1. 22 people are expected at your next stakeholder status meeting.

Which of the following

statements are true?
A. There are 242 lines of communication.
B. The number of attendees falls within the reasonable range for effective decision
making.
C. There are 231 lines of communication.
D. There are too few people to make effective decisions.

2. If EV = 145, PV = 162, AC = 138, BAC = 200, and ETC = 62, what is EAC when you
know past estimating assumptions are no longer valid?
A. 190.4
B. 193
C. 201
D. 200

3. You work for a specialized book publisher that publishes 35 new titles per year. Your
company has a specific process in place for managing each book project. Theyve found
that managing most of the phases the same way across all the projects allows them to
gain efficiencies they wouldnt get if they let each project manager use their own process.
Youre accepting your first assignment as the project manager over a new publication.
Youre responsible for seeing this project through from the beginning (assigning a
qualified author to write on this topic) to the end (distributing the book to wholesalers
and retailers). What does this scenario describe?
A. Phase sequencing
B. Progressive elaboration
C. Organizational planning

D. Program management

4. This tool and technique of Risk Monitoring and Control is interested in looking at the
implementation and the effective use of the transference, avoidance, and mitigation risk
strategies.
A. Periodic project risk reviews
B. Project change requests
C. Project risk response audit
D. Workaround plans

5. Organizing resource pools, assisting with cost estimating, information retrieval, and
creating network diagrams are all examples of attributes of this tool and technique.
Choose the best answer.
A. Expert judgment
B. Spreadsheet programs
C. Project management software
D. Templates

6. The risk management plan accomplishes all of the following except:

A. The risk management plan describes how risk identification will be structured and
performed during the project.
B. The risk management plan describes how qualitative and quantitative analysis will
be structured and performed during the project.
C. The risk management plan addresses risk response planning and how it will be
carried out during the project.

D. The risk management plan addresses responses to individual risks and how they
will be carried out during the project.

7. Your project sponsor has asked you for a forecast of the likely total cost of the project
based on performance to date. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Youll use the EAC calculation, which is an output of the Cost Control process.
B. Youll use the EAC calculation, which is an output of the Performance Reporting
process.
C. Youll use the ETC calculation, which is an output of the Cost Control process.
D. Youll use the ETC calculation, which is an output of the Performance Reporting
process.

8. You are contracting services for your current project. You need three chemical engineers
with specific skills (outlined in the statement of work) to work on your project. Youve
decided to prepare an RFQ because your organization is basing their source selection
decision on which of the following? Choose the best answer.
A. Subject matter expertise
B. A fixed price contract
C. Technical skills
D. Price

9. Which of the following is true regarding constraints?

A. Projects that are subject to the triple constraints do not usually have any other
constraints.
B. The triple constraints are time, quality, and capital.

C. The triple constraints will most likely affect all projects, with one or two
constraints being the primary driver of the project.
D. Projects that are subject to the triple constraints are more easily managed within a
functional organization than within a weak matrix organization.

10. Which of the following is not a major step of decomposition?

A. Identify major deliverables.
B. Identify constituent components.
C. Determine adequate cost, schedule, resource, and quality estimates.
D. Verify correctness of decomposition.
11.
A project manager discovers that there is a part of the project
that contains some risk. His or her strategy with this risk is to
subcontract the work to an outside supplier by using a firm fixed price
contract. Which of the following is true?
a. The supplier will include an allowance for the risk in the contracted
price.
b. The supplier will lose money on the contract.
c. The project manager will have to compensate the supplier if the risk
occurs.

d. The project manager will assist the supplier with the project
team if the risk occurs.
12. Which of the following techniques allows for the participants to be
anonymous?
a. Brainstorming
b. Nominal group
c. Delphi technique
d. Crawford slip

Answers
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6. D.
7. A.
8. D.
9. C.
10.C.
11.A.
12.C.