EMT Practice Test

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Question1: The following is a network diagram for a project.

The total float for the project is how many days?

Question2: In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?

Question3: When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail using which type of estimating?

Question4: Which statement about identification and engagement of stakeholders during a project is correct?

Question5: What are the five Project Management Process Groups?

Question6: The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?

Question7: What is an example of an emerging trend in procurement management?

Question8: Outputs of the Control Communications process include:

Question9: The number of potential communication channels for a project with 5 stakeholders is:

Question10: What does a CPI value greater than 1.0 indicate?

Question11: Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?

Question12: A stakeholder is reading project documents given by the project manager. The stakeholder is curious about the difference between a verified deliverable and an accepted deliverable.
Which of the following definitions can the project manager use to explain the difference?

Question13: Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?

Question14: Which of the following is an example of a risk symptom?

Question15: Status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete are examples of:

Question16: A project manager is working on an estimate. The project team is estimating each work package and then finding the total of all the work packages.
Which technique is using the project manager?

Question17: A car company authorized a project to build more fuel-efficient cars in response to gasoline shortages. With which of the following strategic considerations was this project mainly concerned?

Question18: What is an objective of the Develop Project Team process?

Question19: Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?

Question20: A project manager is writing a document that obligates the seller to provide the specified products, services, or results, and obligates the buyer to compensate the seller. This document represents a legal relationship that is subject to remedy in the courts.
Which document is described?

Question21: In a large organization, with projects of different types and sizes, what kind of approach or method would be best to use?

Question22: 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?

Question23: Deciding the phases of project life cycle would be considered a part of which of these knowledge areas?

Question24: Which tool or technique is used to develop a project charter?

Question25: The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:

Question26: Which conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?

Question27: An input to the Estimate Activity Resources process is:

Question28: 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?

Question29: To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled.
This is not part of the plan. This describes:

Question30: A project manager needs to deliver the project 2 weeks before the planned date without changing the scope.
Which of the following techniques may be applied to reevaluate the schedule?

Question31: Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?

Question32: At what stages of a project should the Identify Stakeholders process be performed?

Question33: 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?

Question34: The three processes of Project Cost Management are:

Question35: Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?

Question36: Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:

Question37: What is the name of the statistical method that helps identify which factors may influence specific variables of a product or process under development or in production?

Question38: Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?

Question39: A full-time project manager with low to moderate authority and part-time administrative staff is working in an organizational structure with which type of matrix?

Question40: Which project risk listed in the table below is most likely to occur?

Question41: Which of the following is an output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?

Question42: According to the PMI Talent Triangle, leadership skills relate to the ability to:

Question43: Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?

Question44: Project management processes are:

Question45: A change log for communications can be used to communicate to the appropriate stakeholders that there are changes:

Question46: A project lifecycle is defined as:

Question47: Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?

Question48: Scope, schedule, and cost parameters are integrated in the:

Question49: How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?

Question50: Tools and techniques used for Plan Communications include the communication:

Question51: A project manager needs to request outside support for a statement of work (SOW) that is not precise.
Which kind of contract does the project manager need to create?

Question52: Which process involves developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?

Question53: Inputs to the Plan Schedule Management process include:

Question54: Which type of dependency is established based on knowledge of best practices within a particular application area or some unusual aspect of the project in which a specific sequence is desired, even though there may be other acceptable sequences?

Question55: Which document defines how a project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?

Question56: The process of identifying the stakeholders' information needs is completed during:

Question57: Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?

Question58: Which Plan Schedule Management tool or technique may involve choosing strategic options to estimate and schedule the project?

Question59: Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of:

Question60: What should a project manager do to prepare a risk management plan in a project with a lot of technical uncertainty?

Question61: The Perform Quality Assurance process occurs in which Process Group?

Question62: What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?

Question63: An input to Develop Project Charter is a/an:

Question64: The project manager needs to manage a critical issue immediately, and this requires action from the upper management of a specific stakeholder group. Which plan should the project manager consult?

Question65: Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique used to shorten the project schedule without changing project scope.
Which of the following can result from fast tracking?

Question66: When does Monitor and Control Risks occur?

Question67: The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:

Question68: The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:

Question69: A tool and technique used during the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process is:

Question70: If a project manager effectively manages project knowledge, a key benefit is that:

Question71: Which kind of communication should the project manager use when creating reports for government bodies?

Question72: Which written document helps monitor who is responsible for resolving specific problems and concerns by a target date?

Question73: Soft logic is also known as what type of dependency?

Question74: When managing costs in an agile environment, what should a project manager consider?

Question75: On what is project baseline development established?

Question76: What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?

Question77: During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?

Question78: If the most likely duration of an activity is five weeks, the best-case duration is two weeks, and the worst-case duration is 14 weeks, how many weeks is the expected duration of the activity?

Question79: Which type of contract gives both the seller and the buyer flexibility to deviate from performance with financial incentives?

Question80: What tool or technique uses an algorithm or statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate an activity's needed resource quantities?

Question81: During a project's execution phase, the project manager reviews the communications management plan for communication technology factors. What can affect the choice of communications?

Question82: An input to the Create WBS process is a:

Question83: The output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:

Question84: In the Define Activities process, the schedule management plan is used to:

Question85: 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?

Question86: Which is an enterprise environmental factor?

Question87: Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique used to shorten the project schedule without changing project scope. Which of the following can result from fast tracking?

Question88: Plan Schedule Management is a process in which Knowledge Area?

Question89: Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?

Question90: As the project progresses, which of the following is routinely collected from the project activities?

Question91: Project management processes ensure the:

Question92: In an agile or adaptive environment, when should risk be monitored and prioritized?

Question93: Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?

Question94: Which of the following can a project manager use to represent dellned team member roles in a group of tasks?

Question95: Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?

Question96: Quality metrics are an output of which process?

Question97: Decomposition, rolling wave planning, and templates are all tools and techniques for which of the following?

Question98: 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?

Question99: If a project manager effectively manages project knowledge, a key benefit is that:

Question100: 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?

Question101: Which is an example of Administer Procurements?

Question102: A project manager can choose from several techniques to resolve conflicts between team members.
Which technique can result in a win-win situation?

Question103: Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?

Question104: Which baselines make up the performance measurement baseline?

Question105: A project lifecycle is defined as:

Question106: Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?

Question107: The cost benefit analysis tool is used for creating:

Question108: How is the schedule variance calculated using the earned value technique?

Question109: Risk responses reflect an organization's perceived balance between:

Question110: When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail using which type of estimating?

Question111: The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:

Question112: What are the project management processes associated with project quality management?

Question113: Which tasks should a project manager accomplish in order to manage project scope correctly?

Question114: Projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives refers to?

Question115: Which process requires implementation of approved changes?

Question116: An output of the Plan Quality Management process is:

Question117: Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?

Question118: The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:

Question119: A new project manager wishes to recommend creating a project management office to senior management.
Which statement would the project manager use to describe the importance of creating the project management office?

Question120: Which characteristics do effective project managers possess?

Question121: A project manager is working on project cost management. The following information is current:
- Planned value = 30
- Actual cost = 35
- Earned value = 28
Considering this data, which project indicator is correct?

Question122: Analytical techniques are a tool and technique of which process in Project Procurement Management?

Question123: Which of the following is a tool and technique used to monitor risk?

Question124: During the execution phase of a project a defect is found. The project manager takes responsibility and with the correct documentation, begins the task necessary to repair the defect.
What process was applied?

Question125: Which of the following is a means of reaching a group decision in which everyone agrees on a single course of action?

Question126: Which Control Stakeholder Engagement tool or technique allows the project manager to consolidate and facilitate distribution of reports?

Question127: 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:

Question128: When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:

Question129: Risk categorization is a tool or technique used in which process?

Question130: Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?

Question131: Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?

Question132: An imposed date for completion of the project by the customer is an example of a project:

Question133: What should the project manager use to evaluate the politics and power structure among stakeholders inside and outside of the organization?

Question134: At the start of a typical project life cycle, costs are:

Question135: Project managers play a key role in performing integration on a project. What are the three different levels of integration?

Question136: What is the responsibility of the project manager and the functional manager respectively?

Question137: DRAG DROP
Match each tool or technique to its corresponding Project Risk Management process. Click on the tool or technique on the left and drag it to the appropriate gray box in the middle.

Question138: Which type of elaboration allows a project management team to manage at a greater level of detail as the project evolves?

Question139: 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?

Question140: Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?

Question141: The scope management plan is a subsidiary of which project document?

Question142: Which is the appropriate tool to identify the possible correlation between two elements in a process?

Question143: Which statement is related to the project manager's sphere of influence at the organizational level?

Question144: Which tool or technique measures performance of the project as it moves from project initiation through project closure?

Question145: Which of the following is a tool and technique used in the Develop Schedule process?

Question146: 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?

Question147: What is both an input and output of the Control Quality process and is updated as a result of this process?

Question148: Which of the following processes audits the quality requirements and the results from quality control measures to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used?

Question149: Which two processes should be used to influence costs in the early stages of a project?

Question150: Design of experiments (DOE) should be used during which of the following processes?

Question151: In project management, a temporary project can be:

Question152: An input of the Plan Procurement Management process is:

Question153: At which stage of team development do members begin to work together, adjust work habits, and trust each other?

Question154: To which knowledge area does the Collect Requirements process belong?

Question155: 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?

Question156: After defining activities in project schedule management, which processes should a project manager follow?

Question157: A project manager of a civil construction project is trying to understand the local laws.
What example of tailoring procurement could this best be described as?

Question158: An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:

Question159: Which tool should a project manager consider to deal with multiple sources of risk?

Question160: Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?

Question161: The process for performing variance analysis may vary, depending on:

Question162: Which of the following is a complete set of indexed contract documentation, including the closed contract?

Question163: Which of the following tasks focuses on decomposing work packages?

Question164: Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:

Question165: The diagram below is an example of a:

Question166: Which of the following are examples of interactive communication?

Question167: What cost control technique is used to compare actual project performance to planned or expected performance?

Question168: The staffing management plan is part of the:

Question169: What scenario describes when a project must be created due to market demand?

Question170: Which type of analysis would be used for the Plan Quality process?

Question171: 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?