EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Halfway through a project, the sponsor states that the project is taking too long to complete. Which of the following should the project manager consult?

Question2: Project stakeholders have asked the team to use Scrum to run a software implementation project. Which of the following is most likely to take place during a Scrum ceremony?

Question3: Following a successful release, a project manager sent a survey to all stakeholders to gain an understanding of opportunity areas for the team. Which of the following can use the survey results as an input?

Question4: Which of the following should be the PRIMARY basis for establishing metrics that measure the effectiveness of an information security program?

Question5: During a gate review meeting, the deliverable was rejected by the customer.
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Question6: Although a project was successfully released into production a month ago, a project manager continues to receive project-related work. Which of the following is the reason for this issue?

Question7: Which of the following BEST illustrates how team members with different roles should interact on the team?

Question8: During an agile project, a team member checked the project artifacts in order to anticipate when all the work should have been completed. Which of the following charts was the team member most likely consulting?

Question9: During quality analysis, different team members are identifying multiple constraints. Which of the following tools should the project manager adopt first to help track and prioritize a resolution?

Question10: A project manager is assigned an initiative in a highly regulated industry that requires employees to safeguard certain pieces of PII. Which of the following is the best approach for the project manager to keep the information confidential?

Question11: A project manager and team are currently in the planning phase of a project. Which of the following should the team do during this phase?

Question12: During a brainstorming meeting, a project manager identifies multiple techniques that will help the project team ensure confidence and alignment with the project scope and goals. Which of the following plans is the project manager creating?

Question13: In order to complete a major project deliverable, very specialized resources are required for some tasks. The PM failed to take into consideration during planning that the required resources would be available for fewer hours than required. Which of the following should the PM do first to make schedule changes?

Question14: A PM learns about some communication issues with different stakeholders and team members. Which of the following should the PM do NEXT?

Question15: Which of the following is a quality assurance tool?

Question16: Which of the following tools is best to use when conducting project meetings across time zones?

Question17: A project manager identifies stakeholders who will be impacted when a new product is delivered to the company. The project manager notices that more stakeholders will be positively impacted than negatively impacted. Which of the following actions should the project manager take?

Question18: A financial manager reports that several employees' allocations from the past month appear to be 200% even though they are only assigned to a particular project. Which of the following could MOST likely be the cause of this issue?

Question19: A project manager reports that the implementation of a new system is on track to be completed under budget and ahead of the schedule. A stakeholder then asks the manager to add mobile device functionality. Which of the following should the project manager do in response to the request?

Question20: One of the key steps in controlling changes lo software is obtaining approval. Which of the following statements best describes the reason for this key objective?

Question21: A stakeholder works in a remote location and has not been replying to emails. The Internet service in that location is intermittent, and the stakeholder prefers to be contacted by telephone. Which of the following artifacts should the project manager have prepared to avoid this situation?

Question22: To gather requirements from stakeholders, the project manager sits down with them and allows them to discuss freely. Which a following technique is the project manager utilizing?

Question23: During the execution phase, a new PM was assigned to a project. The PM received a request to add new functionality to the system that is being developed. While the PM was conducting a preliminary review with the team, the technical lead highlighted that this functionality request was rejected during the planning phase.
Which of the following documents is the best source for the PM to use to confirm this assertion?

Question24: After a migration was completed and a financial system was deployed, users have been unable to issue payment orders. Which of the following should be implemented?

Question25: By developing a project schedule, a PM has already validated the constraints, outlined the duration of the tasks and the phases, and confirmed the proper sequence and flow of the project. Which of the following activities still needs to be performed to complete the schedule?

Question26:
Given the following network diagram:
Which of the following is the critical path?

Question27: An organization was fined due to an audit finding that revealed a third-party vendor was able to see secured project information in a recently implemented system. Which of the following was the cause of this situation?

Question28: Given the following information:

Which of the following represents the critical path of the project?

Question29: Which of the following offers administrators more direct control over operating systems?

Question30: The project team determines that software installation can only begin after the desktops have been installed and can be powered on. Which of the following dependencies does this represent?

Question31: A third party needs to perform a short-term task for which the duration cannot be accurately estimated and the cost cannot be calculated in advance. Which of the following should the project manager put in place before work begins?

Question32: A project sponsor asked the PM to provide a summary of the current financial status. The PM uses the following burn up chart for the analysis:

Based on the chart, which of the following is the current status of the project?

Question33: A PM is working on the schedule for a project that has technical tasks and requires a SME's knowledge. The PM decides the best way to track this project is to have the project lead provide high-level updates. Which of the following is the best tool to track this data?

Question34: Which of the following BEST identifies the intent and purpose of a project closeout report?

Question35: During the testing phase of a project, the regression test fails due to a specific item that is disrupting the entire system. Which of the following documents should the project manager use to identify who requested this item?

Question36: Which of the following is the main reason for documenting artifacts?

Question37: Which of the following contract types in project procurement has the highest risk for the buyer?

Question38: Which of the following is required to provide a hardware installation with a Tier 5 redundancy level?

Question39: After determining the appropriate maintenance window, which of the following should occur NEXT in the operational infrastructure change process?

Question40: Which of the following provides the best justification for undertaking a project?

Question41: Two team members have a minor disagreement on how a task should be performed. The project manager plans to meet with the team members to discuss the matter. Which of the following techniques should the project manager use to emphasize the areas of agreement and downplay the opposing views?

Question42: A project manager prefers to have immediate contact with team members because it allows for faster response times and more interactive discussions. Which of the following communication methods should the project manager use?

Question43: A key stakeholder recommends to a senior developer that a new feature be added. The new feature is not part of the current requirement documentation. Which of the following is MOST likely happening?

Question44: For an upcoming project kickoff. a PM is looking for a way to illustrate roles for major project activities.
Which of the following would be the MOST useful option?

Question45: A company needs to have structured cabling installed in one of its buildings. Which of the following would be the best document for the company to use to obtain and compare information on cabling services and costs from various vendors?

Question46: During the planning phase, a PM reviews the SOW from the contractor, grades the full-time equivalents' resumes, evaluates the titles and salaries, and estimates the number of hours for each milestone by full-time equivalents. The PM is most likely:

Question47: A project manager is monitoring team performance by comparing committed versus completed work. The project manager creates the following:


Which of the following most likely represents the number of items in the backlog?

Question48: A project was closed according to the planned project schedule. Security teams later identified that one of the contractors stole data after the project's closure. Which of the following would have most likely prevented the data from being stolen?

Question49: Which of the following tools is best to use for storing lessons learned?

Question50: A client provides a project plan to the assigned project manager and suggests that the project manager and team just need to execute the plan. Upon further investigation, the document contains:
* Purpose
* Scope of work
* Location of work
* Period of performance
* Deliverables schedule
* Applicable standards
* Acceptance criteria
* Special requirements
* Payment schedule
Which of the following documents did the client provide to the project manager?

Question51: A project team selected a random sample of patient accounts for testing the deliverable. The data was masked since it contained patient names. Which of the following describes this type of data?

Question52: Which of the following criteria would favor using the agile methodology to manage an upcoming project?

Question53: A project manager is leading the implementation of a new service for a well-known, global company for which brand image is most important. The project will rely on contracted services. As part of the request for proposal process, the project team has identified a short list of vendors to submit proposals. Which of the following items should the project team consider as a primary factor to remove a vendor from consideration?

Question54: After months of recruiting, a team finally found the right candidate for a very specific coding language assignment. Due to this delay, the team has a tight timeline without any float. A day before the candidate is scheduled to join the team, the project manager realizes the candidate has a non-compete agreement from the previous employer. Which of the following should the project manager do?

Question55: A team is analyzing the backlog in order to decide what to include in the next sprint. Which of the following aspects is the most important for the team to take into consideration?

Question56: During a code implementation, a senior developer and junior tester are discussing the testing scenarios that were performed. A major malfunction resulted in an inoperative product condition. As a result, the team was forced to work until midnight to restore operations. Which of the following should the PM have generated FIRST to alleviate the impact of this issue prior to deployment?

Question57: A project manager is receiving reports of the actual project expenditures and, based on this information, is making adjustments to the budget. In which of the following phases does this occur?

Question58: A piece of equipment has malfunctioned and is stalling the completion of a deliverable for a project. Which of the following should the project manager do next?

Question59: While developing a project charter, a PM discovers that some of the legal requirements have not been addressed during the project concept preparation, which could result in significant financial penalties against the organization. The PM knows that implementation of appropriate changes is costly and will exceed the budget and scope of the project. Which of the following should the PM do FIRST?

Question60: During a staff meeting, a project manager voices a concern about the client billing rate for a particular engineer. Which of the following documents would the project manager need in order to find this information?

Question61: A project team gathers weekly to review its progress. Which of the following is the project manager MOST likely to have prepared to ensure team members who are absent remain informed about assignments?

Question62: A project manager is in the closing phase of an IT asset refresh project that involves the disposal of several computers. The project sponsor notified the project manager that the company recently received a penalty as a result of disposing of some computers improperly. Which of the following should have been considered during initial planning to prevent this situation?

Question63: A project team evaluated the performance of a new reporting system and the quantity of queries to be processed during predetermined time stamps.

Which of the following is the current status of the process?

Question64: An institution wants to implement software solutions to help manage the internal flow for formally responding in writing to citizens' complaints. Which of the following solutions would be BEST?

Question65: A visual that displays team progress was created for stand-up meetings. Which of the following BEST describes what is being represented on the visual?

Question66: Following the approval of a change by the CCB, which of the following should a project manager consider next when deploying a new networking device into an existing production environment?

Question67: A project manager is assigned to a multinational project with team members from different continents. Which of the following is the MOST important aspect for the project manager to consider?

Question68: Which of the following metrics BE ST measures the alignment of the information security program to operational objectives?

Question69: Which of the following describes three-tier architecture?

Question70: A development team, which is working on a software project demonstrates software functionality 10 project stakeholder a week before the implementation date. Several stakeholders comment that the software does not meet the communicated expectations. Which of the following tools should the project manager use to validate the functionality?

Question71: Which of the following software programs would be BEST to use lo store information related to business transactions?

Question72: A PM received feedback from the project sponsor that the resources involved in the project are unsure of their daily activities. Which of the following is the MOST effective step for the PM to take to ensure clarity within the team?

Question73: While working in a collaborative, online brainstorming session, team members send private messages to the facilitator about challenges understanding others when they are speaking due to accents and background noises. Which of the following should the facilitator do to overcome the challenges?

Question74: Which of the following BEST describes how an organization should coordinate management of multiple related projects?

Question75: Which of the following should be considered first when determining the privacy management for project data?

Question76: Which of the following would be considered operational security?

Question77: A project manager receives an escalation from an external group reporting that an expected deliverable should have been available some time ago. After analysis, the project team realizes the deliverable was provided on time. Which of the following should the project manager do next?

Question78: A PM has identified all the resources involved in a project. The next step is to identify which resources are responsible for which tasks. Which of the following should be used to document this information?

Question79: A project manager does not have the power to reward team members when they accomplish something or penalize them when they fail to perform well. As a result, the project manager is having issues with team members. Which of the following describes this organizational structure?

Question80: A project manager has been assigned to a new project. During the planning phase, the project manager needs to get an understanding of the purpose of the project. Which of the following should the project manager do?

Question81: A PM is working on the preliminary scope statement and identifies that this project has the same approach as another project that was completed last year. Which of the following actions would the PM most likely perform?

Question82: How does data discovery assist with data classification'?

Question83: As part of the planning phase, a PM has defined tasks, durations, resources, and costs. Which of the following is the NEXT step in the process?

Question84: A risk management team for a software project decided to outsource the development of a specific portion of a system due to a lack of internal resources. Which of the following risk responses does this demonstrate?