As a project manager, you are aware that changes are bound to occur during projects. While monitoring and

controlling change on your projects, you use the term scope creep. What does the term refer to?

a) Uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources

b) Controlled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources

c) Manageable expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources

d) Unmanageable expansion to product or project scope with adjustments to time, cost, and resources

3) In your project, a team member suggested the addition of a functionality, which she thinks, will improve

customer satisfaction. Your approach would be to:

a) Allow for the functionality, because satisfying the customer is your objective.

b) Disallow the new requirement, because it changes the project scope, and the customer did not explicitly state

this requirement.

c) Make changes to the project plan to accommodate the new requirement

d) Ask the customer for additional funding to implement the requirement

4) Which cost estimating technique costs the least and saves the most time?

a) Parametric estimating

b) Bottom-up estimating

c) Analogous estimating

d) Three-point estimates

5) Which of the following statements on quality planning is inaccurate?

a) Quality planning is performed in parallel with the other project planning processes.

b) During quality planning, you should be aware of governmental regulations, rules, standards, and guidelines

specific to the application area.

c) You can use DOE to help identify which factors may influence specific variables of a product or process under

development.

d) During quality planning, you can use change requests to take corrective or preventive action or to perform

defect repair.

6) The Cost Performance Index (CPI) of a project is 0.8 and you have a limited budget. You are planning to

procure a product from the supplier. In this situation, you should:

a) Ask the supplier to supply a product of slightly lower quality, since it will cost less.

b) Try innovative means to lower costs.

c) Remove non-critical tasks from the project schedule.

d) Try to crash the project as shortening the project schedule decreases costs.

7) Two project team members disagree often on the best way to handle an issue. You ask them to look at the positives

and negatives of their approaches and submit their recommendations, which could be a "middle path".

Which of the following conflict resolution techniques have you used?

a) Smoothing

b) Compromising

c) Confrontation

d) Withdrawal

8) Based on past estimates, there is a 25% probability for a particular event to occur every year. If a project lasts for

three years, what is the probability of the event happening in the third year?

a) 15.625 %

b) 6.25 %

c) 25%

d) 75%

9) The value of work actually accomplished is also known as

a) Planned Value

b) Earned Value

c) Actual Cost

d) Budgeted Cost for Work Scheduled (BCWS)

10) You are the project manager with seven team members. One more member will be joining the team after a week.

What will be the number of communication channels once the new member joins your team?

a) 28

b) 21

c) 18

d) 36