Question1: Modifications may be needed to the WBS and WBS dictionary because of approved change requests, which shows that______________
Question2: Which of the following is an input into the Develop Project Team process?
Question3: Reserve analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?
Question4: Which of the following is an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Question5: The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
Question6: During which process does a project manager review all prior information to ensure that all project work is completed and that the project has met its objectives?
Question7: Which action is included in the Control Costs process?
Question8: The method of calculating the EAC by assuming the ETC work will be performed at the same cumulative CPI incurred by the project to date is used most often when______________
Question9: Quality is very important to your company. Each project has a quality statement that is consistent with the organization's vision and mission. Both internal and external quality assurance are provided on all projects to______________
Question10: Which tool or technique is used in Close Procurements?
Question11: Which technique is utilized in the Schedule Control process?
Question12: The e-commerce project has gone well other than the fact that the sponsor changed three different times. The project is in closure. All of the following would be created in closing except?
Question13: You are the Project Manager on a merger and acquisition project. Activity A (3 days) and activity B (4 days) can start immediately. Activity C (2 days) can start after A and B are complete. Activity D (5 days) can begin after activity B is complete. Activity E (6 days) can begin after activity B is complete. Activity F (4 days) can begin after activities C and D are complete. Activity G (5 days) can begin after activities D and E are complete. Activity H (4 days) can begin after activities F and G are complete. What is the critical path?
Question14: In a typical project, project managers spend most of their time:
Question15: When are deliverables accepted or not accepted?
Question16: Assume your stakeholder management plan has been approved. You now are working with your team to promote stakeholder engagement on your project. You explain in a team meeting its benefit is to______________
Question17: Outputs of the Control Communications process include:
Question18: The principal function of a warranty is to______________
Question19: The key benefit of the control communications process is to______________
Question20: The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product is known as:
Question21: All of the following are examples of good control procurement skills that project managers need to exercise EXCEPT______________
Question22: Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?
Question23: When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Question24: The project is progressing. As the company starts to release the product of the project to market, the consumer isn't buying it as the company had projected. This appears to be because the company has released a lot of products before that had an excessive number of defects. Who was ultimately responsible for these products being released with the defects?
Question25: All the following elements are organizational process asset updates, resulting from closing a project or phase EXCEPT______________
Question26: External organizations that have a special relationship with the enterprise and provide specialized expertise are called:
Question27: The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
Question28: Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Question29: Calculate the variance for the following: Pessimistic=50, Optimistic=10, Realistic=24.
Question30: Scope, schedule, and cost parameters are integrated in the:
Question31: 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?
Question32: Rather than use a WBS, your team developed a bill of materials to define the project's work components. A customer review of this document uncovered that a scope change was needed, because a deliverable had not been defined, and a change request was written subsequently. This is an example of a change request that was the result of______________
Question33: A communications management plan includes which one of the following sample contents?
Question34: Sensitivity analysis is typically displayed as a/an:
Question35: An output of the Create WBS process is:
Question36: Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
Question37: As a project manager, you believe in using a "personal touch" to further team development. One approach that has proven effective toward this goal is______________
Question38: A key tool and technique used in define scope is______________
Question39: If a business venture has a 60-percent chance to earn $2 million and a 20-percent chance to lose $1.5 million, what is the expected monetary value of the venture?
Question40: The contract in which the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and then receives a fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives is called a:
Question41: What are assigned risk ratings based upon?
Question42: You work as a project manager in the largest hospital in the region. Studies have shown that patients have to wait for long periods before being treated. To assist in identifying the factors contributing to this problem, you and your team have decided to use which of the following techniques?
Question43: When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
Question44: Six sigma refers to the aim of setting tolerance limits at six standard deviations from the mean, whereas the normally expected deviation of a process is______________
Question45: The team members on your project have been complaining that they do not have any sense of identity as a team because they are located in different areas of the building. To remedy this situation, you developed a project logo and had it printed on T-shirts to promote the project, but this action has not worked. Your next step is to______________
Question46: What is the estimate at completion (EAC) if the budget at completion (BAC) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is
$50, and the earned value (EV) is $25?
Question47: Which of the following is a tool for analyzing a design, determining its functions, and assessing how to provide those functions' cost effectively?
Question48: You are the Project Manager on the development of a 4-way fully redundant computer system for the government. The government has been very concerned about the correctness and acceptance of the work results. You are not sure what the government is saying so you review your PMBOK Guide. What areas below will likely be involved in attaining what the government is concerned about?
Question49: You finally have been appointed project manager for a major company project. One of your first activities as project manager will be to create the communications management plan. As you match the stakeholder with the appropriate communication methods for that stakeholder, you could use any one of the following methods EXCEPT______________
Question50: As project manager, you identified a number of acceptable tolerances as part of your earned value management system. During execution, some "unacceptable" variances occurred. After each
"unacceptable" variance occurred, you did which one of the following first?
Question51: When does risk monitoring and control occur?
Question52: As a result of the control stakeholder expectations process, you realize even though this process is under way until the closing phase that you have identified the root cause of some issues you have faced in controlling stakeholders expectations. You should therefore______________
Question53: Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?
Question54: 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?
Question55: The internet marketing project is evaluating the size of their market, time limitations for product life cycle, revenue potential, and number of people available for the project. These are examples of what?
Question56: The Administer Procurements process is in which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Question57: Which type of team can be defined as a group of people with a shared goal who fulfill their roles although spending little or no time meeting face to face?
Question58: You have heard recently that the client calls your progress reports the "Code of Hammurabi" because they seem to be written in hieroglyphics and are completely indecipherable to all but an antiquities scholar. This situation could have been avoided by______________
Question59: Which of the following is a tool and technique used to monitor risk?
Question60: You work for a software development company that has followed the waterfall development model for more than 20 years. Lately, a number of customers have complained that your company is taking too long to complete its projects. You attended a class on agile development methods and believe that if the company used the agile approach, it could provide products to clients in a shorter time period. However, it would be a major culture change to switch from the waterfall methodology to the agile approach and to train staff members in this new approach. You mentioned this idea to the director of the PMO, and although she liked the idea, she would need approval from the company's portfolio review board to move forward with it. She suggested that you document this idea in a______________.
Question61: The completion of the project scope is measured against the:
Question62: Activity resource requirements and the resource breakdown structure (RBS) are outputs of which Project Time Management process?
Question63: Using the following data, what is the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)?
EV= $500 PV= $750 AC= $1000 BAC= $1200
Question64: An input of the Plan Procurement Management process is:
Question65: A Project Manager is assigned to a project that is in the construction phase of a video computer board. The Project Manager is in the process of reviewing deliverables and Work Results to gain formal acceptance. This is known as what?
Question66: On the WBS, the first level of decomposition may be displayed by using all the following EXCEPT______________
Question67: Crosswind Custom Homes is building a customer's dream house. However, rain has delayed the finish by two weeks. The Project Manager evaluates the schedule and determines that by crashing, the project could be placed back on schedule. After discussing this with senior management, the Project Manager has decided to crash the project. By doing so, the Project Manager is adding what to the project?
Question68: There has been a great delay in waiting to get the charter approved. It's finally complete and you are assigned as the Project Manager. Senior management wants you to begin planning as soon as possible. If you are in the process of planning the project, what is the best way to schedule Scope Verification?
Question69: One purpose of the communications management plan is to provide information about the______________
Question70: A technique used to determine the cause and degree of difference between baseline and actual performance is:
Question71: One of the tools and techniques of the Manage Project Team process is:
Question72: All projects involve some extent of change, because they involve work that is unique in some fashion.
Therefore, it is important that a project management plan includes a______________.
Question73: A project manager should communicate to stakeholders about resolved project issues by updating the:
Question74: Benchmarking is a technique used in______________
Question75: Which of the following is the best description of configuration management?
Question76: Marketplace conditions are an input to which one of the following processes?
Question77: Which of the following is a tool and technique used in all processes within Project Integration Management?
Question78: The sponsor plays a key role in project success. Which of the following is the best description of the sponsor?
Question79: The ISO 9000 standards provide______________
Question80: Which of the following is not an example of team development?
Question81: One way to make it more likely practice project risk management on projects is to______________
Question82: Analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of a project is known as:
Question83: Assume that you are a major subcontractor doing work for a prime contractor on a major project. Your change control system should______________
Question84: Your project has an EV of 100 work-days, an AC of 120 work-days, and a PV of 80 work days. What should be your concern?
Question85: Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Determine Budget process?
Question86: Which standard examines an enterprise's project management process capabilities?
Question87: The project is in a projectized environment. There are significant challenges with meeting the tight schedule of the project and personnel leaving the company. Project personnel have been complaining to senior management about the environment hoping for a resolution. In this type of environment, who controls the resources?
Question88: Your organization is adopting a project-based approach to business, which has been difficult. Although project teams have been created, they are little more than a collection of functional and technical experts who focus on their specialties. You are managing the company's most important project. As you begin this project, you must place a high priority on______________
Question89: Which of the following best describes utilizing program management across an organization?
Question90: Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
Question91: What is the critical chain method?
Question92: The e-commerce project is six weeks behind schedule with five team members working on it. Three of these team members are working on the critical path related items. What is the slack of the critical path?
Question93: Your organization is characterized by hierarchical organizational structures with rigid rules and policies and strict supervisory controls. Individual team members are not expected to engage in problem solving or use creative approaches to plan and execute work; management does that. Your organization is characterized by which one of the following theories?
Question94: The Project Manager is creating an estimate for building a company WAN (wide area network). It is something that is new to the Project Manager and his team, and they want to make sure all the work of the project is covered. They decide to create a bottom-up estimate. All of the following are advantages of this type of estimate except...
Question95: Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?
Question96: The Project Manager is involved in Project Scope Management. She will be involved for the entire project management life cycle. Which group of processes will she be involved in performing these activities?
Question97: Which of the following is an example of fixed formula status reporting?
Question98: Which of the following factors is lowest at the start of the project?
Question99: A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality within cost and schedule is known as a(n)______________
Question100: What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
Question101: Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?
Question102: The project planning is progressing on budget. The Project Manager and the team meet regularly and are ready to begin updating the project planning documents with a major scope change.
What input into the planning process will help the team the most?
Question103: What is a tool to improve team performance?
Question104: You have been assigned as project manager on what could be a "bet the company" project. You realize that to be successful you need to exercise maximum control over project resources. Which form of project organization should you establish for this project?
Question105: Your company is embarking on a project to launch a new product delivery service. You are the project manager for this project and have just finished the concept phase. The various outputs/deliverable(s) for this phase include______________
Question106: The project management team has performed earned value analysis on its project and discovered that the project is behind schedule and over budget. The SPI is 0.82 and the CPI is 0.73. The team is trying to determine how efficient it will need to be with the remaining resources on the project to complete the project on budget. Which of the following is the team trying to calculate?
Question107: Which tools or techniques will a project manager use for Develop Project Team?
Question108: The company is implementing an enterprise time system across the entire company. This will integrate a number of business units. As a result, it will be very resource-consuming, change a lot of the business processes and could cause reprioritization of other projects that it will replace or modify. Which of the following would concern you most?
Question109: The major difference between the project coordinator and project expeditor forms
Question110: You are project manager on a systems engineering project designed to last six years and to develop the next-generation corvette for use in military operations. You and your team recognize that requirements may change as new technologies, especially in sonar systems, are developed. You are concerned that these new technologies may lead to changes in the scope of your product, which then will affect the scope of your project. Therefore your requirements traceability matrix should include tracing requirements to all the following project elements EXCEPT______________
Question111: A workaround is______________
Question112: Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
Question113: Which of the following is an output of Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Question114: Which of the following tools and techniques is used to estimate cost?
Question115: Which Develop Schedule tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
Question116: To which process is work performance information an input?
Question117: The project charter has just been signed off. There were items in the charter that described market conditions which could affect the project and also resource limitations on the project.
These are examples of what?
Question118: Activity cost estimates and the project schedule are inputs to which Project Cost Management process?
Question119: All of the following are typically part of the project management plan except?
Question120: Overlooking negative stakeholders can result in a/an:
Question121: The Human Resource Management processes are:
Question122: Who provides the inputs for the original estimates of activity durations for tasks on the project plan?
Question123: As a Project Manager you are managing a project that has many requirements. The project is for one of your high profile customers, one who spends more than $5,000,000 a year with your company. To attain customer satisfaction, what must be met?
Question124: As the project manager, you have the option of proposing one of three systems to a client: a full-feature system that not only satisfies the minimum requirements but also offers numerous special functions (the
"Mercedes"); a system that meets the client's minimum requirements (the "Yugo"); and a system that satisfies the minimum requirements plus has a few extra features (the "Toyota"). The on-time records and associated profits and losses are depicted on the below decision tree. What is the expected monetary value of the "Toyota" system?
Question125: When a control chart is used to monitor performance of a process, which of the following will be set by the project manager and the appropriate stakeholders to reflect the point(s) at which corrective action will be taken to prevent exceeding the specification limits?
Question126: 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?
Question127: The links between the processes in the Process Groups are often:
Question128: Organizational planning impacts projects by means of project prioritization based on risk, funding, and an organizations:
Question129: The company is implementing a quality improvement standard on its new projects, trying to improve the culture to make it conform to quality standards better. The company views the need to shift the mentality of the company to a proactive approach to quality. Which of the following would it not expect to deal with in an environment that has a proactive approach to quality?
Question130: Which is a communication method used in the Report Performance process?
Question131: Different types of project phases are used on projects, and each phase culminates in the completion of at least one deliverable. The high-level nature of these phases means they are an element of the project life cycle. Some phases start before others complete. If this approach is followed, it may result in______________.
Question132: A project has a current cost performance index (CPI) of 1.25. To date, US$10,000 have been spent on performing the project work. What is the earned value of the work completed to date?
Question133: Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
Question134: Major difficulties arise when multiple projects need to be managed in the functional organizational structure because of______________
Question135: Float on a Network diagram is also known as:
Question136: Work performance information and cost forecasts are outputs of which Project Cost Management process?
Question137: Fishbone diagrams are also known as what?
Question138: Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
Question139: The stakeholder register should not be prepared only one time, but it should be updated regularly especially if______________
Question140: The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
Question141: What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?
Question142: Which of the following will provide the basis for estimating, scheduling, executing, and monitoring and controlling project work?
Question143: Which of the following is an output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
Question144: Which is one of the major outputs of Sequence Activities?
Question145: The purpose of a numeric scale in risk management is to______________
Question146: The software development project is going through planning. In evaluating the triple constraint, which of the following is the highest priority?
Question147: Having worked as a project manager for nine years, you know how important it is to identify the critical stakeholders so you do not overlook anyone who has a major influence on your project even if you do not ever plan to meet with or talk with this individual. As you work with your team, you explain the key benefit of the identify stakeholder process is that it______________
Question148: Which input may influence quality assurance work and should be monitored within the context of a system for configuration management?
Question149: Your project is now under way, and you are working with your team to prepare your requirements management plan. Which of the following strongly influences how requirements are managed?
Question150: The team you have organized for your new project consists of three people who will work full-time and five people who will support the project on a part-time basis. All team members know one another and have worked together in the past. To ensure a successful project start-up, your first step should be to______________
Question151: Quality function deployment is one approach for collecting requirements. Assume that you have studied the work of numerous quality experts, such as Deming, Juran, and Crosby, and your organization has a policy that states the importance of quality as the key constraint of all project constraints. You and your team have decided to use quality function deployment on your new project to manufacture turbines that use alternative fuels. The first step you should use is to______________
Question152: In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
Question153: What is the minimum a project schedule must include?
Question154: Assume you are actively working, along with your team, to manage stakeholder engagement on your project to develop a new drug to prevent any retina problems of any type. You know you must manage their engagement throughout the project life cycle. This means some organizational process assets will need updating including______________
Question155: You are project manager for a systems integration effort and need to procure the hardware components from external sources. Your subcontracts administrator has told you to prepare a product description, which is referenced in a______________.
Question156: The project team is developing rules for reporting status on the project in the communication management plan. The majority of their activities are greater than three reporting periods long.
Which format is best to use in this case?
Question157: After Define Activities and Sequence Activities, the next process is:
Question158: Which of the following are inputs into the Administer Procurements process?
Question159: Work performance information in control risks means that______________
Question160: A recent earned value analysis shows that your project is 20 percent complete, the CPI is 0.67, and the SPI is 0.87. In this situation, you should______________
Question161: Which of the following types of contracts has the least risk to the seller?
Question162: Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of:
Question163: Which of the following is a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a prespecified product, result, or service?
Question164: Variance and trend analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?
Question165: The quality management plan describes all the following EXCEPT the______________
Question166: Which type of elaboration allows a project management team to manage at a greater level of detail as the project evolves?
Question167: Project Management Process Groups are linked by:
Question168: Schedule milestones and a predefined budget are examples of:
Question169: Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor that may influence the development of the human resource management plan?
Question170: You recognize the importance of quality control on your project. However, you also know that quality control has costs associated with it and that the project has a limited budget. One way to reduce the cost of quality control is to______________
Question171: You are managing a project to introduce a new product to the marketplace that is expected to have a very long life. In this situation, the concept of being temporary, which is part of the definition of a project,______________.
Question172: Which type of dependency used in the Sequence Activities process is sometimes referred to as preferred logic, preferential logic, or soft logic?
Question173: Which of the following correctly describes when organizations and stakeholders are willing to accept varying degrees of risk?
Question174: The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost variance (CV) for Task 6?
Question175: When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:
Question176: Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?
Question177: You are responsible for a project management training curriculum that is offered throughout the organization. In this situation, your intangible deliverables are______________.
Question178: When closing a project, it is a best practice to______________.
Question179: In defining a milestone, which of the following is correct?
Question180: You are managing a virtual team. The project has been under way for several months, and you believe your team members do not view themselves as a team or a unified group. To help rectify this situation, you should______________
Question181: A key benefit of the Manage Communications process is that it enables:
Question182: Project Scope Management is characterized by processes in the Planning, as well as Monitoring and Controlling phases. Which group of processes defines Project Scope Management?
Question183: Forecasts, requested changes, recommended corrective actions, and organizational process asset updates are all outputs of which process?
Question184: An associate who calculates fees daily to support the department is doing which of the following?
Question185: Which of the following is an output from Control Scope?
Question186: A tool and technique used during the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process is:
Question187: The project planning for the trade show is progressing on schedule. The Project Manager and the team are meeting to begin cost estimating. The sponsor has said that estimates must be very accurate. Which of the following estimating techniques will provide the most accuracy?
Question188: You are working on identifying possible risks to your project to develop a nutritional supplement. You want to develop a comprehensive list of risks that can be addressed later through qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. An information gathering technique used to identify risks is______________
Question189: Significant differences between the seller's price and your independent estimate may indicate all the following EXCEPT the______________
Question190: Assume you are managing an international project. Your team is located in Atlanta, Georgia, US; Berlin, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia. You and your sponsor are located in Paris, France, and your customer is located in Athens, Greece. Recognizing the different locations of the stakeholders in your project in its initial stages, a best practice to follow in terms of working toward project success is to______________
Question191: Which of the following is a component of three-point estimates?
Question192: Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
Question193: During contract negotiations on large contracts, the negotiation process focuses on many key issues, with price being one of them. Separate negotiations can be made on price, quantity, quality, and timing, which can significantly lengthen the process. The negotiation process can be shortened, however, provided that______________
Question194: The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline is:
Question195: The project team is involved in creating the work breakdown structure of the project. Which of the following best describes a work breakdown structure (WBS) that will be created?
Question196: Identifying interrelationships and potential overlap between stakeholders is useful to the project manager as he or she works with stakeholders. It should be documented as part of the______________
Question197: You are fairly new to managing a project but have been a team member for many years. You are pleased you were selected to manage your company's 2015 model line of hybrid vehicles. You are now planning your project and have been preparing the subsidiary plans as well. You realize some project documents also are required to help manage your project. An example of one that you believe will be especial helpful is the______________.
Question198: Which technique is used in Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Question199: The greatest degree of uncertainty is encountered during which phase of the project life cycle?
Question200: To which process is work performance information an input?
Question201: It is expensive to lease office space in cities around the world. Office space can cost approximately USD
$80 per square foot in Tampa, Florida. And it can cost approximately $50,000 per square meter in Tokyo.
These "averages" can help a person to determine how much it will cost to lease office space in these cities based on the amount of space leased. These estimates are examples of______________
Question202: Because communications planning often is linked tightly with enterprise environmental factors, which one of the following statements is true?
Question203: 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?
Question204: The performance measurement baseline consists of all the following EXCEPT______________
Question205: Project managers spend a great deal of time communicating with the team, the stakeholders, the client, and the sponsor. One can easily see the challenges involved, especially if one team member must communicate a technical concept to another team member in a different country.
The first step in this process is to______________
Question206: The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
Question207: In what knowledge area does Activity Resource Estimating occur?
Question208: 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?
Question209: As you work on your project to update its software training classes to focus on an agile approach, you have a number of key stakeholders. As many students and their managers are requesting these classes, your CEO has taken a special interest in your project and has asked you to accelerate your schedule to complete it in two months rather than in your planned six months but still have quality offerings. This means as you work to monitor overall project stakeholder relationships, you should______________
Question210: What is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
Question211: Which of the following is an output of Close Procurements?
Question212: A project manager requesting industry groups and consultants to recommend project intervention is relying on:
Question213: When does Monitor and Control Risks occur?
Question214: On your project to construct a new runway for your City's airport, you are in the process of selecting vendors for various parts of this project. You have conducted your make-or-buy analysis and have issued Requests for Proposals. You believe it is important to examine past performance of potential vendors. This means you are using______________
Question215: The precedence diagramming method (PDM) is also known as:
Question216: A buyer has negotiated a fixed-price-incentive-fee contract with the seller. The contract has a target cost of
$200,000, a target profit of $30,000, and a target price of $230,000. The buyer also has negotiated a ceiling price of $270,000 and a share ratio of 70/30. If the seller completes the contract with actual costs of
$170,000, how much profit will the buyer pay the seller?
Question217: Issue change requests and adapt approved changes into the project's scope, plans, and environment is an activity included in which of the following project management processes?
Question218: Activity A is worth $400, is 95% complete, and actually cost $395. Activity B is worth $350, is 90% complete, and actually cost $330 so far. Activity C is worth $275, is 100% complete, and has cost $310 so far. The total budget is $2500. What is the total earned value for the activities listed?
Question219: You are working on a project that needs approval from your City Council and the courts, because the project is one with significant environmental and social impacts. Although many consumer groups are advocates of this project, others are opposed to it. Hearings are scheduled to resolve these issues and to obtain the needed permits to proceed. In preparing your human resource plan, you decide to designate a person as the court liaison, which is an example of a______________
Question220: Which of the following factors contributes the most to team communication?
Question221: You are managing the construction of a highly sophisticated data center in Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea. Although this location offers significant economic advantages, the threat of typhoons has caused you to create a backup plan to operate in Manila in case the center is flooded. This plan is an example of what type of risk response?
Question222: Before considering a project closed, what document should be reviewed to ensure that project scope has been satisfied?
Question223: You have been a project manager for seven years. You now are managing the construction of a new facility that must comply with the government's newly issued environmental standards. You want to ensure that your team members are able to select methods to complete various activities on the project without needing to involve you in each situation. As you prepare your human resource management plan, you should document this information in which of the following______________
Question224: Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
Question225: Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?
Question226: Organizational process assets can be divided into which of the following two categories?
Question227: Constant bickering, absenteeism, and substandard performance have characterized the behavior of certain members of your team. You have planned an off-site retreat for the team to engage in a variety of activities. Your primary objective for investing time and money in this event is to improve______________
Question228: What cost control technique is used to compare actual project performance to planned or expected performance?
Question229: When large or complex projects are separated into distinct phases or subprojects, all of the Process Groups would normally be:
Question230: Which of the following is a ground rule for project team building?
Question231: A number of different decision-making styles can be used in a team environment. When quality and acceptance are both important, which of the following styles should be used?
Question232: Typically, the statement "no one likes to estimate, because they know their estimate will be proven incorrect" is true. However, you have been given the challenge of estimating the costs for your nuclear reactor project. A basic assumption that you need to make early in this is______________
Question233: The project planning is progressing on schedule. The Project Manager and the team meet regularly and are ready to begin cost estimating. The customer needs an estimate as soon as possible. What estimating method should the team use?
Question234: Crosswind Custom Homes is building a customer's dream house. However, rain has delayed the finish by two weeks. The schedule shows that the next activity is to install the roof, then that is followed by the shingles. This is an example of what?
Question235: Because risk management is relatively new on projects in your company, you decide to examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with identified risks and their root causes. You therefore______________
Question236: As an output from control communications, it may be necessary to update the______________
Question237: Quality inspections also may be called______________
Question238: The cumulative CPI has been shown to be relatively stable after what percentage of project completion?
Question239: A new manufacturing facility is being built for a consumer electronic company. The project to create it is nearing completion and will soon begin to enter the Closing phase. This will involve a number of people, but who will ultimately approve the work of the project?
Question240: The first step in collecting requirements on any project, large or small, is to______________
Question241: Which baselines make up the performance measurement baseline?
Question242: The project scope statement should be used in the identify risk process because it______________
Question243: Which schedule method allows the project team to place buffers on the project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties?
Question244: You are working on a long-term project that has a number of benefits to its customers and users.
Therefore, as the project manager, one of your first steps was to identify the stakeholders that were critical to project success. Because this project will need long-term support by your organization once it is completed, key stakeholders are______________
Question245: 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?
Question246: You are the project manager for a two-year project that is now beginning its second year. The mix of team members has changed, and there is confusion as to roles and responsibilities. In addition, several of the completed work packages have not received the required sign-offs, and three work packages are five weeks behind schedule. To gain control of this project, you need to______________
Question247: Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Question248: Assume you want to optimize the work performance reports you will use to manage communications. You should do so by______________
Question249: In the initial stage of the project life cycle, the project's technical objectives are apt to be understood only in a general sense. A major component of project conflict during this stage of the project is______________
Question250: In plan stakeholder management, all organizational assets are used as inputs; however, which of the following are of particular importance?
Question251: Which tools or techniques are used during the Close Project or Phase process?
Question252: Verification of project deliverables occurs during which process?
Question253: Closing a project phase should not be delayed until project completion because______________.
Question254: 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?
Question255: How is scheduled variance calculated using the earned value technique?
Question256: A Project Manager has completed the Scope Planning process. The customer has shortened the schedule by six weeks and decided that the work breakdown structure (WBS) be modified. The Project Manager informs the customer that, by modifying the WBS, the project could be subjected to many problems. Which of the following would not be considered a problem of modifying the WBS?
Question257: Sample attributes of a communications management plan include which one of the following?
Question258: In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
Question259: Table reporting, spreadsheet analysis, and presentations are examples of______________
Question260: The purpose of economic value added (EVA) is to______________.
Question261: The development team is building a new product for their company. This is a new product type at their company, and the market for the product is extremely unstable. According to the product manager a key to success will be to have an extremely accurate estimate on the resource needs for the project, since the company is resource constrained. Which type of duration estimating approach is the most accurate?
Question262: You have been appointed project manager for a new project in your organization and must prepare a project management plan. You decide to prepare a WBS to show the magnitude and complexity of the work involved. No WBS templates are available to help you. To prepare the WBS, your first step should be to______________
Question263: Which of the following processes is necessary to ensure that the project employs all processes needed to meet its requirements?
Question264: What type of reward can hurt team cohesiveness?
Question265: Labor, materials, equipment, and supplies are examples of:
Question266: The key output of identify stakeholders that documents identification information, assessment information, and classification is the______________
Question267: On your systems development project, you noted during a review that the system had less functionality than planned at the critical design review. This note suggests that during the control risks process you used which following tools and techniques?
Question268: The ability of stakeholders to influence a project is______________
Question269: Types of internal failure costs include:
Question270: Your management has prescribed that a quality audit be conducted at the end of every phase in a project.
This audit is part of the organization's______________
Question271: Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
Question272: According to Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Theory, when achievement, recognition, responsibility, and advancement, or promotion, are not present, employees will______________
Question273: Which term is NOT a common name for a procurement document that solicits an offer from prospective sellers?
Question274: Your customer signed off on the requirements document and scope statement of your video game project last month. Today she stated she would like to make it an interactive game that can be played on a television and on a computer. This represents a requested scope change that, at a minimum______________
Question275: Another name for an Ishikawa diagram is:
Question276: You are implementing a project management methodology for your company that requires you to establish a change control board. Which one of the following statements best describes a change control board?
Question277: Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
Question278: Change is inevitable on projects. Uncontrolled changes are often referred to as______________
Question279: Which defines the portion of work included in a contract for items being purchased or acquired?
Question280: Organizational process assets, a lessons-learned database, and historical information are all inputs to which process?
Question281: Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
Question282: A change log for communications can be used to communicate to the appropriate stakeholders that there are changes:
Question283: You want to structure your project so that each project team member has a discrete work package to perform. The work package is a______________
Question284: Which of the following formulas calculates the number of communication channels in a project?
Question285: The electrical engineer has recently been promoted from lead engineer to section manager. In this new position, he will be responsible for managing projects and project resources. Over the five years he has been with the company, he was always ranked as one of the top engineers but has had no formal project management training. This is an example of what?
Question286: Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?
Question287: The primary benefit of contract control procurements is to ensure that______________
Question288: The last step in the stakeholder analysis process is to______________
Question289: In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
Question290: The Project Manager is creating an estimate for a housing development. This is something for which he is quite experienced. The client needs the estimate in four hours. Which of the following types of estimates make the most sense to use?
Question291: You are leading a team to review and improve the project selection and prioritization method. You know that the two most important questions to answer are "can we do the project?" (feasibility study) and "should we do the project?" (cost-benefit analysis). The team is considering many different management concerns, including financial return, market share, and public perception.
The most important criterion for building a project selection model is______________
Question292: Assume you have performed your stakeholder analysis and now are working to enhance it with a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix. Such a matrix shows the stakeholder's current engagement level. These data enable______________
Question293: Which of the following processes are within the Initiating Process Group?
Question294: Based on a recent quality audit of your project, your organization's quality assurance department is supportive of your approach as it notes the following characteristics of quality that are being followed consistency. They include all of the follow EXCEPT______________
Question295: Which type of contract gives both the seller and the buyer flexibility to deviate from performance with financial incentives?
Question296: When choosing the most appropriate form of project organization, the first step is to______________
Question297: An output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is:
Question298: The sponsor on the airport runway project has just told the Project Manager about a change he wants. He says that the change will cost 20% less and should not cause any problems to the existing environment.
Which of the following should concern the Project Manager the most?
Question299: Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
Question300: Updates of organizational process assets that are an output of control scope include all the following EXCEPT______________
Question301: As a project manager, you try to use empathic listening skills to help understand another person's frame of reference. In following this approach, you should______________
Question302: Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes, and procedures?
Question303: The area where the project manager can have the greatest impact on the quality of his or her project is in______________
Question304: Validate scope______________
Question305: In which process might a project manager use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
Question306: You are the Project Manager on a cellular bluetooth amplifier project and are in the Planning phase. During a team meeting, a Functional Manager attempts to validate if the project meets company goals. The Functional Manager will report this finding back to senior management to determine if the project should continue, be modified or be canceled. What is this process called?
Question307: Success is measured by benefits realization for a:
Question308: When writing payment terms in your fixed-price subcontracts it is especially important to______________
Question309: Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during Estimate Costs?
Question310: Analogous cost estimating relies on which of the following techniques?
Question311: Which process involves applying budget amounts to the individual work packages or activities?
Question312: What is an objective of the Developing Project Team Process?
Question313: Having prepared stakeholder management plans on previous projects, you know it is positive to review the project management plan because it______________
Question314: Which of the following techniques is used during Control Scope?
Question315: Which of the following are the components of the scope baseline?
Question316: 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?
Question317: The project manager for XYZ stationers is sequencing the activities for the project to set up a new office. It is known from knowledge of best practices that it is better to wait for the painters to finish painting the walls before the new floors are installed. This is an example of which of the following types of dependency?
Question318: Projects are particularly susceptible to risk because______________
Question319: Which of the following are examples of interactive communication?
Question320: As you are working on your telecommunications project, even though you are using agile methods, you realize you are preparing an extensive amount of data and information. You regularly share data with your project team. Your last team meeting focused on the number of change requests and also the start and finish dates of activities in your schedule. They are examples of______________.
Question321: Which following item is NOT an input to control scope?
Question322: All of the following are true about a work breakdown structure (WBS) except?
Question323: The simplest form of quantitative risk analysis and modeling techniques is______________
Question324: You have assembled a core team to develop the project management plan for the next generation of fatigue fighting drugs. The science is complex, and the extended team of researchers, clinicians, and patients for trials exceeds 500 people. The content of your project management plan will be directed primarily by two factors. They are______________.
Question325: You are a personnel management specialist recently assigned to a project team working on a team-based reward and recognition system. The other team members also work in the human resources department.
The project charter should be issued by______________.
Question326: Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique used in which process?
Question327: All of the following are objectives of a quality audit______________
Question328: You and your project team recognize the importance of project scope management to a project's overall success; therefore, you include only the work required for successful completion of the project. The first step in the Project Scope Management process is to______________
Question329: Which Knowledge Areas include processes from the Closing Process Group?
Question330: In which phase of team building activities do team members begin to work together and adjust their work habits and behavior to support the team?
Question331: Which of the following can be used as an input for Define Scope?
Question332: Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?
Question333: Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
Question334: Activity A is worth $300, is 100% complete, and actually cost $350. Activity B is worth $100, is 95% complete, and actually cost $85 so far. Activity C is worth $200, is 75% complete, and has cost $175 so far. Total budget is $1500. What is the estimate at completion for the activities listed?
Question335: An input to the Identify Stakeholders process is:
Question336: Which enterprise environmental factors may influence Plan Schedule Management?
Question337: Even though your project is vastly different from a manufacturing operation, you believe the principles of kaizen will work well. The kaizen approach to continuous improvement emphasizes______________
Question338: During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Question339: Team performance assessments is an output of which of the following processes?
Question340: 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?
Question341: If you apply the configuration management system along with change control processes project wide, you will achieve all but one of the which following objectives?
Question342: The Project Manager and Functional Manager are having a disagreement on resource allocation for a new broadband project. The Functional Manager wants the resource for an operational issue that needs attention, and the Project Manager wants the resource to work on the project so it stays on schedule as planned. Which of the following roles can help resolve this problem?
Question343: Within project integration management, the statement of work (SOW) references which aspects of the project?
Question344: You are responsible for a project in your organization that has multiple internal customers.
Because many people in your organization are interested in this project, you decide to prepare a stakeholder management strategy. Before preparing this strategy, you should______________
Question345: In complex projects/ initiating processes should be completed:
Question346: You realize that leadership without management or management without leadership probably will produce poor project results. Which one of the following key responsibilities best represents project leadership?
Question347: The iterative and interactive nature of the Process Groups creates the need for the processes in which Knowledge Area?
Question348: Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?
Question349: The key way for a project manager to promote optimum team performance in project teams whose members are not collocated is to______________
Question350: Working to foster stakeholder engagement, as the project manager, you know a combination of interpersonal skills and general management skills is needed. An example of an key interpersonal skill in stakeholder engagement is______________
Question351: Your cost control specialist has developed a budget plan for your project to add a second surgical center to the Children's Hospital. As you analyze cash flow requirements, you notice that cash flow activity is greatest in the closing phase. You find this unusual because on most projects the largest portion of the budget spent during______________.
Question352: Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?
Question353: Working on your project to design and construct five new bridges for your City, you are striving to actively manage the stakeholders on your project, especially those who will be inconvenienced by the project and have indicated they do not support it. You decided to review your communications management plan as it______________
Question354: 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?
Question355: A weighting system is a tool for which area of procurement?
Question356: Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
Question357: Constraints common to projects include______________
Question358: Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
Question359: The control chart is a tool used primarily to help______________
Question360: During which process would you obtain stakeholders' formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Question361: Job satisfaction, challenging work, and sufficient financial compensation are values related to which interpersonal skill?
Question362: 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?
Question363: Conflicts in which following three areas represent the majority of all project conflicts?
Question364: You realize that projects represent change, and on your projects, you always seem to have a number of change requests to consider. In your current project to manage the safety of the nation's cheese products and the testing methods used, you decided to prepare a formal change management plan. An often overlooked type of change request is______________.
Question365: As project manager, you have assembled the team to prepare a comprehensive list of project risks. Which one of the following documents would be the most helpful in this process?
Question366: The most common communication problem that occurs during negotiation is that______________
Question367: Quality and credibility of the qualitative risk analysis process requires that different levels of the risk's probabilities and impacts be defined is the definition of what?
Question368: The Plan Procurements process includes documenting project purchasing decisions and what other steps?
Question369: The most commonly used type of precedence relationship in the precedence diagramming method (PDM) is:
Question370: Which quality control technique illustrates the 80/20 principle?
Question371: What is the difference between the critical path and the critical chain?
Question372: Calculate the standard deviation for the following: Pessimistic=50, Optimistic=10, Realistic=24.
Question373: The team is in the process of validating that the quality plan for the project will measure sufficiently the product of the project. What are the team members doing?
Question374: A measure of cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal and is expressed as the ratio of the cost needed for finishing the outstanding work to the remaining budget is known as the:
Question375: Which of the following are inputs to the Plan Procurements process?
Question376: When managing a project team, what helps to reduce the amount of conflict?
Question377: 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?
Question378: 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?
Question379: It is important on all projects to determine when and how human resources will be met. Assume that you are managing a project to assess methods for streamlining the regulatory approval process for new medical devices in your government agency. Because the agency has undergone downsizing during the past three years, subject matter experts are in short supply. You must determine whether the needed subject matter experts can be acquired from inside the agency or whether you must use contractors. This information should be documented in the______________
Question380: The integrative nature of project management requires which Process Group to interact with the other Process Groups?
Question381: Which tool or technique measures performance of the project as it moves from project initiation through project closure?
Question382: The project is nearing completion. The team is involved in a lot of different activities to close the project.
They are in the process of grouping together various documents associated with financial records, contracts, internal project documentation, and client-related documentation. What are they in the process of creating?
Question383: Life-cycle phase definitions are different in different industries. For example, all of the following are terms that could be used in the closing phase of a project EXCEPT______________
Question384: Which of the following are outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
Question385: Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Question386: The company is in the testing phase of its project. It is tracking defects that come in from customers who are testing the project. Given the nature of a new project, they have a variety of defects that are being discovered. Organizing and prioritizing the defects is becoming a challenge.
What would help them organize this better?
Question387: As you manage the railroad switching station project, you are concerned that the business analyst who was responsible for preparing the WBS may have overlooked some parts of the project. In order to see if the WBS requires enhancements you decide to______________
Question388: A risk response strategy in which the project team shifts the impact of a threat, together with ownership of the response, to a third party is called:
Question389: Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:
Question390: A tool or technique in Perform Quality Control that a project manager would use is:
Question391: During which process does the project team receive bids and proposals?
Question392: The person assigned by the performing organization to be responsible for achieving the project objectives is the:
Question393: What happens to a stakeholder's project influence over time?
Question394: When you are about to terminate a contract, the one place to look for specific procedures for contract closure is in the______________
Question395: Having worked previously on projects as a team member, you are pleased to now be the project manager to develop a new process to ensure that software projects in your IT Department are considered a success and are not late or over budget. However, many of your team members are new to the organization. As you work to establish a high-performing team, you realize the importance of______________
Question396: The project team should have a working knowledge of statistical process control to help evaluate control quality outputs. Of all the topics involved, which of the following is the most important for the team to understand?
Question397: Most statistical simulations of budgets, schedules, and resource allocations use which one of the following approaches?
Question398: The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group includes processes that:
Question399: An input to the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process is the:
Question400: Which of the following is a tool or technique for the Plan Procurements process?
Question401: Expected monetary value (EMV) is computed by which equation?
Question402: One way to evaluate the project schedule performance is to______________
Question403: Your project scheduler has just started working with your project and has produced defective reports for the past two accounting cycles. If this continues, these defective reports could provide the potential for customer dissatisfaction and lost productivity that is due to rework. You discovered that the project scheduler needs additional training on using the scheduling tool that is used on your project. The cost of training falls under which one of the following categories?
Question404: Given that you are neighbors, you and the CEO of your company have established a friendly personal relationship. Recently your company appointed you project manager for a new project that is crucial to achieving next year's financial targets. Which type of power available to project managers might you be able to rely upon?
Question405: You are the finance controller with your company. Your job is to analyze projects when they close. This could be the result of when a project is complete or by any other means. When would you expect to close a project?
Question406: Work performance information includes all the following EXCEPT______________
Question407: Assume you are working on a multi-phase project as your project is planned to last three years. A best practice is to______________
Question408: Requirements for formal contract acceptance and closure usually are defined in the______________
Question409: Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
Question410: Which is a tool used in monitoring and controlling project work?
Question411: Which of the following is an example of schedule compression?
Question412: You are identifying possible risks to your project concerning the development of a nutritional supplement.
You want to reach out to your experts and build consensus on the risks that qualitative and quantitative risk analysis can address later. Although you can use various techniques, a key information gathering technique that helps to build consensus is______________
Question413: The plan quality management process includes all the following techniques EXCEPT______________
Question414: In the below path convergence example, if the odds of completing activities 1, 2, and 3 on time are 50 percent, 50 percent, and 50 percent, what are the chances of starting activity 4 on day 6?
Question415: The process of conferring with others to come to terms or reach an agreement is called______________
Question416: Which of the following is not a human resources process?
Question417: Which process requires implementation of approved changes?
Question418: You are working on a contract in a remote location. The contract requires you to be on site at the office on a daily basis. You were unable to get to the office for three days last month because of severe blizzard conditions. Your failure to appear at the office was excused because of a clause in the contract entitled______________
Question419: Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
Question420: Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:
Question421: 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?
Question422: The project team members have gotten together at the end of the project to review what happened on the project, discussing what went well and what didn't. They undertake this discussion for the sake of future project so that they can repeat the things that worked on the project and eliminate repeating the things that didn't work so well. This is known as what?
Question423: A cost management plan should establish and document the various earned value rules of performance measurement. Along with defining the WBS to the level that the earned value analysis will be performed and establishing how earned value will be credited to the project (0-100, 0-50-100, and so on), which following rule is also recognized regarding performance measurement?
Question424: 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?
Question425: The Project Manager is working with the customer to gain formal acceptance on the documentation deliverables for a software project. The customer is saying that the deliverables are unusable in their present form as they don?t align with the project requirements. Upon reviewing documentation, the customer tells the Project Manager that the requirements are not accurate, to meet the needs for which the project was undertaken. Which of the following will help fix this problem?
Question426: You completed your stakeholder analysis. How do you want to manage those stakeholders that have a high interest in your project and high power over decisions affecting your project?
Question427: Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?
Question428: Design of experiments (DOE) should be used during which of the following processes?
Question429: Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
Question430: Which of the following consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary?
Question431: What are seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean called?
Question432: The quality function deployment process is used to______________
Question433: A project health check identified a risk that your project would not be completed on time. As a result, you are quantifying the project's risk exposure and determining what cost and schedule contingency reserves might be needed. You performed a schedule risk analysis using Monte Carlo analysis. The basis for your schedule risk analysis is the______________
Question434: In person-to-person communication, messages are sent on verbal levels and nonverbal levels simultaneously. As a general rule, what percentage of the message actually is sent through nonverbal cues?
Question435: Objectives for conducting performance appraisals during the course of a project can include all the following EXCEPT______________
Question436: The workaround that you used to deal with a risk that occurred should be documented and included in which following processes?
Question437: Product analysis techniques include all the following EXCEPT______________
Question438: Which of the following strategic considerations often results in project authorization?
Question439: On your project you want to avoid bureaucracy, so you adopt an informal approach to change control. The main problem with this approach is______________.
Question440: Which of the following calculations CANNOT be used to determine EAC?
Question441: Quality assurance promotes quality improvement. A "breakthrough" is the accomplishment of any improvement that takes the organization to unprecedented levels of performance by attacking______________
Question442: The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
Question443: The customer has requested a five-week delay on the project while the company has winter holiday. This delay was not planned, but the union forced the issue. The company has limited resources. What is the best way to make up the five-week slip?
Question444: Recognizing the importance of preparing a stakeholder management plan, you met with your team to obtain their buy in and to discuss it. You explained the key benefit of plan stakeholder management is to______________
Question445: The project planning is progressing. The team has involved the accounting department to set up a system of codes that the accounting department will use to track work on the project. This is known as what?
Question446: What is a technique used in the performance reporting process?
Question447: You are a goal-oriented project manager who is more interested in work accomplishment than relationship building. This indicates that you tend to resolve conflicts primarily through the use of______________
Question448: Procurement audits, negotiated settlements, and a records management system are tools and techniques used in which Procurement Management process?
Question449: Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Question450: The project team has just started breaking down the components of the project into smaller pieces that are easier to maintain and manage. After doing this what level of decomposition will they ultimately stop at?
Question451: Analytical techniques are a tool and technique of which process in Project Procurement Management?
Question452: Project A has a NPV of $275K US over 2.5 years. Project B has an IRR of 3.2%. Project C has a BCR of
0.89:1. Project D has four people on it and is encountering scope creep. Which of the following projects would stand the greatest chance of getting canceled?
Question453: Assume you are managing the development of a construction project in your city to replace its five bridges so they are state of the art and meet updated safety standards since they originally were constructed 20 years ago. The design work has been completed, you have awarded subcontracts, and are set to begin construction. Today your legal department told you to stop work as you had not consulted them, and there was a critical standard you overlooked during the design process.
This example shows______________
Question454: An example of a group decision-making technique is:
Question455: When sequencing activities, what does the common acronym FF stand for?
Question456: On a wireless internet access project, the team is large with 40 people, and controlling communication has been a challenging for the team to make progress. The Project Coordinator has been used to help with this problem. What is one of the main differences between the Project Coordinator and the Project Expeditor?
Question457: The definition of operations is a/an:
Question458: The three types of estimates that PERT uses to define an approximate range for an activity's cost are:
Question459: You are responsible for ensuring that your seller's performance meets contractual requirements. For effective contract control, you should______________
Question460: Budgets reserved for unplanned changes to project scope and cost are:
Question461: Which type of manager is assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives?
Question462: Your project is using complex, unproven technology. Your team conducted a brainstorming session to identify risks. Poor allocation of project resources was the number one risk. This risk was placed on the risk register, which included at this point a______________
Question463: You are developing radio frequency (RF) technology that will improve overnight package delivery. You ask each stakeholder to estimate the most optimistic package delivery time using the RF technology, the most pessimistic time, and the most likely time. This shows that for your next step you plan to______________
Question464: Resource calendars are included in the:
Question465: You receive a frantic phone call from your vice president who says she is going to meet with a prospective client in 15 minutes to discuss a large and complex project. She asks you how much the project will cost.
You quickly think of some similar past projects, factor in a few unknowns, and give her a number. What type of estimate did you just provide?
Question466: An output of the Manage Project Team process is:
Question467: Projects are supposed to succeed, not fail. However, termination is an option to consider when all but which one of the following conditions exist?
Question468: Which cost estimate technique includes contingencies to account for cost uncertainty?
Question469: An automated tool, project records, performance indicators, data bases, and financials are examples of items in______________.
Question470: When managing current projects, it is important to use lessons learned from previous projects to improve the organization's project management process. Therefore, in project closing procedures, it is important to review the______________
Question471: What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?
Question472: A tool or technique used during the Administer Procurements process is:
Question473: An input to the Estimate Activity Resources process is:
Question474: Behavior roles of team members influence the team's process, behavior, and effectiveness. An example of a task-oriented role to perform is that of a(n)______________
Question475: Today, the primary cause of why projects are not completed on time and within cost and are terminated early is due to______________
Question476: What is one of the MAJOR outputs of activity sequencing?
Question477: Deming's Fourteen Points provide a way for an organization to create and sustain a culture of continuous improvement. As such it should be directed by______________
Question478: A project has an EV of 100 workdays, an AC of 120 workdays, and a PV of 80 workdays. What should be the concern?
Question479: The project management processes presented in the PMBOK Guide® should:
Question480: Which of the Perform Quality Assurance tools and techniques may enhance the creation of the work breakdown structure (WBS) to give structure to the decomposition of the scope?
Question481: Communication is important when setting and managing expectations with the stakeholders.
Which one of the following statements is NOT true regarding the importance of communications within a project?
Question482: You need to outsource the testing function of your project. Your subcontracts department informed you that the following document must be prepared before conducting the procurement:
Question483: In which process might you use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
Question484: You have decided to use a fishbone diagram to identify the relationship between an effect and its causes.
To begin, you should first______________
Question485: Ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation is a focus of which of the following?
Question486: Managing five contractors on your project for a new stadium in your City that can be used for baseball and for football and can be easily converted for either sport is a challenge along with managing your 15 person project team. You decided to conduct an audit of one of your contractors and are______________
Question487: You are managing a large project with 20 key internal stakeholders, eight contractors, and six team leaders. You must devote attention to effective integrated change control. This means you are concerned primarily with______________.
Question488: The traditional organization chart structure that can be used to show positions and relationships in a graphic top-down format is called a:
Question489: The estimate costs process uses all the following tools and techniques EXCEPT______________
Question490: Hierarchical-type charts are a tool and technique for use in human resource planning. Which one of the following is helpful in tracking project costs and can be aligned with the organization's accounting system?
Question491: In performing human resources functions on a project, which of the following is not a process that would be done by the Project Manager?
Question492: According to learning curve theory, when many items are produced repetitively______________
Question493: The project is progressing well but has begun to experience resource conflicts with people who are working on critical path activities. What role will typically help resolve these resource issues?
Question494: Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
Question495: A Project Manager has completed the Scope Definition process. The customer and sponsor have shortened the schedule by four weeks and decided that the work breakdown structure will be excluded.
The Project Manager informs the customer and sponsor that this process creates the work breakdown structure for their project. Which answer best explains why the WBS is so important to a project?
Question496: As project manager, you are primarily responsible for implementing the project management plan by authorizing the execution of project activities. Because you do not work in a projectized organization, you do not have direct access to human resource administrative activities.
Therefore you need to______________
Question497: Which of the following outputs from the Control Schedule process aids in the communication of schedule variance (SV), schedule performance index (SPI), or any performance status to stakeholders?
Question498: Which of the following are documented directions to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks?
Question499: By reviewing cumulative cost curves, the project manager can monitor______________
Question500: Information distribution involves making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner. What is an output from information distribution?
Question501: Specification of both the deliverables and the processes is the focus of:
Question502: As you work with your team to prepare your stakeholder management plan, you decided to develop a stakeholder engagement chart. You set it up so you could______________
Question503: The CPI on your project is 0.84. This means that you should______________
Question504: The project is going through quality assurance. Which of the following is a key tool that will be utilized in this process?
Question505: Which of the following makes changes to formally control documentation to reflect modified or additional ideas or content?
Question506: Two people at work are discussing roles and responsibilities as they relate to the company and the projects it has. They are discussing the role of the Project Manager and the Functional Manager.
What is the main role of the Functional Manager?
Question507: Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
Question508: The cost of nonconformance in a project includes:
Question509: A revised cost baseline may be required in cost control when______________
Question510: When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
Question511: Oftentimes when a project is terminated, senior managers will replace the project manager with an individual who is skilled in closing out projects. If this is done, the first step for the termination manager should be to______________.
Question512: A number of items in the stakeholder management plan are similar to those in the communications management plan. An example is______________
Question513: Which of the following events would result in a baseline update?
Question514: As head of the PMO, you will receive performance reports for all major projects. You decided to set a guideline for project managers as performance reporting should______________
Question515: Completion of the product scope is measured against the product:
Question516: The undistributed budget is part of the______________
Question517: Which type of management focuses on ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation?
Question518: The process for performing variance analysis may vary, depending on:
Question519: As you use the critical chain method in lieu of the critical path method in developing your schedule, assume you have determined the buffer schedule activities. Your planned activities are scheduled to their latest possible planed start and end dates. Therefore, you are focusing on______________
Question520: What does a CPI value greater than 1.0 indicate?
Question521: When a backward pass is calculated from a schedule constraint that is later than the early finish date that has been calculated during a forward pass calculation, this causes which type of total float?
Question522: You are beginning a new project staffed with a virtual team located across five countries. To help avoid conflict in work priorities among your team members and their functional managers, you ask the project sponsor to prepare a______________.
Question523: Which tool and technique is used in Conduct Procurements?
Question524: What is the main output of Monitoring and Controlling?
Question525: Which term describes an assessment of correctness?
Question526: What scope definition technique is used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?
Question527: When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Question528: Which of the following is an example of recommended corrective action in risk management?
Question529: Assume your company is a leader in the market in production of cereal products. It has been in this market for over 50 years. You are the project manager for a new product that is a derivative from the company's core product. As you determine a life cycle for this project, you believe you should follow one that is______________.
Question530: Assume you wish to provide a process to be more creative in problem solving as on your project you have a somewhat complex scenario that possesses intertwined logical relationships for up to 50 items. The best approach is to______________
Question531: Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Question532: Assume that the project cost estimates have been prepared for each activity and the basis of these estimates has been determined. Now, as the project manager for your nutrition awareness program in your hospital, you are preparing your budget. Because you have estimates for more than 1,200 separate activities, you have decided to first______________
Question533: Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
Question534: The printing company is putting a policy in place to use just-in-time manufacturing. It feels this policy will help minimize excess paper and ink costs and improve efficiency in processing and maximize square footage utilization. The amount of inventory needed for this type of process is what?
Question535: Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?
Question536: A Pareto chart is a specific type of:
Question537: The "rule of seven" as applied to statistical process control charts means that______________
Question538: 
Which of the following is the correct network diagram for the table?
Question539: Which tool within the Perform Quality Control process identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Question540: Determining the method and the timing of releasing team members should be included in the______________
Question541: The issue log is useful in control communications because it______________
Question542: There are three uses and types of Pareto analysis. If you wish to provide a measure of significance to factors that at first may not appear to be significant at all, you should use a______________
Question543: A reward can only be effective if it is:
Question544: An example of an organizational process asset that could affect how project scope is to be managed is______________
Question545: When painting a bedroom, preparing the walls can be done while the paint is being chosen. This is an example of a:
Question546: What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Question547: Which of the following is a measure of the value of work completed compared to the actual cost or progress made on the project?
Question548: The three processes of Project Cost Management are:
Question549: An approach to provide insight into the health of the project and to identify any areas that require special attention is to______________
Question550: Facilitation techniques are used throughout project management. Your company is embarking on a project to completely eliminate defects in its products. You are the project manager for this project, and you are developing your project charter. To assist you, which of the following facilitation techniques did you use?
Question551: The Process Group that involves coordinating people and resources, as well as integrating and performing the activities of the project in accordance with the project management plan is known as:
Question552: 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?
Question553: 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?
Question554: Because your project is slated to last five years, you believe rolling wave planning is appropriate.
It provides information about the work to be done______________.
Question555: If you want to calculate the ETC based on your expectations that similar variances to those noted to date will not occur, you should use which of the following formulas?
Question556: A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished is known as:
Question557: As you prepare to close your project, which of the following is an input to the close project or phase process?
Question558: In both the weak and strong matrix organizational structures, the primary condition leading to conflict is______________
Question559: Assume that your company has a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contract value is $110,000, which consists of $100,000 of estimated costs with a 10-percent fixed fee. Assume that your company completes the work but only incurs $80,000 in actual cost. What is the total cost to the project?
Question560: Which of the following tools is used in process analysis to determine the underlying causes of defects?
Question561: Which of the following correctly lists the configuration management activities included in the Integrated Change Control process?
Question562: Your project management office implemented a project management methodology that emphasizes the importance of integrated change control. It states that change requests can occur in all the following forms EXCEPT______________
Question563: You have been directed to establish a change control system for your company, but must convince your colleagues to use it. To be effective, the change control system must include______________.
Question564: A general contingency is used for______________
Question565: Requirements for formal deliverable acceptance are defined in the______________
Question566: In a weak matrix, the project managers role is:
Question567: You are managing a complex project for a new method of heating and air conditioning in vehicles. You will use both solar and wind technologies in this project to reduce energy costs. Therefore, you must ensure that the work of your project will result in delivering the project's specified scope, which means that you should measure completion of the product scope against the______________
Question568: Analyzing stakeholders is a part of the identify stakeholders process. Common approaches for analyzing stakeholders in a qualitative manner includes all the following two-axis grids, EXCEPT______________
Question569: The project is using a new server that cost $25,000 US. The Project Manager is told to set up depreciation for the server over a five-year schedule, with the server having a value of $0 at the end of five years.
Standard depreciation will be used in the calculation. What is the amount per year the server will depreciate?
Question570: Which of the following buffers protects the target finish date from slippage along the critical chain?
Question571: Within your company's portfolio, your project is ranked in the top five in terms of importance of the 60 projects under way; however, the number of resources available to you is still limited. You have decided to pilot test the use of critical chain on your project. You have calculated your critical path. You want to ensure that your target finish date does not slip in the critical chain method. To do so you should______________
Question572: Which of the seven basic quality tools is especially useful for gathering attributes data while performing inspections to identify defects?
Question573: You have a number of costs to track and manage because your project is technically very complex. They include direct costs and indirect (overhead) costs. You have found that managing overhead costs is particularly difficult because they______________
Question574: Although there are various tools and techniques to consider as you collect requirements on your project, one approach that supports the concept of progressive elaboration is______________
Question575: 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?
Question576: Which process involves user cost estimates and the schedule to determine when these costs are expected to occur during the project?
Question577: 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:
Question578: The cost performance baseline is typically displayed in the form of:
Question579: What is the typical role of senior management on a project?
Question580: The company is implementing a new project management approach. In the past, their projects have been disorganized, not in alignment with business goals, and not focused on interactivity between the projects where applicable. They want to have a better focus on grouping related projects together by business unit and product lines. Which of the following best describe what they are trying to accomplish?
Question581: The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:
Question582: A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?
Question583: The Delphi technique is a particularly useful method for identifying risks to______________
Question584: Historical information is used______________
Question585: As project manager, you plan to conduct a "kickoff" meeting at which you will discuss all the following EXCEPT______________
Question586: Although your company's project life cycle does not mandate when a project review should be conducted, you believe it is important to review performance at the conclusion of each phase. The objective of such a review is to______________
Question587: In addition to providing support to the project, quality assurance also provides an umbrella for______________
Question588: Cost variance (CV) is equal to earned value:
Question589: Stakeholders often have issues, and you have asked each of your team members to document them. At each team meeting, you and your team discuss them and determine appropriate responses. You have a project issue log, which is______________
Question590: Activity A is worth $300, is 100% complete, and actually cost $350. Activity B is worth $100, is 95% complete, and actually cost $85 so far. Activity C is worth $200, is 75% complete, and has cost $175 so far. The total budget is $1500. What is the cost variance for the activities listed?
Question591: Two team members on your project often disagree. You need a conflict resolution method that provides a long-term resolution. You decide to use which one of the following approaches?
Question592: The purpose of the Project Communications Management Knowledge Area is to:
Question593: Which stakeholder communicates with higher levels of management to gather organizational support and promote project benefits?
Question594: Assume you have identified your stakeholders and are preparing your stakeholder management plan. You are fortunate that your team is a collocated team as you are working on an internal project to reorganize your IT Department so it is focused more on its customers. The project sponsor is the Chief Operating Officer, and the IT Department Director was surprised as she thought all was well. However, you notice when planning meetings are held, the Chief Financial Officer never attends. You feel since IT affects the entire company, all the senior leaders need some type of involvement. You therefore feel the Chief Financial Officer may be______________
Question595: Which characteristic is unique to project work and does not apply to operational work?
Question596: Statements of organizational policies and philosophies, position descriptions, and constraints are examples of______________
Question597: You have been assigned as the project manager for a major project in your company where the customer and key supplier are located in another country. You have been working on your project for six months.
Recently, you traveled to this country, and at the conclusion of a critical design review meeting, which was highly successful, you realized you were successful in building a high-performing team. You had your own team members, who work in a weak matrix structure, on a conference call during this meeting. Although it was difficult to reach agreement on some key issues, you therefore relied on your interpersonal skills in______________
Question598: You are managing a project with team members located at customer sites on three different continents. As you plan communications with your stakeholders, you should review______________
Question599: Effective communication occurs in groups as well as between individuals and is made up of several key components, such as the purpose of the message, the audience that you are delivering the message to, and the content of the message itself. One important area to consider when working with manage communications______________
Question600: Assume you have been working with your sponsor to prepare you charter, and you plan to present it to your Steering Committee on Friday. You are managing a software project, and the business need stated that you should use agile for the first time in our company rather than waterfall. In the Develop Project Charter process, this is then______________
Question601: The data warehouse project is about halfway complete at a major retail client.
Your company is doing the implementation and has twelve team members in various locations across three different buildings. Communication and team-building has been a real challenge. Which of the following would fix or improve this problem?
Question602: What's budget?
Question603: Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Question604: In some cases, contract termination refers to______________
Question605: Each project can benefit from stakeholder involvement; however, it is in both the project manager's and the teams' best interest to ensure that all project stakeholders have positive attitudes toward the project and its goals and objectives. Working as a project manager, you have a number of key stakeholders on your project. The stakeholder that identifies potential conflicts between organizational strategies and project goals is the______________
Question606: Projects can intersect with an organization's operations at various points during the product life cycle such as:
Question607: Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
Question608: The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
Question609: A purchase order is a good example of which form of contracting?
Question610: Which of the following is an example of push communication?
Question611: As the project progresses, which of the following is routinely collected from the project activities?
Question612: Control accounts______________
Question613: 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?
Question614: Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
Question615: 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:
Question616: Which of following could be organizational process assets?
Question617: Which of the following is an output of the Conduct Procurements process?
Question618: You realize that on projects, some stakeholders will not be as receptive as others to your project and actually can be negative from the beginning. Assume you have classified your stakeholders on your project designed to ensure students in your city have access to the best educational resources available, whether in class or on line, your stakeholder management plan is a sensitive document. Therefore, you need to______________
Question619: Expert judgment is a best practice as a tool and technique in many project management processes, and the list of possible sources for experts varies by the organization and by its association with others. One way once you have identified experts who you feel could be of assistance is to______________
Question620: What are the key components of the communication model?
Question621: The Project Manager is working with the sponsor to attain formal acceptance on the infrastructure project deliverables. The customer is saying that seven of the deliverables are not meeting project goals, and are unusable in their present form. Upon reviewing documentation, the sponsor explains to the Project Manager that the requirements are not accurate, to meet the needs for which the project was planned.
What part of the Planning process did this problem occur?
Question622: Which technique is utilized in the Control Schedule process?
Question623: Consider a company that sells products to consumers: as one product begins the deterioration and death phases of its life cycle (or the divestment phase of a system), new products or projects must be established. This means that______________
Question624: The risk urgency assessment is a tool and technique used for______________
Question625: Risk score measures the______________
Question626: Which output is the approved version of the time-phased project budget?
Question627: 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?
Question628: Collecting requirements is critical in project scope management as it becomes the foundation for the project's______________
Question629: Information received from stakeholders concerning project operations can be distributed and used to modify or improve future performance of the project. This modification or improvement is done as an update to organizational process assets during which following process?
Question630: Managing change to the scope baseline is the main objective of the process of control scope. The scope baseline consists of the following components EXCEPT______________
Question631: You are the project manager for a subcontractor on a major contract. The prime contractor has asked that you manage your work in a detailed manner. Your first step is to______________
Question632: Which schedule network analysis technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Question633: An output of the Develop Project Team process is:
Question634: In scope control it is important to determine the cause of any unacceptable variance relative to the scope baseline. This can be done through______________
Question635: The baseline for evaluating whether requests for changes or additional work are contained within or outside the project's exclusion is provided by the______________
Question636: Work completed, key performance indicators, technical performance measures, start and finish dates of schedule activities, number of change requests, number of defects, actual costs, and actual decisions are examples of work performance data are an output of______________
Question637: Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Question638: Cost aggregation is typically performed by aggregating work packages in accordance with the:
Question639: Cost baseline is an output of which of the following processes?
Question640: On what is project baseline development established?
Question641: The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500. What is the actual cost of the project?
Question642: Which type of control tool identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Question643: You are putting together the final schedule on your security encryption project. The problem you are having is that you don't have a consistent usage of your resources. Some are working 2 hours a day, some 16 hours a day, and there are some days when they aren't scheduled to work at all. Which of the following below would fix this problem?
Question644: General management skills relevant to the manage communications process include______________
Question645: Your company CEO just sent you an e-mail asking you to make a presentation on your project, which has been in progress for 18 months, to over 50 identified internal and external stakeholders. You have been conducting such presentations and holding meetings regularly on this important project. You should begin by______________
Question646: You are working on the next generation of software for mobile phones for your telecommunications company. While time to market is critical, you know from your work on other projects that management reviews can be helpful and plan to use them on your project. You are documenting them as part of your______________.
Question647: A number of tools and techniques are helpful in the perform integrated change control process. If you want to implement an integrated change control process, you should use______________
Question648: There are a number of different earned value management rules of performance measurement that can be established as part of the cost management plan. Which one of the following is NOT an example of such a rule?
Question649: On your project, you need to assign costs to the time period in which they are incurred. To do this, you should______________
Question650: Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
Question651: Which technique is commonly used for the Quantitative Risk Analysis activity?
Question652: The cumulative cost curve for planned and actual expenditures______________
Question653: The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:
Question654: Because you are working under a firm-fixed-price contract, management wants you to submit the final invoice and close out the contract as soon as possible. Before final payment on the contract can be authorized, you must______________
Question655: The approaches, tools, and data sources that will be used to perform risk management on a project are determined by the:
Question656: 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?
Question657: Your DVD training project is almost complete. You have outsourced the DVD creation to an out-of-state company to complete. As the project closes down, what will be completed last?
Question658: The networking company that won the procurement contract has begun development of the work of the project. Given that they are trying to get additional business with the customer, they are providing some extra features and functionality. Which of the following best describes this situation?
Question659: A marketing campaign is being built to support a new product at a utility company. The company doesn't have data on what volume to expect from the marketing campaign and the associated advertising. This data is important because it will help drive the number of employees needed in the department so customers' needs can be met. The Project Manager remembers that a similar project was by a company his company acquired. He begins to review data from this project. This is a best example of what?
Question660: Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
Question661: During the closing phase of the project, the top-ranked source of conflict is______________
Question662: An output of the Validate Scope process is:
Question663: Which item is a cost of conformance?
Question664: 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?
Question665: A project management office manages a number of aspects including the:
Question666: Company-wide software licensing fees are an example of what type of project cost?
Question667: The end point of a project phase can be referred to as:
Question668: What do composite organizations involve?
Question669: Research has shown that during the execution phase of the project, the majority of conflicts involve______________
Question670: Which item is an input to the Define Activities process?
Question671: The project scope statement addresses and documents all the following items EXCEPT______________
Question672: Which of the following is an output of a change control system?
Question673: Your approved cost baseline has changed because of a major scope change on your project.
Your next step should be to______________
Question674: The Project Manager is working with the customer to gain formal acceptance on the project deliverables.
The customer is saying that three of the deliverables are not meeting project goals, and are unusable in their present form. Which of the following will be used to the problem?
Question675: Alternatives generation often is useful in defining project scope. An example of a technique that can be used is______________
Question676: One way to develop an understanding of major project stakeholders to exchange and analyze project information about roles and interests is to______________
Question677: Assume that your project in the food service industry involves the need for the presence of the required food label as specified by the Food and Drug Administration. In this situation, you plan to use control charts as a quality control tool, so you should prepare a(n)______________
Question678: Ideally, a project manager should be selected and assigned at which point in the project life cycle?
Question679: You are managing a contact management software project and senior management has come to you with a fast breaking project that could make the company have a significant market share boost. According to your current project schedule, your current project is on pace to be completed in six weeks. What is the best response you can tell senior management?
Question680: Projects are authorized by which of the following individuals?
Question681: What is the tool and technique used to request seller responses?
Question682: You are the Project Manager on a merger and acquisition project. Activity A (3 days) and activity B (4 days) can start immediately. Activity C (2 days) can start after A and B are complete. Activity D (5 days) can begin after activity B is complete. Activity E (6 days) can begin after activity B is complete. Activity F (4 days) can begin after activities C and D are complete. Activity G (5 days) can begin after activities D and E are complete. Activity H (4 days) can begin after activities F and G are complete. If Activity D increases from five to eight days, what is the critical path, and what is the length?
Question683: How is the schedule variance calculated using the earned value technique?
Question684: What is the best reason to create a work breakdown structure?
Question685: The primary result of effective team development is______________
Question686: Project managers for international projects should recognize key issues in cross-cultural settings and place special emphasis on______________
Question687: When a process is within acceptable limits, it______________
Question688: The chances for successful completion of a multidisciplinary project are increased if project team members are______________
Question689: The purpose of inspection in Perform Quality Control is to keep errors:
Question690: The Project Manager is reviewing testing output. Generally, the data looks good. He does observe seven consecutive data points on one side of the mean in a couple of areas on the control chart.
What is this called?
Question691: Decomposition, rolling wave planning, and templates are all tools and techniques for which of the following?
Question692: You plan to award a contract to provide project management training for your company. You decide it is important that any prospective contractor have an association with a major university that awards master's certificates in project management. This is an example of______________
Question693: The customer has requested a five-week delay on the project while they rebuild a warehouse used for manufacturing a key piece of the project. This delay wasn't planned, but the project couldn't continue without it. The company is limited on available resources. This delay will be best shown in what?
Question694: Which of the following is an input to the Plan Risk Responses process?
Question695: Cost baseline is an output of which of the following processes?
Question696: The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500. What is the actual cost of the project?
Question697: The primary advantage of using decision-tree analysis in project risk management is that it______________
Question698: Your project manager has requested that you provide him with a forecast of project costs for the next 12 months. He needs this information to determine if the budget should be increased or decreased on this major construction project. In addition to the usual information sources, which of the following should you also consider?
Question699: 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?
Question700: Configuration management describes procedures for applying technical and administrative direction and surveillance. Which one of the following tasks is NOT performed in configuration management?
Question701: The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope as well as managing the changes to the scope baseline is known as:
Question702: Which of the following procurement processes results in the awarding of a procurement contract?
Question703: Conflict should be best addressed in which manner?
Question704: You are managing a project in an organization is characterized by with rigid rules and policies and strict supervisory controls. Your project, sponsored by your CEO who is new to the company, is to make the organization less bureaucratic and more participative. You are developing your project management plan.
Given the organization as it now is set up, as you prepare your plan, you can use which of the following organizational process assets______________.
Question705: Which of the following methods of performance review examines project performance over time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
Question706: The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?
Question707: Which of the following roles controls resources and manages a business unit?
Question708: All of the following statements concerning validate scope and control quality are true EXCEPT______________
Question709: Which quality tool incorporates the upper and lower specification limits allowed within an agreement?
Question710: 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?
Question711: Which risk response strategy is common for both positive and negative risks?
Question712: Which Process Group typically consumes the bulk of a project's budget?
Question713: The key inputs to the validate scope process include all the below items EXCEPT______________
Question714: The technique of subdividing project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work and deliverables are defined to the work package level is called:
Question715: How is quality control performed?
Question716: Team building should be ongoing throughout the project life cycle. However, it is hard to maintain momentum and morale, especially on large, complex projects that span several years. One guideline to follow to promote team building is to______________
Question717: Tools and techniques used to perform quality assurance include______________
Question718: While working as the project manager on a new project to improve overall ease of use in the development of a railroad switching station, you have decided to add a subject matter expert who specializes in ergonomics to your team. She has decided to observe the existing approach as you and your team work to define requirements for the new system. This method is also called______________
Question719: At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?
Question720: Quality objectives of the project are recorded in______________
Question721: The project is going through Quality control. Which of the following are used to validate that the output is in compliance with the specifications of the work?
Question722: Constancy of purpose is a core concept for continuous improvement. An organization displaying constancy of purpose must have all the following elements EXCEPT______________
Question723: The review of a sellers progress toward achieving the goals of scope and quality within cost and schedule compared to the contract is known as:
Question724: Which Process Group includes the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
Question725: Contested changes are requested changes when the buyer and seller cannot agree on compensation for the change. They are also known as all but which one of the following?
Question726: All the following elements must be evident in a written contract for it to be legally enforceable EXCEPT______________
Question727: Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses the values of parameters from previous similar projects for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project?
Question728: What is the main deliverable from the Planning phase of a project?
Question729: Outputs from constituent processes might be used as:
Question730: In which Process Group are lessons learned documented?
Question731: The run chart created during the Perform Quality Control process on a project is used to show the:
Question732: In project communications, the first step in a written communication is to______________
Question733: You are leading a research project that will require between 10 and 20 aerospace engineers. Some senior- level aerospace engineers are available. They are more productive than junior-level engineers, who cost less and who are available as well. You want to determine the optimal combination of senior- and junior- level personnel. In this situation, the appropriate technique to use is to______________
Question734: Project quality management was once thought to include only inspection or quality control. In recent years, the concept of project quality management has broadened. Which statement is NOT representative of the new definition of quality management?
Question735: Change control procedures, configuration management knowledge base, versions, and baselines in the develop project management plan process are:
Question736: You want to ensure that the information you collect showing project progress and status is meaningful to stakeholders. You want to combine the type and format of the stakeholder's information needs with an analysis of the value of the information. You will document this information in the______________
Question737: The team is involved in defining what is needed to ensure that the quality process will capture the intended results of the testing. This is known as what?
Question738: The project team directory is an output from which of the following processes?
Question739: An input to the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:
Question740: Which of the following is not a regulation?
Question741: An imposed date for completion of the project by the customer is an example of a project:
Question742: At which stage of team development do members begin to work together, adjust work habits, and trust each other?
Question743: In organizing a project, a project manager must deal with conflict. Which statement is TRUE regarding conflict in projects?
Question744: Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Define Activities process?
Question745: You are part of a team that is working to develop a new medical implant device. Your project manager is an expert in medical implantation devices, yet he continually seeks opinions from the team about a wide variety of project and product issues. Team members often run project meetings while he sits silently at the head of the table. Which one of the following best characterizes his leadership style?
Question746: It is critical during the proposal preparation stage that______________
Question747: The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the:
Question748: Which of the following ensures that requested changes to deliverables are thoroughly considered as part of the perform integrated change control process?
Question749: Project management processes are:
Question750: As an output of plan communications, it may be necessary to update the project documents, which include the______________
Question751: To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
Question752: The chart below is an example of a:
Question753: The project scope baseline should be used in the identify risks process because it______________
Question754: You and your team are documenting requirements on you project to control fatigue as people need to work more hours to keep up with the competition. You decided to set up components for the requirements on your project. Acceptance criteria are an example of______________
Question755: Which of the following outputs from the Schedule Control process aids in the communication of SV, SPI or any performance status to stakeholders?
Question756: A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Question757: Stakeholder engagement must be controlled on a continuous basis for it to be effective. You realize a number of project documents can be useful for you as a project manager. An example is______________
Question758: Assume that your company is working under a fixed-price-incentive contract. It has a target cost of
$100,000, a target profit of 10%, a price ceiling of $120,000, and a share formula of 80/20. Assume that your company completes all of the work but has actual costs of $110,000. What is the final value of this procurement?
Question759: A procurement management plan is a subsidiary of which other type of plan?
Question760: Which Control Quality tool is also known as an arrow diagram?
Question761: Which of the following statements is true regarding project and product lifecycles?
Question762: You work for a telecommunications company, and when developing a project management plan for a new project, you found that you must tailor some company processes because the product is so different than those products typically produced by your company. To tailor these processes, you will follow______________.
Question763: Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?
Question764: The correct equation for schedule variance (SV) is earned value:
Question765: Overall cost estimates must be allocated to individual activities to establish the cost performance baseline.
In an ideal situation, a project manager would prefer to prepare estimates______________
Question766: Your project has been under way for some time, but indicators show that it is in trouble. You have observed all the following symptoms of poor teamwork in your project team EXCEPT______________
Question767: Rank ordering of defects should be used to guide corrective action. This is the underlying principle behind______________
Question768: Which technique should a project manager use in a situation in which a collaborative approach to conflict management is not possible?
Question769: Sharing good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the organization and/or industry is an example of:
Question770: Recent data indicate that more than 10,000 airline passengers are injured each year from baggage that falls from overhead bins. You performed a make-or-buy analysis and decided to outsource an improved bin design and manufacture. The project team needs to develop a list of qualified sources. As a general rule, which method would the project team find especially helpful?
Question771: A number of organizational process assets are useful as inputs to the manage stakeholder engagement process. Similarly a number of organizational process assets require updates because of this process. An example of one that is an input is______________
Question772: A conflict resolution approach that is NOT considered to be very effective when more than a few players are involved and their viewpoints are mutually exclusive is______________
Question773: A number of factors affect make-or-buy decisions such as______________
Question774: The direct and manage project work process truly is important in project management. It affects many other key processes and uses inputs from others. Working with your team at its kickoff meeting, you explain the key benefit of this process is to______________.
Question775: You are in the process of performing quality assurance on your product and find that some requirements are not as complete as they should be, which causes rework and adds costs to your overall project. The term for all costs incurred over the life of the product by investing in appraising and inspecting the product for conformance and nonconformance to requirements is called______________
Question776: The salience model is one way to classify stakeholders. In it______________
Question777: Which type of analysis would be used for the Plan Quality process?
Question778: You are managing a major international project that involves multiple performing organizations.
To establish the guiding rules for the project regarding quality, you and your project team must develop a______________
Question779: Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?
Question780: Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Question781: A Project Manager has completed the scope statement of the project. The customer and sponsor have shortened the schedule by four weeks and decided that the work breakdown structure will be excluded.
The Project Manager informs the customer and sponsor that this process creates the work breakdown structure (WBS) for their project. Which answer best explains why the WBS is so important to a project?
Question782: Calculate the variance for the following: Pessimistic=20, Optimistic=10, Realistic=17.
Question783: A disadvantage associated with virtual teams is that they:
Question784: The construction engineer is doing questionable work on his activities on the remodeling project. The Project Manager has spoken to him about it a few times to no resolution. Functional management has been made aware of this issue as well. Who is responsible for the quality of the work of the construction engineer?
Question785: Perform Quality Control is accomplished by:
Question786: Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?
Question787: A purchase order for a specified item to be delivered by a specified date for a specified price is the simplest form of what type of contract?
Question788: Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
Question789: 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:
Question790: Project management processes describe project work, while product-oriented management processes specify the project's product. Therefore, a project management process and a product-oriented management process______________.
Question791: The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?
Question792: As you prepare your human resource plan, you need to determine the skill and capacity required to complete the activities in the project. This should be documented in the______________
Question793: Which tool or technique is used in the Estimate Costs process?
Question794: Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is used to document changes that occur during the project?
Question795: Which Process Group's purpose is to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes?
Question796: The total of the planned value (PV) is also known as:
Question797: Change requests are an output from which Project Integration Management process?
Question798: Which of the Project Time Management processes analyzes activity sequencing, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints?
Question799: A risk may be graded into different priorities by which process?
Question800: The team is testing the work of the project and is having issues with a particular requirement showing the desired data. Which of the following can they use to isolate the problem?
Question801: Plan Schedule Management is a process in which Knowledge Area?
Question802: One of the reasons why it is challenging to work on a virtual team is that e-mail is the primary form of communications. However, words alone typically comprise what percent of the total impact of any message?
Question803: You want to minimize the impact of changes on your project, yet you want to ensure that change is managed when and if it occurs. This can be done through each of the following ways EXCEPT______________.
Question804: Procurement documents are used in the identify stakeholder process because they______________
Question805: You are developing a project charter and want to ensure that any changes that may occur after the project begins will be controlled rigorously. You have consulted your company's configuration management knowledge base, and it contains versions and baselines of all the following official company documents EXCEPT______________
Question806: A weighting system can be used for all but which one of the following reasons?
Question807: The pilot for PM Airlines is in the process of flying from Dallas to Los Angeles. Adhering to the required pre-flight process, the pilot follows the procedures to ensure that he has properly selected and adjusted all the needed items to start up the plane for navigation. Which of the following did he likely use?
Question808: Which of the following is a complete set of indexed contract documentation, including the closed contract?
Question809: One way to determine how to best update and communicate project performance and respond to stakeholder information requests is to______________
Question810: Which of the following is not a regulation?
Question811: The best approach to resolve the settlement of all outstanding contract changes, claims, and disputes is using______________
Question812: Working on your project management training curricula project, you decided it would be beneficial to you to become an active member of the Project Management Institute as part of the objectives of your project is to ensure it is aligned with PMI®'s best practices. To complement PMI®'s Work Breakdown Structure Practice Standard, you learned PMI® was requesting volunteers to participate in development of a similar standard on the Scope Statement. You volunteered, and now the Standard is issued. This is an example of:
Question813: The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is known as its risk:
Question814: Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
Question815: Each one of the following statements about risk avoidance is true EXCEPT that it______________
Question816: You are managing a project with team members located at customer sites on three different continents.
You have a number of stakeholders on your project, and most of them are located outside of the corporate office. Who should be responsible for stakeholder management?
Question817: Project A is being administered using a matrix form of organization. The project manager reports to a senior vice president who provides visible support to the project. In this scenario, which of the following statements best describes the relative power of the project manager?
Question818: Which written document helps monitor who is responsible for resolving specific problems and concerns by a target date?
Question819: Which type of estimating can produce higher levels of accuracy, depending upon the sophistication and underlying data built into the model?
Question820: Often in working as a project manager, it is easy to overlook key stakeholders. Assume you work for a device manufacturer and are working as the project manager for the next generation valve replacement.
Your company has been a leader in this market, which means you have a lot of lessons learned available to you. Your project is scheduled to last four years. As a best practice, you should______________
Question821: Which of the following choices is a contract closure tool or technique?
Question822: The team of Project Managers works in their company with a variety of projects. Typically they are involved in assigning Project Managers, creating and maintaining documentation and policies. What is the name of the place they work at?
Question823: You are leading a project team to identify potential new products for your organization. One idea was rejected by management because it would not fit with the organization's core competencies. You need to recommend other products using management's guideline as______________
Question824: An input of the Control Schedule process is the:
Question825: Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
Question826: Which Perform Quality Control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Question827: You are examining multiple scope change requests on a project you were asked to take over because the previous project manager decided to resign. To assess the degree to which the project scope will change, you need to compare the requests to which project document?
Question828: A simple performance report provides information on______________
Question829: Your company decided to award a contract for project management services on a pharmaceutical research project. Because your company is new to project management and does not understand the full scope of services that may be needed under the contract, it is most appropriate to award a______________
Question830: Activities on the critical path have which type of float?
Question831: During your project, you will have a number of different types of meetings. Some will be informational, others will be key updates, and some will be for decision-making purposes. While different attendees will attend each meeting, a best practice to follow is to:
Question832: The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
Question833: Which one of the following represents a constraint on the acquire project team process?
Question834: You are in the initial phase of a project and are doing an estimate for a project that requires a MRI lab for a hospital to be built. What is the estimate range you would use for this project?
Question835: When a seller breaches a contract, the buyer cannot receive______________
Question836: Which type of project management office (PMO) supplies templates, best practices, and training to project teams?
Question837: Which of the following statements best describes attribute sampling versus variables sampling?
Question838: On a large medical billing system project, the team is large and communication has been quite a challenge to control. The Project Expeditor has been used to help with this problem. What is one of the main differences between the Project Expeditor and Project Coordinator?
Question839: Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?
Question840: You have decided to award a contract to a seller that has provided quality services to your company frequently in the past. Your current project, although somewhat different from previous projects, is similar to other work the seller has performed. In this situation, to minimize your risk you should award what type of contract?
Question841: Who is responsible for reviewing change requests and approving or rejecting the change requests?
Question842: 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?
Question843: You are working on a project with 15 stakeholders. The number of communication channels on this project is______________
Question844: Which document describes the procurement item in sufficient detail to allow prospective sellers to determine if they are capable of providing the products, services, or results?
Question845: An output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:
Question846: Performance review meetings are held to assess schedule activity and work packages over-running or under-running the budget and to determine any estimated funds needed to complete work in progress.
Typically, if EV is being used, all but which of the following information is determined?
Question847: Work performance information is an output of control stakeholder engagement. It includes a number of items, one of which is______________
Question848: All of the following could be considered functions of the GERT diagramming method except?
Question849: You are the project manager in charge of developing a new shipping container for Globus Ocean Transport, which needs to withstand winds of 90 knots and swells of 30 meters. In determining the dimension of the container and the materials to be used in its fabrication, you convene a group of knowledgeable professionals to gather initial requirements, which will be included in the______________.
Question850: For complex procurement items, often contract negotiation can be an independent process. An example of an input if such a process is used is______________
Question851: An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
Question852: In quality management, the practice "rework" is______________
Question853: Written change requests should be required on______________
Question854: The IT initiative project is on schedule and under budget. The customer is pleased, but would like a scope change. As a result, a new team is brought in to help the existing team implement this scope change.
Before the team arrives, senior management would like to see where the project stands. Which of the following do you show them?
Question855: As project manager, you need a relatively fast and informal method addressing disagreements with contractors. One such method is to submit the issue in question to an impartial third party for resolution.
This process is known as______________
Question856: A project manager has created an issue log to document issues communicated by project team members during weekly team meetings. This is an input of:
Question857: On your project, scope changes, constraints, assumptions, integration and interface requirements, and overlapping roles and responsibilities pose communications challenges. The presence of communication barriers is most likely to lead to______________
Question858: The purpose of work performance data in control communications is to present results of comparative analysis to the______________
Question859: Which activity may occur at project or phase closure?
Question860: Which of the following is a conflict resolution technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
Question861: The team is involved in defining what is needed to ensure project quality for their project. One team member says, "Do it right the first time." Another team member says, "Let?s incorporate a method that reduces errors and helps the company make money." What best describes this process?
Question862: Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?
Question863: You are managing a project in which your team members all work in the same geographic location and have worked together previously on many projects. Everyone is aware of the various strengths and weaknesses of the individual team members and their key areas of expertise. As a result______________
Question864: What quality control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Question865: Crosswind Custom Homes is building a customer's dream house. However, excessive heat has delayed the finish by three weeks. The Project Manager evaluates the schedule and determines that the roofing and cabinetry could occur at the same time instead of right after each other, as laid out in the schedule.
This is an example of what?
Question866: Contract negotiations are NOT required when______________
Question867: You are managing a moderately risky project. You have done well identifying risks and assessing them both on the probability of the risk event occurring and on the level of impact that the risk could have on your project if it actually occurred. But to help with a "next" level of qualitative risk analysis, you could use a______________
Question868: All the following are project baselines that are generally part of the project management plan EXCEPT______________.
Question869: Which tool or technique is used in validating the scope of a project?
Question870: Buyers use a variety of methods to provide incentives to a seller to complete work early or within certain contractually specified time frames. One such incentive is the use of liquidated damages.
From the seller's perspective, liquidated damages are what form of incentive?
Question871: What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
Question872: Having worked previously as a software project manager, you were pleased to be appointed as the project manager for a new systems integration project designed to replace the existing air traffic control system in your country. You found a requirements traceability matrix to be helpful on software projects, so you decided to use it on this systems integration project. Using such a matrix helps to ensure that each requirement______________
Question873: As a project manager, you recognize the importance of actively engaging key project stakeholders on a project. You have prepared an analysis of your stakeholders early in your project and classified them according to their interest, influence, and involvement in your project.
You want to now______________
Question874: A team-building approach that facilitates concurrent engineering is______________
Question875: An input to Close Project or Phase is:
Question876: Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?
Question877: Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?
Question878: What is the lowest level in the Work Breakdown Structure called?
Question879: The Project Manager is creating an estimate for building a cellular infrastructure base station. It is something that is new to the Project Manager and his team. They decide to create a bottom-up estimate.
All of the following are advantages of this type of estimate except?
Question880: To assist your software development team in collecting requirements from potential users and to ensure that agreement about the stakeholders' needs exists early in the project, you decide to use a group creativity technique. Numerous techniques are available, but you and your team choose a voting process to rank the most useful ideas for further prioritization. This approach is known as______________
Question881: Which schedule development tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
Question882: Those who enter into a contractual agreement to provide services necessary for a project are:
Question883: The PV is $1000, EV is $2000, and AC is $1500. What is CPI?
Question884: Which of the following is considered an advantage of a functional organization if you are an accountant?
Question885: Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?
Question886: Which of the following tools and techniques are utilized in the Close Project or Phase process?
Question887: Changes in the report formats and lessons learned documents process should trigger changes to the______________
Question888: The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
Question889: You have been placed in charge of a group of people that is selecting one of three possible projects. As you gather in the conference room, many team members already have decided which project selection technique to use. Some prefer IRR, and others argue for BCR. In deciding which method to use, your first step should be to______________
Question890: Validate scope works hand-in-hand with control quality and generally follows control quality. A tool and technique used in validate scope that is not used in control quality is______________
Question891: Progressive elaboration of product characteristics on your project must be coordinated carefully with the______________
Question892: At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?
Question893: An input to the Plan Procurement Management process is:
Question894: Payment bonds are often required by the contract and require specific actions under the stated conditions.
Payment bonds are specifically designed to ensure that the prime contractor provides payment of______________
Question895: Using parametric estimating, if an assigned resource is capable of producing 120 units per hour, how many hours are required to produce 12,000 units?
Question896: Tools and techniques used in Direct and Manage Project Work include:
Question897: Who is responsible for developing the project management plan and all related component plans?
Question898: You have a conflict on your team but have enough time to resolve it, and you want to maintain future relationships. Thankfully, there is mutual trust, respect, and confidence among the parties involved. You decide to use confronting to resolve this conflict. In using this approach, your first step should be to______________
Question899: Inputs to the Define Activities process include:
Question900: One of the fundamental tenets of modern quality management states that quality is:
Question901: Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?
Question902: The project manager has requested all expert team members to complete an anonymous questionnaire to identify possible risks. This is an example of a technique known as the:
Question903: Two team members on your current construction project are engaged in a major argument concerning the selection of project management software. They refuse to listen to each other. The most appropriate conflict resolution approach for you to use in this situation is______________
Question904: A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
Question905: Which type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?
Question906: Thinking back to lessons that your company learned from experiences with its legacy information systems during the Y2K dilemma, you finally convinced management to consider systems maintenance from the beginning of the project. However, maintenance should______________
Question907: An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
Question908: Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
Question909: Which tool or technique is used to manage change requests and the resulting decisions?
Question910: Risk mitigation involves______________
Question911: Your project team has identified all the risks on the project and has categorized them as high, medium, and low. The "low" risks are placed on which one of the following for monitoring?
Question912: Your project is proceeding according to schedule. You have just learned that a new regulatory requirement will cause a change in one of the project's performance specifications. To ensure that this change is incorporated into the project management plan, you should______________.
Question913: What happens to a stakeholder's project influence over time?
Question914: Calculate the standard deviation for the following: Pessimistic=20, Optimistic=10, Realistic=17.
Question915: An output of Control Schedule is:
Question916: In which of the following types of organizations is resource availability moderate to high?
Question917: Plan-do-check-act is also known as:
Question918: For a stakeholder with low interest and high power, the project manager should:
Question919: Which process group contains the processes performed to finalize all activities?
Question920: What is used to define the accounts that the WBS and organizational structures align to for project cost tracking?
Question921: Correlated and contextualized information on how closely the scope is being maintained relative to the scope baseline is contained within:
Question922: In the Develop Project Team process, which of the following is identified as a critical factor for a project's success?
Question923: As part of a mid-project evaluation, your project sponsor has asked you to provide a forecast of total project cost. You should calculate the forecast using which of the following methods?
Question924: The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
Question925: You are managing a major international project, and your contract requires you to prepare both a project plan and a quality management plan. Your core team is preparing a project quality management plan. Your first step in developing this plan is to______________
Question926: The purpose of the Taguchi method is to______________
Question927: Which of the following is a means of reaching a group decision in which everyone agrees on a single course of action?
Question928: The reason that the cost performance index (CPI) is shown as a ratio is to______________
Question929: If the probability of event 1 is 80 percent and of event 2 is 70 percent and they are independent events, how likely is it that both events will occur?
Question930: You have decided to organize a study group of other project managers in your organization to help prepare for the PMP exam. What type of communication activity are you employing in your efforts to organize this group?
Question931: Work performance information is an output of which process?
Question932: Which items are an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Question933: What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data? BAC = $100,000 PV = $50,000 AC = $80,000 EV = $40,000
Question934: Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
Question935: You are the Project Manager for a high speed data communications project. You have just finished putting together all the various plans into an integrated document. Which of the following will you do next?
Question936: Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?
Question937: Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?
Question938: The cost benefit analysis tool is used for creating:
Question939: How many Project Management Process Groups are there?
Question940: A tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process is:
Question941: 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:
Question942: What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
Question943: Results of quality control measurements are used______________
Question944: Increased attention to return on investment (ROI) now requires you to complete a financial analysis of the payback period on your project. Such an analysis identifies the______________
Question945: Any step recommended to bring expected future performance in line with the project management plan is called______________
Question946: At the start of a typical project life cycle, costs are:
Question947: The close project or phase process addresses actions and activities concerning all of the following EXCEPT______________.
Question948: On large contracts, the contract administrator typically has a need to resolve ambiguity in the clauses that govern work performance and other issues. Assume that on your contract there is an order of precedence clause. This means that______________
Question949: The group technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for prioritization is called the:
Question950: A Project Manager was assigned to manage a project to develop pink widgets for the Project Manager's company. The project will cost the company $650,000 over the next 12 months. It is projected that the widgets will earn the company $20,500 per month. How much time will it take to recover the cost for this project?
Question951: Change request status updates are an output of which process?
Question952: Which of the following is an input of the Define Activities process?
Question953: The company has been plagued by disorganized projects that are not in alignment with business goals, and not focused on interactivity between the projects where applicable. They want to have a better focus on grouping related projects together by business unit and product lines to help maximize efficiency and profitability. Which of the following best describe what they are trying to accomplish?
Question954: Although the project charter serves to state the project manager's authority and responsibility on the project, the project manager further requires which type of power in order to be an effective leader?
Question955: When is a project finished?
Question956: A no-cost settlement sometimes is used______________
Question957: Which term describes contract costs that are traceable to or caused by a specific project work effort?
Question958: You are the Project Manager of an engineering project for a cellular base station with a one-year schedule as defined by the project management plan. You need a spectrum analyzer. During the procurement process, you have decided to rent this equipment. The rental cost is $506 per month.
What type of cost is this?
Question959: The terms strong matrix, balanced matrix, and weak matrix when applied to the matrix structure in project organization refer to the______________
Question960: The sponsor is a key project stakeholder because he or she______________
Question961: Which Activity Duration Estimating technique incorporates additional timing for contingency purposes?
Question962: A process is defined as:
Question963: An input to the Control Quality process is:
Question964: Recognizing operations management is different than project management, as the project manager for a new line of electrical tractors to avoid the need to use costly fuel, you realize a best practice is to______________
Question965: A collection of projects managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives is referred to as a:
Question966: A project manager who communicates to the project team though email is using which type of communication?
Question967: Processes in the Initiating Process Group may be completed at the organizational level and be outside of the project's:
Question968: Change requests include a group of potential changes to a project. Types of change requests include all the following EXCEPT______________
Question969: Testing falls into which of the following categories of cost of quality?
Question970: You are responsible for a project in your organization that has multiple internal customers. Because many people in your organization are interested in this project, you realize the importance of______________
Question971: Which of the following tools will be used to produce performance reports that provide information to stakeholders about project cost, schedule progress, and performance?
Question972: You are leading a team to recommend an equitable reward and recognition system for project managers.
Before finalizing the plan, you want to ensure that executives understand the basic objective of reward systems. This objective is to______________
Question973: A key member of your project has deep technical skills and many years of experience in the company.
Although she is not a manager, people respect her and do what she suggests. Of the following types of power, which one does she have?
Question974: The Closing Process Group includes which of the following Knowledge Areas?
Question975: 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?
Question976: Requirements typically are classified into product requirements and project requirements. Capturing and managing both types of requirements is important for project success, so you and your team decided to follow this classification system on your project to modernize all the telecommunications equipment in your company. During such an approach, all the following are examples of product requirements EXCEPT______________
Question977: An element of the modern quality management approach used to achieve compatibility with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is known as:
Question978: Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
Question979: You are working on a new project in your organization. You need to decide how best to staff the project and handle all its resource requirements. Your first step should be to______________
Question980: You are a project manager for residential construction. As a project manager, you must be especially concerned with building codes-particularly in the plan quality management process. You must ensure that building codes are reflected in your project plans because______________
Question981: What is a tool and technique used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Question982: The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:
Question983: Activity A is worth $200, is 100% complete, and actually cost $200. Activity B is worth $75, is 90% complete, and actually cost $120 so far. Activity C is worth $200, is 75% complete, and has cost $175 so far. The total budget is $1000. What is the estimate at completion for the activities listed?
Question984: You are managing a project that has five subcontractors. You must monitor contract performance, make payments, and manage provider interface. One subcontractor submitted a change request to expand the scope of its work. You decided to award a contract modification based on a review of this request. All these activities are part of______________
Question985: Recently your company introduced a new set of "metal woods" to its established line of golfing equipment.
However, in the past weeks many of the clubs have been returned because of quality problems. You decide to conduct a failure mode and criticality analysis to______________
Question986: Assume your construction project is for a small city with only 8,500 people. There has been opposition to it from the beginning, when the City Commissioners approved it by many residents. The residents recognize they will be severely impacted as the new bridges are implemented, and during the public hearings before the Commissioners' decision, they hired an attorney to state they felt the more cost effective approach was to strengthen the bridges so they met today's safety requirements. Residents now know you have been ordered to stop work, and they have requested a meeting with the Commission on Tuesday. This means you should______________
Question987: When the business objectives of an organization change, project goals need to be:
Question988: Which of the following qualifications is the most important for a project manager?
Question989: Assume you are managing a project to implement an electronic medical record system in your ophthalmologist's office. You have been working to identify your stakeholders to then make sure everyone is committed to it as some people have been working in this office for more than 20 years and are comfortable with the manual approach. At this point, you have documented assessment information, which includes______________
Question990: Which of the following is a schematic display of the project's schedule activities and the logical relationships among them?
Question991: To identify inefficient and ineffective policies, processes, and procedures in use on a project, you should conduct______________
Question992: The Process Group in which the internal and external stakeholders interact and influence the overall outcome of the project is the:
Question993: Managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance are part of which process?
Question994: You recently took over a relatively new project expected to last another seven years. The previous project manager completed most of the WBS. When you begin to define the project activities, you realize that the WBS work packages expected to occur in the next year are planned in detail, but the work packages for later in the future (three years or more) are not planned with much detail, if any detail at all. You determine______________
Question995: You plan to hold a series of meeting as you execute the project plan. While different attendees will attend each meeting, a best practice to follow is to:
Question996: An output of the Plan Quality Management process is:
Question997: Which of the following is used to control schedule related items on a project?
Question998: An output of the Close Project (or Close Phase) process is:
Question999: Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
Question1000: Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?
Question1001: Your organization has decided to use project management for all of its endeavors. It has established a Center of Excellence for Project Management to support the movement into management by projects and has appointed you as its director. Since you work in a matrix environment, which of the following types of communications is the most essential for success?
Question1002: As it applies to quality, the law of diminishing returns says that______________
Question1003: Improvement to the processes and the product is a goal of project quality management. Assume that after completing a quality audit, you have discovered some gaps/shortcomings in the way that the project team is completing one deliverable. As an output to perform quality assurance, you would create which following item that feeds directly into the perform integrated change control processes?
Question1004: Your quality assurance department recently performed a quality audit of your project and identified a number of findings and recommendations. One recommendation seems critical and should be implemented because it affects successful delivery of the product to your customer.
Your next step should be to______________
Question1005: Which of the following would a team create as a result of using a change control system?
Question1006: Which of the following is an output of the Plan Quality process?
Question1007: Assume that your actual costs are $800; your planned value is $1,200; and your earned value is $1,000.
Based on these data, what can be determined regarding your schedule variance?
Question1008: Which characteristic do projects and operational work share in common?
Question1009: When would resource leveling be applied to a schedule model?
Question1010: Assume you are beginning your project to develop a series of residential condominiums in your city and are identifying possible stakeholders. A key organizational process asset you can review is______________
Question1011: Which tool or technique of the Define Activities process allows for work to exist at various levels of detail depending on where it is in the project life cycle?
Question1012: Long-term contracting is an important aspect of project quality management because it______________
Question1013: The below Pareto chart indicates defects in areas associated with billing a client for project services.
Based on this Pareto analysis, which area, or areas, indicate the greatest opportunity for improvement?
Question1014: Stakeholder engagement involves a number of critical activities. An example is______________
Question1015: As you prepare to close out contracts on your project, you should review all the following types of documentation EXCEPT the______________
Question1016: Which of the following will likely result in the greatest customer satisfaction?
Question1017: Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
Question1018: Each WBS component should be assigned a unique identifier from a code of accounts to______________
Question1019: The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to:
Question1020: Which process should be conducted from the project inception through completion?
Question1021: A supporting input for controlling stakeholder engagement is______________
Question1022: When you established the change control board for your avionics project, you established specific procedures to govern its operation. The procedures require all approved changes to baselines to be reflected in the______________.
Question1023: The project management plan contains all of the following except?
Question1024: When determining the message that you will deliver to stakeholders, knowing both the content (what you want to say) and your audience is important. Which of the following helps you to understand how others may interpret your message?
Question1025: A risk response strategy that can be used for both threats and opportunities is______________
Question1026: Your firm specializes in roller-coaster construction. It recently received an RFP to build the world's most
"death-defying" roller coaster. You know that such a roller coaster has never been built before and that this would be a high-risk project. You are receiving a cost-plus-award-fee contract, which means______________
Question1027: A Project Manager has completed the Scope Definition process. The customer and sponsor have shortened the schedule by four weeks and decided that the work breakdown structure will be excluded.
What would be the best action the Project Manager should take?
Question1028: 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?
Question1029: A contract typically is used when a project is being performed for an external customer. An agreement is used as an input to______________
Question1030: Assume on your project you have identified 250 stakeholders located in three continents and of these 250, you have determined that 200 of them will be actively involved and interested in your project. Therefore, as you determine an appropriate communication method, your best approach is______________