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Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:
Cost management plan
What is a regression line used to estimate?
How a change to the independent variable influences the value of the dependent variable.
Which is the appropriate tool to identify the possible correlation between two elements in a process?
A scatter diagram
Is a change control system defined in a contract?
no
Quality planning is more important than…
inspection and prevention
Is the cost of quality of a product higher in the production stage or planning stage?
production
What is contingency planning in quality?
There is no such theory as contingency planning in quality management.
Can a project have more than one critical path?
yes
Which Control Quality tool is also known as an arrow diagram?
Activity Network diagram
What chart shows show loops and branches?
Gantt chart
What do resource requirements specify?
the quantity and type of resources required in a work package.
What is a schedule compression technique employed to shorten the project duration for the least amount of incremental cost by adding resources for an activity on the project’s critical path.
Crashing
Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?
Perform Integrated Change Control
Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
Activity attributes
How can a project manager evaluate project team development?
Produce team performance assessments
The project manager is dividing the project scope into smaller pieces, and repeating this process until no more subdivisions are required. At this point the project manager is able to estimate costs and activities for each element.
What are these elements called?
work packages
Which key benefit can a project manager obtain by identifying stakeholders?
Identify the appropriate focus for engagement of each stakeholder
What is the most inclusive in a project environment hierarchy
Portfolios
Two members of the team are having a conflict. The project manager decides that, in this case, the best solution is to bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the problem.
Which technique should the project manager use?
Smooth and accomodate
Which process determines the correctness of deliverables?
validate deliverables
Insurance is an example of what risk strategy?
Risk transference
2 outputs of develop project charter process
project charter and assumption log
What is a salience model?
stakeholder assessment - this model classifies the stakeholders according to their power
Input to identifying stakeholders
Procurement documents.
tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control
meetings
Which type of contract gives both the seller and the buyer flexibility to deviate from performance with financial incentives?
Fixed price incentive fee
In the Plan Stakeholder Management process, expert judgment is used to:
Decide the level of engagement of the stakeholders at each required stage.
Inputs to budget creation
Basis of estimates, cost estimates, project schedule, and risk register
Method for cost estimation in Agile
lightweight cost estimation
The purpose of the Project Communications Management Knowledge Area is to:
Ensure timely and appropriate collection of project information
Power, urgency, and legitimacy are attributes of which stakeholder classification model?
Salience
Unfortunately, risk analysis was not done regularly by the previous manager of a project you inherited. As you are performing the project work, you and your team are reviewing all potential risk events, and analyzing their current probability and impact. What best describes what you are doing?
Risk re-assessment
You are conducting interviews with key project stakeholders to assess the probability and consequences of identified risks to the project objectives, assign a risk score to each risk, and create a list of prioritized risks. Which process are you performing?
Qualitative Risk Analysis
Which quality tool may prove useful in understanding and estimating the cost of quality in a process?
flow charts
Specification of both the deliverables and the processes is the focus of:
change control
Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
activity cost estimates
While processes in the Planning Process Group seek to collect feedback and define project documents to guide project work, organizational procedures dictate when the project planning:
ends
Which process determines the risks that may affect the project and documents their characteristics?
identify risks
Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is used to document changes that occur during the project?
Change log
An input to the Plan Stakeholder Management process is:
stakeholder register
An input to the Plan Cost Management process is:
project charter
Scope, schedule, and cost parameters are integrated in the:
Performance measurement baseline.
input to the Define Activities process?
scope baseline
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
claims administration
The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
monitoring and controlling
An output of the Validate Scope process is:
Change requests
Which input to the Plan Risk Management process provides information on high-level risks?
project charter
Which input may influence quality assurance work and should be monitored within the context of a system for configuration management?
project documents
