EMT Practice Test

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Question1: You are the project manager of the NKJ Project for your company. The project's success or failure will have a significant impact on your organization's profitability for the coming year. Management has asked you to identify the risk events and communicate the event's probability and impact as early as possible in the project. Management wants to avoid risk events and needs to analyze the cost-benefits of each risk event in this project. What term is assigned to the low-level of stakeholder tolerance in this project?

Question2: John is the project manager of the NHQ Project for his company. His project has 75 stakeholders, some of which are external to the organization. John needs to make certain that he communicates about risk in the most appropriate method for the external stakeholders. Which project management plan will be the best guide for John to communicate to the external stakeholders?

Question3: Ned is the project manager of the HNN project for your company. Ned has asked you to help him complete some probability distributions for his project. What portion of the project will you most likely use for probability distributions?

Question4: You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are about to complete the quantitative risk analysis process for your project. You can use three available tools and techniques to complete this process. Which one of the following is NOT a tool or technique that is appropriate for the quantitative risk analysis process?

Question5: Which of the following frameworks is for enterprise architecture, and provides a comprehensive approach to the design, planning, implementation, and governance of an enterprise information architecture?

Question6: Which of the following stages of the Forrester's IT Governance Maturity Model states that there are no proper IT governance processes, and it is not documented by management as a requirement?

Question7: Which of the following frameworks defines ERM as the discipline by which an organization in any industry assesses, controls, exploits, finances, and monitors risks from all sources for the purpose of increasing the organization's short- and long-term value to its stakeholders?

Question8: 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.

Question9: Which of the following essential elements of IT Portfolio Investment Management drives better decisions by providing real-time portfolio performance information in personalized views, such as cost/benefit summary, risk versus reward, ROI versus alignment, and balance bubble charts?

Question10: Which of the following are the categories of IT-related spending or investments defined by the META group? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question11: Which of the following individuals provides the funding, and want to see the return on their investment and strategic alignment with their strategic objectives?

Question12: Which of the following problems occur with performance measurement systems that limit their usefulness?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question13: Which of the following techniques is used for understanding the "environment" in which a business operates?

Question14: Which of the following quadrant analysis identifies the key issues of anticipation of business needs, service levels over cost, and business enablement and facilitation (removal of obstacles)?

Question15: Which of the following processes is responsible for low risk, frequently occurring low cost changes?

Question16: Which of the following responsibilities are performed by the core team of IT governance? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question17: You are a management consultant. WebTech Inc., an e-commerce organization, hires you to analyze its SWOT. Which of the following factors will you not consider for the SWOT analysis?

Question18: Which of the following phases in SDLC transforms the detailed requirements into complete, detailed system design document?

Question19: Which of the following roles in Service Design is responsible for delivering a particular service within the agreed service levels and also acts as the counterpart of the Service Level Manager when negotiating OLAs?

Question20: Which of the following guides provides risk and value statements to help identify and validate the need to execute each control objective?

Question21: Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. An ___________ is a resource, process, product, computing infrastructure, and so forth that an organization has determined must be protected.

Question22: Which volume provides guidance on clarification and prioritization of service-provider investments in services?

Question23: Which positive risk response best describes a teaming agreement?

Question24: Which of the following techniques builds various plausible views of possible futures for a business?

Question25: You work as the project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are monitoring the project performance. You want to make a decision to change the project plan to eliminate a risk in order to protect the project objectives.
Which of the following strategies will you use to tackle the risk?

Question26: Which of the following steps are performed in the Planning phase of IT Assurance methodology? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question27: Event Management, Problem Management, Access Management, and Request Fulfillment are part of which of the following stages of the Service Lifecycle?

Question28: Which of the following essential elements of IT Portfolio Investment Management seamlessly initiates the projects, and incorporates the asset and software development costs to improve the accuracy of ongoing portfolio assessment and project prioritization?

Question29: Which of the following is the amount of risk an enterprise is willing to except in pursuit of its mission?

Question30: Which of the following architecture domains for TOGAF describes the structure of an organization's logical and physical data assets and the associated data management resources?

Question31: Which of the following concepts aims to limit errors to 1 per million units produced?

Question32: Which of the following terms related to risk management represents the estimated frequency at which a threat is expected to occur?

Question33: You are the project manager for ABC project. You are planning for when and how human resource requirements will be met. You are working on ____.

Question34: Which of the following categories describes the value added by the process divided by the value of the labor and capital consumed?

Question35: You are the project manager of the CUL project in your organization. You and the project team are assessing the risk events and creating a probability and impact matrix for the identified risks. Which one of the following statements best describes the requirements for the data type used in qualitative risk analysis?

Question36: You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your project is using a new material to construct a large warehouse in your city. This new material is cheaper than traditional building materials, but it takes some time to learn how to use the material properly. You have communicated to the project stakeholders that you will be able to save costs by using the new material, but you will need a few extra weeks to complete training to use the materials. This risk response of learning how to use the new materials can also be known as what term?

Question37: Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase.
_______are activities that are dangerous to complete and manage such as construction, electrical work, or manufacturing.

Question38: There are five inputs to the quantitative risk analysis process. Which one of the following is NOT an input to the perform quantitative risk analysis process?

Question39: Which of the following frameworks defines ERM as a process, effected by an entity's board of directors, management, and other personnel, applied in strategy setting and across the enterprise?

Question40: Which of the following statements explains the difference between the IT strategy committee and the IT steering committee?

Question41: A service provider guarantees for end-to-end network traffic performance to a customer.
Which of the following types of agreement is this?

Question42: Which of the following functions of HR department is liable for attitude surveys, labor relation, employee handbook, and labor law compliance?

Question43: Holly and Gary are HR Professionals in their organization and they're working to develop the strategic plan for their organization. Holly and Gary are using SWOT analysis to help understand the needs of human, financial, technological, capital, and other aspects of their organization. What is SWOT?

Question44: Which of the following concepts is the business practice of developing and implementing comprehensive risk management and security practices for a firm's entire value chain?

Question45: You are the project manager of the NNN project for your company. You and the project team are working together to plan the risk responses for the project. You feel that the team has successfully completed the risk response planning and now you must initiate what risk process it is. Which of the following risk processes is repeated after the plan risk responses to determine if the overall project risk has been satisfactorily decreased?

Question46: Which of the following planned and purposeful management processes are required by Strategic Alignment? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question47: Della works as a project manager for SoftTech Inc. She is working with the project stakeholders to begin the quantitative risk analysis process. Which of the following inputs will be needed for the quantitative risk analysis process in her project? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question48: Which of the following stages of the Forrester's IT Governance Maturity Model describes that the IT governance processes is fully developed and optimized across the enterprise, and a well-built IT portfolio management process is put to ensure that all IT investment decisions are themselves optimized?

Question49: You are the project manager of a newly formed project to create a new manufacturing facility. You are working with a business analyst to identify, document, and prioritize stakeholders' needs for the facility.
You'll also need to quantify any subjective terms and needs to define the project scope. What is this process called?

Question50: DRAG DROP
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and policies for managing information technology (IT) infrastructure, development, and operations. Drag and drop the ITIL processes that focus on service operation, i.e. operational processes in Service Support, in the correct places.
Select and Place:

Question51: Which of the following resource categories includes costs, productivity, availability, and change and configuration management?

Question52: Which of the following processes contained in the Portfolio Management domain of Val IT establishes an investment threshold?

Question53: Which of the following terms includes performance objectives and criteria (POCs), performance indicators, and any other means that evaluate the success in achieving a specified goal?

Question54: Which of the following processes contained in the Portfolio Management domain of Val IT creates an overall portfolio view?

Question55: You are the project manager for your company and a new change request has been approved for your project. This change request, however, has introduced several new risks to the project. You have communicated these risk events and the project stakeholders understand the possible effects these risks could have on your project. You elect to create a mitigation response for the identified risk events. Where will you record the mitigation response?

Question56: Service Transition contains detailed descriptions of which of the following processes?

Question57: As seen from the perspective of how the enterprise defines and executes business strategies to achieve its goals and objectives, which of the following elements does the ERM comprise of? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question58: Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique is useful for identifying shared characteristics of a stakeholder group?

Question59: Which of the following is a practice of forecasting possible risks to the organization and taking steps to mitigate their impact on operations?

Question60: Which of the following levels of Gartner's cost optimization framework describes the right kind of partnership with IT vendors, which can benefit each party in times of economic upturns?

Question61: Robert is the business analyst for his organization and he's working with several stakeholders to identify the business need for an opportunity. Robert needs to identify the stakeholder that will be responsible for authorizing the actions needed in order to meet the identified business need. Which stakeholder does Robert need to identify?

Question62: Billy is the project manager of the HAR Project and is in month six of the project. The project is scheduled to last for 18 months. Management asks Billy how often the project team is participating in risk reassessment in this project. What should Billy tell management if he's following the best practices for risk management?

Question63: Which of the following processes is described in the statement below?
"This is the process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives."

Question64: Which of the following types of IT organizational structures states that all IT resources are centralized under a single reporting structure with centralized resource allocation (staffing), and the organizational structure is built around the resource pools?

Question65: Which of the following steps of IT governance program decides on the highest priority projects that will help to improve the management and governance of the significant gap areas?

Question66: In which of the following phases of the SDLC does the software and other components of the system faithfully incorporate the design specifications and provide proper documentation and training?

Question67: Which of the following individuals provides service feedback to the providers?

Question68: Which of the following outsourcing defines the performance objectives reached by negotiation between the user and the provider of a service, or between an outsourcer and an organization?

Question69: You are the project manager of the HJK project for your organization. You and the project team have created risk responses for many of the risk events in the project. A teaming agreement is an example of what risk response?

Question70: Which of the following attributes are the COBIT's generic maturity model attributes?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question71: Which of the following examples are included in the general controls embedded in IT processes and services? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question72: Which of the following are the roles of a CEO in the Resource management framework?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question73: Which of the following processes ensures that all vital assets and resources of the organization are safeguarded?

Question74: Which of the following are the main objectives of the Performance measurement domain? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question75: You are the project manager for your organization and you are working with Thomas, a project team member. You and Thomas have been working on a specific risk response for a probable risk event in the project. Thomas is empowered with a risk response and will control all aspects of the identified risk response in which a particular risk event will happen within the project. What title, in regard to risk, is bestowed on Thomas?

Question76: Shawn is the project manager of the WHT Project for his company. In this project Shawn's team reports that they have found a way to complete the project work for less cost than what was originally planned.
The project team presents a new software that will help to automate the project work. While the software and the associated training costs $25,000 it will save the project nearly $65,000 in total costs. Shawn agrees to the software and changes to the project management plan accordingly. What type of risk response has been used in this instance?

Question77: Which of the following are the tasks performed by the Management committee in the Resource management framework? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
Choose all that apply.

Question78: 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?

Question79: Which of the following examples are included in the application controls embedded in business process applications? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
Choose all that apply.

Question80: Which of the following service delivery processes includes controls, document and record, as its sub processes?

Question81: You are the project manager of a large construction project. You are evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats involved in a project. In which of the following processes are you on?

Question82: Which of the following individuals/team allocates business resources for effective IT governance?

Question83: Which of the following are commonly used terms when discussing service improvement outcomes?
1) Improvements
2) Benefits
3) Return On Investment (ROI)
4) Value On Investment(VOI)
5) Resources

Question84: Service Level Management provides for continual identification, monitoring and review of the levels of IT services specified in the service level agreements (SLAs). What are the responsibilities of Service Level Management? Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. Choose all that apply.

Question85: Which of the following individuals ensures that IT complies with policy, laws and regulations?

Question86: Which of the following roles is used to ensure that the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the services are maintained to the levels approved on the Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

Question87: Which of the following sub-processes of Service Portfolio Management is used to define the overall goals that the service provider should follow in its development based on the outcome of Strategic Service Assessment?

Question88: Which of the following strategies includes marketing strategies, new product development strategies, HR strategies and, financial strategies?

Question89: Which of the following service delivery processes has the goal to produce, agreed on, timely, reliable, and accurate reports for the effective communication?

Question90: Which of the following is NOT a sub-process of Service Portfolio Management?

Question91: Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase.
The ________ creates and delivers momentum in gaining executive support, and provides help to set up messaging that is constantly conveyed to motivate the team, and gives information to the stakeholders.

Question92: Which of the following roles is responsible for review and risk analysis of all contracts on a regular basis?

Question93: Which of the following objectives are used by the system to decrease costs or revenues?

Question94: Mark is the project manager of the BFL project for his organization. He and the project team are creating a probability and impact matrix using RAG rating. There is some confusion and disagreement among the project team as to how a certain risk is important and priority for attention should be managed. Where can Mark determine the priority of a risk given its probability and impact?

Question95: Which of the following essential elements of IT Portfolio Investment Management describes the ability to model the IT Portfolio with metrics most appropriate to the business such as ROI, Break- Even, Cost Avoidance, and Revenue Return?

Question96: You are using the IT BSC management tool to apply the practices of IT BSC to the IT function. You want to perform the following functions:
Deliver value

Manage cost

Manage risks

Achieve intercompany synergies

Which process of the IT BSC Measurement tool will you use?

Question97: Which of the following are the main benefits of using Information Services Procurement Library (ISPL)?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question98: Which of the following processes are involved under the COBIT framework? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question99: You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing to conduct stakeholder analysis. As part of this process you realize that you'll need several inputs.
Which one of the following is NOT an input you'll use for the conduct stakeholder analysis task?

Question100: Which of the following is the process of defining the way work is performed and the tasks that a given job requires?

Question101: You are the business analyst for the YGT Organization. You have just completed a capabilities gap assessment and have determined that your organization does not have the necessary resources and technology to seize a business opportunity. What is the most likely course of action for the organization?

Question102: Gary is the project manager of the MMQ project for his company. He is working with his project team to plan the risk responses for his project. Sarah, a project team member, does not understand the process that Gary is using to plan the risk responses. Which approach is the preferred method to address project risks and the risk responses?

Question103: Which of the following guides emphasizes on the fundamental steps for implementing information security within the enterprise, and provides easy to follow guidance for addressing security aspects of IT governance?

Question104: Which of the following are the roles of a CIO in the Resource management framework?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question105: What is the formula for measuring the "usage gap"?

Question106: During qualitative risk analysis you want to define the risk urgency assessment. All of the following are indicators of risk priority except for which one?

Question107: Which of the following individuals supports and contributes to customer's governance approach?

Question108: Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase.
The _________ provides investment management services to the firm and directs on how to take decisions on fund.

Question109: For the entire IT organizations to be agile, all members of the IT organizations need to understand the need for agility and be committed to this process. Which of the following working principles or activity loops are involved for the IT organizations to be agile?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question110: What business analysis element tries to identify as many potential options as possible to meet the business objectives and fill identified gaps in capabilities?

Question111: Which of the following processes contained in the Portfolio Management domain of Val IT identifies resource requirements?

Question112: Which of the following ISO standards defines the corporate governance of IT?

Question113: Which of the following resource categories includes skill sets, certifications, productivity, and morale?

Question114: Which of the following frameworks describes an enterprise view of all project management activities and how these activities contribute to the success of the organization?

Question115: Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase.
_________is the study of how the variation (uncertainty) in the output of a mathematical model can be apportioned, qualitatively or quantitatively, to different sources of variation in the input of a model

Question116: Which of the following processes are covered by Service Strategy? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question117: Which of the following processes contained in the Value Governance domain of Val IT defines information requirements?

Question118: Which of the following objectives are used by the system to increase costs or revenues?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question119: Which of the following domains of COBIT addresses the development of a maintenance plan that a company should adopt in order to prolong the life of an IT system and its components?

Question120: Which of the following processes contained in the Value Governance domain of Val IT establishes the organizational structures?

Question121: Which of the following phases in SDLC provides the basis for acquiring the resources needed to achieve a solution?

Question122: The entry points to Service Strategy are referred to as "the Four Ps". They identify the different forms a service strategy may take. Which of the following is a correct list of the 'Four Ps'?

Question123: Which of the following is a continuous process of comparing performance with desired objectives to identify opportunities for improvement, and is conducted by individuals, groups, or organizations relating to their own work?

Question124: DRAG DROP
Drag and drop the various architecture domains for TOGAF at the appropriate places.
Select and Place:

Question125: Which of the following frameworks describes a standard for processes within business information management at the strategy, management and operations level?

Question126: Which of the following functions are performed by the Future Orientation measure of the IT BSC management tool? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
Choose all that apply.

Question127: Gary has identified a project risk that could injure project team members. He does not want to accept any risk where someone could become injured on this project so he hires a professional vendor to complete this portion of the project work. This workaround to the risk event is known as what type of risk response?

Question128: Which of the following methods offers a number of modeling practices and disciplines that contribute to a successful service-oriented life cycle management and modeling?

Question129: Which of the following is the process of identifying and assessing factors that may jeopardize the success of a project or the achievement of a goal?

Question130: Which of the following factors influence the operating environment of an enterprise?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question131: Which of the following individuals/team advises on infrastructure needs and architectural design?

Question132: An organization supports both programs and projects for various industries. What is a portfolio?

Question133: You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are working on a project and the management wants a rapid and cost-effective means for establishing priorities for planning risk responses in your project.
Which risk management process can satisfy management's objective for your project?

Question134: Which of the following steps are performed in the Scoping phase of IT Assurance methodology? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question135: Mary is the business analyst for your organization. She asks you what the purpose of the assess capability gaps task is. Which of the following is the best response to give Mary?

Question136: Which of the following activity loops emphasizes on monitoring and deciding processes?

Question137: Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase.
The _______ portion of the issue log records the previous pending issues that have been taken care of.

Question138: Ben is the project manager of the CMH Project for his organization. He has identified a risk that has a low probability of happening, but the impact of the risk event could save the project and the organization with a significant amount of capital. Ben assigns Laura to the risk event and instructs her to research the time, cost, and method to improve the probability of the positive risk event. Ben then communicates the risk event and response to management. What risk response has been used here?

Question139: Which of the following processes is responsible for controlling, recording and reporting on versions, attributes, and relationships relating to components of the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure?

Question140: Which of the following phases of IT lifecycle occurs during the concept and idea stages of basic research?

Question141: Which of the following quadrant analysis identifies the key issues of cost containment, predictability or reliability, continual unit cost improvement, and benchmarking for justification?

Question142: You are working with your project stakeholders to identify risks within the JKP Project.
You want to use an approach to engage the stakeholders to increase the breadth of the identified risks by including internally generated risk. Which risk identification approach is most suited for this goal?

Question143: Which of the following IT processes contained in the Deliver and Support domain of COBIT manages the operations?

Question144: You are hosting a collection of stakeholders from across the organization to identify the ideas and attitudes about your company's help desk. You want the stakeholders to honestly share their opinions about the help desk service so you can identify problems, solutions, and take actions to improve the service. What type of requirements elicitation activity is this?

Question145: Which of the following areas addresses the safeguarding of IT assets, disaster recovery and continuity of operations?

Question146: Which of the following strategic issues in the IFAC report highlight the underlying success and failure of enterprises? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
Choose all that apply.

Question147: IT Governance is used by the management to regulate the Information Systems, to accomplish its objectives. IT governance forms an integral part of corporate governance.
Which of the following elements are required to implement a good IT governance framework? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question148: Which of the following types of risks includes currency risk, liquidity risk, and technology obsolescence?

Question149: Which of the following activity loops describes creation of new processes?

Question150: Which of the following techniques seeks to identify the similarities and differences between the groups of customers or users?

Question151: Enterprise analysis provides many things for an organization. All of the following are tasks included in enterprise analysis except for which one?

Question152: Where can a project manager find risk-rating rules?

Question153: Which of the following quadrant analysis identifies the key issues of working well with other functions, IT value realization over time rather than-just cost, and being business process- focused but solution driven?

Question154: Which of the following objectives can be the best coordinated with the Human resource management?

Question155: Which of the following components of COSO ERM framework encompasses the nature of an enterprise, and sets the basis for how risk is viewed and addressed by an organization people, including risk management philosophy and risk appetite, integrity and ethical values, and the environment in which it operates?

Question156: Which of the following process groups is the most efficient at providing resources to the development of the procurement process?

Question157: Which of the following is used as a tool that assists in risk identification?

Question158: In which of the following types of biases does the data collection itself interfere with the process it is measuring?

Question159: Fill in the blank with an appropriate word.
________is also referred to as corporate governance, and covers issues such as board structures, roles and executive remuneration.

Question160: Which of the following risk functions ensures the product/service alignment with the customer requirements?

Question161: A project manager must have certain interpersonal skills to communicate with stakeholders and manage their expectations of the project work. Which of the following interpersonal skills has been identified as one of the biggest reasons for project success or failure?

Question162: Gary is the project manager for his organization. He is working with the project stakeholders on the project requirements and how risks may affect their project. One of the stakeholders is confused about what constitutes risks in the project. Which of the following is the most accurate definition of a project risk?

Question163: Which of the following types of agreement creates a confidential relationship between the parties to protect any type of confidential and proprietary information or a trade secret?

Question164: Which of the following domains of CGEIT aims to guarantee that the IT function remains aligned with the organization's strategic objectives?

Question165: You are interviewing members of a project team to test their understanding of the assigned risk responses as risk owners. You and the project manager are working together to evaluate the risk responses to determine their effectiveness in the project.
What project management technique are you performing with the project manager in this scenario?

Question166: Which of the following components of the COSO ERM identifies the required information, captures it, and communicates it in a form and time frame that enable people to carry out their responsibilities?

Question167: Walter is the project manager of a large construction project. He'll be working with several vendors on the project. Vendors will be providing materials and labor for several parts of the project. Some of the works in the project are very dangerous so Walter has implemented safety requirements for all of the vendors and his own project team.
Stakeholders for the project have added new requirements, which have caused new risks in the project. A vendor has identified a new risk that could affect the project if it comes into fruition. Walter agrees with the vendor and has updated the risk register and created potential risk responses to mitigate the risk. What should Walter also update in this scenario considering the risk event?

Question168: You are the project manager of the NHQ project for your company. You are working with your project team to complete a risk audit. A recent issue that your project team responded to, and management approved, was to increase the project schedule because there was risk surrounding the installation time of a new material. Your logic was that with the expanded schedule there would be time to complete the installation without affecting downstream project activities. What type of risk response is being audited in this scenario?

Question169: What is the major goal of risk management in the decision-making process?

Question170: Which document refers to the steps that must be taken if there is a major gap in the projected delivery quality of a service and the actual delivery?

Question171: You are the project manager of the NGQQ Project for your company. To help you communicate project status to your stakeholders, you are going to create a stakeholder register. All of the following information should be included in the stakeholder register except for which one?

Question172: Which of the following areas concentrates on optimizing expenses, and providing the value of IT?

Question173: The testing methods help in shaping opinion against assurance objectives by combining one or more of the test types. Which of the following are the test types used in this process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question174: You are the project manager of a large project that will last four years. In this project, you would like to model the risk based on its distribution, impact, and other factors.
There are three modeling techniques that a project manager can use to include both event-oriented and project oriented analysis. Which modeling technique does NOT provide event-oriented and project oriented analysis for identified risks?

Question175: Your project team has identified a project risk that must be responded to. The risk has been recorded in the risk register and the project team has been discussing potential risk responses for the risk event. The event is not likely to happen for several months but the probability of the event is high. Which one of the following is a valid response to the identified risk event?

Question176: You are the HR Professional for your organization and you're working with the management to define the role of contractors versus employees in your organization.
According to the Internal Revenue Service, there are three categories of control that help determine whether a person is a contractor or an employee. Which one of the following is not one of the three levels of control as defined by the IRS for employee versus contractor?

Question177: You are the project manager of the GHY Project and would like to perform a review of your project from several different characteristics. You would like to review what worked in the project and what needed improvement. What type of analysis would be most appropriate for the end of project review?

Question178: Benchmarking is a continuous process that can be time consuming to do correctly.
Which of the following guidelines for performing benchmarking identifies the critical processes and creates measurement techniques to grade the process?

Question179: Your project spans the entire organization. You would like to assess the risk of the project but are worried that some of the managers involved in the project could affect the outcome of any risk identification meeting. Your worry is based on the fact that some employees would not want to publicly identify risk events that could make their supervisors look bad. You would like a method that would allow participants to anonymously identify risk events. What risk identification method could you use?

Question180: Which of the following areas focuses on aligning with the business and collaborative solutions?

Question181: DRAG DROP
Val IT is a suite of documents that provide a framework for the governance of IT investments, produced by the IT Governance Institute (ITGI). It is a formal statement of principles and processes for IT portfolio management. Drag and drop the correct domain ('Portfolio management') next to the IT processes defined by Val IT.
Select and Place:

Question182: You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your company. You have completed qualitative and quantitative analysis of your identified project risks and you would now like to find an approach to increase project opportunities and to reduce threats within the project. What project management process would best help you?

Question183: Your project is an agricultural-based project that deals with plant irrigation systems.
You have discovered a byproduct in your project that your organization could use to make a profit you're your organization seizes this opportunity it would be an example of what risk response?

Question184: Which of the following project management plans defines the risk identification, analysis, response, and monitoring strategies?

Question185: Jane is the project manager of the GBB project for her company. In the current project a vendor has offered the project a ten percent discount based if they will order 100 units for the project. It is possible that the GBB Project may need the 100 units, but the cost of the units is not a top priority for the project. Jane documents the offer and tells the vendor that they will keep the offer in mind and continue with the project as planned.
What risk response has been given in this project?

Question186: What project management plan is most likely to direct the quantitative risk analysis process for a project in a matrix environment?

Question187: Which of the following is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements for effective process improvement and guides process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization?

Question188: You are the project manager for your organization. You are preparing for the quantitative risk analysis.
Mark, a project team member, wants to know why you need to do quantitative risk analysis when you just completed qualitative risk analysis. Which one of the following statements best defines what quantitative risk analysis is?

Question189: Which of the following stages of the Forrester's IT Governance Maturity Model describes that the IT governance processes are applied across the enterprise where all business units/entities conform to the same set of IT governance processes, and IT investment decisions are based on the enterprise view?

Question190: TOGAF is based on four pillars, called architecture domains. Which of the following architecture domains provides a blueprint for the individual application systems to be deployed, the interactions between the application systems, and their relationships to the core business processes of the organization with the frameworks for services to be exposed as business functions for integration?

Question191: Which of the following are the objectives of Service Level Management (SLM)?
1. To negotiate SLAs with the customers and to design services in accordance with the agreed service level targets.
2. Defining, documenting, and agreeing the level of IT Services to be provided.
3. Identifying possible future markets that the Service Provider could operate in.
4. Monitoring, measuring, and reporting the actual level of services provided.
5. Monitoring and improving customer satisfaction.

Question192: Which of the following external factors complicate the notion of business-IT for achieving strategic alignment? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
Choose all that apply.

Question193: Which of the following components work to support achievements of the enterprise's mission, strategies, and related business objectives in an internal control system? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question194: Which of the following areas of IT Governance Framework of CGEIT aims to guarantee that the IT function remains aligned with the organization's strategic objectives?

Question195: What stakeholder(s) must participate in the document elicitation result?

Question196: Which of the following is a process that occurs due to mergers, outsourcing or changing business needs?

Question197: Which of the following domains of CGEIT aims to guarantee that the IT enables and supports the achievement of business objectives through the integration of IT strategic plans with business strategic plans and the alignment of IT services with enterprise operations?

Question198: Your organization mainly focuses on the production of bicycles for selling it around the world. In addition to this, the organization also produces scooters. Management wants to restrict its line of production to bicycles. Therefore, it decides to sell the scooter production department to another competitor. Which of the following terms best describes the sale of the scooter production department to your competitor?

Question199: Which of the following areas tracks the project delivery, and monitors the IT services?

Question200: Lisa is the project manager of the FKN project for her organization. She is working with Sam, the CIO, to discuss a discount the vendor has offered the project based on the amount of materials that is ordered.
Lisa and Sam review the offer and agree that while their project may qualify for the discounted materials the savings is nominal and they would not necessarily pursue the savings. Lisa documents this positive risk response in the risk register. What risk response is this?

Question201: Wendy is the project manager of the FBL project for your company. She has identified several risks within her project and has created a risk contingency reserve of $45,000 total. Her project is nearly complete and many of the risks have not happened in the project. What should Wendy do with the funds in the contingency reserve?

Question202: You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You have to communicate the causes of risk events to the stakeholders. Which risk diagramming technique you will use to communicate the causes of risk events to project stakeholders?

Question203: DRAG DROP
COBIT stands for Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology. COBIT is a set of best practices (framework) for information technology (IT) management created by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) in 1996. Drag and drop the correct domain ('Monitor and Evaluate') next to the IT processes defined by COBIT to support CSI.
Select and Place:

Question204: Which of the following are the advantages of IT Resource Management? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question205: Jeff works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is determining which risks can affect the project.
Which of the following are the inputs to the identify risks process that Jeff will use to accomplish the task?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
Choose all that apply.

Question206: Which of the following processes involves choosing the alternative strategies, executing a contingency or fallback plan, taking corrective action, and modifying the project management plan?

Question207: Which of the following is a family of ISO standards for Total Quality Management (TQM)?

Question208: DRAG DROP
Drag and drop the various SSE-CMM levels at the appropriate places.
Select and Place:

Question209: Which of the following types of risks includes liability torts, property damage, natural catastrophe and financial risk?

Question210: Which of the following has the tendency or inclination of outlook that is a troublesome source of error in human sensing?

Question211: Lisa is the project manager of the SQL project for her company. She has completed the risk response planning with her project team and is now ready to update the risk register to reflect the risk response.
Which of the following statements best describes the level of detail Lisa should include with the risk responses she has created?

Question212: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a logical process used by programmers to develop software.
Which of the following SDLC phases meets the audit objectives defined below?
* System and data are validated.
* System meets all user requirements.
* System meets all control requirements.

Question213: Which of the following elements of planning gap measures the gap between the total potential for the market and the actual current usage by all the consumers in the market?

Question214: Which of the following types of benefits are provided by the new IT-driven initiative for IT investment program? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question215: Which of the following domains of COBIT covers areas such as the execution of the applications within the IT system and its results as well as the support processes that enable the effective and efficient execution of these IT systems?

Question216: Marsha is the project manager of the NHQ Project. There's a risk that her project team has identified, which could cause the project to be late by more than a month. Marsha does not want this risk event to happen so she devises extra project activities to ensure that the risk event will not happen. The extra steps, however, will cost the project an additional $10,000. What type of risk response is this approach?

Question217: Which of the following is a way of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcome that customers wish to get without the control of specific costs and risks?

Question218: Which of the following systems come under the category of linking systems to connect an enterprise with its customers and supplier? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question219: Which of the following is NOT a valid maturity level of the Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM)?

Question220: Which of the following is a non repetitive set of tasks that lead to the achievement of a new objective?

Question221: You are the project manager of the AMD project for your organization. In this project, you are currently performing quantitative risk analysis. The tool and technique you are using is simulation where the project model is computed many times with the input values chosen at random for each iteration. The goal is to create a probability distribution from the iterations for the project schedule. What technique will you use with this simulation?

Question222: Elizabeth is a project manager for her organization and she finds risk management to be very difficult for her to manage. She asks you, a lead project manager, at what stage in the project will risk management become easier. What answer best resolves the difficulty of risk management practices and the effort required?

Question223: Which of the following steps of IT governance program establishes a balanced scorecard mechanism for measuring current performance that are related to the IT governance focus areas?

Question224: All projects that are presented in your organization must go through a board to review the return on investment, risk, and worthiness of a project. All projects are considered but not all projects are initiated.
What is the name of the process that this board is completing in your organization?

Question225: Which of the following activity loops describes improvement of the existing processes?

Question226: Which types of project tends to have more well-understood risks?

Question227: Fred is the project manager of a large project in his organization. Fred needs to begin planning the risk management plan with the project team and key stakeholders. Which plan risk management process tool and technique should Fred use to plan risk management?

Question228: Management has asked you to perform a risk audit and report back on the results.
Bonny, a project team member asks you what a risk audit is. What do you tell Bonny?

Question229: Which of the following processes uses statistical evidences to determine progress toward specific defined organizational objectives?

Question230: A project team member has just identified a new project risk. The risk event is determined to have significant impact but a low probability in the project. Should the risk event happen it'll cause the project to be delayed by three weeks, which will cause new risk in the project. What should the project manager do with the risk event?

Question231: In which of the following methods of risk mitigation does the senior management approve the implementation of the controls that are recommended by the risk management team, and that will lower the risk to an acceptable level?

Question232: In software development, which of the following analysis is used to document the services and functions that have been accidentally left out, deliberately eliminated or still need to be developed?

Question233: What does the T in SWOT analysis mean?

Question234: You work as a project manager for TechSoft Inc. You are working with the project stakeholders on the qualitative risk analysis process in your project. You have used all the tools to the qualitative risk analysis process in your project. Which of the following techniques is NOT used as a tool in qualitative risk analysis process?

Question235: You are the project manager of a large construction project. Part of the project involves the wiring of the electricity in the building your project is creating. You and the project team determine the electrical work is too dangerous to perform yourself so you hire an electrician to perform the work for the project. This is an example of what type of risk response?

Question236: Fred is the project manager of the PKL project. He is working with his project team to complete the quantitative risk analysis process as a part of risk management planning.
Fred understands that once the quantitative risk analysis process is complete, the process will need to be completed again in at least two other times in the project. When will the quantitative risk analysis process need to be repeated?

Question237: Which of the following is the process of comparing the business processes and performance metrics including cost, cycle time, productivity, or quality?

Question238: Which of the following are the process control objectives for the process controls embedment? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question239: Management wants you to create a visual diagram of what resources will be utilized in the project deliverables. What type of a chart is management asking you to create?

Question240: Melody is the project manager for her organization. She has created a risk response to conduct more tests on the software her project is creating. The identified risk that prompted this response was that the software is mission-critical and must be flawless before it can be put into product. What type of a risk response has Melody used in this scenario?

Question241: Which of the following types of IT organizational structures states that all IT decision making and the IT budget are in one place, much easier to manage, and require much less effort to organize?

Question242: You are the project manager of a computer upgrade project. You and the vendor are in dispute over the deliverables the vendor was to provide and configure. What document can best describe how you and the vendor are to proceed if there is a claim against the vendor?

Question243: Jenny is the project manager for the NBT projects. She is working with the project team and several subject matter experts to perform the quantitative risk analysis process.
During this process she and the project team uncover several risks events that were not previously identified. What should Jenny do with these risk events?

Question244: Which of the following is concerned with fairness and transparency?

Question245: Beth is an HR Professional for her organization and she's been alerted by management that the company will be outsourcing a large portion of operations. This outsourcing will likely cause several employees to lose employment with the organization. Which of the following is the best course of action that Beth can take in regard to communicating with the employees about the outsourcing change?

Question246: Which of the following functions of HR department is liable for policy creation, policy communication, record creation, and HR information systems?

Question247: Which of the following are the main goals of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)'s strategic plan 2008-
2013?Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Question248: What is the key output handed over to Service Transition within Service Design?

Question249: Harold is the project manager of a large project in his organization. He has been actively communicating and working with the project stakeholders. One of the outputs of the manage stakeholder expectations process can actually create new risk events for Harold's project. Which output of the manage stakeholder expectations process can create risks?

Question250: Which of the following guides provides guidance on how COBIT is useful in supporting a variety of assurance tasks, along with the recommended testing steps that are aligned with the control practices?

Question251: Stephen is the project manager of the GBB project. He has worked with two subject matter experts and his project team to complete the risk assessment technique. There are approximately 47 risks that have a low probability and a low impact on the project.
Which of the following answers best describes what Stephen should do with these risk events?

Question252: Which of the following risks refers to the risk associated with an event in the absence of specific controls?

Question253: You are the project manager of the GHG project for your company. You have identified the project risks, completed qualitative and quantitative analysis, and created risk responses. You also need to document how and when risk audits will be performed in the project. Where will you define the frequency of risk audits?

Question254: Which of the following phases of IT lifecycle is governed by a series of stages and gates for managing the lifecycle of projects?

Question255: You work as a project manager for TYU project. You are planning for risk mitigation.
You need to identify the risks that will need a more in-depth analysis. Which of the following activities will help you in this?

Question256: Which of the following essential elements of IT Portfolio Investment Management enables portfolio managers to include or exclude investments, change start and end dates, adjust budgets and reevaluate priorities?

Question257: Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase.
_________models address specifications, requirements, design, verification and validation, and maintenance activities.

Question258: In which of the following editions of COBIT was "Management Guidelines" added?

Question259: Which of the following concepts is a semi-standard structured report supported by proven design methods and automation tools that can be used by managers to keep track of the execution of activities by staff within their control and monitor the consequences arising from these actions?

Question260: Amy is the project manager for her company. In her current project the organization has a very low tolerance for risk events that will affect the project schedule. Management has asked Amy to consider the affect of all the risks on the project schedule. What approach can Amy take to create a bias against risks that will affect the schedule of the project?

Question261: Beth is a project team member on the JHG Project. Beth has added extra features to the project and this has introduced new risks to the project work. The project manager of the JHG project elects to remove the features Beth has added. The process of removing the extra features to remove the risks is called what?

Question262: The water sanitation project manager has determined that risks associated with handling certain chemicals are too high. He has therefore decided to allow someone else to complete this portion of the project by outsourcing the handling and installation of the chemicals and filter equipment to an experienced contractor. This is an example of which of the following?