC. Which metric describes the future performance to meet this objective?113 o TCPI calculated as BAC / CPI o TCPI calculated as (BAC-EV) / (EAC – AC) o TCPI calculated as (BAC-EV) / (BAC-AC) o TCPI cannot be calculated in this situation.
o Improve feelings of trust and cohesiveness among team members.
200
You have recently been named as the manager of a new project under contract. The sponsor of the project gave you the contract signed by the customer and a Statement of work. He asked you to go on with initiation. Which document should you develop next? o Project management plan o Milestone schedule o Project charter o Scope statement
o Project charter
200
Organizational process asset updates, change requests, project management plan updates.
What are Quality Assurance outputs?
200
When you Perform quality assurance in your project, which technique could you typically use? o Code review o Quality audit o Inspection o Scope verification
o Quality audit
200
A project manager reported the following Earned value data: PV: $12,400,000 EV: $14,500,000 AC: $14,500,000 What does this mean? o The project is over budget and on schedule. o The project is under budget and on schedule o The project is on budget, but behind schedule. o The project is on budget and ahead of schedule.
o The project is on budget and ahead of schedule.
300
You are performing Integrated change control. Which of the following will not be part of what you do? o Reviewing and approving Change requests o Maintaining the integrity of Baselines o Performing Milestone trend analysis (MTA) o Documenting the allover impact of Requested changes
o Performing Milestone trend analysis (MTA)
300
As a leader, how should you deem Ethical conduct? o You should ensure ethical conduct throughout the team by use of means including recognition and awards and in tight cooperation with the team members’ line managers. o Ethical conduct is all right as long as it does not impact the achievement of objectives and does not damage the performing organization’s immediate options for profits. o You are the role model for the team. Your personal integrity demonstrates the desired skills, behavior, and attitudes whose adoption may benefit team members. o There are often dilemma situations in business. Then you may have to suspend your integrity and do what is appropriate. There may be long term negative effects, but these are not your responsibility
o You are the role model for the team. Your personal integrity demonstrates the desired skills, behavior, and attitudes whose adoption may benefit team members.
300
Quality Control Measurements.
What is an input to quality assurance?
300
When should a Time and material contract with a contractor been chosen instead of a Fixed price contract? o When cost risks for the customer should be limited but not schedule risks. o When project scope includes the progressive elaboration of the scope of deliverables. o When subcontractors are being used and the customer will reimburse their invoices. o When only a limited amount of money can be made available to fund the project.
o When project scope includes the progressive
300
You have recently been named as the manager of a new project under contract. The sponsor of the project gave you the contract signed by the customer and a Statement of work. He asked you to go on with initiation. Which document should you develop next? o Project management plan o Milestone schedule o Project charter o Scope statement
o Project charter
400
Your project had a cost overrun in the past and you tried to obtain funding on top of the original Budget at completion (BAC). Management has told you that they cannot make additional funding available. You have to increase cost performance so that the project will be finished with costs not exceeding the original BAC. Which metric describes the future performance to meet this objective? o TCPI calculated as BAC / CPI o TCPI calculated as (BAC-EV) / (EAC – AC) o TCPI calculated as (BAC-EV) / (BAC-AC) o TCPI cannot be calculated in this situation.
o TCPI calculated as (BAC-EV) / (BAC-AC)
400
You are identifying key stakeholders for your project. Which of the following is not included in any case? o Project manager and project team o Customer and users o Sponsor o Media representatives
o Media representatives
400
Which of the following is not a forecasting method? o Scenario building o Regression analysis o Time series method o Variance analysis
o Variance analysis
400
When control charts are being used, outliers are… o …singular measurements outside the bandwidth between an upper and lower control limit. o …a typical result of a rare random cause which is difficult to replicate and to verify. o …insignificant results, often measurement errors, the causes of which should not be further investigated. o …measurements inconsistent with a run of 7 results over or under a mean value.
o …singular measurements outside the bandwidth between an upper and lower control limit.
400
Post mortem Earned value analysis of a project showed the following data: SPI: 0.78 CPI: 1.00 What is this telling you? o The entire work of the project has been finished behind schedule and on budget. o The entire work of the project has been finished ahead of schedule and on budget. o The project has been terminated before completion. At that time it was behind schedule and on budget o The project has been terminated before completion. At that time it was ahead of schedule and on budget.
o The project has been terminated before completion. At that time it was behind schedule and on budget
500
You are project manager for a strategic project with a multi-million Dollars value assigned by a company that is listed at a US stock exchange. Recent Earned value analysis after app. 25% completion told you that your project has a CPI of 0.76. What should you do right now? o The variance is a signal of a sound project which is well under budget. There is no need for action. o A project that much under budget may be a problem for negotiating future budgets. Try to spend money somewhere else. o You should immediately inform your management, which should then assess whether this CPI constitutes a material financial issue. o It is still early in the project and data are yet inaccurate. Wait a while and allow numbers from the project to stabilize.
o You should immediately inform your management, which should then assess whether this CPI constitutes a material financial issue.
500
You are managing an internationally dispersed project team. The members of your team have different cultural backgrounds and primary languages, but all are educated and able to communicate eloquently in English. You should nevertheless bear in mind that… o …there are cultural differences. You should write one Code of conduct for each nationality. You should then limit access to these codes. o …you may have to accept that team members from one country may not be prepared to work with colleagues from certain other countries. o …spoken communications can cause misunderstandings you may not find in written communications. These may be hard to identify. o …certain groups will be happy to stay awake over night to join telephone and video conferences during other members’ working time.
o …spoken communications can cause misunderstandings you may not find in written communications. These may be hard to identify.
500
The use of scarce resources must be decided upon with functional managers before it causes delays in your project. Which is probably your most important skill right now? o Planning o Negotiating o Facilitating o Documenting
o Negotiating
500
During execution in a project to build a major road bridge, your team found a hefty flaw in the technical drawings. On an ad-hoc base, they had to find and implement a workaround to avoid delays and mitigate technical problems. What should you do next? o Meticulously document the problem and the workaround to create a requested change to the project management plan, which will then be passed to the body responsible for the change control decision. o The workaround was performed on a technical level only. As long as it does not influence the function of the bridge or the organizational configuration of the project, a change request will not be necessary. o A formal change request from hind side is not sensible. Create some additional documents describing the workaround and sign them by yourself, you can present them during the next regular CCB meeting. o It is normal in projects that, during project execution, inconsistencies arise between planning documents and actual implementation. This is no problem as long as the functional status of the product is maintained.
o Meticulously document the problem and the workaround to create a requested change to the project management plan, which will then be passed to the body responsible for the change control decision.
500
You finished your project for a customer to implement a business software solution. All deliverables have been handed over and are already in use by the company. There is a minor last payment to be made by the customer on contract closure. You believe that it is now getting time to finally close the contract with the customer and then administratively close down the project. You approached the customer this morning and found that they are reluctant to finally close the contract. But you do not exactly understand why. What should you not do? o Update all documents related to the project and the product so that they reflect the final specifications and the status of both the project and the product. Organize them in a fashion for easy access. o Focus on your next project and leave the customer the time to get familiar with the software. They will come back to you anyway after some weeks to terminate the contract and make the last payment. o Based on the contract and all documents which are relevant for the formal relationship with the customer, write a close-out report describing what was contractually required and what was obtained. o Make sure that there are no active purchase orders against the contract or any other pending obligations, requests or claims from either party which need to be resolved. Then insist on formal contract closure.
o Focus on your next project and leave the customer the time to get familiar with the software. They will come back to you anyway after some weeks to terminate the contract and make the last payment.