Unit 2 Practice Exam

Which of the following activities fall under the planning process group but not under the Project Schedule Management?

Developing a detailed description of the project and product being developed.

As the Project Manager for Midway Carnival Rides, you are starting off on the Define Scope process. Which of the following is a key input to the process?

Project Charter

All team members have not yet been acquired for a project. However, the project manager went ahead with estimating activity durations, budgeting and other activities. What could likely happen to the activity durations?

The activity durations are likely to change.

Which of the following statements accurately describes how the completion of project scope and product scope is measured?

The completion of project scope is measured against the project management plan whereas the completion of product scope is measured against the product requirements.

Which of these is accurate regarding the Develop Schedule process?

The critical path method is a schedule network analysis technique that is performed using the schedule model

Which of the following may not be considered an attribute of a project?

The impact of a project usually ends when the project ends.

A first-time project manager decided that he would have a ‘perfect project’. He informed the customer that this project would not accept change requests of any kind and the scope would need to be detailed out accurately right at the start of the project. The customer agreed to this request. What would your comment on this situation be?

This is unrealistic and impractical. Change is inevitable and rather than look at a ‘no change’ project, it would be more in the project interests to plan for a robust change control process.

A first-time project manager was assigned to a project that had a duration of 3 months. In order to gain a head start in the project, she took an older, completed project and incorporated all the tools, techniques and checklists from that project in their entirety into the current one. The older project had been completed in 14 months' time and was very similar in nature. The most appropriate comment on this would be:

This may be unnecessary. The project management team needs to decide what is appropriate for the project.

As part of Define Activities, you are looking at dependencies used to define the sequence among the activities. Which of these is not a valid type of dependency?

Linked dependency

You the project manager responsible for building a 100,000 sq. ft. data center. One of the schedule activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units, however in order to start the installation of the units the raised floor in the data center must be completely installed first, so the units have something to be bolted on to. This is an example of what type of dependency?

Mandatory

James has been managing a hotel construction project in a busy street. He is in the process of estimating activity durations for building walls and calculates the most likely estimate as 15 days. If pre-fabricated material is used, it would take no more than 12 days to finish the work. However, the work may be delayed and could take up to 18 days if less experienced construction workers are used to build the walls. But, the engineer in-charge of the work estimates the duration as 8 days when pre-fabricated material is used. What is the expected duration of building walls using the three-point (PERT) estimate, if the engineer's estimation is assumed correct?

14 days

You are defining the schedule activities for your project and identifying deliverables at the lowest level in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). You find that there is insufficient definition of the project scope to decompose a branch of the WBS down to the work package level. You now look at using the last component in that branch of the WBS to develop a high-level project schedule for that component. Such a planning component is called:

A planning package

A manager asked to see a list of milestones in the project. This would be available as an output from the:

Define Activities phase

Emily is worried about her project because many of her tasks are slowly moving and two critical tasks may have the chance of slippage. She conducts a thorough resource analysis and finds out that there are five resources who will be free next week. She would like to use this as an opportunity to assign those resources to finish her tasks early and prevent the project completion date from slipping. This is an example of?

Crashing

Which of these processes is NOT a Project Schedule Management process?

Create WBS

The date through which the project has provided actual status and accomplishments is called:

Data Date (DD)

As a project manager based at the customer location for a performing organization, you strike up a rapport with a customer manager. As the project progresses, the manager asks you to make certain changes to the project scope and wants this to be handled on an informal basis. You should:

Explain to the manager that you would need to formally document these as part of project scope change and put it through the change management process.

Midway through the Collect Requirements process, a project manager finds that there are lots of unresolved issues. Which of the following is usually the best way to discover and resolve issues?

Facilitated workshops

Which of these precedence relationships is most commonly used in Precedence Diagramming Method?

Finish to Start

You have been asked to create a graphical display of schedule-related information listing schedule activities on the left side of the chart, dates on the top, and activity durations as date-placed horizontal bars on the right side. What would such a chart be called?

Gantt chart

You have recently taken over a troubled automobile project which has gone out of control. The project team missed many deadlines and stakeholders were not happy with the project progress. As an experienced project manager, your first priority is to bring the schedule into alignment with the project plan. You would like to use what-if scenario analysis to see how various factors affected the project schedule so that you can develop a plan to reduce the impact of adverse conditions on the project schedule in future. What would be your next course of action once you determine the factors that created schedule overrun?

Generate change requests for a corrective action.

Sometimes the broader, more comprehensive summary activity is also referred to as:

Hammock Activity

You have just been assigned a project with an unrealistic deadline. What do you do?

Insist that the deadlines for the project be changed.

As an experienced PMP, you have found that running a WBS meeting is tricky because you need to find a balance between decomposition and excessive decomposition. When items are excessively decomposed it leads all of the following, EXCEPT:

It breaks the 100% rule.

You have completed a milestone in your software development project and you are now verifying that the product meets the specifications outlined in the project management plan. What process group is this process in?

Monitor and Controlling

Most project management software packages use a method of constructing a project schedule network diagram known as:

Precedence Diagramming Method

After receiving some news about a delay on one of your project tasks, you reviewed the schedule to determine how it will impact the project. While there is a substantial delay on this task, it is not a critical path item and will not impact delivery of any of your milestones. Another project manager advises you to only present the milestone chart during your meeting with the project stakeholders and tell them the project is progressing as planned. What do you do?

Present the schedule in a milestone chart and disclose full details of the delay.

John has just been assigned as the project manager of a project to develop a complex product. The project is in the Define Scope phase. Which of these tools / techniques will not be used by John in this phase?

Process analysis

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives and create required deliverables. The 'Create WBS' is a process under which Knowledge Area?

Project Scope Management

What term defines the work needed to complete a product, service, or result?

Project scope

You are the Project Manager for the production of an exotic car. You have completed the Define Scope process for your project. Which of the following may be generated through this process

Project scope statement, Updates to Requirements traceability matrix.

Which of the following documents will help trace the requirements to product design?

Requirements traceability matrix

A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) dictionary supports the WBS and is a companion document to the WBS. Which of the following is not included in the WBS dictionary?

Resource assigned

Which of the following is an output of the Create WBS process?

Scope baseline

If you are creating a new WBS for your project, what should you consider to save time during the creation process?

Use a previous WBS from a similar project as a template

The WBS structure can be created in a number of forms except which of the following?

Using work packages as the second level of decomposition, with the project deliverables inserted at the third level.

The key difference between Validate Scope and Control Quality is:

Validate Scope is concerned with the acceptance of deliverables.

Which of the following is not true about the WBS?

WBS should focus on activities rather than deliverables

The most detailed level of the WBS is called the ____________.

Work package