Question1: Rank ordering of defects should be used to guide corrective action. This is the underlying principle behind______________
Question2: The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:
Question3: 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?
Question4: You are a Project Manager managing the building of a restaurant.
As the electrical wiring is being installed, you cannot find a building permit.
As the Project Manager, to whom do you report this violation?
Question5: Quality inspections also may be called______________
Question6: 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?
Question7: 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______________.
Question8: 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______________
Question9: 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?
Question10: Assume that you were the first person in your company to be PMP® certified and also that you earned a doctorate in project management. People throughout the organization admired your achievements. Based on your success in managing projects, your company now has adopted a management-by-projects philosophy. You have been appointed head of your company's project management office to lead the organization as it transitions to this new way of working. So far, people seem to willingly comply with your demands and requests. In this situation, you are using which type of power?
Question11: At the time the risk register is first prepared, it should contain all the following entries EXCEPT______________
Question12: Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
Question13: As part of a mid-project evaluation, the project sponsor has asked for a forecast of the total project cost.
What should be used to calculate the forecast?
Question14: Portfolio Management is management of:
Question15: What does a CPI value greater than 1.0 indicate?
Question16: 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?
Question17: Which schedule method allows the project team to place buffers on the project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties?
Question18: A tool and technique used during the Create WBS process is:
Question19: One way to help mitigate personnel risks that may occur during the end of the project is to
______________
Question20: Which process is included in the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
Question21: Which of the following is a tool and technique for activity duration estimating?
Question22: 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?
Question23: 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______________
Question24: Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is used to document changes that occur during the project?
Question25: You are conducting a stakeholder analysis on your project. Your organization uses an approach to classify stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project.
This approach is known as______________
Question26: The Project Manager is involved in acquiring the project team on a highway expansion project. She is presently discussing salary, working hours, travel, and benefits. What is the key tool she is utilizing?
Question27: Which tool or technique is required in order to determine the project budget?
Question28: The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is known as its risk:
Question29: During project selection, which factor is most important?
Question30: 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______________.
Question31: Which of the following is an output of Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Question32: Labor, materials, equipment, and supplies are examples of:
Question33: Which of the following are placed at selected points in the work breakdown structure (WBS) for performance measurement?
Question34: 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?
Question35: The Human Resource Management processes are:
Question36: 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?
Question37: Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?
Question38: 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:
Question39: Long-term contracting is an important aspect of project quality management because it______________
Question40: Prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact takes place in which process?
Question41: Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?
Question42: The Identify Stakeholders process is found in which Process Group?
Question43: You are planning to conduct the team-building portion of your new project management training curriculum out-of-doors in the local park. You are limited to scheduling the course at certain times of the year, and the best time for the course to begin is mid-July. One of the more common date constraints to use as you develop the project schedule is______________
Question44: Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
Question45: The database project is approximately 85% complete. The project has had its challenges. As of the last status report, the project appears to be on track regarding cost, schedule and scope.
Senior management lets you know that the sponsor has some very serious concerns about the project.
You don't understand why, based on the last status report. What would be the best action to take first?
Question46: As of the fourth month on the Acme project, cumulative planned expenditures were $100,000.
Actual expenditures totaled $120,000. How is the Acme project doing?
Question47: What is the definition of Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Question48: You must consider direct costs, indirect costs, overhead costs, and general and administrative costs during cost estimating. Which of the following is NOT an example of a direct cost?
Question49: As the project progresses, which of the following is routinely collected from the project activities?
Question50: Tools and techniques used for Plan Communications include the communication:
Question51: 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?
Question52: Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
Question53: The organization's perceived balance between risk taking and risk avoidance is reflected in the risk:
Question54: You are in the process of purchasing 67 desktop computers, monitors, and a standard desktop software package for an upcoming project. What type of contract will you likely use?
Question55: Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
Question56: A purchase order is a good example of which form of contracting?
Question57: In the Define Activities process, the schedule management plan is used to:
Question58: Which of the following methods is a project selection technique?
Question59: The WBS represents all product and project work, including project management. It is sometimes called the______________
Question60: 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:
Question61: When you are about to terminate a contract, the one place to look for specific procedures for contract closure is in the______________
Question62: An output of the Plan Quality Management process is:
Question63: 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______________
Question64: Which one of the following statements best characterizes an activity cost or duration estimate developed with a limited amount of information?
Question65: A disadvantage associated with virtual teams is that they:
Question66: You are remodeling your kitchen and decide to prepare a network diagram for this project. Your appliances must be purchased and available for installation by the time the cabinets are completed. In this example, these relationships are______________
Question67: Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Question68: 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:
Question69: Which term is NOT a common name for a procurement document that solicits an offer from prospective sellers?
Question70: Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
Question71: 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?
Question72: 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?
Question73: Diagram:
What is the float for Activity G?
Question74: Projects are undertaken by an organization to support the:
Question75: Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Develop Project Charter process?
Question76: The most commonly used type of precedence relationship in the precedence diagramming method (PDM) is:
Question77: Change request status updates are an output of which process?
Question78: A project will be using a vendor to purchase infrastructure equipment for a national network upgrade venture for the U.S. Government. The government has requested a proposal from prospective sellers of the equipment. What type of document is being provided to the sellers?
Question79: When writing payment terms in your fixed-price subcontracts it is especially important to______________
Question80: Which of the following is an output of the Information Distribution Process?
Question81: Which of the following is not an example of team development?
Question82: Another name for an Ishikawa diagram is:
Question83: The buyer has negotiated a cost-plus-incentive fee contract with the seller. The contract has a target cost of $300,000, a target fee of $40,000, a share ratio of 80/20, a maximum fee of $60,000, and a minimum fee of $10,000. If the seller has actual costs of $380,000, how much fee will the buyer pay?
Question84: Organizational planning impacts projects by means of project prioritization based on risk, funding, and an organizations:
Question85: 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?
Question86: When a seller breaches a contract, the buyer cannot receive______________
Question87: High-level project risks are included in which document?
Question88: What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
Question89: A workaround is______________
Question90: Which type of graphic is displayed below?
Question91: 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?
Question92: Which type of risk diagram is useful for showing time ordering of events?
Question93: Which of the following is an input into the Develop Project Team process?
Question94: Managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance are part of which process?
Question95: Which tool or technique is used in Manage Stakeholder Expectations?
Question96: In quality management, the practice "rework" is______________
Question97: The reason that the cost performance index (CPI) is shown as a ratio is to______________
Question98: 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?
Question99: Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
Question100: Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Question101: Which Process Group includes the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
Question102: Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Define Activities process?
Question103: An input to the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:
Question104: The project is progressing well but has begun to experience resource conflicts with people who are being pulled from the project by functional management for other work. What role will typically help resolve these resource issues?
Question105: Which tool or technique is used to develop a project charter?
Question106: The probability and impact matrix is primarily used to:
Question107: Information distribution involves making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner. What is an output from information distribution?
Question108: Which of the following statements is true regarding project and product lifecycles?
Question109: Activity cost estimates and the project schedule are inputs to which Project Cost Management process?
Question110: 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______________
Question111: In the Initiating Process Group, at what point does the project become officially authorized?
Question112: 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______________.
Question113: 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?
Question114: An input to the Identify Risks process is the:
Question115: The component of the human resource management plan that includes ways in which team members can obtain certifications that support their ability to benefit the project is known as:
Question116: 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______________
Question117: The project scope baseline should be used in the identify risks process because it______________
Question118: Tools and techniques used in Direct and Manage Project Work include:
Question119: Which of the following tools and techniques is used to estimate cost?
Question120: The estimate costs process uses all the following tools and techniques EXCEPT______________
Question121: Progressively elaborating high-level information into detailed plans is performed by the:
Question122: Within a matrix organization, dual reporting of team members is a risk for project success. Who is responsible for managing this dual reporting relationship factor?
Question123: Which Knowledge Areas include processes from the Closing Process Group?
Question124: 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?
Question125: Resource calendars are included in the:
Question126: Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?
Question127: The last step in the stakeholder analysis process is to______________
Question128: You learn that a former boss of yours who is a PMP has committed to his boss that 100% of the PMO that he manages at their company will be certified. They also don't have any training budget, and can?t send anyone to training to qualify for the training requirement for the exam.
The other problem is that one of the people who passed the test is 22 years old and going to junior college.
You know that this person has been working in this area for only two years at most.
When asked about it, you are told that they lied about the experience hours and the training required of the PMP application. What is the best thing to do?
Question129: For complex procurement items, often contract negotiation can be an independent process. An example of an input if such a process is used is______________
Question130: Activity A has a duration of three days and begins on the morning of Monday the 4th. The successor activity, B, has a finish-to-start relationship with A.
The finish-to-start relationship has three days of lag, and activity B has a duration of four days. Sunday is a non workday. Such data can help to determine______________
Question131: Which of the following Process Groups covers all Project Management Knowledge Areas?
Question132: 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______________
Question133: The team has implemented a risk response plan when a vendor was unable to fulfill a contract commitment. The response was to choose another vendor. Because of the short notice, the other vendor cannot fulfill the need of the team. Which best describes what happened with the different vendor?
Question134: Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:
Question135: PMBOI Guide is a standard that describes:
Question136: Alternatives generation often is useful in defining project scope. An example of a technique that can be used is______________
Question137: Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process provides guidance on how stakeholders can best be involved in a project?
Question138: Which of the following is a means of reaching a group decision in which everyone agrees on a single course of action?
Question139: In the basic communication model, which term refers to the method that is used to convey the message?
Question140: The methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress is known as:
Question141: Inputs to Identifying Stakeholders include:
Question142: 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______________.
Question143: 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?
Question144: Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?
Question145: Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?
Question146: Which tool or technique is used in the Plan Scope Management process?
Question147: Which of the following is an output of a change control system?
Question148: An associate who calculates fees daily to support the department is doing which of the following?
Question149: The product scope description is used to:
Question150: Which type of managers do composite organizations involve?
Question151: Major difficulties arise when multiple projects need to be managed in the functional organizational structure because of______________
Question152: How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
Question153: A number of factors affect make-or-buy decisions such as______________
Question154: What type of reward can hurt team cohesiveness?
Question155: 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:
Question156: The basic approach to quality management in projects is to be compatible with which of the following:
Question157: Which of the following makes changes to formally control documentation to reflect modified or additional ideas or content?
Question158: A retail expansion project is going relatively well, but the people doing work on the project are complaining that it seems as though they answer to two bosses on the project, each with conflicting agendas. This is an example of what type of project environment?
Question159: When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Question160: When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:
Question161: 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______________
Question162: Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?
Question163: What is a technique used in the performance reporting process?
Question164: Which of the following types of contracts has the least risk to the seller?
Question165: Which is an example of Administer Procurements?
Question166: A Project Manager has been assigned to manage a project to develop a reduced price desktop computer for a company that does not have this expertise. The project is three weeks behind schedule and under budget. After calculating the estimate at completion (EAC), the Project Manager finds that project will be
$34,589 under budget, but is expected to take four weeks longer than expected. What should the Project Manager do?
Question167: 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______________.
Question168: Projects are separated into phases or subprojects; these phases include:
Question169: Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
Question170: 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______________.
Question171: Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
Question172: Success is measured by benefits realization for a:
Question173: The control chart is a tool used primarily to help______________
Question174: Soft logic is also known as what type of dependency?
Question175: When painting a bedroom, preparing the walls can be done while the paint is being chosen. This is an example of a:
Question176: Which item is an example of personnel assessment?
Question177: 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?
Question178: The stakeholder register should not be prepared only one time, but it should be updated regularly especially if______________
Question179: An output of the Validate Scope process is:
Question180: Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
Question181: 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?
Question182: Conflicts in which following three areas represent the majority of all project conflicts?
Question183: 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______________
Question184: Which one of the following represents a constraint on the acquire project team process?
Question185: 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______________
Question186: Which technique is utilized in the Schedule Control process?
Question187: Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
Question188: An element of the modern quality management approach used to achieve compatibility with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is known as:
Question189: In project development, schedule information such as who will perform the work, where the work will be performed, activity type, and WBS classification are examples of______________
Question190: You are the project manager for a major logistics installation project and must obtain specific services from local sources external to your project. Your subcontracts administrator has told you to prepare a product or service description, which is referenced in a______________
Question191: Which is a tool or technique used in Define Scope?
Question192: 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?
Question193: Monte Carlo is which type of risk analysis technique?
Question194: Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
Question195: 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______________
Question196: Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?
Question197: Which stakeholder approves a project's result?
Question198: The risk shared between the buyer and seller is determined by the:
Question199: Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
Question200: Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to:
Question201: Diagram:
What is the duration of the critical path in this network?
Question202: Which of the following is the primary output of the Identify Risks process?
Question203: Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Question204: The person assigned by the performing organization to be responsible for achieving the project objectives is the:
Question205: The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information become available is known as:
Question206: When does risk monitoring and control occur?
Question207: Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?
Question208: A final project report is a recommended best practice. Although this report can be organized in a variety of ways, how should each item that is covered in the report be addressed?
Question209: Payback period, return on investment, internal rate of return, discounted cash flow, and net present value are all examples of:
Question210: During which process group is the quality policy determined?
Question211: Perform Quality Control is accomplished by:
Question212: Which of the following formulas calculates the number of communication channels in a project?
Question213: You are the project manager for the construction of an incinerator to burn refuse. Local residents and environmental groups are opposed to this project. Management agrees to move this project to a different location. This is an example of which one of the following risk responses?
Question214: An output of the Manage Project Team process is:
Question215: The three types of estimates that PERT uses to define an approximate range for an activity's cost are:
Question216: 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?
Question217: Which Define Activities tool or technique is used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts?
Question218: According to Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Theory, when achievement, recognition, responsibility, and advancement, or promotion, are not present, employees will______________
Question219: What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data? BAC = $100,000 PV = $50,000 AC = $80,000 EV = $40,000
Question220: Who provides the inputs for the original estimates of activity durations for tasks on the project plan?
Question221: 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?
Question222: As project manager, you plan to conduct a "kickoff" meeting at which you will discuss all the following EXCEPT______________
Question223: You are a Project Manager managing the building of a housing development. As the plumbing is being installed, you cannot find a building permit. As the Project Manager, to whom do you report this violation?
Question224: Which of the following correctly describes when organizations and stakeholders are willing to accept varying degrees of risk?
Question225: 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?
Question226: On your project you want to avoid bureaucracy, so you adopt an informal approach to change control. The main problem with this approach is______________.
Question227: 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______________
Question228: 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?
Question229: The project has gone smoothly so far. The team members appear to be working with an end goal in mind and without a lot of supervision. They appear highly motivated and enjoying their work.
This is an example of what?
Question230: Which items are an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Question231: To which process is work performance information an input?
Question232: Which is the Define Scope technique used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?
Question233: 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______________
Question234: Which of the following is an example of schedule compression?
Question235: Statements of organizational policies and philosophies, position descriptions, and constraints are examples of______________
Question236: You are a Project Manager at Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe and have been assigned to an internet renovation project. The project is on schedule and under budget, but you are constantly in conflict with three members of your project team. This conflict is apparent to all the team members. According to PMI?s Code of Conduct, what would be the best solution?
Question237: The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
Question238: Organizational process assets can be divided into which of the following two categories?
Question239: Plan Schedule Management is a process in which Knowledge Area?
Question240: You are working on a project that management has decided to terminate early, because the product was rendered obsolete by the introduction of new technology by a competitor. You have awarded a contract for part of the project that will be terminated, and fortunately have a clause that enables you to terminate it for convenience at any time. This means that______________
Question241: Which type of project management office (PMO) supplies templates, best practices, and training to project teams?
Question242: Which of the following is an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Question243: 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:
Question244: An issue log is an input to which Project Human Resource Management process?
Question245: 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______________
Question246: 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?
Question247: One of the tools and techniques of the Manage Project Team process is:
Question248: Which of the following is a tool or technique for the Plan Procurements process?
Question249: 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______________
Question250: Which of the following is a conflict resolution technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
Question251: In which process might you use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
Question252: How many Project Management Process Groups are there?
Question253: 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______________
Question254: The highest risk impact generally occurs during which one of the following project life-cycle phases?
Question255: 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?
Question256: You are a Project Manager who is involved in the procurement of $2,000,000 of infrastructure equipment.
As negotiations begin between your company and the vendor, you realize that your brother works for this company but in a different department. What is your professional and social responsibility?
Question257: Projects that share common outcomes, collective capability, knowledge, or skills are often grouped into a:
Question258: Processes in the Planning Process Group are typically carried out during which part of the project life cycle?
Question259: Technical capability, past performance, and intellectual property rights are examples of:
Question260: Decomposition, rolling wave planning, and templates are all tools and techniques for which of the following?
Question261: The Create WBS process is in which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Question262: 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______________
Question263: Which of the following is an output of the Plan Quality process?
Question264: A number of items may be part of the schedule data for the project. The amount of additional detail will vary, but the data should include all the following items EXCEPT______________
Question265: An output of the Develop Project Team process is:
Question266: It is critical during the proposal preparation stage that______________
Question267: Which technique is utilized in the Control Schedule process?
Question268: A technique used to determine the cause and degree of difference between baseline and actual performance is:
Question269: What can a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) eliminate?
Question270: You are working on a new project in your city to construct an environmentally friendly landfill. The existing site is so undesirable that many residents have moved to other neighboring cities because of their proximity to it. However, even though the project has the support of the public, you need to have a number of hearings of the city's government before you are authorized to begin work. As you are in the planning phase of the project, you are waiting for these hearings to be scheduled and held before you can begin site preparation. These hearings are an example of______________
Question271: 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?
Question272: Which element does a project charter contain?
Question273: 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______________
Question274: 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?
Question275: 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?
Question276: 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?
Question277: Decomposition is a technique used for both WBS development and activity definition. Which following statement best describes the role decomposition plays in activity definition as compared to creating the WBS?
Question278: You are the project manager on a project to improve traffic flow in the company's parking garage.
You decide to use flowcharting to______________
Question279: The project will be using a company to provide the technicians for a national network upgrade project.
Presently, the team is receiving proposals to select the vendor that will do the work. In what process is the team involved?
Question280: An example of a group decision-ma king technique is:
Question281: Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
Question282: Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of:
Question283: Plan Risk Management is the process of defining how to:
Question284: 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______________
Question285: 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?
Question286: 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______________.
Question287: Which of the following tools and techniques are utilized in the Close Project or Phase process?
Question288: The project scope statement should be used in the identify risk process because it______________
Question289: 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?
Question290: In some cases, contract termination refers to______________
Question291: 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?
Question292: Project execution must be compared, and deviations must be measured for management control according to the______________
Question293: 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______________
Question294: 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______________.
Question295: Two key inputs to the perform quantitative risk analysis process are the______________
Question296: 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?
Question297: 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______________
Question298: Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
Question299: Activity resource requirements and the resource breakdown structure (RBS) are outputs of which Project Time Management process?
Question300: 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______________.
Question301: Which one of the following is a key input to the define activities process?
Question302: The baseline for evaluating whether requests for changes or additional work are contained within or outside the project's exclusion is provided by the______________
Question303: The sponsor is a key project stakeholder because he or she______________
Question304: Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
Question305: Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?
Question306: An input of the Create WBS process is:
Question307: Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
Question308: 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______________
Question309: Which type of control tool identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Question310: Which characteristics do effective project managers possess?
Question311: Project managers for international projects should recognize key issues in cross-cultural settings and place special emphasis on______________
Question312: 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?
Question313: The zero duration of milestones in project planning occurs because milestones:
Question314: Which Process Group contains those processes performed to define a new project?
Question315: 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?
Question316: Which of the following is an example of contract administration?
Question317: Which of the following is not a human resources process?
Question318: Assume you had a phase gate meeting with your Governance Board for your project to develop the next generation radar system as part of the nation's airspace modernization program. At this meeting, the Board approved your project management plan. However, as you begin to execute your plan, an organizational process asset to consider is______________
Question319: The issue log is useful in control communications because it______________
Question320: Variance and trend analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?
Question321: The integrative nature of project management requires which Process Group to interact with the other Process Groups?
Question322: At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?
Question323: The cost of nonconformance in a project includes:
Question324: In organizing a project, a project manager must deal with conflict. Which statement is TRUE regarding conflict in projects?
Question325: The key to effective cost control is______________
Question326: The purpose of work performance data in control communications is to present results of comparative analysis to the______________
Question327: To account for uncertainty in a schedule, reserve analysis may be used. All the following are examples of contingency reserves EXCEPT ______________
Question328: A key tool and technique used in define scope is______________
Question329: As you prepare to close your project, which of the following is an input to the close project or phase process?
Question330: In scope control it is important to determine the cause of any unacceptable variance relative to the scope baseline. This can be done through______________
Question331: 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?
Question332: Which of the following is an example of a risk symptom?
Question333: Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?
Question334: The specific technique for identifying a problem, discovering the causes that lead to it, and developing preventive actions is:
Question335: 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?
Question336: The scope management plan and scope baseline are contained in:
Question337: The risk register may need to be updated as an output of which following process:
Question338: During what process is the quality policy determined?
Question339: The definition of operations is a/an:
Question340: Which technique is used in Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Question341: 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:
Question342: A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
Question343: The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group includes processes that:
Question344: Which type of dependency used in the Sequence Activities process is sometimes referred to as preferred logic, preferential logic, or soft logic?
Question345: 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______________
Question346: The terms strong matrix, balanced matrix, and weak matrix when applied to the matrix structure in project organization refer to the______________
Question347: Which process involves user cost estimates and the schedule to determine when these costs are expected to occur during the project?
Question348: Which technique is commonly used for the Quantitative Risk Analysis activity?
Question349: The chances for successful completion of a multidisciplinary project are increased if project team members are______________
Question350: A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Question351: Sensitivity analysis is typically displayed as a/an:
Question352: The principal function of a warranty is to______________
Question353: Project deliverables that have been completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process are known as:
Question354: Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
Question355: 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?
Question356: Which of the following is a complete set of indexed contract documentation, including the closed contract?
Question357: 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?
Question358: Which document defines how a project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?
Question359: The key management skills required during the adjourning stage of team development include all but which one of the following?
Question360: When addressing roles and responsibilities,which item ensures that the staff has the skills required to complete project activities?
Question361: 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______________
Question362: You are assigned to implement the project control plan. What should you do to ensure the plan is effective and current?
Question363: The greatest degree of uncertainty is encountered during which phase of the project life cycle?
Question364: Which type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?
Question365: Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
Question366: Which process group contains the processes performed to finalize all activities?
Question367: An input to the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process is the:
Question368: 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______________
Question369: Which of the following are three inputs to the risk register?
Question370: In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
Question371: 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______________.
Question372: On what is project baseline development established?
Question373: 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?
Question374: An input to the Collect Requirements process is the:
Question375: 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?
Question376: Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
Question377: Which of the following is an output of Define Scope?
Question378: Which process develops options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives?
Question379: The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
Question380: 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______________
Question381: Crosswind Custom Homes is building a customer's dream house. However, rain has delayed the finish by two weeks. The Project Manager is evaluating options to make up the lost time. After discussing the various options with senior management, the Project Manager has decided to fast track the project. By doing so, the Project Manager could be adding what to the project?
Question382: Which type of manager is assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives?
Question383: 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______________
Question384: 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______________
Question385: A complete set of concepts, terms, and activities that make up an area of specialization is known as:
Question386: The process of conferring with others to come to terms or reach an agreement is called______________
Question387: Which is used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers?
Question388: Work performance information is an output of which process?
Question389: Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the close project or phase process?
Question390: Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Question391: The approaches, tools, and data sources that will be used to perform risk management on a project are determined by the:
Question392: You are finalizing all the contracts and ensuring that they are closed. The close procurements process involves all the following administrative actions EXCEPT______________
Question393: You are a member of a project selection committee that uses the net present value technique.
Using this approach, the project is acceptable if the______________
Question394: Those who enter into a contractual agreement to provide services necessary for a project are:
Question395: At which point of the project is the uncertainty the highest and the risk of failing the greatest?
Question396: During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Question397: 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)______________
Question398: A watch list of low priority risks is documented in the______________
Question399: The following is a network diagram for a project.
The shortest non-critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
Question400: A number of items in the stakeholder management plan are similar to those in the communications management plan. An example is______________
Question401: 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______________
Question402: When does Monitor and Control Risks occur?
Question403: The project charter is an input to which process?
Question404: You are a Project Manager at Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe and assigned to a major construction project.
The project is on schedule and under budget, but you are constantly in conflict with a member of your project team. This team member is sabotaging the project. What would be the best solution to resolve this problem?
Question405: Functional managers play a vital role in ensuring project success. Since most projects operate in a matrix environment, there is shared authority between project managers and functional managers.
Functional managers tend to focus on______________
Question406: 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______________
Question407: What is the probability of occurrence if the risk rating is 0.56 and the impact if the risk does occur is very high (0.80)?
Question408: You are working on a project with 15 stakeholders. The number of communication channels on this project is______________
Question409: 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?
Question410: What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
Question411: Stakeholder communication requirements should be included as a component of:
Question412: Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
Question413: You are using earned value progress reporting for your current project in an effort to teach your software developers the benefits of earned value. You plan to display project results on the cafeteria bulletin board so that the team knows how the project is progressing.
PV = $2,200
EV = $2,000
AC = $2,500
BAC = $10,000
What is the CPI for this project, and what does it tell us about cost performance thus far?
Question414: The primary benefit of the Plan Schedule Management process is that it:
Question415: 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______________
Question416: The major difference between the project coordinator and project expeditor forms
Question417: In performing human resources functions on a project, which of the following is not a process that would be done by the Project Manager?
Question418: Projects are authorized by which of the following individuals?
Question419: Which of the following is not a regulation?
Question420: Which of the following is an input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Question421: Which of the following are outputs of Develop Project Team?
Question422: Which of the following buffers protects the target finish date from slippage along the critical chain?
Question423: Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?
Question424: A team-building approach that facilitates concurrent engineering is______________
Question425: Activities on the critical path have which type of float?
Question426: Your approved project schedule was based on resource leveling because of a scarcity of resources.
Management has now mandated that the project be completed as soon as possible. Which of the following methods will you use to recalculate the schedule?
Question427: Which term describes the failure by either the buyer or the seller to perform part or all of the duties of a contract?
Question428: 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______________
Question429: As a project manager, not only must you be a leader, but you also must be responsible for the management, administrative, and technical aspects of the project. Which following skill is NOT representative of the skills needed for project leadership/interpersonal relations?
Question430: Ranking risks is performed in which of the following?
Question431: Which characteristic is unique to project work and does not apply to operational work?
Question432: Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?
Question433: Objectives for conducting performance appraisals during the course of a project can include all the following EXCEPT______________
Question434: Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
Question435: Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?
Question436: 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______________
Question437: An example of an organizational process asset that could affect how project scope is to be managed is______________
Question438: Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
Question439: 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?
Question440: Which of the following is an output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
Question441: Cost baseline is an output of which of the following processes?
Question442: The key inputs to the validate scope process include all the below items EXCEPT______________
Question443: Schedule milestones and a predefined budget are examples of:
Question444: If a team member, when facing schedule delays and cost overruns, develops several alternatives for completing the project successfully on schedule and within budget and asks questions such as, "Can we do it?," "If we do it what are the consequences?," and "Is it really worth the effort involved?," he or she is primarily motivated by the______________
Question445: 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?
Question446: 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?
Question447: Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?
Question448: Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?
Question449: 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?
Question450: Which of the following is a tool and technique used to monitor risk?
Question451: Risk mitigation involves______________
Question452: Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
Question453: Inputs to the Plan Risk Management process include the:
Question454: To which process is work performance information an input?
Question455: In which process group is the scope first defined?
Question456: Which of the following calculations CANNOT be used to determine EAC?
Question457: 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______________
Question458: Requirements documentation will typically contain at least:
Question459: Which following item is NOT an input to control scope?
Question460: An input to the Plan Cost Management process is:
Question461: At which stage of the project should certain factors such as the unavailability of human resources due to constraint be considered?
Question462: 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?
Question463: 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?
Question464: The cumulative CPI has been shown to be relatively stable after what percentage of project completion?
Question465: The Project Manager is creating an estimate for building a company WAN (wide area network.) As the Project Manager, you have undertaken the make-or-buy decision and determined that the WAN implementation should be outsourced because your company does not have the expertise.
After receiving all the vendor proposals, you find that two of the proposals specify cost-plus-fixed-ee, two other of the vendors specify fixed-price, another two specify cost-plus-incentive-fee, and the last two specify time and material. Which of the proposals would present the least probability of loss for the company?
Question466: The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
Question467: What is the lowest level in the Work Breakdown Structure called?
Question468: Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
Question469: When closing a project, it is a best practice to______________.
Question470: 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?
Question471: 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______________
Question472: The process for performing variance analysis may vary, depending on:
Question473: Which stakeholder classification model groups stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project?
Question474: 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______________
Question475: Which basic quality tool is most useful when gathering attributes data in an inspection to identify defects?
Question476: The planned work contained in the lowest level of work breakdown structure (WBS) components is known as:
Question477: 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?
Question478: You are the Project Manager for a national satellite rollout project. You are required to purchase and integrate reporting software for all the retail stores. As the Project Manager, you want one price from the vendors for the purchase and implementation of this product. What type of document should be used?
Question479: An input to the Plan Stakeholder Management process is:
Question480: You are working on a project and want to know how many activities in the previous month were completed with significant variances. You should use a(n)______________
Question481: Your company is in the project management training business. In addition, the company publishes several exam study aids for the PMP® and CAPM® exam. You have your PMP® and you have been appointed as the project manager to make sure your company's training materials are updated to be aligned with the new PMBOK® Guide. You must complete your project in six months. You are now in month four. Many of your team members have been working on other projects as the company uses matrix management. In a performance review meeting today, you informed your Governance Board that you did not think you could complete this project in the remaining two months. You were informed that additional resources were not available, but you had to complete your project on time. Your best course of action is to______________
Question482: 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?
Question483: Which Develop Schedule tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
Question484: The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements describes management of which of the following?
Question485: In project management, a temporary project can be:
Question486: Which type of analysis systemically gathers and analyzes qualitative and quantitative information to determine which interests should be taken into account throughout the project?
Question487: Reserve analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?
Question488: Collecting requirements is critical in project scope management as it becomes the foundation for the project's______________
Question489: The scope management plan is a subsidiary of which project document?
Question490: Which output is the approved version of the time-phased project budget?
Question491: The purpose of the Project Communications Management Knowledge Area is to:
Question492: The Plan Stakeholder Management process belongs to which Process Group?
Question493: Assume you are working as the project manager on the first project in your company to use the critical chain approach to scheduling. You are a PMP ® and also are certified in critical chain. You are getting ready for a performance review with your Governance Board, and you can expect they will ask questions about______________
Question494: You are a project manager leading the construction project of a new garbage incinerator. Local residents and environmental groups are opposed to this project because of its environmental impact. Management agrees with your request to partner with a third party that will be responsible for providing state-of-the-art
"air scrubbers," to clean the exhaust to an acceptable level. This decision will delay the project but will allow it to continue. It is an example of which following risk response?
Question495: All of the following are objectives of a quality audit______________
Question496: During which process would you obtain stakeholders' formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Question497: Which of the following procurement processes results in the awarding of a procurement contract?
Question498: What are seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean called?
Question499: 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______________
Question500: In which of the following methods of resolving conflict will the conflict typically reappear again in another form?
Question501: All the following statements are true about the grassroots estimate, EXCEPT______________
Question502: You are working on a project to upgrade the existing fiber-optic cables in your province. You have determined that a resource can install 25 meters of cable per hour, so the duration required to install 1,000 meters would be 40 hours. This means you are using______________
Question503: The Project Manager has weekly scheduled status meetings with the team. The meetings have been unorganized, chaotic, and lacking direction. Which of the following would improve the meetings?
Question504: Assume you are managing a project, and your project management plan has been approved. Your project has a high level of change associated with it. There is active and ongoing stakeholder involvement. This means you probably are working with a(n)______________
Question505: The Process Group in which the internal and external stakeholders interact and influence the overall outcome of the project is the:
Question506: During the stages of team development, your team is in which stage when there is problem solving and interdependence along with achievement and synergy?
Question507: Plan-do-check-act is also known as:
Question508: What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Question509: 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?
Question510: The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
Question511: 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______________
Question512: If you decide to follow an open subordination approach to resolving conflict, you are using which style of conflict resolution?
Question513: 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?
Question514: Which Control Stakeholder Engagement tool or technique allows the project manager to consolidate and facilitate distribution of reports?
Question515: Within project integration management, the statement of work (SOW) references which aspects of the project?
Question516: Which document describes the necessary information to determine if a project is worth the required investment?
Question517: A tool and technique used during the Define Scope process is:
Question518: The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the:
Question519: The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
Question520: A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response is called a:
Question521: In the Plan Procurement Management process, which source selection criteria analyzes if the seller's proposed technical methodologies, techniques, solutions, and services meet the procurement documents requirements?
Question522: Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
Question523: Which of the following is an information gathering technique in Identify Risks?
Question524: What type of contract provides the buyer with the most risk and seller the least risk?
Question525: 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?
Question526: The project scope statement is important in scope control because it______________
Question527: Which of the following is an input to Control Scope?
Question528: What is one of the objectives of Project Risk Management?
Question529: Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes, and procedures?
Question530: 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______________
Question531: 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?
Question532: Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
Question533: Which of the following events would result in a baseline update?
Question534: As head of the project management office, you need to focus on those items where risk responses can lead to better project outcomes. One way to help you make these decisions is to______________
Question535: Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?
Question536: Taking out insurance in relation to risk management is called what?
Question537: Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?
Question538: A stakeholder expresses a need not known to the project manager. The project manager most likely missed a step in which stakeholder management process?
Question539: The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500. What is the actual cost of the project?
Question540: The completion of the project scope is measured against the:
Question541: Risk categorization is a tool or technique used in which process?
Question542: Which stakeholder communicates with higher levels of management to gather organizational support and promote project benefits?
Question543: The end point of a project phase can be referred to as:
Question544: Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?
Question545: Stakeholder satisfaction should be managed as a key project:
Question546: Historical information is used______________
Question547: The cost benefit analysis tool is used for creating:
Question548: 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______________
Question549: Which of the following is the best description of configuration management?
Question550: The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
Question551: Which item is an input to the Define Activities process?
Question552: A benefit of using virtual teams in the Acquire Project Team process is the reduction of the:
Question553: 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______________
Question554: 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______________.
Question555: Analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of a project is known as:
Question556: Who selects the appropriate processes for a project?
Question557: Stakeholders can be identified in later stages of the project because the Identify Stakeholders process should be:
Question558: Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?
Question559: The processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project has been undertaken to achieve are grouped within which Process Group?
Question560: The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to:
Question561: Having prepared stakeholder management plans on previous projects, you know it is positive to review the project management plan because it______________
Question562: Your role in the project includes helping to resolve problems; making recommendations regarding priorities; accelerating activities to meet the target schedule; promoting communications among project team members; and helping management monitor the project's progress on a regular basis. Most of the people working on your project are scientists or technical experts. You are working in which of the following types of organizational structures?
Question563: Which Process Group typically consumes the bulk of a project's budget?
Question564: 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______________
Question565: Diagram:
If the imposed finish time in question 3 above is removed and reset to 16 and the duration of Activity H is changed to 3, what is the late finish for Activity G?
Question566: 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______________
Question567: 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?
Question568: Which items are components of a project management plan?
Question569: Through whom do project managers accomplish work?
Question570: Which cost estimate technique includes contingencies to account for cost uncertainty?
Question571: You are responsible for a project management training curriculum that is offered throughout the organization. In this situation, your intangible deliverables are______________.
Question572: What is the typical role of senior management on a project?
Question573: An input to Develop Project Charter is a/an:
Question574: A Project Management Office (PMO) manages a number of aspects, including what?
Question575: 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?
Question576: Which of the following choices is a contract closure tool or technique?
Question577: The iterative and interactive nature of the Process Groups creates the need for the processes in which Knowledge Area?
Question578: What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
Question579: 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?
Question580: 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?
Question581: 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?
Question582: An output of the Create WBS process is:
Question583: Assigned risk ratings are based upon:
Question584: A primary function of a project management office is to support project managers in a variety of ways, including which of the following?
Question585: What are the components of the "triple constraint"?
Question586: What is the main output of Monitoring and Controlling?
Question587: The risk urgency assessment is a tool and technique used for______________
Question588: The software development company has recently been awarded a large contract to create a new animation software program. This will require the company to move into a new office complete with production facilities twice their current size. The schedule is tight for this new project. The new facility is behind schedule with the cubicles and network wiring on pace to finish three weeks late. If this can't be done on time and will slip three weeks, the company has decided there is nothing it can do, and it will simply deal with the consequences. This is an example of what type of risk response?
Question589: 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?
Question590: In which Project Management Process Group is the project charter developed?
Question591: 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______________
Question592: 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?
Question593: The plan quality management process includes all the following techniques EXCEPT______________
Question594: An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
Question595: The key way for a project manager to promote optimum team performance in project teams whose members are not collocated is to______________
Question596: Which written document helps monitor who is responsible for resolving specific problems and concerns by a target date?
Question597: A project manager providing information to the right audience, in the right format, at the right time is an example of which type of communication?
Question598: 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?
Question599: A project can be defined as a:
Question600: In which process is a project manager identified and given the authority to apply resources to project activities?
Question601: The consulting company has created the scope of work for the project. They are in the process of creating a schedule and budget. They have added time into the schedule for the delays that always happen. They are also allocating money into the budget for more computers and software that are usually needed beyond what is initially forecast. These items are an example of what?
Question602: When managing projects, one important technique is capturing lessons learned from previous projects to improve the organization's project management process. Therefore, in planning the project, it is important to plan the closing procedures, particularly to review the______________
Question603: Because communications planning often is linked tightly with enterprise environmental factors, which one of the following statements is true?
Question604: Which of the following is a tool and technique for Estimate Activity Durations?
Question605: Which is an enterprise environmental factor?
Question606: Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?
Question607: The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
Question608: Which process numerically analyzes the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives?
Question609: Which Perform Quality Control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Question610: 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______________
Question611: Float on a Network diagram is also known as:
Question612: 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______________
Question613: Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
Question614: The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost variance (CV) for Task 6?
Question615: Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
Question616: A regression line is used to estimate:
Question617: 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?
Question618: Which tool or technique of Plan Quality involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
Question619: Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?
Question620: In both the weak and strong matrix organizational structures, the primary condition leading to conflict is______________
Question621: Statistical sampling is a method in perform quality control to determine the conformance to requirements for some component or product of a project. Its greatest advantage is that it______________
Question622: 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______________.
Question623: Types of internal failure costs include:
Question624: Today, the primary cause of why projects are not completed on time and within cost and are terminated early is due to______________
Question625: A project has an EV of 100 workdays, an AC of 120 workdays, and a PV of 80 workdays. What should be the concern?
Question626: An imposed date for completion of the project by the customer is an example of a project:
Question627: The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?
Question628: 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______________
Question629: 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______________
Question630: Organizational theory is a tool used in which Project Human Resource Management process?
Question631: Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
Question632: The nature of project work is such that it inevitably causes stress. Project managers thus need to learn how to cope with and manage stress and understand what stress is and why it is created. Project managers need to note that it can be a positive experience depending on how people perceive stress and should work to mentor team members accordingly. As you strive to become more aware of stress, which one of the following is NOT considered a stress-creating factor that is related to the project environment?
Question633: All the following are examples of project document updates from the manage project team process EXCEPT______________
Question634: A tool and technique used in the Develop Project Charter process is:
Question635: 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______________
Question636: Verification of project deliverables occurs during which process?
Question637: 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______________
Question638: 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?
Question639: 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?
Question640: Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
Question641: 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______________
Question642: Which of the following is a key input to define activities?
Question643: Which of the following is TRUE about most project life cycles?
Question644: The project scope statement addresses and documents all the following items EXCEPT______________
Question645: Status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete are examples of:
Question646: In a construction project schedule, what is the logical relationship between the delivery of the concrete materials and the pouring of concrete?
Question647: A projects purpose or justification, measurable project objectives and related success criteria, a summary milestone schedule, and a summary budget are all components of which document?
Question648: Which of the following statements correctly characterizes pull communication?
Question649: The project management processes presented in the PMBOK Guide® should:
Question650: Working in the systems integration field, you are primarily responsible for coordinating the work of numerous subcontractors. Your current project is coming to an end. You have 15 major subcontractors as well as a variety of other sellers. Now that you are closing contracts (procurements), you should______________
Question651: Which tool and technique of quality planning involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
Question652: When you review cost performance data on your project, different responses will be required depending on the degree of variance or control thresholds from the baseline. For example, a variance of 10 percent might not require immediate action, whereas a variance of 100 percent will require investigation. A description of how you plan to manage cost variances should be included in the______________
Question653: The total of the planned value (PV) is also known as:
Question654: If operations on a work package were estimated to cost $1,500 and finish today but, instead, have cost
$1,350 and are only two-thirds complete, the cost variance is______________
Question655: Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
Question656: Your company has been awarded a contract for project management consulting services for a major government agency. You were a member of the proposal writing team, are PMP certified, and you are the project manager. You are now working to prepare your project management plan, which is to be submitted in one week. You decided to use some facilitation techniques to help develop your plan. While a number are possible, you selected______________
Question657: 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______________
Question658: The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
Question659: 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______________
Question660: Marketplace conditions are an input to which one of the following processes?
Question661: All the following are project baselines that are generally part of the project management plan EXCEPT______________.
Question662: 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______________
Question663: A project manager requesting industry groups and consultants to recommend project intervention is relying on:
Question664: Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:
Question665: 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?
Question666: The undistributed budget is part of the______________
Question667: Inputs to the Plan Schedule Management process include:
Question668: Power, urgency, and legitimacy are attributes of which stakeholder classification model?
Question669: Project Management Process Groups are linked by:
Question670: Change control procedures, configuration management knowledge base, versions, and baselines in the develop project management plan process are:
Question671: Which of the following is an output of the Conduct Procurements process?
Question672: 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?
Question673: You are beginning a new project staffed with a virtual team located across five different countries. To help limit conflict and misunderstandings concerning the justification, objectives, and high-level requirements of the project among your team members and their functional managers, you ask the project sponsor to prepare a______________
Question674: Which process involves the creation of a document that provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to a project?
Question675: A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?
Question676: To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
Question677: 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______________.
Question678: 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?
Question679: What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?
Question680: Modifications may be needed to the WBS and WBS dictionary because of approved change requests, which shows that______________
Question681: Which tool within the Perform Quality Control process identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Question682: The project scope statement and resource calendars are inputs to which Project Time Management process?
Question683: What component of the project scope definition defines project exclusions?
Question684: In complex projects/ initiating processes should be completed:
Question685: The sponsor plays a key role in project success. Which of the following is the best description of the sponsor?
Question686: The close project or phase process addresses actions and activities concerning all of the following EXCEPT______________.
Question687: You are working on a construction project in a city different from your headquarters' location. You and your team have not worked in this city, City B, previously, and you lack knowledge of the local building codes.
You had a team member review the codes, and he said they were in far greater detail than those in your city, City A.
When you asked him how much time he would need to spend to gain a complete understanding of these codes, he estimated that at least five weeks would be needed. You then decided it would be more cost effective to hire a local person from City B who specializes in this area. As a result, as you prepare your schedule and estimate your resource requirements for this project, you should coordinate this work closely with which of the following processes:
Question688: How is the schedule variance calculated using the earned value technique?
Question689: You are managing a new technology project designed to improve the removal of hazardous waste from your city. You are in the planning phase of this project and have prepared your network diagram. Your next step is to______________
Question690: Which of the following is a tool for analyzing a design, determining its functions, and assessing how to provide those functions' cost effectively?
Question691: Ideally, a project manager should be selected and assigned at which point in the project life cycle?
Question692: 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______________
Question693: Analytical techniques are a tool and technique of which process in Project Procurement Management?
Question694: In an organization with a projectized organizational structure, who controls the project budget?
Question695: 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?
Question696: The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Question697: The reason that the schedule performance index (SPI) is shown as a ratio is to______________
Question698: Validate scope______________
Question699: Identify Stakeholders is the process of identifying all of the people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests in, involvement in, and impact on the project:
Question700: 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______________
Question701: A project manager who communicates to the project team though email is using which type of communication?
Question702: Which of the following would a Contract Administrator use if they are using a unilateral contract?
Question703: 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?
Question704: Co-location is a tool and technique of:
Question705: 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______________
Question706: 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?
Question707: What is the definition of project plan execution?
Question708: Table reporting, spreadsheet analysis, and presentations are examples of______________
Question709: 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:
Question710: 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______________.
Question711: 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?
Question712: Which process determines the risks that may affect the project and documents their characteristics?
Question713: Your project has a budget of $1.5 million for the first year, $3 million for the second year, $2.2 million for the third year, and $800,000 for the fourth year. Most of the project budget will be spent during______________
Question714: One of the fundamental tenets of modern quality management states that quality is:
Question715: An approach to provide insight into the health of the project and to identify any areas that require special attention is to______________
Question716: 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______________
Question717: Which type of organizational structure is displayed in the diagram provided?
Question718: Procurement documents are used in the identify stakeholder process because they______________
Question719: Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?
Question720: What are the Project Procurement Management processes?
Question721: 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?
Question722: Successful project management involves both project leadership as well as project management skills.
Several different leadership styles are appropriate in different phases of the project life cycle. Assume that you are working on a project, and it is in the execution phase. The leadership style that is most appropriate should consist of a blend of all but which one of the following?
Question723: One purpose of the communications management plan is to provide information about the______________
Question724: The scope management plan and scope baseline are contained in:
Question725: 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?
Question726: 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______________
Question727: Sample attributes of a communications management plan include which one of the following?
Question728: What are the key components of the communication model?
Question729: The CPI on your project is 0.84. This means that you should______________
Question730: Risk responses reflect an organization's perceived balance between:
Question731: 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:
Question732: 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:
Question733: 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______________
Question734: Which grid shows which resources are tied to work packages?
Question735: Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Question736: Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Question737: The key benefit of the control communications process is to______________
Question738: The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
Question739: The primary benefit of contract control procurements is to ensure that______________
Question740: One output of the control costs process is cost forecasts, which is when______________
Question741: 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______________
Question742: What happens to a stakeholder's project influence over time?
Question743: One of the objectives of a quality audit is to:
Question744: In defining a risk trigger, which of the following is most accurate?
Question745: 
Which of the following is the correct network diagram for the table?
Question746: 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______________
Question747: Which of the following is an output of the Define Activities process?
Question748: Motivation is dynamic and complex. The statement, "Motivation is an intrinsic phenomenon. Extrinsic satisfaction only leads to movements, not motivation" is attributed to which of the leading theories of motivation?
Question749: Which quality tool may prove useful in understanding and estimating the cost of quality in a process?
Question750: Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
Question751: The process of defining how the project scope will be validated and controlled is known as:
Question752: Calculate the variance for the following: Pessimistic=50, Optimistic=10, Realistic=24.
Question753: Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
Question754: 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______________
Question755: The Project Manager has some issues on the team between two developers who disagree about how something should be done. What is the best method to resolve the conflict?
Question756: 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?
Question757: A weighting system can be used for all but which one of the following reasons?
Question758: Which is an input to the Scope Verification Process?
Question759: 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...
Question760: Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
Question761: Which quality tool incorporates the upper and lower specification limits allowed within an agreement?
Question762: Work performance information and cost forecasts are outputs of which Project Cost Management process?
Question763: A number of approaches can be helpful when estimating resource requirements for activities on a project.
Assume you are managing a project and you have already prepared your WBS. When you decomposed your WBS, it has 45 work packages. You then prepared an activity list. Now, you are preparing your schedule and determining your resource requirements. You found there were about 30 activities that you could not estimate with a reasonable degree of confidence, so you and your team decided to use which one of the following approaches to help with these activity resource estimates:
Question764: Assigning more talented resources to the project to reduce time to completion or to provide better quality than originally planned are examples of which one of the following strategies?
Question765: 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______________
Question766: Stakeholder engagement involves a number of critical activities. An example is______________
Question767: Project deliverables are the outputs that include the product, service, or result of the project as well as ancillary results. These ancillary results should be in the______________
Question768: The milestone list is an input to which process from the Planning Process Group?
Question769: What is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
Question770: Which is the document that presents a hierarchical project organization?
Question771: You are beginning a new project and a portion of the development will be created by a foreign company.
You are not sure how to do business with this company because it is offshore.
What document would be best to guide you in this business?
Question772: 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______________
Question773: Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Question774: You are conducting a stakeholder analysis on your project. After identifying potential stakeholders, the next step in the process is to______________
Question775: Correlated and contextualized information on how closely the scope is being maintained relative to the scope baseline is contained within:
Question776: 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?
Question777: Which of the following factors contributes the most to team communication?
Question778: 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:
Question779: Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
Question780: The purpose of using what-if analysis in schedule control is to______________
Question781: The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
Question782: You are managing a project and the sponsor has removed the previous Project Manager on the project because they could not keep the project on budget. According to your current project budget, this project is over budget by $245,000. As the current Project Manager, you are afraid you will also be removed if you report this status. What is the best response you can tell senior management?
Question783: Project management processes ensure the:
Question784: All of the following are typically part of the project management plan except?
Question785: Which of the following best relates to unknown unknowns?
Question786: The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product is known as:
Question787: Change requests are an output from which Project Integration Management process?
Question788: Which of the following is an input of the Define Activities process?
Question789: The ISO 9000 standards provide______________
Question790: An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
Question791: When large or complex projects are separated into distinct phases or subprojects, all of the Process Groups would normally be:
Question792: 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______________
Question793: Which of the following is used to control schedule related items on a project?
Question794: Skills necessary for project management such as motivating to provide encouragement; listening actively; persuading a team to perform an action; and summarizing, recapping, and identifying next steps are known as:
Question795: Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Question796: The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:
Question797: What is the responsibility of the project manager and the functional manager respectively?
Question798: Which tool or technique is used in Close Procurements?
Question799: A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis is a tool or technique used in which process?
Question800: 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______________
Question801: 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?
Question802: 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:
Question803: A project you have been managing is falling behind schedule. You have received approval to crash the project by adding an additional programmer. The cost you have negotiated is $60 US per hour. The programmer will work on the project until it is complete, then the contract will end.
What type of contract is this?
Question804: The ability to influence cost is greatest during which stages of the project?
Question805: Which term describes contract costs that are traceable to or caused by a specific project work effort?
Question806: Scope verification is PRIMARILY concerned with which of the following?
Question807: 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?
Question808: Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique used in which process?
Question809: A Project Manager has been working on quality process of a project at a major electronics manufacturer.
This manufacturer is involved with various government and defense contracts as well. The Project Manager discovers that an employee has been reselling some repair material that he has declared as scrap material because they were discontinued, at a small profit on the internet. The item is very costly.
What should the Project Manager do?
Question810: 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______________
Question811: 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______________.
Question812: 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?
Question813: Fishbone diagrams are also known as what?
Question814: Any step recommended to bring expected future performance in line with the project management plan is called______________
Question815: Which of the following are outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
Question816: 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?
Question817: How is scheduled variance calculated using the earned value technique?
Question818: Outputs of the Control Communications process include:
Question819: 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?
Question820: Which of the following is an input to Develop Human Resource Plan?
Question821: 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?
Question822: Calculate the standard deviation for the following: Pessimistic=50, Optimistic=10, Realistic=24.
Question823: 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?
Question824: 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______________
Question825: Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
Question826: During a bidders conference, it is important that______________
Question827: Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:
Question828: Which of the following consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary?
Question829: The primary result of effective team development is______________
Question830: 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?
Question831: For a project to be successful, the project team must do which of the following?
Question832: The Closing Process Group includes which of the following Knowledge Areas?
Question833: You can use various estimating approaches to determine activity durations. When you have a limited amount of information available about your project, especially when in the early phases, the best approach to use is______________
Question834: Research has shown that during the execution phase of the project, the majority of conflicts involve______________
Question835: The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:
Question836: Activity resource requirements and resource breakdown structure are outputs from what Project Time Management process?
Question837: The purpose of economic value added (EVA) is to______________.
Question838: Project managers should pay attention to critical and subcritical activities when evaluating project time performance. One way to do this is to analyze 10 sub critical paths in order of ascending float. This approach is part of______________
Question839: 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?
Question840: 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______________
Question841: Which can be used to determine whether a process is stable or has predictable performance?
Question842: Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
Question843: Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
Question844: A change log for communications can be used to communicate to the appropriate stakeholders that there are changes:
Question845: As a Project Manager, your first priority is to accomplish the work of the project. As a result of a project being complete, you have the opportunity to help those on the project become more educated on what worked well and what didn't on the project. What is the best answer for gaining this experience and knowledge?
Question846: When a project is undertaken to reduce defects in a product or service, the objective of the project is to create a/an:
Question847: The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
Question848: One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:
Question849: When is a Salience Model used?
Question850: What is the difference between the critical path and the critical chain?
Question851: The project governance approach should be described in the:
Question852: Which of the following is a schematic display of the project's schedule activities and the logical relationships among them?
Question853: The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
Question854: What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?
Question855: Assume that you are managing a project team. Your team is one in which its members confront issues rather than people, establish procedures collectively, and is team oriented. As the project manager, which of the following represents your team's stage of development and the approach you should use during this time?
Question856: 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?
Question857: 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______________
Question858: To practice effective schedule control, your project team must be alert to any issues that may cause problems in the future. To best accomplish effective schedule control, the team should______________
Question859: Although your project team is working virtually, you are striving to make it a high-performing team.
You held a virtual kickoff meeting to ensure there was a shared project vision. You now see that team members are addressing the work to be done, but they do not seem to be collaborating. You realize the team is______________
Question860: Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
Question861: 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:
Question862: It often is advantageous to appoint a termination manager in the closing phase of the project and release the project manager so that he or she is available to work on another project. If this is the case, the termination manager should focus attention on all but which one of the following?
Question863: 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?
Question864: The project will be using a company to provide the technicians for a national network upgrade project.
Presently, the team is meeting with potential vendors, showing them more details associated with the work of the project, as well as answering any questions they have about the work before their proposals are submitted. What is this called?
Question865: 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______________.
Question866: The performance measurement baseline consists of all the following EXCEPT______________
Question867: The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables is known as:
Question868: 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?
Question869: To meet regulatory requirements, you need to crash your project schedule. Your first step is to compute______________
Question870: Requirements for formal deliverable acceptance are defined in the______________
Question871: The best approach to resolve the settlement of all outstanding contract changes, claims, and disputes is using______________
Question872: 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______________
Question873: Forecasts, requested changes, recommended corrective actions, and organizational process asset updates are all outputs of which process?
Question874: 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?
Question875: 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______________
Question876: An input to the Plan Procurement Management process is:
Question877: Which statement correctly describes the value of a business case?
Question878: An input required in Define Scope is an organizational:
Question879: The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (WBS) is called a/an:
Question880: The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?
Question881: Job satisfaction, challenging work, and sufficient financial compensation are values related to which interpersonal skill?
Question882: What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
Question883: 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?
Question884: Which of the following is a group decision-making technique?
Question885: In which Knowledge Area is the project charter developed?
Question886: You are the Project Manager on a project where $4M US will be spent on procuring telecom equipment. As negotiations begin between your company and the vendor, you are approached by the vendor's sales representative who offers you a trip to Las Vegas if you can "help" the process along by ensuring that the contract has accelerated payment terms compared to typical contracts.
What is your professional and social responsibility?
Question887: The component of the risk management plan that documents how risk activities will be recorded is called:
Question888: 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?
Question889: 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?
Question890: Which of the following inputs is required for the WBS creation?
Question891: Organizational process assets, a lessons-learned database, and historical information are all inputs to which process?
Question892: A project manager is appointed full-time to a project and is given full-time administrative staff and full-time project team members. This situation describes which type of organizational structure?
Question893: Which cost is associated with nonconformance?
Question894: You were assigned recently as the project manager of a program management office project to implement a new enterprise-wide scheduling system for use throughout your company. You identify the need for a project charter to provide you with appropriate authority for applying resources, completing the project work, and formally initiating the project. Who should issue the project charter?
Question895: Which of the following is a measure of the value of work completed compared to the actual cost or progress made on the project?
Question896: In order for a matrix organizational approach to be successful, the two-boss situation should be resolved.
To overcome the two-boss problem, it is important to______________
Question897: An input to Close Project or Phase is:
Question898: Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?
Question899: In which Process Group are lessons learned documented?
Question900: All the following are outputs of the estimate cost process EXCEPT______________
Question901: The information technology system for the national power grid has been working well. Today, the main control processor crashed, disabling the west coast delivery of power to four states. Implementation of the risk response plan didn't fix the problem. Which of the following steps would they perform first?
Question902: Analogous cost estimating relies on which of the following techniques?
Question903: You are planning a project and want to account for how the project will be managed in the future. While building your cost performance data, you want to provide guidance for when the project is later executed, because you know that different responses are required depending upon the degree of variance from the baseline. For example, a variance of 10 percent might not require immediate action, whereas a variance of
20 percent will require more immediate action and investigation. You decide to include the details of how to manage the cost variances as part of which following plan?
Question904: In Plan Risk Management, which of the management plans determines who will be available to share information on various risks and responses at different times and locations?
Question905: What is used to define the accounts that the WBS and organizational structures align to for project cost tracking?
Question906: Diagram:
If a project planner imposes a finish time of 14 on the project with no change in the start date or activity durations, what is the total float of Activity E?
Question907: The project manager notes that stakeholders are aware of the project and potential impacts and are actively engaged in ensuring that the project is a success. The engagement level of the stakeholders should be classified as:
Question908: A supporting input for controlling stakeholder engagement is______________
Question909: In defining a milestone, which of the following is correct?
Question910: A no-cost settlement sometimes is used______________
Question911: A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:
Question912: An output of Control Schedule is:
Question913: 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______________
Question914: In the Plan Stakeholder Management process, expert judgment is used to:
Question915: A contract management plan is a subsidiary of what other type of plan?
Question916: Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?
Question917: Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?
Question918: Which provides the basic framework for managing a project?
Question919: Which schedule network analysis technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Question920: 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______________.
Question921: A Pareto chart is a specific type of:
Question922: Cost aggregation is typically performed by aggregating work packages in accordance with the:
Question923: Create WBS is part of which of the following Knowledge Areas?
Question924: A Project Manager has been working on quality process of a project at a major defense contractor. The Project Manager discovers that an employee has been reselling some repair material that he has declared as scrap material at a small profit. The item is very costly. What should the Project Manager do?
Question925: On the electric company project the government implemented a regulatory change associated with the electricity sub-station upgrade project that required the company to spend an additional $400,000 US on the project. This type of cost and activity best relates to which of the following?
Question926: Which standard examines an enterprise's project management process capabilities?
Question927: 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______________
Question928: 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?
Question929: 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______________.
Question930: Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?
Question931: Inputs to the Define Activities process include:
Question932: Which quality control technique illustrates the 80/20 principle?
Question933: 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?
Question934: 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______________
Question935: Most statistical simulations of budgets, schedules, and resource allocations use which one of the following approaches?
Question936: Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
Question937: Tools and techniques used to perform quality assurance include______________
Question938: The cumulative cost curve for planned and actual expenditures______________
Question939: An element of the project scope statement is:
Question940: Which of the following are examples of interactive communication?
Question941: As you prepare to close out contracts on your project, you should review all the following types of documentation EXCEPT the______________
Question942: The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
Question943: A weighting system is a tool for which area of procurement?
Question944: In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
Question945: A project management office manages a number of aspects including the:
Question946: The Define Scope process is in which of the following Process Groups?
Question947: An output of the Close Project (or Close Phase) process is:
Question948: 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?
Question949: 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?
Question950: 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?
Question951: Updates of organizational process assets that are an output of control scope include all the following EXCEPT______________
Question952: 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?
Question953: Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
Question954: Which type of analysis is used to develop the communications management plan?
Question955: Which of the following would a team create as a result of using a change control system?
Question956: Which risk response strategy is common for both positive and negative risks?
Question957: The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:
Question958: The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
Question959: Which document in the project management plan can be updated in the Plan Procurement Management process?
Question960: Which of the following correctly lists the configuration management activities included in the Integrated Change Control process?
Question961: Which type of agreement is legal, contractual, and between two or more entities to form a partnership, joint venture, or some other arrangement as defined by the parties?
Question962: An input to the Create WBS process is a:
Question963: Cost of quality (COQ) refers to total cost of/to:
Question964: The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500. What is the actual cost of the project?
Question965: 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______________
Question966: Changes to formally controlled documentation, plans, etc. to reflect modified or additional ideas or content are known as:
Question967: The "rule of seven" as applied to statistical process control charts means that______________
Question968: Close procurements is a process that involves includes activities for administrative closure such as______________
Question969: What are assigned risk ratings based upon?
Question970: Recently, your company introduced a new processing system for its products. You were the project manager for this system and now have been asked to lead a team to implement needed changes to increase efficiency and productivity. To help you analyze the process outputs, you and your team have decided to use which following technique?
Question971: The business needs, assumptions, and constraints and the understanding of the customers needs and high-level requirements are documented in the:
Question972: Which input to the Plan Risk Management process provides information on high-level risks?
Question973: Ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation is a focus of which of the following?
Question974: You are establishing a PMO that will have a project management information system that will be an online repository of all program data. You will collect descriptions of all work components for each project under the PMO's jurisdiction. This information will form an integral part of the______________
Question975: A risk response strategy that can be used for both threats and opportunities is______________
Question976: What is the total float of the critical path?
Question977: The Project Manager and team are planning the project. They are presently identifying things that could go differently than planned. They are also trying to identify warning signs that would show that these events could be on the verge of occurring. What is the team doing?
Question978: The output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:
Question979: The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
Question980: 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______________
Question981: Which of the following is an output of the Distribute Information process?
Question982: The project is going through quality assurance. Which of the following is a key tool that will be utilized in this process?
Question983: The Perform Quality Assurance process occurs in which Process Group?
Question984: Testing falls into which of the following categories of cost of quality?
Question985: The area where the project manager can have the greatest impact on the quality of his or her project is in______________
Question986: Assume you are working on a multi-phase project as your project is planned to last three years. A best practice is to______________
Question987: Which of the following is an input to the Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Question988: Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
Question989: 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______________
Question990: Budgets reserved for unplanned changes to project scope and cost are:
Question991: What is a tool to improve team performance?
Question992: The diagram below is an example of a:
Question993: As the buyer is involved in creating request for proposals (RFP). for an infrastructure project, they will provide these to sellers of services. All of the following are names used for a seller except?
Question994: 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______________
Question995: 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?
Question996: The project is very challenging and has been very trying on a lot of people. There are some key team members considering leaving the project and going back to their old jobs at the company.
Which of the following would be a key motivator to keep them on the project?
Question997: Which of the following is an example of push communication?
Question998: The retail chain will be using a vendor to provide engineers for a security camera network design and implementation. Presently, the team is determining the details needed for the documentation that will help select the company to provide the services. This also includes evaluation criteria for comparing the proposals received. In what process is the team involved?
Question999: Which is an input to the Verify Scope process?
Question1000: While preparing the project management plan on a weekly basis, the project manager indicates the intention to provide an issues report to the staff via e-mail. In which part of the plan will this type of information be included?
Question1001: You are using earned value progress reporting for your current project in an effort to teach your software developers the benefits of earned value. You plan to display project results on the cafeteria bulletin board so that the team knows how the project is progressing.
PV = $2,200
EV = $2,000
AC = $2,500
BAC = $10,000
What is the EAC for this project, and what does it represent?
Question1002: Activity A has a pessimistic (P) estimate of 36 days, a most likely (ML) estimate of 21 days, and an optimistic (O) estimate of 6 days. What is the probability that activity A will be completed in 16 to 26 days?
Question1003: 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______________
Question1004: 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______________
Question1005: Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
Question1006: When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Question1007: Projects are supposed to succeed, not fail. However, termination is an option to consider when all but which one of the following conditions exist?
Question1008: Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
Question1009: In project communications, the first step in a written communication is to______________
Question1010: You are using earned value progress reporting for your current project in an effort to teach your software developers the benefits of earned value. You plan to display project results on the cafeteria bulletin board so that the team knows how the project is progressing.
PV = $2,200
EV = $2,000
AC = $2,500
BAC = $10,000
The CV for this project is______________
Question1011: Which of the following is an example of recommended corrective action in risk management?