During a simple home repair project, Eva is planning on putting two coats of paint on her dining room. After the second coat of paint dries, she intends to hang up a picture of her family in the room. The activity relationships described in this example are known as:

A. Soft logic
B. Lag
C. Mandatory dependencies
D. Critical path

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An output of a scope process that links requirements to their origin is called:

A. WBS dictionary
B. Requirements traceability matrix
C. Scope baseline
D. Requirements documentation

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Projects and operations have similarities and differences. Which of following is true?

A. Projects are performed by teams, operations are performed by individuals
B. Projects are temporary, operations are ongoing
C. Projects are planned, operations are executed
D. Projects are limited by constraints, operations are not

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You have just been hired as a project manager for a telecommunications company. You are tasked with managing a project that will create smaller cellular phones. The business case for this is based on:

A. Organizational need
B. Strategic offering
C. Social need
D. Technological advance

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Part of your project includes the construction of a new room and although it is not your company’s core competency, you decide to perform a make-or-buy analysis. After you conduct your due diligence and make your decision, you will be creating a request for proposal. Which process are you working on?

A. Plan Procurements
B. Select Sellers
C. Conduct Procurements
D. Plan Contracting

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While monitoring and controlling risks on a project, one of the tools a project manager could use compares the amount of the contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining to determine if the remaining reserve is adequate. This is called:

A. Reserve analysis
B. Performance report
C. Risk audit
D. Variance and trend analysis

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As a senior project manager, Jim is asked to review the work of other project managers in the organization. Wendy, a fairly new project manager, is working with her team to sequence activities. One thing Jim should ensure is that Wendy has already performed the __________ process.

A. Develop Schedule
B. Estimate Activity Resources
C. Define Activities
D. Estimate Activity Durations

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Your project team currently consists of you and three others. If you add one more individual to the team, making a total of five people, how many more communication channels will you have?

A. 3
B. 4
C. 6
D. 10

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Which of the following estimating types provides the most accuracy?

A. Parametric
B. Analogous
C. Bottom-up
D. Top-down

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A quality management tool used to determine show cause and effect is:

A. Decision tree
B. Pareto diagram
C. Control chart
D. Fishbone diagram

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