Quiziz Week 2 Day 4

A project manager is about to close a project that missed its performance goals. The project manager is gathering the information that is most pertinent to the project’s poor performance. Which of the following is least likely to help in this task?

• Risk report
• Project team assignments
• Assumption log
• Change log

A project manager has taken over a project early in its execution. The company has a policy that specifies the minimum frequency for conducting risk audits on all projects. What should the project manager do to determine the timing of the risk audits for this particular project?

• Look in the project management plan
• Check the applicable policy in the organizational process assets
• Review the risk register for risk audit information
• Use discretion to determine when and if a risk audit is needed

As part of project planning, a team member is using the resource breakdown structure and RACI chart. What process would benefit the most from these techniques?

• Control Costs
• Plan Resource Management
• Identify Stakeholders
• Manage Project Knowledge

While updating the monthly cost reports, you have discovered that an error was made in the original funding request. As a result, the budgeted amount approved was higher than the project actually needed. You understand that the cost baseline should be updated. What should you do next?

• Issue a change request
• Update the cost baseline
• Prepare cost estimates
• Issue work performance reports

The project manager and members of the project team start an Ishikawa diagram for a quality issue. Someone writes down 'source material' as a potential cause. What is the next best action for the project manager?

• Instruct the production department to stop using the source material
• Request the team to brainstorm other possible causes of the quality issue
• Suggest switching from the Ishikawa diagram to the cause-and-effect diagram
• Direct the team to focus on issues from the customer perspective of quality

A project team is testing a prototype of a new drone. Something goes wrong and causes the drone to crash and explode.Fortunately, this risk has been identified early in the project, and the contingency reserves allocated for the risk are sufficient to construct another prototype. What should the project manager do next?

• Submit a change request to update the cost baseline
• Use the contingency reserves to construct a new prototype
• Submit a change request to tap into the contingency reserves
• Terminate the project since the only prototype was destroyed

A project sponsor asks the project manager how well the project is doing in terms of budget. The project manager reviews work performance data and informs the sponsor that the project is doing well. What is wrong with the project manager's approach?

• Nothing is wrong with the project manager's approach.
• The project manager should have reviewed work performance information.
• The project manager should have reviewed the cost baseline.
• The project manager should have consulted the accounting department.

The sponsor asked the project manager to share the project progress and recommunicate project objectives to the stakeholders. After reviewing the communications management plan and the stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager decides that a presentation at the upcoming project status meeting would be the best way to share the information. The presentation is well received with a lot of positive feedback. Which of the following should the project manager update?

• Project communications log
• Organizational process assets
• Communications management plan
• Stakeholder engagement plan

A supplier that the project is using to subcontract some of the project work has delivered all the contracted work. Which value does the project manager attribute to the accepted deliverable?

• Net present value
• Earned value
• Accepted value
• Planned value

A project manager is in the process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints. What would be the most likely outcome of this process?

• Schedule register
• Assumption log
• Schedule model
• Stakeholder register