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PMP® Practice Quiz - 24

What are the basic types of phase-to-phase relationships? *

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Sequential, concurrent, and overlapping.

Iterative, sequential, and concurrent.

Sequential, overlapping, and iterative.

Overlapping, iterative, and concurrent.

What is the Five W's method used for? *

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Root cause analysis.

Identification of random causes.

Identification of special causes.

Identification of causes of conflicts.

Your client has terminated your project before it is complete. Which of the following is true? *

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You must stop all work and release the team immediately.

You must work with the team to document the lessons learned.

You must keep the team working on the project to give your senior management time to talk to the client.

You must update the project management plan to reflect this change.

Please refer to the diagram. Tasks A, B, C and D are in the critical path of a project; all the tasks are estimated to require similar effort of 5 days each and cost $5,000 per task. At the end day 11, Task A and Task B are complete; Task C is 50% complete, and $13,000 has already been spent. What is the status of the project? *

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Behind schedule, under budget.

Ahead of schedule, under budget.

Ahead of schedule, over budget.

Behind schedule, over budget.

The project for the accounting department has been going well when the company says that it must reduce the cost of the project without changing the quality requirements. The project manager has looked to trim any resources, paid more attention to risk on upcoming activities, and even has reduced product scope, but the project remains over the new budget limit. Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT? *

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Get an extension of time.

Review expensive customer requirements that add the least benefit.

Suggest the project be terminated.

Cut 10 percent off the cost estimate of each remaining activity.

The project has been going well when one of the suppliers informs you that, as they warned you during project planning, they will deliver your equipment two days late. At the same time, you get a call from a team member informing you that the critical path activity she is working on will take longer to complete than planned. What is the BEST thing to do? *

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Use a contingency reserve for the first, and find out how much later the activity will be.

Ask for a change order for each.

Have both reviewed with the change control board.

Find out why the activity was late.

In PDM, which precedence relationship type is most commonly used? *

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FS (Finish to Start).

FF (Finish to Finish).

SS (Start to Start).

SF (Start to Finish).

You have successfully completed a project and the customer is happy with the product. From a project management perspective, when a service or a product meets customer expectations, it means that: *

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Cost of quality is low.

Project is completed.

Cost of quality is high.

Quality is achieved.

All of the following statements about project feasibility studies are true EXCEPT: *

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They can help in selecting one project over another.

They can be the first project phase or a separate project.

They can be used to determine if a project should be completed.

They can be used to determine project team members.

Float is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the project finish date. It is also called: *

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Slack.

Free float.

Path float.

Critical path.

You have finished the Plan Risk Responses process and are left with residual risks. What should you do with them? *

1 point

Document them in the risk register and revisit them later.

Deal with them as they arise during project executing.

Include them as part of the contingency plans.

Perform a sensitivity analysis on them.

In your project, you have drawn up the project management plan and identified the various stakeholders. You are ready to distribute information to stakeholders as planned. For this purpose, you will use which of the following inputs? *

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Performance Reports.

Deliverables.

Requested changes.

Information methods.

A project team is working on manufacturing a new product, but they are having difficulty creating a project charter. What is the BEST description of the real problem? *

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They have not identified the project objectives.

They are working on a process and not a project.

The end date has not been set.

They have not identified the product of the project.

A team member wants to make a technical change to her activity that will add time to the activity estimate. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do? *

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See if there is any time available from another activity.

See if there is enough reserve to handle the change.

Send a change request to the change control board.

Determine if the activity is on the critical path.

An e-mail is forwarded to you that involves conflict between two team members. Which conflict resolution technique would you use? *

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Forcing

Compromising

Avoiding

Confronting

As a project manager, you are in the process of creating a list of all the project team members, their roles, and communication information. This information should reside in: *

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Project plan.

Project team directory.

Performance reports.

Responsibility assignment matrix.

You have decided to terminate a contract because you no longer need the work from the seller. What is the BEST way to communicate this to the seller? *

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Call the seller immediately.

Send the seller a notification by e-mail.

Send the seller a stop work order by overnight mail.

Hold an immediate meeting with the seller.

A project manager believes that modifying the project scope may provide added value for the customer. What should the project manager do? *

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Change the scope baseline.

Contact the customer to determine if the change adds value.

Call a meeting of the change control board.

Change the project's objectives.

Which of the following includes the processes required to ensure the project includes all the work and only the work required to complete the project successfully? *

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Cost management

Scope management

Time management

Customer satisfaction management

A buyer and seller have a teaming agreement. Which of the following BEST describes their relationship? *

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The seller and buyer both have team members on every project team.

The buyer can dictate the structure of the seller's project teams.

The seller is free to dictate deliverables and contract terms.

The seller has input into project decisions, and representation in the buyer's management structure.

You are in the process of selecting an appropriate type of contract for your project. In this context, all the following statements related to fixed price, cost reimbursable, and time and material contracts are correct EXCEPT: *

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In a fixed-price contract, the product is well defined.

In a cost reimbursable contract, the risk of the seller is low.

In a time and material contract, the risk of the buyer is low.

In a time and material contract, the type of payment is based on unit rates for work done. The unit rate for work done is fixed, but the total cost increases with time.

In your project, you are aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities to establish an authorized cost baseline. For this purpose, you use all of the following as inputs EXCEPT: *

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Resource calendars.

Scope baseline.

Cost performance baseline.

Basis of estimates.

To accommodate a new project in your department, you need to move resources from one project to another. Because your department is currently working at capacity, moving resources will inevitably delay the project from which you move the resources. It would cause the LEAST negative impact if you move resources from which of the following projects? *

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Project A with a benefit cost ratio of 0.8, no project charter, and four resources

Project B with a net present value of $60,000, 12 resources, and variable costs between US $1,000 and $2,000 per month

Project C with an opportunity cost of US $300,000, no project control plan, and an internal rate of return of 12 percent

Project D with indirect costs of US $20,000 and 13 resources

A seller is awarded a contract to build a pipeline. The contract terms and conditions require a work plan be issued for the buyer's approval prior to commencing work, but the seller fails to provide one. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the buyer's project manager to do? *

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File a letter of intent.

Develop the work plan, and issue it to the seller to move things along.

Issue a default letter.

Issue a stop work order to the seller until a work plan is prepared.

Cost of quality includes all costs incurred over the life of the product by investing in meeting requirements. All of the following are costs that are incurred EXCEPT: *

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Opportunity costs.

Cost of poor quality.

External failure costs.

Appraisal costs.

You are taking over a project during the planning process group and discover that six individuals have signed the project charter. Which of the following should MOST concern you? *

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Who will be a member of the change control board

Spending more time on configuration management

Getting a single project sponsor

Determining the reporting structure

The project manager has noticed that there have been a lot of changes on the project. This has not been considered to be a problem until one day he discovers that he cannot determine how many scope changes are currently being reviewed. This problem would be an error in which of the following? *

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Change control system and project scope management plan

Plan purchases and acquisitions and requirements gathering

Lack of a change control board and constrained optimization

A poor change configuration system and benefit analysis

A seller has withdrawn from a project midway through the project executing processes, and another seller is taking over. The project manager meets with the replacement seller and his crew. In this meeting, what should the project manager do FIRST? *

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Introduce the team members, and identify the roles and responsibilities.

Communicate the objectives of the project.

Review the schedule.

Create a communications management plan.

You and your sponsor are in an important meeting to select a project from among other projects having similar investments. In this context, you select the project with: *

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Higher life cycle cost.

Lower life cycle cost.

Higher sunk cost.

Lower sunk cost.

A project manager is working on a complex project with people from around the world. The project schedule is set, but the work packages require detailed integration with other work packages done by the buyer. What is the BEST thing the project manager could use to control this situation? *

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Work authorization system

Configuration management

Historical information

Change control board

All of the following are parts of an effective change management plan EXCEPT: *

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Procedures.

Standards for reports.

Meetings.

Lessons learned.

A large, complex construction project in a foreign country requires coordination to move the required equipment through crowded city streets. To ensure the equipment is transported successfully, your contact in that country informs you that you will have to pay the local police a fee for coordinating traffic. What should you do? *

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Do not pay the fee because it is a bribe.

Eliminate the work.

Pay the fee.

Do not pay the fee if it is not part of the project estimate.

What is the order of the Procurement Management processes? *

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Plan Purchases and Acquisitions, Plan Contracting, Request Seller Responses, Select Sellers, Contract Administration, Contract Closure.

Plan Purchases and Acquisitions, Plan Contracting, Select Sellers, Request Seller Responses, Contract Administration, Contract Closure.

Plan Purchases and Acquisitions, Plan Contracting, Contract Administration, Request Seller Responses, Select Sellers, Contract Closure.

Plan Contracting, Plan Purchases and Acquisitions, Request Seller Responses, Select Sellers, Contract Administration, Contract Closure.

In a software project, the project manager wants to determine the type and quantities of material, people, equipment, or supplies required to perform each activity. This will be done during: *

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Acquire Project Team.

Develop Human Resource Plan.

Develop Schedule.

Estimate Activity Resources.

You are a project manager in a large organization that uses a matrix structure. You have been asked to investigate what organizational structure your competitors use and how the choice affects their ability to manage projects successfully. Which type of organizational structure gives the LEAST amount of authority to project managers? *

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Functional

Matrix

Projectized

Profit centers

Over lunch with another project manager, you discuss ways to identify risks on your project. The next day, the other project manager sends you risk identification software created by her company with a copyright date of 1998. What should you do? *

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Find out if using an old format would be acceptable.

Obtain approval from your legal department.

Share some of your templates with her to improve competencies.

Send the software back.

In your project, you are in the process of determining the project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships for your team members. At the end of this process, you will define/create all of the following EXCEPT: *

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Project staff assignments.

Roles and responsibilities.

Project organization charts.

Staffing management plan.

Who of the following are ALWAYS stakeholders? *

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A person who does not want the project to be completed

An assembly line worker that will use the product of the project

A functional manager from the engineering department

A person who might lose his or her position in the company because of the project

You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of the project. The project is within the baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST thing you should do? *

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Discuss it with the project team.

Recalculate baselines.

Renegotiate the contract.

Meet with the customer.

You are running a project for a customer based on a cost reimbursable contract with the following terms: Target costs: $1,000,000; Fixed fee: $100,000; Benefit/cost sharing: 80% / 20%; Price ceiling: $1,200,000. Which is the PTA (= Point of total assumption, Break point) of the project? *

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$1,300,000.

$1,500,000.

$80,000.

$1,125,000.

There have been many work packages completed successfully on the project, and the sponsor has made some recommendations for improvements. The project is on schedule to meet an aggressive deadline when the successor activity to a critical path activity suffers a major setback. The activity has 14 days of float and is being completed by four people. There are two other team members with the skill set to assist the troubled activity, if needed. The project manager receives a call that three other team members are attempting to be removed from the project because they do not feel the project can be successful. When the project manager pursues this, he discovers that those team members have issues that have not been addressed. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do to improve the project? *

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Have the team members immediately assist the troubled activity.

Investigate why the project schedule is aggressive.

See who can replace the three team members.

Create an issue log.

You are the project manager in an automobile manufacturing company. Machine parts required in your manufacturing process supplied by a vendor did not reach in time because of heavy rains. You had anticipated this risk and planned for it in your risk response plan. So, as per your risk response plan, you started using unutilized machine parts supplied one year ago. However, this has subjected your project to a new risk - the machine parts which were not used for one year suffer from higher level of defects. This new risk can also be called: *

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Unidentifiable risks.

Unmanageable risks.

Secondary risks.

Residual risks.

In a kick-off meeting for your project, you provided information to your team members about the different process groups to be followed in the project. According to PMI, which are the project management process groups? *

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Conceptualizing, Initiating, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing.

Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing.

Initiating, Verifying, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing.

Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Administrative Closure.

Your team has identified a risk with some of the chemicals you are using on your highway construction project. It is really difficult to mix them just right and, based on past projects, you've figured out that there's a high probability that about 14% of the chemical supply will be lost in mixing problems. You decide to buy an extra 15% of the chemicals up front so that you will be prepared for those losses and your project won't be delayed. Which response strategy are you using? *

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Avoid.

Accept.

Mitigate.

Transfer.

When talking to the stakeholders to identify risk, you usually start with general or high level questions and then get into specific or particular questions. This is also called: *

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Risk categorization.

Nominal group technique.

Delphi technique.

Funnel analysis.

Which of the following is NOT needed in order to come up with a project estimate? *

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A WBS

A network diagram

Risks

A change control system

A project is in progress, and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department to improve stakeholders' confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following is an output of this process? *

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Quality problems.

Quality metrics.

Recommended corrective action.

Quality audits.

If a risk has a 20 percent chance of happening in a given month, and the project is expected to last five months, what is the probability that this risk event will occur during the fourth month of the project? *

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Less than 1 percent

20 percent

60 percent

80 percent

A new project manager asks you what the 50/50 rule is used for. You would reply: *

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Crashing.

Quality.

Performance reporting.

Cost estimating.

Inputs to Define Activities include all the following EXCEPT: *

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WBS.

A project scope statement.

A team.

A project schedule.

Organizational process assets that can influence the Report Performance process include all the following EXCEPT: *

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Report templates.

Policies and procedures that define the measures and indicators to be used.

Organizationally defined variance limits.

The project's budget.

Alberto is the project manager of a software implementation project. His company has made an organization-wide decision to move to a new accounting and human resources software package. He has read that some projects to implement the same package have resulted in the loss of personnel data when they tried to import it into the new system. He backs up the data so that it could be restored in the event of such a problem but also buys insurance to cover the cost of keying in the data manually if the implementation doesn't work. Which response strategies are Alberto using? *

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Mitigating and Accepting.

Mitigating and Avoiding.

Mitigating and Transferring.

Mitigating and Sharing.

You gathered a lot of knowledge on project management in your business life. What is an appropriate use for that? *

1 point

Share your knowledge with the professional community in form of books, articles, lectures, seminars etc.

It is your knowledge, and it has a high market value. You may consider it your intellectual property, which you keep secret.

There are better project managers somewhere in this world. They should help developing the professional community.

Your job is managing projects for your customers. You should not worry about other project managers.

A project manager says to a team member, "If you cannot complete this activity according to the quality standards you set in place, I will remove you from the team that is going to Venezuela for the milestone party with the customer." What form of power is the project manager using? *

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Reward power

Formal power

Penalty power

Referent power

A project manager is analyzing the communications requirements for a project. There are six team members, four stakeholders, and two subcontractors. He needs to find the number of potential communication channels. How many channels are there? *

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You are responsible for the development and launch of a NASA satellite. Your role is that of a: *

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Project Manager.

Project Coordinator.

Program Manager.

Functional Manager.

At the end of an internal project, you find several key stakeholders including the sponsor reluctant to finally accept all deliverables and then close the project. What should NOT be your next step in this situation? *

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Identify any open issues and get them solved. Then be firm on formal closure.

Formally close the project. Stakeholders will find a way by themselves to sort things out.

Identify and openly discuss personal rationales underlying the reluctance.

Invite earnest feedback from all sides and try to identify misunderstandings.

A project manager is performing an audit on a deliverable when she hears that the team member who did the work is complaining to everyone that he is being picked on by having his activity audited. You know this is not true. What lesson learned could you take to future projects? *

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Tell all the team members at the beginning of the project that their deliverables will be audited.

Set an audit policy in the scope management plan.

Audit less frequently.

Use a walk-through instead of audits.

In your project, you have to complete building a prototype before testing can begin. This is an example of: *

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Mandatory dependency.

Discretionary dependency.

External dependency.

Preferred logic.

As a project manager, you are aware that the best way to resolve conflicts is to face the conflict directly. This involves a problem solving approach, whereby affected parties work through their disagreements. In this context, the sources of conflict with the least intensity are: *

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Schedule, priorities, and manpower.

Cost, personality conflict, and administration.

Technical issues, administration, and manpower.

Cost, schedules, and priority.

As a project manager, you are required to produce project performance reports on a regular basis, your project's Budget at Completion is $750,000, planned value is $100,000, schedule variance is $30,000, and cost variance is $50,000. What is the percentage complete and estimate at completion in your project? *

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18%, $ 500,000.

17.33%, $ 461,538.

17.8%, $ 437,500.

18%, $ 437,500.

You are in the process of identifying the relevant stakeholders in the project. In this context, which of the following are relevant outputs of the process? *

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Stakeholder register and stakeholder management strategy.

Project document updates.

Organization process assets updates.

Stakeholder register and project document updates.

A project manager is working on his first project with outside sellers. He is familiar with project change control systems but not contract change control systems. In explaining how a contract change control system differs from a project change control system, it is BEST to point out that a contract change control system: *

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Includes procedures.

Includes trend analysis.

Requires more sign-offs.

Requires less documentation.

Which motivational theory defines the hierarchy of needs? *

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Maslow

Deming

McGregor

Herzberg

The networking vendor has contacted the project manager to inform her that the recent earthquake will impact the delivery of critical components. The project team meets to determine the impact on the overall project and determines that staffing will not be affected, but that changes will need to be made in the areas of risk and cost management. What is the project team involved in here? *

1 point

Configuration management

Work authorization analysis

Status review meeting

Integrated change control

Please refer to the diagram. Which of the following situations can this diagram represent? *

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Task X (actual work of writing) and Task Z (thinking about what to write) should be done in parallel.

Task Z (unit testing the code) should begin 7 days after finishing Task X (writing the code).

Task X and Task Z together have 7 days of slack.

Task Z (plastering the floor) should begin 7 days after beginning Task X (pouring concrete).

The work breakdown structure has the LEAST impact on which process? *

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Develop Human Resource Plan

Estimate Costs

Develop Schedule

Plan Procurements

The customer has reviewed the deliverables of a project and finds that they are acceptable, and must now communicate that acceptance to the project manager. Which form of communication is appropriate? *

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Informal written.

Informal verbal.

Formal written.

Formal verbal.

A heuristic is BEST described as a: *

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Control tool.

Scheduling method.

Planning tool.

Rule of thumb.

The cost of choosing one project and giving up another is called: *

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Fixed cost.

Sunk cost.

Net present value (NPV).

Opportunity cost.

You are the project manager in a company. You have to prepare a process improvement plan. You have to consider all the following EXCEPT: *

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Quality metrics.

Targets for improved performance.

Process boundaries and process metrics.

Process configuration.

You are running a project to develop the production process for a future electronic component. Evaluating some first test batches, you found out that the precision is generally very good, but that you have some irregular outliers in a completely unpredictable pattern. What should you do? *

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Ignore the outliers; they are not relevant as long as the yield from the production is sufficiently high.

Try to increase the accuracy of the process by adjustments, thus reducing the number of outliers.

Inform the designated production manager of your observations and ask him to take care after handover.

Research outliers, they may give you important insights into problems which may trouble later production.

You're managing an architecture project to design an extension on an existing building. One of the stakeholders has been adamant that the plans do not include an interior supporting wall, because she wants to be able to reconfigure the floor plan. Where do you document this information? *

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Project scope statement.

Scope management plan.

Work breakdown structure.

WBS dictionary.

What theory proposes that efforts will lead to effective performance and will be rewarded for accomplishments? *

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Conditional reinforcement

Maslow's hierarchy

McGregor's

Expectancy

You are assigned as the project manager to a project which is executed for a customer under FP contract. Your customer informed you this morning that they insist on certain "refinements" of the project scope. You agree that the requested actions make really sense to the project, but believe that they constitute a major change increasing the project scope. What should you do next? *

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Accept the request of the customer. Diligently document the additional costs and working hours spent by yourself and the team on the implementation of the change and invoice these to the customer at appropriate rates.

Perform Earned Value Analysis to assess the current status of the project and get all the numbers you need to communicate the case to the Change Control Board which then will have to make the best decision regarding the customer request.

Check the contract, the project charter, the scope statement and other documents related to the project and the contract. Implement ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) procedures if the conflict cannot be resolved otherwise.

Talk to the project sales department and find a joint solution with them how to best reject the request considering the commercial and strategic value of the customer to the organization you are working for.

You are the project manager of a software company. You need ideas for project and product requirements. Which of the following techniques will you use? *

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Delphi technique.

Idea/mind mapping.

Nominal group technique.

Brainstorming.

All technical work is completed on the project. Which of the following remains to be done? *

1 point

Verify Scope

Plan Risk Responses

Create a staffing management plan

Complete lessons learned

What should be done with risks on the watchlist? *

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Document them for historical use on other projects.

Document them and revisit them during project monitoring and controlling.

Document them and set them aside because they are already covered in your contingency plans.

Document them and give them to the customer.

You need to determine when to release resources from your project. Which part of the staffing management plan will be most useful for this? *

1 point

Resource histogram.

Safety procedures.

Recognition and rewards.

Training needs.

Which type of organization is BEST for managing complex projects involving cross-disciplinary efforts? *

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Projectized

Functional

Line

Matrix

A new project manager is getting his first team together to manage a new project. Though nervous, he realizes he has the Project Management Institute's standard for project management available to help make sure he is following acceptable project management standards. Though no one on the team has experience with the procurement process, he knows that some of the work on the project will be outsourced. Which of the following BEST represents what the project manager should do FIRST? *

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Make sure he has a complete WBS, do a make-or-buy analysis, create a procurement management plan

Look for organizational process assets, look for expert judgment, review contract types

Make sure the project scope statement is completed, create source selection criteria, create procurement documents

Determine the enterprise environmental factors that might affect the project, analyze the risk register, review contract types

Which project management process group normally takes the MOST project time and resources? *

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Planning

Design

Integration

Executing

A responsibility assignment matrix includes which two data points? *

1 point

Resource and time estimate

Activity and calendar date

Activity and resource

Resource and usage each month

You are using a Pareto chart to examine the defects that have been found during an inspection of your product. Which process are you performing? *

1 point

Perform Quality Assurance.

Perform Quality Planning.

Perform Quality Control.

Scope Verification.

You are doing a quality audit for your project to identify all the gaps/shortcomings in your project. This is a part of: *

1 point

Plan Quality process.

Perform Quality Assurance process.

Quality management plan.

Perform Quality Control process.

Which of the following statements describes best the relationship between project phases and the Project life cycle? *

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The Project life cycle includes the time when the project is performed and the expected product lifespan after that.

In project management, the sequence of project phases and phase gates is often referred to as Project life cycle.

The Project life cycle is regarded as a sequence of project activities while phases are defined to control overlapping activities.

The Project life cycle describes how iterations of project management processes are used when a project schedule is developed.

Your management has decided that all orders will be treated as "projects" and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, to resolve issues, and to ensure that the customer formally accepts the product within 30 days of completion. Revenue from the individual orders can vary from US $100 to US $150,000. The project manager will not be required to perform planning or provide documentation other than daily status. How would you define this situation? *

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Because each individual order is a "temporary endeavor," each order is a project.

This is program management since there are multiple projects involved.

This is a recurring process.

Orders incurring revenue over $100,000 would be considered projects and would involve project management.

A project manager decides to bring expected future schedule performance in line with the project management plan. What is this a definition of? *

1 point

Corrective action

Lessons learned

Scope verification

Scope planning

A project manager needs to assess quality on the project. To do so, he wants to measure the height of each table produced. However, that would be too expensive. In this case, it would be BEST to use: *

1 point

Benchmarking.

A sample.

A control chart.

A Pareto chart.

You're managing a project to remodel a kitchen. You find out from your supplier that there's a 50% chance that the model of oven that you planned to use may be discontinued, and you'll have to go with one that costs $650 more. What's the EMV of that risk? *

1 point

$650

–$650

$325

–$325

During project executing, a project team member informs the project manager that based on her observations, the project cannot meet the quality standards set for it. The project manager meets with all parties concerned to analyze the situation. Which part of the quality management process is the project manager involved in? *

1 point

Perform Quality Assurance

Quality Analysis

Perform Quality Control

Plan Quality

You are a project manager for the construction of a major new manufacturing plant that has never been done before. The project cost is estimated at US $30,000,000 and will make use of three sellers. Once begun, the project cannot be cancelled, as there will be a large expenditure on plant and equipment. As the project manager, it would be MOST important to carefully: *

1 point

Review all cost proposals from the sellers.

Examine the budget reserves.

Complete the project charter.

Perform an identification of risks.

What is the difference between management reserves and contingency reserves? *

1 point

Contingency reserves address known knowns, whereas management reserves address known unknowns.

Contingency and management reserves both address known unknowns and could be considered the same.

Contingency reserves address known unknowns, whereas management reserves address unknown unknowns.

Contingency reserves are managed by senior management, whereas management reserves are managed by the project manager.

In your project, you are determining project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships. All of the following will be useful inputs to you EXCEPT: *

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Enterprise environmental factors.

Organizational process assets.

Activity resource requirements.

Project organization charts.

While creating a network diagram, you wish to identify those activities that can be done in parallel where initiation of the successor activity depends on the initiation of the predecessor activity. Which diagramming method should you use for this purpose? *

1 point

PDM.

Schedule network analysis.

Simulation.

ADM.

When is it MOST important that integration is performed? *

1 point

During project planning

During project executing

At key interface points

At the end of each project management process

Which of the following BEST describes the contents of a WBS Dictionary entry? *

1 point

The definition of the work package including its net present value.

Work Package ID and Name, Statement of Work, Required Resources, and Monte Carlo Analysis.

Work Package ID and Name, Statement of Work, Risk Register, Earned Value Calculation, Scheduled Complete Date, and Cost.

Work package ID and Name, Statement of Work, Responsible Organization, Schedule Milestones, Quality Requirements, Code of Account Identifier, Required Resources, Cost Estimate.

All of the following are examples of the cost of nonconformance EXCEPT: *

1 point

Rework.

Quality training.

Scrap.

Warranty costs.

During a meeting to negotiate a change to the contract, the seller states that they have another meeting at 3:00 pm. Negotiations will have to be over by then. What kind of negotiation technique is this? *

1 point

Deadline

Missing man

Demand

Delay

You are planning for your project. In this context, which of the following processes should you consider? *

1 point

Define Scope, Develop Schedule, Plan Risk Management, Plan Communications.

Plan Quality, Plan Procurements, Plan Risk Responses, Control Costs.

Perform Quality Assurance, Develop Project Team, Distribute Information, Plan Risk Management.

Verify Scope, Perform Quality Control, Control Schedule, Control Costs.

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