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D. Update the appropriate project planning document to reflect the change.

6. Stakeholders have come to you to tell you they want to change the scope. Before
agreeing to the change, what things should you do? Choose two.

A. Determine which project constraint (time, budget, quality) is most important to
stakeholders.

B. Discuss the proposed scope change with the sponsor.

C. Ask team members what they think about the scope change.

D. Define alternatives and trade-offs that you can offer the stakeholders.

E. Implement the change.

7. You have just received the latest status updates from the team. Based on the

progress to date, system testing is projected to take three weeks longer than
planned. If this happens, user acceptance testing will have to start three weeks late,
and the project will not complete on the planned finish date. The customer
scheduled the user acceptance testing participants weeks in advance. What is the
best course of action?

A. Explain to the test team that system test must end on the scheduled date, and
they are accountable for the accuracy of the testing results.

B. Meet with the test team to determine the cause of the delay. If you determine
that there are not enough testers to complete all of the scenarios in the time
allotted, work with the sponsor to secure additional testers to complete the
system test as planned.

C. Submit the change request to the CCB and, if it’s approved, baseline the
schedule again.

D. Escalate the issue of the system test delay to the sponsor, and let them decide

what action to take.

8. What is the technique of looking at the trade-offs between producing goods or
services internally vs. procuring it from outside the organization?

A. Cost estimating

B. Vendor selection criteria

C. Staff augmentation

D. Make-or-buy analysis

9. Your project is in danger of being canceled because of an organizational change.

Despite the protests of your executive manager, several of the department
managers in your old company have been laid off and replaced by the new
organization’s management team. Which of the following options does this scenario
describe?

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