Which of the following deprecistion methods depreciates the same amount (or percent) each year by dividing the assets cost by the number of years it is expected to be in service?
Straight line
Declining Balance
Sum-of-Years Digits
Units of Time
2. Multiple Choice
2 minutes
5 pts
Diana is the project manager for a complex project. Diana suspects that some of her project team members are filling false claims and having false invoices reimbursed. The invoice charges are being charged to the project budget. During which of the following processes can Diana confirm her suspicious regarding her project teams actions?
Validate Scope
Control Scope
Control Costs
Control Schedule
3. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Which of the following is not part of Project Cost Management?
Estimating
Budgeting
Controlling
Sequencing
4. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Which of the following statements regarding the Budget at Completion (BAC) and the Estimate at Completin (EAC) is correct for any project?
The BAC is always greater than the EAC
The EAC is always greater than the BAC
he BAC is always equal to the EAC
The BAC is not dependent on the EAC
5. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
What is the total approved plan for the project work to which the project execution is compared known as?
Earned Value (EV)
Cost Variance
Management Reserves
Performance Measurement Baseline
6. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
According to the approved plan, Flora should have completed the site inspection, site excavation, lay foundation, and assemble tower tasks. What is the projects current Cost Variance (CV)[Gambar Chapter 7 No 6]
-1200
1200
-7500
7500
7. Multiple Choice
2 minutes
5 pts
Crystal is making a presentation on her projects during a board meeting. Although Crystal knows that the project is behind schedule and will be at least a month late, she announces that by the end of her project, her projects total schedule variance will be zero. As the board members do not understand Earned Value Management (EVM) Crystal explains that the schedule variance is calculated by subtracting the projects total planned values from the projects total earned value. What can be concluded from this information?
Crystal is an ethical project manager
Crystal is stating the facts
Crystal is lying
Crystal is trying to deceive the board members
8. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
In Kims current project, some of the activity costs deviated from the baseline by $150. This seems to be low but she wants to verify the project documents to see if the deviation is within the threshold. Where should she look for control threshold information?
Cost Management Plan
Performance Measurment Baseline
Coast Performance Baseline
Organizational Process Assets
9. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Which of the following components of the Project Management Plan is/are specifically considered during the Contol Costs process?
Cost Performance Baseline
Cost Management Plan
oth Cost Performance Baseline and Cost Management Plan
Cost Perfoemance Baseline, Cost Management Plan and Activity Cost Estimates
10. Multiple Choice
2 minutes
5 pts
Which of the following statements regarding Earned Vale (EV) is correct?
The EV being measured is always greater than 1
The EV is not used to measure the Cost Performance Index (CPI)
The EV measure is always greater than the authorized Planned Value Budget for a component
The term EV is often used to describe the percentage completion of project
11. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Which of the following processes develops an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?
Estimate Costs
Determine Budget
Control Costs
Approve Costs
12. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Determine Budget process?
Planning Meetings and Analysis
Cost Aggregation
Historical Relationships
Funding Limit Reconciliation
13. Multiple Choice
2 minutes
5 pts
Which of the following formulas is used to calculate the EAC forecast for ETC work performed at the present CPI?
AC + bottom-up ETC
AC + BAC – EV
BAC / cumulative CPI
AC + [(BAC – EV) / (cumulative CPI x cumulative SPI))]
14. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
What is a Sunk Cost?
Unrecoverable cost
Hidden cost
Depreciated cost
Discounted cost
15. Multiple Choice
2 minutes
5 pts
The following Gantt chart displays the schedule for telecom site construction project. It contains seven activities and a hammock activity. The chart also displays various activity metrics. According to the original plan the first two activities should have been completed along with 50% of the work on the third activity, Perform Civil Works. However, only the first two activities have been completed and for some reason, no work has been performed on the third activity. What is the projects current SPI? [Gambar Chapter 7 No 15]
0.5
2
1
0
16. Multiple Choice
2 minutes
5 pts
Which of the following indicates the relationship among the Direct and Manage Project Work, Control Cost and Determine Budget processes?
Both the Direct and Manage Project Work and the Determine Budget processes provide inputs to the Control Cost process
The Direct and Manage Project Work process provides inputs to the Control Costs process which then provides inputs to the Determine Budget process
The Determine Budget process provides inputs to the Control Costs process which then provides inputs to the Direct and Manage Project Work process
The Determine Budget process provides inputs to the Control Costs process but these processes are not related to the Direct and Manage Project Work process
17. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
hich of the following is not an input to the Determine Budget process?
Resource Calendars
Activity Cost Estimates
Approved Change Request
Agreements
18. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Which of the following Earned Value measurements is project cost trend indicator?
Cost Performance Index (CPI)
Schedule Variance (SV)
ost Variance (CV)
stimate at Completion (EAC)
19. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Which of the following will be true about the value of the CPI at the end of any project?
It would be zero
t would be negative
It would be positive
Cannot be determined
20. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Which of the following Depreciation Methods provides for a higher write-off early on as compared to other methods?