Practice Test Questions for Project Plus

Which quality standards are documented in a quality management plan?

Exit criteria Quality checklists Quality metrics

Which of the following tools are used to calculate the number of resources required to complete a project?

Expert judgment Project management software

Sam is the manager of the NHT project. Its stakeholders are end users, server administrators, functional managers, external customers, technicians, and executive managers. For this high-profile project, which group of stakeholders is the most important?

External customers

All of the following represent a category of contract most commonly used in procurement except for which one?

Fixed-price plus incentive

In which of the following conflict resolution methods does one party win while ignoring the needs and concerns of the other?

Force

Which of the following components are included in the communication plan?

Format Method of distribution Frequency

What type of a project network diagram illustrates project work across a calendar to show when project work is slated to take place, with allowances for time away from the project?

Gantt chart

What are the two types of charts you might utilize to display a project schedule?

Gantt chart Milestone chart

Which of the following is a tool for helping a company compare its actual performance with its potential performance?

Gap analysis

What percentage of a message is sent through nonverbal means (e.g.; facial expressions, hand gestures, body language)?

Greater than 50%

You work as a project manager for uCertify, Inc. James, your department head, has approached you with an idea for a project. Which of the following steps will you take for the pre-project setup for project approval?

Identify the project Develop a project charter Validate the project

While dealing with a remote team in a project's initial stage, a project manager is having a problem with a remote team member's performance. Which form of communication will address this issue?

Informal verbal communication Informal written communication

Which of the following is the most important skill a project manager should have to build a diverse project team that can work together efficiently and effectively?

Interpersonal skills

For successful and timely completion, a project includes five phases. Which of the following phases defines internal and external stakeholders who will interact and influence the overall project outcome?

Intiating

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You have to communicate the causes of risk event to stakeholders. Which risk diagramming technique will you use to accomplish the task?

Ishikawa diagrams Explain: Cause-and effect chart help identify root causes of risk events.

David is manger of the HGF project for his company. He, his project team, and several key stakeholders have completed risk identification and are ready to move into qualitative risk analysis. Tracy, a project team member, doesn't understand why they need to complete a qualitative risk analysis. Which of the following is the best description of qualitative risk analysis?

It's a rapid and cost-effective means of establishing priorities for plan risk responses and lays a foundation for quantitative analysis.

You're a project manager for a manufacturing firm. Your project requires installation of a specialized piece of equipment with a unique set of specifications. This equipment is a predecessor task for the project's final deliverable. This scenario is an example of which of the following?

Mandatory dependency You

A change control board meeting was conducted when a team member requested the project manager to change the project scope. Which of the following action should the project manager take next, after the change control board meeting?

Notify the requester of the verdict

You work as project manager for uCertify Inc. You're in the middle of your project's executing phase. Its sponsor is determined to cancel it because of unexpected cost overruns and resource shortages. Which of the following steps will you take next?

Perform a post-mortem analysis, and release resources Prepare project closure documents, including lessons learned

You're project manager for BlueWell Inc. You're recording the activity status for your project team's performance. Based on their current performance, your project is likely to be three months late. What type of communication should your team generate to address this performance issue?

Performance report

What term is assigned to project completion that allows its next phase to begin?

Phase gate

Which of the following is not true regarding a project's work breakdown structure (WBS)?

A WBS defines what will or will not be included in a project

Your project's product must meet a specific quality standard. Taking into account past performance during a similar project, you've made some process adjustments to minimize errors. What tool and technique of the quality control process did you use?

Prevention

Which of these documents authorizes a project to begin?

Project charter

In which of the following circumstances does a project closure phase occur?

Project completion Project cancellation Stage completion

Which of the following knowledge areas involves organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development?

Project human resource management

You're a project manager for uCertify Inc. You're implementing a project in a European country other than your country of origin. Your team members are scattered around the globe. Which of the following would you not consider in managing your team?

Project presentation methods

Which of the following estimating techniques is less accurate but allows you to use cost estimates from previous similar project to help you quickly determine estimates for a current project?

Analogous

A well-written change control process should include which of the following components? Choose three.

Analysis of the impacts of change The stages at which changes are accepted Instructions for updating any affected project planning documents.

You're manager of a midsize project that is well underway and is late in its executing phase. What event could occur at this point that might force you to move the project immediately into its closing phase?

Project resources are cut off or reassigned

When taking over an incomplete project, what item should be of most interest to a new project manager?

Project scope document

Which of the following types of organizational structure grants the highest authority to the project manager?

Project-based

As a project manager, you've been required to graphically represent roles and responsibilities of different project team members. Which of the following will you produce?

RACI chart

To ensure timely project completion, several team members have worked overtime, which unfortunately resulted in the degraded quality of the finished deliverable. Which of the following is the project management term for what caused the product's degradation?

Resource overloading

A project manager assigns team members from four different countries to work on the same project. While generating a resource management plan, which of the following should be considered first?

Reviewing holiday and vacation schedules with all team members

The only output of the "perform qualitative risk analysis" process are risk register updates. When project manager updates a risk register, he'll need to include all of the following except for which one?

Risk probability-impact matrix

Which of the following risk factors are not developed in the planning stage?

Risk response control

You're project manager for a moderately sized project that's well into its executing phase. What's the largest risk that you'll be monitoring for during this time?

Scope creep

This process concerns formally accepting project deliverables and obtaining sign-off.

Scope verification

When initially developing your WBS, which of the following is not required?

Sequencing all work components

Which of the following activities are related to a project's closing process?

Signing off project documents Review of lessons learned Archiving of project documents

Holly is project manager for her organization. Two of her resources are in a heated argument over which database server her project should use. Holly intervenes to calm the argument by reminding them that they're on the same team, that both have good points, and that they'll select the database during project planning. The team members agree and move on to project planning. What type of conflict resolution did Holly implement in this scenario?

Smoothing

Which of the following is performed during the human resource planning process, when you'll prepare and ask interview questions of potential team members?

Staff acquisition

Which project management plan defines how project team resources will be acquired?

Staffing management plan

You're project manager of your company. Management has asked you and Larry, another project manager, to create a plan to provide a smooth transition of the project resources when you 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 measure she project's validity?

Strategic alignment

You are project manager for the ORGH company. Nancy Spears, the CIO, has asked you to create a document that will determine whether or not a new, proposed project is worth doing. What type of document has she asked you to create?

Business case

When you're in the monitoring and controlling process, where will you concentrate most of your effort?

Checking for out-of-scope conditions

Which of the following are advantages of a functional organization?

Clear chain of commands Opportunities for those with unique skills to flourish Growth potential and a career path for employees

This is the process of aggregating all cost estimates and establishing a project cost baseline.

Cost budgeting

You're creating a project network diagram for your organization. You need to discover which activities have no project float available. What are these activities called in your project network diagram?

Critical path activities

Which of the following estimate types is most reliable for use in a software development project?

Definitive

An ACD project is underway and conflict has arisen between resource managers and project managers. What's the best method of avoiding staffing conflict between resource managers and project managers?

Discover the facts regarding the issue and let the facts help define the solution

You're manager of a large, high-priority project. There are several negative risks that might affect its ability to finish on time. If the project is late, your organization will face fines of $100,000 per day past the due date

The project schedule management plan and its float calculations.

You're preparing a complete quantitative risk analysis with your project team and several subject matter experts. You gather necessary inputs, including the project's cost management plan. Why is necessary to include your project's cost management plan in preparation for quantitative risk analysis?

The project's cost management plan provides control that might determine a structure for quantitative analysis of the budget.

This type of estimate is predicated on historical data and expert judgement

Top-down

Which of the following is not a project selection method?

Top-down estimation

Which of the following describes how the transition of the final product or service of the project will be transitioned to the organization?

Transition plan

If there is a product quality issue, which of the following methods will a project manager adopt to align product quality with its specifications?

Trend analysis Pareto chart

In a risk management plan, what are the inputs to a risk matrix?

Type of risk Contingency plan

One of the most important elements of a scope management plan is an approved change request. Which of the following steps should take after the approval of a change request?

Update the project plan to reflect the approved change request

A project manager has to allot team members to a new project. Which of the following must the project manager have before assigning team members to project work?

Work breakdown structure Resource availability

You're project manager for your organization and are working with your project team to create a WBS. What's the smallest element in your WBS called?

Work package - the deliverable created by the project effort