Question 1

You are the project manager of the GHY Project. This project is scheduled to last for one year and has a BAC of $4,500,000. You are currently 45 percent complete with this project, though you are supposed to be at your second milestone which accounts for half of the project completion. There have been some errors in the project which has caused you to spend $2,073,654. What is this project's schedule performance index?

Options :

A : 1.02

B : 0.98

C : 0.90

D : -$108,120

Answer: C

Question 2

Mark is the project manager of the NHQ Project. Mark wants to create a salience model as part of his communications planning and scheduling. What does a salience model do for a project?

Options :

A : Describes classes of stakeholders based on their power, urgency, and legitimacy

B : Classifies stakeholders based on their influence and impact.

C : Describes classes of stakeholders based on their power and influence.

D : Groups stakeholders based on their power and interest.

Answer: A

Question 3

Holly is the project manager for her organization. Her current project is running late and her project customer has asked Holly to find a method to apply corrective actions to the project schedule. Holly is exploring the concept of crashing the project. Which of the following statements is true about crashing the activities in Holly's project?

Options :

A : The activities to be crashed must have additional quality control metrics associated with them

B : The activities to be crashed cannot be of fixed duration

C : The activities to be crashed cannot have risks associated with them greater than 0.80.

D : The activities cannot be on the critical path in order to be crashed.

Answer: B

Question 4

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are calculating the performance indexes of your project. The cost variance (CV) of your project is 30. What does this figure depict?

Options :

A : Project is behind the schedule

B : Costs are higher than planned

C : Costs are right on target

D : Costs are lower than planned.

Answer: D

Question 5

If you are the project manager of the BNQ Project and you add "waiting time" between two activities, then what have you added in the project?

Options :

A : You have added lag time to the project activities

B : You have added management reserve to the project activities.

C : You have added lead time to the project activities.

D : You have added float to the project activities.

Answer: A

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