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Which tools and techniques are used during the Collect Requirements process?

A. Interviews and focus groups
B. Product analysis and inspection
C. WBS and WBS dictionary
D. Variance analysis and decomposition

Answer: A. Interviews and focus groups
The Collect Requirements process tools and techniques include interviews, focus groups, facilitated workshops, group creativity techniques, group decision making techniques, questionnaires and surveys, observations, and prototypes.

Risk audits are often used in which process?

A. Plan Risk Responses
B. Identify Risks
C. Plan Risk Management
D. Monitor and Control Risks

Answer: D. Monitor and Control Risks
Risk audits is a tool and technique of the Monitor and Control Risks process.

You and your sponsor agree to passively accept the quality risk of using a non-certified engineer on the project. What will you be doing?

A. Nothing. You will only react if the risk event occurs.
B. Find a way to decrease the probability or impact of the risk.
C. Create a contingency plan in the event the risk event occurs.
D. Insure the risk so your company can be compensated if the risk event occurs.

Answer: A. Nothing. You will only react if the risk event occurs.
Passive acceptance means that you do not do anything unless the risk event occurs. If that is the case, then a workaround is created at that time. Typically this strategy is for risks that have a low probability and/or low impact. Decreasing probability or impact is a mitigation response while insurance is a transfer response.

What is the only output of the Distribute Information process?

A. Organizational process assets updates
B. Communications management plan
C. Stakeholder register
D. Performance reports

Answer: A. Organizational process assets updates
Organizational process assets updates is the only output of the Distribute Information process.

Jennifer is the project manager of a highly visible project which includes a contract that specifically names resources. The identification of these resources prior to the project start is known as:

A. Negotiation
B. Pre-assignment
C. Staffing management plan
D. Acquisition

Answer: B. Pre-assignment
Any time a project member is identified before a project begins, it is called pre-assignment.

Jim had his project’s key deliverable approved by his sponsor. Which process did he just complete?

A. Control Scope
B. Approve Scope
C. Verify Scope
D. Define Scope

Answer: C. Verify Scope
Accepted deliverables is the main output of the Verify Scope process.

Which tool and technique is used throughout the entire Integration process group?

A. Project charter
B. Expert judgment
C. Project management plan
D. Organizational process assets

Answer: B. Expert judgment
Expert judgment is the only tool and technique that spans across every process in Integration. All other choices listed are inputs and/or outputs.

When applying six sigma, what is the approximate number of expected defects out of every 1,000,000?

A. 0
B. 3
C. 27
D. 600

Answer: B. 3
Six sigma represents 99.9997% defect-free, which is 3.4 out of every 1,000,000.

What term best describes the person who provides financial resources to the project?

A. Sponsor
B. Project manager
C. Customer
D. Resource manager

Answer: A. Sponsor
The sponsor is either a person or group who funds the project.

While working on a project to relocate hazardous materials from one location to another, you are asked to work with the company’s risk manager to monitor how the project may impact the communities during and after the project. The professional responsibility term that describes this :

A. Conflict of interest
B. Probability and impact matrix
C. Unethical behavior
D. Social-economic-environmental-sustainability

Answer: D. Social-economic-environmental-sustainability
Social-economic-environmental-sustainability means that the project may produce effects long after its completion.