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2801.

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

2802.

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

2803.

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

2805.

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.

2806.

In an agile approach to project management, requirements classified as “epics” are decomposed into:

Select one

User stories

Work packages

WBS elements

WBS dictionary

2807.

Megawatt is estimating the expected cost of a new ERP system deployment project using the actual costs of an earlier similar ERP system deployment project as the basis for the cost. This is what type of estimating?

Select one

Analogous

Bottom-up

Expert Judgment

Parametric

2808.

Costs incurred in one area of a project can offset costs in another area of the same project. However, it is not enough to consider only the costs of project execution when making project decisions. What other costs external to the project must also be considered?

Select one

Operating costs

Costs of conformance

Planning costs

Initiating costs

2809.

Your company is way behind schedule in the deployment of a government-mandated change to a health care processing system that must be in production by the end of the year. To meet the due date, you and your team have met and decided to hire an additional 50 programmers to work with the existing staff. This is an example of what?

Select one

Crashing

Resource Leveling

Fast Tracking

Risk Transference

2810.

The cost estimates for a project are in the range of +/- 5 %. What phase is the project likely to be in?

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