Don is the project manager of the NQP project for his organization. This project is scheduled to
last for 18 months and will have several elements of the project that have government regulations.
Management is concerned with the regulations and would like Don to report on the activities that
will be affected by the regulations. Which of the following documents should Don refer to, for the
information on the activities and the regulations?

You are the project manager for your organization. You have been recording the actual results of
activity duration for your project. Many of the results are late and this is causing your project to be
late on reaching its milestones. What tool and technique can you use as a part of controlling the
schedule to help you review various scenarios to bring the schedule into alignment with the plan?

You are the project manager for the GHB Organization. Management has asked that you review
your recent SPI to determine why there was a schedule variance. They’d also like you to explain
what approach you’ll do to counteract the SPI going forward in the project. You complete the
variance analysis and report to management that you’ll be fast tracking a portion of your project
work. What will be the management’s concern with, when it comes to fast tracking the project?

Donna’s project has a budget at completion of $1,987,560 and she is currently 40 percent
complete. Her project schedule called for her to be 45 percent complete but there have been some
complications in the project. These complications have caused Donna to spend $125,000 more
than what the work she has completed is worth. Based on this information what is the cost
performance index (CPI) for Donna’s project?

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Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase. The ________is defined in terms of either the product
or the type of customer or industry sector.

You are the project manager for your organization. Your project is doing fine on time and cost, but
management wants to address the project performance for future accomplishment. Management
has asked you to begin reporting and forecasting your project’s health based on a moving
average, extrapolation, trend estimation, and growth curve. What type of forecasting method is
management asking you to use?

Kenny is the project manager for the NHQ organization. She is creating the project duration
estimates. She has stressed to her project team that they will need to create accurate and reliable
project duration estimates without padding their estimates for errors or risks. Kenny is also relying

on historical information to help her predict the duration of the project work. Jennifer, one of the
project team members, wants to know how Kenny will account for the certain-to-happen errors and
delays in the project schedule. What approach should Kenny use in the project?

John is the project manager for the ABC project. He is finalizing the budget of the project. He is
concerned about the direct costs involved in the project. Which of the following can be considered
a direct cost in the project?

Which of the following group activity techniques allows a large number of ideas to be sorted into
groups for review and analysis?

Which of the following techniques is used to perform progressive elaboration planning where the
work to be accomplished in the near future is planned in detail at a low level of the work
breakdown structure?