EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following project communication management process is within the executing process group?

Question2: Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:

Question3: At the end of project execution, a project manager has retained some team members. What should the team be primarily focused on doing at this point?

Question4: Which of the following is true about pure risk?

Question5: You are the project manager responsible for constructing new 100-unit apartment in downtown Manhattan. As part of construction project, you are planning to outsource the electrical wiring of the building to an outside contracting firm. The contracting firm has requested a statement of work from you. Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the contract SOW?

Question6: You are a contract project manager within an information technology department of a large retailer. You are responsible for developing a new e-commerce web-site for the retailer. You are in the process of selecting the vendor who will provide the hardware including computer servers and networking equipment. As the project manager, you are in the select sellers process and have three vendors on your qualified sellers list who have responded to your company's RFP. One of the vendors remaining on the qualified sellers list is NetComp. Although you have no financial interests in this company, one of your friends Dennis is an investor of this company. Is there a conflict of interest in this situation?

Question7: 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?

Question8: A project manager at a company is considering a high-performing junior member of the organization to be the new project manager for a current project. What should the project manager do to prepare for a recommendation to senior management?

Question9: You are a project manager and you are in the closing phase. You want to report the final status of the closed contract to the stakeholders. Which form of communication is appropriate?

Question10: During the execution phase of a large project there is an extremely high number of change requests Because of this the project manager realizes that there is a greater risk for rejection of the deliverables How should the project manager mitigate this risk without compromising the completion date?

Question11: The stakeholders on a new compliance project request a delivery date for the project from the project manager There are a number of internal as well as external dependencies for the project and milestones that have to be met within certain timeframes What should the project manager do to determine the delivery date?

Question12: The utility of a risk seeker is:

Question13: In your project, if earned value (EV) is larger than planned value (PV)

Question14: For a stakeholder with low interest and high power, the project manager should:

Question15: A project manager has outsourced a critical programming task to a third party due to a lack of resources.
During the implementation stage, the deliverable is behind schedule and this task must be completed before a critical deadline.
What is the first thing the project manager should do to make sure the project gets back on track?

Question16: A project manager is initiating a highly controversial project with numerous stakeholders. Several of these stakeholders fail to support the project.
What should the project manager use to manage stakeholder expectations?

Question17: Drag the interpersonal skill on the left to the correct scenario on the right

Question18: You are a project manager working on a software development project. You've developed the risk management plan, identified risks, and you have created risk responses for most of the identified project risks.
Now, you would like to assign risk owners to the events. Which risk events should have risk response owners?

Question19: During the retrospective ceremony, the agile team is talking about the product owner's expectations not being met What should the project manager have done at the beginning of the project?

Question20: Plan-do-check-act is also known as:

Question21: Each project can benefit from stakeholder involvement; however, it is in both the project manager's and the teams' best interest to ensure that all project stakeholders have positive attitudes toward the project and its goals and objectives. Working as a project manager, you have a number of key stakeholders on your project. The stakeholder that identifies potential conflicts between organizational strategies and project goals is the______________

Question22: During a project's third iteration, two of the existing team members were replaced As the project entered the next iteration, the team velocity dropped and the performance started to slip.
What should the project manager do?

Question23: You have a conflict on your team but have enough time to resolve it, and you want to maintain future relationships. Thankfully, there is mutual trust, respect, and confidence among the parties involved. You decide to use confronting to resolve this conflict. In using this approach, your first step should be to______________

Question24: You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your
project is to develop a website for the company that allows retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered, packaged, and mailed to the consumer directly from the grower's site. This project involves coordinating the parent company, growers, and distributors. You are preparing a performance review and have the following measurements at hand: PV = 300, AC = 200, and EV = 250. What is the CPI of this project?

Question25: The end point of a project phase can be referred to as:

Question26: Alberto is the project manager of a software implementation project. His company has made an organization wide decision to move to a new accounting and human resources software package. He has read that some projects to implement the same package have resulted in the loss of personnel data when they tried to import it into the new system. He backs up the data so that it could be restored in the event of such a problem but also buys insurance to cover the cost of keying in the data manually if the implementation doesn't work. Which response strategies are Alberto using?

Question27: After a meeting with the customer, the project manager receives special recognition because the project is always on schedule Later that day, the project manager attends a regular project team meeting to follow up on the status of the deliverables.
What should the project manager do in the project team meeting?

Question28: Early in a project, a team member failed to effectively communicate the reason for their absence from three team meetings. How should the project manager handle this situation?

Question29: Which of the following factors is lowest at the start of the project?

Question30: A project manager assumes a three-year, multiphase project with tight timelines. stakeholder schedules permit time for addressing only essential activities.
How should the project manager handle updating the lessons learned?

Question31: A summary WBS is usually developed in the

Question32: A project manager is leading a project that is in an advanced stage. All high-level risks identified in the risk management plan have been resolved or are no longer a risk for the project. Only low-level risks remain What should the project manager do now?

Question33: Which of the following is a tool for analyzing a design, determining its functions, and assessing how to provide those functions' cost effectively?

Question34: The process of defining how the project scope will be validated and controlled is known as:

Question35: Quantitative assessment(s) of the likely costs of the resources required to complete project activities is(are) also referred to as:

Question36:
Based on the project scheduled, how much float is there for activity number 4?

Question37: During a project's execution phase, the project manager receives notice from environmental authorities to stop work. What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

Question38: You are in the process of controlling changes to the project cost baseline. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful tool/ technique?

Question39: A project must be simultaneously implemented in two countries with a time-zone difference of 11 hours. The project manager must determine a mutually convenient time to provide stakeholders with information on the project's schedule, cost, and performance progress.
What should the project manager use to determine this?

Question40: A project is on its sixth iteration out of seven. Select the two points where the team is performing better than expected. (Choose two.)

Question41: Drag the characteristics of the stage on the left to the correct Tuckman Ladder stage on the right

Question42: 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?

Question43: The first deliverables from a project are ready, and the project manager requests approval from the stakeholders. One of the stakeholders says that the work is not complete because some requirements are not implemented. The project manager says that those requirements are out of scope.
What should the project manager do now?

Question44: Which of the following is true regarding product scope descriptions?

Question45: 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?

Question46: During the next monthly meeting, a project manager wants to show key stakeholders that the contingency reserve is insufficient to complete the entire project. What type of chart should the project manager use?

Question47: Assume that your actual costs are $1,000; your planned value is $1,200; and your earned value is $1,500.
Based on these data, what can be determined regarding your schedule variance?

Question48: In project management, Work authorization is normally not...

Question49: 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?

Question50: Your stakeholders have asked for an analysis of the cost risk. All of the following are true except for which one?

Question51: You monitored figures on cost and planned/earned value for each individual project week until the data date at the end of the sixth week. What is the status of this project at this date?
Project Actual Earned Planned week costs value value 1 $65,000 $61,000 $67,000 2 $85,000 $79,000 $89,000 3 $100,000 $102,000 $110,000 4 $125,000 $124,000 $121,000 5 $135,000 $133,000 $139,000 6 $125,000 $120,000 $131,000

Question52: 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?

Question53: Which is not an activity included in the Integrated change control process?

Question54: The Plan Stakeholder Management process belongs to which Process Group?

Question55: In your software project, you have a programmer who constantly professes to know all about project management, and keeps challenging his superiors. The programmer is playing the role of a (an):

Question56: The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:

Question57: The risk management plan is a subset of the project management plan and describes how risk management should be performed. All of the following should be included in the risk management plan EXCEPT:

Question58: 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?

Question59: 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?

Question60: Your selection committee is debating between two projects. Project A has a payback period of 18 months. Project B has a cost of $125,000, with expected cash inflows of $50,000 the first year and $25,000 per quarter after that. Which project should you recommend?

Question61: A project is sponsored by the client's chief technology officer (CTO), and estimations and plans are approved.
However, the client's IT manager disagree with the plans.
What should the project manager do?

Question62: Because communications planning often is linked tightly with enterprise environmental factors, which one of the following statements is true?

Question63: A project manager has been assigned to complete a worksite project that was started by a different project manager. The project is now in the execution stage. Upon careful review, the project manager realizes that the local community was not included in the stakeholder register, which has resulted in extreme opposition from the community.
How should the project manager handle this issue?

Question64: A team receives outsourced deliverables and determines that they do not meet the agreed-upon acceptance criteria, what should the project manager reference to verify this with the vendor?

Question65: A project has been long and difficult. The team is relieved that the project is ending soon, and they begin to submit final reports before an approved one-week break. Overall, the project was successful. However, the project manager realizes that lessons learned were not recorded throughout the project.
Who should the project manager consult during the project to obtain lessons learned?

Question66: Participative Management:

Question67: During which phase of the project lifecycle is the level of risk and uncertainty is highest?

Question68: A project manager has received an updated earned value analysis report The following are the key findings from the report
* Budget at completion = USS1 million
* Earned value = US$0 7 million
* Actual cost = US$0 75 million
* Cost performance index = 0 933
Based on this information, what should the project manager conclude about project performance'?

Question69: A leadership style in which the project manager shares problems with team members and formulates solutions as a group is called:

Question70: Tom is a project manager on an industrial design project. He is always watching when his team members come into the office, when they take their breaks and when they leave. He periodically walks around the office to be sure that everyone is doing work when they are at their desks and he insists that he make every project decision, even minor ones. What kind of manager is he?

Question71: In a project management team meeting, one of the team members always argues with the project manager about the objective, timeline, and deliverable of any assigned task.
What should the project manager do to manage this conflict?

Question72: While preparing a project charter for a new project, a project manager reviews lessons learned from previous projects. The lessons learned documents show frequent issues with low engagement levels and stakeholder misalignment on project objectives.
What should the project manager do to avoid repetition of this issue in the new project?

Question73: Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?

Question74: Requirements for formal contract acceptance and closure usually are defined in the______________

Question75: The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions included in the __________?

Question76: Which of the following depicts a hierarchical tabulation of physical assemblies, subassemblies and components required to manufacture a product?

Question77: A project manager in a large government agency is implementing an upgrade of the operating system for each individual computer. A division manager complains that they were not informed about the changes and will not allow the change to happen as planned.
What can the project manager do to avoid this situation in the future?

Question78: Obtaining information from prospective sellers on how project needs can be met is part of:

Question79: During a project review meeting, stakeholder A points out that a deliverable has been updated to reflect new requirements from stakeholder B. However, stakeholder A was not notified of the changes and disagrees with them.
What should the project manager do next?

Question80: Which statement describes best the purpose of brainstorming sessions?

Question81: Risk mitigation involves______________

Question82: A project has closed, and the project manager moves on to a new project. During this project, it is discovered that many of the mistakes made in the first project have been repeated.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

Question83: Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?

Question84: The sponsor plays a key role in project success. Which of the following is the best description of the sponsor?

Question85: You are trying to determine whether or not to conduct 100% final system tests of 500 ground-based radar units at the factory. The historical radar field failure rate is 4%; the cost to test each unit in the factory is
$10,000; the cost to reassemble each passed unit after the factory test is $2,000; the cost to repair and reassemble each failed unit after factory test is $23,000; and the cost to repair and reinstall each failed unit in the field is $350,000. Using decision tree analysis, what is the expected value if you decide to conduct these tests?

Question86: The most common communication problem during negotiations is that

Question87: A lessons learned is BEST completed by:

Question88: A project plan generally includes the following:

Question89: One team member is not as active as the rest of the team during a brainstorming session The project manager has a separate conversation with the team member and learns that the team member is slightly hearing impaired The team member appreciates the project manager's concern The project manager then decides to change the time and room for the meeting to ensure everyone can participate What interpersonal skill did the project manager use?

Question90: Which of the following is a tool for analyzing a design, determining its functions, and assessing how to provide those functions' cost effectively?

Question91: Which of the following theories are illustrated by the principle: "Employees who believe that their efforts will lead to effective performance and who anticipate important rewards for their accomplishments become productive stay productive."

Question92: In the phase sequence defined by project life cycles, a phase is not begun until all deliverables are approved from the preceding phase.

Question93: Based on the following table, what is the total float for activity (B)?

Question94: 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?

Question95: Which of the following is CORRECT about quality improvements?

Question96: A project manager is assigned to a new project. Many of the project deliverables need to be outsourced.
What should the project manager use to document the project deliverables?

Question97: An output of scope definition is:

Question98: Which of the following is NOT a valid reason to authorize a project?

Question99: Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?

Question100: A project manager developed the scope management plan for a new line of adaptive clothing. The designs and materials were approved when the prototypes were delivered they were less durable than expected.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

Question101: Mark is a project manager working on a compliance project in a banking firm. The project scheduled for completion six weeks from now. The project sponsor has told mark that if the project finished sooner, the company could receive some monetary incentives offered by the government. What would be the effect if Mark decided to fast-track the project

Question102: The ISO 9000 standards provide______________

Question103: You are managing a software project. You are partway through the project, and your team has just delivered a preliminary version of part of the software. Your team gives a demonstration to the project sponsor and key stakeholders. Later, the sponsor informs you that there is an important client who will be using the software your team is building, and whose needs are not being met. As a result, you must now make a large and expensive change to accommodate that client. What is the BEST explanation for this?

Question104: In which of the following types of organizational structures are the MOST anxiety experienced at project close-out?

Question105: 80% of the problems are found in 20% of the work is a concept of:

Question106: A project manager is working on a project to create a new software system. In recent sprints, there has been a significant increase in the number of defects. The project team is questioning whether or not the testing being performed is still valid.
What should the project manager do next?

Question107: The team of Project Managers works in their company with a variety of projects. Typically they are involved in assigning Project Managers, creating and maintaining documentation and policies. What is the name of the place they work at?

Question108: Working on your project management training curricula project, you decided it would be beneficial to you to become an active member of the Project Management Institute as part of the objectives of your project is to ensure it is aligned with PMI's best practices. To complement PMI's Work Breakdown Structure Practice Standard, you learned PMI was requesting volunteers to participate in development of a similar standard on the Scope Statement. You volunteered, and now the Standard is issued. This is an example of:

Question109: Drag the interpersonal skill on the left to the correct scenario on the right

Question110: A project manager learns that the team can implement a minor change in the project customer, and the team agrees to proceed with its implementation.
What should the project manager do next?

Question111: Which is the Estimate Costs technique used most frequently in the early stages of a project.

Question112: A comprehensive definition of scope management would be:

Question113: Which process involves the creation of a document that provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to a project?

Question114: Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?

Question115: An input required in Define Scope is an organizational:

Question116: The project manager has recently received funding approval for a training program for the entire project team but has not yet defined the most effective training course. One team member submitted a request for specialized training that is required for the project.
How should the project manager handle this request?

Question117: An intern is replacing a critical resource midway through a sprint To help the intern get up to speed, the project manager assigns a senior engineer in the team as the intern's mentor Two months later, the project goes into critical status, delaying the release milestone by a month.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this scenario?

Question118: 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______________

Question119: At what stage of a project does the development of a cohesive project team occur?

Question120: Which earned value management (EVM) metric is a measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC) and is considered a critical EVM metric?

Question121: There is a project with CPI = 0.81 and TCPI = 1.00001; this project is:

Question122: Analogous Estimate Costs is _________.

Question123: When comparing the cost of competing projects, which of the following is typically NOT considered?

Question124: Calculate the standard deviation for the following: Pessimistic=20, Optimistic=10, Realistic=17.

Question125: schedule overruns A project manager is just finishing up a project that has not gone well. Apart from cost overruns and, there have been a lot of quality defects and the project required a lot of senior management intervention to finally reach completion. As well as a long list of uncontrolled changes. Uncontrolled changes are also known as:

Question126: Tools and techniques used in Direct and Manage Project Work include:

Question127: You are managing a project with an EV of $15,000, PV of $12,000 and AC of $11,000. How would you BEST describe this project?

Question128: Those who enter into a contractual agreement to provide services necessary for a project are:

Question129: 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?

Question130: Labor, materials, equipment, and supplies are examples of:

Question131: In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?

Question132: In an organization with good work-life balance, one team was continuously overloaded, thereby delivering the product late with poor quality. What should the project manager do?

Question133: Which of the following are valid ways to breakdown the work in a WBS?

Question134: A project team conducts acceptance testing of equipment against the client's performance specifications. Once testing is complete, documentation confirms client acceptance of the equipment. What process should the project manager now perform?

Question135: A project manager is leading a project that is implementing an assembly line.
During the quality review meeting, a team member reports an issue stating that the product being developed has discrepancies with the one requested by the customer.
What should the project manager do?

Question136: A project manager is managing multiple teams. One team member complains to the project manager about the favoritism shown by a team lead to another team member and cites multiple instances.
Risk Response Strategies Analyze if someone else could contribute Record the observations and move ahead Check for options to exclude the stakeholder What should the project manager do to resolve the team member's concerns?

Question137: _____ is a receipt issued by a carrier for merchandise to be delivered to a party at some destination.

Question138: During implementation of the delivery as defined in the project management plan, the customer demands several updates to the project's scope. What should the project manager do?

Question139: An organization is transitioning to an agile approach. At the project's first sprint review, the product owner did not accept the result of the sprint and has some concerns.
What should the project manager do?

Question140: A project deadline is fast approaching, and the team suggests skipping internal quality checking and testing to meet it. What should the project manager do?

Question141: The contract type that often spans multiple years and allows for final adjustments to the total price due to changed conditions is:

Question142: During a review meeting, the project manager realizes that scheduled quality control inspections were not conducted. Since the project is running short on time, the project manager decides to hold a joint customer acceptance inspection.
What should the project manager do next?

Question143: Which type of analysis is used to develop the communications management plan?

Question144: The project manager is experiencing delays with two critical tasks that are to be executed by two different teams The project manager realizes that the functional managers of these two teams have an unsolved conflict and they are not communicating properly.
What should the project manager do?

Question145: 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______________

Question146: You are the project manager on a project to improve traffic flow in the company's parking garage.
You decide to use flowcharting to______________

Question147: In what knowledge area does Activity Resource Estimating occur?

Question148: The following individuals are responsible for determining the content of the Communications Management Plan.

Question149: An employee approaches you and asks to tell you something in confidence. He advises you that he has been performing illegal activities within the company for the last year. He is feeling guilty about it and is telling you in order to receive advice as to what he should do. What should you do?

Question150: All the following statements regarding critical chain method are true EXCEPT______________

Question151: A large corporation completed a corporate social responsibility project, and the project team has prepared the project's final report. As soon as the project ends, a TV reporter calls the project manager and asks to receive a copy of this report.
What should the project manager do first?

Question152: While identifying risks for a new construction project, you discover that a chemical you are using on your building cannot be applied in rainy conditions. You also learn that your project will be ready for the chemical application around the time when most of the rainfall happens in this part of the country. Since the project can't be delayed until after the rainy season and you need to make sure the building gets the chemical coating, you decide that your team will just have to work around the rain. This is an example of which strategy?

Question153: During a project to create an organizational business plan, the project manager facilitates a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis workshop with senior management. What process is the project manager implementing?

Question154: Taking the following table into account, where would corrective action be MOST effective when you make use of Pareto's Rule?
Origin of Problem Percent of Problems
Design 60 Development 15 Prototype 10 Testing 10 Fabrication 5

Question155: While browsing a local archive, a new project manager finds the previous project's lessons learned notes. They observe that the notes have not yet been stored in the project management information system (PMIS).
What should the project manager do with the notes?

Question156: You are in the process of defining how to plan and execute the risk management activities for your project. Which of the following statements are FALSE?

Question157: A new project manager for an agile project is reviewing with an established team, some of the roles to avoid confusion on what to expect. Drag the description on the left to the role on the right

Question158: Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?

Question159: A project team member identifies a quality issue that may cause the product by the customer. However. me project sponsor wants to deliver the product.
What should the project manager do?

Question160: You have been hired as a project manager for a small local bank. The banks wants you to design and develop custom online bill pay software so that its customers can pay their bills online. You are ready to begin the activity definition of your project. You have identifies the scope statement, the WBS, and talked with the SME's. In addition, for security reason, you have been informed that project team members must NOT have criminal history with the FICO score of 700 or above. In addition you've requested that the bank purchase the necessary transaction processing software, although the software is not yet available. What else do you need before you begin activity definition?

Question161: An example of coercive power would be:

Question162: After numerous meetings, the project manager was unable to obtain approval of the project management plan because the client needed to check with their superiors. What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

Question163: You realize that on projects, some stakeholders will not be as receptive as others to your project and actually can be negative from the beginning. Assume you have classified your stakeholders on your project designed to ensure students in your city have access to the best educational resources available, whether in class or on line, your stakeholder management plan is a sensitive document. Therefore, you need to______________

Question164: Drag the organizational characteristics on the left to the correct scenario on the right Check the answer below.
Explanation

Question165: Management decision-making includes:

Question166: The profitability and technical data studies are provided in report format to owners and
funders for acceptance. This type of report, used to solicit funding, is referred to as a(n) _____.

Question167: In response to a delay, a project manager adds new resource to a critical activity. Two weeks later the project remain behind schedule.
What should the project manager do to get the project on track?

Question168: You are managing a software development project. One of your team members makes a change to the project without letting you know. He assures you that it didn't affect the cost, and it significantly enhances the product. What should you do next?

Question169: You are working on a project that needs approval from your City Council and the courts, because the project is one with significant environmental and social impacts. Although many consumer groups are advocates of this project, others are opposed to it. Hearings are scheduled to resolve these issues and to obtain the needed permits to proceed. In preparing your human resource plan, you decide to designate a person as the court liaison, which is an example of a______________

Question170: Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?

Question171: You are managing a design project. You find that bringing all of your team members into a single room to work increases their communication, and helps build a sense of community. This is referred to as a:

Question172: Assume you are beginning your project to develop a series of residential condominiums in your city and are identifying possible stakeholders. A key organizational process asset you can review is______________

Question173: A project manager is receiving conflicting requirements from several stakeholders, all of which are ranked as high. What should the project manager do?

Question174: Respect is...

Question175: Which type of management focuses on ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation?

Question176: The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:

Question177: A company is about to fund a new project to develop a product for which the technical experts and customers analysis nave no previous experience. The project manager creates a list of facts and assumptions to develop possible solutions.
What should the project manager do before submitting the project charter for approval?

Question178: As a PMP, one of your responsibilities is to ensure integrity on the project. When your personal interests are put above the interests of the project or when you use your influence to cause others to make decisions in your favor without regard for the project outcome, this is considered which of the following?

Question179: A project is delayed. The project manager added extra resources to some activities and approved overtime for several team members.
What technique is the project manager applying?

Question180: In your last project status meeting, you had 15 team members. The meeting was very disorderly - there were too many sidebar conversations and arguments. As a result, you achieved nothing substantial from the meeting. In order to better regulate the meeting next time, you should:

Question181: You have been assigned to a project to build a large 30-story condominium in Las Vegas. The condominium will feature luxurious amenities like state of the art work-out facilities, conference centers, valet services, maid services, spas, gourmet dining and resort style pools.
You've calculated the estimated project completion date. However, the estimated completion date is 2 months after the desired completion date. After analyzing the project network diagram, you've determined that many of the activities have discretionary dependencies. To decrease the project duration, you've requested additional resources but were told that NO additional resources are available for your project. Assuming that the project has low risks, which of the following is the BEST plan of action?

Question182: Earned value measurement is an example of:

Question183: A project manager has been assigned to a new project. During the initial review of the project charter the project manager reaches out to the project sponsor to discuss important information that is missing in the document.
What piece of information is appropriate for the project manager to request?

Question184: 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?

Question185: Create Procurement document is done in _______.

Question186: During the executing phase, a project manager is reviewing the issue log and finds there are outstanding high-priority issues that are still open. Most of the open issues require effort from external domain experts who are not on the project team.
What should the project manager do?

Question187: A project manager notices an unusually high rate of risks, but has limited resources to address them. To what should the project manager refer to determine risk priorities?

Question188: 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______________

Question189: A project manager discusses a project's status with the customer. The customer expresses the need for a new system that is not part of the current project scope What should the project manager do next?

Question190: The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:

Question191: While working on a project, the project manager realizes that stakeholders' delivery expectations differ from what was initially planned. What should the project manager have done to avoid this?

Question192: On your project, you need to assign costs to the time period in which they are incurred. To do this, you should______________

Question193: Integrated change control includes the following activities EXCEPT:

Question194: An organization's management system is being upgraded by an agile team. Although the project was scoped thoroughly, the functional requirements were handed over to the project team and there is no subject matter expert (SME) available to work on the project continuously. The project manager is concerned that the team's progress will be hindered by their lack of knowledge.
Which two project events will assist the project manager to ascertain if this is the case? (Choose two)

Question195: 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______________

Question196: After finishing the planning phase of a project, but before execution, the project manager needs to communicate and gain commitment on project objectives. What should the project manager do next?

Question197: Which of the following is not a scope management process?

Question198: The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (WBS) is called a/an:

Question199: How is quality control performed?

Question200: Which of the following statement are false?

Question201: A prefects key stakeholder resigns and a new one is selected What should the project manager do first?

Question202: Part of being a project manager involves dealing with conflict. According to John Adams, Ph.D., there are five methods for dealing with conflict. Some of them are used for temporary fixes, some provide more permanent resolutions. Which of the following is used for temporary resolution?

Question203: I luting project execution, a project manager identifies a major obstacle that is preventing progress An escalation to the client's project manager has gone unanswered, and project progress is worsening each week.
What should the project manager do?

Question204: An issue log is an input to which Project Human Resource Management process?

Question205: A project manager has been asked to participate in the procurement process for a software application that allows customers to buy online e-learning courses. The project manager will take over the project once the supplier has been sourced.
What should the project manager do before the project starts?

Question206: The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables is known as:

Question207: The purpose of a numeric scale in risk management is to______________

Question208: The Project Manager is working with the customer to gain formal acceptance on the documentation deliverables for a software project. The customer is saying that the deliverables are unusable in their present form as they don?t align with the project requirements. Upon reviewing documentation, the customer tells the Project Manager that the requirements are not accurate, to meet the needs for which the project was undertaken. Which of the following will help fix this problem?

Question209: 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:

Question210: During a project's planning session, the project team discussed selecting the required information to be included in the monthly progress report This report will be produced in the Executing and Monitor and Controlling phases and will be used when communicating project progress to the client Match the scenario on the left with the action on the right.

Question211: Who is responsible for issuing the project charter?

Question212: An organization has contracts with an external supplier to support a critical part of a project. Senior management and the project team have differences about what deliverables the external supplier should provide.
What plan should be reviewed to eliminate these differences?

Question213: You are currently in the process of prioritizing risks by their impact and probability of occurrence. Which of the following tool/technique is least useful?

Question214: Which of the following scheduling techniques focuses on managing buffer activity durations and the resources applied to the planned scheduled activities, instead of managing the total float of network paths?

Question215: A series of consecutive points on the same side of the average is called:

Question216: What is the purpose of the WBS?

Question217: The scope baseline/project charter is prepared by the:

Question218: According to a new product development process, the marketing department will begin adding business and user requirements directly into agile project documents. Drag the product information on the left to the correct documents on the right

Question219: A team has been working together for several months and has successfully delivered work. A new team member has joined the team but is having difficulty contributing.
What should the project manager do to help the new team member integrate effectively?

Question220: 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______________

Question221: A construction project to build a fish hatchery is in execution. The operations group notified the project manager about a concern that might turn into a potential issue; however, the concern could not be addressed.
In which project document should the project manager record the concern?

Question222: The Project Manager is in the process of planning the project. The company he works for has had issues with previous projects in which there has been confusion over who is accountable for completion of various activities and processes associated with the projects. What document can he include in the project management plan that will help eliminate this problem?

Question223: A vendor who supplied material that failed to meet a technical requirement claims that the requirement was not part of the contract, what should the project manager have done to avoid this issue?

Question224: During the daily standup meeting that is assessing progress against the current sprint, a team member reports some delays due to a component managed by an external vendor. How should the project manager address the team member's concern?

Question225: Which of the following is the BEST candidate for a three-point estimate?

Question226: At the end of a meeting a functional manager takes the project manager aside to raise some concerns on behalf of a project team member who is unclear about their role and responsibilities for the project What should the project manager do in this situation?

Question227: Which of the following is an input of the Define Activities process?

Question228: The ISO 9000 standards provide______________

Question229: Which quality management and control tool is useful in visualizing parent-to-child relationships in any decomposition hierarchy that uses a systematic set of rules that define a nesting relationship?

Question230: The outcome that must be produced to complete a part of a project or the project itself is called a _______?

Question231: A project was assessed and the following Earned value data have been found:
PV: $750,000 EV: $750,000 AC: $900,000
What is the Burn rate of the project?