Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?


A. Project team
B. Focus group
C. Change control board
D. Project stakeholders

Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?


A. Estimate Costs
B. Control Costs
C. Determine Budget
D. Plan Cost Management

Which item is an input to the Define Activities process?


A. Schedule data
B. Activity list
C. Risk register
D. Scope baseline

What is the schedule performance index (SPI) if the planned value (PV) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $150, and the earned value (EV) is $50?


A. 0.50
B. 0.67
C. 1.50
D. 2.00

Scope, schedule, and cost parameters are integrated in the:


A. Performance measurement baseline.
B. Analysis of project forecasts,
C. Summary of changes approved in a period,
D. Analysis of past performance.

A technique used to determine the cause and degree of difference between baseline and actual performance is:


A. Product analysis.
B. Variance analysis.
C. Document analysis,
D. Decomposition.

Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is used to document changes that occur during the project?


A. Issue log
B. Change log
C. Expert judgment
D. Change requests

A pipe manufacturer for a water pipeline project conducts sample testing without the presence of the client's quality assurance manager. The quality management plan clearly states that the client and quality assurance manager must be present during such tests.
The manufacturer, however, insists that such approvals are unnecessary due to its longstanding business relationship with the client.
What should the project manager do?


A. Reinspect the batch of pipes tested.
B. Formally communicate to the manufacturer its noncompliance with the quality management plan.
C. Meet with the manufacturer to ensure cooperation and collaboration.
D. Register the incident in the issue log, and inform management.

A project team delivers a system in its pilot phase, and the customer identifies an issue that affects the end users. After the project team works on the issue for a week, the customer informs the project manager's supervisor that the issue is not being addressed
and requests immediate action.
What should the project manager do next?


A. Review the project register and take appropriate action.
B. Review the Perform Integrated Change Control process and take appropriate action.
C. Review the quality management plan and take appropriate action.
D. Review the communications management plan and take appropriate action.

An agile team meets at the end of a sprint to compile the retrospective. A team member mentions that the IT maintenance manager revealed that their team is unanimously opposed to the software platform change introduced in the previous sprint. The project
manager discovers that the IT maintenance manager was defined as an external stakeholder in the stakeholder engagement plan.
What should the project manager do to prevent further disruptions of this type?


A. Update the user story and definition of done (DoD) to include a description of the platform change.
B. Revise the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix to flag this manager as resistant to the project.
C. Consult all external stakeholders to determine the preferred software platform, and update the product backlog accordingly.
D. Amend the communications management plan to ensure that external stakeholders are properly involved with communications.