Question 1

You are in the process of creating the Scope Baseline of your project and have broken the high level features into assignable work packages. What will you do next?

A)  Create a Schedule Network Diagram to show where those work packages will fit in your project schedule
B)  Create an Activity List of activities needed to complete the work packages
C)  Assign the work packages to people on a first come, first served basis.
D)  Create the WBS Dictionary, and assign each activity a unique identifier, acceptance criteria and milestones.

Question 2

Your project is about three fourths done when the site engineer reports that due to inherent complexities a certain deliverable will be delayed as they work through the solution. He makes a request for this new work to be added to the scope and schedule of your project. You work with the engineer to analyse the impact of this change to cost, and write up a change request for approval from change control board. They have approved the change. What will you do next?

A)  Start work immediately, you shouldn’t delay any further
B)  Determine the impact of this change to scope , schedule and cost before making any change
C)  Perform Quality Assurance on the change, so it doesn’t happen again
D)  Before implementing the change, update the scope and schedule baseline and note the approved change in the change log.

Question 3

You are in reviewing the defect list with your project team and have found that many of the issues could have been prevented by using a simple code review checklist. You prepare a code review checklist and ensure the code is reviewed as per the checklist. This is called:

A)  Preventive Action
B)  Corrective Action
C)  Defect Repair
D)  Quality Control

Question 4

Your team is performing quality inspection and testing of the product, and some defects have been raised. Because they are small, the quality manager wants to just fix them immediately and keep quality testing – she doesn’t want to have to make extra paperwork. What will you do next?

A)  Ask your quality manager to fix the defects quickly and move on, so there is no delay
B)  Ask your quality manager to calculate the adjustments to schedule and cost and update the project management plan
C)  Analyse the impact to cost and schedule, then ask your quality manager to raise a change request for the change to the product.
D)  Remove the items from the project. If they are no longer in scope, no paperwork is needed.

Question 5

You are a project manager working closely with the customers of the project. During one conversation, a key customer executive mentioned they will need a particular feature not mentioned in the project scope statement. What should you do next?

A)  Explain the change procedure and ask them to submit a request for change
B)  Add the additional requirements to the project plan – the customer is most important.
C)  Go ahead and create the main features and then see if the customer still wants the extra feature when they see it.
D)  Discuss the feature with the other customer representatives to see if they change their mind.