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PMP® Practice Quiz - 19

A management point in a Work breakdown structure (WBS) used to consolidate and process work package data and forward the results to the project manager is called ____ *

1 point

Control account.

Chart of accounts.

Control limit.

Account limit.

Payment for routine government action by a foreign official is: *

1 point

A bribe.

Allowed.

Not payable upon violation of government law.

Allowed only if they process the project schedule.

In your project, which of the following facilitates the Monitor and Control Risks process? *

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Status meetings.

Planning meetings and analysis.

SWOT analysis.

Assumptions analysis.

A project manager on a construction project includes a line item in the budget for insurance for the equipment and job site. This is an example of: *

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Transference.

Mitigation.

Avoidance.

Acceptance.

You are managing a software project. The stakeholders have found a few requirements that were missed in the initial Project Scope Statement. You put the requested changes through change control and they are approved so you need to update the Scope Statement to include the new work. Where can you find the most updated version of the Scope Statement? *

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In the Configuration Management System.

In the Document Repository.

In the Project Management Plan.

In the Communications Management Plan.

Your project team had a meeting with the customer (during Verify Scope process) for getting formal acceptance of the project deliverables. This activity refers to which process group? *

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Closing.

Executing.

Planning.

Monitoring and Controlling.

You're the project manager for an industrial design project. Your team members report to you, and you're responsible for creating the budget, building the schedule, and assigning the tasks. When the project is complete, you release the team so they can work on other projects for the company. What kind of organization do you work in? *

1 point

Functional.

Weak matrix.

Strong matrix.

Projectized.

In attempting to complete the project faster, the project manager looks at the cost associated with crashing each activity. The BEST approach to crashing would also include looking at the: *

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Risk impact of crashing each activity.

Customer's opinion of which activities to crash.

Boss's opinion of which activities to crash and in which order.

Project life cycle phase in which the activity is due to occur.

A control chart shows seven data points in a row on one side of the mean. What should be done? *

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Perform a design of experiments.

Adjust the chart to reflect the new mean.

Find an assignable cause.

Nothing. This is the rule of seven and can be ignored.

Project coordination is enhanced through progress reporting, variance reporting, and team meetings. These are all forms of: *

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Staffing management.

Risk management.

Time management.

Communications management.

The customer has accepted the completed project scope. However, the lessons learned required by the project management office have not been completed. What is the status of the project? *

1 point

The project is incomplete because the project needs to be replanned.

The project is incomplete until all project and product deliverables are complete and accepted.

The project is complete because the customer has accepted the deliverables.

The project is complete because the project has reached the due date.

All of the following are parts of the scope baseline EXCEPT the: *

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Scope management plan.

Project scope statement.

Work breakdown structure.

WBS dictionary.

Which statement describes best handling of assumptions during the Initiating processes? *

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It is the responsibility of the sales person in charge to identify all risks related to a customer project.

Managing and organizing assumptions means avoiding risks right from the start of the project.

Organizational, environmental and external assumptions should be addressed by the project charter.

Risks are a sign of uncertainty. Avoiding all uncertainties means that a project should have no risks at all.

If the number of critical paths in the project increases, but the duration of the project remains the same, what should the project manager do? *

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Perform crashing to complete project on time.

Fast track the project.

Perform additional risk planning.

Decrease the scope of the project.

Geert Hofstede's cultural dimension of Individualism refers to… *

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…the degree of dependence relationships between individuals.

…the significance of the person versus that of the group.

…the identification with the gender role of an individual.

…the tolerance for ambiguity or uncertainty in the workplace.

Your management applies the 10 percent solution: It has requested that you reduce the budget for the project which you are currently initiating by 10%. What will this probably mean for your project? *

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If the budget is cut by 10%, then the project will have an accompanying degradation of quality by 10%.

If the project budget is an honest one, then a reduction in budget must be accompanied by a trade-off in either time or performance.

A 10% reduction in budget will be accompanied by a loss of performance much less than the target reduction in cost.

Most projects have "padded" estimates, and the budgetary reduction will force out the padding from the project.

Monte Carlo analysis is used to: *

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Get an indication of the risk involved in the project.

Estimate an activity's length.

Simulate the order in which activities occur.

Prove to management that extra staff is needed.

You are assigned to a project that senior management has already decided to outsource. As a project manager, you need to work with the contracts department to select the vendor and then oversee the vendor through project completion. Company policy requires that a project of this size go through a formal bid process. A vice president in your company tells you that his friend owns one of the companies that might bid on the project and that the company would be an excellent choice as a vendor. This vice president has a reputation for making or breaking careers. What is generally the BEST course of action? *

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Follow the bid process, and show the vice president why the favored vendor is or is not the best choice.

Obtain written permission to bypass the formal bid process.

Let the evaluation team know that management has a favorite vendor.

Let the contracts department handle the situation.

During the Plan Risk Management process, your team has come up with 434 risks and 16 major causes of those risks. The project is the last of a series of projects which the team has worked on together. The sponsor is very supportive and a lot of time was invested in making sure the project was complete and signed off by all key stakeholders. During project planning, the team cannot come up with an effective way to mitigate or insure against a risk. It is not work that can be outsourced, nor can it be deleted. What would be the BEST solution? *

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Accept the risk.

Continue to investigate ways to mitigate the risk.

Look for ways to avoid the risk.

Look for ways to transfer the risk.

Which of the following is NOT a cost estimation tool or technique? *

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Bottom-up.

Parametric.

Cost aggregation.

Analogous.

A project manager is running into trouble with his team, because they always come to meetings late. Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to be the cause of this problem? *

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The team resents the work that they're doing.

The project manager needs to schedule meetings later in the day.

The project manager was late to meetings himself, and this influenced the team.

The team is in the storming phase of team development.

Team members are investigating quality standards that other companies are using, in order to help determine what quality standards to use on the project. What part of quality management is the team involved in? *

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Quality Execution

Perform Quality Control

Perform Quality Assurance

Plan Quality

Which type of cost is team training? *

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Direct

NPV

Indirect

Fixed

Which of the following BEST describes what co-location does for the project? *

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Saves cost

Reduces communication problems

Accelerates schedule

Improves opportunities

A project manager is having problems with how two of the parts fit together on the new computer and the software uploads to the system. To plan a strategy for resolving these problems, it is BEST to determine if the problems are: *

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Nonconforming.

Statistically independent.

Impacting quality.

Normally distributed.

Two team members are having a big disagreement over the type of computer hardware to use on the project. Who should resolve the dispute? *

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Two members and their project manager

Project manager

Management

System supervisor

You are managing a software project. Your team has been working for eight weeks, and so far the project is on track. The lead programmer comes to you with a problem: there is a work package that is causing trouble. Nobody seems to know who is responsible for it, the accounting department does not know what cost center to bill it against, and it's not even clear exactly what work should be performed. Which of the following would BEST help this situation? *

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Alternatives Analysis.

WBS Dictionary.

Scope Management Plan.

Scope Verification.

You're on the project selection committee. You're reviewing a document that describes the strategic value of a potential project and its benefits to the company. What's this document called? *

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Project Charter.

Business Case.

Benefit measurement method.

Contract.

Your project is executed with a globally spread virtual team. The project progress has been found to be too slow. Which measure is most likely to immediately speed up the project? *

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Technical training for all team members.

Daily phone conferences and detailed reporting.

A team meeting at a location convenient to all team members.

Collocation of team members at a suitable place.

"What information needs to be collected when" is part of which of the following? *

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Formal reporting

Plan Communications

Stakeholder management

Earned value

Under a contract, formal, written correspondence with the seller is required when: *

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A change to the project is issued.

A meeting with the seller's management is held.

The seller is asked for supporting information.

There is a follow up to a conversation.

In your project, you are now interested in determining the cause of variance relative to the scope baseline and deciding whether corrective action is required. You should use: *

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Configuration management system.

Variance analysis.

Re-planning.

Earned value spreadsheets.

Your customer wants some change to be effected in the project scope. You determine that the change in scope will not impact the project schedules but will cost the project an additional $ 50,000. What should you do FIRST? *

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Try crashing or fast tracking the project.

Do not allow the customer to change the project scope.

Let the customer know about the impact of the change in project scope and ask for additional funding.

Discuss with your project sponsor.

Which of the following BEST describes the Verify Scope process? *

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It provides assurances that the deliverable meets the specifications, is an input to the project management plan, and an output of Perform Quality Control.

It ensures that the deliverable is completed on time, ensures customer acceptance, and shows that the deliverable meets specifications.

It ensures customer acceptance, shows that the deliverable meets specifications, and provides a chance for differences of opinion to come to light.

It is an output of Perform Quality Control, occurs before Define Scope, and ensures customer acceptance.

In planning a project, you notice that some of the materials required on the project are only available from a seller that owns a patent. What should be one of your MAIN concerns? *

1 point

Seller bankruptcy

Applicable laws

Type of contract to use

Seller competition

Which of the following contains an item that is NOT an output of the Plan Procurements process? *

1 point

Procurement management plan, procurement documents, procurement contract award

Procurement statement of work, procurement management plan, make-or-buy decisions

Change requests, procurement management plan, source selection criteria

Make-or-buy decisions, procurement statement of work, change requests

A project manager gets a call from a team member notifying him that there is a variance between the speed of a system on the project and the desired or planned speed. The project manager is surprised because that performance measurement was not identified in planning. If the project manager then evaluates whether the variance warrants a response, he is in what project management process? *

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Initiating

Executing

Monitoring and controlling

Closing

Which of the following is NOT an input to Perform Quality Control? *

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Deliverables.

Work Performance Information.

Checklists.

Recommended Defect Repairs.

In your project, you are about to complete Plan Risk Responses process. Completion of certain tasks marks the end of the process. Which one from the following is NOT that task? *

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People have been identified to take responsibility for each agreed-to and funded risk response.

High priority risks are addressed in detail in the risk register.

Low priority risks are included in the risk mitigation plan if they occur.

Negative risks have been considered for avoidance, transference or mitigation.

Four project managers are having lunch together and discussing their projects. Most of the time they are just complaining about how hard projects are to manage in their company. Some complain about the stakeholders and the number of changes they cause. Others talk about how hard it is to get people to cooperate and perform. One project manager wants to focus on the advantages of the matrix-type organization they all work in for their projects. Which of the following would he mention? *

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Improved project manager control over resources

More than one boss for project teams

Communications are easier

Reporting is easier

Which parts of the risk management process use the project scope statement as an input? *

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Risk management planning, and risk monitoring and control

Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis

Qualitative risk analysis and risk response planning

Risk response planning and risk monitoring and control

The previous project manager for your project managed it without much project organization. There is a lack of management control and no clearly defined project deliverables. Which of the following would be the BEST choice for getting your project better organized? *

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Adopt a life cycle approach to the project.

Develop lessons learned for each phase.

Develop specific work plans for each work package.

Develop a description of the product of the project.

During the middle of the project, things have been going well. The work authorization system has allowed people to know when to start work and the issue log has helped keep track of stakeholders' needs. The benefit cost ratio has been improving and the sponsor has expressed his appreciation for the team members' efforts by hosting a milestone party for the team. The project manager gets a call from a team member saying that the results from the completion of their activity's predecessor is two days late. Which of the following reasons would BEST describe why this occurred? *

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The project manager was focusing on the sponsor's needs.

Functional management was not included in the communications management plan.

The successor activities should have been watched, not the predecessors.

The right people were not invited to the milestone party.

While managing a project for a manufacturing company, you receive a change request from the customer for a minor alteration to the product configuration. In this context, which of the following is NOT a step you would take next? *

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Evaluate the impact of the change.

Examine other options.

Seek approval from change control board.

Reject the change request as this would change the product configuration.

Your sponsor believes in "SMART" goals for evaluating the objectives or goals for your project. In this context, SMART includes all the following keywords EXCEPT: *

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Significant.

Measurable.

Relevant.

Attainable.

A construction project has a work package that could result in fatalities or long term disabilities with losses of over US $2 million. The company has had a clean record in the past and has won several safety awards. An appropriate risk response strategy is to: *

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Post a sign that describes the number of injuries to date and remind everyone to be careful.

Insure against the risk.

Add classroom training on safety for the project team.

Not do the work package.

Your company has just presented its new five-year strategic plan. You have received a new product request from a customer that is in line with the previous five-year strategic plan, but it does not meet the objectives of the new plan. The product description seems to have a valid business driver and to be a straightforward development effort. As project manager, what is the BEST course of action? *

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Do a benefit cost analysis of the project and submit it for management approval.

Submit the new product request to the PMO for review and approval before proceeding.

Inform the customer of the change in corporate direction and ask him/her to take another look at the project.

Request a project charter from management and begin a WBS.

The project manager wishes to use the Delphi technique to obtain expert opinion on some difficult technical issues she's facing. What should she be careful to do? *

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Make sure the experts consulted are recognized for their input.

Compare information and work toward a single opinion.

Consult the stakeholders.

Meet together with the experts to obtain consensus.

After much excitement and hard work, the procurement statement of work for the project is completed. Even after gaining agreement that the procurement statement of work is complete, the project manager is still concerned whether it actually addresses all the buyer's needs. The project manager is about to attend the bidder conference. He asks you for advice on what to do during the session. Which of the following is the BEST advice you can give him? *

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You do not need to attend this session. The procurement manager will hold it.

Make sure you negotiate project scope.

Make sure you give all the sellers enough time to ask questions. They may not want to ask questions while their competitors are in the room.

Let the project sponsor handle the meeting so you can be the good guy in the negotiation session.

You are the blue-eyed boy of your vice chairman who appreciates the way in which you work in projects. She also consults you during performance appraisals. This helps you in managing interpersonal relationships with your team members, because you have the following power: *

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Legitimate.

Expert.

Penalty.

Referent.

You are trying to help project managers in your organization understand the project management process groups and the project management process. Many of them are confusing the project life cycle with the project management process. Which of the following identifies the DIFFERENCE between these two? *

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The project life cycle is created based on the top level of the work breakdown structure.

The project management process is longer.

The project management process only applies to some projects.

The project life cycle describes what you need to do to complete the work.

Standard deviation is a measure of how: *

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Far the estimate is from the highest estimate.

Far the measurement is from the mean.

Correct the sample is.

Much time remains in the project.

In your project, you are subdividing major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. This will be done as part of : *

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Create WBS.

Scope Verification.

Work Authorization System.

Product Analysis.

A project team is analyzing its needs for an upcoming, long-term contract. They need to have a system analyzed and fixed, but they do not have the expertise to tell the seller exactly what should be done. What type of contract should they use? *

1 point

Cost plus fixed fee (CPFF)

Time and material (T&M)

Fixed price (FP)

Fixed price economic price adjustment (FPEPA)

A contract has just been signed with a construction company to complete a remodeling project within three months. Due to a force majeure, the project will be delayed by an additional three months. However, the construction company does not have enough resources to complete the project and has asked for an early termination of the contract. What is the MOST appropriate thing to do in this situation? *

1 point

Bring details of the situation to the legal department.

Complete the Close Project or Phase process.

Complete the Close Procurements process.

Issue a change order for an extension of time.

In your project, you use product analysis to translate high-level product descriptions into tangible deliverables and requirements. All the following techniques are used for product analysis EXCEPT: *

1 point

Value engineering.

Value analysis.

Product breakdown.

Alternatives identification.

Management tells a project manager to subcontract part of the project to a company that management has worked with many times. Under these circumstances, the project manager should be MOST concerned about: *

1 point

Making sure the company has the qualifications to complete the project.

Meeting management expectations of time.

The cost of the subcontracted work.

The contract terms and conditions.

A project manager is trying to convince management to use more formal project management procedures and has decided to start improving the company's project management by obtaining a project charter. Which of the following BEST describes why the project charter would help the project manager? *

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It describes the details of what needs to be done.

It lists the names of all team members.

It gives the project manager authority.

It describes the project's history.

Your team is involved in the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process. In which process group is the project? *

1 point

Monitoring and controlling

Closing

Planning

Executing

Which of the following is the highest point in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? *

1 point

Social

Physiological

Esteem

Safety

Which is the BEST definition of quality? *

1 point

A product made of very expensive materials.

A product made with a lot of care by the team who built it.

A product that satisfies the requirements of the people who pay for it.

A product that passes all of its tests.

You are a project manager on a construction project. You have just prepared an RFP to send around to electrical contractors. You get a call from your uncle who owns an electrical contracting company. He wants to bid on your project. You know he's done good work before, and it may be a good fit for your company. How do you proceed? *

1 point

You disclose the conflict of interest to your company, and disqualify your uncle's company.

You disclose the conflict of interest to your company, and make the selection based on objective criteria.

You disclose the conflict of interest to your company, and provide your uncle with information that the other bidders don't have so that he has a better chance of winning the contract.

You do not disclose the conflict of interest, and give your uncle the bid.

You're a project manager on a software project. Your team is busy executing the project and creating the deliverables, but there have been several changes requested by stakeholders over the past few weeks. Each time you got one of these changes, you called a meeting with your team and the stakeholders to discuss it. Why did you do this? *

1 point

Every change needs to be evaluated by a change control board.

You're delegating the work of evaluating changes.

You do not have a good change control system in place.

You are using a work authorization system to assign the work.

What is a constructive change? *

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A change request that helps improving the project and its product, service or result and is discussed generally in a friendly style.

A direction by the buyer or an action taken by the seller that the other party considers an undocumented change to the contract.

A field change or ad-hoc change mandated by the project customer in a public construction project.

A change request which will lead to the re-construction of an older version of the project performance baseline by the contractor.

While managing a project, you decide to create a prototype of your product first to ensure that it is acceptable to stakeholders before moving on to build your product. This is an example of: *

1 point

Risk mitigation.

Risk avoidance.

Simulation.

Project assumptions testing.

A functional manager meets with the project manager's boss to discuss a change to the acceptance criteria for a major deliverable. After the meeting, the boss calls the project manager into his office and tells him to make the change. What is the BEST thing to do? *

1 point

Make the change as soon as possible.

Understand the change.

Supply the boss with a change form.

Evaluate the impact of the change.

Your project has a virtual team. Half of your team members are located in another country, where they are working for a subcontractor. You want to promote the top performing foreign team member to a leadership position, but you are told by the other team members that women are not allowed to hold positions of authority. When you bring it up with their manager, you are informed that it is the subcontractor's policy not to promote women, and that in their country; it is culturally considered offensive for a man to take orders from a woman. What is the BEST way to respond to this situation? *

1 point

Inform the subcontractor that they must adopt a non-discriminatory policy or you will be forced to terminate the contract and find a subcontractor that does not discriminate against women.

Do nothing, because discrimination against women is a cultural norm in the subcontractor's country.

Request that the team attend sensitivity training.

Promote another team member, but find a different way to reward the woman for her work.

You are about to hold a bidder conference, and a potential seller offers you great tickets to a baseball game for your favorite team. What should you do? *

1 point

Go to the game with the seller but avoid talking about the contract.

Go to the game with seller and discuss the contract.

Go to the game, but make sure not to let him buy you anything because that would be a bribe.

Politely refuse the tickets.

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

1 point

Regulations

Best practices

Assumptions

Constraints

All of the following are parts of the project initiating processes EXCEPT: *

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Develop product acceptance criteria.

Determine project boundaries.

Develop project objectives.

Develop performance measurement baselines.

Which of the following is a KEY way to improve activity cost estimates? *

1 point

Use historical data.

Let management create the management reserve and the activity cost estimate.

Base activity estimates on the upper and lower control limits.

Let the project manager create the activity cost estimate.

In your project, you have determined the planned quantity of work to be performed. Luckily, a similar project was successfully completed three months ago, and historical information from that project is readily available. To get a cost estimate for your project, you multiply the planned quantity of work in your project with the cost per unit obtained from the previous project. This is a classic example of: *

1 point

Analogous estimating.

Determining resource cost rates.

Bottom-up estimating.

Parametric estimating.

A new project manager has been hired in your company, and you have been asked to mentor her. Because she is well trained, she is planning her project in great detail. Her first project for the company is relatively low priority, and you feel that the project manager is planning too many project control meetings. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to tell her? *

1 point

Strike a balance between the extent of the control system and the risk of unfavorable project outcomes.

Make sure you identify more than 40 risks, and then have more than one meeting a month.

A good project management plan should be about 90 percent complete before starting work.

Make sure you include milestones to help plan the project to the project charter.

The scope baseline can BEST be said to include the: *

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WBS and project scope statement.

Scope management plan and project scope statement.

Scope management plan and WBS.

WBS and project charter.

What is the definition of chart of accounts? *

1 point

A list of all the buyers a seller works for

Another name for a chartered accountant

A document where risks are described

Allowable places to charge expenses

Which of the following is NOT an example of operational work? *

1 point

Building a purchase order system for accounts payable.

Submitting weekly purchase orders through a purchase order system.

Deploying weekly anti-virus software updates.

Yearly staff performance evaluations.

Which statement describes best the purpose of the Communications management plan? *

1 point

The project management plan is a subsidiary document of the overall communications management plan.

The communications management plan describes rules of behavior and respect for communications in cross-cultural teams.

The communications management plan describes the information delivery needs including format and level of detail.

The communications management plan focuses on the use of communications technologies by the project management team.

During project planning, a project manager is planning the upcoming project execution team meetings. What should she include in these meetings that would have the biggest impact on the project? *

1 point

Review of the action item list

Review of upcoming identified risks

Assignment of activities to team members

Estimating costs

Which of the following is NOT an output of the Manage Stakeholders process? *

1 point

Approved corrective actions.

Deliverables.

Updates to the project management plan.

Organizational process asset updates.

Your company has awarded a contract to a vendor. After some time, you realize that the vendor representative is your old buddy from school. You inform this to your senior management, but they insist that you continue to administer the contract. So, to avoid any accusations of bias in this conflict of interest situation, you should: *

1 point

Document all the decisions taken by you on the activities performed by the vendor.

Refrain from administering the contract.

Resign from the project.

Remind your senior management of conflict of interest.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a project life cycle? *

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Stakeholder influence, risk, and uncertainty are highest at the start of the project.

Ability of the stakeholders to influence final characteristics of the project's product increases as the project progresses.

The project life cycle determines which transitional actions at the beginning and end of the project are included, so that the project can be linked to the ongoing operations of the performing organization.

Stakeholder influence, risk, and uncertainty decrease as the project progresses.

Which of the following is an advantage of centralized contracting? *

1 point

Increased expertise

Easier access

No home

More loyalty to the project

Which of the following is not related to Direct and Manage Project Execution process: *

1 point

Manage sellers and suppliers.

Create project deliverables.

Implement the planned methods and standards.

Change control meetings.

When should a Time and material contract with a contractor been chosen instead of a Fixed price contract? *

1 point

When cost risks for the customer should be limited but not schedule risks.

When project scope includes the progressive elaboration of the scope of deliverables.

When subcontractors are being used and the customer will reimburse their invoices.

When only a limited amount of money can be made available to fund the project.

Extensive use of ___ communication is MOST likely to aid in solving complex problems. *

1 point

Verbal

Written

Formal

Nonverbal

The project manager and procurement manager are meeting with a prospective seller to discuss the amount of reporting that will be needed on the project. The seller wants the contract to allow electronic submission of reports and to designate what specific e-mail addresses should be used for the submission. These contract negotiations occur during what part of the project management process? *

1 point

Initiating

Planning

Executing

Monitoring and controlling

What are the strategies for dealing with positive risks? *

1 point

Avoid, mitigate, transfer, accept.

Transfer, mitigate, avoid, exploit.

Exploit, share, enhance, accept.

Mitigate, enhance, exploit, accept.

You have been assigned to manage a project for the subsidiary unit of your organization in a foreign country. In this context, which of the following will aid you in managing the project better? *

1 point

Awareness of the political history of the country.

Information about the country's demography and social structure.

Awareness of culture and customs in the country.

Information about previous projects done in the country by your competitors.

During project executing, a team member comes to the project manager because he is not sure of what work he needs to accomplish on the project. Which of the following documents contain detailed descriptions of work packages? *

1 point

WBS dictionary

Activity list

Project scope statement

Scope management plan

You work in a matrix organization when a team member comes to you to admit he is having trouble with his activity. Although not yet in serious trouble, the team member admits he is uncertain of how to perform part of the work on the activity. He suggests a training class available next week. What should you do? *

1 point

Switch to a trained resource to avoid the cost.

Determine if anyone else needs training.

Get money from the team member's functional department budget.

Get money from the project budget.

A scope change has been approved by the change control board. Which of the following MUST be impacted? *

1 point

The early start date of the activities later in the network diagram

The cost of the project

The expected monetary value of project risks

The number of resources used on the project

A control chart helps the project manager: *

1 point

Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality.

Focus on stimulating thinking.

Explore a desired future outcome.

Determine if a process is functioning within set limits.

All of the following are ALWAYS inputs to the risk management process EXCEPT: *

1 point

Historical information.

Lessons learned.

Work breakdown structure.

Project status reports.

The process of identifying the product needs that can be met by acquiring products outside the project organization is done as part of: *

1 point

Conduct Procurements.

Administer Procurements.

Close Procurements.

Plan Procurements.

As a project manager, you are aware that project management process groups are linked by their objectives. Planning process group outputs including the project management plan become inputs for the project implementation. In this context, all the following statements are accurate EXCEPT: *

1 point

Process groups are non-overlapping activities that occur with varying intensity throughout the project.

If the project is divided into phases, the process groups interact within a project phase and may also cross over to other phases.

Not all processes will be needed on all projects and not all of the interactions will apply to all the projects or process groups.

Among the process groups and their processes, the process outputs are related and have an impact on the other process groups..

A team member notifies you, after the fact, that she has added extra functionality to the project. There was no impact on the cost or schedule. What should be done as a result of this change? *

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Inform the customer.

Make sure marketing is aware of the change.

Understand what functionality was added.

Implement change control processes to track the change.

A project manager is running a software project that is supposed to be delivered in phases. She was planning on dividing the resources into two separate teams to do the work for two phases at the same time, but one of her senior developers suggested that she use an Agile methodology instead, and she agrees. Which of the following BEST describes the relationship between her project's phases? *

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Sequential relationship.

Iterative relationship.

Constrained relationship.

Overlapping relationship.

The customer is repeatedly requesting changes. You discover the contract does not include procedures for implementing change. There are no available funds in the customer's budget to accommodate change. What should you do? *

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Ask your management to use money from the company's cost reserve.

Tell the customer there is no budget for changes in the project.

Discuss the situation with the customer to decide how to remedy this problem.

Make only those changes that do not impact cost.

Your project, run for a customer, is coming to an end. The customer has been contractually granted a three years warranty period for the product of the project. What should you do first? *

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Hand all relevant documentation over to the organizational unit responsible for handling the warranty.

There is no additional work to be done. The contract should describe all processes in sufficient detail.

Changes on the product can affect warranty clauses. Ensure that these clauses are aligned with the final specifications.

According to many legislations, you cannot formally close a project before the end of the warranty period.

The project is not going well and many changes are being made. Which of the following should you do FIRST to gain control of the project? *

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Review the project scope with the stakeholders.

Create a new change form.

Remind everyone of the change procedures.

Ask the sponsor to review the project charter.

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