Project Control Technician EPA Sample Quiz 1

Which of the following is used to measure the financial effectiveness and efficiency of a project?

• Schedule Variance (SV)

• Actual Cost (AC)

• Earned Value (EV)

• Cost Performance Index (CPI)

Which of the following is NOT an objective of Integrated Change Control?

• Managing actual change or changes as they occur

• Forecasting the cost of all remaining project work

• Determining that a change has occurred

• Influencing the factors that create changes to ensure that changes are beneficial

Which of the following elements belongs in the Controlling process group of the project and NOT the Planning process group?

• Risk definition

• Risk quantification

• Risk response development

• Risk control

When you want to compare the ratio of budgeted versus actual hours (or euros) spent on a task, which type of financial variable will you use?

• Index

• Cost

• Portion

• Variance

“At a fundamental level, _________ means that a product or service meets applicable requirements (customer, regulatory, or other).” What is the missing word?

• Output

•  Capability

• Quality

• Quantity

Which of the following is not a key element of short-term planning?

• What work needs to be done within the next four weeks

• What were the reasons for any noncompleted work

• How will the success of the completed work be measured

• How the previous week’s work performed against plan

Which purpose applies to the ‘What If’ schedule?

• To record what happens during the project life compared to baseline

• To show the chances of a specific event occurring within a planned schedule

• To encourage completion ahead of schedule in the short term

• To ascertain the impact of scope changes on the baseline schedule

Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence:

 

Unused budget from closed work packages should ________ be transferred to other Work Packages or Planning Packages.

• never

• with approval

•  infrequently

• always

What are the three ‘I’s’ of stakeholders?

• Importance, inquiry, and influence

• Interest, influence, and importance

• Interest, influence, and involvement

• Interest, influence, and impact

Identify the missing word in the following sentence:

Resources that constrain the project delivery rate are called ________ Resources.

•  Predecessor

• Baseline

• Labour

• Critical