Question1: The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
Question2: The definition of when and how often the risk management processes will be performed throughout the project life cycle is included in which risk management plan component?
Question3: What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
Question4: Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?
Question5: Which project document is updated in the Control Stakeholder Engagement process?
Question6: Inputs to the Plan Risk Management process include the:
Question7: Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?
Question8: Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
Question9: Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of:
Question10: High-level project risks are included in which document?
Question11: The integrative nature of project management requires which Process Group to interact with the other Process Groups?
Question12: Which tool or technique is effective in a project in which the deliverable is not a service or result?
Question13: Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?
Question14: A project manager at a publishing company decides to initiate the editing phase of the project as soon as each chapter is written. Which type of Sequence Activities tool and technique is involved, considering that there was a start-to-start relationship with a 15-day delay?
Question15: A project manager who communicates to the project team though email is using which type of communication?
Question16: When sequencing activities, what does the common acronym FF stand for?
Question17: Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
Question18: For a stakeholder with low interest and high power, the project manager should:
Question19: Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
Question20: Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
Question21: The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Question22: Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?
Question23: While processes in the Planning Process Group seek to collect feedback and define project documents to guide project work, organizational procedures dictate when the project planning:
Question24: When is a Salience Model used?
Question25: Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
Question26: A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?
Question27: Which piece of information is part of the WBS Dictionary?
Question28: Which input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?
Question29: When does Monitor and Control Risks occur?
Question30: A project manager should communicate to stakeholders about resolved project issues by updating the:
Question31: Which statement correctly describes the value of a business case?
Question32: Which of the following correctly explains the term "progressive elaboration'?
Question33: When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Question34: Which are examples of processes that may be used once or at predefined points in the project life cycle?
Question35: Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
Question36: When painting a bedroom, preparing the walls can be done while the paint is being chosen. This is an example of a:
Question37: The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?
Question38: Which Perform Quality Assurance tool or technique is used to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it, and develop preventative actions?
Question39: The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
Question40: Inputs to the Plan Schedule Management process include:
Question41: Using the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely duration is four months, the optimistic duration is two months, and the pessimistic duration is one year, how many months is the expected activity duration?
Question42: Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
Question43: Which process involves developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?
Question44: An output of Control Schedule is:
Question45: Who selects the appropriate processes for a project?
Question46: Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
Question47: An input to the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process is the:
Question48: Which process requires implementation of approved changes?
Question49: The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information become available is known as:
Question50: Which tool and technique is used in Conduct Procurements?
Question51: Which Process Group contains those processes performed to define a new project?
Question52: The following is a network diagram for a project.
The critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
Question53: Which is a list of organizational systems that may have an impact on a project?
Question54: The risk management team of a software project has decided that due to the lack of adequate talent in the company, development of a specific part of the system is under high risk, so the team has decided to outsource it. This is an example of which risk response?
Question55: An output of the Develop Project Team process is:
Question56: When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Question57: Technical capability, past performance, and intellectual property rights are examples of:
Question58: Risk categorization is a tool or technique used in which process?
Question59: Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
Question60: Prototype development may be used as a tool for which of the following risk response strategies?
Question61: Which are the main objectives of Project Risk Management?
Question62: Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?
Question63: Every project creates a unique product, service, or result that may be:
Question64: A tool and technique used in the Develop Project Charter process is:
Question65: The primary benefit of the Plan Schedule Management process is that it:
Question66: Which type of elaboration allows a project management team to manage at a greater level of detail as the project evolves?
Question67: Which type of estimating can produce higher levels of accuracy, depending upon the sophistication and underlying data built into the model?
Question68: How is the schedule variance calculated using the earned value technique?
Question69: Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?
Question70: What type of change requires the submission of a change request?
Question71: Given the following information.
Activity A takes one week.
Activity B takes three weeks.
Activity C takes two weeks.
Activity D takes five weeks.
Activity A starts at the same time as Activity B.
Activity C follows Activity B and Activity A.
Activity D follows Activity C.
How long will it take to complete the project?
Question72: The stakeholder register is an output of:
Question73: Resource calendars are included in the:
Question74: Which earned value management (EVM) metric is a measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC) and is considered a critical EVM metric?
Question75: Tools and techniques used in Direct and Manage Project Work include:
Question76: Which type of contract is a hybrid of both a cost-reimbursable and a fixed-price contract?
Question77: In an agile and adaptive project, which scope management entity invokes stakeholder engagement?
Question78: A project manager is working in an environment where requirements are not very clear and may change during the project. In addition, the project has several stakeholders and is technically complex.
Which strategies should the project manager take into account for risk management in this environment?
Question79: What causes replanning of the project scope?
Question80: Through whom do project managers accomplish work?
Question81: The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:
Question82: When project requirements are documented in user stones then prioritized and refined just prior to construction, which approach is being used for scheduling?
Question83: Which of the following reduces the probability of potential consequences of project risk events?
Question84: The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action is known as:
Question85: The project has a current cost performance index of 0.80. Assuming this performance wi continue, the new estimate at completion is $1000. What was the original budget at completion for the project?
Question86: Which of the following is an input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Question87: Which task will a project manager undertake while conducting Project Resource Management?
Question88: Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
Question89: The three processes of Project Cost Management are:
Question90: Labor, materials, equipment, and supplies are examples of:
Question91: The completion of the project scope is measured against the:
Question92: During which process does the project team receive bids and proposals?
Question93: Sharing good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the organization and/or industry is an example of:
Question94: A benefit of using virtual teams in the Acquire Project Team process is the reduction of the:
Question95: Which component of the human resource management plan describes when and how project team members are acquired and how long they will be needed?
Question96: Which of the following is developed from the project scope baseline and defines only that portion of the project scope that is to be included within a related contract?
Question97: The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
Question98: What is the difference between the critical path and the critical chain?
Question99: At which point of the project is the uncertainty the highest and the risk of failing the greatest?
Question100: At the completion of a project, a report is prepared that details the outcome of the research conducted on a global trend during the project. Which item did this project create?
Question101: Most experienced project managers know that:
Question102: The project manager and the project team are having a meeting with the purpose of identifying risks. Which tools and techniques might help in this process?
Question103: Which of the following is a group decision-making technique?
Question104: Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?
Question105: Which of the following statements correctly characterizes pull communication?
Question106: Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Question107: Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Question108: What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
Question109: Enterprise environmental factors are an input to which process?
Question110: The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost variance (CV) for Task 6?
Question111: Which items are an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Question112: Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?
Question113: In a project using agile methodology, who may perform the quality control activities?
Question114: Organizational theory is a tool used in which Project Human Resource Management process?
Question115: The ways in which the roles and responsibilities, reporting relationships, and staffing management will be addressed and structured within a project is described in the:
Question116: Which basic quality tool explains a change in the dependent variable in relationship to a change observed in the corresponding independent variable?
Question117: A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis is a tool or technique used in which process?
Question118: Identify Risks is part of which Process Group?
Question119: Which tool or technique of Plan Quality involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
Question120: When would resource leveling be applied to a schedule model?
Question121: Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and the cost of changes as project time advances?
Question122: Which of the following set of elements is part of an effective communications management plan?
Question123: The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
Question124: Which type of organizational structure is displayed in the diagram provided?
Question125: Howls program success measured?
Question126: A project has an EV of 100 workdays, an AC of 120 workdays, and a PV of 80 workdays. What should be the concern?
Question127: A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:
Question128: The project management processes presented in the PMBOK Guide® should:
Question129: What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?
Question130: At the start of a typical project life cycle, costs are:
Question131: An issue log is an input to which Project Human Resource Management process?
Question132: An element of the project scope statement is:
Question133: Which process involves defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive plan?
Question134: Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
Question135: Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
Question136: What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?
Question137: In an agile or adaptive environment. when should risk be monitored and prioritized?
Question138: Which of the following is a tool and technique used to monitor risk?
Question139: Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
Question140: The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
Question141: Which set of competencies should a project manager have?
Question142: Which of the following are three inputs to the risk register?
Question143: The risk shared between the buyer and seller is determined by the:
Question144: Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?
Question145: Which of the following is an input to Control Scope?
Question146: Which Knowledge Area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
Question147: Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?
Question148: Which key interpersonal skill of a project manager is defined as the strategy of sharing power and relying on interpersonal skills to convince others to cooperate toward common goals?
Question149: Which of the following can a project manager use to represent dellned team member roles in a group of tasks?
Question150: Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
Question151: Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
Question152: Expected monetary value (EMV) is computed by which equation?
Question153: Which tool or technique is used in Manage Stakeholder Expectations?
Question154: When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
Question155: Which tool within the Perform Quality Control process identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Question156: What is the schedule performance index (SPI) if the planned value (PV) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $150, and the earned value (EV) is $50?
Question157: Payback period, return on investment, internal rate of return, discounted cash flow, and net present value are all examples of:
Question158: Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
Question159: As part of a mid-project evaluation, the project sponsor has asked for a forecast of the total project cost. What should be used to calculate the forecast?
Question160: Which format can a network diagram take?
Question161: Under which type of contract does the seller receive reimbursement for all allowable costs for performing contract work, as well as a fixed-fee payment calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs?
Question162: How can a project manager evaluate project team development?
Question163: Retreating from an actual or potential conflict or postponing the issue to be better prepared or to be resolved by others describes which of the five general techniques for managing conflict?
Question164: The component of the human resource management plan that includes ways in which team members can obtain certifications that support their ability to benefit the project is known as:
Question165: Which of the following is an example of an organizational system that is arranged based on the job being performed?
Question166: Which type of analysis would be used for the Plan Quality process?
Question167: Which process identifies whether the needs of a project can best be met by acquiring products, services, or results outside of the organization?
Question168: A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
Question169: During project selection, which factor is most important?
Question170: Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
Question171: Who provides the inputs for the original estimates of activity durations for tasks on the project plan?
Question172: Change requests are an output from which Project Integration Management process?
Question173: Define Activities and Estimate Activity Resources are processes in which project management Knowledge Area?
Question174: Stakeholder satisfaction should be managed as a key project:
Question175: Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Question176: The project manager is working in an agile/adaptive environment. The project manager is considering different approaches for applying Project Integration Management in this environment. How can the project manager ensure that this will work for the project?
Question177: Which is an output of the Collect Requirements process?
Question178: The scope management plan and scope baseline are contained in:
Question179: The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
Question180: How can a project manager maintain the engagement of stakeholders in a project with a high degree of change?
Question181: Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?
Question182: A project manager is reviewing the change requests for project documents, deliverables, and the project plan. In which project management process does this review belong?
Question183: A regression line is used to estimate:
Question184: Projects are undertaken by an organization to support the:
Question185: Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to:
Question186: Which is an output from Distribute Information?
Question187: Which Plan Schedule Management tool or technique may involve choosing strategic options to estimate and schedule the project?
Question188: In the Plan Procurement Management process, which source selection criteria analyzes if the seller's proposed technical methodologies, techniques, solutions, and services meet the procurement documents requirements?
Question189: Which of the following strategic considerations often results in project authorization?
Question190: The iterative and interactive nature of the Process Groups creates the need for the processes in which Knowledge Area?
Question191: Which is the best way for a project manager to ensure efficient and frequent communication with management and stakeholders in an agile/adaptive environment?
Question192: The purpose of developing a project scope management plan is to:
Question193: What name(s) is (are) associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle?
Question194: The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
Question195: Which of the following is an output of the Conduct Procurements process?
Question196: An input to Close Project or Phase is:
Question197: Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Question198: Which quality tool may prove useful in understanding and estimating the cost of quality in a process?
Question199: Which of the following techniques is used during Control Scope?
Question200: While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery. What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
Question201: A project manager is appointed full-time to a project and is given full-time administrative staff and full-time project team members. This situation describes which type of organizational structure?
Question202: A technique used to determine the cause and degree of difference between baseline and actual performance is:
Question203: "Tailoring" is defined as the:
Question204: What is the most accurate rough order of magnitude (ROM)?
Question205: Project management processes ensure the:
Question206: Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?
Question207: Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Question208: The cost benefit analysis tool is used for creating:
Question209: Which set of activities should a project manager use as part of the Develop Team process?
Question210: In which Project Management Process Group is the project charter developed?
Question211: Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique used in which process?
Question212: Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?
Question213: One of the objectives of a quality audit is to:
Question214: A project manager requesting industry groups and consultants to recommend project intervention is relying on:
Question215: What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Question216: The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost performance index (CPI) for Task 2?
Question217: Organizational planning impacts projects by means of project prioritization based on risk, funding, and an organizations:
Question218: Project Scope Management is primarily concerned with:
Question219: What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data? BAC = $100,000 PV = $50,000 AC = $80,000 EV = $40,000
Question220: Which tool or technique is used in validating the scope of a project?
Question221: The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline is:
Question222: Status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete are examples of:
Question223: Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?
Question224: Which of the following Process Groups covers all nine Project Management Knowledge Areas?
Question225: Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
Question226: In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
Question227: A given schedule activity is most likely to last four weeks. In a best-case scenario, the schedule activity is estimated to last two weeks. In a worst-case scenario, the schedule activity is estimated to last 12 weeks. Given these three estimates, what is the expected duration of the activity?
Question228: Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
Question229: Which characteristics do effective project managers possess?
Question230: A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished is known as:
Question231: While preparing the project management plan on a weekly basis, the project manager indicates the intention to provide an issues report to the staff via e-mail. In which part of the plan will this type of information be included?
Question232: Which Process Group includes the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
Question233: The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
Question234: The Verify Scope process is primarily concerned with:
Question235: A project charter is an output of which Process Group?
Question236: Which type of graphic is displayed below?
Question237: What should the project manager use to evaluate the politics and power structure among stakeholders inside and outside of the organization?
Question238: Cost baseline is an output of which of the following processes?
Question239: Work performance information and cost forecasts are outputs of which Project Cost Management process?
Question240: To which knowledge area does the Collect Requirements process belong?
Question241: An input of the Plan Procurement Management process is:
Question242: A project stakeholder is requesting changes to the project plan. Which process group addresses this?
Question243: Which of the following tasks focuses on decomposing work packages?
Question244: During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Question245: Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?
Question246: What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?
Question247: Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?
Question248: Which of the following is an output of Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Question249: Which is an input to the Verify Scope process?
Question250: An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
Question251: How should a project manager plan communications for a project which has uncertain requirements?
Question252: In a typical project, project managers spend most of their time:
Question253: In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
Question254: Which of the following events would result in a baseline update?
Question255: What is a tool to improve team performance?
Question256: In the Define Activities process, the schedule management plan is used to:
Question257: An element of the modern quality management approach used to achieve compatibility with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is known as:
Question258: Which input to the Plan Risk Management process provides information on high-level risks?
Question259: Which type of dependency is contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work?
Question260: A project requires a component with well-understood specifications. Performance targets are established at the outset, and the final contract price is determined after completion of all work based on the seller's performance. The most appropriate agreement with the supplier is:
Question261: Which tool should a project manager consider to deal with multiple sources of risk?
Question262: Which tasks should a project manager accomplish in order to manage project scope correctly?
Question263: A project team member agrees to change a project deliverable after a conversation with an external stakeholder. It is later discovered that the change has had an adverse effect on another deliverable. This could have been avoided if the project team had implemented:
Question264: During the planning phase, a project manager must create a work breakdown structure (WBS) to improve management of the project's components. What should be included in the WBS?
Question265: Which action is included in the Control Costs process?
Question266: Testing falls into which of the following categories of cost of quality?
Question267: Those who enter into a contractual agreement to provide services necessary for a project are:
Question268: One of the tools and techniques of the Manage Project Team process is:
Question269: The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedule performance index (5PI) for Task 4?
Question270: A project is in progress and about to move to a different phase, according to the plan. This will be a good opportunity for the project manager to:
Question271: The project manager at an organization has just realized that some of the engineering staff has been allocated to project Y and will not be available to finish task X.
The project manager has also discovered that at the current pace, it will not be possible to complete the project on time. Due to cost constraints, hiring more work force is not a viable option. Which tools are at the manager's disposal?
Question272: The project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces, while in practice they:
Question273: A project lifecycle is defined as:
Question274: During which process group is the quality policy determined?
Question275: A large portion of a projects budget is typically expended on the processes in which Process Group?