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PMP® Practice Quiz - 22

The product manager for the product the project is developing notifies the project manager that she has decided the product should be usable by an additional market. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to: *

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Immediately notify the project sponsor that there is a project scope change.

Notify the project change control board that the project scope will have to change.

Inform the product manager that the potential impacts to the project will be reviewed.

Do nothing, as this is an example of progressive elaboration.

You are the project manager for a railroad construction project. Your sponsor has asked you for a forecast for the cost of project completion. The project has a total budget of $80,000 and CPI of.95. The project has spent $25,000 of its budget so far. How much more money do you plan to spend on the project? *

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$59,210.

$80,000.

$84,210.

$109,210.

You've consulted your Earned Value calculations to find out the EAC and ETC of your project. Which of the following is the BEST place to put that information? *

1 point

Work performance information

Forecasts

Quality control measurements

Lessons learned

Benefit measurement and constrained optimization are examples of: *

1 point

Benefit cost ratios.

Variable costs.

Types of depreciation.

Project selection methods.

You are creating a cost performance baseline for your project. In this context, all the following statements related to cost performance baseline are correct EXCEPT: *

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It is a time - phased budget.

To measure disbursements, a spending plan can be used as a cost-baseline.

It is used to measure, monitor, and control overall cost performance.

In the earned value management technique it is also known as cost measurement baseline.

Which of the following is NOT included in a schedule change control system? *

1 point

Approval levels necessary for authorizing changes

Tracking systems

Paperwork necessary for making changes

Limitations on the scope of changes

A project coordinator is having trouble securing programmers for her project. Every time she asks her boss to give a resource to the project he says that they are too busy to help out with her project. Which type of organization is she working in? *

1 point

Functional.

Weak Matrix.

Strong Matrix.

Projectized.

Inspection includes activities such as measuring, examining, and testing undertaken to determine whether results conform to requirements. The other terms used for Inspection are all of the following EXCEPT: *

1 point

Product review.

Audit.

Walkthrough.

Stage-gate.

You have just been assigned as the project manager for a new telecommunications project that is entering the second phase of the project. There appear to be many risks on this project, but no one has evaluated them to assess the range of possible project outcomes. What needs to be done? *

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Plan Risk Management

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

Plan Risk Responses

Monitor and Control Risks

A project manager spends time determining his company's objectives and how the project fits into them. This is an example of: *

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Responsibility charts.

Management by objectives.

The project's future.

The work breakdown structure.

A project manager is managing his second project. It started one month after the first and both are ongoing. Though his first project is small, this one seems to be growing in size every day. As each day passes, the project manager is beginning to feel more and more in need of help. The project manager has recently heard that there was another project in the company last year that is similar to his second project. What should he do? *

1 point

Contact the other project manager and ask for assistance.

Obtain lessons learned and guidance from the project management office (PMO).

Wait to see if the project is impacted by the growth in scope.

Make sure the scope for the project is agreed to by all the stakeholders.

The value of work actually accomplished is also known as *

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Planned Value.

Earned Value.

Actual Cost.

Budgeted Cost for Work Scheduled (BCWS).

All of the following are factors in the assessment of project risk EXCEPT: *

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Risk event.

Risk probability.

Amount at stake.

Insurance premiums.

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? *

1 point

Theory X.

Theory Y.

Cost cutter.

Effective.

Which of the following are ALL tools and techniques of the Manage Project Team process? *

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Watch the team, report on team members' performance, and issue conflict resolutions

Use appropriate conflict resolution techniques, do a 360-degree feedback assessment, and update the project management plan

Do a 360-degree feedback assessment, verify critical resource availability, and watch the team

Report on team members' performance, use appropriate conflict resolution techniques, and do a 360-degree feedback assessment

You are creating a project charter to formally authorize the project. A project statement of work will be helpful in creation of the charter because it includes all the following EXCEPT: *

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Product scope description.

Business need.

Strategic plan.

Project manager name.

All of the following are reasons to terminate a contract EXCEPT: *

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Breach.

Nonpayment.

Material breach.

Default.

You are a project manager in an IT company. You have recently received an offer as a project manager in a construction company offering a 25% salary hike. You have excellent technical knowledge in the IT field, but do not have much exposure to the construction industry. In this context, *

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You should attend training classes related to the construction industry to get more technical expertise in the field.

You should not take up the assignment, because you will lose out on the experience and skills gained in the IT field.

You should take up the assignment, because project management skills required in the construction company are similar to those required in the IT field.

You should try to get more information about project management in the construction industry and then make an informed decision about whether to take up the new opportunity.

The work breakdown structure is created by: *

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The team.

The project manager.

Management.

The sponsor.

A project team is scattered across North America, South America, and Europe. There are seven companies working on the project and 67 core team members. Which of the following would have the GREATEST impact on making the situation easier to manage? *

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A project scope statement

A staffing management plan

A change control system

More time spent in scope planning

While working with the procurement department to create the procurement documents for a project, the project manager is told this is the ninth time similar items have been purchased by the company and each procurement was administered easily. After asking a few questions and having a few discussions about the project manager's needs, the procurement administrator produces the procurement documents quickly and calls this a commodity purchase. Instead of receiving bids from four companies as expected, the buyer receives 11 bids. A few of the bidders express interest in giving the buyer a chance to tour their facilities. Other bidders provide in their bids substantially more valuable services than were requested. The buyer's company has a policy of selecting the lowest bidder for the type of work. The bids come in, and one seller's bid is 35 percent lower than the project manager's own independent estimate. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this? *

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The procurement statement of work was unclear.

The seller misunderstood the procurement statement of work.

The seller made an error in calculation.

The marketplace has changed, making the prices lower than previously estimated.

You're the project manager on a software project that is planning out various approaches to technical work. There's a 20% chance that a component you are going to license will be difficult to integrate and cost $3000 in rework and delays. There's also a 40% chance that the component will save $10,000 in time and effort that would have been used to build the component from scratch. What's the EMV for these two possibilities? *

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$13,000

$7,000

$3,400

- $600

Which is NOT an example of cost of quality? *

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The cost of inspecting your product to be sure that it meets requirements.

The cost of reviewing documents used to produce your product to be sure that they do not have defects.

The cost of training your team on techniques that will help them avoid defects.

The cost of contracting another company to build part of the product.

You are given a new project to manage and a brief project scope statement. The project sponsor tells you that there is no required completion date for the project. The BEST thing to do is to: *

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Ask for better definition of the project scope before accepting the project.

Accomplish the project as time allows.

Plan the project as you would a normal project, but build in schedule flexibility.

Make a list of activities that need to be done.

Management by objectives works only if: *

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It is supported by management.

The rules are written down.

The project does not impact the objectives.

The project includes the objectives in the project charter.

You have asked your programmer to give you an estimate of how long she will take to complete a software program. She mentions that she would most probably get the job finished in 2 hours. But if she runs into some issues with doing unit-testing for the program, it could take her as long as 7 hours. On the other hand, she may be able to pick up a similar program from the organization process assets, in which case it will take her only 1 hour. What is the standard deviation? *

1 point

2 hours.

1 hour.

3 hours.

Cannot be determined from the provided information.

A contract which includes features of cost reimbursable and fixed price types of contract is a: *

1 point

Fixed price plus incentive fee contract.

Cost plus award fee contract.

Time and material contract.

Cost plus fixed fee contract.

Which of the following payments on an international project is unacceptable? *

1 point

Offering to pay the country officials for not awarding the project to a particular company

Payment for mail service

Payment for a "foreign workers application license" required in the country

Payment for police protection

What does the term Best practice often refer to? *

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A standardized set of deliverables, like plans, reports, and checklists.

A set of Tools and techniques that a project manager should master.

The concept of State of the art applied to project management.

A specific sequence of work, described in terms of Soft logic.

Change requests are an output of which processes? *

1 point

Manage Project Team and Report Performance

Manage Stakeholder Expectations and Determine Budget

Define Scope and Plan Communications

Plan Procurements and Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

As a PMI Certified project manager, you are responsible for all of the following EXCEPT: *

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Maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive information that you have access to.

Managing situations wherein conflict of interest arises.

Ensuring the integrity of your team members.

Refraining from offering and accepting inappropriate payments and gifts.

Which of the following is done during the Create WBS process? *

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Product analysis

Project selection

Decomposition

Alternatives identification

Your company has sent out an RFP, and your brother wants to bid on it. What's the BEST thing for you to do? *

1 point

Give your brother inside information to make sure that he has the best chance at getting the project.

Publicly disclose your relationship with him and excuse yourself from the selection process.

Recommend your brother but don't inform anyone of your relationship.

Don't tell anyone about your relationship but be careful not to give your brother any advantage when evaluating all of the potential sellers.

As a project manager, you have identified the stakeholders of your project. What should you do NEXT? *

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Update Project Charter.

Create Project Management Plan.

Create Communications Management Plan.

Create Stakeholder Register.

During which project management process group are budget forecasts created? *

1 point

Monitoring and controlling

Planning

Initiating

Executing

Your project is facing attrition of project resources, and you would like to document processes carefully to ensure business continuity. Certain costs have to be incurred for this purpose. These costs are known as: *

1 point

Costs of nonconformance.

Appraisal costs.

Failure costs.

Prevention costs.

A project is seriously delayed. Earned value analysis shows that the project needs to be completed 10 percent faster than the work has been going. To get the project back on track, management wants to add 10 people to an activity currently assigned to one person. The project manager disagrees, noting that such an increase will not produce an increase in speed. This is an example of: *

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The law of diminishing returns.

Fast tracking.

Earned value.

Life cycle costing.

Your project will go through many phases to produce a high-priced product that will be sold to the public. You are currently starting the design phase. The price will include the product and scheduled maintenance. The team includes representatives from the engineering department, who will help determine the design of the project, the marketing department, who will determine the shape of the container for the product of the project and the accounting department who will help make sure the cost of the project allows ample profit margin. The project charter has been completed and signed by sponsors from all these departments. The product scope was completed in an earlier project that was two months delayed due to arguing over the scope. The team is now functioning well and past team building efforts have produced an effective team for this new project. Which of the following is the BEST thing to include that has not been included in planning? *

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The team working on the project does not include anyone from senior management and will thus not have enough support to be completed quickly and effectively.

There needs to be a representative from the quality department to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it is undertaken.

The project is not taking into account how the project work will affect future phases and thus future phases may cost more.

Team building efforts should still be done in the future to ensure an effective team.

You are the project manager of a new project, tasked with construction of a bridge on the River Nile in Egypt. While initiating the project, you should: *

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Create a scope management plan to document project scope definition, verification, and control.

Develop a project management plan.

Determine specific activities that need to be performed to produce various project deliverables.

Develop a project charter.

A ranking of risks and a list of risks for additional analysis are outputs of which process of risk management? *

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Identify Risks

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

Plan Risk Responses

You are a project manager. At the executing stage of the project, all the following statements are correct EXCEPT: *

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Most of the project budget will be expended in project plan execution.

The project manager and the team implement the planned methods and standards.

The project manager will review all information from the current phase closures.

The project manager and the team manage risks and implement risk response activities.

A market demand, a business need and a legal need are ALL: *

1 point

Reasons to have change management.

Justifications for initiating a project.

Reasons to have a team.

Reasons to create a management plan.

The project manager has performed schedule network analysis, compressed the schedule, and completed a Monte Carlo analysis. What time management activity should be done NEXT? *

1 point

Update resource requirements

Recommend corrective actions

Estimate Activity Durations

Create a milestone list

Product acceptance criteria should be laid down in which document? *

1 point

Project scope statement.

Work breakdown structure.

Resource assignments.

Project scope management plan.

During project executing, a large number of changes are made to the project. The project manager should: *

1 point

Wait until all changes are known and print out a new schedule.

Make sure the project charter is still valid.

Change the schedule baseline.

Talk to management before any changes are made.

The project is calculated to be completed four days after the desired completion date. You do not have access to additional resources. The project is low risk, the benefit cost ratio (BCR) is expected to be 1.6, and the dependencies are preferential. Under these circumstances, what would be the BEST thing to do? *

1 point

Cut resources from an activity.

Make more activities concurrent.

Move resources from the preferential dependencies to the external dependencies.

Remove an activity from the project.

Which statement describes best the meaning of Leadership? *

1 point

Ensuring predictability in an uncertain environment.

Sustaining an ongoing business over a long period of time.

Adhering to publicized standards and procedures.

Developing a vision and strategy and motivating people.

Project performance must be monitored and measured regularly to identify variances from the plan. All the following processes belong to monitoring and controlling EXCEPT: *

1 point

Verify Scope.

Monitor and Control Risks.

Report Performance.

Perform Quality Assurance.

Once ground rules are established and communicated to the project team, the responsibility of enforcing these rules lies with the: *

1 point

Project manager.

Project management team.

Project team members.

Project sponsor and project manager.

What does a staffing management plan describe? *

1 point

When and how resources will be added and taken off the team

How resources will be leveled

What resources will be used on the project

The responsible organization for each work package

Being the project manager in a high risk electronics project with a lot of new technologies, you developed a Risk management plan and identified risks which you documented in a Risk register. Then, the risks were analyzed and response planned. It is getting obvious during Risk monitoring and control meetings: The documents which you created are not very helpful. What have you probably done wrong? *

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You failed to use an RBS.

You did the first processes alone.

You did not identify Triggers.

You did not calculate EMVs.

A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, Activity B takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes 4 weeks and can start as soon as Activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before Activity G starts. Activity G requires 3 weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. Which activities have float available? *

1 point

Activity A has two weeks float, activity F has one week.

Activity F has one week float.

There is no float available in the project.

Activity A has eight weeks float.

You would like to provide incentives to seller in the contract to: *

1 point

Align the goals of the buyer and seller.

Ensure that there is no gold plating.

Reduce costs for the buyer.

Improve profits for the seller.

A project manager has been overwhelmed with problems on his project. He would like to identify the root cause of the problems in order to determine where to focus his attention. Which of the following tools would be BEST for the project manager to use? *

1 point

A Pareto chart

Conflict resolution techniques

A fishbone diagram

Trend analysis

Which of the following is a TRUE statement about a risk rating matrix? *

1 point

It should be changed for every project.

It should never be used on a large project.

It should be standardized between projects.

It should be developed by the project manager.

You are the project manager of a high priority project, which will require more than 1,000 team members. During human resource planning, you would like to apply proven principles to shorten the time needed to create a human resource plan and make it effective. In this context, you will benefit if you consult an expert in the field of: *

1 point

Networking and team formation.

Human resource theory.

Organizational theory.

Project organization charts.

In your company, you have a practice of preparing your own estimates of the items to be procured or services to be availed. This helps you conduct procurements to select seller. This can also be referred to as: *

1 point

Preferred price.

Independent Estimate.

Fixed price contract.

Careful cost budgeting.

At what stage of the project are factors like probability of successfully completing the project, cost of changes, cost of error correction, etc., the highest: *

1 point

Beginning.

End.

Executing.

Beginning and end.

Which of the following is NOT part of the quality management plan? *

1 point

Strategies for handling defects and other quality problems.

Guidance on how the project team will implement the company's quality policy.

Metrics for measuring your project's quality.

A description of which deliverables don't have to be inspected.

After a status meeting, one of your team members, John, pulls you aside and tells you that he was insulted by a comment from another team member. He felt that the comment was racist. You meet with the team member who made the comment, Suzanne, but she says that the other team member's performance has been very poor. She has never made a comment like this before at the company. You review the records, and see that she is correct – he has consistently delivered lower quality work than any other team member. What is the BEST way to handle this situation? *

1 point

At the next team meeting, reprimand John for his poor performance and Suzanne for the racist comment.

Get John additional help for his poor performance.

Reprimand Suzanne in private for her racist comment, and follow any company policies for reporting racism among employees.

Suzanne has never had this problem before, so she should be given another chance.

Keith, the project manager of a large publishing project, sends an invoice to his client. Which communication type is he using? *

1 point

Formal verbal

Formal written

Informal written

Informal verbal

This is the process of identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product, and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance. *

1 point

Perform Quality Assurance.

Perform Quality Control.

Total Quality Management.

Plan Quality.

You are managing a project where you work with 7 other team members and two sponsors. How many lines of communications are there between stakeholders on this project? *

1 point

The project manager is in the process of staffing the project. Available resources are as follows: Mary always works overtime. Whitney works very hard. Laurie meets the project requirements. Jess is very enthusiastic about the project and will work overtime if necessary. Who is the MOST appropriate resource for this project? *

1 point

Mary

Whitney

Laurie

Jess

In your project, you have established tools to ensure that appropriate information is available to project stakeholders in a timely manner. In this context, if there is a conversation taking place using a sender-receiver model, which of the following statements is NOT correct: *

1 point

The sender is responsible for making the information clear, unambiguous, and complete.

The receiver confirms that the information is properly understood.

The receiver is responsible for making sure that the information is completely received and understood.

The receiver should agree with the sender about the message being communicated

Risk tolerances are determined in order to help: *

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The team rank the project risks.

The project manager estimate the project.

The team schedule the project.

Management know how other managers will act on the project.

In which of the following contract types does the seller have the most cost risk? *

1 point

Fixed price incentive fee (FPIF)

Time and material (T&M)

Cost plus award fee (CPAF)

Cost plus percentage of costs (CPPC)

At the beginning of a project, a software team project manager is given a schedule with everyone's vacations on it. She realizes that because the software will be delivered to the QA team exactly when they have overlapping vacations, there is a serious risk of quality problems because there won't be anyone to test the software before it goes into production. What BEST describes the constraint this places on the project? *

1 point

Quality constraint.

Time constraint.

Resource constraint.

Risk constraint.

Evaluating overall project performance regularly is part of: *

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Quality Management.

Perform Quality Assurance.

Plan Quality.

Perform Quality Control.

In your project, you create project documents which will help you when managing the project. Which of the following is NOT an example of project documents? *

1 point

Schedule baseline.

Assumption log.

Roles and responsibilities.

Risk register.

A new store development project requires the purchase of various equipment, machinery, and furniture. The department responsible for the development recently centralized its external purchasing process and standardized its new order system. In which document can these new procedures be found? *

1 point

Project scope statement

WBS

Staffing management plan

Organizational policies

It is the middle of the project when the project manager is informed by her scheduler that the project control limits are secure. That same morning she receives a note from a team member about a problem he is having. The note says, "This activity is driving me crazy and the manager of the accounting department won't help me until the activity's float is in jeopardy." In addition, the project manager has e-mails from a minor stakeholder and 14 e-mails from team members. While she is reading the e-mails, a team member walks in to the project manager's office to tell her a corrective action was implemented by a team member from the project management office, but was not documented. What should the project manager do NEXT? *

1 point

Report the documentation violation to the project management office, evaluate the security of the control limits, and review the e-mailing rules in the communications management plan.

Clarify the reasoning behind documentation being a problem, get the accounting department to assist the team member, and respond to the minor stakeholder.

Add the implemented corrective action to the historical records, discuss the value of documentation at the next team meeting, and smooth the team member with the accounting department problem.

Find out who caused the problem with the accounting department, respond to the minor stakeholder before responding to the other e-mails, and review the process listed in the communications plan for reporting concerns with the team member having the documentation problem.

You are working for a semi-conductor company. There have been several instances in the past week when a few circuits have not been giving accurate results. You have been assigned the task of determining the probable cause for the variations. Which tool would you use? *

1 point

Control Chart

Ishikawa Diagrams

Pareto Diagrams

Inspection

You have eight people in your project, and one more person will be joining next week. Once the new person joins, the number of communication channels will increase by: *

1 point

You have acquired a team and assigned tasks for the selected team members of your project. This activity is performed during: *

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Planning.

Monitoring and Controlling.

Executing.

Closing.

You are managing a project laying underwater fiber optic cable. The total cost of the project is $52/meter to lay 4 km of cable across a lake. It's scheduled to take 8 weeks to complete, with an equal amount of cable laid in each week. It's currently week 5, and your team has laid 1,800 meters of cable so far. What is the SPI of your project? *

1 point

1.16

1.08

0.92

0.72

Total float is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the: *

1 point

Project.

Completion date required by the customer.

Early start of its successor.

Project completion date.

Your organization has to follow some guidelines and policies while recruiting people. From your project perspective, these guidelines and policies will be classified as: *

1 point

Regulations.

Best practices.

Assumptions.

Constraints.

During Identify Stakeholder process, the project manager identifies all people or organizations impacted by the project, and documents relevant information regarding their interests, involvement, and impact on project success. In this context, all the following statements are true EXCEPT: *

1 point

Stakeholders exert influence over the project and its deliverables.

It is critical for project success to identify the stakeholders early in the project.

All critical stakeholders should be engaged at the same time.

A strategy may be developed for approaching each stakeholder.

A project manager receives a deliverable from one of the team members to provide to the customer. While looking at the deliverable, the project manager notices that the document is smaller than what he expected and does not contain what he thought it should. The project manager should FIRST: *

1 point

Discuss it with the team member.

Contact the team member's manager to get that person additional training.

Audit the development process.

Complete the Verify Scope process.

The project you are working on has an increase in cost effectiveness, increased productivity, and increased morale. What might be the reason for these changes? *

1 point

Project objectives are in line with those of the performing organization

Increased quality

Management's focus on cost containment

Rewards presented for individual efforts

For your project, find the to-complete performance index (TCPI) based on the given data: Budget at completion of the project = 700,000; Cost variance of the project = 25,000; Earned value of the project = 200,000; Estimate to Complete has now been revised to 425,000. *

1 point

0.9

1.176

1.5

-1.5

A team member comes to you to tell you that there is a problem on her activity. It cannot be started on the day it is scheduled to start. A manager overhears this conversation and reports that the project will be late. Later the project manager completes his own report saying "the project is still scheduled to be completed on time." Which of the following could be the reason the project manager made such a statement? *

1 point

The activity has free float and can be rescheduled later in its early-start to late-finish window.

The activity is on a near-critical path with less float than the length of the delay.

The activity is on the critical path but is to be done after another activity that does have float.

The activity has a mandatory dependency, allowing the project manager to place it in the project schedule at any location that he wants it to be done.

In the procurement, the buyer has required the seller to provide at least two PMP certified project managers on the team, in addition to meeting additional selection criteria. The buyer creates an evaluation team that will evaluate the seller' proposals using a system to minimize personal prejudice. Any major difference in the evaluations will be negotiated. The project is using which of the following proposal evaluation techniques? *

1 point

Independent estimates and contract negotiation

A seller rating system and a screening system

A screening system and a weighting system

A weighting system and contract negotiation

You are managing a project with AC = $25,100, ETC = $45,600, VAC = -$2,600, BAC = $90,000 and EAC = $92,100. Your sponsor asks you to forecast how much money you expect to spend on the remainder of the project. Which is the BEST estimate to use for this forecast? *

1 point

$45,600

$87,400

$90,000

$92,100

A project team member is talking to another team member and complaining that many people are asking him to do things. If he works in a functional organization, who has the power to give direction to the team member? *

1 point

The project manager

The functional manager

The team

Tight matrix

A project manager wants to make sure his plans for meeting the training needs of resources, and plans for releasing resources are complete. All of the following are inputs to this activity EXCEPT: *

1 point

Enterprise environmental factors.

Historical information.

Project organizational charts.

Activity resource requirements.

If AC (ACWP) is greater than your EV (BCWP), what does this mean? *

1 point

The project is under budget.

The project is over budget.

The project is ahead of schedule.

The project is behind schedule.

Your company has a projectized organization structure. As your project nears completion, you notice that your team members are more interested in trying to find new positions rather than properly discharging their duties. Their motivation is: *

1 point

Safety.

Social.

Psychological.

Self-esteem.

Which statement is FALSE? Progressive elaboration of project scope… *

1 point

…is a characteristic of projects that accompanies the concepts of temporary and unique.

… means developing in steps. It not should be confused with scope creep.

…signals a weak spot in the scope definition process, caused by incomplete contracts and specifications.

…when properly managed, integrates elaboration of project and deliverable specifications.

A non-governmental agency authorizes a project to provide potable water systems, latrines, and sanitation education to low-income communities. The need for the project arose due to: *

1 point

Market need.

Business need.

Social need.

Legal requirement.

A team member who does not have the required skills or knowledge was assigned to a team. Who is responsible for ensuring that he receives the proper training? *

1 point

The sponsor

The functional manager

The project manager

The training coordinator

In which document will you find the code of account identifier, description of work, responsible organization, and list of schedule milestones? *

1 point

WBS.

WBS Dictionary.

PERT/CPM Charts.

Roles and Responsibilities Matrix.

Please refer to the diagram (all units are in days). What is the project float if management wants to complete this project within 13 days? *

1 point

0 days.

- 3 days.

2 days.

Cannot be determined, because information given in the question is incomplete.

A project manager is having trouble securing programmers for her project. Every time she asks the programming manager for resources for her project, he says they're all assigned to other work. So she is constantly having to go over his head to overrule him. Which type of organization is she working for? *

1 point

Functional.

Weak Matrix.

Strong Matrix.

Projectized.

As a project manager you can assign any one of two team members to a highly coveted task. Both are equally capable, but one of them is a member of your in-group. To the other one, you have far more distance. How should you behave? *

1 point

You disclose the situation to stakeholders and solicit a joint decision.

You take the person not in your in-group to avoid misunderstandings.

Chose the in-group person. The trustful relation will benefit the project.

You delegate the decision to a third team member to avoid the conflict.

At the beginning of Project execution, you notice different opinions between team members relating to project work and deliverables and to the level of overall complexity. What should you do right now? *

1 point

Give your team members some time to develop a common understanding of the project scope and product scope. Upcoming interface problems may be resolved later.

Use the Risk management processes to identify and assess risks caused by misunderstandings and develop a plan with measures in order to respond to them.

Organize meetings to identify and resolve misunderstandings between team members in order to avoid interface problems, disintegration and costly rework early in the project.

Use interviews in private with each individual team member to inform them of your expectations and your requirements in an atmosphere of confidence.

Which motivational theory says that what motivates people is the work itself, including such things as responsibility, self-actualization, and professional growth? *

1 point

Maslow

Deming

McGregor

Herzberg

Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the planning process group? *

1 point

Update corporate processes and procedures based on lessons learned.

Evaluate the effectiveness of risk responses.

Recommend changes and defect repair.

Work with the customer to determine acceptance criteria.

You have recently appointed a project manager to handle a critical project in your organization. You want to give her the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. Which document should you use? *

1 point

Resource authorization document.

Work Breakdown Structure.

Project charter.

Project scope description.

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