PMP-Planning Quiz

Plan Quality Management tools include: Price of Quality Benchmarking Constraint Charts None of the above

Benchmarking - a data gathering technique which involves comparing actual or planned project practices or the project's quality standards to those of comparable projects to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis for measuring performance.

Scope statement constraints with regard to procurement include all of the following except: risk register. available and skilled resources. delivery dates. organizational policies.

Correct Answer, risk register.

The risk management plan includes all except Risk strategy Logging Funding Timing

Correct Answer: Logging, found in the PMBOK Page 405, 11:1.3.1 Risk Management Plan

Which of the following is not a tailoring consideration in Project Integration Management? Change Governance The cost baseline Benefits C

Correct Answer: The Cost Baseline , PMBOK Chapter 4

Enterprise Environmental Factors that are inputs into the Plan Procurement Management process include marketplace conditions. crime rate. make-or-buy risks. procurement policies and guidelines.

Correct Answer: marketplace conditions, found in the PMBOK Page 470, 12:1.1.5 EEF's

A WBS is: A hierarchy that defines and organizes project work. A technique for evaluating a component or product during a project phase. A common approach to implementing a quality improvement project program. A contractual component that designates how activity time and materials are used throughout the duration of the project.

Correct answer: A hierarchy that defines and organizes project work. A "WBS" is a "work breakdown structure" that organizes and defines project scope. It is a hierarchy that defines and organizes project work to accomplish specified internal and external deliverables. Each descending level of the hierarchy represents a more detailed definition of the project work. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

What internal assets and enterprise environmental factors are used to define the schedule activities? The risk register and resource availability. A scheduling methodology and the PMIS Work performance reports and resource availability. Decomposition and resource availability.

Correct answer: A scheduling methodology and the PMIS. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

Competing constraints include Schedule Budget Resources All of the above

Correct answer: All of the above. Schedule, Budget, and Resources can all be constraints

Who should be responsible for risk identification activities? The project manager, project team members, and those responsible for directly managing project risks. The organization and stakeholders. Risk management experts. All project personnel.

Correct answer: All project personnel. The project manager, project team members, the risk management team and experts, outside customers, end-users, stakeholders, and other project managers are involved. But all project personnel should be encouraged to identify risks. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

What is an activity the project manager does when he/she attempts to manage a project's scope? Create a performance statement. Collect requirements. Estimate potential project risks. Subdivide the major anticipated project deliverables.

Correct answer: Collect requirements. Collect Requirements is the process of determining documenting and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

What is an activity the project manager does when he/she attempts to manage a project's scope? Create a performance statement. Collect requirements. Estimate potential project risks. Subdivide the major anticipated project deliverables.

Correct answer: Collect requirements. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapte

A contract that only pays the majority of the fee based on satisfaction of certain broad subjective performance criteria is: Time and materials Cost plus award fee Cost plus incentive fee Cost plus fixed fee

Correct answer: Cost plus award fee. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 12

Tools used in schedule development include: critical path method gannt method resource insertion none of the above

Correct answer: Critical path method. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

Predefined approaches to risk management that organizations generally have are Specific and unique to the project, definitions of terms. Project scope risk activities. Decision-making authority levels. Planned mediation and evaluation meetings.

Correct answer: Decision-making authority levels. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

The project manager uses product and stakeholder analyses, expert judgment, and alternatives identification during the process of Collect Requirements Define Scope Validate Scope Create WBS

Correct answer: Define Scope. Tools and techniques used during the scope definition process include product and stakeholder analyses, expert judgment, and alternatives identification. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

The period of time that may elapse after a risk has occurred before its impact is discovered is Urgency Proximity Connectivity Dormancy

Correct answer: Dormancy. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11.

____ risks determines which risks might affect the project and documents their characteristics. Identify Analyze Plan Monitor and control

Correct answer: Identify. Risk identification determines which risks might affect the project and documents their characteristics. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

What information is contained in the communications management plan? Information to be communicated. General level of noise factors. Required communication management skills. Methods of reporting risk.

Correct answer: Information to be communicated. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 10

________ involves planning and coordinating overlapping project processes, phases, and activities Scope management Time management Integration management Scheduling management

Correct answer: Integration management. Integration management involves identifying, defining, combining, unifying, and coordinating various processes and project management activities. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 4.

Why is the process of identifying risks important? It determines which risks might affect the project. It determines the degree risks will affect the project. It will proactively limit disruptions during the project. It is not a key factor in risk management

Correct answer: It determines which risks might affect the project. Identifying risks is the process of determining which risks might affect the project. Characteristics of each anticipated risk are documented. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11.

What is considered when creating a project cost estimate? The cost of quality. Marketplace conditions and the project scope statement. The program plan. The reserve analysis.

Correct answer: Marketplace conditions and the project scope statement. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 7

_______ are included in the risk management plan Risk identification and categories Methodology, timing, and risk categories Risk budgeting and mitigation plans Roles, responsibilities, and the risk register

Correct answer: Methodology, timing, and risk categories found in the PMBOK Page 405, 11:1.3.1 Risk Management Plan

Project roles are designed for Project team members. The project management team. Persons or groups from inside or outside the organization. The technical support personnel.

Correct answer: Persons or groups from inside or outside the organization. Project roles may be designated for persons or groups either within or outside of the performing organization. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 9

What organizational process assets are used in Identify Risks? The project scope statement. Previous project files. Schedule and cost information. Plans, assumptions, and constraints information.

Correct answer: Previous project files. Organizational process assets input used in risk identification include information from previous project files, as well as lessons learned and actual data. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

The ability to invoke discipline is an example of what kind of power? Guilt-based Reward-oriented Referent Punitive

Correct answer: Punitive. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 3

What should the project manager or estimator consider when approximating costs of resources needed to complete each schedule activity? Risk. Time. External factors. Project scope.

Correct answer: Risk. The estimator should consider possible causes of variation of costs estimates, including risks, when approximating costs of resources needed to complete each schedule activity. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 7

_______ is a scheduling technique that employs a scheduling model and generates the project schedule Schedule network analysis Schedule compression Resource leveling Milestone scheduling

Correct answer: Schedule network analysis. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

_________ management ensures the project includes all the specified work required, and ONLY the specified work, which is necessary to successfully complete the project. Project Scope Control Risk

Correct answer: Scope. Scope management ensures the project includes all the specified work required, and ONLY the specified work, which is necessary to successfully complete the project. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

______ determines the method and timing of releasing team members, to effect smooth project phase transitions, improve morale, and optimize time and budget. Staff release plan Schedule management A timetable Resource management

Correct answer: Staff release plan. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 9

Stakeholder engagement levels include: Aggressive Passive Supportive Risky

Correct answer: Supportive. Ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 13

What Define Scope output details the project's deliverables and the work required to create the deliverables? The project charter. The project boundaries. The project scope statement. The project scope management plan.

Correct answer: The project scope statement. The project scope statement describes major project deliverables, objectives, assumptions, constraints, and statement of work which is the basis for future project decisions. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

In Define Activities Work package deliverables will be identified. The project schedule will be developed. Cost resources of each activity will be made apparent. The cost estimate will be developed.

Correct answer: Work package deliverables will be identified. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

Encoding, decoding, feedback, and noise are key components of a communication model. communications management. communications planning. communication.

Correct answer: a communication model. A basic communication model illustrates how ideas and information are sent and received between two parties. It includes components of encoding, decoding, conveyance, feedback, and noise. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 10

To be effective, a planned recognition and rewards system should be based on ________ under a person's control. activities and schedules schedule and performance activities and performance behavior and activities

Correct answer: activities and performance. To be effective, a planned recognition and rewards system should be based on activities and performance under a person's control. Clear criteria for rewards and a planned system will promote and reinforce desired behaviors. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 9

_______is/ are updated to include the defined logical relationships and any associated leads and lags. The project schedule network diagrams The activity list Activity attributes Requested changes

Correct answer: activity attributes. Activity attributes are used for project schedule development and for selecting, ordering, and sorting planned schedule activities within reports. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

The Integration Management process includes developing the project charter. developing the project management plan. closing the project. all of the above

Correct answer: all of the above. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 4.

Risk responses should characteristically balance avoidance and risk-taking. be managed top-down. address the immediate needs of the stakeholders. be suited to the nature of the project.

Correct answer: balance avoidance and risk-taking. Risk responses reflect an organization's perceived balance between risk-taking and risk-avoidance. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

Plan communications tools include: project schedule communications agreement plan communications technology project management plan

Correct answer: communications technology. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 10

Project _______ documented in the project scope statement can limit the project management team's schedule milestones and other options assumptions deliverables constraints dependencies

Correct answer: constraints. Project limitations documented in the project scope statement can limit the project management team's schedule milestones and other options. Project scope statement constraints impose completion dates that are required by management or by the contract. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

The risk management plan reporting formats describe the ______ which defines how the outcomes of the process will be documented, analyzed, and communicated. risk identification output qualitative and quantitative analysis scope of risk content and format of the risk register

Correct answer: content and format of the risk register. The risk management plan reporting formats describe the content and format of the risk register which defines how the outcomes of the process will be documented, analyzed, and communicated. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

Aggregated cost estimates and cost baselines are produced as a result of, cost budgeting. cost estimating. cost analysis. cost control.

Correct answer: cost budgeting. Cost budgeting involves aggregating the estimated costs of individual schedule activities or work packages to establish cost estimates and a total cost baseline used to measure project performance and make project progress payment.

The primary benefit of collecting requirements is to influence the project's overall mission. define the product and project scope mitigate overall product and project changes. establish guidelines project development and application.

Correct answer: define the product and project scope. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

What activities are involved in scope management? estimating. executing. defining. all of the above.

Correct answer: defining. Managing the project scope is primarily is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5.

It is important the team understands how to take the identified integrative information and use it to effectively schedule the work necessary to meet completion deadlines. establish adequate funding. develop a workable project management plan. develop credible document reports and outputs.

Correct answer: develop a workable project management plan. The team must understand how to take the identified integrative information and use it to develop a workable project management plan that can be effectively updated as the project proceeds. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 4

Developing the project management plan provides a procedure for,... monitoring and controlling. provides a format for managing the project. documents necessary actions for subsidiary plans. provides routines for executing the project and its phases.

Correct answer: documents necessary actions for subsidiary plans. Project management plan documents definition, preparation, integration, and coordination actions for subsidiary plans. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 4

The Plan Risk Management process should be completed _____ since other processes depend on it. early in the project before risk analysis begins before the project charter is developed. during the monitor and control phase.

Correct answer: early in the project. The Plan Risk Management process should be completed early in the project since other processes depend on it. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

Scheduling software is considered an organizational asset. enterprise environmental factor. planning component. activity processing technology.

Correct answer: enterprise environmental factor. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

The foundation has to be built before the house framing can begin. This is an example of an external dependency. soft or preferred logic. hard logic. discretionary dependency.

Correct answer: hard logic. Mandatory dependencies are often referred to as hard logic, since they are inherent in the nature of the work being done. A must be completed before B can begin. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

Constraints limit the project team's flexibility in resource planning. An organizational constraint may involve, having a weak matrix. economic conditions. contractual agreements. hiring freezes.

Correct answer: having a weak matrix. Organizational constraints that limit the project team's flexibility in resource planning may reside with the organization's basic structure. The project manager will have a weaker role in an organization that has a weak matrix.

The ______ scale reflects the significance of negative threats or positive opportunities on each project objective. impact relative impact non-linear impact matrix

Correct answer: impact. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

The project scope statement details the needs of the project. is a statement of 'what needs to be done'. states the project objective. defines the potential risks that might deter success.

Correct answer: is a statement of 'what needs to be done'. The project scope statement defines what needs to be accomplished. It addresses and documents project characteristics, boundaries, scope control, and associated products and services. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

Given a finish-to-start dependency, the project manger finds he has to build in a 28-day _____ period into the project schedule to ensure a concrete foundation has cured. lead gap break lag

Correct answer: lag. A lag directs a delay in the successor activity. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

What Plan Procurement Management information is contained in the project scope statement? make-or-buy criteria. list of deliverables marketplace constraints and decisions. resources and supply chains.

Correct answer: list of deliverables. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 12

Approaches, tools, and data sources used to perform project risk management are included in the risk management plan risk categories. documentation. methodology. roles and responsibilities.

Correct answer: methodology. Approaches, tools, and data sources used to perform project risk management are included in the risk management plan's methodology. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

Enterprise Environmental Factors that influence the Plan Resource Management process include: future human resources global conditions organizational culture none of the above

Correct answer: organizational culture. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 9

Estimating the basis for activity durations quantitatively is optimistic analysis. three-point estimating. parametric estimating. analogous estimating.

Correct answer: parametric estimating. Parametric estimating is the process of estimating activity durations quantitatively. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6

If the project manager and management team are involved in discussing and developing options and actions to encourage opportunities for successful project completion, and to reduce threats to achieving the project's objectives, they are involved in plan risk management. risk mitigation and control. identifying risks. plan risk responses.

Correct answer: plan risk responses. Plan risk management involves the planning and execution of the risk management process. Plan risk responses involves options and action development, with the intent of enhancing success opportunities and reducing potential threats to project success. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 11

Tailoring considerations in project schedule management include all except life cycle approach product dimensions resource availability technology support

Correct answer: product dimensions ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 6.

Inputs contributing to the Plan Procurement Management process include stakeholder needs project schedule communication channels decoding

Correct answer: project schedule. Inputs contributing to the plan procurements process include the project schedule. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 12

Inputs contributing to the Plan Procurement Management process include stakeholder needs project schedule communication channels decoding

Correct answer: project schedule. Inputs contributing to the plan procurements process include the project schedule. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 12--- IN DISPUTE... See page 482, I think it's an input to Conduct Procurement Process

Directing and managing project work is the integrative process that performs activities outlined in the WBS. project scope statement. project charter. SOW.

Correct answer: project scope statement. Directing and managing project work is the integrative process that performs activities outlined in the project scope statement that defines project objectives. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

When developing the product scope description, the project management team must describe deliverables at a summary level or greater detail. define the process and criteria for accepting products. list and describe specific project constraints associated with the project scope that limit options toward product development. provide sufficient detail to support later project scope planning.

Correct answer: provide sufficient detail to support later project scope planning. When developing the product scope description, the project management team must provide sufficient detail to support later project scope planning. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5.

_______ is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements Grade Quality Integrity Par

Correct answer: quality. Quality is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 8 and Glossary.

Regarding project risk, the plan procurement management process includes prioritizing potential risks and using expert judgment to monitor and control them. reviewing make-or-buy decision risks. transferring risks to the buyer. integrating quality control and risk management into the process.

Correct answer: reviewing make-or-buy decision risks

Scope statement constraints with regard to procurement include all of the following except: risk register. available and skilled resources. delivery dates. organizational policies.

Correct answer: risk register. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 12

Imposed dates for specific activity completion or project deliverables are called completion dates. schedule activities. schedule milestones. delivery date.

Correct answer: schedule milestones. A schedule milestone represents a significant event on a project schedule, such as an event restraining future work, or one that marks the completion of a major deliverable. It has zero duration. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5.

When the project manager explains the essential business aspects of a project they are exhibiting technical project management skills leadership skills strategic and business management skills control feedback

Correct answer: strategic and business management skills. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 3

Scheduled work, cost estimates, and work to be monitored and controlled, are contained in the WBS dictionary. the lowest level WBS components. work performance reports. the scope baseline.

Correct answer: the lowest level WBS components. Work package levels (the lowest WBS levels) are the points at which the cost and schedule for work can be reliably estimated. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

The following are inputs to Define Scope: deliverables, recommended changes and corrective actions. work performance information and reports. the project charter, requirements documentation and organizational process assets. organizational assets and updates.

Correct answer: the project charter, requirements documentation and organizational process assets. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 5

The resource management plan includes training needs. recommended preventive actions. work performance information. team member location assignments.

Correct answer: training needs. The resource management plan includes how and when project team members will be acquired, released from the project, trained, recognized and rewarded, and compliance considerations, safety needs, as well as the impact of the plan on the organization. ref: PMBOK (R) Guide, 6th Edition, Chapter 9

The ______ technique is used to determine if a particular product or service can be produced by the project team or can be purchased fixed price make-or-buy management leveraged buy analysis make-or-break

PMBOK Page 479, 12:1.3.6 Make or Buy Decisions- A make or buy analysis results in a decision as to whether particular work can best be accomplished by the project team or needs to be purchased from outside sources.

What type of organization has a project manager managing the project budget? Organic Functional Weak Matrix PMO

PMO- Correct

Directing and managing project work

The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the projects objectives.

What is the project team doing when they examine the project and product requirements, and influences, and how those related influences will be managed? They are analyzing the project risks. They are analyzing and understanding the project scope. They are measuring the project and product status. They are creating the project management plan.

They are analyzing and understanding the project scope..

_______ contracts are hybrid contractual agreements that are combined cost-reimbursable and fixed-price contracts based on duration of performance and the exact quantity of items to be delivered. Cost-plus-fixed-fee Time and materials Cost-plus-incentive-fee Cost-plus-percentage-of-cost-fee

Time and Materials