1. Your project is slightly behind schedule, and you have not yet made a full impact assessment to make associated project changes to accommodate it. The weekly project status meeting is this afternoon, and because of your conference call schedule this morning you will not be able to complete the assessment to report to in the meeting. However, this is only a minor delay and you do not want anyone to worry unnecessarily. What is the best response? A. Use contingency reserves to compensate for the delay and report that progress is as planned. B. Report the actual status of the project in the meeting, and assure the project team that additional updates will be coming soon. C. Inform the project team the progress is slightly behind schedule, and use the contingency reserves to cover the delay. D. Say nothing about the delay at this time, and report that there are no major issues. 2. You are involved as project manager in a fairly large-sized project. You are in the process of making a procurement decision and plan to go with a simple purchase order. However, you are doubtful whether this is the correct thing to do and decide to find out more details about the process to be followed. Based on your findings, which of the following would be correct? A. A simple purchase order is not appropriate for project. The project manager should always use the Request for Proposal (RFP) route. B. Organizational process assets are guidelines available to the project. As project manager you have the final decision making authority and can decide whether to go in for a simple purchase order or not. C. The value of the project is immaterial. As project manager, you have the final decision making authority to go in for a simple purchase order as long as you are contracting with an approved vendor D. You would need to verify the policy constraints that form part of the Organizational process assets. Many organizations have policies that constrain procurement decisions and require use of a longer form of contract for projects above a certain value. 3. Which of the following is an output of the Define Activity process? A. Milestone list B. Project schedule activity diagrams C. Resource calendar D. Activity duration estimates