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75 Unexpected Difficult PMP Questions.
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Which of the following is a Data Gathering technique in Identify Stakeholders?

1 point

Interviews

Voting

Brainstorming

Observation

Clear selection

You are in the process of creating WBS for your project. You are decomosing Sub-projects and Deliverables into smaller components. Which of the following statements is true about the decomposition?

1 point

Decomposition may not be possible for a component that is required imminently

Decomposition may not be possible for a component that will be accomplished far in the future

Decomposition may not be possible for a component that is going to be micromanaged by the client owner

All of the above

Clear selection

You are performing schedule network analysis along with your team. You want to analyze different schedule scenarios and their impact to the project. Which of the following technique would be useful?

1 point

Alternatives Generation

Schedule Compression

Delphi Technique

What-if scenario analysis

Clear selection

You are managing the construction of a highly sophisticated, technologically complex, intruder-impenetrable data center. The data center will house more than 500 servers. Although this location offers significant economic advantages, the threats of typhoons has caused you to construct an backup data center that will be used in case the primary center is flooded. The sponsor has agreed to provide addtional funds for the backup data cener. What type of risk response is this?

1 point

Passive Avoidance

Transference to the Sponsor

Active Acceptance

Transference to the Organization

Clear selection

_________ is the value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work component.

1 point

Planned Value

Earned Value

Budget At Completion

Actual Cost

Clear selection

The Formal Project Information should be communicated to:

1 point

All stakeholders in the performing organization

All project stakeholders

All stakeholders in the performing & client's organization

The people defined in the communication management plan

Clear selection

You are working as the Senior Vice President with Finite Sky Communication Networks. You have started a project that which involves redesigning your company's retail stores. The project manager of this project has accepted an all expenses paid weekend visit to a resort from one of the project's vendors bidding on the contract. you know that this project manager is very sincere and this is the first time he has done such a thing. Which of the following statement is true about the situation?

1 point

You should ignore project manager's act since it is his first instance

You should not ignore project manager's act since he should have informed the company before going

You should not ignore project manager's act since he is not adhering to code of ethics and professional conduct

You should ignore project manager's act since he is balancing competing needs

Clear selection

You are responsible for a systems integration project in your organization. The project has multiple internal customers. You have just begun preparing a project plan. You know from your previous experience that many people in your organization would be interested in the project progress. You decide to prepare a project communication management plan. Your first step in preparing this plan is to

1 point

Conduct Communication requirement analysis to assess information needs

Determine the project schedule to find when each type of communication will be produced

Describe the information you plan to distribute

Set up a repository for all project documents so they will be easily accessible

Clear selection

A Schedule Performance Index (SPI) of less than 1.0 indicates that the

1 point

Project is running behind the monetary value of the work it planned to accomplish

Earned value physically accomplished work is less than 100%

Project has experienced a permanent loss of time

Project has experienced a temporary loss of time

Clear selection

According to the PMBOK Guide, Project Management Plan is used for __________

1 point

Executing the project

Executing and Monitoring & Controlling the Project

Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing the Project

Initiating, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing the Project

Clear selection

Formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables is done in which of the following process(es)?

1 point

Validate Scope

Close Project or Phase

Control Quality

'Control Quality' and 'Close Project or Phase'

Clear selection

You have recently completed the project work. The client has give acceptance for same. As a project manager, which of the following is not your responsibility while closing the project?

1 point

Look for new work for the project team members

Reassigning personnel

Dealing with excess project material

All of the above

Clear selection

You are a Project Manager for a small duration project. Your project is progressing well. As per the organizational mandate, you periodically develop EAC forecasts for the project. The Work Performance Information for EAC Forecasts covers:

1 point

Information related to project's past performance

Information that can impact project in the future

Both A & B

None of the above

Clear selection

You are working as a Data Center Maintenance Engineer for a large multinational corporation. From time to time you have to setup, install, and test new servers in your Data Center. You have historical data on past server installations. You know best, worst and average installation duration from your past data. On an average, it takes about 4 hrs per server to accomplish this task. Since you have to install 11 such

1 point

Analogous estimating as you have estimated using historical data

Reserve Analysis as you have used the average duration for your estimation to mitigate the risk

Parametric estimating as you used mathematical analysis for the estimation

Three Point estimating

Clear selection

All the following are tools and techniques for 'Develop Team' except:

1 point

Training

Pre-Assignment

Individual Team Assessment

Interpersonal and Team Skills

Clear selection

There are two processes documented in the PMBOK Guide for analyzing risks - Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis. Which of the following statements is true about these processes?

1 point

Quantitative Risk Analysis is always performed after Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Expert Judgement is a Tool & Technique for Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis but it is not for Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis is used to prioritize the risks while Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis is used to numerically analyze the risks

Quantitative Risk Analysis may not be done for every project

Clear selection

You are a senior project manager working for a large project. The project duration is 4.2 years
and it has 17 phases. During the project, you use many project execution tools and techniques. Since you
are managing a large project, you routinely use various types of management skills, such as leadership
and communication. These management techniques are commonly referred to as

1 point

Supervisory skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Expert power skills

Clear selection

Which of the following is not a tool or technique used in the Quantitative Risk Analysis process?

1 point

Interviewing

SWOT analysis

Sensitivity analysis

Simulations

Clear selection

You are a project manager of a technically challenging R&D project. The project deadline is approaching. In order to meet the deadline, you have promised your team members 5 days of paid time off and free tickets for the movie of their choice. Which of the following statement is correct?

1 point

This is an example of Achievement Theory. You are working towards achieving the results by giving incentives

This is an example of Expectancy Theory. The team members are looking forward for a reward

As per the PMI's code of conduct, it is not proper to promise movie tickets as a reward

As a project manager, you are not allowed to promise a reward

Clear selection

Which of the following is true about Change Reqests(CR)?

1 point

A CR can be initiated verbally

Project Managers are never authorized to approve CRs

A Sponsor can approve any kind of CR

A project team member cannot initiate a CR

Clear selection

For which technique market research is used in Plan Procurement Management?

1 point

Data analysis

Data gathering

Source-selection analysis

Data selection

Clear selection

You are working as a Project Manager in a Leading Luxary Car Manufacturing company. You do not have comensurate technical background of car manufaturing. You are leading a team of 93 people to develop a new car. As part of the project your comapany has contrated 27 Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). One of the OEM has been given a job to develop a crucial component of gear box. The input and output specifications of this component are very well described in the contract. After 33.5 months this OEM has delivered the final component to you. The component is conformant with the input specifications but not with the output specifications as described in the contract. The final deadlne of theproject is very near. What should you do in this situation?

1 point

You should immediately file a court case against the OEM as it has not met contractual obligations

You should setup a meeting with the OEM to discuss the issue

You should ignore the output specifications as input specifications are more important

You should ignore the output specifications as you do not have comensurate technical background of car manufaturing

Clear selection

You are working as a Project Manager for a company that is known to deliver the best technical solutions. You are one of the finest technical brains in the company. But over the years, because of your good people management skills, you have risen up in ranks to become a Project Manager. The company has recently taken up a technically challenging project. During the course of Project, team members had a disagreement on software technical design. How should you deal with this conflict?the years, because of your good people management skills, you have risen up in ranks to become a Project Manager. The company has recently taken up a technically challenging project. During the course of Project, team members had a disagreement on software technical design. How should you deal with this conflict?

1 point

Hold a team meeting, listen to different approaches, understand the differences, determine the best choice, & implement it. Hold a team meeting, listen to different approaches, understand the differences, determine the best choice, & implement it. Hold a team meeting, listen to different approaches, understand the differences, determine what is the best choice, and implement that choice

Talk to each individual, listen to their approach, determine the best choice, & implement it.

Hold a team meeting, listen to different approaches, encourage logical discussions, and facilitate an agreement.

Postpone the decision for a later date as it is only first week of the project. Focus on building unity among the team member by using relaxation techniques and team building exercises.

Clear selection

Your company has awarded a medium-sized services contract to a new seller. Last week vendor's team was refused access to your company's facility by your company's security force. The vendor's team just wanted to complete the work as per the contract. If the access to the facility is stipulated in the contract, you should

1 point

Ask vendor to settle the matter with the security force

Ask Vendor to file a change order to change the contract

Talk to the secuirty personnel and vendor's team to understand the issue

Ask your HR department to reprimand the security personnel

Clear selection

____ shortens the project schedule without changing the project scope.

1 point

Leads and lags

Monte Carlo

Schedule compression

Reserve analysis

Clear selection

You are a Project Manager for Short Range Missile development project. You and your team know that these projects are very different from other type of projects. For this reason, you started the project by identifying major risks on your project. You have also implemented risk response plan for these identified risks. Which of the following will help you in analyzing the effectiveness of the risk response plan?

1 point

*Conducting a risk audits

Assumptions analysis

Implementation of the contingency plan

Reserve analysis

Clear selection

__________ is taken as input for the Develop Project Management Plan process. It includes an overall approach for deliverable verification, process analysis and validating changes.

1 point

Scope Baseline

Quality management plan

Scope management plan

None of the above

Clear selection

Quality audits should be _________.

1 point

Scheduled with External Auditors

Random with Internal Auditors

Scheduled or Random with Internal or External Auditors

None of the above

Clear selection

Your company has recently signed a contract with a new client to develop a software. You have been appointed as the Project Manager for this project. You have to deliver a separate quality management plan as one of the contract deliverables. Your first step in developing this plan is to:

1 point

Develop Quality Checklists

Identify the quality standards to be used in the project

Define Organizational Quality Policy

Identify Quality Management Tools

Clear selection

You have just started working on a new project. Your boss has asked you for cost estimate for this project. Since the project is in the initial stages, there there is very little project information available about this project. In this circumstance, what is the BEST way to do cost estimation?

1 point

Provide a top-down estimate

Gather your team and ask each team member to give task estimates and then use aggregation

Prepare a detailed WBS and do bottom-up estimating

Calculate an estimate using a computer based model

Clear selection

You are examining a pile of scope change requests on a project you are asked to take over because the previous project manager decided to resign. To assess the degree to which the project scope will change you need to compare the requests to which project document?

1 point

Scope Baseline

WBS

Project plan

Scope management plan

Clear selection

A project manager knows that she can start a certain activity anywhere within the project. She analyzed this activity and found a major risk. Her analysis shows that this activity is likely to delay the project schedule if the risk occurs. She decides to start this activity immediately after the first activity of the project. She is now confident that the project finish date will not be impacted by this activity. This is an example of:

1 point

Workaround

Contingent response strategy

Float

Discretionary Dependency

Clear selection

Which of the following is false about Risk Response Planning?

1 point

Transfer of risk involves reducing the probability and shifting the impact to a third party

One of the ways to Avoid risk is to shut down the project entirely

Sometimes the project team may not resolve a high priority risk

None of the above

Clear selection

The Project Management team was measuring the progress of the project at the end of the fourth month of the project. They found out that the cumulative planned expenditures was $100000 while the actual expenditures totalled to $120000. How is the project doing?

1 point

It seems to be ahead of its schedule

It is in trouble because of the cost overrun

It is likely to finish within the original budget

The information is insufficient to make an assessment

Clear selection

Your company is building a large manufacturing facility. For the construction of this facility, a very critical piece of manufacturing equipment is required. Your company has ordered this equipment and awarded a contract to install this equipment to a general contractor. The original estimated delivery date for this equipment was provided to the general contractor as part of the bid documents. The bidder was specifically instructed to depend on this delivery date during the contract signing. You have recently found out that this piece of equipment is delayed by two months. How should you deal with the general contractor?

1 point

You should inform the general contractor immediately of the impending problem, and direct him to adjust his schedule to accommodate the new equipment delivery date

You should inform the general contractor immediately of the impending problem, and ask him to provide an estimate of the impact as provided under the changes clause of the contract documents

You should inform the general contractor of the problem just before the equipment arrives

You should work with the general contractor to get schedule relief from the equipment manufacturer

Clear selection

Which of the following is not a term related to Project Organization Structures?

1 point

Weak Matrix

Tight Matrix

Project Expediter

Project Coordinator

Clear selection

You are a PMO Manager. In your last status review meetings with your project managers, you found out following: Project Alpha: PV > AC
Project Beta: EV < PV
Project Gamma: PV = AC, Which of the following statements is true?

1 point

Project Alpha is over budget

Project Beta is behind schedule

Project Gamma is on track

No interpretation can be made from above data

Clear selection

Which of the following is true about the Communication Planning?

1 point

It involves determining who needs what information, when, how and deciding who will provide that information

Finding the stakeholders, determining their interests and documenting them

Collecting & disseminating performance information to relevant stakeholders

Collecting & disseminating performance information to relevant stakeholders on a periodic basis

Clear selection

Which of the following statements best describes attribute sampling versus variable sampling?

1 point

Attribute sampling is concerned with prevention, whereas variable sampling is concerned with inspection

Attribute sampling is concerned with conformance, whereas variable sampling is concerned with degree of conformance

Attribute sampling is concerned with special causes, whereas variable sampling is concerned with degree of any causes

Both are the same concepts

Clear selection

As part of the Quality Management Processes, your company requires that every project should submit a detail cost baseline of the project. In order to submit the cost baseline for your project, you have just completed allocating the overall cost estimate to individual activities. You have completed which of the following processes?

1 point

Plan Quality

Determine Budget

Estimate Costs

Plan Cost Management

Clear selection

Which of the following statements is true about Scope Management?

1 point

Scope Management Plan describes the Project Scope in detail

Scope Management Plan and Scope Baseline together describe the Project Scope in detail

Scope Baseline describes Product Scope in detail

Scope Management Plan describes Project Scope while Scope Baseline describes Product Scope

Clear selection

You are a project manager for a project that has a very aggressive schedule. To meet the deadlines you are cautiously following all the planning processes. You have gathered the inputs for Estimate Activity Duration process. which tools & techniques you will employ to produce the outputs from this process

1 point

Expert judgment, activity attributes, quantitatively based duration, and reserve time

Expert judgment, analogous estimating, Parametric estimating, three point estimation

Activity list, analogous estimating, quantitatively based duration, and expert judgment

Activity list, analogous estimating, quantitatively based duration, and alternative identification

Clear selection

Your company is going to start a new project. You are appointed as the project manager and it will be staffed with people from various cross-funtional units. Based on a past experience, you recognize that the team members in a matrix environment are more responsive to their functional managers than to the project manager. In order to avoid any future problems, you want to establish clear work responsibilities. What should you do in this situation?

1 point

Create a Communication Management Plan and get it approved by functional managers

Create an problem escalation matrix and get it approved by the Sponsor

Create Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) and get it approved by functional managers

Create a Staffing Management Plan and get it approved by functional managers

Clear selection

You have developed a project plan and the concerned stakeholders have approved it. Your project team is ready to move further. As a project manager, in order to execute the approved project plan, you would refer to a set of inputs. Please select the most accurate answer.

1 point

Project Management Plan, Approved change request, EEF & OPA

Project Management Plan, Approved change request, corrective action, Deliverables, EEF & OPA

Project Management Plan, Administrative closure procedure, Implemented change request, corrective actions, EEF & OPA

Project Management Plan, Implemented change request, corrective actions, EEF & OPA

Clear selection

Which of the following is not a tool and technique to the Develop Team:

1 point

Team ceremony

Motivation

Conflict management

Team building

Clear selection

Organization Structures influence the projects. Which of the following is true about the Organization Structures?

1 point

Project manager's role could be full time or part time in Strong Matrix organizations

In PMO type organizations, PM manages the budget

Project oriented Organization Structures are the best

Strong Matrix and Tight Matrix are synonymous

Clear selection

Management reserve is used for…

1 point

Risks that are identified at the outset of the project

Risks that are not identified at the outset of the project but are known before they occur

Risks that cannot be known before they occur because they are external risks

Any risk that cannot be known before it occurs

Clear selection

You are managing a large manufacturing project. After doing the quality control measurements, your Quality team has recommended that an immediate corrective action is required to the material requirements planning (MRP) system in order to minimize the rework. In order to implement the necessary changes you should follow:

1 point

The organization’s quality policy

The quality management plan

Established material handling definitions and procedures

Procedures for integrated change control

Clear selection

You are the Project Manager for Solar Cell project. The project is not running as per the schedule. You want to examine the feasibility of your project schedule under adverse conditions. Which technique are you like to choose?

1 point

Risk Analysis

Reserve Analysis

What-If Scenario Analysis

Risk Scenario Analysis

Clear selection

You are working as an Executive with a leading software services company. One fine day COO of your company, COOney COOl, called you to his office to discuss a new project. He wanted to improve the security access of corporate systems worldwide. COOney tells you about the key objectives of the project, general time frame, and business value. He assigns you to be the project manager and ends the meeting. What is the first thing you need to do?

1 point

Determine who the key stakeholders are and hold a kickoff meeting

Order new business cards that show you are the project manager

Begin developing the scope definition

Begin collecting requirements

Clear selection

Which of the following is true about Schedule Performance Index (SPI)? SPI of more than 1.0 indicates that the

1 point

Project was completed ahead of the schedule

Project has experienced a permanent gain of time

Project is running ahead the monetary value of the work it planned to accomplish

All of the above

Clear selection

You are a senior Project Manager with Finite Sky Communication Networks. You are doing a project for design & development of microcontroller software for satellite communications. The estimated cost of your project is $20 million. About 2 weeks ago you completed the last deliverable and gave it to the client for acceptance. The client has accepted the results of your work and the deliverable. The client has also expressed his satisfaction about all the previous deliverables delivered during the lifetime of the project. What is the FIRST thing that you should do now?

1 point

Celebrate the success with the team members

Raise an invoice to the client as per the contractual requirements

Release the team memebrs so as to save further cost on the project

Send a note of thanks to the client

Clear selection

Which of the following is not a tool and technique for the control Costs?

1 point

Earned value analysis

Cost of quality

To-complete performance index

Variance analysis

Clear selection

You are a senior project manager working with the engineering division of a big infrastructure firm. Your company has very stringent cost management policy. A recently appointed project manager has approached you. He is seeking your help in estimating cost on his project. He would like this estimate to be as accurate as possible, since this is the only chance for him to secure the budget for this project. You should advice him to use

1 point

Analogous estimation

Expert judgment estimation

Parametric estimation

Bottom-up estimation

Clear selection

The tools and techniques used in Plan Quality Management are:

1 point

Benchmarking

Bottom-up estimating

Development approach

Testing approach

Clear selection

You are working as a senior officer in PMO of your organiztion. The organization wants to impart Project Management training to all the PMs in the orgnization. You plan to hire an external contractor for association with a major university who awards a Master’s Certificate in Project Management. This is an example of …

1 point

Setting up an independent evaluation

Establishing Source Selection Criteria

Preparing requirements for Procurement Statement of Work

Establishing an weighting system

Clear selection

Which of the following estimating method tends to be MOST costly for doing project cost estimation?

1 point

Bottom up

Analogous

Parametric

Top-down

Clear selection

Regression line in a Scatter diagram can be a

1 point

Diagonal line

Horizontal line

Parabolic line

All of the above

Clear selection

The total planned value of a project is also known as

1 point

BCWS

BCWP

BAC

ACWP

Clear selection

You are a part of Project Selection committee of your organization. The committee is debating between two projects - Project A and Project B. The committee has to select one project based on the following data: Project A has a payback period of 20 months.Project B requires an investment of $150,000 with an expected net cash inflow of $50,000 in the first year and $25,000 per quarter thereafter.
Which project should be selected?

1 point

Anyone of the Project A or Project B can be selected as both have similar payback periods

Project A should be selected because Projects B’s payback period is 21 months

Project A should be selected because Projects B’s payback period is 24 months

Project B should be selected because Projects B’s payback period is 18 months

Clear selection

Which of the following is true about Arrow Diagramming Method(ADM) and Precedence Diagramming Method(PDM)?

1 point

Both ADM and PDM can have dummy activities

ADM can have dummy activities while PDM does not have them

ADM can be used to determine critical path while PDM cannot be used to do so

PDM can be used to determine critical path while ADM cannot be used to do so

Clear selection

You are a project manager of a Automotive company. You realize that one of your senior team member is disclosing important project information to his friend who works with a competitor organization. What will you do?

1 point

Talk to the project sponsor and seek his advice

Talk to the the team member and address your concern

Complain to the team member's boss

Do nothing as the team member is just talking to his friend

Clear selection

Co-location is a good strategy for Team work but the use of ____ is sometimes unavoidable.

1 point

Virtual teams

Part-time teams

Off-shore location

Off-site location

Clear selection

A number of different stakeholders are involved in your project, and some of their objectives seem to be conflicting. In general, disagreements among stakeholders should be resolved in favour of

1 point

Sponsor

Senior management

Customer

None of the above

Clear selection

Which of the following is not a tool or technique used in the Plan Risk Responses?

1 point

Strategies for threats

Contingent response strategies

Make or buy analysis

Cost-benefit analysis

Clear selection

You are CEO of a small eCommerce Company. Your customers use web & mobile application created by your company to make online transactions. Your company is doing well. The number of users have increased by 100% in last 37 weeks. Due to this load on servers, the users are facing slow response times. They often have to wait for as much as 53 seconds for a transaction to complete. In recent weeks the customers have started complaining and dropping out. You believe that the problems will go away once your data center is upgraded with new servers. You appoint a vendor to do this job who had previously developed the web application for you. Based on your previous experience, you are confident that the vendor will be able to assist you with data center upgrade. Which of the following is true?

1 point

The project started because of market demand and Vendor's expertise is a constraint

The project started because of market demand and Vendor's expertise is an assumption

The project started because of business need and Vendor's expertise is a constraint

The project started because of business need and Vendor's expertise is an assumption

Clear selection

Which of the following is true about "Company work authorization systems"?

1 point

It contains company wide performance criteria that is used for making the performance reports

It is one of the enterprise environmental factors

It is used for storing organizational process assets and project documents

It is used to transition the Project's product to Operations team for doing company's work

Clear selection

Which of the following is true about the Procurement Statment of Work (SOW)?

1 point

The Project Initiator or Sponsor provides the SOW for internal projects

The Project Manager prepares SOW for both internal and external projects

SOW is an essential input for Define Scope process

The responsible for preparation of SOW is defined in procurement management plan

Clear selection

Using the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), the project work is decomposed into smaller, more manageable components. The components at the lowest level of WBS are called work packages. Which of the following does not describe how far to decompose the work?

1 point

Until it can be realistically monitored

Until it cannot be subdivided further

Until it can be realistically scheduled

Until it can be realistically estimated

Clear selection

Which of the following statements is true about project lifecycle and phases?

1 point

Cost and staffing levels are low at the start of the project

Risk is highest towards the completion of the project

As per the PMBOK Guide there are 5 project management phases

All of the above

Clear selection

A Change request can include

1 point

Recommended corrective actions or preventive actions to processes

Recommended defect repairs to product or deliverable

Recommended modification to a project document

All of the above

Clear selection

Your company has an emergency. You need to outsource part of your project work to complete project. The contracted work should be completed as soon as possible. Under these circumstances, what would be MOST helpful?

1 point

Take help from the procurement department of your company

Divide the work among multiple contractors

Promise incentive for early completion of the work

Include a force-majeure clause in the contract

Clear selection

You can find role and/or responsibility of project team members in all of the following documents except:

1 point

Project Staff Assignments

RACI Matrix

Resource Calendar

Project Schedule

Clear selection

Which of the following Project Documents is not useful for Estimating Activity Durations?

1 point

Asssumption Log

Basis of Estimate

Project Team Assignments

Resource Breakdown Structure

Clear selection

During project execution, a project team member informs the project manager that based on her observations, the project cannot meet the quality standards due to inefficient and ineffective processes & procedures. The project manager meets with all parties concerned to analyze the situation. In which step of the quality management process is the project manager involved here?

1 point

General Quality analysis

Manage Quality

Control Quality

Plan Quality Management

Clear selection

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