You are attempting to estimate the resources required to put the server racks together in the new data center you are building. It has occurred to you that you may be able to compress the schedule if you look at using power tools vs. hand tools to build the racks and use individuals who have worked on this brand of rack in the past. This is an example of what type of resource estimating tool?
A. Top Down Estimating
B. Bottom Up Estimating
C. Alternative Analysis
D. Published Estimating Data
____________ is performed on risks that have been prioritized by the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process as potentially and substantially impacting the project.
A. Perform Risk Cost Analysis
B. Perform Risk Exposure Analysis
C. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
D. Perform Risk Outcome Analysis
A project manager wants to understand a project goal in relation to the steps for getting to that goal. Which of the following is a useful method for contingency planning that aids a team in anticipating intermediate steps that could derail achievement of a project goal?
A. Affinity diagram
B. Process decision program charts (PDPC)
C. Interrelationship digraphs
D. Tree diagrams
You are working on a data center migration project and will be moving a mainframe system to another data center. However, you can’t have any downtime when performing the move. The subject matter experts have various ideas regarding how this daunting task can be done, but the group is not coming to a consensus. You have decided that you will send out a questionnaire to the subject matter experts to get their views and risks on the project. You will then summarize the risks and approaches, and recirculate it to the subject matter experts. You are hoping to reach consensus after several rounds of this. What type of tool is being used?
A. Interviewing
B. Brainstorming
C. SWOT Analysis
D. Delphi Technique
A project manager manages a distributed team with team members located in five countries. Due to time-zone differences, he is unable to find a time that is acceptable to all team members. Which conflict resolution technique is best suited for this situation?
A. Compromise
B. Force
C. Withdraw
D. Avoid
A first-time project manager was assigned to a project that had a duration of 3 months. In order to gain a head start in the project, she took an older, completed project and incorporated all the tools, techniques and checklists from that project in their entirety into the current one. The older project had been completed in 14 months’ time and was very similar in nature. The most appropriate comment on this would be:
A. This is an excellent example of reuse of artifacts from prior projects.
B. This may be unnecessary. The project management team needs to decide what is appropriate for the project.
C. This is not the correct procedure. The project manager should always create processes and documents afresh for new projects.
D. This is not correct. The project manager is violating copyright and intellectual property rights of the organization’s prior customers.
What do buyers and seller have in common with regards to Control Procurements?
A. Each party ensures that both it and the other party meet their contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected.
B. Both parties have specific resources that can be idle.
C. Both parties have a contract change management plan.
D. Each party has its own project plan and legal team
Which of the following is not true about the WBS?
A. The project team must be involved in developing the WBS
B. The WBS must represent all product and project work.
C. WBS should focus on activities rather than deliverables
D. WBS is usually represented in a hierarchical fashion
You are involved as project manager in a fairly large-sized project. You are in the process of making a procurement decision and plan to go with a simple purchase order. However, you are doubtful whether this is the correct thing to do and decide to find out more details about the process to be followed. Based on your findings, which of the following would be correct?
A. A simple purchase order is not appropriate for project. The project manager should always use the Request for Proposal (RFP) route.
B. Organizational process assets are guidelines available to the project. As project manager you have the final decision making authority and can decide whether to go in for a simple purchase order or not.
C. The value of the project is immaterial. As project manager, you have the final decision making authority to go in for a simple purchase order as long as you are contracting with an approved vendor
D. You would need to verify the policy constraints that form part of the Organizational process assets. Many organizations have policies that constrain procurement decisions and require use of a longer form of contract for projects above a certain value.
Your company will receive a large bonus payment for completing a customer’s project by a certain date. However, as the project manager, you know the project will complete approximately 2 weeks after that date as it is currently scheduled. Your manager is insisting that you to do whatever it takes to finish the project by that date, even if it means “cutting corners here and there.” What do you do?
A. Make a formal scope change request.
B. Fast track the project.
C. Explain to both your manager and the project stakeholders the impact that this schedule change could have on the project.
D. Compress the schedule