Sensitivity analysis is a technique for systematically changing parameters in a model to determine the effects of such changes and is useful for computer modelers for a range of purposes. Which of the following purposes does the sensitivity analysis include? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Estimating the average outcome
B. Model development
C. Decision making or the development of recommendations for decision makers
D. Increased understanding or quantification of the system
You are the project manager for the ABC organization. Your current project has 75 internal stakeholders and 245 external stakeholders. Many of the risks within your project will only affect the internal stakeholders, but several of the identified risk events will affect the external stakeholders. Management would like to know the total number of communication channels in the project. How many communication channels exist in this project?
A. 245
B. 51,040
C. 102,080
D. 320
What approach can a project manager use to improve the project's performance during qualitative risk analysis?
A. Focus on near-term risks first.
B. Create a risk breakdown structure and delegate the risk analysis to the appropriate project team members.
C. Focus on high-priority risks.
D. Analyze as many risks as possible regardless of who initiated the risk event.
Your project has several risks that may cause serious financial impact should they happen. You have studied the risk events and made some potential risk responses for the risk events but management wants you to do more. They'd like for you to create some type of a chart that identified the risk probability and impact with a financial amount for each risk event. What is the likely outcome of creating this type of chart?
A. Risk response
B. Quantitative analysis
C. Contingency reserve
D. Risk response plan
After years of experience, a project manager becomes the lead manager for a company. This new lead manager asks all project managers to use a specific technique when they perform qualitative risk analysis on their projects. This technique consists of achieving the relative weighting of the project's objectives in terms of priority to the stakeholders.
What is the name of this technique?
A. Relative Weighting of the objectives of Stakeholders (RWS)
B. Objectives Stakeholders Weighting (OSW)
C. Quantitative Weighted Analysis (QWA)
D. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Which of the following describes a difference between qualitative and quantitative risk analysis?
A. Quantitative risk analysis addresses individual risks descriptively; qualitative risk analysis predicts likely project outcomes based on combined effects of risks.
B. Quantitative risk analysis adds to the risk register, qualitative risk analysis leads to quantitative risk analysis.
C. Quantitative risk analysis prioritizes individual risks for subsequent treatment, qualitative risk analysis leads to quantitative risk analysis.
D. Qualitative risk analysis addresses individual risks descriptively; quantitative risk analysis predicts likely project outcomes based on combined effects of risks.
The expected monetary value of a project is above US$1 million. The risk manager is concerned about this situation, and decides to review the related plans and processes to evaluate the degree of variation from the baseline. Next, the risk manager needs to document the results of such an analysis.
What is the best document for the project manager to reference to find out where the results of such an analysis should be documented?
A. Communications management plan
B. Issues log
C. Risk management plan
D. Lessons learned
Critical deliverables are delayed, because a key subject matter expert (SME) does not have enough time to allocate to the tasks. How could the situation be improved for the future?
A. Cross train others to reduce the SME workload.
B. Introduce scope reductions to limit the reliance on SMEs.
C. Replace the SME with resources, who are responsible for receiving output from the SME on their deliverables.
D. Extend the project schedule timeline to accommodate availability of the SME.
During a risk reassessment workshop with the project team and some external stakeholders, two key external stakeholders are overemphasizing the impact of a few project risks. This has led to a conflict.
How should the risk manager handle this situation?
A. Request for a skilled facilitator to help resolve conflicts that have arise.
B. Refer to the team's ground rules on how to resolve conflicts.
C. Run a sensitivity analysis to check which risks have the most impact.
D. Use the assumption analysis techniques to validate the assumptions.
An organization that spans across different countries undergoes a digital transformation project. The project manager has assigned a risk management team leader who is a risk management certified candidate in their domain.
What should the risk management team leader do in the early stages of the project?
A. Conduct qualitative risk analysis to prioritize potential risks.
B. Plan a solid risk response plan and secure the necessary funding.
C. Educate stakeholders on best practices to perform risk management.
D. Benchmark to an organization which has executed a similar project,