Project+ Practice Test
Assuming thirty days in a month, calculate the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) estimate on a Finish-to-Start (FS) project with an optimistic (O) estimate of twelve days until completion, although the project could take as long as two months. However, the project manager (PM) believes, on average, that the team could complete the project in about a month.
32 days
A project manager is creating a WBS for a project charter toward a catering service expansion of a national restaurant chain. The scope has been determined, deliverables identified, team members placed, and levels of work built. The team lead requested a WBS dictionary to be included. Which of the following is NOT a section of a WBS dictionary?
A project schedule and task list
What kind of committee contains a group of executives, the PM, and stakeholders (considered a governing body) who offer support and guidance, but do not manage the project throughout the project's life cycle and instead act as the "voice of the customer"?
A project steering committee
A trailer manufacturing company took on a project to create a smaller-scaled model of a boat slip to house two jet skis or adjust for one. During a gap analysis by the quality team, it was discovered that two of the best welders are getting ready to retire before the project finishes, and those losses will set the project back for months. Quality control will add some strategies for the project manager in the gap analysis when it is published. What are common strategies for closing skills gaps on a project team? (Select all that apply.)
Adding team members Training team members
While determining the scope of a project during the initial planning meeting, the scribe requested, for the record, if there were plans for a statement of work (SOW) or terms of reference (TOR). The lead project manager (PM) believes they need both, but the team members think only an SOW is necessary. Choose the statement that is NOT true regarding the difference between a client SOW and a TOR.
An SOW is only used in manufacturing industries, while a TOR is used exclusively for consulting or professional services.
While determining the scope of an upcoming project, the client delivered a document that defines the expectations for very specific arrangements at the completion of the project. Identify the type of document described in this scenario.
An SOW. A statement of work (SOW) from the client would outline expectations for the project, including vendor selections, suppliers, and more.
A software engineer creates and manages a project for the cyber team. One area of interest involves the variances between housing projects within a program versus a portfolio. What are the tenets of running a project as a part of a portfolio? (Select all that apply.)
An in-depth and rigorous prioritization process The ability to have multiple projects running at a given time
What individual designs solutions, looks across an organization at how different systems work together, and ensures projects adhere to solution requirements?
Architect
A project manager had to resolve a conflict amongst the team members over a minor issue. The issue was taking up too much time for what the project needed to accomplish. The project manager decides to table the discussion and move on to more important things. What conflict resolution strategy is this?
Avoiding
A project consultant weighs the impacts associated with environmental, social, and governance factors on a current project. What topic creates internal and external awareness by sharing through published statements?
Awareness of company vision, mission statement, and values
Deja Brew, a local coffee shop, has been talking about setting up an application for a "faster drive-thru experience" for years. Baristas have wondered if it will ever happen, but they will make coffee as long as the store is accessible and customers keep ordering. Even though sales have slumped, they know their work will continue until something forces it to stop, such as the business closing or a process changing. What would NOT be a primary project objective in this case?
Build the drive-thru.
Every project has an ideal cadence, and some projects have multiple cadences. The team on a software project reviews their work every two weeks and uses a Kanban board to create work items that they can complete in two weeks or less. The project manager found that some of the work items are taking longer than anticipated since the tasks have become more involved than when the project started. Why is it important to intentionally design the project methodology and cadence?
Cadence affects the pace and tone of the project.
Digital storage is more secure, affordable, and scalable than ever, far from when project managers (PMs) would have to compress and maintain file boxes. Due to these changes, PMs can now build centralized digital project collections. Modern architectures allow an organization to support multiple servers with various access levels. The lead PM moves files from a private server to a separate, secured server to summarize communication artifacts and gather information in a single place to make it easier to track crucial decisions. What is the manager creating?
Centralized information for communication integrity
A project manager reviews the change controls used during a recent project's life cycle. Which component will the project manager use to review change requests quickly?
Change control log
A security analyst receives several alerts from the monitoring system regarding a service account. Where should the analyst check first?
Change log
A project manager has the task of completing a project for the U.S. government. The team members must submit a background check as part of the assignment process. What security concept best mandates this type of background check?
Clearance requirements
A company is looking for a new software solution that will limit the need for technicians to perform periodic upgrades. What type of software installation option would best suit the company's requirements?
Cloud-based solutions
Which of the following are software installation options? (Select all that apply.)
Cloud-based solutions On-premise solutions Local installation
A software engineer initiates a project and identifies the software, hardware, and service providers needed to complete the assigned milestone tasks. What type of support is the engineer considering for this project?
Computing services
In a bookmaking project, the project manager (PM) tried to make an ordered list by the manufacturer with the product backlog. The items at the top should be the most valuable and completed first. Still, a quality audit found that there were too many of a few supplies available and not enough of other supplies necessary to complete the project. What should the PM have done to keep this from happening?
Conduct refinement meetings or backlog meetings.
A subject matter expert (SME) explains the statistical significance of a variable to the project team. What chart best fits the SME's requirements and helps display upper and lower limits?
Control chart
When assigned to a new high-profile project, kickoff meeting attendees notice the project manager (PM) is very excited about the project. The meetings involve listening to current organization operations and discussions about what lies ahead for the company after project completion. Projections for the company include receiving a large sum of money after the project, which would mean a lot to everyone involved. Since the project has not started yet, there are very few artifacts. What exactly are team members comparing in this scenario?
Current state and future state of the business from the project
The project manager (PM) for a project to design a new data management system found that the customers are internal to the company. While they cannot describe every feature they need when initially surveyed, they are excited to work on the project. They have many suggestions that will likely flourish later in the project development. A significant development and operations team was assigned for up to one year to complete the project; the PM opted to split it in half for a research team to gather data about the project. What would NOT be considered project artifacts the research team should consider concerning this kind of project?
Current workarounds, business justifications, business operations
A project member has additional roles, including access to documentation with enhanced information security controls. When reviewing documentation, what drives data grouping into specific levels of interest?
Data classification
A cyber consultant is assigned a role as an assistant project manager and wants to incorporate technology into the project. What can the consultant use to create dashboards for monitoring company performance?
Data warehouse
A small startup company is presenting at a conference and needs to prepare materials and train staff for the event. The exhibition must display functionality with a mockup of the product, a video, or a slide show that shares product features. What informative meeting style should the small startup use?
Demonstration
What is the name for the individuals who will use what the project is building out?
End-user
A few project team members ran into an issue that they could not complete their work due to other members not completing their tasks as required. What could have potentially mitigated this problem?
Execute tasks according to the project management plan.
A low-priority issue became more significant when a team had a problem with a cloud-based database application. What can the project manager (PM) do to respond to the problem quickly before it becomes a high-priority issue?
Execute the contingency plan.
A project manager works on a new project in a secured area requiring a specific entry keycard. What type of security concern is in this scenario?
Facility access
The storage team asks the director to help reduce storage. They point out that approximately ten to fifty people email the presentations for meetings, and many of the files are quite large. What can help reduce overall storage for the storage team?
File sharing platform
A technician is exploring information technology (IT) and project management concepts to identify relevant uses within the project. What assists in tracking budgets, spending, and cost estimates?
Financial systems
A local cheese maker started a new batch of gourmet cheese with some unusual ingredients: pumpkin, spices, and a touch of citrus. The project is a short-term batch meant to be seasonal, so the cheese master will not allow any packaging until after the staff clears the cheese with tests to ensure quality and taste. What type of dependency sequencing is this?
Finish-to-start
A project manager (PM) needs to describe to the project's stakeholders the factors impacting a specific store's customer churn rate. How can the PM visually depict the factors leading to the outcome?
Fishbone diagram
A project manager uses a process diagram at a kickoff meeting. What type of chart is a process diagram?
Flowchart
During a meeting, multiple members of the project team conflict on how to address an issue. The team did not have time to sit and discuss the potential solutions, so the project manager decided on the objections of some of the members. What conflict resolution strategy is this, which is also called a more dominant strategy?
Forcing
A project manager is trying to set up a highly detailed project plan in a visualized manner. Which of the following is the best way to do so?
Gantt chart
A department manager is looking to get a project approved by the chief financial officer (CFO). The CFO requests a report that explains the benefits of what to accomplish in contrast with the current state. What kind of report would best fit this request?
Gap analysis
A team has approved and accepted a project charter and a preliminary scope statement during a meeting at the end of the initiation phase. However, the team has not delivered any work yet. The team members have individually met with the project manager to build rapport and ask questions. There will also be several more individuals hired to work on the project down the road. What marks the end of the initiation phase, indicating the team can move on to the planning phase?
Having a project kickoff meeting
A technician works as a project lead and wants to acquire a service that holistically supports basic computing resources, such as storage space for the team, usable networks for remote team members, and a standalone server. What type of service can the technician consider in this instance?
IaaS
A technician is reviewing the company's factsheet on change control processes regarding validation checks and rollback plans. What element is NOT an attribute of a rollback plan?
It archives issues and defects observed during testing.
A software technician is incorporating operational-change control processes from archived projects into the new information technology (IT) project. Which element is NOT associated with software releases?
It informs clients of upcoming software changes through maintenance advisories.
A cyber engineer reviews a factsheet on the environmental factors associated with agile and waterfall projects. Which are aspects related to the developmental factors of a waterfall project? (Select all that apply.)
It is linear and sequential and the code is written, then tested, then delivered. It creates clear handoffs between roles, and often handoffs indicate slowdowns in the workflow.
A technician is leading an IT project and is reviewing archived data for operational change-control processes used in recently closed projects. What elements are associated with the establishment of a risk assessment? (Select all that apply.)
It provides context and can help assess the urgency of the change request. It identifies hazards if the change was implemented or not implemented.
On a Java programming project, the project manager (PM) created a virtual work board showing all the team members, work to be done, work in progress (WIP), and finished work. Unfortunately, the project has fallen behind, and there is a backlog of work to be completed. Iterations and sprints are both fixed timeboxes lasting 1-4 weeks. The teams use the timeboxes as their planning cadence. What project methodology are they using?
Kanban
A project manager is preparing for a presentation and wants to visualize the project timeline in the project charter. Which of the following is best suited for this purpose?
Milestone chart
An information technology department needs to set up a system to share extensive information in a consumable format, including instructions and troubleshooting tips. What system should the department set up?
New knowledge base
Ideally, project teams could implement a single product that makes every stakeholder happy. In reality, no single product will completely fulfill every requirement. Teams must consider the tradeoffs of various features and assemble a workable product. High-level design (HLD) helps stakeholders understand the project approach and how the final solution should look. The low-level design (LLD) provides implementation instructions, which the team will use to execute the project. What does it mean to apply a "solution design" to a product or service?
Optimizing the product in any given environment
A development manager wants to display duration, activities, and dependencies for a software development project. Which of the following will be the best choice?
PERT Chart
In anticipation of critical path analysis, the project manager (PM) wants a chart that shows the Finish-to-Start (FS) project schedule with a slight adjustment for worst-case and best-case scenarios. What type of chart will show the PM the information wanted?
PERT Chart
A technician reviews the variances between risk and issues and risk and change. Which of the following are considered elements of consideration for risk and change? (Select all that apply.)
Possible delays, but a project owner who can shop around for the right equipment/price point. Proactive modification to a project's scope, budget, or timeline via an adjustment in project activities or resources.
An end-user-services manager must create a list of potential equipment vendors that they have vetted and approved. What kind of list should the manager create?
Prequalified vendors
What type of project tool often serves as a backdrop to a conversation or display?
Presentation software
An executive requested that the project manager give a weekly summary of how the project is going. What project activity is this called?
Progress reporting
What document consists of lessons learned and project challenges?
Project closeout report
What part of a project close-out describes meeting with the client after the end of the project to go over how well the project met the client's needs?
Project closure meeting
A project manager reviews historical findings from other team projects exposed to environmental, governance, and social factors. What topic best represents when a project directly affects waste generation and disposal methods, pollution, and resource consumption?
Project impact on local and global environments
What individual in a company oversees planning, organizing, and keeping teams on track throughout the project life cycle?
Project manager
During project progression, the project manager (PM) resets the project boundaries, revising and clearly stating what is in and out of the project scope, reviews, and lists only high-level deliverables as they change, and refines the content in the project scope statement. The PM provides this information to the webmaster, who keeps the project website updated and the older information in an archive, thus demonstrating the difference between the project's preliminary scope statement and the detailed scope statement. What is the difference between a preliminary scope statement and a detailed scope statement?
Project maturity
A large construction contractor finishes building a new hotel in a large metropolitan area for a project. Before the contractor can move on, they must have the client verify that everything has met their requirements. What document would the contractor need to complete to end the project?
Project sign-off
A systems engineer needs to coordinate with the person responsible for a portion of a project. Which of the following would be the best place to find the information?
RAM
The manufacturer of high-end carpentry materials for a supplier recently went out of business. The PM sought information from several out-of-state contractors to find the most suitable materials at the best price, so the company could complete the project. The PM acknowledged that various suppliers carry different materials. Which of the following requests should the PM make in this scenario?
RFI
A team leader prepares for a project and learns that recent changes in law could place the project at risk. Failure to adhere to which element of a business could result in legal action?
Regulated environment changes
A company sends out emails quarterly to employees on how to use the ticketing system. What does this refresher help accomplish?
Reinforce adoption over time.
A project manager (PM) implements operation security and physical security concepts into a project and working area. One of the team members asks the PM if they could use a personal USB drive to transfer data. What is the team member asking to use?
Removable media
A cyber consultant starts a new agile project and explores its various components. What drives a project?
Requirements
A small startup's project manager (PM) has to launch a cloud-based personal budgeting application. One team of nine members creates the final product, while another team regularly communicates with external vendors on pricing and costs. The PM uses software to create schedules, calculate baselines, and report results through tables, boards, and charts. The software also includes a list of all project resources, capacity, and costs allowing the PM to assign the physical resources used or needed by the team actively working on specific tasks and calculate an updated project cost based on the vendor resource rates and schedules. Tracking resource assignments to identify issues, such as when people are overallocated, is an example of what?
Resource loading
A small startup's project manager (PM) has to launch a cloud-based personal budgeting application. One team of nine members creates the final product, while another team regularly communicates with external vendors on pricing and costs. The PM uses software to create schedules, calculate baselines, and report results through tables, boards, and charts. The software also includes a list of all project resources, capacity, and costs allowing the PM to assign the physical resources used or needed by the team actively working on specific tasks and calculate an updated project cost based on the vendor resource rates and schedules. Tracking resource assignments to identify issues, such as when people are overallocated, is an example of what?
Resource loading
A project added another webpage to the project's scope, and the remaining metrics increased by $1,000, including an additional five days. What would be the most appropriate response from the project manager?
Revise the baseline to reflect each change.
A project manager reviews a team publication on risk management strategies. The publication states which of the following are components of positive risk management strategies? (Select all that apply.)
Risk exploitation Risk enhancement Risk sharing
The company hires a vulnerability manager since management wants to look at the information about a project's risk management process. Where should the vulnerability manager look?
Risk report
A project lead prepares a briefing on negative risk strategies. What components of negative risk strategies does the project lead include in their briefing? (Select all that apply.)
Risk transference Risk avoidance Risk mitigation
A software engineer begins a new project and wants to select a framework/methodology that focuses on the "big picture." What methodology can the engineer use that incorporates multiple agile practices and frameworks and visualizes all the prominent roles, practices, events, and artifacts on its interactive Big Picture?
SAFe
A project engineer creates a hybrid project that will incorporate never before used information technology to support critical functions and reporting. What is a complete software stack, including the infrastructure, environments, and the actual product that an end-user would use?
SaaS
During the client meeting, a project manager learns that the client wants to make last-minute changes before the contract ends within a week. The changes will cause significant delay. What is the manager witnessing from the client in this scenario?
Scope creep
Team members live across multiple time zones, which limits availability to schedule meetings. The team needs more than meetings to communicate and coordinate the project. They created an iteration sprint schedule of one to four weeks to incorporate changes at every planning session meeting. What type of team methodology does this communication channel exemplify?
Scrum
A software development company is setting up a new agile team and needs an individual who can be the team's coach to maximize its effectiveness. Which individual fills this role?
Scrum master
A project manager is running into an issue where two team members conflict about where to order equipment. What conflict resolution strategy could quickly de-escalate the issue by being more accommodating?
Smoothing
A project team needs to hold a workshop in a location with ample space. A conference room can be booked at the company's office and would not appear in the project budget since it is already part of the company budget. No upfront capital is needed to process any payments to use the conference room; however, availability is limited as it must be shared with other groups. A space could be rented at an event center but may become expensive, thus requiring the project budget to be adjusted. Analyze and decide the most effective way for the project manager to assess the procurement needs of this project where the room is needed for several individuals and their computer systems over many days.
Start a procurement plan to assess project resources and determine needs.
The team for a software development firm is across many time zones on an extreme programming (XP) project. The XP framework relies on face-to-face interactions between team members and customers. Team members spread across multiple time zones limit the time available to schedule face-to-face meetings, so the project has evolved to add and include virtual discussions, text messages, and email communications between remote team members, vendors, stakeholders, and clients. This kind of communication is an example of what?
Synchronous and asynchronous communications
A project manager emails daily to check on each member's progress. What activity is the project manager performing?
Team touch points
At a meeting for a finished project, the facilitator praised the project manager (PM) for a "job well done." They spoke about how the company stretched its time, resources, and funds to complete the project on time. There were many boasting executives and happy stakeholders, and the community seemed satisfied with the manufacturing process since it employs half the town. All they had to do now was push the product. Which of the following is NOT a measure of this project's success?
The company reduced high-probability risks and is making more money.
A cyber engineer wants to incorporate an agile or waterfall concept into the team's new project. When reviewing both concepts, what does the engineer discover is an element of a waterfall concept?
The customer does not communicate directly with the developers.
According to the scope, a small project with an inexperienced project manager (PM) has exceeded their time by months. Team members, through anonymous surveys, explained that the facilitator is also the PM, who spends a lot of time writing notes during meetings rather than conducting them. Team members asked for additional funds to hire a secretary to keep information organized, so the PM does not have to do it alone. Even on small-scale projects, explain why it is essential to have people fill separate roles of facilitator, PM, and scribe.
The facilitator can focus on meeting flows and cadence to keep the process moving.
A team member sets meeting agendas, notifies attendees, and records the meeting minutes, action items, and follow-ups. This team member also tracks issues, decisions, actions, and topics covered, must keep accurate records, and can ask clarifying questions during the meeting when needed but does not participate in the discussion. Who is this team member?
The scribe
On a handmade book-making project, the project manager (PM) attempts to hire a vendor to send information cards about the specialized project to all the company clients hoping for product pre-orders. The vendor would receive $10,000 when finished. One vendor's proposal seemed ideal, but the PM rejected it since it "lacked physical capacity" and opted to work with a vendor they have worked with in the past. Define the phrase "lacking physical capacity" in this scenario.
The vendor could not deliver the amount of work requested.
While looking for effective methods to support operational change control processes within the current team project, one of the engineers wants to create an environment where multiple teams can simultaneously work on a product without placing the customer or source code at risk. What type of structure will the engineer want to use?
Tiered architecture
Why might it be valuable to celebrate after a project's completion?
To reward the members for their hard work
A project manager received a request from the client to add a feature. After assessing everything, the project manager responded that they could not add the feature without breaking the schedule. What does the project manager need to do next?
Update the project timeline.
A project manager received a request from the client to add a feature. After assessing everything, the project manager responded that they would need to hire more people to maintain the schedule. What task is the project manager performing?
Updating the project budget
What process checks that the team completed all tasks to the standard required by the original contract?
Validation of deliverables
A development manager is hired to manage an outsourced team of developers overseas. They are tasked with streamlining the development and release processes. What tool will best assist them?
Version control tools
What type of collaboration tool allows for integrated records management and approval tracking methods?
Workflow and e-signature platforms
During a software development project, a team member could secure a cloud provider that provides 99.9% uptime and credit subscription costs for any downtime exceeding 0.1% during project development and after project completion to a specific date. What kind of agreement is this?
an SLA
A storage team wants to keep file sizes from taking up too much storage. Which of the following is the least effective at reducing the number of files that are the same?
While organizing a new project, the project manager is looking to build out the structure of the stakeholders. What organizational structure divides the organization by areas of expertise or specialization?
functional
A cyber engineer is assigned to a project and wants to incorporate some technology enhancements; specifically component/user connections. What concept can the engineer further explore to learn about these types of connections?
networking
A project manager is setting up meetings between parties and wants to ensure that it is done through real-time video. This will allow parties to see body language and facial expressions and hear changes in tone. What is the best medium for the manager to use?
phone
A software development company is developing an agile team. Who should they hire to maximize outcomes and select and prioritize the work that agile teams will complete?
product owner
While setting up a service account for a new website, the server administrator realizes that the account has privileges back on the regular network. Where should the server administrator document this?
risk register
