PRE TEST

When activity resources cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the resources are estimated by decomposing the work into more detail. Then, the estimates are aggregated into totals for each of the activity's resources. This technique is known as:

• Bottom-up estimating
• Analogous estimating
• Parametric estimating
• Top-down estimating

The buyer-seller relationships in a project can exist between organizations internal to and external to acquiring organization. The seller manages the work documented in the procurement contract. During the life cycle of the contract the seller can play a role of:

• Bidder, selected source, and vendor
• Client, contractor, purchaser
• Buyer, selected source, and purchaser
• Supplier, buyer, and customer

Monitor and Control Project Work is the process of tracking, reviewing, and regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan. Which of the following are inputs to this process?

• Expert judgement
• Project management plan updates
• All of the above
• Organizational process assets

The activity list, activity attributes, and milestone list are outputs of which process

• Develop Schedule
• Estimate Activity Durations
• Define Activities
• Estimate Activity Resources

You established ground rules in your project to reduce disputes, increase productivity, and improve communication, and conveyed these rules to the project team. Who should enforce these rules in the project once they are established?

• Project team members
• Stakeholders
• Project manager
• Sponsor and Project manager

RAM is used to illustrate the connections between work packages or activities and project team members. Another name for RAM is

• Responsibility assignment matrix
• Relationship association matrix
• Resource allocation manual
• None of the above

Earned value management (EVM) in its various forms is a commony used method of performance measurement. It integrates scope, cost, and schedule measures to help the project management team assess and measure project performance and progress. Which of the following may be used in measuring and/or managing earned value

• Planned value
• Earned value
• All of the above
• Actual cost

You are in-charge of a precision instrument manufacturing project. Customers in your project are very specific about the number of defects during executing phase. Which of the following techniques in the monitor and control risks process are used to measure and compare the number of defects during project execution to the allowed defects in the project management plan?

• Defect analysis
• Reserve analysis
• Ishikawa diagram
• Technical performance measurement

Risks are inevitable in a project and they originate from uncertainties. A risk may have one or more causes and if realizes risk can cause impact on one or more project objectives. The cause of a risk can be:

• A requirement
• All of the above
• A condition
• A constraint

Several group activities can be organized to identify project and product requirements. One activity uses a selected group of experts to answer questionnaires and provide feedback regarding the responses from each round of requirements gathering. These responses are only available to the facilitator in order to maintain anonymity. This activity is called

• The Delphi Technique
• Nominal group technique
• Brainstorming
• Affinity diagram