PMP® Practice Quiz - 5
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You are the project manager in the public works department, which awards contracts for constructing roads. Before selecting the sellers, you must advertise in local newspapers. This is an example of: *
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You are managing an accounting project when a new CFO is hired at your company. He'll be affected by all accounting projects in your company. What's the BEST thing for you to do? *
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What is another name for the waiting time between two activities? *
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A project has experienced significant delays due to equipment problems, staff attrition, and slow client reviews. The project is 40 percent complete and has used 60 percent of the available calendar time. What is the FIRST thing you should do? *
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Which of the following is NOT a possible outcome of risk acceptance? *
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Your program manager has come to you, the project manager, for help with a bid for her newest project. You want to protect your company from financial risk. You have limited scope definition. What is the BEST type of contract to choose? *
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You are about to begin negotiations with people from another country. Which of the following should provide guidance on what business practices are allowed and not allowed? *
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You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into the planning processes when a project stakeholder asks you for the project's budget and cost baseline. What should you tell her? *
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The project manager of a critical project in your company has to go on leave and you have to take up his responsibility. In the project briefing, the outgoing project manager tells you that the scope statement for the project has been documented, WBS has been created by subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components and an activity list has been prepared. What should you do NEXT? *
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Four stakeholders have noted that major change is required on the contract. A project manager is compiling the change request when he receives a call from the seller informing him that the seller's supplier has notified them of a price increase effective the next day. The seller is therefore asking for the change to become official right away. Generally, the project manager should: *
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The WBS, estimates for each work package, and the network diagram are completed. Which of the following would be the NEXT thing for the project manager to do? *
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When would a milestone chart be used instead of a bar chart? *
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The organization of the project is very important for successful implementation. Which factor does not have any impact on the design of the project organization? *
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Based on the network diagram in the chart, you complete the initial schedule and find out that the scheduled completion date for activity G is after an imposed delivery date. In order to shorten the project length and meet that milestone, what should you do? *
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When identifying the basis of the business need for a project all of the following can be considered except ____ *
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The project management plan is the most important planning document produced with inputs from several project team members. In which of the following processes will the project management plan NOT be updated? *
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You have just been assigned as the project manager for a project that is in the middle of the executing process group. The BEST way to control the project is to: *
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You are the project manager for a software project. One of the teams discovers that if they deviate from the plan, they can actually skip one of the deliverables because it's no longer necessary. They do the calculations, and realize they can save the customer 10% of the cost of the project without compromising the features in the product. They take this approach, and inform you the following week what they did during the status meeting. What is the BEST way to describe this situation? *
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What is the duration of the near-critical path based on the chart? *
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You are in the closing stage of the project. While reviewing the product, you have come to know that the tolerance is .05 microns more than what was specified in the project requirements. This is a very minor deviation, and you know that your customer will not notice it during product delivery. Also, it will not adversely impact your customer when the product is put to actual use. What should you do in this situation? *
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What is a risk owner? *
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You are working for a semi-conductor company. There have been several instances in the past week when a few circuits have not been giving accurate results. You have been assigned the task of determining the probable cause for the variations. Which tool would you use? *
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The buyer has received the final deliverables and has formally accepted them. The balance of the Close Procurement process activities have been completed when a procurement audit identifies a failure. The project is considered to be: *
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Which of the following BEST describes defect repair review? *
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All of the following MUST be present to have a contract EXCEPT: *
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Since you are in the preliminary stages of your project, you estimate that your project may be completed in one year. However, the optimistic estimate is 6 months and pessimistic estimate is 18 months. This type of estimate is also called: *
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Based on the network diagram shown in the chart, what is the duration of the critical path? *
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Project reports are a method to: *
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A Pareto chart helps focusing on… *
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In your project, you are using cost aggregation, expert judgment, and historical relationships to establish a cost performance baseline. This is performed during: *
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The role of each stakeholder is determined by: *
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In your project, you have identified important risks and planned appropriate responses to the risks. Some risks- e.g. possibility of natural disasters impacting the project- have been documented and accepted in your risk management plan. What are the remaining risks called? *
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As individuals and/or organizations get more experienced at a task, they usually become more efficient at it. The more times a task has been performed, the less time will be required for subsequent iterations. This is an example of: *
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Your construction company recently secured a project to build a new flyover on Interstate 10. You have been appointed as project manager for the assignment. Your company had successfully executed similar projects in the past, and you would like to refer to the past project documents. At what stage of the project should this be done FIRST? *
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What kind of a diagram is represented by the information in the chart? *
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The project is mostly complete. The project has a schedule variance of 300 and a cost variance of -900. All but one of the quality control inspections have been completed and all have met the quality requirements. All items in the issue log have been resolved. Many of the resources have been released. The sponsor is about to call a meeting to obtain product verification when the customer notifies the project manager that they want to make a major change to the scope. The project manager should: *
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In your project, you will use a code of accounts to: *
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If there is a fire, the risk response plan developed is to use a fire extinguisher. If the fire extinguisher cannot take care of the fire, you call in a fire engine – calling in the fire engine is an example of: *
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A company is about to begin work on a large construction project to build four new buildings for a bank that wants to open new branches. The sponsor is writing a project charter. She recalls that a previous project the company performed for another bank ran over budget because the team had underestimated the effort required to install the reinforced walls in the vault. The previous project manager had documented the details of the lessons learned from this project. Where should the sponsor look for these lessons learned? *
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Which of the following BEST describes the primary use of project management software? *
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A new employee of the company is assigned to work on a project that is in the early planning processes. She has to decide today if she will accept the assignment to the project or whether she wants to be assigned to a different project. However, the project manager is not at work and is not reachable. Where can the team member look to help her determine what work she is given on the project? *
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Which of the following is an important input to the Verify Scope process? *
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You're managing a project that is difficult to estimate, so you don't have a good idea of when the project will end. Which of the following contracts is BEST? *
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A family member has a copy of a software program. He offers it to you at no cost because it will solve a business problem you have discussed with him. What should you do? *
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The Cost Performance Index (CPI) of a project is 0.8 and you have a limited budget. You are planning to procure a product from the supplier. In this situation, you should: *
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You're managing an industrial design project. Your project is currently in the Initiating phase. The project charter has been created, and you are working on developing the preliminary scope statement. Which of the following is NOT something that you should do? *
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Which of the following is not a major component in a contract document? *
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The project manager has worked closely with the team to come up with contingency plans. Which of the following BEST describes contingency plans? *
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While preparing your risk responses, you identify additional risks. What should you do? *
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Under which circumstances is it BEST to use a network diagram rather than a bar chart? *
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Maximum intensity of conflicts occur over: *
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Who of the following would be LEAST likely to be involved in the Define Activities process? *
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A team member complains to the project manager that another team member has once again failed to provide necessary information. The project manager meets with both team members to uncover the reason for the problem. This is an example of: *
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In your project, you want to examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with identified risks and their root causes, as well as the effectiveness of the risk management process. The tool you should use is: *
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In your project, you are in the process of creating an activity list. This should contain all of the following EXCEPT: *
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One of your construction project team members warns you that your concrete supplier caused serious delays in his last project because he delivered the wrong kind of concrete. You discuss it with the team, and decide that you need to accept the possibility that this will happen. But you make back-up plans with an alternate provider by putting a down-payment on an emergency shipment, just in case. This is an example of: *
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The customer starts to have cash flow problems, because other projects are being completed early. The customer notifies the project manager that there will be limits on when funds will be available for the project. The project CPI is currently 1.02, and the estimate to complete is US $927,000. If the project manager performs funding limit reconciliation, there will also MOST likely be a change to the: *
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A project manager is trying to coordinate all the activities on the project and has determined the following: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1 week. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 4 weeks. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of 5 weeks. Activity 4 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 8 weeks. Both activities 3 and 4 must be completed before the end of the project. What is the duration of the critical path for this project? *
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You are just leaving a meeting during which you have been assigned as the manager of a project to build a sub-station that is part of a major electric power distribution system. The decision to run the project has been made before your assignment and without your involvement. Some basic decisions on deliverables, staffing, budgeting and on the completion date have already been made as well. What should you do first? *
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Which of the following is the WORST way to resolve conflict? *
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The seller on your project abruptly goes out of business. What is the BEST thing to do? *
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You have a project with four activities as follows: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 4. 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 must be completed when activity 3 is completed. The estimate for activity 4 is 10. What is the SHORTEST amount of time in which the project can be completed? *
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Warranty and inventory costs are going up, causing the project manager to worry about the costs of nonconformance. What is the BEST advice you can give the project manager? *
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Senior management has imposed a project delivery date prior to acceptance of the project scope statement. To whom is the project manager MOST accountable? *
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When running a project as a project manager, what should you focus on during the Executing processes? *
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Your project is being carried out under contract and the buyer is conducting process reviews to determine how well you (seller) are doing with the contract. This may help in all the following EXCEPT: *
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You are project manager leading a US $3,000,000 chemical engineering project. To date, you've been leading the other 11 people who comprise the overall project team. Lately you've noticed that you are spread too thin and the schedule is being negatively impacted. Because the project is date-constrained, you convinced senior management to accept a cost variance and add a senior quality assurance analyst to the project team. This new resource will work directly with the three project team members who comprise the testing sub-team. How many more communication channels will there be on the project team? *
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Based on the chart, how many weeks will this project take? *
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A WBS dictionary is a document which… *
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What is true for Statistical sampling? *
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Based on the chart, what is the float of activity B? *
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Based on the chart, what is the float of activity F? *
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Based on the chart, if the duration of activity F changes to 8, what is the effect on the project? *
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The upper and lower control limits in a control chart indicate the: *
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In your project, recently you observe conflict among team members. You would like to see that all team members work towards one goal (i.e., successful completion of the project). A conflict handling method that emphasizes similarities rather than differences as means to solve a problem can also be referred to as: *
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Your team is analyzing the project and comes up with the information in the chart. Which activities are on the critical path? *
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In order to shorten the project duration, you look at fast tracking the project. Based on the chart, which activity(s) would you consider fast tracking? *
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The WBS, estimates for each work package, and the network diagram are completed. The NEXT thing for the project manager to do is: *
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Based on the chart, what is the duration of the critical path? *
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You are managing a project with an EV of $15,000, PV of $12,000 and AC of $11,000. How would you BEST describe this project? *
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Based on the chart, what is the duration of the critical path? *
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Which is the BEST description of project scope? *
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Which of the following may not be included in the organizational process assets that influence the Estimate Costs process? *
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Based on the chart, which of the following statements BEST reflects the project situation? *
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Based on the chart, while working on the project, you are told that you have to remove some resources to support a more important project for your customer. From which activity would it be BEST to remove resources? *
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Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at US $2,000,000. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should do upon hearing of the new project? *
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You need to shorten the project by exactly four months, but spend no more than US $22,000 to do it. Based on the information in the chart, you would include activity A as part of the solution. However, during planning, the resource completing activity A strongly argued for a particular method of completing the scope in order to agree to be on the team. His scope was accepted because his expertise was needed on the project. The BEST way to crash this project would be to crash which activity(s)? *
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Originally a project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, activity B takes 5 weeks, and activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before activity C can start. Activity C takes 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before activity E can start, and activity E takes 2 weeks. Activity F can start as soon as activity C completes and has a duration of 4 weeks. Activity G takes 3 weeks and cannot start until activity E is completed. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. However, during project executing, a dependency was discovered between activities E and F. What is the BEST thing to do? *
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Using the chart, a new activity, (R) with the duration of 5 is added to this project. Activity R has a predecessor of activity A and a successor of activity B. How long will the project now take? *
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Conflict on projects is usually caused by: *
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Your company has an emergency and needs contracted work done as soon as possible. Under these circumstances, which of the following would be the MOST helpful to add to the contract? *
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You are developing the project scope statement for a new project. Which of the following is NOT part of creating a project scope statement? *
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You're managing a project with a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.07 and a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.94. How would you BEST describe this project? *
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As per the chart, the resource completing activity E is not performing very well. After much argument, the functional manager agrees to assign a different resource to activity E, but this will increase activity E's duration to seven months. What is the effect of this change? *
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Rekha is a project manager on a large construction project. Late in the project, her client demands a big change. She assesses the impact of the change and tells the client how much time and money it will cost. But the client won't allow any change to the schedule and won't pay anything more for change. Rekha explains that the proposed change is well outside the documented scope of the original work. The client tells Rekha that he doesn't care what was in the original scope and that she needs to implement the change with no impact to schedule or budget. What conflict resolution technique is he the client using? *
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The Scope baseline consists of what? *
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Based on the chart, while completing the project, a team member tells you that the team forgot something during planning. Activity F needs the results of activity E before it can begin. Taking this new dependency into account, what would be the effect on the project? *
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Which of these processes is not a part of Scope Management? *
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A project manager gets a report from the risk response owner that a risk did not occur. The project manager should then: *
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Using the chart, the resource for activity A is assigned to an additional, more important, project. As a result, the resource will not be able to devote as much time to your project. Activity A will now take 10 weeks. How does this affect the project? *
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