Project Cost Management Practice Test! Trivia Quiz
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When you are preparing a project, it is important to have a laid out plan of what you plan to accomplish with the project and how you aim to do so. When it comes to project cost management, it is important to ensure that keep tabs on what is being done and if does not go out of your cost budget. Test out what you know about the topic below.
- 1.Which of the following best describes analogous estimating?
- A.
Regression analysis
- B.
Bottom-up estimating
- C.
Less accurate
- D.
More accurate
- 2.
- A.
Parametric modeling
- B.
WBS
- C.
Project scope
- D.
Requirements document
- 3.You are the project manager for the JKH Project. You have elected to use parametric estimating in your cost estimating for the project. Which of the following is an example of parametric estimating?
- A.
$750 per ton
- B.
Historical information from a similar project
- C.
Estimates built bottom-up based on the WBS
- D.
Estimates based on top-down budgeting
- 4.You are the project manager for a new technology implementation project. Management has requested that your estimates be as exact as possible. Which one of the following methods of estimating will provide the most accurate estimate?
- A.
Top-down estimating
- B.
Top-down budgeting
- C.
Bottom-up estimating
- D.
Parametric estimating
- 5.
- A.
You haven't completed one hotel room yet, so you don't know how long the work will actually take.
- B.
You have not factored in all of the effort applied to the work.
- C.
You have not considered the law of diminishing returns.
- D.
You have not considered the learning curve.
- 6.You are the project manager for a construction project to build 17 cabins. All of the cabins will be identical in nature. The contract for the project is set at a fixed cost, the incentive being that the faster the project work is completed, the more profitable the job. Management has requested that you study the work method to determine a faster, less costly, and better method of completing the project. This is an example of which one of the following?
- A.
Time constraint
- B.
Schedule constraint
- C.
Value engineering
- D.
Learning curve
- 7.You are the project manager for a technical implementation project. The customer has requested that you factor in the after-the-project costs, such as maintenance and service. This is an example of which one of the following?
- A.
Life-cycle costs
- B.
Scope creep
- C.
Project spin-off
- D.
Operations
- 8.Which one of the following provides the least accuracy in estimating?
- A.
Rough order of magnitude
- B.
Budget estimate
- C.
Definitive estimate
- D.
WBS estimate
- 9.
- A.
The cost management plan controls how change management affects the BAC.
- B.
The cost management plan controls how cost variances will be managed.
- C.
The cost management plan controls how the project manager may update the cost estimates.
- D.
The cost management plan controls how the BAC may be adjusted.
- 10.
- A.
10 percent
- B.
$75,000
- C.
$25,000
- D.
Not enough information to know
- 11.You and your project team are about to enter a meeting to determine project costs. You have elected to use bottom-up estimating and will base your estimates on the WBS. Which one of the following is not an attribute of bottom-up estimating?
- A.
People doing the work create the estimates.
- B.
It creates a more accurate estimate.
- C.
It's more expensive to do than other methods.
- D.
It's less expensive to do than other methods.
- 12.
- A.
$100,000
- B.
$79,000
- C.
$25,000
- D.
Zero
- 13.
- A.
Cost estimates and project schedule
- B.
Cost estimates and supporting detail
- C.
EAC and BAC
- D.
A parametric model to arrive at the costs submitted
- 14.
- A.
Planned value
- B.
Present value
- C.
Sunk costs
- D.
Capital expenditure
- 15.
- A.
Not enough information to know
- B.
8 months
- C.
72 months
- D.
5 years
- 16.You are the project manager for a consulting company. Your company has two possible projects to manage, but they can only choose one. Project KJH is worth $17,000, while Project ADS is worth $22,000. Management elects to choose Project ADS. The opportunity cost of this choice is which one of the following?
- A.
$5,000
- B.
$17,000
- C.
$22,000
- D.
Zero, as project ADS is worth more than Project KJH
- 17.You are the project manager for the CSR Training Project, and 21,000 customer service reps are invited to attend the training session. Attendance is optional. You have calculated the costs of the training facility, but the workbook expense depends on how many students register for the class. For every 5,000 workbooks created, the cost is reduced by a percentage of the original printing cost. The workbook expense is an example of which one of the following?
- A.
Fixed costs
- B.
Parametric costs
- C.
Variable costs
- D.
Indirect costs
- 18.You are the project manager of a construction project scheduled to last 24 months. You have elected to rent a piece of equipment for the duration of a project, even though you will need the equipment only periodically throughout the project. The costs of the equipment rental per month are $890. This is an example of which of the following?
- A.
Fixed costs
- B.
Parametric costs
- C.
Variable costs
- D.
Indirect costs
- 19.You are the project manager for the Hardware Inventory Project. You have a piece of equipment that was purchased recently for $10,000 and is expected to last five years in production. At the end of the five years, the expected worth of the equipment will be $1,000. Using straight-line depreciation, what is the amount that can be written off each year?
- A.
Zero
- B.
$1,000
- C.
$1,800
- D.
$2,000
- 20.
- A.
$29,000
- B.
$290,000
- C.
$96,666
- D.
$9,666
- 21.
- A.
$65,000
- B.
$39,000
- C.
$26,000
- D.
$64,999
- 22.
- A.
$240,000
- B.
$270,000
- C.
$30,000
- D.
-$30,000
- 23.
- A.
100
- B.
89
- C.
0.89
- D.
0.79
- 24.You are the project manager for the Facility Installation Project. The project calls for 1,500 units to be installed in a new baseball stadium. Your team wants to know why you have not assigned the same amount of time for the last 800 units as you had for the first 500 units. You tell them it is because of the learning curve. Which one of the following best describes this theory?
- A.
Production increases as workers become more efficient with the installation procedure.
- B.
Efficiency increases as workers become more familiar with the installation procedure.
- C.
Costs decrease as workers complete more of the installation procedure.
- D.
Time decreases as workers complete more of the installation procedure in the final phases of a project.
- 25.Of the following, which one is the most reliable source of information for estimating project costs?
- A.
Historical information from a recently completed project
- B.
An SME's opinion
- C.
Recollections of team members that have worked on similar projects
- D.
Vendors' whitepapers
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