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1Your program has 121 stakeholders that you'll need to communicate with. Your communications management plan defines how the communication should happen, what should be communicated, and the expected modality of the communications. You'll also need which one of the following as an input to the information distribution process in your program?
Change requests
Earned value management results
Stakeholder analysis plan
Performance reports
Answer: C
2You are the program manager of the BHG Program. One of the projects in your program will be using new materials that are somewhat untested. You are worried that there may be delays and waste because the project team is unaware of how to accurately use these materials. You elect to send the people that will be using the new materials through training on how to complete their project work. You also allow them to purchase some of the materials to experiment on their use before the actual project work is to be done. You want to ensure that mistakes do not enter into the project. What type of action have you provided in this scenario?
This is an example of a preventive action.
This is an example of team development.
This is an example of quality assurance.
This is an example of a corrective action.
Answer: A
3A risk response in a project in your program has actually caused new risks. What term is assigned to the new risks that a risk response has created?
Reactionary risks
Chain risks
Secondary risks
In flux risks
Answer: C
4You are the program manager for your organization. You have proposed a program that will cost $750,000 and will last for four years. Management is concerned with the cost of the program in relation to the return your program will bring. If the rate of return is six percent what is the minimum value your project should return in four years based on the investment of the program?
$750,000
$795,000
$750,001
$946,857
Answer: D
5You are the project manager for the JJY Project, which is similar to the HHG Project you managed last quarter. You would like to model the current project scope on the previous project to save time and effort. This is an example of what kind of scope definition?
Analogous estimating
Organizational process assets
Parametric scope definition
Template driven
Answer: D
6What quality control chart compares two or more variables over time to determine how closely the variables may be related to one another?
Run chart
Scatter diagram
Control chart
Pareto diagram
Answer: B
7All of the following are resources that need to be monitored and controlled except for which one?
Equipment
Staff
Quality
Facilities
Answer: C
8What schedule analysis simulation tool allows you, the project manager, to review possible combinations of events such as optimistic, most likely and pessimistic outcomes for your project?
pert
gert
pmis
Monte Carlo
Answer: D
9All of the following are resources that you will need to monitor and control in a program environment except for which one?
Staff members
Contracts
Quality
Equipment
Answer: B
10What cost estimating approach uses the work breakdown structure to create a cost estimate?