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1)

A project manager is managing a web-based application project to automate the accounting processes of his organization. The project has an estimated budget of $120,000 and a duration of nine months. While reviewing the project, the project manager notices that activities were scheduled in sequential order but coding work was initiated twelve days earlier than planned. What type of relationship represents the start of the coding work to the completion of the design work?

Group of answer choices

Start-to-finish with a twelve-day lead

Finish-to-start relationship with a twelve-day lag

Finish-to-start relationship with a twelve-day lead

Start-to-finish with a twelve-day lag

2)

Steve has just been assigned as a project manager for a newly approved software development project. The sponsor is interested in knowing a high-level estimation of the total duration of the project and asks Steve to send him the information by the end of the day. What kind of estimate should Steve use in this kind of situation?

Group of answer choices

An analogous estimate

A heuristic estimate

A three-point estimate

A bottom-up estimate

3)

You are overseeing a project to implement a web-based traffic monitoring system. You have requested three programmers, three database developers, and two testers; senior management only approved five team members for your project. Which one of the following may you use to produce a resource-limited schedule by letting the schedule slip and cost increase in order to deal with a limited amount of resources, resource availability, and other resource constraints?

Group of answer choices

Crashing

Resource leveling

Fast-tracking

Critical path method (CPM)

4)

You asked one of your team members about the schedule variance (SV) for one of her key deliverables. She mentioned that she is behind schedule but there would not be any cost variance. Which of the following is NOT true in this case?

Group of answer choices

CPI is I

EV and PV were the same

EV is less than PV

EV and AC were the same

5)

You are working on a project to convert an old nursing home to a new office complex. While reviewing the progress of your project, you found out that your EV = $26,000 and AC = $27,000. One of your site supervisors calls to inform you that there are several damages in the foundation that were not discovered earlier, and it will result in a significant cost overrun. What will you do FIRST?

Group of answer choices

Call the sponsor immediately and inform her that additional funds will be needed.

Evaluate the cause and size of this cost overrun.

Ask the supervisor to figure out why these damages were not discovered earlier.

Make sure that the contingency reserves you have will be sufficient enough to cover the cost overrun.