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2791.

Jack is the project manager of a project that is halfway through its execution. He is currently looking at the work schedule. He adjusts a few of the schedule milestones and imposes date constraints for some of the work packages. This relates to which of the following processes?

Select one

Control Quality

Develop Schedule

Control Scope

Control Schedule

2792.

As a project manager, you are concerned with both prevention and inspection of errors in a work product. The difference between prevention and inspection is:

Select one

Inspection is work the Quality Control (QC) team does; the Quality Assurance (QA) team does Prevention.

Inspection refers to keeping errors out of the process; prevention refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.

Inspection and prevention refer to the same activity depending on what stage of the project the activity is done.

Prevention refers to keeping errors out of the process; inspection refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.

Select one

The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is much less than the cost of preventing them.

The cost of preventing mistakes is generally much less than the cost of correcting them as revealed by inspection.

It does not matter where a defect is captured as long as the finished work product does not have a defect.

The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is more or less the same as the cost of preventing them since the same effort goes into both activities.

2794.

A storm has damaged the manufacturing facility that is under construction as part of your project. You have just discovered that although the project risk management plan mandated that the facility have insurance against damage and loss, this policy was never acquired, and the project budget must cover the losses. Who is at fault?

Select one

The risk manager

The project manager

The facilities manager

The construction crew

2795.

You have a schedule activity that can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any subsequent activities. This is an example of:

Select one

Free Float

Lead Float

Total Float

Lag Float

2796.

As the project manager of a project, you had estimated certain activity durations before acquiring all project team members. On acquisition, you find that their actual competency levels are much lower than what you anticipated. In such a case, you will:

Select one

Make changes to activity duration and schedule incorporating the changed competency levels

Make no changes to the schedule

Ask the project team members to meet the original schedule by putting in overtime, if required

Inform the customer that the project is behind schedule

2797.

You have completed a milestone in your software development project, and you are now verifying that the product meets the specifications outlined in the project management plan. In which process group is this process?

Select one

Monitor and Controlling

Closing

Executing

Planning

2798.

Which of the following may help in ensuring that certain bidders in the procurement process do not receive preferential treatment and that all prospective sellers have a clear and common understanding of the procurement?

Select one

Use of expert judgment

Use of bidder conferences

Use of weighted criteria

Use of screening techniques

Select one

Different aspects of product development

Competing project constraints

Design assumptions

Discretionary dependencies

2800.

Which of the following statements regarding Resource Leveling and Resource Smoothing is correct:

Select one

Neither Resource Leveling nor Resource Smoothing alters the project’s critical path.

Resource Leveling can cause the projects’ critical path to change, while Resource Smoothing doesn’t alter the project’s critical path.

Resource Smoothing can cause the original critical path to change, while Resource Leveling doesn’t alter the project’s critical path.

Both Resource Leveling and Resource Smoothing can alter the project’s critical path.

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