Practice tests APP project mangement

You are the project manager for your company and you've just created the probability-impact matrix below. Based on this table, what is your contingency reserve for the project?

$24,700

If earned value = 500, planned value = 700, and actual costs = 450, calculate the schedule variance.

-200

Activity W has an optimistic duration of 3 days, a pessimistic duration of 35 days, and most-likely duration of 12 days. Using a PERT estimate, what's the duration for Activity W?

14 days

Examine the figure below. What is the critical path for this network diagram?

31 days

All of the following are true regarding WBS components except for which one?

A chart of accounts is assigned to the individual WBS components.

You are a project manager for a large networking project. During the execution phase, the customer requests a change in the existing project plan. What will be your immediate action?

Ask for a formal change request.

You work as a project manager for Tech Perfect Inc. Several projects are running under your supervision. Martha, a team leader of a project, informs you about the performance index of her project. The schedule performance index (SPI) of her project is 0.835. What does this figure indicate about SPI?

Below expectation

Which of the following is the process of using prior projects to compare and set quality standards for processes and results?

Benchmarkingand

The summation of the costs of the remaining work based on estimates from the project team members working on these activities is known as which of the following?

Bottom-up ETC

You are a new project manager that has been entrusted with a software development project. Your project is under execution and your cost management plan directs you to use the earned value management technique. During which process will you use the earned value management technique?

Control Costs

A project sponsor calls the project manager to request a summary of project performance against objectives for the phase that was just completed. What is the sponsor requesting?

Final report

Which of the following is not included as part of the cost baseline but should be included in the project budget?

Management reserve

Which project management process maintains or increases the efficiency and effectiveness of stakeholder engagement activities over time?

Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

You are a project manager of a construction project. You have to close a phase of the project. Which tool and technique will you use in this process?

Trend analysis Variance analysis Regression analysis

You are a project manager of the NHQ project and are working with several stakeholders to create the project scope. The stakeholders have demanded that the project must be completed by December 20 and should not cost more than $750,000. The budget and delivery date were decided by the stakeholders before the project scope has been finalized. What term best describe the schedule and budget factors for this project?

Constraintsand

Which of the following processes will you use to monitor vendor's performance, coordinate communications and interfaces among all the vendors, administer each of the contracts and procurement agreements, and manage all the due dates?

Control Procurements

A project manager is building consensus and maintaining interest and enthusiasm among team members by employing which communication technique?

Facilitationand

According to the Agile Practice Guide, which of the following are the guiding principles of the dynamic systems development method (DSDM)?

Focus on the business need. Ensure on-time delivery. Collaborate with team members and stakeholders.

A risk management plan is needed in a project because it addresses four primary concerns of the project scheduler and risk. Which one of the following is not part of the risk management plan?

How to update the project charter based on risks

Sam has to work on a highly complex project that involves frequent changes and the final product is also not fully understood by all stakeholders. Which life cycle methodology should be adapted?

Iterative

Which of the following are the tools and techniques of the Plan Procurement Management process?

Make-or-buy analysis Market research Expert judgment

You are the project manager of the UTN Project and are working on the roles and responsibilities for your project. You'll need to define four aspects of the roles and responsibilities. All of the following must be defined except for which one?

Managementand

The scope baseline is comprised of which of the following?

Project scope statementand this is correct Work breakdown structureand this is marked as correct WBS dictionary

Your customer has requested a specific color for the product your project is producing. This is an example of which of the following?

Requirementand

All of the following elements are defined in the project staffing management plan except for which one?

Staff discipline

Which of the following is a valid input that a project manager can use to cultivate appropriate stakeholder involvement and interaction?

Stakeholder engagement plan

As the code is released by the pair programmers, it is tested rigorously. The tests for the new code are combined with existing unit tests, and all the tests are run each time there is a release. This technique is referred to as which of the following?

Test-driven development

You are a project manager who works for a nationwide bank with branches in every major city in the country. You are developing a new app for the bank using the XP agile methodology and will deliver business value in each iteration. The programmers on the team are collocated in the same workspace and rely heavily on feedback from the customers. Which of the following provides significant feedback to the team in XP?

Test-driven development

You are a project manager and you have just prepared RFP for release for your project, which involves a substantial amount of contract work detailed in RFP. Your favorite vendor drops by and offers you and your spouse the use of their company condo for your upcoming vacation. It's located in a beautiful resort community that happens to be one of your favorite places to go for a getaway. What is your most appropriate response to the vendor?

Thank the vendor, but decline the offer because you know this could be considered a conflict of interest.

You are in need of procuring several tons of pea gravel for a construction. You'll need the vendor to provide a bid for the pea gravel on a specific date and time and that's one of the requirements included in the procurement document package you are reviewing. Who creates the procurement document package?

The buyer

Which of the following characteristics of an agile project determine the color of the Crystal methodology to be implemented?

The criticality of the project The number of people involved

A project manager facilitates the voting process for decision-makers who have convened to review a major deliverable that was completed. The intent of the meeting is to vote on whether to approve and accept the deliverable or not. Which project management process are they performing?

Validate Scope

Your quality assurance team has discovered several problems with the product of your project. They've rank-ordered the problems by frequency of occurrence on a chart and have determined that roughly 80 percent of the problems are occurring due to 20 percent of the causes they've identified. You know which of the following are true regarding this question?

You should spend the majority of your effort on causes that are generating 80 percent of the problems This type of chart is a Pareto chart Check sheets or tally sheets can be displayed using this type of chart.

The definition of done (DoD) is a checklist of elements needed to ensure that the deliverable or functionality produced at the end of the iteration is ready for the _______ to use.

customer

You are a project manager for your organization and are monitoring and controlling the project work. Your project has a budget of $690,000 and is forty percent complete. Your project has spent $280,000 on your budget. The project is supposed to be fifty percent complete, but vendor delays have pushed the project off schedule. What is the earned value of your project today?

$276,000

You are a project manager for a motion picture studio. You want to predict the project's total cost. If you have a BAC (budget at completion) of $250,000 and the CPI (cost performance index) is .85, what is the EAC (estimate at completion) for the project?

$294,117

Gary is the project manager of the HKQ Project for his company. This project has a task to install 1,200 fixtures. Each fixture will take 1.5 hours of labor. Using the parametric estimating approach, how long will it take to install the fixtures?

1,800 hours

A leading market research company has recently purchased most or all of another company's shares to gain control of that company. This is an example of which of the following?

Acquisition

Joan went to his office's colleague and inquired about the project. The colleague noted that, unfortunately, he and his sponsor determined that the project had evolved into more of a support organization, and they had decided to close out the project. The colleague had since moved on to another project. What type of ending did Joan's colleague experience on his project?

Addition

Which of the following are inputs of the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Agreementsand Project charterand Project management plan

The feature-driven development methodology is based on which of the following processes or features?

Creating a features listand this is correct Developing a model Planning based on features

What does the quality management plan accomplish for a project team?

Defines how the team will implement the organization's quality policy

Jan is the project manager of the BJQ Project and there is some disagreement among the project team and stakeholders as to the duration of certain project activities. Jan has decided to use rounds of anonymous surveys to build a consensus of how long the activities should take. What approach is Jan using in this scenario?

Delphi technique

Which of the following statements are true regarding trend analysis?

Determines whether project performance is improving or worsening over time A part of the tool and technique of the Control Costs process A mathematical formula used to forecast future outcomes

Sue is in the process of monitoring the progress of the project, which kicked off six months prior. The sponsor of Sue's project requests an update on the expected total cost of completing the work. What information is the sponsor requesting?

EAC

Which performance measurement forecasts the expected total cost of a work component, a schedule activity, or the project at its completion by calculating the actual costs to date and then adding an estimate of what the remaining work will cost?

EAC

As a project manager, you are working on a project and have completed developing approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete the project activities. Which of the following processes describes accurately the activity that you just completed?

Estimate Costs

As a project manager, you are working on a project that will require upgradation of some servers in your management department. You have determined the activity costs for upgradation using the analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point estimating techniques. Which process does this describe?

Estimate Costs

Your colleague recently accepted a job transfer that requires a PMP credential. During a recent conversation, he confided to you that he lied on his application to get the assignment. This is an example of what?

Ethics violation

You are a project manager of the NHQ project for your company and you're working with your team to develop the scope management plan for it. What tools and techniques can you use?

Expert judgment and meetings

Kelvin is a project manager working for an ERP software development company. His company specializes in producing software for Finance, Sales, and HR sector-based companies. One of his existing clients, Rim, in the Sales industry is expanding her business and entering into the manufacturing sector as well. Rim, hence, asks Kelvin and his company to prepare similar software for this sector as well. To work upon a solution, Kelvin starts a discussion with his team members to discover if any of them have knowledge or experience related to this sector. He gets no positive results and hence further proposes to hire a third-party team for preparing such software, which was rejected by the change control board. Finally, Kelvin along with all team members comes to a consensus to hire the internal specialized team for developing this software. Which of the following interpersonal skills is being demonstrated by Kelvin in the scenario?

Facilitation

Which of the following are the parts of the cost of quality (COQ) and also known as costs of poor quality?

Failure costs

Which of the following core values listed in the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct addresses the conflict of interest?

Fairnessand

A client has called you to let you know that they need to move up the deadline to have the product your project is creating for a tradeshow. They'd like you to do whatever you can without adding costs to the project schedule. Which one of the following is the best choice for this scenario?

Fast tracking the project activities

You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your company. You and the project team have identified a material that isn't as expensive as another vendor's material and it will satisfy the project needs. Your manager, however, says that the material you've selected is cheap, flimsy, and doesn't have as much quality as the other vendor's material. You explain to your manager that the material you've selected will serve the project exactly and there's no need for the additional features of the other material. What are you and your manager actually discussing in this scenario?

Grade

As a project manager, you should uphold honesty as a value. According to the statement, which of the following statements are true?

Honesty includes reporting the truth regarding project status. Personal gain should never be a factor in any project decision. Honesty includes being honest about your own experience, not deceiving others, and not making false statements.

A project manager expressed frustration to her sponsor after learning that her resources were being distributed to other projects. The sponsor then shared that a recent change to the enterprise priorities caused the immediate shift to occur and that her project was being canceled. What type of ending did this project experience?

Integration

The project manager develops a project management plan to describe how the project will be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed. Which of the following is a valid tool or technique to assist the project manager to assure the success of the project management plan?

Meetings

Henry is a project manager for his organization and he's examining the results of project execution. Henry is examining several errors that happened in the project due to lack of communication, lack of planning, and the project team rushing through activities. He's noted this as the cost of nonconformance in his variance report. Which one of the following statements best describes the cost of nonconformance?

Money spent during and after a project because of failures

Which performance measurement is the cost of the work that has been authorized and budgeted for a WBS component?

PV

Which of the following are displayed as histograms that rank the most important factors such as delays, costs, and defects—by their frequency over time?

Pareto diagrams

Which of the following are examples of interactive communication?

Phone call Video conferencing

Martha, the project manager of a construction project, is working on make-or-buy decisions with her team. Which of the following project management processes are they in?

Plan Procurement Management

You are in the Control Procurements process and are updating some information regarding some of your vendors, such as lessons learned register, resource requirements, requirements traceability matrix, risk register, and stakeholder register. Which of the following outputs does this describe?

Project documents updates

You are the project manager of the HJQ Project and your project team is assigned to your project full time for the duration of the project. You're in charge of these resources. What type of structure is your organization?

Projectized

Carl is working on a string of code he created several weeks ago to make it more efficient without changing its behavior. What is Carl doing?

Refactoring

Which of the following are types of constraints?

Scope technology time

You are the project manager for your organization and you're working with your project sponsor to define the project's staffing management plan. In this staffing management plan, you need to define how project team members will be brought onto and released from the project team among other concerns. What component of the staffing management plan addresses when project team is released from the project?

Staff release plan

You are working late into the evening with the project team to finish a deliverable and meet the scheduled completion date. The team closes in on completion when an error is discovered. Fixing the error will cause a change in schedule. You know that schedule changes require the approval of CCB, but if you don't give the team the go-ahead to fix this error, this deliverable will be late. Which of the following actions do you take?

The change control system gives you the authority to approve emergency changes. Because this is an emergency and your authority to approve the decision is documented, you decide to tell the team to fix the error.

You work as a project manager for the ABC project. You have been asked to create a basis of estimates documentation for outlining the details used in establishing project estimates. Which of the following information will you include in the document?

The confidence level regarding the final estimates A description of the assumptions made about the estimates or the method used to determine them A description of how the estimate was developed

Communication models can take two forms: a basic sender/receiver model and an interactive model. Which of the following describes these communication models?

The interactive model includes a component for the receiver to let the sender know they received the message and to provide a response to the message. The basic sender/receiver model includes components to encode, transmit, and decode.

During a status meeting, the project sponsor requests an update on how much over or under budget the project is estimated to complete. On hand, you have the following information: BAC = 25,000, EAC = 32,000, ETC = 8,000. Which value will you respond with?

-7,000

You are preparing a status report for your project stakeholders, based on the performance of your project to date. The project has a budget of $567,000 and is 60 percent complete. However, the project should have been 75 percent complete. The costs of the project until now are ten percent more than what was planned to reach the milestone of sixty percent. What is the cost performance index that you should include in your status report?

.91

The GHFB project has a budget at completion (BAC) of $1,265,000 and is 35 percent complete. However, the project should have been 45 percent complete. In addition, this project has spent $449,652 to date. What is the schedule performance index (SPI) of this project?

0.78

If EV = 145, PV = 162, AC = 138, BAC = 200, and ETC = 55, what is the variance at completion (VAC)? Assume you are using actual costs to date and ETC will use the budgeted rate.

7

What will be the value of CPI (cost performance index), if EV (earned value) = <{EV}>, AC (actual cost) = <{AC}>, and PV (planned value) = <{PV}>?

<{CPI}>

You are a project manager for Safari Outfitters. Your company is going to offer a new product line in the upcoming spring catalog. Your project team has 10 months to secure contracts with suppliers, finalize the designs, get the product into the catalog, and stock the warehouse. What is this an example of?

A constraint because the project team has a limited amount of time to complete the project

A project is taking place outside so there is an identified risk that weather may disrupt the project work. Which risk response can be used for weather?

Acceptance

An agile team is performing a test to determine whether software works without error and all functions perform as expected. This describes which type of testing?

Acceptance

You are a project management consultant for a new client. You're helping this client establish their project management practices. One of the first questions the client asks is about the documents and information that should be included in the typical project scope statement. Which of the following is included in the project scope statement?

Acceptance criteria

You are using the data representation tool and technique of the Manage Quality process with one of the product deliverables to organize potential causes of defects into groups. Which tool and technique does this describe?

Affinity diagram

You have been assigned as a project manager for a new project that involves the deployment of a new software application for all your users. The software application is being developed specifically for your organization by a third-party company. Which of the following tools or techniques could be used to collect requirements for your project?

Affinity diagram

You are working for an international travel organization. Your project involves developing a large software project that will customize travel plans for individuals or small groups of travelers who want the freedom to explore on their own, but with the structure of a guided tour. The software will interface with your organization's existing airline and hotel reservation systems. This new touring software will have a corresponding app that your customers can download to their mobile devices. It will contain their travel reservations, itineraries, and points of interest. Your executives are uncomfortable using an agile methodology. You've recommended a training course for them to help them understand the benefits of an agile approach. According to the Agile Practice Guide, the benefits of stakeholder engagement in an adaptive methodology include which of the following?

All of these

Amie who is a project manager at a garment manufacturing unit is working on a new brand launch before the Christmas season. After working for two weeks, she feels that the required production may not get completed with the current workforce and shift time. She has the option to either hire new resources or increase the shift hours of the current team by paying them overtime. She feels new resources may take time to reach the expertise skills required for the task, so she chooses the second option of paying overtime and gets the required production well in time to make this brand launch successful. Which of the following data analysis techniques has she used in this scenario?

Alternatives analysis

You are a project manager for ABC Beauty Products. Your project concerns developing a new line of bath products. A quality inspection of one of the new products reveals that the product is nonconforming. Which of the following results in conforming or nonconforming measurements?

Attribute sampling

Management is examining your project and comparing it with a project that was recently finished in the organization. The previous project is somewhat similar to your project though your project scope is larger. Management is creating a rule for your project that you must match the past project's performance. Specifically, you expect your project to have a cost performance index of .97 or better, a schedule performance index of .95 or better, and a cost variance of less than five percent of your total budget. By using the past model as a guide, what quality planning approach is management using to set goals for your project?

Benchmarkingand

Sally and Joe are two project managers working in the corporate offices of a popular fast-food franchise. They are both studying for their PMP certification and are reviewing processes pertaining to the Project Procurement Management Knowledge Area. They are having a disagreement on which process is responsible for performing activities relating to the closure of procurements. Sally insists it's the Close Project or Phase process, while Joe argues that it is the Control Procurements process. Who is right?

Both of them

Ana, who is the product owner of a project, has been requested by a stakeholder to give a walkthrough of the project's weekly status progress report and the remaining work. She takes the stakeholder to the team wall where the project's work progress has been updated daily. Which type of report is Ana showing to the stakeholder?

Burnup chart Burndown chart

Which of the following is officially chartered and given the authority to approve or deny change requests as defined by the organization?

CCB

Which of the following are the tools and techniques of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

Change control toolsand Meeting Expert judgment

Tomas is a project manager of the QWS Project and is worried that the project stakeholders will change the project scope frequently. His fear is based on many open issues in the project and how the resolution of the issues may lead to additional project changes. In what document are Tomas and the stakeholders working in this scenario?

Change management plan

The work performance reports used in the Monitor and Control Project Work process include which of the following elements?

Changes approved in the current reporting period Time completion forecasts and cost forecasts Risk and issue status

Rim, who is a project manager of a project has signed the contract with one of the vendors before the start of the project. The project is now complete and the formal notices have been given to the vendor. According to the scenario, which output does this describe?

Closed Procurement

In the work breakdown structure (WBS), every component has been assigned a unique identifier that provides a summation of the costs, schedule, and resource information associated with each component. Where is this information for each WBS component originating from?

Code of accounts

John is a project manager of the NHQ project for his company. His project has 75 stakeholders, some of which are external to the organization. John needs to ensure that he converses about risks in the most appropriate method for the external stakeholders. Which project management plan will be the best guide for him to connect to the external stakeholders?

Communications management plan

Tracy is a project manager for her organization. She's managing a new project to create new external hard disks. Jim is the project sponsor and is working with Tracy to define a project scope statement. Jim has asked that the project must not exceed $575,000 in costs. This $575,000 is an example of what?

Constraintand

You are the project manager for a computer upgrade project. You and the vendor are in dispute over the deliverables the vendor has to provide and configure. What document can best describe how you and the vendor are to proceed if there is a claim against the vendor?

Contract

You are the project manager for your organization. You have created the metrics for a technology project to measure project quality. In this project, you'll be documenting your measurements in a chart that will track trends over time. This chart will utilize both upper and lower control limits and the Rule of Seven. What control quality chart are you using to track metrics?

Control chart

Henry is a project manager of the HJB project for his company. He's working with his key project stakeholders and the project team to develop the project plan for this project. Henry explains to his project team that he needs to create three baselines for the project management plan, as baselines help capture the expectations for the project and allow the project manager to see the difference between what was planned and what was experienced. Which of the following baselines are to be included in the project management plan?

Cost baselineand this is correct answer Schedule baselineand this is correct Scope baseline

Which of the following contract types is described in the statement given below?"The seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and receives a fixed fee payment which is calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs."

Cost plus fixed fee

Marcus is the project manager of the BQ Project for his company. He's working with a new vendor and the vendor requests that Marcus's company pay a percentage of all materials used in the project. What project type is the vendor suggesting for Marcus?

Costs plus a percentage of costs

Which of the following are the tools and techniques of the Control Schedule process?

Critical path method Resource optimization Project management information system

Which Crystal methodology should be used for the least critical project with a team size of two to four members?

Crystal Clear

You are a project manager with several years of experience in project management. You've accepted your first project in a foreign country. You've been in the country a week or two and are experiencing some disorientation. This is known as which of the following?

Culture shock

Which of the following processes are parts of the Project Human Resource Management knowledge area?

Develop Project Teamand Acquire Project Teamand Plan Human Resource Managementand Manage Project Team

Carina is a project manager of You've Got Dogs, a specialty company that creates custom dog apparel and toys. As it is part of her practice, she sits down with her sponsor to evaluate how the project is performing by comparing the performance measurement baseline against the actual schedule and cost performance. What technique is Carina using?

Earned value analysis

Management is examining your project and comparing it to one recently completed in then organization. The completed project was somewhat similar to yours, though your project scope is larger. Management is creating a rule mandating that your project match the earlier project's performance. Specifically, you expect your project to have a cost performance index of .97 or better, a schedule performance index of .95 or better, and a cost variance of less than five percent of your total budget. By using the past model as a guide, what quality planing approach is management using to set goals for yours project?

Explain: When you compare activities or performance of one project to another one to create project goals, you're "benchmarking."

Your project involves the research and development of a new food additive. You are ready to release the product to your customer when you discover that a minor reaction might occur in people with certain conditions. The reactions to date have been very minor, and no known long-lasting side effects have been noted. As a project manager, what should you do?

Inform the customer that you have discovered this condition and tell them you will research it further to determine its impacts.

This tool/technique of the Control Procurements process refers to a structured review of the work being performed by the contractor. Which tool/technique does this question describe?

Inspection

You are a project manager for a construction company that is building a new city and county office building in your city. You recently looked over the construction site to determine whether the work to date conformed to the requirements and quality standards. Which tool and technique of the Control Quality process were you using?

Inspection

Question 100 :Which of the following statements are true about types of project endings?Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Integration often occurs when resources are redistributed. Starvation can occur when a key resource quits. Addition is where a project evolves into ongoing operations.

Molly is the project manager of the NYQ Project to create a new network and infrastructure for her organization. She needs a vendor to provide just the cost of the network cable needed for her project. What document should Molly send to the vendor?

Invitation for bid

Marti is the project manager of the GHY Project for her company. This project is to deploy a new software for the organization. Many of the end users are resistant to the change, but many of the functional managers are welcoming the change. Marti has been asked by her manager to create a force field analysis for her project. What is a force field analysis?

It shows the forces for and against the change.

Rene, who is a functional lead for a project, is working with a client to understand their requirements. The relevant stakeholders from the client side are unable to explain their requirements fully, so she decided to sit with them and observe their tasks, actions, and speak to them. This helped her team to understand and define the requirements from the project perspective. Which skill did she exhibit here while working with the client?

Job shadowing

Which of the following is a flow-based measure that considers the total time it takes for the user story from initiation to the completion and delivery of the work?

Lead time

Beth is the project manager for her company and management has requested Beth to prepare the project charter for her new project. As part of her preparations, Beth needs to see the project's statement of work. The statement of work describes the products, services, or results that the project will actually deliver and referenced the three specific things that will help her in writing/preparing the project charter for the project. Which of the following is not referenced in the statement of work?

Legal ramifications

You have been assigned as the project manager for a new project that involves the development of a new interface for your existing time management system. You know that developers are available in the organization, and you would like to use them. However, the program manager thinks that an outside company needs to be engaged to complete this development. Which of the following will help you convince the project manager to use the internal resources?

Make-or-buy analysis

You are in the process of producing the cost management plan. Which of the following are tools and techniques that you can use in the process?

Meetingsand Alternatives analysis Expert judgment

Resources include more than just project team members. Which one of the following is not a resource to consider when creating the project schedule?

Money

Which one of the following is not a project resource?

Moneyand

Which of these processes are responsible for adjusting stakeholder engagement and communication strategies and plans, based on how the project is progressing and how the results compare against the plan?

Monitor Communications and Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

The project team recently participated in a working session to examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with overall project risk. What project management process are they performing?

Monitor Risks

All of the following are parts of the Plan Resource Management process except for which one?

Negotiation

Which of the following are the correct steps to close out an agile project? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Obtain legal, financial, procurement, and administrative closure for the project Ensure that all project documentation is up to date and set up archive procedures. Validate the readiness for transition and transfer ownership of the deliverables to the stakeholders.

You are managing a project that is complex in nature and has been underway for three years. You have been actively managing stakeholder engagement and keeping them informed. Your stakeholders are undergoing training on how to use the product. You are also actively analyzing project performance and monitoring the project for risks. You are using forecasting techniques to update the cost and schedule information and providing reports on project progress. You and the project team have also implemented corrective actions. Which of the following are true regarding this question?

Parts of this question describe the Monitor and Control Project Work process and you are taking action to keep the project on track and demonstrating accountability. Parts of this question describes the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process and you are ensuring that stakeholders are informed and engaged and that they are adequately trained on the product.

You are a project manager and are in the Closing process of the project. Your customer has been presented with a formal acceptance and sign-off document. They refuse to sign, claiming the product does not meet their expectations. You know that this situation could have been prevented by doing which of the following?

Performing quality inspections during the processand Requesting sign-off at important milestonesand Documenting the requirements

You are a project manager for a construction project. You are documenting project purchasing decisions, specifying the approach, and identifying potential sellers. In which process are you working?

Plan Procurement Management

You are the project manager for a construction project. You and your team have made a request for proposal (RFP) for acquiring some material required in the initial phase of your project. Which process are you working on?

Plan Procurement Management

You are a project manager for the TVS project. Along with the team, you are studying the quality requirements and creating a plan so that the level of quality is ensured for the deliverables. Which process are you in?

Plan Quality Management

You are the project manager of a large construction project. You, with your team, are identifying the quality standards for your project and determining how to meet them. Which process of project management are you working on?

Plan Quality Management

Anna is a project manager of the Software Solutions Project for her company. She's working with 145 stakeholders to determine the best solution for the project's deliverable. She decides to let these 145 stakeholders vote on the three options. When she tallies the votes, she learns that 55 votes are for option A, 47 votes are for option B, and 43 votes are for option C. She decided, based on the votes, to choose option A. What type of group decision-making technique is Anna using?

Plurality

Common causes of variances are a result of which of the following in a process?

Predictable variances Random variances Variances that are always present

A project manager is defining, preparing, coordinating, and then integrating all the various subsidiary project plans into an overall project management plan. Which of the following are inputs of this process?

Project charter Outputs from other planning processes Organizational process assets

A project manager is in the process of holding a kick-off meeting to signal that the execution of the project work is about to begin. She reviews the project baseline, communication cadence, and guidelines with the team. Which of the following documents serves as the project baseline?

Project management plan

You are a project manager for Laredo Pioneer's Traveling Rodeo Show. You're heading up a project to promote a new line of souvenirs to be sold at the shows. You're ready to document the processes you'll use to perform the project as well as define how the project will be executed and controlled and how changes will be monitored and controlled. On which of the following are you working?

Project management plan

A team has received a bunch of requirements from their customer. However, the customer is not sure what the collection of these requirements will finally look like. So, they asked the team to construct a working model or mock-up of the final product with which they can experiment. Which of the following will help the team in accomplishing the task?

Prototype

You are a project management consultant for a larger bank. You're helping the bank establish a formal approach to project management and you're now walking them through the process of closing a phase of a project. Your client wants to know why they should close a phase instead of just waiting to close out the entire project. You explain that this formal process has three primary results. Which of the following is not a result of closing a project phase?

Provides cash flow forecasting for expenses incurred

You are the project manager of a high-profile project. Your project team has members from all departments within the organization and each member has several activities to complete each week to contribute to the project. Management would like you to create a chart to show each project team member's work assignment using a simple legend. What type of chart is management asking you to create?

RACI Chart

You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves manufacturing of discrete automation parts. You are ready to put your project team together and start working on developing the human resource plan. Since your project would consist of both external and internal resources, you would like to communicate a clear division of roles and expectations of all your team members. Which of the following would be useful to you in achieving this goal?

RACI Chart

Nancy is a project manager for her organization and her project sponsor has asked her to create a chart that identifies tasks for each project team member using a standard legend. What type of chart should Nancy create for the project sponsor?

RACI chart

Which of the following statements are true about the work breakdown structure of a project?

Refers to as a deliverables-oriented hierarchy that defines and organizes all of the work of the project Maps the deliverables of the project with subdeliverables and other components stemming from each major deliverable in a tree or chart format Serves as a foundational agreement among the stakeholders and project team members regarding project scope

Which of the following are causal methods? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Regression analysis Econometrics Autoregressive moving average

Hank is a project manager for the NHY Project. His project has a very tight budget with little room for project overruns on costs. He needs to control costs and reduce expenses as much as possible to make the project successful in the organization. On the NHY Project, Hank is using many contractors that are integrated into the project team. What can Hank do to keep project costs down in this scenario?

Release the project contracted employees as soon as they have fulfilled their project obligations.

For the Control Scope process, the project documents that can be considered as inputs include which of the following?

Requirements traceability matrix Requirements documentation Lessons learned register

Which of the following values represents taking ownership for the decisions you make or fail to make, the actions you take or fail to take, and the consequences that result?

Responsibility

Which of the following sentences is not true regarding the tools and techniques of the Monitor Risks process?

Risk audits should occur in the later phases of the project.

You are the project manager of the HQQ Project for your company. You're working with the project team to create a quality management plan and you have gathered several elements to complete the planning. Which of the following is an input to the quality management planning process?

Scope baseline

You are the project manager for your organization and you're working with your project sponsor to define the project's staffing management plan. In this staffing management plan, you need to define how project team members will be brought onto and released from the project team among other concerns. What component of the staffing management plan addresses when the project team is released from the project?

Staff release plan

A project manager facilitates a meeting to acquire updated information regarding the progress of the project. What type of meeting is this?

Status

Which of the following statements are true regarding the Develop Project Management Plan process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

The project management plan is an output of this process, which includes other information, such as the resource management plan and cost baseline. The tools and techniques of this process include data-gathering techniques and expert judgment. It is concerned with defining, preparing, coordinating, and then integrating all the various subsidiary project plans into an overall project management plan.

Which of the following involves taking a sample number of parts from the whole population and inspecting them to determine whether they fall within acceptable variances?

This is statistical sampling, which is a tool and technique of the Control Quality process.

You are a project manager working on manufacturing a new product. The operational process is very detailed. One of the components of the product must measure 1 centimeter by 1 centimeter. Reliability is measured using a machine that samples one part in every hundred to assure the measurements are correct. Which of the following does this question describe?

This is statistical sampling, which is a tool and technique of the Control Quality process.

A project manager, Jim, analyses the current performance of a project and uses the data to predict the resources that will be needed in the later stages of the project. He is also assessing project performance over a period of time to determine whether the project is improving or deteriorating. Which of the following data analysis techniques is being used in this scenario?

Trend analysis

You are a project manager in an organization and you've just taken over a project that has been failing on time and costs. As you begin the project work, you learn that the previous project manager had ignored a group of stakeholders. This group of stakeholders hasn't even heard of the project work and they're upset about being left out of the conversation. How would you classify this group of stakeholders?

Unaware

You are a project manager for Dakota Software Consulting Services. You're working with a major retailer that offers its products through mail-order catalogs. It is interested in knowing customer characteristics, the amounts of first-time orders, and similar information. The stakeholders have accepted the project scope. Work has begun on the project, and you're confirming some of the initial work results with the stakeholders. You've asked for acceptance of the work results. Which process are you performing?

Validate Scope

What are the ways to show work effort visually in an agile framework? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Velocity Burndown chart Burnup chart

Which of the following are alternative names for inspection? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Walkthrough Audit Review

You are the project manager of the HQS Project. Your project will last 27 days and start on Tuesday. You will not work any weekends on the project. What day of the week will the project end?

Wednesday

While most project managers do not want to utilize the cost-reimbursable contracts, there are times when such a contract is appropriate for a project. For example, high risks in the effort of the procured work could be a reason to use a cost-reimbursable contract with a vendor. Which other condition could be a good reason to use a cost-reimbursable contract?

When the project scope can't be clearly defined at the launch of the project

A project manager is carrying out activities associated with the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process. What result will these activities produce?

Work performance information

You are a project manager for a computer upgrade project. You need to monitor and control communications throughout the life of the project. All of the following are the requirements you need for the project except for which one?

Work performance information

A project sponsor called the project manager to express concern over not seeing the latest weekly update on the progress of the project. What key output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process is the sponsor looking for?

Work performance report

Which of the following are methodologies within Crystal?

Crystal Yellow Crystal Clear Crystal Red

At daily stand-up meetings, a team member must come prepared to discuss the answers to which of the following questions?

What did I accomplish yesterday? What will I work on today? Do I have any roadblocks or issues preventing me from doing my work?

An output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process can take many forms, including issues or action item logs, status reports, project documents, dashboards, and more. Which output does the scenario refers to?

Work performance reports

Andrew is the project manager of the HYG project for the HYG organization. This company relies on earned value management, and management has asked Andrew to create a report detailing how much more money does the project need to reach its conclusion. Andrew reviews the project, which has an assigned budget $775,000 of which he has already spent $225,000. He is currently 25 percent with the project work though his schedule calls for him to be 35 percent complete. Based on this information, what will Andrew provide as an ETC (estimate to complete) the project?

$675,000

If you know that EV = 114, PV = 120, and AC = 103, what are CPI and SPI, respectively?

1.1 and .95

You are a project manager in an organization and you're leading a project to create and deploy new software. In this project, you've identified 245 stakeholders. A new change request has been approved by the change control board and this will cause the number of stakeholders to increase to 287. How many more communication channels will be required because of the approved change request?

11,151

Activity B has an optimistic duration of 5 days, a pessimistic duration of 24 days, and most-likely duration of 12 days. Using the three-point estimate, what's the duration for Activity B?

14 days

If EV = 145, PV = 162, AC = 150, and BAC = 200, what is the estimate to complete (ETC)? Assume that current variances are typical and answers are rounded to the nearest whole number.

57

You are a project manager for Community Trends, a non-profit organization. Your project has come about because of a social need. You're calculating performance measurements and are using actual costs, AC = 425 to date, and assuming that ETC, which is 65, work will be completed at the budgeted rate. The other information is BAC = 900, PV = 500, and EV = 475. Which of the following is the correct expected total cost at completion given this situation?

850and

During a change control meeting, the project manager summarizes the latest request submitted and reviews analysis and alternatives provided by the team. The sponsor, who had already reviewed the information prior to the meeting, notes that he approves the change request and the committee can move on to the next submission. What type of decision-making technique did the change control board use?

Autocratic

During a change control meeting, the project sponsor takes suggestions and recommendations on the latest change request from the other three committee members, who all voted to accept the change request. The sponsor votes to reject the change, which is accepted as the final decision. What type of leadership style does the sponsor use?

Autocratic

You are performing alternatives analysis as part of the Define Scope process. Which of the following statements are true?

Brainstorming and lateral thinking are types of alternative analysis. Alternatives analysis is used in the Plan Scope Management process and Define Scope process. Alternatives analysis is a component of the data analysis tool and technique.

Midway through the delivery of development services, a customer requested that new requirements be incorporated. When asked to submit a change request to modify the terms of the contract, the customer refused and insisted that the changes be implemented at no cost. After multiple discussions, neither party changed their stance on the situation. Which of the following tools and techniques will the project manager likely use to address this situation?

Claims administration Alternative dispute resolution

A project sponsor calls the project manager to request a summary of project performance against objectives for the phase that was just completed. The project manager assures the sponsor that he is already in the process of putting the report together and that it would be provided by the end of this week. What project management process is the project manager performing?

Close Project or Phase

What are the elements that are part of the stakeholder engagement plan?

Communication requirements for stakeholders engaged in the current phase of the project Timing of the information distributions and their frequency Relationships between and among stakeholders

You are a project manager of the NHQ Project in an organization and you're working with some project team members and stakeholders who are in an argument about the project work. While you've tried to help the stakeholders to resolve the differences, they are being obstinate about the work and they don't want to work with you or the project team to really resolve the difference. You've decided that you need to escalate the problem to management. Which plan defines the escalation process?

Communications management plan

As a project manager, you are managing a considerably huge budget project to develop new software. Considering the varied nature of your stakeholder group, you would like to put together a plan as to what information the stakeholders need, and how to provide that information. What is the document that you would need and it belongs to which process group?

Communications management plan and Planning process group

You are a project manager for a large construction project. Within the project, you are working with several vendors to complete different phases of the construction. Your client has asked you to arrange for some of the materials that a vendor need to install next week in the project to be changed. According to the change management plan, what subsystem will need to manage this change request?

Contractand

You are a project manager in the Xylo automobile company and work for a new car manufacturing project that is planned for launch during Thanksgiving time. One of the ancillaries that is used in the car is being delivered by a vendor, who has signed the contract with Xylo. You find the last consignment of ancillary received for this car is not up to the mark as per contract and hence decides to refuse the deliverable. Also, you intimate the contractor that you may exit the contract if such incidents happen again. Which process of procurement management are you currently operating?

Control Procurements

As a project manager, you are in the process of monitoring the status of both the project and the product scope, monitoring changes to the project and product scope, and managing changes to the scope baseline. Which process does this describe?

Control Scope

Nicolas is a project manager managing a six-month project for his organization. During a status meeting, the director of development notes that he would like to see two additional features added to the project's deliverable. Nicolas hesitates and points out that the additional features are not in scope for the project. The director waves him off and states that he could cover the costs if needed. Which of the following processes addresses this situation?

Control Scope

You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a project for the development of an application. You have started planning for the quality. Which of the following would you use to determine if your process has a predictable performance?

Control charts

On an agile project, a development team has just completed the creation work and is ready for deployment. The time it took to get that work into the done state and ready for deployment is referred to as which of the following?

Cycle time

A project manager is in the process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting on the overall progress of the project against the plan. Which of the following are the tools and techniques of this process?

Decision-making Meetings Variance analysis

Jennie is a project manager of the House Construction Project 340 for her company. This project is to create a custom home that will utilize solar and wind power for the client's end result. The home has many requirements for materials and longevity. She's working with the project team to divide and subdivide the project scope. What activity is Jennie doing in this scenario?

Decompositionand

Rick is the project manager for TTM project. He is in the process of procuring services from vendors. He makes a contract with a vendor in which he precisely specifies the services to be procured, and any changes to the procurement specification will increase the costs to the buyer. Which type of contract is this?

Firm Fixed Price

You have been assigned as the project manager for a new project that involves deployment of a new software application to all your organization's users. The timeline is aggressive, and this software is being deployed on your company's architecture for the first time. In addition, the project steering committee has specified an allowable budget for the project. You plan to use an outside company for this deployment. Which of the following contract types is best suited for you to negotiate?

Fixed price

As a project manager, you should consider which of the following when tailoring projects and reviewing the effectiveness of Project Integration Management?

Governance committees Reporting on expected benefits Change management

You are a project manager for the TTY project. You are in the process of classifying stakeholders' engagement to document at what levels of engagement your stakeholders are. You observe that one of the stakeholders is aware of the project and its potential impacts, and is actively engaged in ensuring that the project is a success. In which of the following engagement levels will you classify that stakeholder?

Leadingand

A project manager is reviewing work results and project deliverables to see whether they comply with the stakeholders' expectations. Which process group activity is he just performing?

Monitoring and Controlling

You, as a project manager, note that stakeholders are aware of the project, but neither they are supportive nor unsupportive. The engagement level of the stakeholders should be classified as which of the following?

Neutraland

Your company completes projects for other organizations and you often use a T&M contract. What clause must be in your contract to ensure that costs and time do not spin out of control?

Not-to-exceed

An agile team working together on a project is sitting in a big meeting room. In the room, John was discussing with Kim about a security loophole while implementing the code design for a module. In between, Harry, who was listening to their discussion gets an idea of the improvement of the current code design and notes it down for further design discussion meetings with architects. He asks John and Kim to apply this code implementation for a while and requests them to continue code development of the remaining module. According to the given scenario, this is referred to as which of the following?

Osmotic communication

You are a project manager for your organization and are creating a time estimate for your project. Your project will require the installation of 1,500 doors on your organization's campus; the doors are fireproof and mandated by law. Roger, a project team member, estimates that each door will take 1.5 hours to install and test successfully; you've used that figure to estimate a total installation time for all doors as 2,250 hours of labor. What type of estimate have you created?

Parametricand

You are the project manager of the TDY project. You're planning on training your team to build a quality product. On which of the following processes are you working?

Plan Quality Management

You are the project manager for your organization and you're creating a new break room for your manufacturing site. In this project, you have a budget of $100,000, $20,000 you've reserved for some games and lounge furniture. You are uncertain of the exact games and furniture, but you know you've set that much aside in your WBS for these unspecified deliverables. What term best describes $20,000 and deliverables?

Planning package

You have been appointed as project manager for a new project. To initiate the project, you instructed the project team to work upon collecting the requirements. The collected requirements have been documented and now your task is to classify and prioritize the requirements, for which you decide to use a group decision-making technique. Which of the following is considered a type of group-decision making technique?

Plurality

You are the project manager in a projectized structure and management has asked you to create a plan that other project managers can also use. This plan that management wants you to create will define project processes and identify methods to test their effectiveness, establish metrics, and identify ways to improve the overall effectiveness of the process. What plan does management want you to create?

Process improvement

You are a new project manager that has been entrusted with a software development project which is in progress. A sub-contracting company has been doing the development work on this project. You presume that there could be problems with some of the assumptions made about the project work while planning for obtainment and you would like to review them. Where would you find this information?

Procurement management plan

You work as a project manager for a large manufacturing company that produces dental supplies. Your latest project involves the installation of a new machine that will automate part of the manufacturing process. Currently, you are working with the project team to decompose identified deliverables into smaller components of work. What Knowledge Area does this activity belong to?

Project Scope Management

Sasha works as a project manager for the HGH project. She is into the Plan Cost Management process. Which of the following are included in the Plan Cost Management process?

Providing guidance and direction on how the project costs will be managed throughout the project Producing the cost management plan

You are a project manager of a large construction project. In this project, you've assigned a project team to create a project website that will allow stakeholders to retrieve project information, check project status, and read reports about the project. What type of communication is this project website an example of?

Pull communication

Joan is the project manager for her company and she's working with her project team to determine role in the project. Joan and the team agree that they should create a grid that'll map out the project resources to each work package in the WBS. This will help the team know what they're to do and they can be ensured that each of the work packages in the project's WBS will be created. What Joan and his team member creating in this scenario?

RACI chart

Which tool/technique of the Monitor Risks process is used to examine the implementation of risk response plans and examine their effectiveness at dealing with risks and their root causes?

Risk audit

A project team recently participated in a working session to examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with overall project risk. What is this working session, or meeting, called?

Risk review

Which of the following is the process of elaborating deliverables, project phases, or subprojects in the work breakdown structure to differing levels of decomposition depending on the expected date of the work?

Rolling wave planning

You are a project manager for your company. Your current project is to create a Web presence for a large marketing firm in your city. It has come to your attention that the customer is asking your project team through emails to add "extra bells and whistles" to the project that were not in the approved project scope. Your project team has been adding the additional features although they have not been documenting the features as the customer has been sending the requests through email messages. What is happening in this scenario?

Scope creep

You must get the project customer to approve your project schedule even though your schedule is beyond the deadline they have requested. Which one of the following is the best approach to win their approval for your schedule?

Share schedules from similar projects and their timeline.

Management has asked you and Larry, another project manager, to create a plan to provide a smooth transition of the project resources when your projects end. Management wants to ensure that morale remains high in the projects and that project team members can easily move from one project to the next with little to no downtime between the project work. What plan does management want you and Larry to create?

Staffing management plan

Which of the following are the types of project ending?

Starvationand Extinction Additionand

You are a project manager of the XYZ project. Midway through this project, a client has requested a scope change, which would affect the project cost and schedule. What will you do?

Submit the change request.

Which tool/technique of the Control Costs process is the projected or estimated cost performance the remaining work of the project must achieve to meet BAC or EAC?

TCPI

A project manager has recently communicated TCPI (to-complete performance index) of 2.0 to the project sponsor. What does this mean?

The team must increase its existing efficiency to complete the project according to the plan.

Steve is the project manager for his company. Some of the activities in the project, such as the electrical work, are too dangerous to do internally so Steve hires an electrician to complete these tasks. What risk response has Steve implemented?

Transferenceand

David is a senior project manager working for a prominent book publishing company. As part of his current project, he oversees the inspection of deliverables, measures them against documented requirements and acceptance criteria. What project management process is he performing?

Validate Scope

As a project manager, you need to perform which of the following steps to close out an agile project?

Validate the readiness for transition and transfer ownership of the deliverables to the stakeholders. Obtain legal, financial, procurement, and administrative closure for the project. Ensure that all project documentation is up to date and set up archive procedures.

Kia is a project manager in an organization. She is providing guidance to the project team on the steps required to generate the work breakdown structure (WBS). She lists the following:Identify the deliverables and work.Organize the WBS.Decompose the WBS components into lower-level components.Assign identification codes.What is the fifth step?

Verify the degree of decomposition.