Agile Practice Guide Q's PDF

**Week 3** When estimating labour costs for a team that is co-located you should ensure you account for... A. The resource doing the work B. Government payroll taxes C. Where the work is being done D. Commuting costs of the team Correct Answer: A The main reason you should attach a level...

**Week 3** When estimating labour costs for a team that is co-located you should ensure you account for... A. The resource doing the work B. Government payroll taxes C. Where the work is being done D. Commuting costs of the team Correct Answer: A The main reason you should attach a level of accuracy with all estimates is to... A. Protect yourself from being fired B. Show the uncertainty in the estimate C. Give you room to add change requests D. Frustrate the customer Correct Answer: B In looking at the people available for your project, there is a capability gap. Which of the activities would you NOT do to address the gap? A. Arrange for training B. Assign a mentor C. Contract out the work D. Change the project scope Correct Answer: C You have a person assigned to your project part-time. They will spend 50% of their time on your project. From past experience, the productivity is 80%. You have estimated that the task is 10 days of effort. With the person assigned, what duration should you now use? A. 10 days B. 12.5 days C. 20 days D. 25 days Correct Answer: D Which of the following estimation methods has the highest effort? A. Bottom-up B. Parametric C. Analogous D. Expert Knowledge Correct Answer: A Optimistic bias can be a problem with estimates. One of the ways to reduce the impact of optimistic bias is to: A. Use analogous estimating B. Use expert judgement C. Use 3-point estimates D. Do not use subject matter experts Correct Answer: C Your client has repeatedly said the project must be on time. The budget is running over. What should you do? A. Determine if the client will live with the cost overrun B. Do trade-off analysis to reduce the cost C. Redo the budget to ensure you are on budget D. Do nothing, time will take care of things Correct Answer: A The project contingency is used to... A. Pay for change requests B. Cover the costs of unknowns-unknowns C. Pay team bonus D. Cover the cost of risks that occur Correct Answer: D **Week 4** The type of dependency that is created by legal, contractual, or inherent in the nature of the work is called: A. Mandatory B. Discretionary C. External D. Internal Correct Answer: A A critical path is defined as: A. The shortest path through the network diagram B. The longest time to complete the project C. The path with free float on all the activities D. The path with no float on all the activities Correct Answer: D When crashing the project schedule, you should focus on the activities that: A. Have the lowest cost B. Are the least disruptive to the project team C. Are on the critical path D. Can be contracted out Correct Answer: C An activity can be crashed by: A. Fast-tracking B. Doing more testing C. Changing resources D. Removing scope Correct Answer: C You finally have a schedule that meets the constraint date, so now you turn your attention to the resources. Unfortunately, you discover that a couple of resources are overloaded. Why should you address the over allocation? A. You can ignore the over allocation, it will sort itself out B. Staff can only physically work so many hours each day C. You need to meet the project objective of being on time D. You need to ensure the client is happy by having happy staff Correct Answer: B You have a project that has high risk, but it is very short. How should you handle schedule contingency? A. Use three-point estimating for each activity B. Use buffers around the project's key milestones C. Put the contingency at the end of the project D. Do not include contingency in the project schedule Correct Answer: C **Week 3 & 4** You\'ve been watching how one of your team members has approached completing their work package. This person had four weeks to complete the work package. In the first couple of weeks, there was not much focus; but in the last week, the team member was very focused and worked extra hours. What are you observing? A. Parkinson\'s law B. Student syndrome C. Murphy\'s law D. Padding Correct Answer: B Your project is over budget, and you are trying to determine the cause. You are reviewing the estimates provided by team members to create the cost baseline. The estimates are organized by work package, and you have the spreadsheet that was used, but it is difficult to determine what is happening since all of the team members who provided the estimates have already left. What is the one thing you wish was provided with the estimate? A. List of assumptions B. Link to strategy C. Link to requirements D. Who approved the estimates Correct Answer: A You have just finished gathering the project requirements and you are building the WBS. There is still a lot more planning to do, including assigning resources. However, the project sponsor wants an update on the budget to see where things stand. What level of accuracy is required? A. Budget B. Rough order of magnitude C. Definitive D. Detail Correct Answer: A What to do now? You have the perfect person assigned to your project and you have just found out the person has resigned and is not available. You are looking at the project team and the resource pool and there is not a replacement. For this project, you cannot contract out the work due to the nature of the work, but luckily you have ample budget and extra time. What is the best option? A. Change the scope of the project B. Offer the person a bonus to stay C. Train another team member D. Do nothing and see what happens Correct Answer: C You have a small team of three people working on the project part-time. The team will spend 50% of their time on your project. You have noticed that the team\'s productivity is 75%. You have estimated that the team will take a total of 120 hours of effort. If the labor rate is \$50 per hour what estimate should you use? A. \$2,000 B. \$4,000 C. \$6,000 D. \$8,000 Correct Answer: D What a frustrating meeting. You were reviewing your proposed budget with finance, and you discovered that you had missed some significant costs. The good news is that the finance staff showed you how to calculate the cost and you can do it quickly. The bad news is that you\'re going to have to explain to your boss. What cost did you miss? A. Overhead costs B. Labor costs C. Profit D. Project management Correct Answer: A You are meeting with your team to develop an estimate for implementing a new software application. After much discussion, the team agrees that it will most likely take 12 weeks. However, several members have mentioned some potential problems, and if those occur it could take 26 weeks to complete the work. On the other hand, a couple of team members have figured that if everything goes well, it could be done in 20 days. What is your estimate? A. 12 weeks B. 26 weeks C. 14 weeks D. 13 weeks Correct Answer: D Your project requires a key resource with very specific skills. The best way to ensure the resource is available to your project when required is to... A. Add the requirement to the risk register B. Do nothing, it will work out in the end C. Change the scope of the project so the resource is not required D. Ensure the resource is pre-assigned to the project Correct Answer: D The most common reason to compress a project schedule is to meet a constraint date. Another reason to compress a project schedule is to... A. Force the critical path to change B. Reduce overhead costs C. Reduce the project\'s overall costs D. Reduce the risk level of the project Correct Answer: B You\'ve been working with your team to develop a detailed estimate of the project. The team has completed the estimates and the total is \$20,000 for labor and \$10,000 for material. Your organization has a 20% overhead on labour and adds a further 10% on project costs excluding any contingency. In addition, the results from the risk analysis show that you need a 15% contingency on the total cost. What is the budget for your project to the nearest thousand? A. \$42,000 B. \$41,000 C. \$37,000 D. \$43,000 Correct Answer: D On a network diagram activity, D has 5 days of total float. If D takes 4 days longer to complete than planned, the impact of this delay is... A. The impact cannot be determined without a schedule model B. The overall duration does not change, but the successors start 4 days later C. There is no impact on the successors, they start a scheduled D. The overall duration of the project is delayed by 4 days Correct Answer: B You're meeting with the team to discuss how to crash the project schedule. One of the team members offers to work overtime to complete their tasks sooner. You\'ve decided to decline the offer. What is the most likely reason you are declining the offer? A. You do not want other team members to work overtime B. Overtime will decrease the quality of the project C. The team member's activity is not on the critical path D. There was no reason not to accept the offer from the team member Correct Answer: C Your team has recommended to fast track your project by overlapping development and testing. What cost concern would you have with this recommendation? A. Overtime due to overallocation B. Not having enough office space C. Increase of an opportunity risk score D. Reduction of the number of defects Correct Answer: A You are reviewing the resource profile of your project and you noticed that some of the key resources are overallocated on certain days, but when you look at the schedule by week, they are still over-allocated but only by an hour or two. What should you do? A. Move activities with float to resolve the overallocation B. Do nothing, the staff can figure it out C. Lengthen the schedule to remove the overallocation D. Adjust the duration of the activities to remove the overallocation Correct Answer: B You have completed your risk analysis of schedule risks. The schedule has several constraints that must be met. You have a number of very well-defined risks. Where should you place the schedule contingency? A. At the end of the project B. Prior to each milestone C. Do not include any contingency D. Included in each activity Correct Answer: B In reviewing the schedule with your team, you identified an opportunity to introduce five days of overlap between activities A and B. Activity A occurs first. How would you show this overlap on the schedule? A. Activity B has a dependency with activity A of finish to start with a 5-day lag B. Activity A has a dependency with activity B of finish to start with a 5-day lead C. Activity B has a dependency with activity A of finish to start with a 5-day lead D. Activity A has a dependency with activity B of finish to start with a 5-day lag Correct Answer: C