You are managing a project with a large multi-national staff. One of the engineers was originally tasked to deliver her part of the work on Oct 19, but due to the change in the critical path, her deliverable will be needed 2 days sooner. However, as the new deadline is still 2 weeks away and she is ahead of schedule, you are confident that her delivery will be on time. During a staff meeting, you learn from her functional manager that this engineer celebrates a religious holiday on Oct 17. He tells you that the engineer is not particularly religious, however, and if pushed a bit and offered some incentive she may forego celebrating this holiday and come to work. What should you do?

A. Check if one of her colleagues can share some of her workload this week
B. Increase her project incentive if she agrees to deliver her presentation on 17th.
C. Let the critical path remain the same.
D. Ask her boss to request her to skip the holiday.

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The sponsor and the project manager are discussing what type of contract the project manager plans to use on the project. The buyer points out that the performing organization spent a lot of money hiring a design team to come up with the design. The project manager is interested in seeing that the risk for the buyer be as small as possible. An advantage of a fixed price contract for the buyer is:

A. There is no risk at all.
B. Risk is shared by all parties
C. Cost Risk is Lower
D. Cost Risk is Higher

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You have been asked to fill in for another project manager while he is on vacation. During the next project status meeting, you ask for a risk report. The project team says they have never reported on that before, and are unsure if there is a master project risk log. What do you do?

A. Do nothing.
B. Develop a list of risks yourself, based on experiences you have had managing similar projects.
C. Ask the team to brainstorm the risks they think may impact the project.
D. Notify the project stakeholders.

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Which of the following contains an extensive procurement changes approval process?

A. Scope statement
B. Test plan
C. Requirements management plan
D. Contract change control system

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John is managing a computer network deployment project at a university campus. John wants to involve the key project stakeholders in the scheduling of the major work packages. He sends out a meeting invitation to all key stakeholders for this brainstorming session. Which of the following types of communication methods has John selected for the brainstorming?

A. Push communication
B. Interactive communication
C. Pull communication
D. One-sided communication

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Which of the following is considered an output from the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

A. Budgeted costs
B. Project charter
C. Work performance data
D. Execution plan

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The Cost of Quality principle includes: _______________

A. The costs of ensuring conformance to requirements.
B. The costs involved when changes are made to the requirements.
C. The cost of deploying a project Configuration Management System
D. The costs associated with eliminating requirements.

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A control chart should always contain: ______________

A. Upper and lower warning limits
B. The moving average
C. Upper and lower control limits
D. Upper and lower specification limits

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Probability distributions are frequently used in Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis. Which of these is not a valid example of such a distribution?

A. Sigma distribution
B. Logarithmic distribution
C. Triangular distribution
D. Beta distribution

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