PMP® Practice Quiz

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PMP® Practice Quiz - 13

All of the following are characteristics of a project EXCEPT: *

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Temporary.

Definite beginning and end.

Interrelated activities.

Repeats itself every month.

A project has a critical path of twenty-three weeks. What is the impact on the duration of the critical path if the management wants you to complete the project in twenty weeks? *

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Increases by three weeks.

Decreases by three weeks.

Remains the same.

Cannot be determined.

The project has had some problems, but now seems under control. In the last few months almost all the reserve has been used up and most of the negative impacts of events that had been predicted have occurred. There are only four activities left and two of them are on the critical path. Management now informs the project manager that it would be in the performing organization's best interest to finish the project two weeks earlier than scheduled in order to receive an additional profit. In response, the project manager sends out a request for proposal for some work that the team was going to do, in the hopes that another company might be able to do the work faster. The project manager can BEST be said to be attempting to work with: *

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reserve.

opportunities.

scope verification.

threats.

All of the following are outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process EXCEPT: *

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Rejected change requests.

Recommended corrective actions.

Forecasts.

Recommended defect repair.

In which part of the cost management process is earned value (EV) used? *

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Performance measurement analysis and variance management

Forecasting and project performance reviews

Creating the cost baseline and the cost control system

Reserve analysis and cost aggregation

All of the following are part of a communications management plan EXCEPT: *

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Names of the stakeholders who can talk to the project manager.

Names of those receiving a telephone call when the system crashes.

Methods used to collect and store information.

Names of the stakeholders and instructions on sending project status to them.

While working on your contract, you receive a claim from the seller for additional costs for the reports the team members have requested. You know that the reports are not in the contract and you were not aware that the team needed the information. What should you do? *

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Deny the claim and investigate why the reports were requested.

Pay the claim and institute better procedures.

Let the procurement manager know that you had not required reports.

Amend the contract to include the reports.

A project manager wants to more extensively involve the stakeholders on the project. Which of the following would be the BEST way accomplish this? *

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Have the stakeholders periodically review the list of project requirements.

Invite the stakeholders to attend project status meetings.

Send the status report to the stakeholders.

Constantly update the stakeholders on the status of all project changes.

Which motivational theorist said that people cannot ascend to the next level until the levels below are fulfilled? *

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Maslow

Deming

McGregor

Herzberg

In your project, you would like to create a document that describes the procurement item in sufficient detail so that sellers can determine if they can provide the item. This document is referred to as: *

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Procurement audit.

Contract file.

Procurement documents.

Procurement statements of work.

Stakeholder analysis is used to systematically gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative information on stakeholders' level of interest in the project. In this process: *

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Positive Stakeholders are identified based on degree of interest.

Stakeholders register templates are created.

Stakeholders are influenced to gain support and reduce negative impact.

Stakeholder registers from previous projects are used.

You're managing a project that might have to contract out work, and you're comparing the relative advantages and disadvantages of finding a seller versus having your company do the work itself. Which process are you in? *

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Plan Procurements.

Plan Contracting.

Conduct Procurements.

Request Seller Responses.

Your project sponsor has specified that you have to complete your project within 3 months with a funding limit of $ 250,000. This is an example of: *

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Authoritative project management.

Constraint.

Assumption.

Laissez-faire management.

You have completed the process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. What is your NEXT step? *

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Determine which risks may affect the project and document their characteristics.

Implement risk response plans, track identified risks, and monitor residual risks.

Define how to conduct risk management activities for a project.

Assess the priority of identified risks using their probability of occurrence.

In the process of directing and managing the project execution, your project team may request changes to expand or modify project scope, policies, procedures, project cost, or budget. Which of the following is NOT a request for a change? *

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Direct or indirect.

Externally or internally initiated.

Optional or legally mandated.

Formal or informal.

A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the BEST way to accomplish this? *

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Create project management plans

Create lessons learned

Create network diagrams

Create status reports

Which motivational theory uses the concepts of esteem and self-actualization? *

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Maslow

Deming

McGregor

Herzberg

Which of the following BEST describes the role of the project sponsor? *

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Assigning work to the project team.

Paying for the project.

Politically supporting the project inside the organization.

Defining the type of organization (matrixed, functional, etc.).

A project manager is staying in touch with the work of project team members, managing conflicts, and requesting changes to the project management plan. What process is she involved in? *

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Report Performance

Manage Project Team

Develop Human Resource Plan

Acquire Project Team

Your top team member has performed extremely well and you want to reward her. She knows that you don't have enough money in the budget to give her a bonus, so she approaches you and requests an extra day off, even though she is out of vacation days. She asks if she can take one of her sick days, even though the company doesn't allow that. Which of the following is correct? *

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You should give her the time off, because McLelland's Achievement Theory states that people need achievement, power, and affiliation to be motivated.

You should give her the time off, because Expectancy Theory says that you need to give people an expectation of a reward in order to motivate them.

You should give her the time off, because a Theory Y manager trusts the team.

You should not give her the time off.

All of the following are purposes of the project charter EXCEPT: *

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It establishes the project.

It identifies the product acceptance criteria.

It gives the project manager authority.

It includes stakeholders' requirements.

Which of the following is NOT an output of Monitor & Control Project Work? *

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Approved changes.

Requested changes.

Recommended defect repair.

Recommended preventive and corrective actions.

A team member approaches you with a change that could cut your schedule down by a month. What is the first thing you should do? *

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Write up a change request and see if you can get it approved.

Make the change. It's going to save time and nobody will want the project to take longer than it should.

Figure out the impact on the scope of the work and the cost before you write up the change request.

Tell the team member that you've already communicated the deadline for the project, so you can't make any changes now.

Which of the following BEST describes a situation where statistical sampling is appropriate? *

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You just got a shipment of 50,000 parts, and you need to figure out if enough of them are within tolerances to be used on your project.

You need to figure out which defects are critical, and which can be delivered to your customer and repaired later.

You need to use the Rule of Seven on a control chart.

You need to determine if your project is ahead of schedule and within budget.

You are working in the vendor management department of your company and are responsible for sourcing printing machines from manufacturers. You recently visited a marketing conference of a leading printing machine manufacturer, where you were offered a gift-voucher of $ 200 for attending the conference. You should: *

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Accept the gift, because it is compensation for attending the conference.

Accept the gift and also inform your manager.

Return the gift, because it could be construed as personal gain.

Accept the gift, because it is for a small amount and was given to everyone in the conference.

A project has three critical paths. Which of the following BEST describes how this affects the project? *

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It makes it easier to manage.

It increases the project risk.

It requires more people.

It makes it more expensive.

A project manager is working on a project for a large technology integrator. His project calls for Java technology. He needs to supplement his technical staff with a technical consultant for one month because his company does not have this skill set due to unexpected leaves of absence in the technical team. He will manage the vendor's work since he wants to retain control. Which would be the BEST type of contract to use? *

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Cost plus fixed fee (CPFF)

Time and material (T&M)

Fixed price (FP)

No contract is needed. A simple purchase order will work.

During execution in a project to build a major road bridge, your team found a hefty flaw in the technical drawings. On an ad-hoc base, they had to find and implement a workaround to avoid delays and mitigate technical problems. What should you do next? *

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Meticulously document the problem and the workaround to create a requested change to the project management plan, which will then be passed to the body responsible for the change control decision.

The workaround was performed on a technical level only. As long as it does not influence the function of the bridge or the organizational configuration of the project, a change request will not be necessary.

A formal change request from hind side is not sensible. Create some additional documents describing the workaround and sign them by yourself, you can present them during the next regular CCB meeting.

It is normal in projects that, during project execution, inconsistencies arise between planning documents and actual implementation. This is no problem as long as the functional status of the product is maintained.

During the Develop Schedule process, which of the following would BEST provide the basis for the MOST likely activity duration estimate? *

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Labor productivity rates published by a professional association

A consultant's estimate of the overall labor man-hours required

The initial estimate used to budget the project

The schedule for a similar project at the same facility completed two years earlier

One of the project objectives for your company was to acquire additional expertise completing a large scale design project. The project is mostly completed when your client terminates the contract. A change in their business means the work is no longer needed. What is the MOST effective thing to do? *

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Stop work immediately.

Complete the project, but do not charge the client for the time.

Tell the client that work will stop after it is completed.

Move on to the Close Project or Phase process.

You are a project manager working on a project. Your sponsor wants to know who a certain work package is assigned to, what control account to bill it against, and what work is involved. What document do you refer her to? *

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Scope Management Plan.

WBS.

WBS Dictionary.

Scope Statement.

You're using a qualified seller list. Which process are you in? *

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Plan Procurements.

Plan Contracting.

Conduct Procurements.

Request Seller Responses.

While making presentations, the difference between a milestone chart and a bar chart is that unlike bar charts, milestone charts: *

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Show activity start and end dates

Show dependencies among tasks

Identify the scheduled start or completion of major deliverables only and not all the tasks

Show supporting details

You are conducting a status meeting and monitoring your risk register when you discover a risk that remains even after you implement all of your response strategies. What kind of risk is this and what should you do about it? *

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It's a secondary risk. You don't need to worry about it.

It's a residual risk. You need to plan a response strategy for it.

It's a residual risk. You don't need to plan a response strategy for it because you've already implemented all of the risk responses you can plan for.

It's a contingency reserve. You should only use it if the first risk occurs.

Which of the following tools is used to document the lessons that were learned when the contract was administered? *

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Quality audit.

Buyer-conducted performance review.

Contract review.

Procurement audit.

You are in the build phase of a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project, which has run into several unanticipated problems. Several risks have surfaced which you had not anticipated earlier. The project is over-budget and significantly behind schedule. What should you do? *

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Create updates to risk response plan.

Create a revised project plan.

Perform risk audits.

Perform updated risk identification and analysis.

You are the project manager for one part of a new program in your organization. You are four months into a three-year project when your project team makes significant discoveries on your project. What is the BEST thing to do? *

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Make certain the discoveries are included in the project lessons learned.

Make certain the discoveries are in the monthly status report.

Make certain you mention the discoveries at the senior management meeting in two months.

At the weekly meeting, make certain you tell the other project managers involved in this program about the discoveries.

Your company is undergoing a change in ownership and the new owners are looking at the total cost of a new product. Which of the following would BEST provide that information? *

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Estimate at completion

Life cycle cost

Earned value

Net present value

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

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Look for newly arising risks while the work is being done.

Obtain additional funding when needed.

Identify and analyze trends.

Implement process improvements.

In your project, the project manager believes in the superiority of his own race or ethnic background. This is an example of: *

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Monochronic.

Polychronic.

Ethnocentric.

Egalitarian.

A project manager is appointed to head a highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be: *

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A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment.

A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion, but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit.

A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager.

A team that is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high levels of conflict, and high turnover.

Based on the chart, if you needed to shorten the duration of the project, which activity would you try to shorten? *

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Activity B

Activity H

Activity C

The project manager is asked to assist the procurement manager in giving some sellers a tour of the facilities where the project work will be done. What part of the project management process are they in? *

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Initiating

Planning

Executing

Monitoring and controlling

In your project, you are using Report Performance process to organize and summarize the information gathered. Later, you present the results of the analysis as a comparison to the performance measurement baseline. Some common formats for performance reports that you could use are: *

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S-curves, histograms, Pareto diagrams.

S-curves, responsibility assignment matrices ,histograms.

Bar charts, S-curves, histograms.

Bar charts, control charts, histograms.

The project life cycle differs from the product life cycle in that the project life cycle: *

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Does not incorporate a methodology.

Is different for each industry.

Can spawn many projects.

Describes project management activities.

You're planning an IT project to set up a development environment, including designing and building a computer room, installing the operating systems and software, and performing a security evaluation. Your project includes three different activities that involve three different network technicians splicing ends onto wires in order to build their own Ethernet cables, because that's less expensive than buying pre-packaged ones. Every Ethernet cable must be tested using a qualification tester. That's an expensive piece of equipment, and there are only a few of them that must be shared between all of the technicians in the company. You need to plan your schedule based on the availability of the testing equipment. What's the BEST place to find that information? *

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Staffing requirements.

Activity network diagram.

Resource calendar.

Activity resource requirements.

Develop Project Charter is the process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and documenting initial project requirements. In this context, which of the following statements relating to Business Need and Business Case for a project is correct? *

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Business Case is referenced in the statement of work.

Business Case usually includes the cost benefit analysis for the project.

Business Need is an output of the Create Project Charter process.

Business Need arises only because of market demand or technology changes.

In your project, you would like to use the 'Conduct Procurements' process to obtain quotations for subcontracting your work. All the following tools can be used to facilitate this process EXCEPT *

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Bidder conferences.

Contract types.

Advertising.

Procurement negotiations.

Three calls were received today inquiring whether one of your resources could be released from your project. There were nine such calls last week. The project is going well and its risk rating is low. Activity R has an early start of 4 and a late start of 45 and an early finish of 14. The project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.05 and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 0.893. The project float is zero and even through tough times, you believe the reward system you put in place during project planning is working. What is the BEST thing to do? *

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Crash the project.

Crash Activity R.

Deal with diminishing the impact of the phone calls.

Look for areas to cut cost.

Your management announced that they want to put you on a Stretch assignment. In this situation, you should consider that… *

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…a stretch assignment is going beyond your qualifications right from the start. Whatever your education, knowledge and skills are, you cannot fail personally. Congratulations.

…key stakeholders must have timely and complete information regarding your qualifications to make decisions regarding your suitability for the assignment.

…stretch assignments bear an increased risk of failure, and this is rarely outweighed by the learning and development experience expected to come with the assignment.

…you should avoid the increased hassle coming with the assignment. It will not be enough for you to simply satisfy requirements and achieve objectives. You will have to learn a lot.

You are in the middle of project executing and find that you are running out of money due to unanticipated changes. What is the BEST thing to do? *

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Crash or fast track the project.

Reevaluate the risk analysis and contingency funding.

Ask for a change to the project budget.

Use resources that do not charge against the project.

In your project, you wish to identify and document the specific actions to be performed to produce the deliverables. This is done as part of: *

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Define Activities.

Decomposition.

Define Scope.

Sequence Activities.

Decomposition is a valuable tool for Create WBS process. However, decomposition may not be possible for a deliverable or subproject if: *

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The deliverable or subproject is very complicated.

The deliverable or subproject is already being produced.

The deliverable or subproject will be accomplished far into the future.

The deliverable is a service.

The seller on the project has presented the project manager with a formal notification that the seller has been damaged by the buyer's activities. The seller claims that the buyer's slow response to sending the seller approvals has delayed the project, and has caused the seller unexpected expense. The FIRST things the project manager should do are: *

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Collect all relevant data, send the data to the company attorney, and consult with the attorney about legal actions.

Review the contract for specific agreed-upon terms that relate to the issue, see if there is a clear response, and consult an attorney if needed.

Review the procurement statement of work for requirements, send a receipt of claim response, and meet to resolve the issue without resorting to legal action if possible.

Hold a meeting with the team to review why the acceptances have been late, make a list of the specific reasons, and resolve those reasons.

You are being hired to manage a highway construction project for a contractor working for Smith County. The sponsor is a project officer who works for the Smith County municipal government. You have three separate teams working all three shifts, with a separate foreman for each team. Each team has members from two different unions, and each union has its own representative. Who is the BEST person to approve the project charter? *

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The project manager.

The Smith County project officer.

The team foreman.

The two union representatives.

In your organization, all big technical projects go through Initiate, Analyze, Design, Implement, Test, and Closeout. In this context, a project life cycle: *

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Defines the product life cycle.

Defines the project phases.

Contains several product life cycles.

Has deliverables that must be completed before work starts on the next phase.

Which of the following statements BEST describes how stakeholders are involved on a project? *

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They determine the project schedule, deliverables, and requirements.

They help to determine the project constraints and product deliverables.

They determine the resource needs and resource constraints on the project.

They help provide assumptions, the WBS, and the management plans.

The seller's project manager is managing a fixed price (FP) contract. She thinks that a large customer-requested change might impact the schedule of the project. What should she do FIRST? *

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Meet with the stakeholders.

Meet with the team.

Renegotiate the remainder of the contract.

Follow the contract change control system.

Which of the following documents is not used as input for the Verify scope process? *

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The Project management plan, containing the scope baseline consisting of the project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary.

The Validated deliverables, completed and checked for correctness by the Perform quality control process.

The Requirements traceability matrix, linking requirements to their origin and tracing them throughout the project lifecycle.

The RACI matrix, describing accountabilities in case of product rejection.

To-complete performance index (TCPI) is represented by which of the following? *

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BAC - EV/BAC - AC

A measure of the value of work completed compared to the actual cost or progress

A measure of progress achieved compared to progress planned

AC + (BAC - EV)

You are the project manager of a construction company planning to build a water treatment plant close to a residential locality. The project owner and sponsor have obtained all the legal clearances for the project. Some of the residents of the locality have approached you with concerns on the probable impact of the project on the environment. In this case, you must: *

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Go ahead as planned, because all the statutory approvals have been obtained

Try to fairly resolve issues among the stakeholders

Communicate this issue to the senior management of the company and ask them to take necessary steps

Give a high priority to the interests of your company while trying to resolve conflicts with local residents

Your company is involved in the activity of identifying and documenting the norms for rating or scoring proposals at the organization level. From a project management perspective, this can be referred to as: *

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Constraints.

Source selection criteria.

Assumptions.

Best practices.

A project manager holds a meeting with his manager to explain that an activity has been delayed and the project manager will need additional resources to complete the project. The manager stops the meeting because the project manager has forgotten something. What might it have been? *

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To investigate undoing previous fast tracking activities

To try to compress the project schedule before asking for additional resources

To look for options with the customer before meeting with management

To eliminate float in the near-critical path

You have just finished most of the work on a new systems integration project when the buyer comes to you with detailed procedures to be used to close the contract. The contract included closure procedures. What should you do? *

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Revise the closure procedures after getting management's approval.

Request a change order.

Create new procedures that are more complete.

Assess the quality of the buyer's new detailed procedures, and if they are better than the current procedures, use them.

You're a project manager on a construction project. The electrician has started laying out the wiring, when the client comes to you with a change request. He needs additional outlets, and you think that will increase the cost of the electrical work. What is the first thing you do? *

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Refuse to make the change because it will increase the cost of the project and blow your budget.

Refer to the project management plan to see how the change should be handled.

Consult the contract to see if there is a clause.

Make the change, since the client requested it.

In your project, if the benefit cost ratio is greater than 1, it means that *

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The ratio of profits to cost is greater than 1.

The ratio of revenue to cost is greater than 1.

You should select this project from all other competing alternatives.

You should not select this project from all other competing alternatives.

A project team budgeted US $3,000 for the work performed and has spent US $4,000, to date. If they budgeted US $5,000 for the work scheduled, what is the cost variance (CV)? *

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($1,000)

$2000

$1000

($2,000)

You are a project manager for a new product development project that has four levels in the work breakdown structure and has been sequenced using the precedence diagramming method. The activity duration estimates have been received. What time management activity would you do NEXT? *

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Schedule compression

Collect historical records from previous projects

Create an activity list

Update the work breakdown structure

You are the project manager at an aircraft manufacturing company, where you use a wind tunnel to test how changes in different parameters like wind speed, temperature, humidity, etc. will impact the flight parameters of a prototype aeroplane. So, the project model is computed many times (iterated), with the input values chosen at random for each iteration from the probability distributions of these variables. The technique used is: *

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Monte Carlo simulation.

Expected monetary value.

Sensitivity analysis.

Probability distributions.

A project management plan should be realistic so that it can be used to manage a project successfully. Which of the following is the BEST method to prepare a realistic project management plan? *

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Project manager creates the project management plan based on inputs from the sponsor and the functional manager.

Sponsor creates the project management plan based on inputs from the project manager and the functional manager.

Project manager creates the project management plan based on inputs from the team.

Sponsor creates the project management plan based on inputs from all the stakeholders.

You are managing a two-year project involving staff from several departments. The project is on schedule and within budget. A key team member leaves for a four-week vacation without completing a highly technical and specialized activity assigned to him (activity A). The project team cannot begin activity B or activity E (a critical path activity) until activity A is completed. Activity A has three days float and is not on the critical path. A team member, a vendor, and a nonteam member work overtime to complete activity A within its float time. You need to reimburse the nonteam member's department and pay the vendor at an overtime rate. What action should you take? *

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Send a complaint letter to the key team member's boss, and ask him to fund the extra cost expended.

Reevaluate your communications management plan.

Thank the others for filling in, but tell them not to waste time on noncritical path activities.

Pay the cost out of your project reserves.

Your employee is three days late with a report. She walks into a meeting where the report is to be discussed and hands you a copy five minutes before the topic is to be discussed. You notice some serious errors in the report. How could this have been prevented? *

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Require periodic updates from the employee.

Coach and mentor the employee.

Make sure the employee was competent to do the work.

Cancel the meeting earlier because you did not have a chance to review the report.

Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long. If the project network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to do? *

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Fast track the project.

Level the resources.

Crash the project.

Monte Carlo analysis.

An estimation has been made that the construction of a residential home will cost a certain amount per square foot of living area. This is an example of what type of estimating? *

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Analogous estimating.

Bottom-up estimating.

Top-down estimating.

Parametric estimating.

You have geographically dispersed team members, from whom you would like to anonymously obtain expert opinion on the project you are managing. Which information gathering technique should you use? *

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Brainstorming.

Delphi technique.

SWOT analysis.

Checklists.

The activity list should include descriptions of activities. This is required to: *

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Provide a common understanding of the project scope among the project stakeholders.

Ensure that the team members understand what work is to be completed.

Serve as a reminder to the project manager.

Help in creation of technical documentation during the project life cycle.

In the last project status meeting, a team member criticized some of his teammates and undermined the status of work done by them. The role that was played by the person was that of: *

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Aggressor.

Conflict Maximizer.

Devil's Advocate.

Recognition Seeker.

Based on the chart, what activities must be completed before activity H can start? *

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Activity B and activity E

Activity A, activity D, and activity G

Activity B, activity C, and activity E

Activity C and activity E

A project manager is leading an effort to analyze waste and non-value-added activity on the project. One team member reports that two processes in use require work he believes is unnecessary. Another team member reports that a process is not well understood. The project manager must be leading which of the following? *

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A process rather than a project

The Plan Quality process

Management by objectives

The Perform Quality Assurance process

A resource assigned to your project contacts you, trying to get off the team. He knows that an important project in his department is going to be approved and will take place at the same time as yours. He wants to work on the other project. Under the circumstances, what is the BEST thing to do? *

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Keep him if he is a valuable resource.

Talk to the functional manager about releasing him from the team.

Release him after he finds a suitable replacement.

Wait until the last minute to see if the other project is approved.

Though you have tried to plan the project to accommodate all major contingencies, you are now asked for the fifth time to decrease the length of time the project will take to complete. The person completing activity C is no longer talking to you because of the added work she needed to do to accommodate previous decreases in time. She has already told you she cannot shorten her activity any more. The person doing activity D has been replaced by a new and less tested resource. The risk of crashing activity F is small. Based on this and the chart, what is the BEST thing to do? *

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Determine why there have been so many decreases to the project length.

Invite the person doing activity C to lunch to talk about her problems.

Evaluate the risk added to the project with the change of resources on activity D.

Make changes to the project to decrease the time the project will take.

You're managing a construction project to install several hundred air conditioner panels in a new office building. Every floor has identical panels. The customer, a construction contracting company, has provided specifications for the installations. The team is using a process to install and verify each panel. As the team completes each panel, your team's quality control inspector measures it and adds a data point to a control chart. You examine the control chart and discover that the process is out of control. Which of the following BEST describes what you found on the control chart? *

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At least two consecutive measurements are either above or below the mean but within the control limits.

At least one point is outside of the control limits.

At least seven measurements are within the control limits.

At least one point is above or below the mean.

After collecting requirements, one of your tasks as a project manager is to prepare a scope statement for your project. The scope statement provides: *

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Authorization to the project manager for using organizational resources for project activities.

Documentation of how the project scope will be managed and how scope changes will be integrated into the project.

Definition for work breakdown structure.

A documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a common understanding of the project scope among the stakeholders.

In your project, you want to extend the project schedule to reduce the threat that your project may not get the resources in time to complete the project. This is an example of: *

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Develop Schedule.

Avoid risk.

Mitigate risk.

Secondary risk.

A project manager's scope management efforts are being audited. The cost performance index (CPI) on the project is 1.13, and the benefit cost ratio (BCR) is 1.2. The project scope was created by the team and stakeholders. Requirements on the project have been changing throughout the project. No matter what the project manager has tried to accomplish in managing the project, which of the following is he MOST likely to face in the future? *

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Having to cut costs on the project and increase benefits

Making sure the customer approved the project scope

Not being able to measure completion of the product of the project

Having to add resources to the project

What is NOT true for project deliverables? *

1 point

Project deliverables should be identified, described and agreed upon as early in the project as possible.

Project deliverables may be products, capabilities for services or other kinds of results.

Once project deliverables have been identified, their description should not be changed any more.

The acceptance process for deliverables and how rejection will be addressed should be described in the contract.

In your project, you use control charts to monitor cost and schedule variances. In this context, you would call the process "out of control" in all the following EXCEPT: *

1 point

Point on specification limits.

Point out of control limits.

Point on mean.

Seven consecutive points on the same side of the mean.

A large, one-year telecommunications project is about halfway done when you take the place of the previous project manager. The project involves three different sellers and a project team of 30 people. You would like to see the project's communications requirements and what technology is being used to aid in project communications. Where will you find this information? *

1 point

The project management plan

The information distribution plan

The bar chart

The communications management plan

In your project, you create a document to record the code of account identifier, description of work, responsible organization, and a list of schedule milestones. This document can be referred to as: *

1 point

WBS

WBS Dictionary

PERT/CPM Charts

Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

The project is being completed faster than planned. Which of the following would NOT account for why this has occurred? *

1 point

Trend analysis was used to eliminate the need for some testing.

A pre-made item was purchased instead of the team creating it.

A critical path and a noncritical path activity were fast tracked.

A critical path activity was compressed.

In your company, you are in the process of deciding whether to buy a product or to make it in-house. All the following statements related to make-or-buy analysis are correct EXCEPT: *

1 point

Make-or-buy analysis is part of the Conduct Procurements process that can be used to determine whether a particular product can be produced cost effectively by the performing organization.

A make-or-buy analysis should consider all related costs.

Budget constraints may influence make-or-buy decisions.

Buy-side of the analysis includes both the actual out-of-pocket costs to purchase the product, as well as the indirect costs of supporting the purchasing process.

Which of the following is a common problem in the Close Project or Phase process? *

1 point

Retaining resources to complete the project

Completing the quality assurance plan

Obtaining scope verification

Completing a project charter

The precedence diagramming method (activity-on-node) is different from the arrow diagramming method (activity-on-arrow) because a precedence diagram: *

1 point

Can use PERT.

Has four relationships among activities.

Has only finish-to-finish relationships.

May use dummy activities.

You're managing a project, when your client tells you that an external problem happened, and now you have to meet an earlier deadline. Your supervisor heard that in a situation like this, you can use schedule compression by either crashing or fast-tracking the schedule, but he's not sure which is which. What do you tell him? *

1 point

Crashing the project adds risk, while fast-tracking adds cost.

When you crash a project, it always shortens the total duration of the project.

Crashing the project adds cost, while fast-tracking adds risk.

When you fast-track a project, it always shortens the total duration of the project.

There are 17 people on a project. How many lines of communication are there? *

1 point

136

105

112

Frequent heated discussions with your colleague over an issue are creating a hostile environment. To ease this situation, you agree with your colleague's point of view. The conflict resolution mode that you are using is: *

1 point

Problem solving.

Withdrawal.

Forcing.

Confrontation.

Bidder conferences can have a negative effect on the project if the project manager does NOT remember to make sure: *

1 point

All questions and answers are put in writing and sent to all sellers.

All sellers get answers to their questions only.

To hold separate meetings with each bidder to ensure you receive proprietary data.

There is room in the meeting for all sellers.

Which of the following is NOT a Project Constraint? *

1 point

Quality.

Scale.

Time.

Cost.

You want to identify quality requirements and standards relevant to your project and product. For this, you will: *

1 point

Perform Quality Assurance.

Plan Quality.

Perform Quality Control.

Perform Quality Management.

You have just been assigned as the project manager for a sizeable engineering project, and you want to quickly review the project's procedures for managing risk. What would be the MOST helpful in finding this information? *

1 point

A risk identification plan

A risk management plan

Environmental process assets

A risk impact matrix

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