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PMP® Practice Quiz - 6

Based on the chart, some of the identified risks do not occur and therefore activity B gets done in 3. What is the effect on the project? *

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The project is complete.

There will be three critical paths.

Activity A will have more float.

The project will complete sooner if activity F starts immediately.

Which of the following is CORRECT in regard to the Control Scope process? *

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Effective scope definition can lead to a more complete project scope statement.

The Control Scope process must be done before scope planning.

The Scope Control process must be integrated with other control processes.

Controlling the schedule is the most effective way of controlling scope.

Your boss tells you that one of your resources is needed on another project. All the activities in the chart are occurring at the same time. Assuming that all the resources listed have the necessary skills to work on the other project, the resource working on which activity would you pick to move to the other project? *

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Activity D

Activity C

Activity H

Activity B

You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards. What should you do in this situation? *

1 point

Assure senior management that during the Plan Quality process it was determined that the project would meet the quality standards.

Analogously estimate future results.

Form a quality assurance team.

Check the results from the last quality management plan.

In order to provide one of your team members with a reward for excellent performance, you are going to allow him to acquire the new skill in which he is interested. Assuming that any activity shown in the chart would provide the team member with the benefit, which activity would you assign him to? *

1 point

Activity D

Activity E

Activity F

Activity B

All of the following are true statements about parametric estimating EXCEPT: *

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The model is scalable.

Estimates are based on input from the team.

The parameters used in the model are readily quantifiable.

Historical information is used in the model.

A project manager is finalizing the resources for the project team. All of the following will help the project manager complete this work EXCEPT: *

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Staffing pool description.

Work breakdown structure.

Staffing management plan.

Recognition and rewards systems.

The buyer asks the project manager for the status of the project that his team is working on. What is the BEST way to determine the status of a project? *

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Compare the project performance against the project baselines.

Compare the earned value to the planned value.

Compare the project performance against the integrated change control plan.

Compare the number of people used on each work package to the planned number to be used.

Which of the following is NOT an output of Collect Requirements? *

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Requirements Observations.

Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Requirements Documentation.

Requirements Management Plan.

During a team meeting, the team adds a specific area of extra work to the project because they have determined it would benefit the customer. What is wrong in this situation? *

1 point

The team is gold plating.

These efforts shouldn't be done in meetings.

Nothing. This is how to meet or exceed customer expectations.

Nothing. The project manager is in control of the situation.

Based on the chart, a resource on your project from the consumer affairs department comes to you to tell you that he is taking a two-week leave from work due to a family emergency. He is assigned to activity F, which is currently in progress. This is a problem because activity F has: *

1 point

One week of float.

Two months of float.

One month of float.

No float.

Using the chart, the person completing activity G tells you that a few unidentified risks have occurred and the duration of the activity will now be 10 months. What is the effect on the project? *

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The critical path changes.

There are two critical paths.

There is no effect on the critical path.

There is less chance of completing the project on time.

Based on the chart that shows activities on the critical path, which activity(s) would you crash to save exactly four weeks? *

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Activity F

Activities A and E

Activities C and E

Activities A and C

Which of the following are ALL items included in the cost management plan? *

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The level of accuracy needed for estimates, rules for measuring cost performance, specifications for how duration estimates should be stated

Specifications for how estimates should be stated, rules for measuring cost performance, the level of accuracy needed for estimates

Rules for measuring team performance, the level of accuracy needed for estimates, specifications for how estimates should be stated

Specifications for how estimates should be stated, the level of risk needed for estimates, rules for measuring cost performance

Historical information and lessons learned are part of: *

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Organizational process assets.

Enterprise environmental factors.

Project management information system (PMIS).

Work performance information.

Using the chart, what is the lowest cost of crashing this project to save four weeks? *

1 point

$18,000

$6,000

$7,000

$9,000

Your boss says that in order to get your new product to market sooner, the project must be completed four months earlier. However, he does not want to shorten the schedule if the project cost will go up more than US $22,000. Provided with the chart, which critical path activity(s) would you crash? *

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Activity D

Activities A and F

Activities A and H

Activity C

Which of the following statements about quality control is not accurate? *

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Prevention refers to keeping errors out of the process, whereas inspection refers to keeping errors out of the hands of the customer.

Attribute sampling determines whether the result conforms or not, and variables sampling determines the degree of conformity.

Tolerances refer to specified range of accepted results and control limits refer to thresholds, which can indicate whether the process is out of control.

Quality control is only performed in Monitoring and Controlling process.

You need to shorten the duration of this project by five months. Included in your solution, based on the chart, would be to crash activity C. However, further analysis reveals that this activity has two days of float. What should you do? *

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Crash activities F and H.

Crash activity D.

Crash activities D and H.

Crash activity C.

You have just delivered a product to your client for acceptance, when you get a call that some features they were expecting are missing. What's the first thing you should do? *

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Get your team together and reprimand them for building a product that doesn't meet user expectations.

Tell the client that the product passed all of your internal quality inspections and scope verification processes, so it must be fine.

Tell the team to start building the missing features into the product right away.

Call a meeting with the client to understand exactly what is unacceptable in the product and try to figure out what went wrong along the way.

Your project is currently scheduled to take 117 months. Based on the chart, you could crash the project by five months at a cost of US $20,000. How long will the project take if you select this option? *

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55 months

25 months

112 months

117 months

Based on the network diagram in the chart, the resource working on activity G is replaced with another resource with 50 percent of the productivity of the previous resource. How long will this project take? *

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Which statement describes best why you should document assumptions? *

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Assumptions might prove to be wrong. Knowing which assumptions were incorrect allows baseline adjustments in case of project crisis.

Assumption analysis is a valuable tool and technique to explore the validity of assumptions during risk identification.

Assumptions limit the project management team's options for decision making because they can not be controlled by the team.

In case of schedule or budget overruns, the documentation of assumptions supports a clear assignment of responsibility.

As a PMI Certified project manager, you are expected to comply with all organizational rules and policies. In this context, you are expected to: *

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Provide accurate and truthful representations concerning all information directly or indirectly related to all aspects of the PMI Certification Program.

Report to PMI all possible violations of the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct by individuals in their work area.

Escalate to PMI all possible ethics violations.

Disclose to PMI any significant circumstance that could be construed as a conflict of interest or an appearance of impropriety.

A project is plagued by changes to the project charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary? *

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The project manager

The project team

The sponsor

The stakeholders

Which of the following BEST describes what a network diagram is used for when the work is being completed? *

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To track the flow of information in a system, looking at all the interfaces

To determine if the evaluation criteria should be created before the contract statement of work is written

To see if the cost of a change exceeds the project cost baseline

To evaluate the reward system's effectiveness

Brandi is a project manager on a software project. About halfway through development, her team found that they had not estimated enough time for some of the technical work they needed to do. She requested that the new work be added to the scope statement and that the time to do the work be added to the schedule. The change control board approved her change. What's her next step? *

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Update the scope and schedule baselines to reflect the approved change.

Start doing the work.

Gather performance metrics on the team's work so far.

Perform Quality Assurance.

You are managing a software project, when one of your stakeholders needs to make a change that will affect the budget. You follow the procedures to implement the change. Which of the following must get updated to reflect the change? *

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Project management plan.

Project cost performance baseline.

Cost change control system.

Project performance reviews.

A customer has requested a change that requires you to obtain new equipment. You need to decide whether to lease or buy the equipment. The daily lease cost is US $150. The cost of purchasing the item is US $2,000 investment cost and US $50 daily cost. You will need to use the item for about 12 days. What should you do? *

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Lease it.

Buy it.

Ask the customer for a $2,000 change order.

Lease it for only seven days to try to save cost.

Which of the following are ALL outputs of the Perform Integrated Change Control process? *

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Approved corrective actions, validated defect repair, forecasts, deliverables

Deliverables, implemented corrective actions, rejected change requests, validated defect repair

Approved defect repair, validated defect repair, rejected change requests, approved corrective actions

Recommended corrective actions, validated defect repair, approved defect repair, rejected change requests

A new project manager has just been assigned a project that is in progress and is two weeks behind schedule. The team members are about to be distributed to another project based on the original time estimates by the functional manager. What type of organization is the new project manager in? *

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Projectized

Tight matrix

Balanced matrix

Functional

The seller's project is undertaken on contract and you are an employee of the seller. Since you earlier worked with ABC Bank, the buyer, you happen to be aware of the evaluation criteria used in ABC Bank to select sellers. You understand that this could be a potential conflict of interest situation. How do you propose to act? *

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Do nothing and continue to work as before.

Take appropriate person in ABC Bank into confidence and discuss this issue with her.

Disclose the evaluation criteria to your (seller) organization and help their business growth.

Remove yourself from the project.

In your organization, 3 sigma quality processes have been implemented. That means all measurements should be within ____ % of the target value. *

1 point

99.99

99.7

95.4

68.2

Which cost estimating technique costs the least and saves the most time? *

1 point

Parametric estimating.

Bottom-up estimating.

Analogous estimating.

Three-point estimates.

A form of project organization where power is evenly shared between the functional manager and the project manager is called: *

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A tight matrix.

A weak matrix.

A balanced matrix.

A strong matrix.

As a project manager, you advocate active participation of your team members; this is because you believe in: *

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Theory Y (McGregor Model).

Theory X (McGregor Model).

Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Referent Power.

When doing risk response planning, you have come to know that the project involves use of new technology which is not tested properly. The risk is so high that your sponsor decides to terminate the project. This management decision to terminate the project is an example of: *

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Terminate risk.

Avoid risk.

Mitigate risk.

Close Project.

Residual risks are risks that remain after the Plan Risk Responses process. Secondary risks are: *

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Planning risks that are no longer a factor during project executing.

Discovered during the Identify Risks process.

New risks created by the risk response strategies selected.

Lower priority risks not requiring mitigation efforts.

While applying procurement management processes in your project you have identified the need to gain a more objective understanding of sellers' capabilities in order to rank proposals and develop a negotiating sequence. Which technique may help avoid bias and subjective decisions best? *

1 point

Bidder conference.

Weighting system.

Oral contract.

Letter of intent.

Amit is the manager of a software project. His client has agreed on a Project Scope Statement at the beginning of the project, but whenever the client verifies deliverables, he comes up with features that he would like to add into the product. Amit is working with the client to find what requirements were missed in the planning stages of the project and how to plan better in the future. What is the BEST description of his project's current situation? *

1 point

Gold plating.

Scope creep.

Alternatives analysis.

Schedule variance.

A project manager needs to analyze the project costs to find ways to decrease costs. It would be BEST if the project manager looks at: *

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Variable costs and fixed costs.

Fixed costs and indirect costs.

Direct costs and variable costs.

Indirect costs and direct costs.

In the context of a desirable model of communication between a sender and a receiver, all the following statements are correct EXCEPT: *

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Noise should be minimized.

Receiver must decode and reply to the message.

Receiver should acknowledge and agree with the message sent by the sender.

Receiver should send a feedback message to the sender.

You have recently joined as a project manager in a company where they follow a projectized organizational structure. All your team members work in the same office where you have a lot of independence and authority. All the following are advantages of a projectized organizational structure EXCEPT: *

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Loyalty to the project.

Home for the team members after the project is completed.

Effective communication.

Efficiency in project organization.

Which of the following is a chief characteristic of the Delphi technique? *

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Extrapolation from historical records from previous projects

Expert opinion

Analytical hierarchy process

Bottom-up approach

If a project manager is completing detailed estimating, which type of estimating is MOST likely being used? *

1 point

Bottom-up

Analogous

Parametric

50/50 rule

Project management can be thought of as a _______-do-check-act cycle. *

1 point

Initiate

Execute

Plan

Control

You are a project manager for a software project. Your team buys a component for a web page but they run into defects when they use it. Those defects slow your progress down considerably. Fixing the bugs in the component will double your development schedule and building your own component will take even longer. You work with your team to evaluate the cost and impact of all of your options and recommend hiring developers at the company that built the component to help you address problems in it. That will cost more but it will reduce your delay by a month. What is your next step? *

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Fix the component.

Write up the change request and take it to the change control board.

Start Procurement Planning so you can get the contract ready for the vendor.

Change the Scope Baseline to include your recommendation.

Which of the following BEST describes a project management plan? *

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A printout from project management software

A bar chart

Risk, staffing, process improvement, and other management plans

The project scope

You are working on a 12 month assignment to build a website with 4000 pages for $ 1,000,000. You are supposed to spend $ 250,000 every 3 months. After 6 months, you determine that only $ 400,000 of work is completed and cost incurred is $ 800,000. What is the ETC? *

1 point

$2,000,000

$1,500,000

$1,000,000

$1,200,000

All of the following are outputs of the Control Scope process EXCEPT: *

1 point

Change requests.

Updated organizational process assets.

Updates to the project management plan.

Accepted deliverables.

Which of the following is the BEST order of topics for the seller to negotiate? *

1 point

Performance, time, cost

Cost, time, performance

Time, performance, cost

Cost, performance, time

You have been hired by a contractor, who wants you to manage a construction project for one of their clients. The project team has been working for six weeks. You need to determine whether the team is ahead of or behind schedule. Which of the following tools and techniques is the BEST one for you to consult? *

1 point

Performance Measurement.

Project Management Software.

Time and Materials (T&M).

Bottom-Up Estimating.

You realize that you are not able to concentrate on your work due to an actual or potential conflict of interest situation. Which out of the following should you NOT do, in this context? *

1 point

Disclose the facts to the affected stakeholders.

Prepare a mitigation plan.

Seek stakeholders' consent to proceed further.

Engage in decision-making activities related to the conflict of interest situation.

Which of the following does NOT need to be done if there is a major delay on a noncritical path activity? *

1 point

Investigate the delay.

Reevaluate which path is critical.

Change the project schedule.

Review the float time for the activity.

Forecasting methods may be classified into different categories. Which one of the following is not a forecasting method? *

1 point

Time series.

Causal/econometric methods.

Judgmental methods.

Organizational theory.

Which of the following BEST describes the project manager's role during project planning? *

1 point

Creating a bar chart and getting management to approve it

Coordinating the creation of a document that can be used to guide the project

Making a list of activities the team members are required to perform

Determining what can get in the way and how to prevent it

You are managing a critical project with virtual teams located in eight countries. At times, team members find it difficult to understand and interpret what others are communicating via tele-conferencing. From a communication management point of view, this difficulty in transmitting and understanding messages can also be referred to as: *

1 point

Disturbance.

Noise.

Interference.

Breakdown in encode-decode model.

You are working on an 18-month project with a small, co-located team. The project sponsor and senior management are in another city and have requested weekly updates. The customer requires monthly meetings. Because the team members are busy with the project executing processes, they would like to reduce the frequency of meetings. Which of the following BEST describes how status meetings should be managed on this project? *

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During project executing, you do not need to hold status meetings as long as you send the key stakeholders a status report every week.

Once a month the entire team, including senior management, should meet with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous month's issues and the current status.

During project executing, it is only necessary for the project manager to meet with the customer once a month to fulfill your contractual obligation. Provide the customer with the status report and copy this report to key stakeholders.

The frequency and level of meetings as well as the format and type of information to be exchanged should be defined in the project's communications management plan during project planning.

You are in the Close Project or Phase of the project. You finalize all activities across all the project management process groups to formally complete the phase. You also update documents, such as project management plan, scope management plan, cost management plan, etc. that are generated from project's activities. These documents are also referred to as: *

1 point

Project or phase closure documents.

Project plan.

Historical information.

Project records.

In a traditionally drawn decision tree, a circle represents ___________. *

1 point

a chance to which no Expected Monetary Value can be assigned so that a likely pay-off can not be shown.

a decision to which no Expected Monetary Value can be assigned so that a likely pay-off can not be shown.

a chance to which an Expected Monetary Value may be assigned to calculate the most likely pay-off.

a decision to which an Expected Monetary Value may be assigned to calculate the most likely pay-off.

In your project, while decomposing the project work into more manageable components, you are aware of the problem of excessive decomposition. Which of the following is NOT the consequence of excessive decomposition? *

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Non-productive management effort.

Inefficient use of resources.

Decreased efficiency in work performance.

Better knowledge of activity sequences.

You're managing a construction project. You've decomposed work packages into activities, and your client needs a duration estimate for each activity that you come up with. Which of the following will you use for this? *

1 point

Milestone list.

Activity list.

Critical path analysis.

Project schedule network diagram.

During Verify Scope Process, you formalize acceptance of the project deliverables and keep the project focused on the business need for which it was undertaken. This should be done: *

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At the beginning of the project.

At the end of the project.

When required by the project sponsor.

After getting validated deliverables from the quality control process.

You are determining whether the project activities comply with organizational and project policies. This will be done as part of: *

1 point

Inspection.

Quality audits.

Quality improvement.

Trend analysis.

You are a project manager for a software project. As you are defining the scope of the work you need to do, you sit down with all of the project's stakeholders and record all of the requirements you can get from them. Which of the following is NOT a valid requirement from stakeholder analysis? *

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The work the team does must be better than they did on their last project.

There can be no more than 5% schedule variance on the project.

The quality of the product must fit within organizational metrics for software quality.

The budget must be within 10% of our projected cost.

Network templates which contain only portions of a network are often referred to as *

1 point

Subnetworks or fragment networks.

Subprojects.

Programs.

WBS items.

The installation project has a CPI of 1.03 and an SPI of 1.0. There are 14 team members and each team member had input into the final project management plan. The customer has accepted the three deliverables completed so far without complaint and the responsibility assignment matrix has not changed since the project began. The project is being completed in a matrix environment and there are no contracts needed for the project. Though the sponsor is happy with the status of the project, one of the team members is always complaining about how much time his project work is taking. Which of the following would be the BEST thing for the project manager to do? *

1 point

Review the reward system for the project.

Try to improve schedule performance of the project.

Meet with the customer to try to extend the schedule.

Gain formal acceptance in writing from the customer.

What is typical for Critical chain project management? *

1 point

Management of buffers.

Management of total floats and free floats.

Management of leads and lags.

Management of resource over-allocations.

Early termination of a contract is a special case of contract closure. This can happen because of: *

1 point

Default of the buyer.

Default of the seller.

Mutual agreement of the parties.

Any of the above reasons.

Which of the following information about the project would NEVER be available during project planning? *

1 point

Cost performance index

Benefit cost ratio

Internal rate of return

Budget at completion

What is the name of the process required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, and disposal of project information? *

1 point

Quality management

Communications management

Procurement management

Scope management

The project has been going well, except for the number of changes being made. The project is being installed into seven different departments within the company and will greatly improve departmental performance when operational. There are 14 project management processes selected for use on this project. The project manager is a technical expert as well as having been trained in communications and managing people. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the project problems? *

1 point

The project manager was not trained in understanding the company environment.

The project should have more management oversight since it will result in such great benefits to the company.

The project should have used more of the project management processes.

Some stakeholders were not identified

In a fixed price (FP) contract, the fee or profit is: *

1 point

Unknown.

Part of the negotiation involved in paying every invoice.

Applied as a line item to every invoice.

Determined with the other party at the end of the project.

You have just taken over as manager of a project which will create many benefits for the performing organization, but you sense a high level of resistance by various stakeholders right from the start. What is the most appropriate action to resolve the problem? *

1 point

Develop a Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) which clearly shows the responsibility of each stakeholder for the various project activities and who needs to be consulted and informed.

Develop an organization diagram, which places each of the stakeholders at an appropriate position inside the project and allows for certain lines of communication while disallowing others.

Schedule a meeting with these stakeholders to present the project, discuss and establish ground rules, ensure their involvement and identify initial personal and organizational issues.

Do not talk to these stakeholders too much at this time, instead create Faits accomplis, which will later force the stakeholders to support the project due to a lack of alternatives for them.

A project manager has held a video conference with some of the project team about a technical problem on the project. Various solutions were proposed and discussed, and a few were saved for later analysis. As a result, the issue is better understood and its description has been updated in the issue log. The project schedule has not been changed. During a follow-up meeting to make a final decision, a team member notifies the project manager that another team member expressed concern that he was not included in the meetings. Another team member mentions that he remembers seeing a letter from one of the potential sellers during the bidder conference that may shed some light on how to solve the issue. The team tries to find the letter but no one remembers which seller sent it and they cannot find it in their own e-mail archives. Which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to do? *

1 point

Investigate the quality of the records management system.

Contact all the potential sellers to find out who might have sent the letter.

Discover why the issue was not clearly described in the issue log in the first place.

Find out why the other team member was not included.

A project manager's project has just been dropped to a lower priority on the list of his department's prioritized projects. It would be BEST for the project manager to: *

1 point

Let the customer know that the project schedule will need to slip.

Use some of the management reserve to accommodate the change.

Start cutting work packages.

Gain more resources.

You are using a Phase gate approach for your project. What do you need to consider? *

1 point

The order of phases must be strictly consecutive without overlapping in order to allow for gates.

Gates are often called kill points, when they are used to eliminate weak team members.

Phase gates are often used to verify entry criteria of a previous phase and exit criteria of the next one.

Approaching phase gates early is a common signal that project planning has been poor.

Based on the chart, how is the project doing? *

1 point

You are in trouble because there are three activities with no float.

You have a lot of flexibility because you have activities with float.

You do not have enough information to make a decision.

Everything is fine because you have an even number of activities with and without float.

Your boss, the vice president of research at your electronic system development firm, defines success on the project as providing "state-of-the-art" development. The vice president of marketing defines it as "world-class practices." The vice president of engineering, who is the customer for this project, is primarily concerned with new features. Which of the following BEST describes what you should do? *

1 point

Make sure the requirements are defined in measurable terms.

Concentrate on new features.

Identify additional stakeholders that want new features to shift the balance in that direction.

Concentrate on making the project state-of-the-art.

You have a project with the following activities: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 4. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 8. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of 5. Activity 4 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 8. Activity 5 has an estimated duration of 3 and must take place concurrently with activity 3. It can start after activities 4 and 2. What is the duration of the critical path of this project? *

1 point

Using the chart, if the duration of activity D changes to 9, what would you need to include in your performance report? *

1 point

The project will be completed later than expected.

Everything on the project is going according to plan.

The project will be completed early.

The risk of the project not being completed is now greater.

Based on the chart, what will be the effect on the project if activity C now takes four months? *

1 point

There will be a new critical path.

The project will take longer.

There is no change to the critical path.

Activity B is now on the critical path.

Which of the following statements related to managing different types of procurement contracts is not accurate? *

1 point

In a fixed-price, incentive-fee contract, there is no incentive for the seller to decrease costs.

In a fixed-price contract, there is highest risk to the seller and lowest risk to the buyer.

Fixed price with redetermination retroactive contracts allow for adjusting of contract price after performance has been completed.

Fixed price with economic price adjustment allows for price increases if the contract is for multiple years.

While executing a project, you sense a slightly negative attitude in your team. Which type of document do you now need, among others, to better understand and then be able to improve the situation? *

1 point

Project charter.

Team performance assessments.

Cost baseline.

Statement of work.

A project manager at a cable and networking company is gathering requirements for a project to build a new version of their telecommunications equipment. Which of the following is NOT something that she will use? *

1 point

Specific descriptions of work packages that will be developed.

One-on-one interviews with the senior executives who need the new equipment for their teams.

An early working model of the telecommunications equipment to help get feedback from stakeholders.

Notes that she took while being "embedded" with the team that will eventually use the equipment being developed.

The CFO of a company tells you that you need to include a new feature in software that's being produced by a project you are managing. The deadline for the project is tight, and if you take on the extra work then the project will come in late. What BEST describes the first thing that you should do? *

1 point

Update the project plan to make sure the new feature is included in the project.

Tell the CFO that he needs to wait until you're working on the next version, and then submit a change request to the change control board.

Tell the CFO that the deadline is too tight, and the feature can't be included.

Evaluate the impact that the change will have on the project.

What is the factor that helps a project manager gain maximum support from the assigned project personnel? *

1 point

Expertise.

Work challenge.

Authority of the project manager to penalize team members.

Authority of the project manager to recommend promotions to team members on the basis of their performance.

Control Schedule is the process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and managing changes to the schedule baseline. In this context, which of the following is not true of Control Schedule process? *

1 point

Project Manager determines the current status of the project schedule.

Project Manager influences the factors that create schedule changes.

Project Manager takes the anticipated schedule changes through change control process.

Project Manager manages the actual schedule changes as they occur.

All of the following are inputs to the Verify Scope process EXCEPT: *

1 point

Work breakdown structure.

Project scope statement.

WBS dictionary.

Inspection.

As a project manager, you want to have an appropriate recognition and rewards system to encourage better performance and reinforce desired behavior. All the following statements on recognition and rewards system are correct EXCEPT: *

1 point

Recognition and reward systems should promote or reinforce desired behavior.

Recognition and rewards should consider cultural differences.

Recognition for those people, who have worked during weekends also.

Electing the team member of the month should be discouraged because it can hurt team cohesiveness.

A company is attempting to select the BEST project from a list of possible choices. If the information they have includes the following benefit cost ratios, which project should they pick? *

1 point

2.2

1.3

0.8

1.6

You are a project manager for a US $3,000,000 product development project. Your project is well into the executing process group and remains on time, on budget, and on specification. This morning, a project team member alerts you to a newspaper article detailing unusually high defect rates in materials that your team has been using to develop your product prototype. You had no reason to suspect quality issues in these materials before now. What should you do FIRST in response to this concern? *

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Stop work on the prototype.

Quantify the risk.

Develop a risk mitigation plan.

Determine a workaround.

You take over for a project manager who has left the company and realize that team is talking directly to the customer and only having status meetings when there are problems. The programming team has one idea about the goals of the project, and the testing team has another. Which document is the FIRST one that you should create to solve this problem? *

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Communication plan

Status report

Meeting agenda

Performance report

The need for ____ is one of the major driving forces for communication in a project. *

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Optimization

Integrity

Integration

Differentiation

A project may end for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: *

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It is determined that the objectives cannot be met.

The project objectives have been met.

The need for the project no longer exists.

The project manager has left the company.

You're managing a project to deliver 10,000 units of custom parts to a manufacturer that uses Just In Time management. Which of the following constraints is most important to your client? *

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The parts must be delivered on time.

The parts must be delivered in a specific order.

The parts must conform to ISO specifications.

The parts must be packaged separately.

A project manager working in a projectized organization is putting a team together to perform a project. Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique that might be used to do this? *

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Co-location.

Virtual teams.

Pre-assignment.

Negotiation.

You are managing a complicated software development project with several deliverables. To be effective and to be alert to potential future problems, you monitor the status of completion of the project deliverables. This information will be available to you in the: *

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Work performance measurements.

Project baseline changes.

Work performance information.

Earned value techniques.

Plan Risk Responses process helps the project manager to develop options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. The output from Plan Risk Responses is updates to the risk register, which should be: *

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At the level of detail of work packages in WBS.

At the level of detail whereby actions can be taken.

Able to identify and document residual risks and secondary risks.

Used for periodic risk reviews to identify risk ratings and prioritization.

You are the manager of a project for a company that is known to make heavy use of extrinsic motivators in order to boost morale and team performance. What does that mean? The motivators used… *

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…are tailored to the needs of individual team members.

…are incentives such as rewards, gifts, or money.

…are derived from within individual team members.

…include the improvement of hygiene factors of the work environment.

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