iteration 1, ISM3314C Iteration 2, iteration 3, iteration 4, Iteration 5, Iteration 6, Iteration 7

If BAC = 500, PV = 325, AC = 275, CPI = 0.9, and EV = 250, and you are using actual costs to date and assuming that ETC uses the budgeted rate. What is Variance at Completion?

-25

You are preparing a performance review and have the information about the measurements at hand as, wherein PV is 300, AC is 200, and EV is 250. What will be the CPI based on the given information?

1.25

You have gathered the following cost measurements for your project: EV = 132, EV = 120, AC = 115, PV = 135, PV = 139, and BAC = 140. You expect future performance and variances to behave like past performance and variances. Which of the following is the correct EAC, given the circumstances (rounded up)?

122

If BAC = 2500, PV = 1250, AC = 1275, EV = 1150, and that you are experiencing typical cost variances. What is ETC?

1500

If EAC = 375, PV = 300, AC = 200, and EV = 250, what is ETC?

175

You have gathered the following cost measurements for your project: EV = 200, AC = 190, AC = 170, PV = 135, PV = 135, and BAC = 210. You expect the project to continue as it has in the past and that ETC uses the budgeted rate. Which of the following is the correct EAC, given the circumstances (rounded up)?

200

Your team has 7 members including yourself. How many lines of communication are there among the members?

21 (n x (n - 1)) / 2

You have gathered the following cost measurements for your project: AC = 200, PV = 215, EV = 200, and BAC = 225. What is the estimate to complete (ETC) if cost variances are not expected to be typical to what you've seen to date?

25

If BAC = 800, ETC = 275, PV = 300, AC = 200, EV = 250, and CPI = 1.25, what is EAC?

640

If BAC = 700, ETC = 275, PV = 300, AC = 200, EV = 200, and CPI = 1.25, what is EAC?

700

Which performance measurement is the direct and indirect costs of work to date?

AC

Which of the following strategies is used when you are not able to eliminate all threats on the project?

Accept

You are preparing your communications management plan and know that all of the following are true except for which one?

Acknowledgment means the receiver has received and agrees with the message.

Which of the following is the realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period?

Actual cost

Which document is considered as an input in the Determine Budget process which includes cost information for purchased goods or services included in the overall project budget?

Agreements

It is the project manager's responsibility to ensure the team members and managers understand agile methodologies. What are some ways the project manager can assist others in this endeavor?

All of these

Which of the following options are true regarding burndown and burnup charts?

All of these

Which of the following statements are true regarding agile projects?

An agile project has continually evolving requirements, a high degree of uncertainty, and high risk. In an agile project, small increments of work are produced in each iteration that the customer reviews for accuracy and completeness. Agile methodologies use a product backlog to contain user stories.

You are a project manager responsible for customizing and installing your company's software at the client site. You've completed the Initiation process and are now working on the Planning processes. This project has a completion date of December 1. You've penciled in Kathy as the lead programmer for this project. She is tentatively scheduled to work on this project starting July 1 and ending November 4. She and her manager have always agreed to work on your projects in the past. This is an example of which of the following?

An assumption because you have not yet checked on Kathy's availability

Which of the following cost of quality term represents the costs expended to examine the product or process and make certain the requirements are being met?

Appraisal costs

Which of the following formulas is used to calculate estimate at completion?

BAC/CPI

Which of the following techniques can establish both the contingency reserves and the management reserves for the project?

Budget reserve analysis

Which of the following requires re-baselining of the cost baseline?

Budget updates

These people are often the first one that are assigned to a project and they are usually engaged in the business case or feasibility phase before the project even gets to the Initiating processes. They are involved in the processes associated with gathering, tracking, recording, analyzing, controlling requirements, and solution evaluation. What role does this describe?

Business analysts

Which of the following groups is responsible for approving or denying change requests after reviewing?

CCB

You have gathered the following cost measurements for your project: EV = 120, AC = 115, PV = 135, ETC = 100. What are the CPI and SPI, respectively?

CPI = 1.04 and SPI = .89

You are working on a project that was proceeding well until a manufacturing glitch occurred that requires corrective action. It turns out the glitch was an unintentional enhancement to the product, and the marketing people are absolutely crazy about its potential. As the project manager, you know that a change has occurred to the product scope because the glitch changed the characteristics of the product. Which of the following is true regarding the scenario?

Changes to product scope should be reflected in the project scope.

Which process is responsible for analyzing the project management processes to determine their effectiveness and to document lessons learned concerning them?

Close Project or Phase

The Manage Quality process is concerned with all of the following except which one?

Concerns monitoring work results and project deliverables to see whether they comply with the stakeholders' expectations

Which of the following documents the procedures and authorized approval levels for managing and controlling changes to the physical characteristics of the deliverables?

Configuration management system

Project teams are limited by which of the following?

Constraints

Your project is in a bit of trouble. You are in the Control Resources process and the specialized equipment you were expecting for the next set of project tasks is not available. The truck with the equipment was stolen and the vendor providing the machine you need has only two of them. The other is already deployed on another job. Which of the following are true regarding the given information?

Control Resources may have impacts on resource assignments that are beyond the control of the project manager. You decide to engage the vendor and some key project team members in problem-solving to try to find a workaround for this situation. You will identify the problem, investigate and analyze the data, and determine and implement the best possible solution. Later, you'll check again on the solution to ensure that it fixed the problem. Problems encountered outside the organization in the Control Resources process are usually related to the vendor providing the resources.

Which of the following represents a portion of related work in WBS for time, costs, and scope and can be analyzed for EVM for performance?

Control account

During the Control Quality process, this tool and technique included in the data representation tool and technique is used to monitor repetitive activities and plot sample variance measurements to determine if the product is in control (which is defined by being within plus or minus three standard deviations of the mean). Which tool and technique does this describe?

Control charts

Which of the following processes involves choosing alternative strategies, executing a contingency or fallback plan, taking corrective action, and modifying the project management plan?

Control risks

Which of the following elements refers to the amount of variance the sponsor or stakeholders

Control threshold

Which of the following is a measure of the value of work completed compared to the actual cost or progress made on the project?

Cost performance index

Which of the following is the difference between EV (earned value) and AC (actual costs)?

Cost variance

Which of the following considers uncertainty of resource availability and ability of activities to start and finish on time?

Critical chain method

One of the deliverables for your project is a specific piece of hardware that must be built to exact specifications. If the hardware is not sized correctly, the project process will stop until the hardware is corrected. What is this deliverable called?

Critical success factors

The tools and techniques of Monitor Risks are used throughout the life of the project to monitor risks. Which of the following lists the tools and techniques of this process?

Data analysis (technical performance analysis, reserve analysis), audits, and meetings

Unanimity, majority, plurality, and autocratic are four examples of which of the following techniques?

Decision-making techniques, which is a tool and technique of the Collect Requirements process.

Which of the following statements about decomposition are true?

Decomposition is a tool and technique used to create a WBS and subdivide the major deliverables into smaller components until the work package level is reached. Decomposition is used in the agile methodology to create user stories at the work package level. They are documented in the product backlog and pulled from here into the iteration backlog at the beginning of each iteration.

Attaining customer satisfaction is an important factor that project managers should be concerned about. One key thing you can do as the project manager to ensure customer satisfaction is which of the following?

Define the requirements and obtain sign-off from the stakeholders that they agree to the requirements.

Your project requires the manufacturing of a component part that will be installed into the final product. You've hired an external vendor to produce these parts for your company. The component part has specific measurable dimensions and must be manufactured to these exact specifications or your final product will not work as expected. You've also requested they deliver exactly 75 of these parts by May 31. Which of the following have you defined for the vendor?

Deliverables because you've described specific results, outcomes, and due dates that are measurable and verifiable.

Which of the following uses rounds of anonymous surveys among a project team and subject matter experts to build a consensus on activity duration?

Delphi technique

Change control systems serve all of the following purposes except which one?

Describe the impact of the change to the product description.

You are a project manager for a manufacturing firm that produces Civil War-era replicas and memorabilia. You discover a design error during a test production run on your latest project. The stakeholders are anxious to get this new product to market and their bonuses are on the line if this project doesn't come in on time. Which of the following is the most likely response to this problem?

Develop alternative solutions to address the error.

Which of the following is the key activity performed during the Closing process group?

Disseminating information to formalize project closure

You are a contract project manager working with the State of Bliss. As the project manager, you have taken all the appropriate actions regarding the confidentiality of data. One of the key stakeholders is a huge movie buff, and she has the power to promote you into a better position at the conclusion of this project. She's reviewing some report data that just happens to include confidential information regarding one of her favorite movie superstars. What is the most appropriate response regarding the scenario?

Do nothing because she has the proper level of access rights to the data and this information showed up unintentionally.

You are working on an agile project and are using a checklist of elements to ensure the deliverables meet the customer's expectations at the end of the iteration. What is this known as?

DoD

Which of the following explain the functioning of the change control system?

Documents procedures for managing change requests Tracks the status of change requests Defines the level of authority needed to approve emergency change requests

Which of the following is defined as the expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete?

EAC

Which of the following measurements is the value of the work that has been completed till the specified date compared to the budget?

EV

All of the following are true regarding Control Costs except which one?

EVM is used to determine the cost performance that must be realized for the remaining work of the project to meet the BAC goal.

Which of the following strategies closely watches the probability or impact of the risk event to assure that the organization realizes benefits?

Enhance

Which of the following determines the amount of cost required to complete the project work?

Estimate Costs

Which of the following is the expected cost to finish all the remaining project work?

Estimate to complete

Which of the following is a strategy for dealing with positive risks or opportunities?

Exploit

Which of the following strategies adds actions to ensure that a high-probability positive risk does happen to realize positive risk event benefits?

Exploit

Your project was recently accepted by the stakeholders. The goals were achieved and the project was closed out. What type of project ending is this?

Extinction

The core values for this methodology are communication, simplicity, feedback, courage, and respect. Which methodology does this describe?

Extreme Programming

Which of the following is a contract type where the seller will provide goods and/or services to the buyer for an exact price?

FFP

Which of the following is an agreement that specifies the fixed total price for the product, service, or result to be procured?

FFP

In which of the following logical relationships can the successor activity not begin until the predecessor activity has completed?

Finish-to-Start

Which of the following logical relationships is the default setting for most project-scheduling software packages?

Finish-to-Start

Which of the following is also called a lump-sum contract?

Firm fixed price

Which of the following is the difference between the early and late start dates and the early and late finish dates?

Float

Which of the following should be documented and filed while closing out the project and the procurement?

Formal acceptance of the work of the project Written notice that the contract is complete

Which of the following is a hierarchical organization where each employee has one clear superior and is managed by a person with expertise in that area?

Functional

When tailoring communications for the project, which of the following should you consider in order to ensure effective communications with and among the stakeholders?

Geographic locations of your team members Language that will be standard for the project Technology to perform communications

Which of the following is not a major step of decomposition?

Identify resources

Which diagramming technique is a graphical representation of situations that display relationships among various variables and outcomes?

Influence diagram

Which technique illustrates how various factors can be linked to potential problems?

Influence diagram

You are working on a very prestigious, important project. Your project sponsor has promised a generous bonus if you can complete the project ahead of schedule. You know if you complete this project early, you'll receive media attention and write-ups in some of the important journals for your industry. You've examined the schedule and found that the project is actually behind schedule at this point. You're not worried and decide to do which of the following?

Inform the project sponsor that you're behind schedule and are not sure the project will be completed early. You tell them you'll examine ways to get the project back on schedule but can't promise an early delivery.

In the midst of your project, you discover that the by-product of one of your newly developed manufacturing processes causes environmental damage. However, the damage is minimal and almost unnoticeable. Most inspectors will not likely examine this area for damage. The most appropriate response is which of the following?

Inform the project sponsors that you are investigating the production process to determine the extent of the problem and will take whatever corrective action is necessary.

Which of the following is not true regarding status meetings?

Information shared at status meetings always includes updates to elements such as scope, budget, and schedule and does not need to be tailored to the audience.

Close Project or Phase is part of which Project Management Knowledge Area?

Integration management

A kickoff meeting is important for which of the following reasons?

It communicates the start of the project and informs stakeholders of the project objectives and the business value the project will bring about. It ensures that a common understanding is established among stakeholders because the key milestones and key deliverables are identified. It helps establish stakeholder engagement and commitment.

Which of the following are true regarding the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

It creates the approved change requests. It considers the work performance report, the scope baseline, and the project management plan. It monitors, analyzes, and implements the change management plan.

Which of the following defines osmotic communication?

It is a polite form of eavesdropping.

Which of the following options are true regarding the daily stand-up in an agile methodology?

Iteration-based stand-ups focus on team members. Flow-based stand-ups focus on team capacity and workflow.

The Delphi method, technology forecasting, and forecast by analogy are examples of what category of forecasting methods?

Judgmental

Forecasting methods consist of all of the following methods except which one?

Judgmental methods and communication methods

Your organization has historically performed projects using a predictive methodology. You have a low-risk, low-priority project that is perfect for this experiment. However, the project sponsor of this project is nervous about using a new approach that's never been tried before. Which of the following actions should you take in this scenario? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Make certain you are allocating time to mentoring stakeholders. Ensure that the sponsor is committed to the project and to the methodology. Mentor the sponsor and the stakeholders on the agile process by providing training to educate them on the agile processes.

Which of the following tools and techniques of Plan Procurement Management is used to determine whether it's more cost effective to buy the products and services or more cost effective for the organization to produce the goods and services needed for the project?

Make-or-buy analysis

You have been appointed to head up a project management office for your organization. While working in this capacity, you develop project management templates and training materials that will be used to train others in your organization on project management techniques. The materials you've developed are very impressive and you're thinking about publishing and selling them for your own profit. Which of the following is the appropriate response?

Materials developed while on the job belong to your organization and as such are intellectual property. You decide to drop the idea altogether.

Status review meetings serve all the following purposes except which of the following?

May encompass demonstrations that show the product progress.

Which of the following is a strategy for dealing with negative risks or opportunities?

Mitigate

The Control Procurements process is closely integrated with all of the following processes except for which one?

Monitor Communications

Which of the following processes is responsible for reporting and comparing actual project results against the project management plan, analyzing performance data to learn if action needs to be taken, monitoring for risks, and monitoring approved change requests among other functions?

Monitor and Control Project Work

The Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process concerns which of the following?

Monitoring your stakeholder relationships and making certain they continue to stay engaged on the project

Which of the following finds every possible combination of three-points and allows you to enter what-if scenarios to see what would happen for project and activities duration?

Monte Carlo analysis

Which one of the following is the most preferred method of settling claims and disputes?

Negotiation

Which of the following is a tree structure to illustrate groups of resources, vendors, departments, and stakeholders within a project?

Organizational breakdown structure

A negative result from an SV calculation means which of the following?

PV is higher than EV.

Which of the following quantifies the aggregate risk exposure for the project by assigning numeric probabilities to risks and their impacts on project objectives?

Perform quantitative risk analysis

Which of the following is the core deliverable that satisfies the capabilities balanced with time, resources, and cost to create them?

Performance measurement baseline

All of these are constraints that pertain to project teams except the following?

Personnel policies

Which of the following processes provides guidance and direction on how the project costs will be managed throughout the project?

Plan Cost Management

To which of the following processes, quality checklists are an output?

Plan Quality Management

Which of the following is the process in which the project manager and team identifies, analyzes, and ranks project risks?

Plan risk management

Your project has been completed, accepted, and closed out. You want to evaluate project goals and compare them to the product of the project, review successes and failures, and document possible improvements for future projects. You can accomplish this by performing which of the following?

Post-implementation audit

Which of the following defines the likelihood and the impact for each risk event to create an individual risk score and an overall risk score for the project?

Probability and impact matrix

You have contracted with a vendor to perform your project. Your internal stakeholders seem to have a memory lapse on the project objectives. Your vendor has complained to you that your stakeholders are difficult to work with and their expectations are unreasonable. Which of the following are true regarding this scenario?

Procurement performance reviews examine the vendor's performance to date to determine whether elements such as project scope, quality, budget, and schedule are aligned with the contract. Procurement performance reviews might take the form of quality audits, inspections, or status review. Both you and the vendor are equally responsible for monitoring the contract to ensure that the other party is meeting their obligations.

Which of the following includes planned start and finish dates for the project's activities, milestones, work packages, and control accounts?

Project Schedule

Which of the following illustrates work flow, relationships between activities and duration of each activity?

Project network diagram

Which of the following is a document that deals with a buyer requesting a proposal from a vendor?

Project statement of work

In which of the following organizational structures does a project team only work on one project at a time and reports to the project manager for the project duration?

Projectized

Which of the following terms describes what is being measured and how it will be measured during the Control Quality process?

Quality metric

Which of the following tools and techniques of the Close Project or Phase process looks at project variables and is for the purpose of improving performance on future projects?

Regression analysis

You are creating your project management plan. The project you are working on involves accepting credit cards on your organization's website. This will require yearly audits to ensure you are following best practices in developing your website and not exposing sensitive customer information. Which of the following EEFs should you consider regarding this scenario?

Regulatory standard Compliance issue

You are a project manager for a company that has just merged with another company from a foreign country. Your new team is made up of members from your original organization and the merged company. Each company had its own unique culture that is very different from the other. Each country also has a different set of cultural standards. Everyone on the team is struggling with these cultural differences. You decide to do which of the following?

Require all team members to attend diversity training to help them become more aware of cultural differences. This will help them function more efficiently as a team.

According to the PMBOK® Guide, which document helps assure business value is realized when the project is complete?

Requirements traceability matrix

Which of the following is used to incorporate a time cushion into your schedule?

Reserve analysis

Which of the following is the act of making decisions that are for the good of the organization rather than ourselves?

Responsibility

Which of the following is a method to test the overall risk management process and planned risk responses?

Risk audit

Which component of the project management plan in the Plan Cost Management process helps to identify, analyze, and monitor risks?

Risk management plan

Which plan provides processes and controls that will impact cost estimation and management during the Plan Cost Management process?

Risk management plan

Which of the following is an approach that allows iterations of high-level planning and then detailed planning?

Rolling wave

You have gathered the following information for your agile project. There were 12 story points completed to date. 10 story points were planned for this period. The earned value of the story points to date is $77,000 and actual costs are $75,000. What are SPI and CPI for this project?

SPI = 1.2 CPI = 1.03

What are the performance measurements for the Control Schedule process?

SV = (EV - PV) and SPI = (EV / PV)

Which of the following is a strategic planning method used to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats involved in a project or in a business venture?

SWOT analysis

You are working on a project that was proceeding well until a manufacturing glitch occurred that requires corrective action. The corrective action is canceled, and you continue to produce the product with the newly discovered enhancement. Which of the following is true regarding the scenario?

Scatter diagrams display the relationships between an independent and a dependent variable to show variations in the process over time.

Which of the following is a measure of progress achieved compared to progress planned on a project?

Schedule performance index

What does a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.365 depict?

Schedule performance is better than expected.

Which of the following consists of the project scope statement, WBS, and the WBS dictionary?

Scope baseline

Which of the following includes the project scope statement and WBS detail for cost estimation and management?

Scope baseline

The Control Schedule process manages changes to the schedule. Which of the following are true regarding Control Schedule? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Scope changes will impact the project schedule and will require schedule changes and revisions. Control Schedule defines how changes to the schedule will be managed. Changes to approved baseline schedule start and end dates are called revisions.

All of the following are true regarding scope changes except which one?

Scope changes will likely bring about quality improvements.

Project acceptance criteria, deliverables, project exclusions, and scope description are all documented in which of the following?

Scope statement

The documentation of project goals, deliverables, and requirements so that they can be used as a baseline for future project decisions is accomplished by writing and publishing which of the following documents?

Scope statement

Which of the following are true regarding the Control Resources process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Taking corrective action when resources are not utilized as planned Making certain resources are at the right location Performance reviews are one of the tools and techniques of this process.

Which of the following is true regarding the CCB?

The CCB approves or denies change requests.

You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your project is to develop a website for the company that allows retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered, packaged, and mailed to the consumer directly from the grower's site. You are preparing a performance review and have the information about the measurements at hand, wherein PV is 300, AC is 200, and EV is 250. What do you know about this project?

The CV is a positive number in this case, which means you're under budget as of the measurement date.

Your company, Kick That Ball Sports, has appointed you as a project manager for its new Soccer product line introduction. The product line involves three new products, two of which will be introduced together and a third one that will follow within two years. You are ready to create the WBS. All of the following are true except for which one?

The WBS may be structured using each product as a level one entry.

Which of the following makes up the scope baseline when using a predictive lifecycle approach?

The approved project scope statement The approved WBS The approved WBS dictionary

Which of the following is true regarding the numbering system?

The numbering system is a unique identifier known as the code of accounts identifier, which is used to track the costs of the WBS elements.

You are a project manager for a documentary film company. The company president wants to produce a new documentary on the efforts of heroic rescue teams and get it on air as soon as possible. She's looking to you to make this documentary the best that has ever been produced in the history of this company. However, the best photographer in the company is currently working on another assignment. Which of the following is true regarding the scenario?

The primary constraint is quality because the president wants this to be the best film ever produced by this company. She's given you free rein to use whatever resources are needed to get the job done.

Your project is not proceeding well. Your team recently had to redesign one of the components of the final product to better comply with customer requirements. This rework has increased project costs and impacted the completion of other tasks on the work breakdown structure. This setback also seems to have caused a problem with morale among team members. According to the scenario, which of the following is true?

The problem was caused by poor scope definition.

You are using a process to measure the quality results over time. You are reviewing this graphic at your status meeting and explain that this information is based on sample variance measurements. Your measurements are within two standard deviations. Which of the following are true regarding the scenario?

The process is in control and should not be adjusted. You are using a control chart.

You have gathered the following cost measurements for your project: EV = 120, AC = 115, PV = 135. Which of the following statements is true?

The project is behind schedule and costs are lower than planned.

You are a project manager for Giraffe Enterprises. You've recently taken over for a project manager who lied about his PMI certification and was subsequently fired. Unfortunately, he did a poor job of defining the project scope which is the last document he created. You will need to create the remaining subsidiary project management plans and documents. All of the following could happen if you don't correct this except for which one?

The project scope statement is used to document the process for defining, maintaining, and managing project scope.

The CPI (cost performance index) is reported as .94. What does this value indicate?

The project's performance is less than expected

You are a project manager for an agricultural supply company. You have interviewed the stakeholders and gathered their project requirements in the Collect Requirements process. Which of the following is true regarding the process to which this question refers?

The requirements traceability matrix ties requirements to project objectives, business needs, WBS deliverables, product design, test strategies, and high-level requirements and traces them through to project completion.

You are a project manager responsible for the construction of a new office complex. The prior project manager completed the project scope statement and scope management plan for this project. In your interviews with some key team members, you conclude which of the following? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

The scope management plan describes how the project scope will be managed and controlled and how the WBS will be created and defined. The project scope management plan defines, maintains, and manages the scope of the project.

Which of the following are true regarding the stakeholder engagement plan?

The stakeholder engagement plan is developed by analyzing the needs, interests, and potential impacts of the stakeholders. It documents strategies needed to promote stakeholder decision-making and execution. The stakeholder engagement plan captures the strategies needed to engage stakeholders throughout the project.

You are a project manager working on a large, complex project. You have constructed the WBS for this project, and all of the work package levels are subprojects of this project. You've requested that the subproject managers report to you in three weeks with their individual WBSs constructed. Which of the following statements are correct regarding the scenario?

The work package level is the lowest level in the WBS and is known as a user story on an agile project. The work package level facilitates resource assignments. The work package level facilitates cost and time estimates.

Which of the following are true regarding positive stakeholder engagement in an adaptive methodology? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Their engagement and methodology creates transparency on the project. Their engagement and methodology creates transparency on the project. Their engagement increases trust and reduces risk, increasing the chances for a successful project.

You have eight key stakeholders (plus yourself) to communicate with on your project. Which of the following is true?

There are 36 channels of communication, and this should be a consideration when using the communications requirements analysis tool and technique.

Which of the following statements are true regarding brainstorming and lateral thinking?

These are the techniques that can be used in several planning processes to help determine project scope, requirements, assumptions, constraints, and more. Lateral thinking is a form of alternatives generation that's considered thinking outside the box.

You are documenting the acceptance criteria for your deliverables. Which of the following statements are true?

They are used in a predictive methodology to test or measure whether the deliverables of the project are acceptable and satisfactory when the deliverables are completed. They are documented in user stories in an adaptive methodology to test or measure whether the deliverables of the project are acceptable and satisfactory at the end of the iteration.

The purpose of the project scope management plan and the requirements management plan provides which of the following?

They help set a clear vision and mission for the project. They are used to further elaborate on the project charter, which contains a list of high-level requirements needed to satisfy stakeholder expectations before starting the project management plan. They are both used to plan and manage the scope of the project.

Which of the following is true regarding common causes of variances?

They result from random variances, known or predictable variances, or variances that are always present in the process and are depicted in control charts.

During the Planning process on your recent project, you met with a group of fourteen important stakeholders to determine information needs including the purpose for the communication, frequency of communication, and format and method of transmission. Which of the following is true?

This information is documented in the communications management plan, which is an output of the Plan Communications process. There are 105 lines of communication.

Which of the following are true regarding a burnup chart? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

This is a type of capacity measure. This shows the completed work for the iteration or project It can't tell you if you are working on the right things.

Which of the following statements are true regarding the iteration review meeting? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

This meeting includes team members, the Scrum master, the product owner, customers, stakeholders, and management. This meeting occurs at the end of the iteration. This meeting may include a demonstration of functionality.

Monitor Communications involves evaluating and controlling the impact messages may carry and delivering the right message to the right people at the right time. This process is also about making certain the project information needs of the stakeholders are met. Work performance information is one of the primary outputs of this process. All of the following are true regarding work performance information except which one?

This might take the form of status reports, memos, or updates.

All of the following are true regarding the Monitor and Control Project Work Process except which one?

This process monitors and controls project work from Initiating through the Monitor and Control process group.

You are a project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the U.S. government. Your mission is to complete the project using internal resources. Your agile programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing when your agency appoints a new executive director. Your programmers have siphoned off this project to work on the executive director's hot new project before they finish this project. Which of the following are true regarding this scenario?

This project ended due to starvation. You should perform the Validate Scope process which documents the level and degree of completion.

Your project has been decomposed and the work breakdown structure has been constructed. Your final WBS contains five levels. Which of the following are true regarding WBS?

This project's work package level is level five. The work breakdown structure is a deliverables-oriented grouping of project deliverables and elements. Level five for this project will facilitate resource assignments and cost and time estimates.

You are a project manager working on a new software product your company plans to market to businesses. The project sponsor told you that the project must be completed by September 1. The company plans to demo the new software product at a trade show in late September and, therefore, needs the project completed in time for the trade show. However, the sponsor has also told you that the budget is fixed at $85,000, and it would take an act of Congress to get it increased. Which of the following is the primary constraint for this project?

Time

You are a project manager for Star Light Strings. You are performing the Control Quality process and are looking at and testing a sampling of the product for conformance to quality standards. The tolerable result for the bulbs used on the string is 995-1,000 hours. All of the light bulbs must be LED bulbs. Which of the following are true regarding this scenario?

Tolerable results are assessed during an inspection and are expressed within a specified range. The LED bulbs are an attribute. Attributes have two measures, conforming or nonconforming. You are performing an inspection. Inspections sometimes use check sheets to help track and record data.

Analogous estimates and parametric estimates are used to determine the __________ of the project.

Total cost

The configuration management system accomplishes all of the following except which one?

Tracks the status of change requests and reports on them

Which of the following examines project performance over time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?

Trend analysis

Your project was kicked off more than two years ago. Your stakeholders are not as engaged as they once were on this project. There are only four months to go until the project is complete. Which of the following are true regarding this scenario?

Use the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process to ensure that your stakeholder relationships are in good standing and to encourage continued engagement in the project. Use the Monitor Communications process to ensure that you are reporting information regarding the progress of the project and that the right information is delivered to the right people at the right time. Ask your stakeholders if the meetings and information they are receiving are useful or if there are other ways or different communication techniques that will help keep them informed and engaged.

All of the following are activities of the configuration management system except for which one?

Variance analysis

Which of the following is used to gauge how closely a project adheres to scope, time, and cost estimates made during the planning phase?

Variance analysis

In a flow-based agile approach, which of the following questions would you ask at the daily stand-up meeting?

What is needed to advance this task? Are tasks being worked on that is not on the board?

Your project progressed as planned until yesterday. Suddenly, an unexpected risk event occurred. You quickly devised a response to deal with this negative risk event using which of the following?

Workarounds

You are a project manager for Dakota Software Consulting Services. You're using a performance review to examine elements such as actual start and end dates for schedule activities. You also used SV and SPI calculations to determine the impact of schedule variations, which are more than the stakeholders will tolerate. Rumors have started and stakeholders have heard there might be a schedule delay. Which of the following are true regarding this scenario?

You should act as quickly as possible to implement corrective actions so that the schedule is brought back in line with the plan and delays are reduced as far as possible. Examine float variances because the activities with the least amount of float have the potential to cause the biggest schedule delays.

You are in the Monitor Risks process and are reviewing the risk register and notice something strange. A risk that was designated as low-low in the Planning phase of the project has suddenly become a high risk. There is no response plan for this risk because of its original ranking. Which of the following should be the first action you take out of all the options listed?

You should perform a reserve analysis to ensure there are enough reserves to cover this risk.

You are working on a project and discover that one of the business users responsible for testing the product never completed this activity. She has written an email requesting that one of your team members drop everything to assist her with a problem that could have been avoided if she had performed the test. You estimate that the project might not be completed on time as a result of this missed activity. Which of the following are true regarding the scenario?

You should recommend a corrective action to bring the expected future project performance back into line with the project management plan because of this employee's failure to perform this activity. This situation was likely discovered while performing the Monitor and Control Project Work process. You might have to request a change to the project schedule as a result of this missed activity.

You are working on a project where the requirements and scope are well defined, but you know there will be changes when performing the work of the project. Your stakeholders will need to provide continuous feedback during the development stages of this project. Which of the following are true when determining the deliverables for this project?

You should use a hybrid approach for this project. Because the requirements and deliverables are well defined, you may choose to document a project scope statement that further elaborates on the deliverables of the project and serves as a basis for future project decisions. You should document the project scope statement so there is an agreement between the project management team and the project customer and everyone knows what the work of the project will produce. You should use a hybrid approach for this project because the stakeholders would like to provide continuous feedback on the deliverables once the work of the project starts. User stories will be used to fulfill the deliverables of the project and will be pulled to the backlog.

You are a project manager for an engineering company. You subcontracted a portion of the project to another company. The subcontractor's performance to date does not meet the contract requirements. Which of the following is not valid regarding the given information?

You terminate the contract for cause and submit a change request through Control Procurements.

Your company provides answering services for several major catalog retailers. The phone system is approaching the maximum load limits and needs to be upgraded. You've been assigned to head up the upgrade project. Based on the company's experience with the vendor who worked on the last phone upgrade project, you're confident they'll be able to assist you with this project as well. Which of the following are true regarding the scenario?

You've made an assumption about vendor availability and expertise. The project came about because of a business need.

You work for a small software development firm and use agile methodologies on all your projects. The good news is that everyone on staff will retain their jobs with the new company, but your existing company will cease to exist. You are managing several projects that will be impacted by this. Which of the following are true regarding the scenario?

Your organization is undergoing an acquisition. You should assess and prioritize the impact of these changes on the projects and develop recommendations and action items and communicate them to the new management team. This is a type of external business environment change.

Your project depends on a key deliverable from a vendor you have used several times before with great success. You're counting on the delivery to arrive on June 1. This is an example of a/an ___________________.

assumption

Organizational breakdown structure

milestone