Integration PMP Exam Questions
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Project Management Plan? NOTE: The Project Management Plan should not have a ______ as that is too detailed and would be part of the time management area. It's includes a collection of all of the subsidiary plans for the ten Knowledge Areas of the PMBOK Guide. It covers how he various management processes will be managed and it certainly needs approval fo the project sponsor.
A bar chart that shows the order of tasks and their resource assignments
Which of the following BEST describes the records management system? The records management system is one of the tools that you use in the Contract Closure process. It's what you use to store your contracts and any related documents, so that future project managers can refer to them in future projects. The key words here are ___ which is all inclusive. The other answers all contain limited items that would also be stored in the records management system.
A system to store contracts and project records for future project managers to reference
The definition of a project is?
A temporary endeavor to create a unique product service or result.
Which is the BEST description of project scope? NOTE: The features and functions of the product or service being built is called product scope. Project scope means the work that's needed to build the product.
All of the work you will do to build the product
Which of the following is NOT an output of Monitor & Control Project Work? NOTE: The purpose of the Monitor & Control Project Work process is to look for potential problems and recommend responses. If a change is requested, it doesn't get approve until the Integrated Change Control process.
Approved changes.
When is the BEST time to have project kickoff meetings?
At the start of each phase.
The terms of union contracts are considered ____ in your project plan. Note: When you work with a union then the union contract can have an impact on your project. That means you need to consider the union itself a stakeholder, and when you do your planning you need to make sure any union rules and agreements are considered as ____
Constraints
Which of the following BEST describes when you perform the Monitor and Control Project Work process? Note: Monitoring and controlling project work is not something that you do at any specific time, but rather throughout the project.
Continuously throughout the project.
What are the steps for achieving a long-term strategy in project management? Note: In order to create a long-term strategy, you need to decide what or where you want to be; that is the long-term vision. In order Feedback: to get there, you need to assess your strengths that will support your effort to achieve the strategy. Then you can formulate the actual strategy to get there and select the projects that are in support of your long-term vision.
Create a mission or objective where the firm wants to be, assess the firm's strengths and weaknesses, establish a strategy to get to the objective, select and implement the projects that meet the strategy.
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? Note: An important part of initiating the project is identifying any constraints on the project, creating a list of initial project risks, and documenting assumptions that you've made so far. However, you don't create the change control system in the Initiating phase that's something that you do as part of your project planning activities.
Create the change control system
You are managing a large construction project that's been broken down into sub-projects (or phases). Each of these sub-projects is scheduled to take between three and six months to complete. At the end of each subproject, you plan to go through the closing processes and document lessons learned. Which of the following BEST describes what you must do at the beginning of each sub- project or phase? Note: When you have a project that's broken up into sub-projects or phases, it's important that you perform the Initiating Processes at the beginning of the project.
Develop the preliminary scope statement for the phase.
Which of the following methods is the best to select projects to be added to your portfolio? NOTE: To avoid the influence of internal politics and to make use of a rational evaluation, which may consider other things than profit or ROI, use of a ____will provide the best results in prioritizing projects.
Establish selection criteria and score each project accordingly; select the one(s) with the highest ranking(s)
Which of the following processes is in the Initiating process group? Note: There are only two processes in the Initiating Process Group: Developing the Project Charter and ____.
Identify Stakeholders
Which of the following BEST describes the main purpose of the project charter? Note: The project charter does several important things: it lays out the project requirements, describes an initial summary milestone schedule, documents the business case and identifies initial risks, assumptions and constraints. But the most important thing that a project charter does is that it identifies the project manager, and assigns him or her the authority necessary to get the job done.
It authorizes the project manager to work on the project
Which of the following is not true about the Project Charter? Note: The project charter establishes the authority of the project manager and thus is not generally created by the project manager.
It is always created by the project manager.
At the beginning of the project, you hold a meeting with all of the stakeholders in your project in order to figure out how everyone X will communicate as the work goes on. Which of the following terms best describes that meeting? Note: ___ gets all of the stakeholders that have been identified at that time together to explain how communication will go. That way, everyone knows who to talk to if things go wrong or they run into any questions.
Kick-off meeting
You are developing the project charter for a new project. Which of the following is NOT part of the enterprise environmental factors? NOTE: Lessons learned are part of the organizational process assets, not enterprise environmental factors. Your company's enterprise environmental factors tell you about how your company typically does business - like how your company's departments are structured, and the regulatory and industry environment your company operates in.
Lessons learned from previous projects
You are working on a construction project. You, your team, and your senior manager all feel that the work is complete. Your stakeholders have communicated their final acceptance of the project. You are now meeting with your team to update the organizational process assets with a record of knowledge gained about the project to help future project managers with their projects. This is BEST described as: NOTE: ____ are an important organizational process asset used by future projects.
Lessons learned.
You're managing a project that is currently executing. You're evaluating the work being performed by constantly measuring the project performance, and recommending changes, repairs and corrections where necessary. What process are you performing? Note: An important part of making sure that your project goes well is keeping an eye on the work, and that's what the ___ Project work process is for. In this process you constantly evaluate the work being done, and any time you see a problem you recommend changes, defect repairs and preventive and corrective actions.
Monitor & Control Project Work.
Which of the following is NOT true of obtaining project plan approval? Note: It's not enough that the Project Manager approves of the Project Management Plan; it needs to be approved by all of the stakeholders in the project. Everyone on the team should feel comfortable with the processes that are going to be used to do the work.
Only one person needs to approve the Project Management Plan and that's the Project Manager.
Which of the following is NOT found in a project charter? Note: ____ are part of the project management plan and specific steps to be taken. The project charter should include the business case for the project as well as constraints and assumptions.
Procedures for managing changes to contracts
You have been asked to select between three projects. Project A has a net present value of $54,750 and will take six months to X complete. Project B has a net present value of $85,100 and will take two years to complete. Project C has a net present value of $15,000 and a benefit to cost ratio of 5:2. Which project should you choose? Note: The idea behind net present value (or NPV) is that you can compare potential projects by figuring out how much each one is worth to your company right now. If you're asked to choose between projects and given the NPV of each of them, choose the one with the biggest NPV.
Project B.
You are working with potential sponsors to determine which project your company will pursue. Based on the benefit-to-cost (BCR) ratios, which of the following four projects should you recommend? NOTE: The benefit to cost ratio should be as high as possible. Ratios are fractions of one variable divided by another. If it's "benefit to cost" it means divide the benefit by the cost.
Project C has a BCR of 3:1
Which of the following is NOT an output of the Close Project process? Note: The _____ describes the process that you use to manage your project. It really doesn't have anything to do with closing the project.
Project management methodology.
Mary is a project manager at a consulting company. The company regularly builds teams to create products for clients. When the product is delivered, the team is dissolved and assigned to other projects. What kind of organization is she working for? Note: ___ organizations focus on project team organization. The other three types of organizations all have some form of a functional organization where staff can find a home between projects.
Projectized
You're holding a PMP study group so that you and your coworkers can work together to study for the exam. One person recently took and passed the exam, and has offered to give you all of the questions he can remember. How should you respond?
Refuse the offer, and report the person to PMI.
A project manager is creating a report of the final status of a closed project to the stakeholders. Which of the following is NOT used in a final project report to communicate the status of a project? NOTE: The ____ is not a particularly useful thing once a project's done. A ____ is what you use to measure the progress and performance of the project. But once the project is done, the ____ isn't necessary any more.
Scope baseline
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 documeted the details of the lessons learned from this project. Where should the sponser look for these lessons learned? Note: Lessons learned are part of a company's _____.
The company's organizational process assets
Which of the following is NOT a source of information about specific project constraints and assumptions? NOTE: The ____ is a really important tool in your project. It tells you exactly how you'll create the project scope, define the WBS, verify that the work has been done, and make changes to the scope. But it doesn't tell you about specific assumptions that you and the team have made, or constraints on your project. To find those, you should look in the charter and preliminary scope statement - and talk to the stakeholders, because they'll definitely tell you about constraints on your project.
The project scope management plan.
The project charter is typically approved by the project sponsor, although some charters can be approved by key stakeholders instead. Which of the following BEST describes the role of the project sponsor on the project? Note: The project sponsor is the person (or group) that ___ for the project. Sometimes this means the sponsor directly provides ___; other times, it means the sponsor is the person who signs the organizational approval to assign resources. Either way, you can usually tell who the sponsor is by finding the person who can approve or deny the budget.
The sponsor provides funding for the project
Which of the following is an output of Direct and Manage Project Execution? Note: The two main outputs of Direct and Manage Project Execution are Deliverables and ____. Deliverables are the documents and other work products your project produces, and ____ Information is a name for all of the performance metrics and reports you can generate to track how your project is doing versus your plan.
Work Performance Information
Which of the following is NOT typically found in a project charter? Note: The project charter is created long before you start identifying _______. Those things are done part of the project planning, which only happens after the project charter has been created.
Work packages decomposed into activities
Your client has terminated your project before it is complete. Which of the following is true? Note: Even if a project is shut down before the work is completed, you still need to ____ and add them to the organizational process assets.
You must work with the team to document the lessons learned