1-) A manager and the head of engineering discuss a change to a major work package.

After the meeting, the manager contacts you and tells you to complete the paperwork
to make the change. This is an example of:
A-) Management attention to scope management.
B-) Management planning.
C-) A project expediter position.
D-) A change control system.

2-) During a team meeting, a team member asks about the measurements that will be
used on the project to judge performance. The team member feels that some of the
measures related to activities assigned him are not valid measurements. The project
is BEST considered in what part of the project management process?
A-) Initiating
B-) Executing
C-) Monitoring & Controlling
D-) Closing

3-) Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is
valued at 2m USD. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the
FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new project?
A-) Ask management how the new project will use resources
B-) Resource level your project
C-) Crash your project
D-) Ask management how the new project will affect your project

4-) You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. It would
be BEST in this situation to rely on _____ during planning in order to improve your
chance of success.
A-) Your intuition and training
B-) Stakeholder analysis
C-) Historical information
D-) Configuration management

5-) During project executing, a team member comes to the project manager because he
is not sure of what work he needs to accomplish on the project. Which of the
following documents contain detailed descriptions of work packages?
A-) WBS Dictionary
B-) Activity List
C-) Project scope statement
D-) Scope management plan

6-) During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is
asked to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to
correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and
remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope
mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to do is
to:
A-) Let the sponsor know of the stakeholders’ request.
B-) Evaluate the impact of adding the scope.
C-) Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added.
D-) Add the work if there is time available in the project schedule

7-) Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long If
the project network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources,
what is the BEST thing to do?
A-) Fast track the project.
B-) Level the resources.
C-) Crash the project.
D-) Monte Carlo analysis.

8-) An activity has an early start (ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an
early finish (EF) of day 9, and a late finish (LF) of day 19. The activity:
A-) Is on the critical path.
B-) Has a lag.
C-) Is progressing well.
D-) Is not on the critical path.

9-) Early in the life of your project, you are having a discussion with the sponsor
about what estimating techniques should be used. You want a form of expert
judgment, but the sponsor argues for analogous estimating. It would be BEST to:
A-) Agree to analogous estimating, as it is a form of expert judgment
B-) Suggest life cycle costing
C-) Determine why the sponsor wants such an accurate estimate
D-) Try to convince the sponsor to allow expert judgment because it is typically
more accurate.

10-) Sue is working as a Scrum Master in a Scrum Team. There are five developers in
the team. Rick is one of the developers in the team and Sue noticed that Rick is
applying a different approach to complete Sprint tasks faster. Which one is the
best course of action to do for Sue?
A-) Call the entire team immediately for a meeting and tell them that Rick has a
new approach to complete tasks faster.
B-) Ask Rick to stop his task, and prepare a detailed guide regarding how to apply
this approach. Then, distribute to the team.
C-) During the retrospective, ask Rick to share his approach with the team and ask
the team if it is applicable for every developer.
D-) Ask Rick in the next daily standup meeting why he did not share this approach
with the team.

11-) You are the program level manager with several project activities underway. In
the executing process group, you begin to become concerned about the accuracy of
progress reports from the projects. What would BEST support your opinion that there
is a problem?
A-) Quality Audits
B-) Risk Quantification Reports
C-) Regression Analysis
D-) Monte Carlo Analysis
12-) You are a project manager for a major information systems project. Someone
from the quality department comes to see you about beginning a quality audit of
your project. The team, already under pressure to complete the project as soon as
possible, objects to the audit. You should explain to the team that the purpose of
a quality audit is:
A-) Part of an ISO 9000 investigation
B-) To check if the customer is following its quality process
C-) To identify inefficient and ineffective policies
D-) To check the accuracy of costs submitted by the team