Cost Flashcards
One common way to compute estimate at completion is to take the budget at completion and:
A. Divided by SPI
B.Multiplied by SBI
C. Multiplied by CPI
D. Divide by CPI
Divide by CPI
The finance department requires that you keep them updated on the costs being spent on the capital project you are leading. You are required to submit a funding plan, and monthly forecast star necessary so that any changes to the funding plan can be requested in advance and evaluated. Exceeding the budget limit is unacceptable as it will impact the stock value. You have successfully implemented processes and practises to anticipate funding changes, and you evaluate them to minimize problems and increase the efficient use of funds. You have employed a variety of reporting and analysis techniques to meet the finance department requirements. One of them is EAC, which is a periodic evaluation of:
A. The cost of work completed.
B. The value of work performed.
C. They anticipated total cost at project completion
D. What it will cost to finish the project
The anticipated total cost at project complete
The customer responsible for overseeing your project asks you to provide a written cost estimate that is 30% higher than your estimate of the project cost. He explained that the budgeting process requires managers to estimate pessimistically to ensure enough money is allocated for projects. What is the best way to handle this?
A. Add to 30% as a lump sum contingency fund to handle project risks
B. Add to 30% to your cost estimate by spreading it evenly across all project activities
C. Create one cost baseline for budget allocation and a second one for the actual project management plan
D. Ask for information on risks that would cause your estimate to be too low
Ask for information on risks that would cause the estimate to be too low
You’ve recently been assigned to manage a marketing project to brand a sustainable development program. Even though you are just starting your efforts, the sponsors are concerned about the likelihood of recent planned milestones during the project. They are wondering how you will go about estimating. Analogous estimating:
A. Use bottom up estimating techniques
Be. Is used most frequently during project execution
C. Used top down estimating techniques
D. Calculate estimates using actual detailed historical costs
Uses top down estimating techniques
Management has asked you to update the projected cost of running your agile team through the end of the project based on the latest project data. What information will you need from the team to update this estimate?
A. Resource management plan
B. Release plans
C. Burndown graph
D. Product backlog
Burn down graph
You have been working with the subject matter expert‘s to estimate activity duration and costs on the project. All of the following are outputs of the estimate cost process except:
A. An understanding of the cost risk in the work that has been estimated.
B. The prevention of inappropriate changes from being included in the cost baseline
C. An indication of the range of possible costs for the project
D. Documentation off any assumption made during the estimate cost process
The prevention of inappropriate changes from being included in the cost baseline
You are managing a project to develop a new mobile application for the inventory tracking and control system of a restaurant franchise organization. Schedule is the highest priority constraint for the leader ship team, but the franchise owners are most concerned about cost and the quality of the application. If there are bugs and errors in the system, they will pay higher cost on waste or lost sales. But investing a lot of effort into delivering great functionality could be expensive. It was decided that an adaptive approach to the project lifecycle would likely be the best way to balance the competing priorities and deliver a working, cost-effective application. The franchise decision team has been meeting with the development team. The groups feel good about the projects progress, but they are hearing concerns from other stakeholders about what the impact will be to the bottom line and whether the system will be ready for launch. These concerns were anticipated in planning, and will be managed with cost performance measurement. Cost performance measurement is best done through which of the following?
A. Asking for a percent complete from each team member and reporting that in the monthly progress report
B. Calculating on value, and using index is and other calculations to report past performance and forecast future performance.
C. Using the 50-50 rule, and making sure the lifecycle cost is less than the project cost
D. Focussing on the amount expended last month and what will be expended the following month
Calculate an earned value, and using indexes and other calculations to report past performance and forecast future performance
A CPI of 0.89 means:
A. At this time, we expect the total project to cost 89% more than planned
B. When the project is completed, we will have spend 89% more than planned
C. The project is progressing at 89% of the red planned
D. The project is getting $.89 out of every dollar invested
The project is getting $.89 out of every dollar invested
Which of the following is an example of a parametric estimate:
A. Dollars per module
B. Learning bend
C. Bottom up
D. CPM
Dollars per module
A rough order of magnitude estimate is made during which project management process group?
A. Planning
B. Closing
C. Executing
D. Initiating 
Initiating
For each activity on your project, you have worked with designers, engineers, technical experts and Consultants to come up with details on the resources needed to complete the activity quote. For some of the activities the lists are quite long, as you need raw and finished materials, equipment, and people. You have a limited amount of warehousing available, so you have to coordinate the deliveries and work so that the materials and equipment are delivered as close to the start of inactivity as possible. You and the project management team have identified the amount of time and money needed for each of the activities, which you have done aggregated and analyzed with their help. These efforts will eventually result in the creation offer cost baseline for the project. A senior manager is trying to better understand the work of project management and has asked which process produces the cost baseline. What is the correct response?
A. Estimate activity resources
B. Estimate costs
C. Determine budget
D. Control costs
Determine budget
Project set up costs are an example of:
A. Variable costs
B. Fixed costs
C. Overhead costs
D. Opportunity costs
Fixed costs
The quality efforts on the project have gone through some changes during the first four months of project work. Two processes in particular have undergone extensive change. The customer is happy with the work to date, but has heard that the competition is working on a similar product. The team has been asked to analyze and create options for the customer. Value analysis is performed to get:
A. More value from the cost analysis
B. Management to buy into the project
C. The team to buy into the project
D. A less costly way of doing the same work
A less costly way of doing the same work
A project management team is busy breaking down deliverables, and the procurement department has started looking for possible sellers to help produce the deliverables. There are departmental concerns that the project could go over budget because the scope will be iterated and the planning and development will be done in increments. At a recent company gathering, the sponsor asked questions of the project manager and the project management staff team about how changes in scope will affect the estimates. The sponsor wanted to know how to project estimates could be relied upon, given that they were planning to iterate the scope. The project manager reassured them that the team has the right tools with which to provide accurate estimates, and will utilize the toes throughout the project. Which of the following is not needed in order to come up with a project estimate?
A. A WBS
B. A network diagram
C. Risks
D. Change requests
Change requests
Which estimating method tends to be most costly for creating a project cost estimate?
A. Bottom up
B. Analogous
C. Parametric
D. 5050
Bottom up
To get a clear indication of how the project is progressing, the buyer expects periodic reporting that includes analysis of the work that has been accomplished according to plan, the dollars that have been spent and how they reflect the planned expenses, the excepted deliverables, and evaluation of the risk events that have occurred. Which of the following represents the estimated value of the work actually accomplished?
A. Earned value
B. Planned value
C. Actual cost
D. Cost variance
Earned value
The teams velocity for the first eight 2-week sprints of your 46 week hybrid project are 30, 60, 57, 44, 33, 48, 41 and 49 should you be concerned about how do you‘s results will impact the cost of the project? What should you do about this?
A. Yes, there’s too much variation for reliable cost projections. Consult with your projects budget office.
B. Possibly. Compare these velocity rates to the team original estimates at the start of the project
C. No. There is no need for action since team velocity has no impact on the cost of a project
D. Probably. But before taking action, convene a meeting and ask the team members what is happening
Possibly. Compare these velocity rates to the team’s original estimates at the start of the project
Which of the following are all items included in the cost management plan?
A. The level of accuracy needed for estimates, rules for measuring cost performance, and specifications for how duration estimates should be stated
B. Specifications for how estimates should be stated, Rules for measuring cost performers, and the level of accuracy needed for estimates
C. Rules for measuring team performance, the level of accuracy needed for estimates, and specifications for how estimate should be stated
D. Specifications for how estimates should be stated, the level of risk need it for estimates, and rules for measuring cost performance
Specifications for how estimates should be stated, rules for measuring cost performers and the level of accuracy needed for estimates
Your project has a medium amount of risk and isn’t very well defined. The sponsor hands to a project charter and asks you to confirm that the project can be completed within the project cost budget. What is the best method to handle this?
A. Develop an estimate in the form of a range of possible results
B. Ask the team members to help estimate the cost based on the project charter
C. based on the information you have, calculate a parametric estimate
D. Provide an analogous estimate based on past history
Develop an estimate in the form of a range of possible results
You are leading a project to introduce a new healthcare appointment scheduling application. As you are creating plans detailing how the team will respond to possible events that may impact the project, you and the team determine the amount of cost contingency reserve needed. The cost contingency reserve should be:
A. Hidden to prevent management from disallowing the reserve
B. Added to each activity to provide for the customer with a shorter critical path
C. Maintained by management to cover cost overruns
D. Added to the cost of the project to account for risks
Add it to the cost of the project to account for risks
You are having difficulty estimating the cost of a project. Which of the following best describes the most probable cause of your difficulty?
A. Inadequate scope definition
B. Unavailability of desired resources
C. Lack of historical records from previous projects
D. Lack of company processes
Inadequate scope definition
Your cost forecast shows you will have a cost overrun at the end of the project. Which of the following should you do?
A. Eliminate risks in estimate and re-estimate
B. Meet with the sponsor to find out what work can be done sooner
C. Cut quality
D. Decrease scope
Eliminate risks in estimate and reestimate
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 are used for analogous estimating. It would be best to:
A. Agree to analogous estimating, as it’s a form of expert judgement
B. Suggest lifecycle costing as a compromise
C. Determine why the sponsor want such an accurate estimate
D. Try to convince the sponsor to allow expert judgement because it is typically more accurate
Agree to analogous estimating, as it is a form of expert judgement
You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into project planning when a project stakeholder asks you for the projects budget and cost baseline what should you tell her??
A. The project budget can be found in the project charter, which has just been completed
B. The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed
C. The project management plan does not contain the project budget and baseline; this is a small project
D. It is impossible to complete an estimate before the project management plan is created
The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed