SWM SU2019 HCM
"Which of the following processes is involved with identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and devising a plan on how to meet / satisfy these standards?",
"Quality planning"
"Which knowledge area does not provide input into cost budgeting?",
"Quality"
"totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs or the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements",
"Quality"
"What is the process that evaluates the influence of the risk quantitatively by the amount of money, etc.?",
"Quantitative Risk Analysis"
"Which analysis uses beta and triangular distributions as a tool and technique?",
"Quantitative risk analysis"
"You've been hired as a project manager for a local community college. The community college wants you upgrade the hardware for each of its web servers, and install the necessary security patches for each web- server",
"Quantitatively based durations"
"Which document is best suited for tracking the assignment of all resources to specific tasks in a project?",
"RACI mAl,x"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding RACI charts?",
"RACI stands for Responsibility, Accountable, Consult and Isolate"
"These charts show Responsibility, Accountability, Consultation and Informed roles for stakeholders",
"RACI"
"Themodel uses an approach in which developers work with an evolving prototype",
"RAD life"
"Which of the following can be used to display the assigned roles and responsibilities of project team members?",
"RAM"
"Which of the following can be used to determine what work is included in each work package for each of your team members? None of the choices are correct",
"RBS"
"Which of the following describes a hierarchically organized representation of identified project risks arranged by risk categories?",
"RBS"
"Which of the following represents a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources to be used on the project?",
"RBS"
"Which of the following best describes resource leveling?",
"Rearranging resources so that a constant number of resources are used during each period"
"Which tools or techniques will the project manager use for developing the project team?",
"Recognition and rewards"
"You are the project manager working on constructing a suspension bridge for the city of San Francisco. You've just conducted an earned value analysis and determined that the CPI index is 1.20 and SPI index is 1.30. Specifically, your project is coming in ahead of schedule and under budget",
"Recommended corrective actions"
"Which of the following is not an input into organizational planning?",
"Recruitment practices"
"Which of the following is not considered a constraint in Organizational Planning?",
"Recruitment practices"
""Outsourcing suppliers are often able to use economies of scale that may not be available to the client alone, especially for hardware and software." refers to the ____ benefit of outsourcing",
"Reduce both fixed and recurrent costs"
"Which of the followings is NOT an advantage of using formal project managements?",
"Reduce the number of risks of the project."
"You are a project manager at a biotech company where you are responsible for developing treatment for diabetes. You are in functional organization, where you have little formal authority within the organization. Which of the following describes the type of power you have in organization?",
"Referent power"
"The WBS and WBS dictionary are completed. The project team has begun working on identifying risks. The Sponsor contacts the project manager, requesting that the responsibility assignment matrix be issued. The project has a budget of US $100,000 and is taking place in three countries using 14 human resources. There is little risk expected for the project, and the project manager has managed many projects similar to this one. What is the NEXT thing to do?",
"Look at the order of planning the project that the team has chosen. Although understanding the experience of the sponsor might sound like a good idea, the sponsor is a stakeholder and understanding the stakeholders is part of stakeholder analysis. That should have occured before the creation of a WBS. Project scope must be defined before a WBS can be created. Completing risk management and issuing the responsibility assignment matrix cannot be best, as that work does not com next in the process. Other work must be done before risk management can effectvely be completed. Creating an activity list comes next after the WBS and WBS dictionary"
"This project is chartered to determine new ways to extend the product life of one of the company's medium-producing products. The project manager comes from the engineering department, and the team comes from product management and marketing departments",
"Look for how this schedule change will impact cost to complete the work package and the quality of the product of the work package"
"This project is chartered to determine new ways to extend the product life of one of the company's medium-producing products. The project manager comes from the engineering department, and the team comes from product management and marketing departments.",
"Look for how this schedule change will impact the cost to complete the work package and the quality of the product of the work package"
"Work on a project is ongoing when the project manager overhears two workers arguing over what a set of instructions mean. The project manager investigates and discovers that the instructions for the construction of the concrete footings currently being poured were poorly translated between the different languages in use on the project. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do FIRST?",
"Look for quality impacts of the poor translation of the instructions for the footings"
"You are currently in process of prioritizing risks by their impact and probability of occurrence. The risk register updates from this process include all of the following EXCEPT",
"Low priority risks"
"Which of the following is a not a potential advantage of using good project management?",
"Lower cost of capital"
"Which of the following are NOT benefits of meeting quality requirements?",
"Lower costs"
"This is a popular tool for determining personality preferences and helping teammates understand each other",
"MBTI"
"When a project manager is engaged in negotiations, nonverbal communication skills are of",
"Major importance"
"When a project manager is engaged in negotiations, nonverbal communication skills are of:",
"Major importance"
"Which type of analysis is used as a general management technique within the Plan Procurements Process?",
"Make or buy analysis"
"Which of the following items is not an objective of integrated change control?",
"Make sure that project get more money from customer"
"Which of the following items is not an objective of intergrated change control?",
"Make sure that project get more money from customer"
"Which of the following is the BEST thing to do at a bidder conference?",
"Make sure the sellers ask all their questions"
"Which ofthe following activities occurs during the Plan Procurements process?",
"Make-or-buy decisions"
"You have just completed the project planning process group and you are ready to begin the project executing process group. You'll need to perform all of the following EXCEPT",
"Manage Project Team"
"Which of the following is not a part of the project cost baseline but is included in the project budget?",
"Management Contingency Reserve"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding Management Reserves?",
"Management Reserves describes the differences between the maximum funding and the end of the cost baseline"
"Which of the following terms best describe the approach used by organizations to treat aspects of ongoing operations as project in order to apply project management technique to them?",
"Management by projects"
"What is Project Portfolio Management?",
"Management of a collection of projects that are grouped together to facilitate effective management and meet strategic business objectives"
"Which of the following statements are false?",
"Management of the project team is simplified when team members are accountable to both a functional manager and a project manager within a matrix organization"
"Which of the following describes the difference between the maximum funding and the end of cost baseline?",
"Management reserve"
"tracking team member performance, motivating team members, providing timely feedback, resolving issues and conflicts, and coordinating changes to help enhance project performance",
"Managing the Project Team"
"These dependencies are inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project; sometimes referred to as hard logic",
"Mandatory"
"To what does the following sentence refer? 'The point where the benefits or revenue to be received from improving quality equals the incremental cost to achieve that quality'",
"Marginal analysis"
"To what does the following sentence refer? The point where the benefits or revenue to be received from improving quality equals the incremental cost to achieve that quality",
"Marginal analysis"
""If the information technology project is to produce a new product or service, will it be useful to the organization or marketable to others?" applies to which risk category?",
"Market risk"
"Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?",
"Marketplace conditions and commercial databases"
"The team members report to two bosses: the project manager and the functional manager. Which type of organization this is?",
"Matrix organization"
"What major restaurant chain terminated a large project after spending $170 millions on it",
"McDonald's"
"What major restaurant chain terminated a large project after spending $170 millions on it, primarily because they realized the project scope was too much to handle?",
"McDonald's"
"Which motivational theory uses the concept of theory X?",
"McGregor"
"You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of the project. The project is within the baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST thing you should do?",
"Meet with the customer"
"Which of the following is the BEST thing to do to try to complete a project two days earlier?",
"Meet with the team and look for options for crashing or fast tracking the critical path"
"When two or more nodes precede a single node on a network diagram",
"Merge"
"You are in the process of reviewing offers and choosing among potential sellers. All of the following are tools/ techniques you can use in this process EXCEPT",
"Methods to determine whether product can be produced by project team or purchased from external source"
"You are in charge of developing a new product for a bank. Your quality metrics are based on the 80th percentile of each of the last three products developed. This is an example of",
"Metrics"
"You are the project manager of a project .The senior executive of your company wants monthly schedule update of your project. Which of the following would you send to the executive?",
"Milestone chart"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting the logical relationships among schedule activities. Which of the following are NOT outputs to this process?",
"Milestones list"
"You are currently the project manager for a software development project, developing a next generation data-mining tool. Your team is developing a new software product that will help customers better manage large volumes of data, especially for data reporting purposes. Your team has just completed one of the project phases- developing a simple prototype system. You would like to have prototype reviewed prior to deciding whether to move to the next phase of the project. According to the PMI, these types of reviews are NOT called",
"Milestones"
"Which is the most appropriate description of the stakeholder's influence on the project life cycle?",
"Minimum at the start and maximum at the end"
"You are a project manager for an agricultural supply company. You have just completed and obtained sign-off on the project scope statement for your new Natural Bug Busters project. A key stakeholder has informed you that a deliverable is missing from the project scope statement. This deliverable is a critical success factor. Which of the following actions should you take?",
"Modify the scope statement after an approved change request has been received from the stakeholder"
"Workarounds are determined during which risk management process?",
"Monitor and Control Risks"
"Which of the following activity is not performed as part of the direct and manage project execution process?",
"Monitor implementation of approved changes"
"What should a project manager do with low-priority risks?",
"Monitor periodically with other low-priority risks"
"You were in the middle of a two-year project to deploy new technology to field offices across the country. A hurricane caused power outages just when the upgrade was near completion. When the power was restored, all of the project reports and historical data were lost with no way of retrieving them. What should have been done to prevent this problem?",
"Monitor the weather and have a contingency plan"
"Which of the following statement is true about Quality control?",
"Monitoring specific project results to determineIf they comply with relevant quality standards"
"This analysis simulates a model's outcome many times to provide a statistical distribution of the calculated results",
"Monte Carlo"
"What does a SPI value greater than 1.0 indicate?",
"More work was completed than planned"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding Herzberg's Hygiene Theory?",
"Motivation factors help avoid job dissatisfaction but will NOT lead to job satisfaction"
"When a resource works on more than one task at a time",
"Multitasking"
"This law states that if something can go wrong, it will",
"Murphy's Law"
"Which of the following is true regarding NPV?",
"NPV assumes reinvestment at cost of capital"
"Which of the following is true regarding the NPV?",
"NPV assumes reinvestment at cost of capital"
"You are the project manager at Happy Coffee Café, a rapidly growing franchise selling premium blended coffee. Currently, your company is planning on opening additional stores throughout Europe. Your company is evaluating different areas for expansion, including France, Germany, and England. You intend to use NPV (net present value) analysis to evaluate which area provides the best opportunity for expansion. Which of the following statements are true regarding NPV calculations?",
"NPV assumes that the cash inflows are reinvested at the cost of capital"
"You are a project manager of a company. You are taking over a project during the planning process, and you discovered that many individuals have signed the project charter. Which of the following should be areas of concern for you?",
"Need to spend more time on configuration management"
"You are the project manager at a large accounting firm in the United States. Your current project involves auditing the financial statements of a Fortune 100 company. You are currently utilizing network diagrams to track and schedule the execution of various auditing tasks through out the project. You are performing a backward pass analysis of the project schedule. It is important for you to examine activities that have ____ slack?",
"Negative"
"You are negotiating with a seller. Time is of the essence but you have a limited budget, and the seller knows this. What is your BEST negotiating strategy under these circumstances?",
"Negotiate identified risks"
"You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a bio-tech company to develop anew drug to treat pancreatic cancer. The project requires significant coordination across multiple departments from R&D to manufacturing",
"Negotiate with the VP of R&D to establish expectations of the chief scientist and request to participate ion the chief scientist's annual performance review"
"Which of the following are NOT the direct results of managing the project team",
"Negotiating staff assignments"
"Which of the following are NOT the direct results of managing the project team?",
"Negotiating staff assignments"
"You are the project manager of a large construction project. The project objective is to construct a set of buildings in the city within 18 months from the project start date. Resources are not readily available because they are currently assigned to other projects. Nick, an expert crane operator, is needed for this project two months from today. Which of the following skills will you use to get Nick assigned to your project?",
"Negotiation and influencing skills"
"Which of the following tool / technique are of develop project team process EXCEPT",
"Negotiation"
"You are currently in the process of acquiring your project team and are working with functional managers to ensure that the project receives the appropriate staff during the required time frame. Which of the following BEST describes the tool/ technique you are using?",
"Negotiation"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting the project roles and responsibilities and create staffing management plan. All of the following are tools/ techniques you can use EXCEPT",
"Negotiation"
"Which of the following is the BEST project management tool to use to determine the longest time the project will take?",
"Network diagram"
"You are in process of exterminating which set of project activities will take the longest to complete. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate tool to use?",
"Network diagram"
"Which of the following statements regarding networking is false?",
"Networking is a tool/technique of manage project team process"
"You are currently the project manager at rapidly growing retailer of high-end electronics equipment. You have been tasked with the project of expanding business. You are currently evaluating opening retail stores in one of three US-based locations: New York, Seattle, San Francisco",
"New York"
"The starting and ending point of an activity on an activity-on-arrow diagram",
"Node"
"What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?",
"Non-productive management effort and inefficient use of resources"
"The seller delivers a fixed price plus incentive fee project at a cost of $90,000. The terms of the contract are a ceiling price of $120,000, a target cost of $ 100,000, a target profit of $10,000, and a target price of $110,000. The share ratio is 70/30. The final price (your total reimbursement) is ____",
"None of the above"
"Which of the following is not part of project scope management?",
"None of the above"
"Variance analysis, trend analysis, and earned value techniques are",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the activities have negative slack, given the table below?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following are not situations where pre assignment of project team members are known in advance?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following are not situations where pre-assignment of project team members are known in advance?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following are true regarding the critical path EXCEPT",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following is NOT one of the five project management process groups?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding recognition and rewards?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding contract closure procedure?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding cost and schedule variances?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding project endings?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the project human resource management processes?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"With respect to risk management, which of the following statements are FALSE regarding Decision Tree Analysis?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"You are in process of controlling changes to the project scope. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"None of the choices are correct"
"You are in the process of monitoring the various project processes and their performance. Which of the following are you least concerned with during the process?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"You are the project manager for a large children's toys manufacturer. You've been asked to manufacture the latest craze in 'Dancing Widgets'for the upcoming Christmas season. You've been informed that the company needs at least one month lead time to distribute the Widgets in order to have the Widgets on retailers shelves for the Christmas season",
"None of the choices are correct"
"You are the project manager for a manufacturer of children's toys. Your project team is in process of designing a new children toy for next year's Christmas season",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Your company manufactures memory chips for workstation computers. Your current project involves manufacturing a very high capacity memory chip (128GB). You worked on the same project three years ago to manufacture a lower capacity memory chip (2GB). You've received a project charter from your supervisor. Which of the following statements are FALSE?",
"None of the choices are correct"
"Which of the following statements are TRUE regarding precision versus accuracy?",
"None of the choices are true"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding cost estimating techniques?",
"None of the choices are true"
"You are a project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena in preparation for upcoming Olympics. Construction begins on a project over a year ago. Stakeholders of the project want a status report on the performance of the project to the date. Unfortunately you are afraid to tell stakeholder that project is coming in significantly behind schedule. In fact schedule delays are so severe that the rebaselining of the project is required. Which of the following statements are true?",
"None of the statement are correct"
"Which of the following are true regarding project scope management?",
"None of the statements are correct"
"Which of the following statements about fast-tracking is TRUE?",
"None of the statements are true"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding Project Scope Management?",
"None of the statements are true"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the risk break down structure?",
"None of the statements are true"
"You are the project manager at Happy Coffee Café, a rapidly growing franchise selling premium blended coffee. Currently your company is planning on opening additional stores throughout Europe. Your company is evaluating different areas of expansion, including, France, Germany and England. You intend to use NPV (net present value) analysis to evaluate which area provides the base opportunity for expansion. Which of the following statements are true regarding NPV calculations?",
"None of the statements are true"
"Which of the following is not true for a Resource Leveling",
"None"
"You are the project manager for a software company developing wireless mobile application. You are currently in the Risk Identification process where you are trying to identify and document all the risks that might impact your project. You have assemble your experts in one room for face-to-face discussion",
"Norming group technique"
"You have been recently been assigned to provide an accurate project schedule for constructing a new 50-story casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. You are evaluating the network diagram for the construction project, and are using the forward pass calculations to construct the schedule",
"Not enough information is provided"
"Which of the following is NOT an imput to the initiating process group?",
"Notice the question asks which is NOT an input to project initiating. Did you read it correctly? Companies should have processes in place for hiring resources, reporting, and managing risks on projects (to name only a few). These are inputs to project initiating, as are company culture and historical WBSs. The project scope statement is an output of project planning"
"Which of the following is the LEAST effective way to influence the factors that create changes to cost baseline?",
"Notify all stakeholders that no more changes will be allowed"
"Which is the document that presents a hierarchical project organization?",
"OBS"
"The seven primary characteristics that are common to all projects are",
"Objectives, schedule, complexity, size and nature of task, resources, and integrated information and control system"
"The seven primary characteristics that are common to all projects are:",
"Objectives, schedule, complexity, size and nature of task, resources, and integrated information and control system"
"What is one of the KEY objectives during contract negotiations?",
"Obtain a fair and reasonable price"
"You are taking over a project from another project manger during the project planning process. You've identified that your project team has already created the WBS, developed estimates for work packages, and sequenced the project activities using the arrow diagramming method. In addition, your team has applied schedule network analysis techniques to create the project schedule. Which action should be performed NEXT?",
"Obtain approval of schedule"
"Your project team has already created the WBS, developed estimates for the work packages, and sequenced the project activities using the arrow diagramming method. In addition, your team has applied resource leveling and schedule compression techniques on the project schedule. Which actions should be performed NEXT",
"Obtain approval of schedule"
"You are the project manager and you have created a contract for your customer. The contract must have ____",
"Offer and consideration"
"Which of the following is not a suggestion for improving user input?",
"Only have meetings as needed, not on a regular basis"
"Which of the following is not a type of baseline from which to measure change?",
"Operational definitions"
"Your management has decided that all orders will be treated as "project" and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, resolving issues and",
"Order incurring revenue over $100,000 would be considered project and would involve project management"
"Your management has decided that all orders will be treated as project and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, resolving issues and",
"Order incurring revenue over $100,000 would be considered project and would involve project management"
"Which of the following are not considered as enterprise environmental factor?",
"Organization communication requirements"
"Which of the following Enterprise Environmental factors are not the inputs for the Develop Human Resource Plan process",
"Organizational Chart Tempates"
"Which of the following are not the tools and techniques for source selection?",
"Organizational policies"
"Which of the following are not tools and techniques of source selection?",
"Organizational policies"
"Which of the following must be taken into account for every process, even if they are not explicitly listed as inputs in the process specifications?",
"Organizational process assets and enterprise environmental factors"
"What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?",
"Organizational process assets"
"Which activity is an input to the select sellers process?",
"Organizational process assets"
"Which of the following is an input to identify risk?",
"Organizational process assets"
"Which of the following best determines the amount of authority a project manager will have during a project?",
"Organizational structure"
"What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?",
"Organizational theory"
"You have assembled your thoughts into a message. As you pass this information to a second party, you are giving this person your",
"Output"
"This occurs when more resources than are available are assigned to perform work at a given time",
"Over Allocation"
"What is the status of the project whose data is shown in the following S-curve?",
"Over budget and behind schedule"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding various activity scheduling tools?",
"PDM approach uses boxes(nodes)to represent activities, and arrows represent the relationship and dependencies of work packages"
"Which of the following statements is true regarding PDM (precedence diagramming techniques)?",
"PDM often uses the finish-to-start relationship"
"Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding various Activity Scheduling tools?",
"PDM uses activity-on-node (AON) diagramming method"
"This diagramming is more popular than ADM method. It is used by project management software activities are represented by boxes",
"PDM"
"use(s) probabilistic time estimatesduration estimates based on using optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates of activity durationsinstead of one specific or discrete duration estimate",
"PERT"
"Which organization has set the de facto standards for project management techniques?",
"PMI"
"Which of the following consists of tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of the project management processes?",
"PMIS"
"What methodology was developed in the U.K., defines 45 separate subprocesses, and organizes these into eight process groups?",
"PRINCE2"
"When you are developing the estimates for project, you choose in a mathematical model to predict estimate. What type of estimation method are you using?",
"Parametric estimating"
"Which of the following is a tool and technique for activity duration estimating?",
"Parametric estimating"
"Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as duration and cost?",
"Parametric estimating"
"Which time estimating tools estimate the basis for activity durations can be quantitatively determined by multiplying the quantity of work to be performed by the productivity rate?",
"Parametric estimating"
"Which tool and technique uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate estimates?",
"Parametric estimating"
"You are in the process of estimating the type of and quantity of resources needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following are tools/ techniques you can use in this process EXCEPT",
"Parametric estimating"
"You are the project manager assigned to install the electrical wiring for a 20,000 square foot office building that is currently under construction. You are trying to estimate the costs of this project. You know from past experience that is costs approximately $3 per square foot to properly wire and entire building. As your building will be 20,000 square feet you estimate that the project will cost approximately $60,000. What type of estimating technique did u used?",
"Parametric estimating"
"You are the project manager for a construction company. You are currently estimating how long it will take to perform the electrical wiring of the building",
"Parametric estimating"
"uses project characteristics in a mathematical model to estimate project costs",
"Parametric modeling"
"Type of modeling that uses project characteristics (parameters) in a mathematical model to estimate project costs",
"Parametric"
"Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?",
"Parametric"
"Which quality control technique illustrates the 80/20 Principle?",
"Pareto Chart"
"Which tool or technique uses the 80/20 principle?",
"Pareto chart"
"You are the project manager at a large automaker in Japan. Your project involves designing the next generation four wheel drive Sports Utility vehicle for the Asian market",
"Pareto diagram"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the Pareto diagrams?",
"Pareto diagrams use statistical measurements to identify the most important problems through different measurement scales;"
"Which of the following is not a tool or technique for a Source Selection?",
"Payment system"
"Which of the following best describes the Achievement Theory of motivation?",
"People are motivated by achievement, power and affiliation"
"Which of the following best describes the expectancy theory of motivation?",
"People are motivated by expectation of positive outcomes"
"Which of the following best describes Maslow's theory of motivation?",
"People are motivated by five basic, hierarchal needs"
"Which of the following describes the assumptions made by the theory X style of management?",
"People have no ambition, wants no responsibility and would rather follow than lead"
""Is there a project champion?" applies to which risk category?",
"People risk"
"Which of the following is part of the expectancy theory of motivation?",
"People tend to be highly productive and motivated if they believe their efforts will lead to successful results and that success will lead to personal rewards"
"Which of the following is part of the expectency theory of motivation?",
"People tend to be highly productive and motivated if they believe their efforts will lead to successful results and that success will lead to personal rewards."
"Work performance information is an input to Cost Control process. It includes all of the following EXCEPT",
"Percent complete of schedule activities"
"Which of the following processes is necessary to ensure that the project employs all processes needed to meet its requirements?",
"Perform Quality Assurance"
"Verify Scope is closely related to",
"Perform Quality Control"
"Verify Scope is closely related to:",
"Perform Quality Control"
"You are a project manager for the construction of a major new manufacturing plant that has never been done before. The project cost is estimated at $30,000,000 and will make use of three sellers. Once begun, the project cannot be cancelled, as there will be a large expenditure on plant and equipment",
"Perform an identification of risks"
"You are a project manager for the construction of a major new manufacturing plant that has never been done before. The project cost is estimated at $30,000,000 and will make use of three sellers. Once begun, the project cannot be cancelled, as there will be a large expenditure on plant and equipment.",
"Perform an identification of risks"
"You are the project manager of the MKTG Project. The project has a budget of $200,000 and is expected to last 2 years. The project is now 20 percent complete and is on schedule. What is the BAC?",
"$-00,000"
"Which of the following sequences represents straight line depreciation?",
"$100, $100, $100"
"What is the expected activity cost for a project having a most likely cost of $140, a best case scenario of $115, and a worst case scenario of $165?",
"$140"
"You are assigned to implement the project control plan. What should you do to ensure the plan is effective and current?",
"Perform periodic project performance reviews"
"You have a piece of equipment that was purchased for your ptoject recently for $5,000 and is expected to last 5 years in production. At the end of the five years the expected worth of the equipment is $2,000. Using straight-line deprecation, what is the amount that can be written off each year?",
"$3000"
"Using the chart, what is the lowest cost of crashing this project to save four weeks?",
"$6,000"
"You have a piece of equipment that was purchased for your project recently for $5,000 and is expected to last 5 years in production. At the end of the five years the expected worth of the equipment is $2,000. Using straight-line deprecation, what is the amount that can be written off each year?",
"$600"
"You have a piece of equipment that was purchased for your project recently for $5,000 and is expected to last 5 years in production. At the end of the five years, the expected worth of the equipment is $2,000. Using the straight-line deprecation, what is the amount that can be written off each year?",
"$600"
"You are using the three-point estimating technique to estimate the duration of a schedule activity. Which of the following is the correct formula for calculating variance assuming a beta distribution?",
"((optimistic-pessimistic)/6)^2"
"You are a project manager of ABC organization. You are estimating the project in initiation phase.What level of accuracy you can expect?",
"-50 percent to +100 percent"
"Your project has a budget of $240,000 and is expect to last for 1 year, with the work and budget spread evenly across all months. The project is now in the fourth month, the work is on schedule, but you have spent $120,000 of the project budget. What is your COST Variance percentage in this case?",
"-50%"
"You are managing a project in a just-in-time environment. This will require more attention, because the amount of inventory in such an environment is generally",
"0 percent"
"You are managing a project in a just-in-time environment. This will require more attention, because the amount of inventory in such an environment is generally:",
"0 percent"
"What is the standard deviation for the estimates in the above problem?",
"0.6"
"Using the following data, what is the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)?",
"0.67"
"What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data?",
"0.80"
"Which of the following project quality management process is within the executing process group?",
"Perform quality assurance"
"Validated changes are output of ____ process",
"Perform quality control"
"Validated changes are output of",
"Perform quality control"
"You are the project manager for the company that sells online music. Your project is to develop a new content management system that will not only manage all users purchases and downloads, but will automatically learn the users music interests in order to make future product recommendations. In addition your content management system must scale to support millions of concurrent music downloads a day",
"0.875"
"Using simplified percentage complete amounts for a one-year project with weekly reporting and an average task or work packet size of one week, you can expect about a(n) ____ percent error rate",
"1 COMPLETION"
"Using simplified percentage complete amounts for a one-year project with weekly reporting and an average task or work packet size of one week, you can expect about a(n) percent error rate",
"1"
"You have been assigned to a project to build a large 30-story condominium in Las Vegas. The condominium will feature luxurious amenities like state of the art work-out facilities, conference centers, valet services, maid services, spas, gourmet dining and resort style pools",
"Perform schedule activities in parallel"
"You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your project is to develop a website for the company that allows retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered, packaged, and mailed to the consumer directly from the grower's site. This project involves coordinating the parent company, growers, and distributors. You are preparing a performance review and have the following measurements at hand: PV = 300, AC = 200, and EV = 250. What is the CPI of this project?",
"1.25"
"You are the project manager for the manufacturer of children's toys. Your project team is in the process of designing a new toy for children for next year's Christmas season",
"10"
"You are project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena for the upcoming Olympics. Construction began on a project over a year ago. The stakeholders of the project want a status report on the performance of the project to date. You've obtained the following measurements",
"100"
"You have been recently been assigned to provide an accurate project schedule for a large construction project. You are evaluating the network diagram for the construction project",
"11.66"
"What percentage of sales is estimated to be cost of non-quality?",
"12-20%"
"What is the total slack for the following project?",
"131"
"You are project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena for the upcoming Olympics. Construction begins on a project over a year ago",
"133.33"
"You are a project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena in preparation of the upcoming Olympics. Construction began on the project a year ago. The stakeholder of the project want a status report on the performance of the project to the date",
"Performance measurement analysis"
"You are working on a project that was proceeding well until a manufacturing glitch occurred that requires corrective action. It turns out the glitch was an unintentional enhancement to the product, and the marketing people are absolutely crazy about its potential. The corrective action is canceled, and you continue to produce the product with the newly discovered enhancement. As the project manager, you know that a change has occurred to the project scope. Which of the following statements is true?",
"Performance measurement baselines might be affected by scope changes"
"To determine the impact of a change that has occurred, which of the following should be taken?",
"Performance measurement"
"What techniques are used to control the project schedule?",
"Performance measurement"
"Which of the following is not an input to the cost control process?",
"Performance measurement"
"Which of the following techniques is used to control the project schedule?",
"Performance measurement"
"Which of the following outputs from the Schedule Control process aids in the communication of SV, SPI or any performance status to stakeholders?",
"Performance measurements"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to project cost baseline. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful input?",
"Performance measurements"
"You are in the process of developing an approved project schedule that will serve baseline against which the project can be tracked. All of the following can be following are required as part of schedule development EXCEPT",
"Performance measurements"
"Which of the following process is involved with collecting and disseminating performance information?",
"Performance reporting"
"You are in the process of making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT",
"Performance reports are one of the process outputs"
"Which of the following are NOT outputs of the Information Distribution process?",
"Performance reports"
"Which of the following are outputs of the information distribution process EXCEPT",
"Performance reports"
"Which of the following is an input of scope change control?",
"Performance reports"
"You are in the process of completing and selling each contract, and resolving any open items. All of the following are inputs you require EXCEPT",
"Performance reports"
"You are project manager of a project. A customer requests a scope change in the project. In order to determine the impact of the requested change, you will need a work breakdown structure, change request, scope management plan, and",
"Performance reports"
"You are the project manager at information technology division of a large financial services firm in the United States. Your company offers a web based trading platform that provides options and futures trading for U.S commodities market. Due to the rise in popularity in futures and options trading, your company has grown rapidly. In fact, due to the rapid growth, the company's infrastructure is unable to meet the growing demands",
"Performance reports"
"What is the definition of project plan execution?",
"Performing the activities included in the plan"
"You are the project manager for the manufacturer of children's toys. Your project team is in the process of designing a new toy for children for next Christmas season",
"Performing"
"Your project plan requires personnel to wear a Radiation Monitor counter at all times while they are within the protected area surrounding a nuclear reactor. This requirement arises from your concern for",
"Personnel safety needs"
"Three-point estimates are based on determining three types of estimates. Which of the following is NOT one of these estimates? Most likely",
"Pessimistic"
"You are the project manager for an information technology division of a large financial services firm in the United States. Your company offers a web based trading platform that provides options and futures trading for U.S commodities markets. Due to the rise in popularity of futures and options trading, your company has grown rapidly. To keep up with the demands you have been assigned with the responsibility of upgrading company's network and computing infrastructure. You planned to purchase a new high-end mainframe server. The new server will cost $150,000 and can be used for 10 years. After 2 years the resale value of mainframes will be $100,000. After 5 years the resale value of server will be $75,000. After 7 years the resale value of server will be $30,000. After 10 years, the server will be obsolete",
"15,000"
"The term "systems approach" emerged in the ____",
"1950s"
"The term "systems approach" emerged in the",
"1950s"
"The term 'systems approach' emerged in the ____",
"1950s"
"The term 'systems approach'emerged in the ____",
"1950s"
"The term systems approach emerged in the ____",
"1950s"
"The term systems approach emerged in the",
"1950s"
"What is one of the key problems with using crashing rather than fast tracking to compress project duration?",
"2.Budget constraints"
"You know that PV = 470, AC = 430, EV = 480, EAC = 500, and BAC = 525. What is VAC?",
"25"
"You are the project manager for an information technology division of a large financial services firm in the United States. Your company offers a web based trading platform that provides options and futures trading for U.S commodities markets. Due to the rise in popularity of futures and options trading, your company has grown rapidly. To keep up with the demands you have been assigned with the responsibility of upgrading company's network and computing infrastructure. You planned to purchase a new high-end mainframe server. The new server will cost $250,000 and can be used for 10 years. After 2 years the resale value of mainframes will be 100,000. After 5 years the resale value of server will be 50,000. After 7 years the resale value of server will be 20,000. After 10 years, the server will be obsolete",
"25,000"
"The Standish Group's CHAOS studies reported an average cost overrun for unsuccessful IT projects range",
"28 c. 56"
"You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a bio-tech company to develop anew drug for the treatment of malignant melanoma. As part of feasibility study, your team has been evaluating the feasibility for such a drug using computer simulation. Your team has just completed one of the project phases by designing a potential chemical compound using a sophisticated computer model. You would like to have model reviewed prior to deciding whether to move to the next phase of the project. According to the PMI, these type of reviews are called",
"Phase exists"
"You are project manager and now in middle of creating RFP (Request for proposal). RFP (Request for proposal) is done in ____",
"Plan Procurements"
"You have just been assigned as the project manager for a new telecommunications project that is entering the second phase of the project. There appear to be many risks on this project, but no one has evaluated them to assess the range of possible project outcomes. What needs to be done?",
"Plan Risk Management"
"Which of the following statements most accurately describes the difference between plan purchases and acquisitions and plan contracting?",
"Plan purchases and acquisitions involves producing the statement of work, while plan contracting involves producing the procurement document and evaluation criteria"
"Which of the following best describes the process of identifying which project needs can be met by procuring products or service outside the project organization?",
"Plan purchases and acquisitions"
"You have just awarded a contract to a outside vendor and developed the corresponding contract management plan. Which process did you just complete?",
"Plan purchases and acquisitions"
"Which of the following lists contain processes that are included within Project Procurement Management?",
"Plan purchases and acquisitions, plan contracting, request seller responses, select sellers"
"Which of the following represent the portion of the approved total cost estimate planned to be spent on an activity during a given period?",
"Planned value (PV)"
"Which of the following represent the portion of the approved total cost estimate planned to be spenton an activity during a given period?",
"Planned value (PV)"
"With respect to value analysis which of the following is the portion of the approved cost estimate that has been budgeted for an activity during a certain time period?",
"Planned value (PV)"
"You are in the process of defining activities that need to be performed to develop the necessary project deliverables. Which of the following are NOT outputs that you will produce during this process?",
"Planning component"
"Which devises and maintains a worktable scheme to accomplish the business need that the project was undertaken to address",
"Planning process"
"Which process group defines the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve?",
"Planning"
"Which process group establishes the total scope of a project?",
"Planning"
"Work breakdown structure document",
"Planning"
"You are a project manager working on gathering requirements and establishing estimates for the project. Which process group are you in?",
"Planning"
"You are project manager and working on gathering requirements and estimating for the project.Which process group are you in?",
"Planning"
"Which type of network diagram allows you to depict four types of dependencies (finish-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-start, and start-to-finish)?",
"Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)"
"You are the project manager for an information technology division of a large financial services firm in the United States. Your company offers a web based trading platform that provides options and futures trading for U.S commodities markets. Due to the rise in popularity of futures and options trading, your company has grown rapidly. In fact, due to rapid growth, the company's I.T. infrastructure is unable to meet the growing demands. To keep up with the demands you have been assigned the responsibility of upgrading the company's network and company's infrastructure. You have been asked to calculate the payback period for the project that is to be completed in the next 24 months. The IRR of the project is 12% and the annual savings will be $2million. The total cost of project will be $6million dollars. The cost of capital used by the company during previous projects is 5%. What is the payback period for this project?",
"3 years"
"You are project manager and during the course of a project, the number of team members increases form six to ten. How many ADDITIONAL lines of communication channel now exist?",
"30"
"With triangular distribution, the low, likely and high values are 20, 30 and 40, respectively. The mean is ____",
"30.0"
"The "CHAOS" study found that more than ____ percent of information technology projects were canceled before completion",
"31"
"The CHAOS study found that more than ____ percent of information technology projects were canceled before completion",
"31"
"Three separate surveys of software project cost overruns found that the average cost overrun for all of the projects in their survey samples (not just unsuccessful projects) were ____ percent",
"33-34"
"Three separate surveys of software project cost overruns found that the average cost overrun for all of the projects in their survey samples (not just unsuccessful projects) werepercent",
"3334"
"What is the communication channel delta if the members in the communication plan are increased from 5 to 10?",
"35"
"There are seven members on the project team not counting the project manager and the sponsor.How many communication channels are there?",
"36"
"Your project will require use of a high pressure punch press for four months. You can rent the press for $10,000 payable at the end of each month. You may also choose to make a lump sum payment on the day the press is delivered. Using a discount rate of 1% per month, the maximum lump sum payment you should choose to make is",
"39000"
"Which type of network diagram is also referred to Activity-on-Node (AON) diagrams?",
"Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)"
"You are the project manager for an information technology division of a large financial services firm in the United States. Your company offers a web based trading platform that provides options and futures trading for U.S commodities markets. Due to the rise in popularity of futures and options trading, your company has grown rapidly. In fact, due to rapid growth, the company's I.T. infrastructure is unable to meet the growing demands. To keep up with the demands you have been assigned the responsibility of upgrading the company's network and company's infrastructure. You have been asked to calculate the payback period for the project that is to be completed in the next 24 months",
"4 years"
"There aremain processes in project communications management",
"4"
"Work arounds are determined during which step of risk management?",
"4.Risk monitoring and control"
"You are a project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena in preparation for upcoming Olympics. Construction begins on a project over a year ago. Stakeholders of the project want a status report on the performance of the project to the date. You have obtained the following measurement",
"400"
"The Standish Group's CHAOS studies reported an average cost overrun for unsuccessful IT projects range from 180 percent in 1994 to ____ percent in 2004",
"43"
"You are the project manager for the manufacturer of children's toys. Your project team is in the process of designing a new toy for children for next Christmas season. Your 10 members are working together for past six months. All 10 are in constant communication with each other. How many lines of communications are their in your project team?",
"45"
"You are the project manager and are considering recommending a project that costs $280,000; expected inflows are $10,000 per quarter for the first two years and then $25,000 per quarter thereafter. What is the payback period?",
"48 months"
"You are the project manager for an organization. You are considering recommending a project that costs $280,000; expected inflows are $10,000 per quarter for the first two years and then $25,000 per quarter thereafter. What is the payback period?",
"48 months"
"There are ____ main processes involved in project scope management.",
"5"
"There are ____ main types of power, based on French and Raven's classic study, "The Bases of Social Power."",
"5"
"There are ____ main types of power, based on French and Ravens classic study, The Bases of Social Power.",
"5"
"There aremain processes involved in project scope management.",
"5"
"Which is the total float for the activity G?",
"5"
"You are the project manager for the POL Project. This project will use PERT to calculate the estimates for activity duration. For activity D, you have the following information: P=9, O=4, M=5. What is the result of PERT?",
"5.5 weeks"
"The Standish Group's CHAOS studies reported an average cost overrun for unsuccessful IT projects ranged from 180 percent in 1994 to ____ percent in 2004",
"56"
"The Standish Groups CHAOS studies reported an average cost overrun for unsuccessful IT projects ranged from 180 percent in 1994 topercent in 2004.",
"56"
"You are the project manager for the POL Project. This project will use PERT to calculate the estimates for activity duration. For activity D, you have the following information: P=10 days, O=6 days, M=5 days. What is the result of PERT?",
"6 days"
"You are presented the following schedule data regarding various project activities on a critical path",
"6,000"
"What percentage of the total distribution is 1 sigma from the mean equal to?",
"68.29%"
"You are the project manager for a construction company. Your firm has been contracted to complete the construction of a 10-story office building. This project will use three point estimates to calculate the estimates for activity duration. You have the following estimates for task A (creating the foundation). Assuming the triangular distribution what is the average duration estimate based on the following three point estimates? Pessimistic= 100 days",
"68.33"
"Which is the duration of the project?",
"70"
"What is the total slack for activity D, considering the following table?",
"72"
"What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?",
"8"
"You have been recently assigned to provide an accurate project schedule for a large construction company. You are evaluating the network diagrams for the construction project, and are using backward pass calculations to construct the schedule",
"90"
"What percentage of the total distribution is 3 sigma from the mean equal to?",
"99.73%"
"Which of the following is true regarding configuration control board?",
"A CCB has the authority to approve or project request"
"With a(n) ____ contract, the buyer pays the supplier for allowable performance costs plus a fixed fee payment usually based on a percentage of estimated costs.",
"A CPFF"
"Which of the following is NOT needed in order to come up with a project estimate?",
"A Change control system"
"Which of the following statements concerning compromise as a conflict resolution is false?",
"A Definitive resolution is seldom achieved"
"Will the project meet NPV, ROI, and payback estimates? applies to which risk category?",
"A Financial risk"
"Outsourcing suppliers are often able to use economies of scale that may not be available to the client alone, especially for hardware and software. refers to the ____ benefit of outsourcing.",
"A Reduce both fixed and recurrent costs"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the SPI (schedule performance index) measurement?",
"A SPI greater than one indicates that schedule performance is better than expected"
"Under what situation should the PM issue updates to the approved cost baseline",
"A change of scope has occurred"
"Under what situation should the PM issue updates to the approved cost baseline.",
"A change of scope has occurred"
"WBS dictionary",
"A document that describes detailed information about each work package"
"Which of the following helps a project manager determine possible causes of problems on a project?",
"A fishbone diagram"
"You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization's first Web site. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with Web site development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. And delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan",
"A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project"
"You are a project manager on a $5,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, you notice a series of activities that can be worked in parallel but must finish in a specific sequence. What type of activity sequencing method is required for these activities?",
"Precedence diagramming method"
"You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization's first Web site. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with Web site development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. And delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan.",
"A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project"
"Value analysis is performed to get",
"A less costly way of doing the same work"
"The Scope Statement incorporates all of the following except",
"A list of significant project risks"
"Who originates the Project Charter?",
"A manager external to the project"
"What is a program?",
"A means to gain benefits and control of related projects"
"Which of the following is not provided by the framework of a Work Breakdown structure?",
"A network diagram, illustrating task dependencies, can be constructed"
"What is the minimum a project schedule must include?",
"A planned start date and a planned finish date for each schedule activity"
"Which of the following is true about a project charter?",
"A project charter should be published under the name of a manager external to the project"
"You are a part of project software team responsible for developing a new CRM software application. The project has been ongoing for the past several months. A few members of the project team are currently discussing introducing a significant change to one of the major work packages. After discussions you received a message from the vice president of engineering informing you of the project changes, and are asked to complete the necessary paperwork in order to process the change. This is an example of",
"A project expediter role"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding contracts?",
"A project manager should be the lead negotiator on the contract"
"Which is not a project attribute?",
"A project should have only one project manager and one technical leader"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding the records management system?",
"A records management system defines the process by which the contract can be modified"
"Which of the following describes how project requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed",
"A requirements management plan"
"Which of the following describes how project requirements will be analyzed,documented,and managed?",
"A requirements management plan"
"Those who are ____ have a higher tolerance for risk, and their satisfaction increases when more payoff is at stake.",
"A risk-seeking"
"Which of the following is the MOST likely candidate for a three-point estimate?",
"A schedule activity with a considerable variation"
"Which of the following is best for handling cross-functional project needs for a large, complex project?",
"A strong matrix organization"
"Weighted scoring model",
"A technique that provides a systematic process for basing project selection on"
"Which of the following statements BEST describes a work authorization system?",
"A work authorization system is used to manage the sequence in which work is performed"
"Which of the following is a task at the lowest level of the WBS",
"A work package"
"Which of the following is a task at the lowest level of the WBS?",
"A work package"
"You have been recently assigned to provide an accurate project schedule for constructing a new 50-story casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. You are evaluating the network diagram for the construction project, and are in the process of identifying the critical path of the project. Based on the following diagram, which path is the critical path?",
"A-E-F-D-H"
"Which of the following statements concerning a scope statement are true?",
"A.It provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for developing common understanding of the project scope among stakeholders."
"What is the difference between PDM and ADM?",
"ADM places activities on arrows; PDM places activities on nodes"
"Which of the following diagramming methods can only use finish-to-start relationships and may use dummy activities to express logical relationship between activities?",
"ADM"
"Which of the following are not tools/ techniques of the activity definition process?",
"ADM, PDM"
"You are in the process of directing the performance of the planned project activities and managing the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within your project. All of the following actions that you should perform in this stage EXCEPT",
"Prepare the project statement of work"
"Which of the following are not functions of the project kick off meeting?",
"Presenting the project cost"
"When it comes to changes, the project manager's attention is BEST given to",
"Preventing unnecessary changes"
"When it comes to changes, the project manager's attention is BEST given to:",
"Preventing unnecessary changes"
"You are the project manager at a software company developing the next-gen OODBMS (Object Oriented Data Base Management System). As software development can be very chaotic, your company has elected to follow a more rigorous approach to software development. Specifically your company has chosen to adopt the extreme programming XP methodology for your current software project. The XP methodology is highly iterative, and produces numerous deliverables include UML diagrams, architecture diagrams, prototypes and test-cases",
"AOA"
"You are an information security project manager responsible for securing your corporate network. Due to new regulations mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley act, your company's upper management has tasked you with securing the company's network infrastructure. You have just completed the develop preliminary project scope statement process. However upon review you've determined the resulting preliminary project scope statement is ambiguous and poorly written. A poorly written Preliminary Project Scope Statement will directly impact all of the following EXCEPT",
"Ability to create the work breakdown structure"
"You are the project manager at a utility company. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, your organization is exploring cheaper, alternative forms of energy. You have just completed the project Scope Planning process and created the Scope management plan. However, upon review, you have determined that the resulting project scope management plan is ambiguous and poorly written. A poorly written project scope management plan will directly impact all of the following EXCEPT",
"Ability to define, prepare and integrate, all subsidiary plan, into the project management plan"
"You are the project manager at an utility company. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, your organization is exploring cheaper, alternates of energy. Your team has just produced the work break down structure. However, upon review, you discover that the WBS lacks the necessary details and requires more decomposition. A poorly defined WBS will directly impact all of the following EXCEPT",
"Ability to identify document project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships"
"You are the project manager and cost or schedule for a project is often dictated by management. In this situation, you should take all of the following steps EXCEPT",
"Accept is with no prior action"
"You are a project manager at a construction company who is working in a foreign country to perform reconstruction work for the various infrastructure and utility services, including water, sewage, and electricity. During your initial visit to the country, you were presented a jewelry gift valued over $5,000. you were told that this is local custom to give such gifts to business partners during their visits. What should you do?",
"Accept the gift so as not to offend anyone. However, report the gift to appropriate parties at your company so that you do not give the appearance of impropriety"
"You are the project manager at a large automaker in Japan. Your project involves designing the next generation 4-wheel drive Sport Utility vehicle for the Asian market. A new fuel efficient engine design is required as part of your project. Unfortunately, your project team did not have the necessary expertise to design and manufacture a new fuel-efficient engine",
"Accept the gift so as not to offend anyone. However, report the gift to appropriate parties at your company so that you do not give the appearance of impropriety"
"You are a project manager of Software Product Company. After hired a person you got to know that many of this person's ideas were developed by the competing company. Are you going to implement the same ideas?",
"Accept the new ideas"
"Which of the following is a strategy for positive risks?",
"Accept"
"Which risk response is most likely to involve contingency reserves?",
"Acceptance"
""Organizations can gain access to specific skills and technologies when they are required by using outside resources." refers to the ____ benefit of outsourcing",
"Access skills and technologies"
"The state of being totally answerable for the satisfactory completion of a specific assignment is called",
"Accountability"
"The state of being totally answerable for the satisfactory completion of a specific assignment is called:",
"Accountability"
"What is an example of project integration?",
"Accounting provides the cost estimate required for the help center's contingency plan"
"Which of the following is not a process of communication management?",
"Acquiring project team"
"Which of the following statements is MOST true regarding Activity A, considering the following table?",
"Activity A is not on the critical path"
"These provide more information about each activity, such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions related to the activity",
"Activity Attribute"
"Which is the most important element of a Project Management Plan that is useful in the Develop Human Resource Plan process",
"Activity Resource requirements"
"You have been assigned to a project to build the largest U.S. natural gas pipeline project in more than 20 years. The proposed 1,350-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline will provide valuable infrastructure allowing producers in the Rocky Mountain region to deliver their natural gas to attractive markets in the Midwest and northeastern parts of the U.S. You are in the process of developing the schedule for the project and you have given the following activity duration estimates. However the project sponsor would like to share a few weeks off the project duration. Which activity should you shorten in order to reduce the overall duration of the project?",
"Activity W-End"
"Which of the following are the part of WBS dictionary except",
"Activity attributes"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to a project baseline. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful input?",
"Activity cost estimates"
"You are in the process of establishing a total cost baseline for measuring project performance. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Activity cost estimates"
"You are in process of developing an approximation of costs of resources needed to complete each schedule activity. Which of the following is the least helpful input?",
"Activity cost estimates, activity cost estimate supporting detail"
"Which of the following processes utilize rolling wave planning as a tool/ technique?",
"Activity definition"
"Which of the following are NOT outputs of the activity duration estimating process?",
"Activity duration estimates"
"Which of the following process takes the activities that are defined in the WBS and activity list, and accesses the amount of time required to complete these activities?",
"Activity duration estimation"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to the project schedule. All of the following are the inputs to the process except",
"Activity list"
"You are the project manager for developing a next-generation search engine for internet. Instead of using simple word or link analysis methods, your search engine will use a sophisticated algorithm based on latent semantic indexing. You are in process of creating the detailed project scope statement. All of the following should be included in the detailed project scope statement EXCEPT",
"Activity lists, activity attributes, scope baseline"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding project team management?",
"Activity resource estimating involves estimating the type and quantities of resources required to perform each schedule activity"
"Which of the following processes involves determining what resource and what quantities of each should be used to perform project activities?",
"Activity resource estimation"
"Which of the following are the outputs of the activity resource estimating process?",
"Activity resource requirements"
"Which of the following is an input to a Develop Human Resource Plan?",
"Activity resource requirements"
"Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships among schedule activities?",
"Activity sequencing"
"You are the project manger at a software company developing the next-gen web application server. As software development can be very chaotic, your company has elected to follow the more rigorous approach to software development. Specifically, your company has chosen to adopt the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for your current software project",
"Activity sequencing"
"Total of direct and indirect costs incurred in accomplishing work on an activity during a given period",
"Actual cost (AC)"
"Which of the follwing represent the total of direct and indirect costs incurred in accomplishing work on an activity during a given period?",
"Actual cost (AC)"
"The total of direct and indirect costs incurred in accomplishing work on an activity during a given period",
"Actual cost"
"You are in the process project a project schedule for repainted your house, you first need to scrap off the existing paint, and then add a layer of primer. The primer provides the paint a better bonding surface so it sticks to the base material much better. Without priming, drywall surfaces will soak up more finish paint in some areas than in others, producing a splotchy effect",
"Add lead time to the priming task"
"Your new product development project has resulted in a highly successful new product. You find that you are being promoted to lead a new business unit to produce and market the product. Your project is being terminated by",
"Addition"
"Which project management process ensures the seller's performance meets procurement requirements and that the buyer performs according to the terms of the legal contract?",
"Administer Procurements"
"Which of the following establishes the procedures to transfer the project product or services to production and / or operations?",
"Administrative closure procedure"
"When would resource leveling be applied to a schedule model?",
"After it has been analyzed by the critical path method"
"The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract. Each month he requires the project manager to submit CPI calculations and an analysis of cost to complete. The project manager explains to the sponsor that extra profits should NOT be a worry on this project because",
"All costs invoiced are being audited"
"The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract. Each month the sponsor requires the project manager to submit CPI calculations and an analysis of cost to complete. The project manager explains to the sponsor that extra profits should NOT be a worry on this project because",
"All costs invoiced are being audited"
"The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on the cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract. Each month he requires the project manager to submit CPI calculations and an analysis of the cost to complete. The project manager explains to the sponsor that extra profits should NOT be a worry on this project because:",
"All costs invoiced are being audited"
"What is core of the advantages of a functional organization?",
"All employees report to one manager and have a clear chain of command"
"What is one of the advantages of a functional organization?",
"All employees report to one manager and have a clear chain of command"
"Which of the following are inputs belong to Estimates Activity Resources?",
"All of the above are inputs of Estimates Activity Resources"
"Which of the following are inputs that belong to Estimates Activity Resources?",
"All of the above are inputs of Estimates Activity Resources"
"Which of the following statements concerning acceptance sampling is false?",
"All of the above are true"
"The scope management provides",
"All of the above"
"The term resource planning refers to",
"All of the above"
"Tools and techniques used during the Plan Quality process include which of the following",
"All of the above"
"What are common types of cost-reimbursable contracts?",
"All of the above"
"What are the inputs for Initiation process?",
"All of the above"
"What are the outputs of Initiation process?",
"All of the above"
"What is CI?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following are input of close project process?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following are parts of project scope management?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following are the inputs of Define Scope?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following are the outputs of Collect Requirements Process?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following is an output of a Verify Scope process?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following is considered during the Plan Procurement Process?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following is considered during the Procurement Planning Process?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following is true about procurement documents?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following is true concerning evaluation criteria?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following is true concerning the evaluation criteria?",
"All of the above"
"Which of the following statement is true about Strategic planning?",
"All of the above"
"You are project manager of a project and you are offering an estimate that you know will be changed after the contract is signed is ____",
"All of the above"
"The scope of a project can be expected to change if",
"All of the other alternatives apply are possible based upon the situation"
"Which of the following statements is in agreement with McGregor's concepts concerning Theory X and Theory Y managers?",
"All of the other alternatives apply"
"Work authorization forms are needed in order to",
"All of the other alternatives apply"
""Most organizations are not in business to provide information technology services, yet many have spent valuable time and resources on information technology functions when they should have focused on core competencies such as marketing, customer service, and new product design." refers to the ____ benefit of outsourcing",
"Allow the client organization to focus on its core business"
"What scope definition technique is used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?",
"Alternatives identification"
"You are the project manger at a utility company. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, your organization is exploring cheaper, alternatives forms of energy. You are in the process of developing the project charter. All of the following are tools/ techniques that you can use to develop the project charter EXCEPT",
"Alternatives identification"
"Which of the following best describes the conflict that arises when a project team member has dual reporting relationship between a functional manager and project manager?",
"Ambiguous jurisdiction"
"What is a corrective action?",
"An action that brings future project events Into alignment with the project plan"
"Who of the following are ALWAYS stakeholders?",
"An assembly line worker that will use the product of the project"
"use the actual cost of a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the cost of the current project",
"Analogous estimates"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding analogous estimating techniques?",
"Analogous estimating is a tool and technique of activity definition process"
"What tool or technique of Estimate Activity Durations uses parameters such as duration, budget, size, weight, and complexity from a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measure for a future project?",
"Analogous estimating"
"Which is generally the least accurate",
"Analogous estimating"
"Which is the Estimate Costs technique used most frequently in the early stages of a project",
"Analogous estimating"
"Which of the following techniques uses historical information to estimate the activity duration?",
"Analogous estimating"
"You are building the budget for your project. You don't have detailed requirements for the project yet. However, a fellow project manager completed a similar project a year ago, and has his budget assumptions and final costs documented. You decide to use this information as the basis of your cost estimating. This is called",
"Analogous estimating"
"You have been hired as a project manager for a local bank. Bank wants to develop and design the custom online bill pay software so that its customer can pay bills online. You are ready to begin the activity duration estimates for your project",
"Analogous estimating"
"You would like to develop a cost estimates for your project. However you are under tremendous time pressure, and do not have a time to perform extensive cost calculations. You just need to determine a quick, ball park estimates for your project. Which of the following cost estimating techniques should you use?",
"Analogous estimating"
"Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating costs of the current project?",
"Analogous"
"Your project is nearing completion when a previously undocumented risk is identified. The risk could negatively affect the outcome of the project. Which of the following is the BEST action to perform next?",
"Analyze the risk"
"Which of the following best describes the schedule development process?",
"Analyzing activity sequences and activity durations to develop project schedule"
"Which of the following is the BEST thing for a project manager to do in the Conduct Procurements process of procurement management?",
"Answer sellers' questions about bid documents"
"When the version control numbers should change?",
"Any change occurs"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the critical path of a project schedule?",
"Any project activity with a float time that equals zero is considered a critical path tasks"
"Your project team is already created the WBS, developed estimates for the work packages, and sequenced the project activities using the precedence diagramming method. Which action should be performed NEXT?",
"Apply schedule compression techniques"
"Which tool and technique is used to sequence activities?",
"Applying lead and lags"
"Which of the following describes an input to the direct and manage project execution process that consist of documented, authorized changes to expand or contract the project scope?",
"Approved change request"
"What causes replanning of the project scope?",
"Approved change requests"
"Which of the following describes an input to the direct and manage project execution process that consists of documented, authorized directions required to bring expected future project performance into conformance with project plan?",
"Approved corrective actions"
"Which of the following describes an input to the direct and manage project execution process that consists of documented, authorized directions that reduce the probability of consequences associated with project risks?",
"Approved corrective actions"
"Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution Process?",
"Approved corrective actions"
"You are in process of reviewing all change requests and controlling changes to deliverables and organizational process assets. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Approved corrective actions, preventive actions"
"Which of the following describes an input to the direct and manage execution process that consists of documented, authorized requests for product correction of a defect found during quality inspection?",
"Approved defect repair"
"Which of the following is an input to direct and manage project execution?",
"Approved preventive action"
"Which one of the following is true regarding the change control board?",
"Approves or rejects change requests"
"Which type of network diagram is also referred to activity-on-arrow (AOA) diagrams?",
"Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM)"
"was an early project management software product that helped managers analyze complex schedules for designing aircraft",
"Artemis"
"You are the project manager responsible for renovating a 70-year old building. You intend to hire an outside construction firm to seismic retrofit the building in order to make sure that the building can withstand the large earthquakes. The outside construction firm has requested SOW. Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the contract SOW?",
"As a buyer, you are required to write the contract SOW"
"You are the project manager responsible for constructing new 100-unit apartment in downtown Manhattan. As part of construction project, you are planning to outsource the electrical wiring of the building to an outside contracting firm. The contracting firm has requested a statement of work from you. Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the contract SOW?",
"As a buyer, you re required to write SOW"
"When are deliverables accepted or not accepted?",
"As an output of the scope verification process"
"You have been assigned to a project to build the largest U.S. natural gas pipeline project in more than 20 years. The proposed 1,350-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline will provide valuable infrastructure allowing producers in the Rocky Mountain region to deliver their natural gas to attractive markets in the Midwest and northeastern parts of the U.S. You are in the project planning process where you are involved in identifying the specific schedule activities that need to be performed to produce the various project deliverables. During this process one of your team members identifying an activity that need to be accomplished. However, another team member, based on this interpretation of the project scope statement, believes that the activity is outside the scope of project. Which of the following is the BEST action to take?",
"Ask clarification from project sponsor"
"Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at $2,000,000. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new project?",
"Ask management how the new project will affect your project"
"The seller tells you that your activities have resulted in an increase in their costs. You should",
"Ask the seller for supporting information"
"The seller tells you that your activities have resulted in an increase in their costs. You should:",
"Ask the seller for supporting information"
"What are assigned risk ratings based upon?",
"Assessed probability and impact"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting risk project. You are using various information gathering techniques to identify the project risks. All of the following are information gathering techniques except",
"Assumption analysis"
"You are the project manager of a project. Project is installing AC to hotel rooms. You have done project cost and time estimates, told the customer that the estimates provided will be accurate if the rooms meet the requirements like (wooden coated). This is an example of which of the following?",
"Assumption"
"Those areas that a project manager considers to be true, real or certain are called",
"Assumptions"
"When do stakeholders have the MOST influence on a project?",
"At the beginning of the project"
"When should the Verify Scope process be done?",
"At the end of each phase of the project"
"When do stakeholders have the greatest influence?",
"At the start of the project"
"Which of the following is an example of contract administration?",
"Authorizing contractor work"
"You are currently on a 3-week vocation in Australia. You've decided to rent a car as your means of transport around the country. Driving in a foreign country can be potentially a risky activity as you are unfamiliar with the terrain. Hence, the probability of being involved in an accident is higher. As a project manager, you are aware of various techniques used to respond to understand risks. You would like to apply your risk management knowledge to reduce the risks associated with your driving. Which of the following is the BEST example of risk avoidance?",
"Avoid driving, use public transportation instead"
"With a(n) ____ contract, the buyer pays the supplier for allowable performance costs along with a predetermined fee and an incentive bonus.",
"B CPIF"
"Outsourcing to provide extra staff during periods of peak workloads can be much more economical than trying to staff entire projects with internal resources. refers to the ____ benefit.",
"B Provide flexibility"
"Which of the following could be an appropriate WBS code for a work package at the fourth level in a WBS where the top level code is 1.0?",
"B.1.1.1.1"
"Who should contribute to the development of the project plan?",
"B.Entire project team including project manager"
"What is the purpose of the WBS?",
"B.To ensure that all work within a project is identified and defined within a common framework."
"To-complete performance index (TCPI) is represented by which of the following?",
"BAC - EV/BAC - AC"
"Which equation correctly illustrates the cost variance of a project, in currency?",
"BCWP-ACWP"
"Which equation correctly illustrates the cost variance of a project, in dollars?",
"BCWP-ACWP"
"Which of the following depicts a hierarchical tabulation of physical assemblies, subassemblies and components required to manufacture a product?",
"BOM"
"tools track the execution of business process flows and expose how the state of supporting IT",
"BSM"
"Which of the following best describes the calculations of late finish dates and late start dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities?",
"Backward pass"
"This type of pass determines the late start and finish dates",
"Backward"
"You are managing a project that will implement a new Insurance software package. Two project team members have difficulty working together. They come to you, for help resolving the issues. You immediately set up a meeting that includes the functional manager. After the meeting you and the functional manager discuss the issues and agree on a solution. What type of organizational structure you are working in?",
"Balanced matrix"
"You are one of four full-time project managers in an organization. You all share an administrative person. There are generally 8-10 projects per year that involve about 25% of the organization's employees, however, these employees do not report to you. Your organization can best be classified as",
"Balanced matrix"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding bar charts?",
"Bar charts are generally better at illustrating progress or status compared with network diagrams"
"You are the project manger at XYZ Software Corp, a U.S software company developing enterprise Human Resources Applications. You've been asked to reduce the company's engineering costs by developing an off-shore software development centre",
"Based on the input from the senior VP, you should file a change request item to adjust the project plan accordingly"
"Which of the following is the correct network diagram for the table?",
"Begin - A - C - D - E - End - B - D"
"Which of the following is not a type of performance reporting",
"Benchmark reporting"
"Which of the following is an example of a tool used in Plan Quality?",
"Benchmarking"
"Which of the following provides a basis for assessing project performance?",
"Benchmarking"
"Which of the following tools/ techniques of the quality planning process compares previous similar activities from a prior project to the current project activities to develop performance measurement standards?",
"Benchmarking"
"Which tool and technique of quality planning involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?",
"Benchmarking"
"This document, also called a tender or quote (short for quotation), is prepared by sellers providing pricing for standard items that have been clearly defined by the buyer",
"Bid"
"Which of the following are TRUE regarding Bidder conferences?",
"Bidder conferences are meeting with prospective seller after preparation of bid or a proposal"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding Bidder conferences?",
"Bidder conferences involves the receipt of bids or proposals and the application of the evaluation criteria in order to select a vendor"
"What is the tool and technique used to request seller responses?",
"Bidder conferences"
"You are in the process of reviewing offers and choosing among potential sellers. All of the following are tools you can use EXCEPT",
"Bidder conferences"
"Which of the following statements concerning bottom up estimating is true?",
"Both A and B are true"
"Which of the following statements concerning bottom-up estimating is true?",
"Both A and B are true"
"Tools and techniques used during the Plan Quality process include ____",
"Both A and B"
"Which of the following are inputs to the Source Selection process?",
"Both A and B"
"Which of the following is an example of indirect costs?",
"Both A and C"
"Under what circumstances is it better for a contractor to subcontract?",
"Both A and c"
"Which of the following are examples of indirect costs?",
"Both a and c"
"Who control the project budget in balance matrix organization structure?",
"Both project manager and functional manager"
"Which of the following is true about pure risk?",
"Botn A and c are correct"
"Which involves estimating cost of individual work items",
"Bottom up estimating"
"Which of the following involves estimating cost of individual work items",
"Bottom up estimating"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding estimation techniques?",
"Bottom-up estimating is a method of estimating a component of work, where the work is decomposed into greater details"
"When you are developing the estimates for project, you choose to add the individual estimates for the activities that comprise each phase. What type of estimation method are you using?",
"Bottom-up estimating"
"You are in the process of defining the specific activities that need to be performed to develop the necessary project deliverables. Which of the following are NOT tools/ techniques that you can use in this process?",
"Bottom-up estimating"
"You are the project manger assigned to perform seismic retro-fitting on an old office building. You are trying to estimate the costs for this project. You start by assigning the costs associated with each of the project activities. Then you sum up all the individual costs into a final cost estimate. Which type of cost estimating technique id you see?",
"Bottom-up estimating"
"You are the project manager assigned to construct a new 10-story office building. You are trying to estimate the costs for this project. You start by assigning the costs associated with each of the project activity. Then you sum up all the individual costs into a final cost estimate. Which type of cost estimation technique did you use?",
"Bottom-up estimation"
"Which of the following estimates MOST accurately reflects the actual cost of the project?",
"Bottom-up"
"What popular book illustrates the concept that people are not interchangeable parts and uses the analogy that you cannot take nine women and produce a baby in one month?",
"Brookss The Mythical ManMonth"
"You are the project manager for a Project. Project is a global project. Some peoples are working from US and some are from India. Client says budget should not cost more than $12 million. Because of the global concerns, the final budget must be in U.S. dollars. This is an example of which of the following?",
"Budget constraint"
"Which of the following is most likely to require a rebaselining of the cost baseline in order to provide a realistic measure of performance?",
"Budget updates"
"Which of the following s most likely to require a rebaselining in order to provide a realistic measure of performance?",
"Budget updates"
"Your project has a medium amount of risk and is not very well defined. The sponsor hands you a project charter and asks you to confirm that the project can be completed within the project cost budget. What is the BEST method to handle this?",
"Build the estimate in the form of a range of possible results"
"When a single node is followed by two or more activities in a network diagram",
"Burst"
"Which of the following outputs is often completed before initiating a project?",
"Business case"
"Which of the following outputs is often completed before initiating project?",
"Business case"
"You are a project manager and the management wants you to help them determine which projects should be selected for implementation. In a project selection model, the most important factor is which one of the following?",
"Business needs"
"You are a project manager for your organization. Management has asked you to help them determine which projects should be selected for implementation. In a project selection model, which one of the following is the most important factor?",
"Business needs"
"You are currently on a 3-week vocation in Australia. You've decided to rent a car as your means of transport around the country. Driving in a foreign country can be potentially a risky activity as you are unfamiliar with the terrain. Hence, the probability of being involved in an accident is higher. You are very concerned with regards to the financial liability incurred if you were involved in an accident",
"Buying auto insurance"
"Organizations can gain access to specific skills and technologies when they are required by using outside resources. refers to the ____ benefit of outsourcing.",
"C Access skills and technologies"
"What is the first step in a Monte Carlo analysis?",
"C Assess the range for the variables being considered"
"William Ibbs and Young H. Kwaks study revealed that the ____ industry had the lowest level of project management maturity in the area of quality management",
"C information systems"
"William Ibbs and Young H. Kwaks study revealed that the ____ industry had the lowest level of project management maturity in the area of risk management",
"C information systems"
"To calculate the late start and late finish dates for a set of tasks, you must do",
"C.A backwards pass"
"To calculate the late start and late finish dates for a set of tasks, you must do:",
"C.A backwards pass"
"Which of the following are outputs of the Scope Verification Process?",
"C.Formal acceptance"
"The unique identifiers assigned to each item of a WBS are often known collectively as",
"C.The code of accounts"
"The unique identifiers assigned to each item of a WBS are often known collectively as:",
"C.The code of accounts"
"What is critical path?",
"C.The longest path through the network, which represents the shortest amount of time in which a project can be completed."
"What is the primary purpose of a milestone chart?",
"C.To show significant events in the project such as completion of key deliverables."
"Which of the following is NOT an example of a type of schedule report?",
"C.fishbone diagram"
"Which of the following types of contracts requires the greatest amount of time to monitor and audit?",
"CPFF"
"With a(n) ____ contract, the buyer pays the supplier for allowable performance costs plus a fixed fee payment usually based on a percentage of estimated costs",
"CPFF"
"With a(n) ____ contract, the buyer pays the supplier for allowable performance costs along with a predetermined fee and an incentive bonus",
"CPIF"
"With a(n) ____ contract, the buyer pays the supplier for allowable performance costs along with a predetermined percentage based on total costs",
"CPPC"
"You are a project manager for a company that sells online music. Your project is to develop new content management system that will not only manage all users purchases and downloads but will automatically learn the users music interest to make future product recommendation. In addition your content management system must scale to support millions of current music downloads a day. Your team has made a significant progress on the project. You are preparing the performance of the project to date and have calculated the following measurement",
"CV is positive number that implies that your project is under budget"
"Which of the following are NOT considered formal types of project ending?",
"Cancellation"
"You are currently in the marker for the new car. You are debating between two different cars. Car ABC is highly reliable car with an excellent track record. However, car ABC lacks some premium equipment, such as high-end audio system and sports suspension. On the other hand, car XYZ comes standard with various premium equipment including a sports suspension and high-end audio system. However, car XYZ is much les reliable and would require more frequent maintenance and repairs. How would you characterized the two cars?",
"Car ABC is a low grade, high quality car while Car XYZ is a high grade, low quality car"
"We can prevent defects by all of the followings, expect",
"Carefully monior project progress"
"We can prevent defects by all of the followings",
"Carefully monitor project"
"trace complaints about quality problems back to the responsible production operations",
"Cause-and-Effect Diagrams"
"Which of the following is an output of the Control Scope process?",
"Change Requests"
"Which of the following is output of Direct and Manage Project Execution?",
"Change requests"
"Which is not an appropriate description of the work of Integrated Change Control?",
"Change the Schedule only"
"When managing a project team, what helps to reduce the amount of conflict?",
"Clear role definition"
"When should a change request be documented?",
"Client and contractor jointly document and approve the change before the work is scheduled"
"Verification of project deliverables occurs during which process?",
"Close Project or Phase"
"Which process involves Formal product acceptance and end of project?",
"Closing processes"
"Which process involves formal product acceptance and end of a project?",
"Closing processes"
"Which of the following is a Process Group?",
"Closing"
"Which process group includes processes used to formally terminate all activities of a project or a project phase?",
"Closing"
"What is a tool to improve team performance?",
"Co-Location"
"Your team is split between two buildings on either side of town. As a result, the team isn't very cohesive because the members don't know each other very well. The team is still in the storming stage because of the separation issues. Which of the following should you consider?",
"Co-location"
"You are the project manager of a project and the project is a month into the executing phase. There are some cliques forming among the team members. Which leadership style you follow for best outcome?",
"Coaching"
"This type of power uses punishment, threats and other negative approaches to get people to do things they do not want to do",
"Coercive"
"Which of the following is a technique for resolving conflict?",
"Collaborating"
"The use of group creativity techniques as a tool and technique is done in which of the following processes?",
"Collect Requirements"
"Which of the following Project Scope Management Process defines how scope will be verified?",
"Collect Requirements"
"Which process includes facilitated workshops as a tool and technique?",
"Collect Requirements"
"Which process must occur after a project manager has been assigned to the project?",
"Collect Requirements"
"Which of the following statements describes the relationship between project phases and project lifecycle?",
"Collectively, the project phases are known as the project lifecycle"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding collocation?",
"Collocation involves placing project team members in the same physical location to enhance their ability to perform as a team"
"Which of the following is a mandatory prerequisite for team building?",
"Commitment from top level management"
"You are the project manager at a large construction company. Your company is under a times and materials contract to build a new shopping center. The estimated cost of project is $5,000,000. The project sponsor has approved this amount",
"Communicate the projected financial outcome to the project sponsor"
"When working in a matrix environment, all of the following are true regarding the Manage Project Team process except for which one?",
"Communication methods and issue logs are used to create performance appraisals, provide feedback, and track issues"
"Which of the following is a tool or technique for distribute information?",
"Communication methods"
"What is one of the most important skills a project manager can have?",
"Communication skills"
"Which of the following leadership traits is MOST important for a project manager?",
"Communication"
"Which of the following are outputs from the Communications Planning process?",
"Communications management plan"
"Which of the following is output of the Plan Communications process?",
"Communications management plan"
"You are the project manager for Lucky Stars nightclubs. They specialize in live country and western band performances. Your newest project is in the Planning process group. You've published the scope statement and scope management plan. The document that describes who will receive copies of this information as well as future project information, how it should be distributed, and who will prepare it is which of the following?",
"Communications management plan"
"Which of the following process is involved in making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner? Performance reporting",
"Communications planning"
"This type of management plan is a document that guides project communications",
"Communications"
"Which of the following knowledge areas are part of Project Closure?",
"Communications"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting the project roles and responsibilities and create staffing management plan. All of the following are environmental factors that should be considered during this process EXCEPT",
"Competencies"
"With a clear contract statement of work, a seller completes work as specified, but the buyer is not pleased with the results. The contract is considered to be",
"Complete"
"With a clear contract statement of work, a seller completes work as specified, but the buyer is not pleased with the results. The contract is considered to be:",
"Complete"
"You are in process of identifying and documenting the project roles and responsibilities and create staffing management plan. All of the following should be addressed when listing the roles and responsibilities EXCEP",
"Compliance"
"using a give-and-take approach to resolving conflicts; bargaining and searching for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all the parties",
"Compromise Mode"
"Which of the following best describle a give-take conflict resolution technique?",
"Compromise"
"Which of the following conflict resolution techniques describes a situation where each of the parties involved in the conflict give up something in order to reach a solution?",
"Compromise"
"While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only. Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?",
"Compromise"
"You just found out that a major subcontractor for your project consistently provides deliverables late. The subcontractor approaches you and asks you to continue accepting late deliverables in exchange for a decrease in project costs. This offer is an example of",
"Compromise"
"You just found out that a major subcontractor for your project consistently provides deliverables late. The subcontractor approaches you and asks you to continue accepting late deliverables in exchange for a decrease in project costs. This offer is an example of:",
"Compromise"
"You are a project manager and now you are in the middle of comparing proposals received from sellers. Comparing proposals received from sellers are done in ____",
"Conduct Procurements"
"To verify if the scope of the project is being met (Verify Scope), it is necessary to",
"Conduct periodic inspections, reviews, and walk-thoughts"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding configuration management?",
"Configuration definition provides the basis from which the configuration of products is defined and verified, products and documents are labeled, changes are managed, and accountability s maintained"
"Which of the following is a configuration management activity that provides the basis from which the configuration of products is defined and verified, products and documents are labeled, and changes are managed?",
"Configuration identification"
"Which of the following is not an input to overall change control?",
"Configuration management system"
"Which of the following provides a standardized, effective, and efficient way to centrally manage approved changes and baselines within a project?",
"Configuration management system"
"Which of the following statements regarding configuration management system is least true?",
"Configuration management systems provide mechanisms to manage risk and implement risk response activities"
"Which of the following statements regarding configuration management systems is LEAST true?",
"Configuration management systems provides mechanisms to estimate project costs and schedules"
"You are the project manager in the I.T department of major hospital. Your current project involves developing a web based interface for legacy mainframe software applications. Your current project involves a scope change. You are documenting the physical characteristics and functionality of the project, based on this scope change. Which of the following tool are using?",
"Configuration management"
"Your current project has over 200 specs, 350 engineering drawings and 5500 parts. What tool do you use to apply technical and administrative direction to identify the functional and physical characteristics of items, and control changes to those characteristics?",
"Configuration management"
"Which of the following is the configuration management activity that is involved with capturing, storing, and accessing configuration information needed to mange products?",
"Configuration status accounting"
"Which of the following is configuration management activity that is involved with ensuring that the performance and the functional requirement defined in the configuration document have been met?",
"Configuration verification and auditing"
"The sender is responsible for ____",
"Confirming the message is understood"
"The sender is responsible for",
"Confirming the message is understood"
"The sender is responsible for:",
"Confirming the message is understood."
"Which of the following is not a process of Project Communcations Management?",
"Conflict Resolution"
"Which of the following is not a process of Project Communications Management?",
"Conflict Resolution"
"You are in the implementation phase of a project. At this point, which of the following is the lowest source of conflict for you?",
"Conflict over personality issues"
"When using the ____, project manager directly face.",
"Confrontation"
"When using the ____, project manager directly face...",
"Confrontation"
"Which method of conflict resolution tends to be the most effective in resolving conflicts?",
"Confrontation"
"Which of the following best describes a directly face a conflict using a problem-solving conflict resolution technique",
"Confrontation"
"Which of the following best describes a directly face a conflict using a problem-solving conflict resolution technique?",
"Confrontation"
"Which of the following best describes the conflict resolution technique that involves problem solving and fact finding missions in order to discuss a win-win resolution?",
"Confrontation"
"Which of the following best describes the conflict resolution technique that involves problem solving and fact-finding missions in order to discuss a winwin resolution?",
"Confrontation"
"Which of the following techniques do project manager used most often to resolve conflicts?",
"Confronting"
"Which statement is true about the project management body of knowledge?",
"Constantly evolving"
"What characteristic do project and operational work share in common?",
"Constrained by limited resources"
"You are the project manager for the software Project. This project must be completed within one year. This is an example of which of the following?",
"Constraint"
"You are a project manager at a real estate company that develops and manages commercial, retail and residential properties in United States and Europe. As a company continues to grow, the company's IT infrastructure is unable to meet business needs of organization. Specifically, you have been assigned to upgrade the company's IT infrastructure. Specifically, your team has been asked to implement a corporate general ledger system, improve accounting and real estate processes, develop and implement lease tracking system, and implement HR and payroll systems and perform diagnostics and monthly closures",
"Consult the project sponsor before taking action"
"Which of the following is not a tool or technique used during the Risk Quantification Process?",
"Contingency planning"
"Which of the following best describes project funds that are held in reserve to account for and offset known risks, such as project scope risks, schedule risks, cost or quality risks?",
"Contingency reserve"
"What is the difference between management reserves and contingency reserves?",
"Contingency reserves address known unknowns, whereas management reserves address unknown unknowns"
"Using the PMBOK definition of contingency reserve, which of the following statements about contingency reserves is false?",
"Contingency reserves may be set aside for unknown unknowns"
"When planning cost for the project, project manager include 10% of estimated effort in estimated effort in estimation for future situations that are unpredictable. The project manager had used ____",
"Contingency reserves"
"When planning cost for the project, project manager included 10% of estimated effort in estimation of future",
"Contingency reserves"
"These plans are predefined actions that the project team will take if an identified risk event occurs",
"Contingency"
"You are the project manager responsible for constructing new 100-unit apartment in downtown Manhattan. As part of construction project, you are planning to outsource a particular deliverable of your project. You have created a document that described the product and services required in detail and have included the necessary reporting requirements. Which of the following BEAST describes the document you have just prepared?",
"Contract SOW"
"What defines the portion of work included in a contract for items being purchased or acquired?",
"Contract Statement of Work (SOW)"
"To which process is work performance information an input?",
"Contract administration"
"Which of the following statement are false?",
"Contract are seller prepared document that describes the seller ability to provide requested services"
"The two closing procedures are called",
"Contract close out and administrative closure"
"What is the key difference between a contract close-out and an administrative closure?",
"Contract close-out includes product verification"
"Which of the following establishes the procedure to perform product verification, update contract records to reflect final results and archive information for future use?",
"Contract closure procedure"
"You are in process of completing and settling each contract application to the project or project phase. Which of the following are NOT outputs of this process?",
"Contract closure procedures"
"Which of the following process is involved with the completion and settlement of the contract?",
"Contract closure"
"You are in the process of reviewing offers and choosing among potential sellers. All the following are the outputs of process except",
"Contract documentation"
"Which of the following best describes the complete set of indexed contract documentation, including the closed contract, for inclusion with the final project file?",
"Contract file"
"Which of the following documents describes the details of the procurement items in order to allow prospective seller to determine whether they are capable of providing the products or services?",
"Contract statement of work"
"Which of the following BEST describes a mutually binding legal agreement that obligates the seller to provide specified products / services and obligates the buyer to pay the seller?",
"Contract"
"Which type of control tool identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?",
"Control Charts"
"Which of the following is controlling changes to the budget",
"Control Costs"
"Which monitoring or controlling activities would not result in preventive action being applied?",
"Control Scope"
"We can use ____ to prevent defects, rather than to detect or reject them",
"Control chart"
"Which of the following illustrate a chart with upper /lower limits on which value of some statistical measure for a series of samples are plotted using sample measure measurement, where the mean and standard deviation are determine from the sample selected?",
"Control chart"
"Which of the following illustrate a chart with upper or lower limits on which value of some statistical measure for a series of samples are plotted using sample measure measurement, where the mean and standard deviation are determine from the sample selected?",
"Control chart"
"to prevent defects, rather than to detect of reject them",
"Control chart"
"The widget production project is well underway. The requirements are clear that each widget must weigh between 0.320 and 0.325 ounces. The first day of test production resulted in 1247 widgets. Of the widgets inspected, 47 percent fell within the acceptable weight range. This is an example of",
"Control limits"
"Which process involves monitoring, measuring, and taking corrective action?",
"Controlling Processes"
"The two phases used in Project Cost Management are",
"Controlling and planning"
"Which ensures that project objectives are met by monitoring and measuring progress and taking corrective action when necessary",
"Controlling process"
"Verify Scope",
"Controlling"
"Which of the following describes the input to the direct and manage project execution that is used to bring the project back in line and is the part of feedback loop?",
"Corrective action"
"Which of the following statements are NOT true regarding corrective actions?",
"Corrective actions are tools/ techniques of the direct and manage project execution process"
"Which of the following are false regarding corrective actions?",
"Corrective actions generally do not require root cause analysis ti identify the cause of variation"
"Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?",
"Cost Control"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to the project cost baseline. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful tool/ technique?",
"Cost aggregation"
"You are in the process of developing an approximation of the costs of the resources needed to complete each schedule activity. All of the following are tools/ techniques you can use in this process EXCEPT",
"Cost aggregation"
"Which of the following is a common characteristic of most project life cycle descriptions?",
"Cost and staffing are low at the start, higher towards the end. and drop rapidly as the project nears completion"
"Which of the following is typically displayed as a S-shaped curve?",
"Cost baseline"
"You are in the process of developing an approximation of the costs of the resources needed to complete each schedule activity. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Cost baseline"
"Which of the following processes is involved with allocating the overall cost estimate to individual work activities?",
"Cost budgeting"
"Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?",
"Cost budgeting"
"Which of the following defines, the procedures by which the cost baseline may be change, including the paperwork, tracking systems, an approval levels for authorizing changes?",
"Cost change control system"
"The WBS is an input to all of the processes EXCEPT",
"Cost estimating"
"Which of the following process is involved in developing an approximation of the costs of the resources needed to complete project activities?",
"Cost estimation"
"Which describes how cost variances will be managed?",
"Cost management plan"
"What tool and technique includes all costs incurred over the life of a product by investment in preventing nonconformance to requirements?",
"Cost of quality"
"What type of contract do you NOT want to use if you do not have enough labor to audit invoices?",
"Cost plus fixed fee (CPFF)"
"Your program manager has come to you, the project manager, for help with a bid for her newest project. You want to protect your company from financial risk. You have limited scope definition. What is the BEST type of contract to choose?",
"Cost plus fixed fee (CPFF)"
"The sponsor and the project manager are discussing what type of contract the project manager plans to use on the project. The buyer points out that theperforming organization spent a lot of money hiring a design team to come up with the design. The project manager is concerned that the risk for the buyer be as small as possible. An advantage of a fixed price contract for the buyer is",
"Cost risk is lower"
"The sponsor and the project manager are discussing what type of contract the project manager plans to use on the project. The buyer points out that theperforming organization spent a lot of money hiring a design team to come up with the design. The project manager is concerned that the risk for the buyer be as small as possible. An advantage of a fixed price contract for the buyer is:",
"Cost risk is lower"
"What does a CPI value greater than 1.0 indicate?",
"Cost under the estimated value"
"With respect to the earned value analysis, which of the following will tell you whether costs are higher or lower than budgeted?",
"Cost variance"
"Which is/are the element(s) that may be a constraint in the project?",
"Cost, time, and quality"
"Which type of tool would be used for the quality planning activity?",
"Cost-Benefit Analysis"
"Which of the following methods is a project selection technique?",
"Cost-benefit analysis"
"Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long. If the project network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to do?",
"Crash the project"
"You are the project manager fro the large children's toy manufacturer. You have been asked to manufacture the latest craze in 'Dancing Widgets'for upcoming Christmas season. You've been informed that the company needs at least one month lead time in order to have Widgets on retailer's shelves for Christmas season. Hence, based on the current sales forecast you've been asked to deliver 100,000 units by November 1st at the least. However four months into the project you've noticed that the project has become 6 weeks BEHIND schedule. Since missing the deadline in unacceptable you've hired twenty additional contingent workers to get the project on track. This is an example of which type of following?",
"Crashing the schedule"
"You are the project manager for the 987 Project. Should this project run over schedule, it will cost your organization $35,000 per day in lost sales. With four months to completion, you realize the project is running late. You decide, with management's approval, to add more project team members to the project plan to complete the work on time. This is an example of which of the following?",
"Crashing"
"You are the project manager and have just completed the Collect Requirements and Define Scope process. What should you do next?",
"Create WBS"
"You are the project manager of a project .You have just completed the Collect Requirements and Define Scope. What should you do next?",
"Create WBS"
"The WBS, estimates for each work package, and the network diagram are completed. Which of the following would be the NEXT thing for the project manager to do?",
"Create a preliminary schedule and get the teams approval"
"There have been many work packages completed successfully on the project, and the sponsor has made some recommendations for improvements. The project is on schedule to meet an aggressive deadline when the successor activity to a critical path activity suffers a major setback. The activity has 14 days of float and is being completed by four people. There are two other team members with the skill set to assist the troubled activity, if needed. The project manager receives a call that three other team members are attempting to be removed from the project because they do not feel the project can be successful. When the project manager pursues this, she discovers that those team members have issues that have not been addressed. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do to improve the project?",
"Create an issue log"
"Which of the following must not performed in the project initiation process?",
"Create scope statement"
"Which of the following methods is a technique used to predict project duration by analyzing which sequence of activities has the least amount of scheduling flexibility?",
"Critical Path"
"Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?",
"Critical chain method"
"Which of the following scheduling techniques focuses on managing buffer activity durations and the resources applied to the planned scheduled activities, instead of managing the total float of network paths?",
"Critical chain method"
"Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?",
"Critical chain method"
"You are the project manager responsible for developing a new hybrid engine for a major auto manufacturer. You are in process of developing the project schedule. In order to manage the uncertainty associated with the project schedule, you intend to do the following",
"Critical chain method"
"Which of the following describes the longest path through a project schedule network after resource leveling?",
"Critical chain"
"Which characteristic distinguishes the network diagram from the Gant chart?",
"Critical dependencies"
"To control the schedule, a project manager is analyzing the project to predict project duration. She does this by analyzing the sequence of activities with the least amount of scheduling flexibility. What technique is she using?",
"Critical path method"
"To control the schedule, a project manager is reanalyzing the project to predict project duration. She does this by analyzing the sequence of activities with the least amount of scheduling flexibility. What technique is she using?",
"Critical path method"
"Which schedule development tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?",
"Critical path method"
"You are project manager and the monthly report to the client showed zero schedule variance. However, member of the team know that a milestone has been missed which will cause an overall delay to the project. Which one of the following is being inadequately reported?",
"Critical path status"
"With respects to the cost of quality, which of the following individuals was responsible for developing the 'zero-defects'approach?",
"Crosby"
"wrote Quality Is Free in 1979 and is best known for suggesting that organizations strive for zero defects",
"Crosby"
"Which of the following statements is not true?",
"Cultural differences will always be an obstacle to overcome"
"You are a project manager with several years of experience in project management. You have just accepted your first project in a foreign country. You have 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 is a KEY attribute of scope verification?",
"Customer acceptance of project deliverables"
"Which of the following is a KEY output of the Verify Scope process?",
"Customer acceptance of project deliverables"
"What document should be reviewed by a project manager before finalizing the project closure?",
"Customer acceptance"
"Who must accept the end product for a project to be considered closed?",
"Customer or sponsor"
"Who gives project acceptance?",
"Customer"
"Most organizations are not in business to provide information technology services, yet many have spent valuable time and resources on information technology functions when they should have focused on core competencies such as marketing, customer service, and new product design. refers to the ____ benefit of outsourcing.",
"D Allow the client organization to focus on its core business"
"If the information technology project is to produce a new product or service, will it be useful to the organization or marketable to others? applies to which risk category?",
"D Market risk"
"Is there a project champion? applies to which risk category?",
"D People risk"
"The Time Management Process that involves identifying and documenting interactivity dependencies is called",
"D.Activity Sequencing"
"The Time Management Process that involves identifying and documenting interactivity dependencies is called:",
"D.Activity Sequencing"
"Which of the following Project Scope Management processes involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components?",
"D.Scope Definition"
"What is the difference between scope verification and quality control?",
"D.Scope verification is primarily concerned with the acceptance of work results while quality control is primarily concerned with the correctness of work results."
"Which of the following tools and techniques are commonly used in the Scope Definition Process?",
"D.WBS templates"
"You are in the middle of a complex negotiation when the other party says, 'We need to finish in one hour because I have to catch my plane:' That person is using which of the following negotiatian strategies?",
"Deadline"
"You are in the middle of a complex negotiation when the other party says, We need to finish in one hour because I have to catch my plane:' That person is using which of the following negotiatian strategies?",
"Deadline"
"Which technique is commonly used for the Quantitative Risk Analysis activity?",
"Decision Tree Analysis"
"You are a project manager for a software manufacturing firm. The project you've just finished created a new software product that is expected to become a number-one seller. All prerelease of software is handled through the marketing department. A friend of yours is a certified software instructor. They have asked you for a copy of the software prior to the beta release so they can get familiar with it. What is the most appropriate response?",
"Decline the request because the software is the intellectual property of the company"
"Which of the following is one of the key components of the basic communications model?",
"Decode"
"What happens to a stakeholder's project influence over time?",
"Decreases"
"What should be covered in an implementation when the change is approved?",
"Defect repair"
"Which of the following can generate a milestone list?",
"Define Activities"
"You are managing a six-month project and have held biweekly meetings with your project stakeholders. After five-and-a-half months of work, the project is on schedule and budget, but the stakeholders are not satisfied with the deliverables. This situation will delay the project completion by one month. The MOST important process that could have prevented this situation is",
"Define Scope"
"You are managing a six-month project and have held biweekly meetings with your project stakeholders. After five-and-a-half months of work, the project is on schedule and budget, but the stakeholders are not satisfied with the deliverables. This situation will delay the project completion by one month. The MOST important process that could have prevented this situation is:",
"Define Scope"
"Which of the following risk events is MOST likely to interfere with attaining a project's schedule objective?",
"Delays in obtaining required approvals"
"used to derive a consensus among a panel of experts who make predictions about future developments",
"Delphi Technique"
"Which of the following statement are false regarding Delphi's technique",
"Delphi technique provides a way to reach the consensus among experts and allow the experts to participate anonymously"
"Which of the following is an example of a group creativity technique?",
"Delphi technique"
"Which risk identification tool involves deriving a consensus among a panel of experts using anonymous input regarding future events?",
"Delphi technique"
"You are a project manager at a project company developing wireless mobile applications. You are currently in the risk identification process, where you are trying to identify and document all risk that might impact the project",
"Delphi technique"
"This technique is used to derive a consensus among a panel of experts who make predictions about future developments",
"Delphi"
"With respect top cost of quality, which of the following individuals suggested that 85% of the cost of quality is a management problem?",
"Deming"
"The Staffing Management Plan ____, will be formal or informal",
"Depending on the size and complexity of the project"
"This type of project manager fills in when the project manager is absent and fills a role similar to that of a vice president",
"Deputy"
"What is the name of the statistical method that helps identify which factors may influence specific variables of a product or process under development or in production?",
"Design of experiments"
"Which of the following tools/ technique of the quality planning process can be used to identify the project variables that will have the greatest impact on overall project outcomes and results?",
"Design of experiments"
"You are the project manager at a large automaker in Japan. Your project involves designing the next generation four wheel drive Sports Utility vehicle for the Asian market. Your project team is attempting to determine the right combination of suspension, tires and chassis that will ensure the stability of SUV at high speeds. Your team members are using statistical methods to identify which factors will influence specific variables related to vehicle stability. This method is best described as",
"Design of experiments"
"You are a project manager who was just assigned to take over a project from another project manager who is leaving the company. The previous project manager tells you that the project is on schedule, but only because he has constantly pushed the team to perform. What is the FIRST thing you should do as the new project manager?",
"Determine a management strategy"
"While reviewing project performance, the project manager determines that the schedule variance is -500. What is the BEST thing to do?",
"Determine cost variance"
"Which of the following Project Human Resource Management process is within the Executing process group?",
"Develop Project Team"
"What-if scenario analysis is done as a part of ____ process",
"Develop Schedule"
"Which of the following processes includes asking team members about the time estimates for their activities and reaching the agreement on the calendar date for each activity?",
"Develop Schedule"
"Which of the following processes incudes asking team members about the time estimates for their activities and reaching agreement on the calendar date for each activity?",
"Develop Schedule"
""All project leaders use a shared road map, focusing on key business aspects of their projects while integrating goals across all parts of the organization" describes the ____ best practice for project delivery",
"Develop a streamlined project delivery process"
"All project leaders use a shared road map, focusing on key business aspects of their projects while integrating goals across all parts of the organization describes thebest practice for project delivery.",
"Develop a streamlined project delivery"
"You are a project manager for a manufacturing firm. You discover a design error during a test production run on your latest project. Which of the following is the most likely response to this problem?",
"Develop alternative solutions to address the error"
"You have determined that a design error will interface with meeting technical performance objectives. Which of the following is the preferred response in this situation?",
"Develop alternative solutions to address the problem"
"You have just completed the project planning process group, and you are ready to begin the project executing process group. You'll need to perform all of the following executing processes EXCEPT",
"Develop options to reduce risk/ threats to project objectives"
"Which is not a task that is taken in pre-initiation phase",
"Develop project charter"
"Which is not a task that is taken in pre-initiation phase?",
"Develop project charter"
"Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?",
"Develop project charter"
"Which of the following best describes the project integration Management Knowledge Area?",
"Develop project management plan, direct and manage project execution, integrated change control"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the project human resource management process?",
"Develop project team involves improving the competencies of team members to enhance performance"
"Which of the following process involves determining project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships, and develops the staffing management plan?",
"Develop project team"
"You are the Chief Technology Officer of a major stock exchange. You have just completed the WBS, and WBS dictionary with respects to reengineer the organization's back office accounting, billing, and administrative systems. Which of the following is the BEST NEXT plan of action?",
"Develop the activity lists"
"Which is not included in General Management?",
"Developing a new product or service"
"You are in the process of directing the performance of the planned project activities and managing the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within your project. Which of the following process are you performing?",
"Direct and manage project execution"
"Which type of cost is team training?",
"Direct"
"Which of the following techniques may NOT be used to a project to resolve conflicts?",
"Directing"
"What IT function has the largest percentage of work outsourced?",
"Disaster recovery"
"You are a project manager on a $5,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development journal. Which of the following BEST describes what this type of input is called?",
"Discretionary dependency"
"Which of the following MUST be an agenda item at all team meetings?",
"Discussion of project risks"
"The "To Complete Performance Index" (TCPI) is calculated by",
"Dividing the budgeted cost of the remaining work by the difference between the estimate at completion and actual costs to date"
"You are a contract project manager working with the State of Bliss. Your latest project involves rewriting the Department of Revenue's income tax system. As project manager, you have taken all the appropriate actions regarding confidentiality of data. One of the key stakeholders is a huge movie buff, and she has the power to promote you into a better position at the conclusion of this project. She's reviewing some report data that just happens to include confidential information regarding one of her favorite movie superstars. What is the most appropriate response?",
"Do nothing, because she has the proper level of access rights to the data and this information showed up unintentionally"
"Which of the following is not true regarding project charter?",
"Document that constitute what the project is, what the project will deliver, and how all the processes will be managed"
"While preparing your risk responses, you identify additional risks. What should you do?",
"Document the risk items, and calculate the expected monetary value based on probability and impact that result from the occurrences"
"What should be done with risks on the watchlist?",
"Document them and revisit during project monitoring and controlling"
"Which of the following is generally the MOST CORRECT use of a project network diagram?",
"Documenting activity interdependencies"
"Which of the following is NOT true about Analogous Estimate Costs?",
"Does not require high expertise on part of estimators as estimates are based on previous projects"
"Which of the following is an example of a parametric estimate?",
"Dollars per module"
"Which of the following is not a best practice that can help in avoiding scope problems on information technology project?",
"Don't involve too many users in scope management"
"Which of the following is not a best practice that can help in avoiding scope problems on information technology projects?",
"Don't involve too many users in scope management"
"You are a project manager in a matrix organization. All of the following are disadvantages of this type of organization EXCEPT",
"Duplicate of job functions"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the activity duration estimating process?",
"Duration estimates should be as precise as possible, and hence a single specific duration value should be provided"
"When should a project manager be assigned to a project?",
"During the develop project charter phase of the project"
"Which of the following forecasts the most likely total project costs based on the current project performance to date?",
"EAC"
"Which performance measurement tells you what the projected total cost of the project will be at completion?",
"EAC"
"Which of the following statements are false about Expected Monetary Value Analysis (EMV)",
"EMV is a tool/technique of Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding expected monetary value analysis (EMV)?",
"EMV is technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline"
"Which of the following calculates how much additional budget is required in order to complete the project, assuming the current project performance to date?",
"ETC"
"Variances are calculated by subtracting the actual cost or planned value from ____",
"EV c. PV"
"Variances are calculated by subtracting the actual cost or planned value from.",
"EV"
"Which is one of the determining factors used to calculate CPI?",
"EV"
"Which of the following equations is used to calculate cost variance?",
"EV-AC"
"Which of the following equations is used to calculate schedule variance?",
"EV-PV"
"Which of the following formulas is used to calculate the CPI (cost performance index)?",
"EV/ AC"
"Which of the following formulas is used to calculate the SPI (Schedule performance index)?",
"EV/PV"
"Which of the following statement regarding WBS are true?",
"Each item in the WBS is generally assigned a unique identifier that can provide a means to track costs and resources"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the relationship between project phase and project life cycles?",
"Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more milestones"
"Which of the following is NOT an input of Estimate Costs?",
"Earn Value Analysis"
"Which of the following represents the estimated value of the work actually accomplished?",
"Earned value (EV)"
"Which tool and technique integrates scope, cost and schedule in measuring project performance?",
"Earned value"
"Which tool or technique measures performance of the project as it moves from project initiation through project closure?",
"Earned value"
"With respect to earned value analysis, which of the following is the value of work actually completed?",
"Earned value(EV)"
"You have accumulated project information throughout the project and need to distribute some important information you just received. Which of the following is not an information distribution method?",
"Electronic databases"
"Your cost forecast shows that you will have a cost overrun at the end of the project. Which of the following should you do?",
"Eliminate risks in estimates and reestimate"
"Which of media is the best choice when you want to express support or appreciation",
"Email"
"To shorten project duration, resources have been added to tasks on the critical path. The plan should then be reviewed for the ____",
"Emergence of a new critical path"
"You are the project manager at an auto manufacturer. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, the market demand for hybrid cars with high fuel efficiency ahs increased. Your company has identified the multi-billion dollar market opportunity for highly fuel efficient vehicles",
"Enhance"
"Which is not included in Risk Response Planning?",
"Enhancement"
"Which of the following LEAST likely describes a weighting system used in the Select Sellers process?",
"Ensure that prospective sellers have a clear understanding of the requirements"
"Which of the following are NOT part of the PMI professional code of contact?",
"Ensuring personal integrity of others"
"Which of the following is an input to Develop Human Resource Plan?",
"Enterprise environmental factors"
"Who should contribute to the development of a project plan?",
"Entire project team including project manager"
"Which of the following is not a method for acquiring team members?",
"Escalating issues to the project sponsor"
"You are project manager of a project. A scope change requested by a client after acceptance of the design has a potential impact on several components of the project. What do you do?",
"Estimate the impact to cost and schedule and the approval before proceeding"
"Work performance measurements are output of",
"Estimating activities resources"
"Which statement is true about Bottom-up estimating?",
"Estimating cost of individual work items and then rolling up costs to arrive at a project total"
"You are in the process of estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following are tools/ techniques you can use EXCEPT",
"Estimating duration by calculating multiple project durations with varying sets of activity assumptions using Monte Carlo analysis"
"You are in the process of estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following are tools techniques you can use EXCEPT",
"Estimating duration by performing a forward pass and backward pass analysis through the project schedule network paths"
"Which of the following describe the BEST use of historical records from previous projects?",
"Estimating, risk management, and project planning"
"Which of the following describe the BEST use of historical records from",
"Estimating, risk management, and project planning"
"Which of the following describes the BEST use of historical records from previous projects",
"Estimating, risk management, and project planning"
"Which of the following describes the BEST use of historical records from previous projects:",
"Estimating, risk management, and project planning"
"You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a software company to develop the next generation anti-virus software program. The project requires significant coordination across multiple departments, from engineering to QA to manufacturing. You are concerned whether you'll have enough influence and authority to manage the project priorities across these various departments. What should you do in this situation?",
"Evaluate the organizational structure to understand your level of authority in managing the project"
"Wgich of the following is NOT considered as strategy for positive risk?",
"ExPlot"
"Which of the following is NOT considered as strategy for negative risk?",
"ExPlot"
"Trend Analysis is best described as",
"Examining project performance over time"
"Which of the following is not an appropriate reason to provide members of your project team with additional training?",
"Excessive overtime requirements in order to meet the project schedule"
"Which process involves coordinating people and other resources to carry out a plan?",
"Executing processes"
"Which process involves coordinating people and other resources to carry out plan?",
"Executing processes"
"Which process group typically consumes the bulk of a project's budget?",
"Executing"
"Which project managerment process group normally takes the MOST project time and resources?",
"Executing"
"Which of the following process groups are in loop back relationship with the other, where each process group serves as inputs to the other?",
"Execution and controlling"
"Which is the most risky phase of a project?",
"Execution"
"Which of the following plans is not done during the writing of a project plan?",
"Executive Communication"
"Who decides buyer and seller roles in a teaming agreement?",
"Executive management"
"You are the controller on your project. Your project manager has requested that you provide him with a forecast of project costs for the next 12 months. He needs this information to determine if the budget should be increased or decreased on this major construction project. In addition to the usual information sources, which of the following should you also consider?",
"Existing change requests"
"You are the project manager of a project and budgeted money to provide cash awards to team members that exceed expectations. A project team member that is motivated by the chance to earn cash reward can most accurately be explained by which theory",
"Expectancy theory"
"What theory proposes that employees' efforts will lead to effective performance and the employees will be rewarded for accomplishments?",
"Expectancy"
"What is the difference between expected monetary value and net present value?",
"Expected value is the probability times impact of an opportunity and net present value is the benefits less costs over many time periods"
"Which of the following are NOT inputs to the Develop Project Charter process?",
"Expert Judgment"
"Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?",
"Expert Judgment"
"You are the project manager for the software company that develops stock analysis software. You have been assigned to develop a new technical analysis tools to forecast the price of stock given its historical volatility based on Elliot Wave techniques. You need to gather necessary information to write the project scope management plan. Which of the following information do you not need as input to your current process?",
"Expert judgment"
"Which of the following is a chief characteristic of the Delphi technique",
"Expert opinion"
"You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a bio-tech company to develop anew drug for the treatment for diabetes. George is your chief scientist. Over the past few years, George has helped the company develop various patents and technologies with regard to treating diabetes. To say the least, George is critical to company's success",
"Expert power"
"This type of power is characterized by using personal knowledge and expertise to get people to change their behavior",
"Expert"
"Two weeks ago the project manager was fired for not managing the project well. The project is behind schedule, over cost and the morale on the team is very low. The new project manager is having a team meeting. She starts out by telling the team about the last three projects she worked on, how they were similar to this one and how she brought them in ahead of schedule and on budget. What type of power is she establishing?",
"Expert"
"You are a project manager leading a cross-functional project team in a weak matrix environment. None of your project team members report to you functionally, and you do not have the ability to directly reward their performance. The project is difficult, involving tight date constraints and challenging quality standards. Which of the following types of project management power will likely be the MOST effective in this circumstance?",
"Expert"
"You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to",
"Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available"
"You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:",
"Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available"
"Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?",
"Exploit"
"You are a project manager at an utility company. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, the market demand for cheaper alternate forms of energy has grown exponentially. Your company has identified a multi billion dollar market opportunity for alternate forms of energy. However your organization does not have enough resources and expertise to exploit this market opportunity. Hence your organization has identified and hire a team of scientists. Your organization is working with recruiting firm to identify the qualified candidates. Which of the following best describes the type of strategy you are using to deal with this market opportunity?",
"Exploit"
"You are in the process of painting your house. Since you do not want to start painting your house prior to rain storm, you check the weather report to make sure that weather is permitting. Which type of dependency best describes the relationship between the weather and your project?",
"External dependency"
"You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a bio-tech company to develop a new drug to treat pancreatic cancer. The drug has been under development and clinical testing for past 5 years. The FDA is currently reviewing the clinical data in order to determine weather the drug has any serious side effects. If the FDA does NOT approve the drug, the project will be in trouble. This is an example of which type of risks?",
"External risk"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding project ending?",
"Extinction occur when the project end because it was completed successfully and accepted by stakeholders"
"Your project to create a new time tracking and accounting system has been put on hold pending a decision to bring in a third party human resources system that will handle multiple functions. If this decision is made, your project will be terminated by",
"Extinction"
"Your project team is composed of team members in three countries plus a contractor team in a fourth country. What tool would optimize communication?",
"Extranet-based electronic document repository"
"The WBS is not a required input to cost budgeting process____",
"FALSE"
"The WBS is not a required input to the cost budgeting process",
"FALSE"
"The scope of a project should be clear and specific from the start",
"FALSE"
"The success of many information technology projects that use outside resources is often due to good project cost management",
"FALSE"
"The term sigma means median",
"FALSE"
"The term sigma means median____",
"FALSE"
"There are six core knowledge areas of project management",
"FALSE"
"There does not need to be a change control system to de?ne procedures for changing the cost baseline",
"FALSE"
"There does not need to be a change control system to define procedures for changing cost baseline____",
"FALSE"
"There does not need to be a change control system to define procedures for changing the cost baseline",
"FALSE"
"There does not need to be a change control system to define procedures for changing the cost baseline",
"FALSE"
"To be a successful manager, the only skills an IT project manager needs to possess is excellent technical skills",
"FALSE"
"To obtain valid statistics, it is important to study every member of a population",
"FALSE"
"To obtain valid statistics, it is important to study every member of a population____",
"FALSE"
"Today's project managers still draw Gantt charts by hand",
"FALSE"
"Todays project managers still draw Gantt charts by hand",
"FALSE"
"When an information system does not function correctly, it is generally a slight inconvenience",
"FALSE"
"When an information system does not function correctly, it is generally a slight inconvenience____",
"FALSE"
"When an information system does not function correctly, it is generally a slightinconvenience",
"FALSE"
"When deciding what projects to invest in or continue, you should include sunk costs",
"FALSE"
"When developing an estimate for a large software project, estimates cannot be made before clear system requirements have been produced",
"FALSE"
"When developing an estimate for a large software project, estimates cannot be made before clear system requirements have been produced____",
"FALSE"
"When justifying investments in new information systems and technology, the focus should only be on revenues or expenses",
"FALSE"
"When resources are used on a more constant basis, they require more management",
"FALSE"
"When you separate business and organizational issues from project management planning, you do a better job of ensuring project success",
"FALSE"
"Within the category of programmer, there are several job titles used to describe the specific technologies the programmer uses, such as project manager programmer, systems analyst programmer, macro developer, and so on",
"FALSE"
"You can assume that a task originally scheduled to take two months of one person's time can be done in one month by two people",
"FALSE"
"You can assume that a task originally scheduled to take two months of one persons time can be done in one month by two people",
"FALSE"
"You can separate technical skills and soft skills when working on information technology projects",
"FALSE"
"You can use the NPV function in Microsoft Access to calculate the NPV quickly",
"FALSE"
"You can use the NPV function in Microsoft Access to calculate the NPV quickly.",
"FALSE"
"You cannot tailor RUP to include the PMBOK process groups",
"FALSE"
"Which of the following is an example of a risk symptom?",
"Failure to meet intermediate milestones"
"These plans are developed for risks that have a high impact on meeting project objectives, and are put into effect if attempts to reduce the risk are not effective",
"Fall Back"
"This technique shortens project schedules by doing activities in parallel or overlapping them",
"Fast Tracking"
"You have been assigned to a project to construct a 18-hole golf course, featuring 7,500 yard, par-72 course that has a magnificent tropical setting. You've calculated the estimated project completion date. However the estimated completion date is 5 months after the desired completion date. After analyzing the project network diagram, you've determined that many of the activities have discretionary dependencies. To decrease the project duration you've requested additional resources, but were told that NO additional resources are available for your project. Assuming that the project has low risks, which of the following is the BEST plan of action?",
"Fast track the activities"
"Which may be employed to shorten a schedule without changing the scope of the task?",
"Fast tracking"
"Which of the following is not one of the five project management process group?",
"Fast tracking"
"Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?",
"Fast tracking"
"You are the project manager for the 987 Project. Should this project run over schedule, it will cost your organization $35,000 per day in lost sales. With four months to completion, you realize the project is running late. You decide, with management's approval, to change the relationship between several of the work packages so they begin in tandem rather than sequentially. This is an example of which one of the following?",
"Fast tracking"
"You've been hired as manager to design and construct a new casino in Las Vegas, over the next 18 months. Given the size of the project and the abbreviated time frame, you are attempting to identify ways to reduce the timeframes for many of various tasks. You've developed the WBS and created a Gantt chart using specialized scheduling software",
"Fast tracking"
"the systems special characteristics that appeal to users",
"Features"
"Which is not a process group in project management lifecycle (as mentioned in the PMBOK)?",
"Feedback process group"
"Which is not a process group in project management (as mentioned in the PMBOK)?",
"Feedback"
"This type of buffer adds time before tasks on the critical path",
"Feeding"
"What is an objective of the Developing Project Team Process?",
"Feelings of trust and improved cohesiveness"
"Which of the following activities is not a part of administrative closure?",
"Filtering information"
"Which of the following are inputs to the close project process except",
"Final product, service or result"
"You are in the process of directing the performance of planned project activities and managing the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within your project. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Final product, service or result"
"Trend analysis is a tool and technique used in Monitor and Control Risks",
"Financial records"
""Will the project meet NPV, ROI, and payback estimates?" applies to which risk category?",
"Financial risk"
"Will the project meet NPV, ROI, and payback estimates?'applies to which risk category?",
"Financial risk"
"You are the project manager at Construction Company, assigned to build 30-storey apartment building. In order to being constructing the frame of the building, the foundation of the building must be built. Which of the following relationship types best describes this dependency between framing and foundation?",
"Finish-To-Start"
"Which of the following relationship is used in the Arrow Diagramming Method [ADM",
"Finish-to-Start"
"Which of the following contract types places the greatest risk on the seller?",
"Firm-fixed-price contract"
"Which contract type is typically used whenever the seller's performance period spans a considerable period of years?",
"Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment contracts (FP-EPA)"
"Which is the one not included in the features of a project?",
"Fixed operation"
"You are the project manager responsible for renovating a 70-year old building. You intend to hire an outside construction firm to seismic retrofit the building in order to make sure that the building can withstand the large earthquakes. You are in process of selecting a contract type best suited for this project. You would like to select a contract type that transfers the risk onto the seller for any cost risks and no-performance issues. Which contract type should you choose?",
"Fixed price contract"
"You are the project manager responsible for renovating a 70-year old office building. You intend to hire an outside construction firm to seismic retrofit the building in order to make that the building can with stand large earthquakes. You are in the process of selecting a contract type best suited for this project. You would like to select a contract type that transfers the risks onto the seller for any cost risk and non- performance issues. Which contract type should you choose?",
"Fixed price contracts"
"With which type of contract is the seller MOST concerned about project scope?",
"Fixed price"
"Which is the contract form specifying an amount when the scope is made clear?",
"Fixed-price"
"Today's project managers still draw Gantt charts by hand",
"Flase"
"What quality control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?",
"Flowchart"
"Which of the following tools can be used to help to analyze how quality problems occur, and depict that how the various components of system interrelate?",
"Flowcharting"
"You are asked to select tools and techniques to implement a quality assurance program to supplement existing quality control activities. Which of the following would NOT be appropriate for this purpose?",
"Focus groups"
"You are assigned to a project that has already been decided to be outsourced. As a project manager, you need to organize a formal bid process and select the vendor for this project. Your senior management is forcing you to select a vendor which has good relation with your senior management. What is the BEST course of action for you?",
"Follow the formal bid process, and show the senior management about why the favored vendor is or is not the best choice"
"using a win-lose approach to conflict resolution to get one's way",
"Forcing Mode"
"The win-lose approach to handling conflict",
"Forcing"
"Which method of conflict resolution tends to increase conflict rather than resolve it?",
"Forcing"
"Which of the following best describes a win-lose conflict resolution technique that uses formal power to command/ demand a specific solution to a problem?",
"Forcing"
"Which of the following techniques may be used on a project to resolve conflicts?",
"Forcing, smoothing, compromise, confrontation, withdrawal"
"You are in the process of establishing a total cost baseline for measuring project performance. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful tool/ technique?",
"Forecasting"
"These predict future project status and progress based on past information and trends",
"Forecasts"
"You are in the process of reviewing all change requests and controlling changes to deliverables and organizational process assets. All of the following are INPUTS except",
"Forecasts"
"used to predict future project status and progress based on past information and trends",
"Forecasts"
"You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards. What should you do in this situation?",
"Form a quality assurance team"
"You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place, when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards. What should you do in this situation?",
"Form a quality assurance team"
"Which of the following documents formally indicates that the customer or sponsor has officially accepted the project deliverables?",
"Formal acceptance documentation"
"Which of the following is an output of Verify Scope?",
"Formal acceptance"
"Which of the following is output of the scope verification processFormal acceptance",
"Formal acceptance"
"You are a project manager at a large accounting firm in United States. Throughout the year your firm provides both consulting services and accounting services to XYZ widgets, inc, a publicity traded company listed on a New York stock exchange. Currently your project involves auditing and financial statements to XYZ widgets, in the preparation of annual shareholders meeting",
"Formal deliverable acceptance"
"Which of the following best describes a sub network?",
"Fragment Network"
"You are the project manager for a Software Development projects. You are creating a project schedule network diagram for the code development component of the project. This is an example of ____",
"Fragment Network"
"Which of the following is the amount of time that a scheduled activity may be delayed without delaying the early start of any immediately following schedule activities?",
"Free float"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the CPM method?",
"Free slack is the amount of time one can delay the start of a particular task, without delaying the completion of the project"
"Which of the following best describes the amount of time one can delay the start of a task without delaying the start of a successor task?",
"Free slack"
"Which of the following is not used to document team member roles and responsibilities?",
"Functional Chart"
"What do composite organizations involve?",
"Functional and project managers"
"You are the Project Managers of ABC company. The Project team members are from the finance and accounts. The team members report to Finance and Account Managers respectively, and you have limited control over them. What type of organizational hierarchy does ABC company follow?",
"Functional organization"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding funding limit reconciliation?",
"Funding limit reconciliation is used to ensure that the expenditure of funds is reconciled with the funding limits imposed by the performing organization"
"Which of the following describes tool/ technique where expenditure of funds is reconciled with the funding limits imposed by the performing organization?",
"Funding limit reconciliation"
"You are a project manager for a new product development project that has four levels in the work breakdown structure. A network diagram has been created, the duration estimates have been compressed, and a schedule has been developed. What time management activity should you do NEXT?",
"Gain approval"
"Which of the following BEST describes product analysis?",
"Gaining a better understanding of the product of the project in order to create the project scope statement"
"You are in the process of obtaining necessary human resource to complete the project. All the following are tools you can use except",
"General management skills"
"Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?",
"Glossary of common terminology"
"You have just started administering a contract when management decides to terminate the contract. What should you do FIRST?",
"Go to the Close Procurements process"
"You can use the ____ function in Excel to determine the IRR quickly",
"Goal Seek"
"You are currently the project manager for a software development project, developing a next generation data-mining tool. Your team is developing a new software product that will help customers better manage large volumes of data, especially for data reporting purposes. Midway, through the project, your engineer decide to add additional reporting functionality to better analyze correlate data. Although this functionality was NOT part of the original project plan, this feature seems like it could be a useful feature for the customer. This is an example of which of the following?",
"Gold plating"
"What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?",
"Grade"
"Which strategic technology considers in efficient using of computer resources, social responsibility, and environmental impact?",
"Green IT"
"Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Collect Requirements process?",
"Group decision making techniques"
"Which of the following characteristics shows the degree to which work activities are organized around groups or team, rather than individuals?",
"Group emphasis"
"Which of the following describes a group of elated schedule activities aggregated at some summary level, displayed reported as a single activity at summary level?",
"Hammock activity"
"You are the project manager of a project that just went into extinction mode. This means that your project ____",
"Has ended before its stated objective"
"Which of the following is not one project attribute?",
"Has one or more purposes"
"What is Team Development?",
"Helping people work together more effectively to improve project performance"
"The sponsor's role on a project is BEST described as",
"Helping to prevent unnecessary changes to project objectives"
"The sponsor's role on a project is BEST described as:",
"Helping to prevent unnecessary changes to project objectives"
"You are evaluating several different motivational strategies to motivate your project team. You subscribe to the belief that pray and salary may prevent job dissatisfaction, but will not lead to long term job satisfaction. You believe that over the long run pay and salary are NOT motivators. Which of the following motivational theories are you applying?",
"Hertzberg hygiene theory"
"You are a project manager at a biotech company, where you are leading a cross functional team to develop a treatment for diabetes. The organization has a weak matrix structure, where al of your team members report to different functional managers and none of the team member report to you directly",
"Hertzberg's theory was incorrectly applied"
"tools, sometimes referred to as enterprise project management software, provide robust capabilities to handle very large projects",
"High-end"
"Which of the following best describes this illustration?",
"Histogram"
"You are a project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena in preparation of upcoming Olympics. Construction begins on the project over a year ago. The stakeholder of a project wants a status report on the performance of the project to date. Unfortunately you are afraid to tell your stakeholders that your project is coming in significant behind schedule. In fact schedule delays are so severe that the rebaselining of the project schedule is required. Which of the following statement are true?",
"Historical data may be removed when you rebaseline the schedule"
"You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ____ during planning in order to improve your chance of success",
"Historical information"
"You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ____ during planning in order to improve your chance of success.",
"Historical information"
"You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ____ during planning to improve your chance of success",
"Historical information"
"Which knowledge area involves organizational theory as a tool/technique?",
"Human Resource Management"
"Which of the following Human Resource process generates Roles & Responsibilities",
"Human Resource Planning"
"Which of the following Human Resource process generates Roles & Responsibilities:",
"Human Resource Planning"
"Which of the following processes is NOT part of Project Human Resources Management Knowledge Area?",
"Human Resource Planning"
"You are the project manger for Xylophone Phonics. This company produces children's software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You are ready to assign project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships. Which project Planning process are you working on?",
"Human Resource Planning"
"Which of the following process is used to identify project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships for project team member?",
"Human resource planning"
"Which of the following best describes the project human resource management knowledge Area?",
"Human resource planning, acquire project team, develop project team, manage project team"
"Which process group is for detailed resource assignments and responsibilities?",
"Human resources management plan"
"Training",
"Hygiene factor"
"Which of the following statements re true regarding Herzberg's Hygiene theory?",
"Hygiene factors help avoid job dissatisfaction but will not lead to job satisfaction"
"Which of the following is true regarding IRR?",
"IRR is the discount rate when NPV is equal to zero"
"You are the project manager at Day-Old donuts a rapidly growing franchise selling premium donuts at a discount. Currently, your company is planning on opening additional stores throughout Europe. Your company is evaluating different areas for expansion including France, Germany and England",
"IRR"
"What information does the stakeholder register contain?",
"Identification information"
"When Identify Risks should be performed?",
"Identify Risks should be performed on a regular basis throughout the project"
"What process determines which risks might affect the project?",
"Identify Risks"
"Which of the following risk management processes uses brainstorming as a technique?",
"Identify Risks"
"Which of the following is involved in the initiation process group?",
"Identify Stakeholders"
"You have just completed the project planning process group and are ready to begin the project executing process group. You will need no perform all the following executing process except",
"Identify potential seller and document product requirement"
"You are involved in monitoring specific project results to determine whether they comply with relevant quality standards. You are using a control chart to illustrate how a process is behaving over time. You've constructed your control chart and determined that all the data points are within the upper and lower control limits of the chart. In addition, seven consecutive data points are observed to be on the one side of the mean. Which of the following is your BEST plan of action?",
"Identify the assignable causes"
"You are the project manager at a large investment bank. Your current project involves developing a creative financing solution for a large bio-tech company in order to facilitate the acquisition of another company. Specifically, your project involves issuing convertible debt securities in order to access a new pool of low-cost capital. This transaction is the largest ever convertible transaction in the bio-tech company",
"Identify the project objectives and create the preliminary project scope statement"
"You are the part of construction project team responsible for developing a new stadium. The project has been ongoing for the past several months. Your project team has just completed the initial project budget and schedule and is ensure what to do next. Which of the following would you recommend as the NEXT BEST action to perform?",
"Identify the quality standards"
"What is the BEST way to accomplish resource planning?",
"Identify the resources that performed past similar projects, and allocate them to all project activities"
"You are involved in monitoring specific project results to determine whether they comply with relevant quality standards. You are suing the control chart to illustrate how the process is behaving over time. You have constructed your control chart and that all data points are within upper and lower control limits of chart. In addition, seven consecutive data points re observed, to be on one side of the mean. Which of the following is your BEST plan of action?",
"Identify the special cause variation"
"Which of the following are not the direct result of managing the team?",
"Identifying the recourse requirements"
"What are you likely to see as a project progresses in a schedule with must fix dates and little or no slack?",
"Idle resources"
"You are in the process of directing the performance of the planned project activities and managing the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within your project. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Implemented WBS updates"
"Which of the following can create the MOST misinterpretation in the project scope statement?",
"Imprecise language"
"Which is not an advantage of project management?",
"Improve developer's skill"
"Which is not included in Performance improvements",
"Improvements in amount of overtime worked"
"Which is included in Performance improvements",
"Improvements in individual skills, team behaviours, team capabilities"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the critical chain method?",
"In CCM, uncertainty is managed by padding task duration, starting work as early as possible, and multi-tasking"
"Which of the following statements are not true?",
"In a strong matrix organization, project mangers have little or no formal authority"
"Your company has an emergency and needs contracted work done as soon as possible. Under these circumstances, which of the following would be the MOST helpful to add to the contract?",
"Incentives"
"While preparing your risk responses, you realize that you have not planned for unknown risk events. You need to make adjustments to the project to compensate for unknown risk events. These adjustments are based on your past project experience when unknown risk events occurred and knocked the project off track. What should you do?",
"Include a management reserve in the budget to try to compensate for the unknown risks, and notify management to expect unknown risks to occur"
"What is one of the objectives of project risk management?",
"Increase the probability and impact of positive events"
"Which of the following is an advantage of centralized contracting?",
"Increased expertise"
"Which of the following approaches to quality improvement is LEAST likely to produce positive results?",
"Increased inspection"
"Which is not a disadvantage of virtual teams?",
"Increasing costs because it requires office space or requires more support"
"Which of the following would LEAST likely to be found as part of a contract?",
"Independent estimates, evaluation criteria"
"Which is the correct explanation of a Stakeholder?",
"Individual or organization influenced by the project"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the Expectancy theory?",
"Individuals will only put efforts into a certain behavior/ action dependent upon expectancy, valence, and instrumentality"
"Which of the following are least found to as a part of project?",
"Inflation adjustment, acceptance criteria"
"You are project manager of a project and the funding for your project has been reduced. What is the BEST action to take in response to this?",
"Inform the customer of impacts and negotiate a change in scope"
"You are the project manager of a company that is building ATM software for a large bank and financial institutions. You have been told that the ATM software must meet very stringent quality standards. Including rigorous auditing of all transactions, ability to recover in case of software/ hardware errors, and fraud detection and analysis. In order to ensure that these quality standards are met, you've invested heavily in proper training of your project staff, instrumented numerous design review and rigorous performed quality planning. Which of the following best describes the cost associated with you project?",
"Prevention costs"
"Which of the following would most likely increase the accuracy of estimating the project cost?",
"Pricing out the work at lower levels in the work breakdown structure, and 2) Talking to people who have worked on similar projects, and 3) Using historical data"
"You are the project manager for a new website for the local zoo. You need to perform Qualitative Risk Analysis. When you've completed this process, you'll produce all of the following as part of the risk register update output except which one?",
"Probability of achieving time and cost estimates"
"You are in the process of numerically analyzing the effects of identified risks. Which of the following are not tool/ techniques you can use in this process?",
"Probability-impact matrix"
"Which of the following conflict resolution approaches is likely to lead to the MOST long-lasting solutions?",
"Problem solving"
"Which of the following conflict resolution techniques will generate the MOST lasting solution?",
"Problem solving"
"You are continually faced with tasks coming in late because your resources are being pulled off to handle other 'urgent' situatins. You have set up a conference with several of the managers who have been doing this on a regular basis. What technique might you use to alleviate the current situation?",
"Problem solving"
"You work as project manager at a beauty products company. One of the primary product lines is hair-coloring/dye products. Your company's primary market is currently in the United States. However, your company is attempting to expand its distribution channels to Europe, specifically within the countries within the European Union. Your company has partnered up with several resellers within Europe to begin distribution of the cosmetic products into various retail channels. One of your partners has just informed you that one of the restrictions imposed by the European Union is that hair-care products must NOT contain any carcinogenic products. However, your dye contains trace amounts of carcinogens. By U.S. standards, the trace amount of carcinogens is considered to be safe. What is the appropriate response to this situation?",
"Inform the potential resellers and partners that your hair coloring product does not comply with the standards imposed by the European Union, and that your company will develop a special formulation that complies with the standards"
"You provide a project cost estimate for the project to the project sponsor. He is unhappy with the estimate, because he thinks the price should be lower. He asks you to cut 15 percent off the project estimate. What should you do?",
"Inform the sponsor of the activities to be cut"
"Which of the following is not a process of project human resource management?",
"Information Distribution"
"Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?",
"Information distribution"
"Which of the following process involves making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?",
"Information distribution"
"Which of the following process is involved in making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?",
"Information distribution"
"Which of the following project communication management process is within the executing process group?",
"Information distribution"
"Which of the following is the most important task of the project manager during the Execution and Control phase?",
"Information management"
"Which process group can be performed outside the project's scope of control?",
"Initiating"
"What are the five project management process groups. Choose in order?",
"Initiating, Planning, Monitoring and Controlling, Executing, and Closing"
"Which of the following processes best describes the project human resource management knowledge area?",
"Initiation, develop project team, acquire project team, develop project team"
"This tool and technique of Quality Control keeps errors from reaching the customer",
"Inspection"
"This tool and technique of Quality Control keeps errors from reaching the customer:",
"Inspection"
"What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?",
"Inspection"
"Which of the following are tool/ technique of Perform Quality Control that involves measuring or testing results to determine whether they confirm to the requirements and quality standards?",
"Inspection"
"Which of the following is a tool or technique used to verify scope?",
"Inspection"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to the project scope. All of the following are tools/ techniques you can use EXCET",
"Inspection"
"There are three outputs that are common to scope, schedule and cost control processes. Which of the following is not a common output to these control processes?",
"Process adjustments"
"Which of the following is not considered a cost of nonconformance to quality?",
"Process control"
"Which of the following best describes progressive elaboration?",
"Process of identifying the characteristics of products"
"Which of the following best describes fast-tracking?",
"Process of starting a new task prior to the completion of current project tasks"
"Which of the following are tools to contract closure process?",
"Procurement audit"
"What is the structured review process from Procurement Planning to Contract Administration?",
"Procurement audits"
"Which of the following best describes the tool/ technique used to identify lessons learned during the procurement process, including the identification and examination of any problems and areas for improvement?",
"Procurement audits"
"Which of the following choices is a contract closure tool or technique?",
"Procurement audits"
"You are in the contract Closure process and are reviewing the contract process to identify the lessons learned. Which of the following best describes the tool/technique you are using?",
"Procurement audits"
"Which of the following is buyer-prepared formal request sent to seller and is basis upon which seller prepares n bid?",
"Procurement document package"
"Which of the following is not an input into solicitation planning",
"Procurement documents"
"What document contains the following: type of contract to be used, vendor management protocols, procurement coordination?",
"Procurement management plan"
"Unenforceable conditions or contract clauses, and adversarial relations are risk conditions associated with the ____ project management knowledge are",
"Procurement"
"Which of the following tools and techniques are commonly used in a Define Scope Process?",
"Product analysis | Expert Judgment | Alternative Identification"
"Which of the following is NOT a tool/ technique of the Develop preliminary Project Scope Statement process?",
"Product analysis"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to the project scope. All of the following are tools/techniques you can use EXCEPT",
"Product analysis"
"What are the Scope Definition process tools and techniques?",
"Product analysis, alternatives identification, expert judgment, and stakeholder analysis"
"You are the project manager for an information technology division of a large financial services firm in the United States. Your company offers a web based trading platform that provides options and futures trading for U.S commodities markets. Due to the rise in popularity of futures and options trading, your company has grown rapidly. To keep up with the demands you have been assigned with the responsibility of upgrading company's network and computing infrastructure. You have already inspected the existing infrastructure and are in the process of defining detailed project scope statement for your project. All of following are tools/ techniques you can use EXCEPT",
"Inspection"
"Your project is moving ahead of schedule. Management elects to incorporate additional quality testing into the project to improve the quality and acceptability of the project deliverable. This is an example of which one of the following?",
"Integrated Change Control"
"This type of testing occurs between unit and system testing to test functionally grouped components",
"Integration"
"Under what knowledge area is the primary process area for carrying out the work of the project?",
"Integration"
"Your work as a project manager at the computer chip manufacturer, developing*86 micro-processors. As predicted by moore's law each year your companies introduces new models of micro-processors which are more faster and powerful then their predecessors. Micro- processors that are obsolete or do not sell are quickly retired from production. The lifecycle for the micro-processors begins in R&D, extends to manufacturing, and finally ends with phase out. This cycle is often referred to as",
"Product lifecycle"
"Where are product requirements and characteristics documented?",
"Product scope description"
"You have been hired as a project manger for a local community college. The community college wants you to design and develop a custom student registration web site, so that student can select and register for their classes online",
"Product verification"
"Which of the following is defined by a project's life cycle and varies by application area?",
"Product-oriented processes"
"You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States government. Your mission-should you choose to accept it-is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is that finding contractors with top-secret clearances takes quite a bit of time, and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director's hot new project. Which of the following type of project ending is this?",
"Integration"
"Which of the following are NOT described in the PMI's member Standards of Conduct?",
"Professional best practices"
"Your new product development project has resulted in a highly successful new product. The property, equipment, materials, and personnel of your project are now being integrated into the functional organization. Your project is being terminated by",
"Integration"
"The work breakdown structure can be an effective aid for communication in which situation(s)",
"Internal and external to the project"
"Which of the following scheduling techniques incorporates a form of risk assessment?",
"Program evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)"
"You are responsible for the communication controls for the Genesis series of satellites. Your current assignment is",
"Program management"
"Which stakeholder is responsible for managing related projects in a coordinated way?",
"Program manager"
"Which of the following are GENERALLY illustrated BETTER by bar charts than network diagrams?",
"Progress or status"
"You are the project manager of a company that is building ATM software for a large bank and financial institutions. You have been told that the ATM software must meet very stringent quality standards. Including rigorous auditing of all transactions, ability to recover in case of software/ hardware errors, and fraud detection/analysis and robust two-factor authentication",
"Internal failure costs"
"Which of the following is a tool and technique to the Manage Stakeholder Expectations process?",
"Interpersonal skills"
"This is a fact-finding technique for collecting information in face-to-face, phone, e-mail, or instant-messaging discussions",
"Interviewing"
"What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?",
"Interviewing"
"You are currently in the process of prioritizing risks by their impact and probability of occurance. Which of the following tool/technique is least useful?",
"Interviewing, brainstorming"
"This type of power uses incentives to induce people to do things",
"Intrinsic"
"This report describes what the project team has accomplished during a certain period of time",
"Progress"
"Which of the following is not a guideline to help improve time spent at meetings?",
"Invite extra people who support your project to make it run more smoothly"
"You are the project manager of a project. The project plan has been developed. A project end date has been established. The customer later requesters additional work to be included in the project, but will not renegotiate the end date. Cost is not a factor. What should the project team do immediately?",
"Invoke the change control process"
"You are the Chief Technology Officer of a major stock exchange. You are in the charge of the project to reengineer the organization's back office accounting, billing and administrative system. Your project team is in the process of implementing the technical work required for the project. However one of the stakeholders for your project is requesting variance changes to the project. Which of the following is the best approach to take the beginning of the project in order to manage the project?",
"Involve the stakeholder in the project as early as possible"
"Work package",
"Is a task with detail information"
"You have been promoted to Manager, Continuous Process Improvement. Your new position",
"Is not a project because Continuous Process Improvement will continue indefinitely"
"While project work is being done, conflicts can arise between the procurement officer and the project manager because the procurement officer",
"Is the only one who can change the contract"
"The work breakdown structure",
"Is used to break down the project Into manageable pieces"
"Which quality management tool would be used to determine potential causes of a production problem?",
"Ishikawa diagram"
"You are the project manager responsible for developing a new online line bill payment system for a utility company. You are expected to complete the project within the next year. You are currently in the process of identifying and evaluating a number of risks quantifying their impacts and identifying their probability of occurrence. You would like to use a tool that will determine the highest expected value for the various scenarios. Which of the following tools should you use? Monte Carlo simulation",
"Ishikawa diagrams"
"Your project is coming to an end, and you are in the process of listing the activities that must be performed to close out the project. Which of the following should be performed during the closing processes?",
"Issue a formal notice of project completion to sellers"
"You are the project manager at a financial services company. Your company has awarded a CPFF (cost plus fixed fee) contract to XYZ Corp, a financial consulting company, to develop a comprehensive workstation offering real-time advanced charting, decision support tools, and portfolio management. The terms and conditions of the contract explicitly stipulate that XY Corp must provide weekly status reports and performance reports regarding the project work. However, the seller has failed to provide any status report for the past 3 weeks",
"Issue a letter of default"
"Which of the following statements are true regrinding issue logs?",
"Issue logs are tool/ technique of the Manage Project Team process and Manage Stakeholders process"
"Which statement is not true regarding the issue logs?",
"Issue logs describe the ground rules and conflict management procedures to manage the project"
"Which of the following statement are false regarding issue logs?",
"Issue logs describes the ground rules and conflict management procedures to manage the project"
"Which of the following is NOT and output of manage stake holders process?",
"Issue logs"
"Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the monitoring and controlling process group?",
"Issue performance reports"
"What impact does a matrix organization have on project team development?",
"It complicates team development"
"Which ofthe following BEST describes the Verify Scope process?",
"It ensures customer acceptance, shows that the deliverable meets specifications, and provides a chance for differences of opinion to come to light"
"Which of the following is a benefit of an analogous project estimate?",
"It gives the project team an understanding of management's expectations"
"Which of the following explains why quality is planned in and not inspected in?",
"It improves quality and is less expensive"
"Which is true about a work breakdown structure?",
"It is a deliverable oriented grouping of project elements"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding straight line depreciation?",
"It is a method that is calculated by subtracting the salvage value of the asset from the purchase prices, and then dividing this number by the estimated useful life of asset"
"Which of the following is not true about project planning methodology?",
"It is an input into the project plan development"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding GERT?",
"It is considered a conditional diagramming method"
"You have just been assigned as project manager for a large manufacturing project. This one-year project is about halfway done. It involves five different sellers and 20 members of your company on the project team. You want to quickly review where the project now stands. Which of the following reports would be the MOST helpful in finding such information?",
"Progress"
"What is the process of gradual, step-wise reduction to details of the project products and the characteristics of new services called?",
"Progressive elaboration"
"Your company create software products, and introducing a new product. To determine the characteristics and features of the new product line, you will have to perform ____",
"Progressive elaboration"
"To accommodate a new project in your department, you need to move resources from one project to another. Because your department is currently working at capacity, moving resources will inevitably delay the project from which you move the resources. It would cause the LEAST negative impact if you move resources from which of the following projects?",
"Project A with a benefit cost ratio of 0.8, no project charter, and four resources"
"You have two projects from which to choose: Project A with payback period of 6 months or project B with payback period of 18 months. Which one would you prefer?",
"Project A"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the cost change control system?",
"It provides information on the project scope and cost performance, such as which budgets have been met and which are not"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the procurement audit tool/ technique?",
"It review the procurement process from plan purchases and acquisitions through contract administration"
"What is the purpose of a decision tree?",
"It takes into account future events for today's choices"
"Using highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders—the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on—to jointly define and design information systems",
"JAD (Joint Application Design)"
"uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders-the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers. and so on-to jointly define and design information systems",
"JAD"
"uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholdersthe sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so onto jointly define and design information systems",
"JAD"
"uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders—the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on—to jointly define and design information systems",
"JAD"
"Using highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholder to jointly define and design information systems",
"Joint Application Design"
"When using the Delphi technique for gathering information, what forecasting method is being used?",
"Judgmental method"
"With respect to the cost of quality which of the following individuals are responsible for developing the 'fitness for use'approach?",
"Juran"
"You are creating your WBS and keep decomposing tasks into smaller units. How can you tell when you are done?",
"Keep decomposing tasks until you reach an amount of work that is small enough to reliably estimate required resources and duration"
"Which of the following is not a typical reason for authorizing a project",
"Keeping the project manager busy"
"Your selection committee is debating between two projects. Project A has a payback period of 20 months. Project B has a cost of $150,000, with expected cash inflows of $50,000 the first year and $25,000 per quarter after that. Which project should you recommend?",
"Project A, because Project B's payback period is 24 months"
"Your company can accept one of the three posible projects. Project A has a net present value (NPV) of $30,000 and will take six years to complete. Project B has a net present value of $60,000 and will take three years to complete. Project C has an NPV of $90,000 and will take four years to complete",
"Project C"
"Your company can accept one of the three posible projects. Project A has a net present value (NPV) of $30,000 and will take six years to complete. Project B has a net present value of $60,000 and will take three years to complete. Project C has an NPV of $90,000 and will take four years to complete.",
"Project C"
"You are the Chief Technology officer of a major Stock Exchange. You are in charge of a project to reengineer the organization's bank office accounting, billing and administrative systems. Your project team is in the process of implementing the technical work required for the project. However, one of the stakeholders for your project is requesting minor changes to the project deliverables. You call a meeting with your project team to determine how to best proceed with the change. This is an example of which of the following?",
"Lack o change control system"
"Which is not part of Project Plan?",
"Project Charter"
"Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of poor risk management?",
"Lack of a prioritized list of risks (NOT Inadequate risk response planning)"
"Which of the following is NOT input of Identify Risks?",
"Project Charter"
"Your friend is a project manager at a real estate company that develops and manages commercial, retail and residential properties in United States and Europe. As a company continues to grow, the company's IT infrastructure is unable to meet business needs of organization",
"Lack of change control system"
"Which of the following items is not a primary output of Create WBS process?",
"Project Charter"
"Theory that states when many items are produced repetitively, the unit cost of those items decreases in a regular pattern as more units are produced",
"Learning curve"
"Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?",
"Project Communications Management"
"You are the project manager for the information technology division of the large financial brokerage in the United States. Due to new regulatory requirements en acted by srbanes-oxely, you have been assigned to audit all I.T. systems to ensure compliances. You need to ensure all the data in database is encrypted to ensure confidentially. You need to ensure that all the users are properly authenticated. You also need to verify the authorization to confidential financial information follows the least-privilege principle. This project came about as a result of which of the following is need?",
"Legal requirements"
"Which knowledge area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?",
"Project Communications Management"
"Which of the following is not a Project Management knowledge area?",
"Project Configuration Management"
"What is the certification program called that the Project Management Institute provides?",
"Project Management Professional (PMP)"
"Who has the responsibility for informing the final deliverable to all stakeholders?",
"Project Manager"
"You are the project manger at a biotech company, where you are leading a cross-functional team to develop a treatment for diabetes. The organization has a weak matrix structure, where all of your project team members report to different functional managers and none of the team member report to you directly. Your project has extremely high visibility in the company, and there is a lot of pressure on you to deliver on time and within budget. However, you are quiet new to the company joining company just 3 weeks before. Hence you are concerned whether you'll have necessary authority and power to complete the project deliverables. Which of the following types of powers will be MOST effective in your situation?",
"Legitimate power"
"You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a bio-tech company to develop treatment for diabetes. George is the voice president of R&D. he tell you that your project is over budget and that you need to reduce salary expenses by $500K. Which type of power is George yielding in order to influence your decisions?",
"Legitimate power"
"What is a specific advantage of analogous estimating in comparison with other cost estimate techniques?",
"Less costly and time consuming"
"What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?",
"Less rework"
"The sponsor has informed you that the resources for your project will be cut. The sponsor wants to know how long the project will take if only nine resources each month are committed to your project. What is this activity called?",
"Leveling"
"Which of the following methods is used to provide a standard to measure performance?",
"Leveling"
"Which of the following is NOT included in a schedule change control system?",
"Limitations on the scope of changes"
"Which of the following is not a technology factor that may affect the project communications plan",
"Logistics of how many individuals will be involved with the project and at what locations"
"Who is responsible for decide project management process for a particular project?",
"Project Manager"
"Who is responsible for the creation of the final project plan?",
"Project Manager"
"You are the project manager at the Historie Shoppe, a rapidly growing retail book store selling hard-to-find books and periodicals. Currently your company is planning on opening additional stores throughout the United States. Your primary market includes densely populated, major metropolitan cities",
"Project New York since it yields the highest present value"
"You are a project manager for the Swirling Seas Cruises food division. You're considering two different projects regarding food services on the cruise lines. The initial cost of Project Fish'n for Chips will be $800,000, with expected cash inflows of $300,000 per quarter. Project Picnic's payback period is six months. Which project should you recommend?",
"Project Picnic, because ProjectFish'n for Chips' payback period is two months longer than Project Picnic's"
"Which is not an activity of Time management knowledge area?",
"Project Plan Development"
"Which of the following is not an input into Project Plan Development",
"Project Planning Methodology"
"You are the project manager at Day-Old donuts, a rapidly growing franchise selling premium donuts at discount. Currently your company is planning on opening additional store throughout United States. Your primary market includes densely-populated, metropolitan cities. Your company is evaluating different companies fro evaluation including New York, San Francisco, and Los Angles. Based on the following data which project is recommended?",
"Project San Francisco since it has the shortest payback period"
"Which of the following inputs is required for the WBS creation?",
"Project Scope Management Plan"
"Which of the following are inputs to Activity Definition?",
"Project Scope Statement and Work Breakdown Structure"
"Which of the following is an output of Define Scope?",
"Project Scope statement"
"You are a project manager at a historic Shoppe, a rapidly growing bookstore selling hard to find books and periodicals. Currently your company is planning on opening additional stores throughout the United States. Your primary market includes densely populated, major metropolitan cities. Your company is deciding among New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Based on data which project should be recommended using the discounted cash flow technique?",
"Project Seattle since it yields the highest value"
"You are currently the project manager for a software development project, developing a next generation data-mining tool. Your team is developing a new software product that will help customers better manage large volumes of data, especially for data reporting purposes. The CEO tells you that the project must be completed within 18 months. In order to meat theses strict deadlines you are currently in the process of estimating the duration of project plan activities, devising the project schedule, and monitoring and controlling deviations from the schedule. Which of the following Project Management Knowledge Areas are you involved in?",
"Project Time Management"
"You are the project manager for Tech Days Seminar Homes. Your new project assignment is to head the Days Seminar Home opening in Mountainview, CA. You are estimating the duration of the project plan activities, devising the project schedule, and monitoring and controlling deviations from the schedule. Which of the Project Management Knowledge Areas are you working in?",
"Project Time Management"
"What component of the project scope definition defines project exclusions?",
"Project boundaries"
"Which document contains initial requirements that satisfy stakeholders' needs and expectations?",
"Project charter"
"Which of the following documents initiates a project and authorizes the project manager to assign organizational resources to the project?",
"Project charter"
"Which of the following is formalized document that authorizes the project and should be prepared by someone who is external to project, and should not be directly prepared by the project manager?",
"Project charter"
"You are in the process of reviewing all change requests and controlling changes to deliverables and organizational process asset. All of the following are inputs you need EXCEPT",
"Project charter"
"You are the project manager for a software company that develops stock analysis software. You have been assigned to assigned to develop a new technical analysis tool to forecast to price of a stock given this historical volatility based on Elliot Wave technique. You need to gather the necessary information to write the project scope management plan. Which of the following information do you NOT need as inputs to your current process?",
"Project charter"
"Your company develops large commercial and industry real estate. In you current project, you have been asked to manage the construction of a 30-story office building. Which document describes the business needs for this project, identifies key deliverables, and gives you authority to begin the project and start assigning resources?",
"Project charter"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding Project closure documents?",
"Project closure documents establishes the procedures to perform product verification, update contract records to reflect final results, and archive information for future use"
"Which of the following establishes the formal documentation as to why the project was terminated and formalizes the procedures for transferring the unfinished delivers of the cancelled project?",
"Project closure documents"
"Which of the following project management areas contains the manage stakeholders process?",
"Project communication management"
"Which of the following documents the characteristics of a product or service that the project was undertaken to build",
"Project description"
"You are in the process of establishing a total cost baseline for measuring project performance. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful INPUT?",
"Project funding requirements, performance reports"
"Which is a true statement regarding project governance?",
"Project governance approach must be described in the project management plan"
"Which of the following provides a comprehensive and consistent method of controlling the project and ensuring its success?",
"Project governance"
"Which is a tool used in monitoring and controlling project work?",
"Project management information system (PMIS)"
"There are hundreds of project management software products available on the market today, and many organizations are moving toward powerful enterprise systems that are accessible via the internet",
"Project management information systems"
"You are in process of monitoring the various project processes and their performance. Which of the following is the LEAST appropriate tool/ technique to use in this process?",
"Project management methodology"
"The scope management plan is a subsidiary of which project document?",
"Project management plan"
"You are the project manager for the software company that develops stock analysis software. You have been assigned to develop a new technical analysis tools to forecast the price of stock given its historical volatility based on Elliot Wave techniques. You need to gather necessary information to write the project scope management plan. Which of the following tools/ techniques will NOT be useful for you in this process?",
"Project management plan"
"You are the project manager responsible for developing a new hybrid engine for a major auto manufacturer. You are in the process of developing the project schedule and would like to identify the project risks and associated risk response plans. Where would you be able to retrieve this information?",
"Project management plan"
"Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between project lifecycle phases and project management processes?",
"Project management processes can repeat within a project lifecycle"
"Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?",
"Project management team"
"Which of the following brings together a set of tools and techniques used to describe, organize, and monitor the work of project activities?",
"Project management"
"Which of the following concerns on tactical goals?",
"Project management"
"Who is responsible for determining which processes from the Process Groups will be employed and who will be performing them?",
"Project manager and project team"
"Who selects the appropriate processes for a project?",
"Project manager and project team"
"Which of the following does not provided by scope statement?",
"Project manager authority"
"Who has the responsibility for Plan Quality?",
"Project manager"
"Who is ultimately responsible for quality management in the project?",
"Project manager"
"Who is ultimately responsible for quality management on the project?",
"Project manager"
"Within a matrix organization, dual reporting of team members is a risk for project success. Who is responsible for managing this dual reporting relationship factor?",
"Project manager"
"with assistance from financial experts in their organizations, should create estimates of the costs and benefits of the project for its entire life cycle.",
"Project managers"
"What is one of the MAJOR outputs of activity sequencing?",
"Project network diagram"
"What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?",
"Project organization chart"
"Which of the following must be measured regularly to identify variances from the plan",
"Project performance"
"Where is the bulk of the project budget spent?",
"Project plan execution"
"You have just been given a new project and are creating the project plan. You are reviewing team member planning assumptions, information from similar projects and the identified constraints and assumptions. What tools will you utilize in order to complete the project plan?",
"Project planning methodology and project management information system"
"You are a new project manager at a utility. In working on your first project you are referring to the project templates, company glossary, ABT Workbench Manual, and archives from previous projects. These tools are helping you with",
"Project planning methodology"
"Which of the following is NOT a process in the project life cycle?",
"Project reporting"
"Which of the following items is not a primary input for Scope Verification process?",
"Project reports"
"You are in the process of defining the specific activities that need to be performed to develop the necessary project deliverables. Which of the following are NOT outputs that you will produce during this process?",
"Project schedule network diagram"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting the logical relationships among schedule activities. Which of the following are NOT inputs to this process?",
"Project schedule network diagram"
"You are in the process of estimating the type and quality of resources needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Project schedule"
"Which of the following are NOT used to create the scope baseline for a project?",
"Project scope management plan"
"Which of the following is a planning tool describing how the project team will define the project scope, develop the detailed project scope statement define and develop the work break down structure, verify project scope, and control the project scope?",
"Project scope management plan"
"Which of the following includes the process required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete a project successfully?",
"Project scope management"
"You are in the process of monitoring the various project processes and their performance. Which of the following is the LEAST appropriate output of this process?",
"Project scope statement updates"
"Which is an input to the Scope Verification Process?",
"Project scope statement"
"Which of the following is an output of the Define Scope process?",
"Project scope statement"
"The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions is called ____",
"Project scope"
"The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions is",
"Project scope"
"Which of the following correctly explains the term "progressive elaboration"?",
"Project specifications becoming more explicit and detailed as the project progresses"
"Who applies project selection methods to decide whether to accept or reject a project?",
"Project sponsor"
"Who is the person responsible for obtaining funding for a new project's conceptual study?",
"Project sponsor"
"You are the project manager at a large investment bank. Your current project involves developing a creative financing solution for a large bio-tech company in order to facilitate the acquisition of another company. Specifically, your project involves issuing convertible debt securities in order to access a new pool of low-cost capital. This transaction is the largest ever convertible transaction in the bio-tech company. Unfortunately, your project is plagued by frequent changes to project charter. Who should be primary person responsible for deciding whether the changes to the project charter are necessary?",
"Project sponsor"
"You have been appointed as the manager of a new, large, and complex project. Because this project is business-critical and very visible, senior management has told you to analyze the project's risks and prepare response strategies for them as soon as possible. The organization has risk management procedures that are seldom used or followed, and has had a history of handling risks badly",
"Project sponsor"
"You have been appointed as the manager of a new, large, and complex project. Because this project is business-critical and very visible, senior management has told you to analyze the project's risks and prepare response strategies for them as soon as possible. The organization has risk management procedures that are seldom used or followed, and has had a history of handling risks badly.",
"Project sponsor"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting the project roles and responsibilities and create staffing management plan. Which of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Project staff assignments"
"Which document is a narrative description of products or services to be delivered by the project?",
"Project statement of work"
"Which of the following are inputs of Develop Project Charter process?",
"Project statement of work, Contract, Business case and organizational process assets"
"Which of the following are inputs of the Develop Project Charter process?",
"Project statement of work, Contract, Business case and organizational process assets"
"Which of the following is least likely to be a source of conflict in a matrix environment?",
"Project team member working at a different site than the project manager"
"Who creates the the Lessons Learned document?",
"Project team"
"Which of the following is ensuring that all features and functions are included in a product or service",
"Project verification"
"This type of buffer adds time before the project's due date",
"Project"
"You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to expand three miles of the north-to-south highway through your city by two lanes in each direction. You are in charge of the demolition phase of this project, and you report to the project manager in charge of this project. You have been hired on contract and will be released at the completion of the demolition phase. What type of organizational structure does this represent?",
"Projectized organization"
"You have been assigned to a project where the objective is to create a new building. You are in charge of the demolition phase of this project, and you report to the project manager in charge of this project. You have been hired on contract and will be released at the completion of the demolition phase. What type of organizational structure you are working for?",
"Projectized organization"
"What type of organizational structure usually experiences the MOST team nervousness at project close-out?",
"Projectized"
"Which is the difference between projects and operations?",
"Projects are temporary endeavors whereas an organization's operations are ongoing in nature"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding proposal Evaluation Techniques?",
"Proposal Evaluation techniques are tools/ techniques of the Request Seller responses process"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding proposals EXCEPT",
"Proposals can combine the technical (approach) and commercial (price) sections, which must be evaluated together"
"Your upcoming project includes project team members from a foreign country. To make certain that cultural differences do not interfere with team performance, thereby affecting the success of the project, which is your first course of action?",
"Provide diversity training to all the team members"
""Outsourcing to provide extra staff during periods of peak workloads can be much more economical than trying to staff entire projects with internal resources." refers to the ____ benefit",
"Provide flexibility"
"Which of the following statement is true about project charter?",
"Provides a high level definition of the effort and its stakeholders"
"Which of the following objectives is LEAST likely accomplish by implementing a project-wide application of the configuration management system?",
"Provides a method to identify and manage risks"
"Which of the following is likely to be part of an operation?",
"Providing electricity to a community"
"When communicating with large audiences, which communication method works most effectively?",
"Pull"
"Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?",
"Purchase order"
"Which of the following BEST describes the project manager's role as an integrator?",
"Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole"
"Which process performs prioritization of the project risk?",
"Qualitative Risk Analysis"
"You are finding it difficult to evaluate the exact cost impact of risks. You should evaluate on a(n) ____",
"Qualitative basic"
"You are finding it difficult to evaluate the exact cost impact of risks. You should evaluate on a(n)",
"Qualitative basis"
"You are finding it difficult to evaluate the exact cost impact of risks. You should evaluate on a(n):",
"Qualitative basis"
"Which of the following are true regarding project risk management?",
"Qualitative risk analysis involves prioritizing risk by their impact and probability of occurrence"
"Which of the following processes includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?",
"Qualitative risk analysis"
"Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?",
"Qualitative risk analysis"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding quality audits?",
"Quality audits are tools/ techniques of the Perform Quality Control process"
"Which of the following tools are used to implementation of approved change request, corrective actions, and defect repairs?",
"Quality audits"
"Which quality assurance tool and technique confirms the implementation of approved change requests, corrective actions, defect repairs, and preventive actions?",
"Quality audits"
"Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes and procedures?",
"Quality audits"
"You are the program level manager with several project activities underway. In the executing process group, you begin to become concerned about the accuracy of progress reports from the projects. What would BEST support your opinion that there is a problem?",
"Quality audits"
"You in the project executing process group, and would like to confirm the implementation of approved change request, corrective actions, and defect repairs. Which of the following tool/technique can you leverage?",
"Quality audits"
"Which of the following subsidiary plan contains the quality objectives for the project?",
"Quality baseline"
"You are project manager of a project, which of the following is not your responsibility?",
"Quality in the organization"
"You are a project manager at java ice cream factory. You are currently supervising the manufacturing of new flavor ice cream java bean, burgundy crunch. The manufacturing of this flavor was proceeding as planned, until a manufacturing error occurred that requires corrective action to be taken. Ironically the manufacturing error resulted in a new variant of the flavor",
"Quality inspection are used to determine whether changes to the project scope has occurred"
"When a product or service completely meets a customer's requirements",
"Quality is achieved"
"When a product or service completely meets a customer's requirements:",
"Quality is achieved"
"You are the project manger at a biotech company, where you are leading a cross-functional team to develop a treatment for diabetes. The organization has a weak matrix structure, where all of your project team members report to different functional managers and none of the team member report to you directly. Your project has extremely high visibility in the company, and there is a lot of pressure on you to deliver on time and within budget. However, you are concerned whether you will have the necessary authority and power to complete the project deliverables. Which of the following types of powers will be MOST effective in your situation?",
"Referent power"
"You are the project manger at an advertising firm that specializes in marketing and promotional campaign for athletic shoes. Your company frequently uses sports celebrities as part of the marketing and advertising campaigns. Advertising that uses celebrities to influence consumer's purchasing decisions is an example of what type of power?",
"Referent power"
"Which of the following is not an organizational policy consideration in formulating a project plan?",
"Regulatory compliance"
"When would a milestone chart be used instead of a bar chart?",
"Reporting to management"
"which of the following best describes the request seller responses process?",
"Request seller response involves obtaining bids and proposals from prospective vendors"
"Which of the following is an output of the Information Distribution Process?",
"Requested changes"
"Your company has asked you to be the project manager for the product introduction of its new DeskTop Rock media system. You recently published the project scope statement. Which of the following is not contained in the project scope statement?",
"Requested changes"
"Which of the following are outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?",
"Requested changes, forecasts, recommended corrective actions"
"used to solicit quotes or bids from prospective suppliers",
"Requests for Quotes"
"Which of the following can be used to track the requirements throughout the project life cycle?",
"Requirements traceability matrix"
"Which of the following is an output of the Collect Requirements process?",
"Requirements traceability matrix"
"Which Activity Duration Estimating technique incorporates additional timing for contingency purposes?",
"Reserve Analysis"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to the project cost baseline. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful tool / technique?",
"Reserve analysis"
"You are in the process of estimating the type and quantity of resources needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following are tools/ techniques you can use in this process EXCEPT",
"Reserve analysis"
"You are in the process of estimating the type and quantity of resources needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following tools/ techniques you can use in this process EXCEPT",
"Reserve analysis"
"You are in the process of numerically analyzing the effects of identified risks. Which of the following are NOT tools or techniques you can use in the process?",
"Reserve analysis"
"Which of he following best describes the risks that still remain after avoidance, transfer, or mitigation responses have been implemented?",
"Residual risks"
"Which of the following best describes the risks that still remain after avoidance, transfer, or mitigation responses have been implemented?",
"Residual risks"
"These risks remain after all of the response strategies have been implemented",
"Residual"
"What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?",
"Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)"
"Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?",
"Resource Leveling"
"The Scope Statement is used in which process",
"Resource Planning"
"What is the last step in four-stage planning processes for selecting information technology project?",
"Resource allocation"
"What is the last step in the four-stage planning process for selecting information technology projects",
"Resource allocation"
"Which of the following is an output of the Estimate Activity Resources process?",
"Resource breakdown structure"
"Which of the following project document is best suited for tracking costs of resources?",
"Resource breakdown structure"
"You are a project manager for a small local bank. The bank wants you to design and develop a custom online bill pay software so that its customers can pay their bills online. You are ready to begin the Activity Resource Estimation process for your project. Which of the following would you not consider when developing the activity resource requirements document?",
"Resource breakdown structure"
"You have been hired as a project manager for a small local bank. The bank wants you to design and develop custom online bill pay software so that its customers can pay their bills online. You are ready to begin the Activity Resource Estimation process for your project. Which of the following would you NOT consider when developing the activity resource requirements document?",
"Resource breakdown structure"
"You've been hired as a project manager for a local community college. The community college wants you upgrade the hardware for each of its web servers, and install the necessary security patches for each web- server. You are ready to begin the activity resource estimation process for your project. Which of the following would you NOT consider when developing the activity resource requirements document?",
"Resource breakdown structure"
"Which of the following is not part of project human resource management?",
"Resource estimating"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to the project schedule. All of the following are tool/ techniques of this process EXCEPT",
"Resource leveling"
"What involves determining what quantities are to be used to perform project activities",
"Resource planning"
"Which of the following is needed to develop a detailed project cost estimate?",
"Resource requirements"
"This type of histogram is a column chart that shows the number of resources assigned to a project over time",
"Resource"
"You are the project manager of a project. Your project just went into integration mode. This means that your project ____",
"Resources are being assigned to other areas of the business"
"Top three cases on conflict on the project and project schedule, project priorities and",
"Resources"
"Which is not one of the triple constraint of a project?",
"Resources"
"You are a project manager developing a project plan for the renovation of historic landmark. You are in the process of performing some risk planning. your risk management plan should include all of he following except",
"Response to individual risk"
"You have just been assigned as project manager for a large telecommunications project. This one-year project is about halfway done. The project team consists of 5 sellers and 20 of your company's employees. You want to understand who is responsible for doing what on the project. Where would you find such information?",
"Responsibility assignment matrix"
"Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?",
"Responsibility matrix"
"You receive 25 new computers from the seller, but were expecting only 20. In looking at the contract, you see that it says "seller to provide twenty (25) computers." What should you do FIRST?",
"Return the five extra computers"
"You are a project manager at day-old donuts, a rapidly growing franchise selling premium donuts at a discount. Currently your company is planning for opening new stores throughout the United States. You have been asked to open a store in Manhattan, New York. Construction on new store is about to begin. This corporate head quarter wants to be informed when construction is nearly complete, so they can produce all the supplies and inventories just in time. You have been given a project charter, progressively elaborate the requirements, and have just completed the scope definition/create WBS processes. However while you are in activity definition process, you realize that certain deliverables are missing from create WBS process. What is your next plan of action?",
"Review the WBS to include the missing deliverables, and define the relevant appropriate activities"
"You are the project manager for an information technology division of a large financial services firm in the United States. Your company offers a web based trading platform that provides options and futures trading for U.S commodities markets. Due to the rise in popularity of futures and options trading, your company has grown rapidly. To keep up with the demands you have been assigned with the responsibility of upgrading company's network and computing infrastructure. You have given the project charter progressively elaborated the requirements, and have just completed the Scope Definition and Create WBS processes. However while you are in the activity duration process you realized that certain deliverables are missing from the scope definition and create WBS processes. What is your next plan of action?",
"Review the WBS to include the missing deliverables, and define the relevant appropriate activities"
"Which is incorrect as the purpose of creating a Project plan?",
"Review the cost"
"You are in the process of monitoring the various project processes and their performance. Which of the following are you LEAST concerned with during this process?",
"Reviewing and approving all recommended corrective and preventive actions"
"Which of the following is not a tool or technique for cost control?",
"Revised cost estimates"
"Which of the following is NOT an output of the Control Schedule",
"Revisions"
"Which of the following is not an input to Team Development?",
"Reward and recognition systems"
"You are a project manager at a biotech company, where you are leading a cross functional team to develop a treatment for diabetes. The organization has a weak matrix structure, where al of your team members report to different functional managers and none of the team member report to you directly. Your project has extremely high visibility in the company, and there is a lot of pressure on you to deliver on time and within budget. However, you are concerned whether you will have the necessary authority and power to complete the project deliverables. Which of the following types of powers will be MOST effective in your situation?",
"Reward power"
"What is a cost of nonconformance?",
"Rework"
"Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique used during the Perform quantitative risk analysis Process?",
"Risk Categorization"
"Which is not a process in the Risk Management knowledge area?",
"Risk Design"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding risk response audits?",
"Risk audits consists of performing the contingency plan"
"Which of the following best describes the difference between risk audits and risk reviews?",
"Risk audits should be performed by an outside party, while risk reviews are performed by the project team"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting project risks. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful tool/ technique?",
"Risk audits"
"What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?",
"Risk breakdown structure (RBS)"
"This structure is a hierarchy of potential risk categories for a project",
"Risk breakdown"
"When should risk identification be performed? (select best answer)",
"Risk identification should be performed on a regular basis throughout the project"
"What is the first step in preparing the risk register?",
"Risk identification"
"Which f the following processes involves determining and documenting which risks are likely to affect the project?",
"Risk identification"
"Which of the following are outputs of the Risk Management Planning process?",
"Risk management plan"
"Which of the following is not an input to cost budgeting?",
"Risk management plan"
"You are in process of analyzing the effects of identified risks. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful input?",
"Risk management plan"
"Which of the following describes how the various risk management processes will be implemented, monitored, and controlled throughout the project and describes the criteria that are used to establish the risk threshold?",
"Risk management plans"
"Which of the following is NOT a valid reason to authorize a project?",
"Risk mitigation"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding project risk management?",
"Risk monitoring and control involves tracking identified risks and executing risk response"
"Which of the following risk management processes are workarounds identified?",
"Risk monitoring and control"
"Which of the following processes involves ensuring that risk plans are properly executed?",
"Risk monitoring and controlling"
"You are currently in the process of prioritizing risks by their impact and probability of occurrence. The risk register updates from this process include all of the following EXCEPT",
"Risk reassessments"
"Which of the following is an input to the Qualitative Risk Analysis process?",
"Risk register"
"You are in the process of numerically analyzing the effects of identified risks. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful input?",
"Risk related contractual agreements"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding project risk management?",
"Risk response planning- develop actions to identified risks to"
"Which of the following best describes secondary risks?",
"Risk that come about as a direct result of implementing a risk response"
"Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?",
"Risk urgency assessment"
"Which of the following BEST describes a project management plan?",
"Risk, staffing, process improvement, and other management plans"
"Which of the following best describes residual risks?",
"Risks that still remain after implementing a risk response"
"You are in process of identifying and documenting the project roles and responsibilities and create staffing management plan. All of the following should be addressed when listing the roles and responsibilities EXCEPT",
"Role"
"You are in the process of obtaining the necessary human resource to complete the project. Which of the following are not the outputs of this process?",
"Roles and responsibilities"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE about the Rolling Wave plan?",
"Rolling Wave Planning is the process of decomposing each work package within the WBS into the corresponding schedule activities required to produce the work package deliverables"
"Which is a technique for Define Activities?",
"Rolling Wave Planning"
"Which is not a technique for Sequence Activities?",
"Rolling Wave Planningm"
"What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?",
"Rolling wave planning"
"Which of the following best describes a cost and schedule planning techniques where details are developed for the near term and general allocations are made for work far in the future. Detail is developed for work far in the future as information becomes available to do so",
"Rolling wave planning"
"Which of the following best describes a form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be performed in the near time is planned in detail at a low level of WBS, while the work far in future is planned for WBS components that are relatively high level of the WBS?",
"Rolling wave planning"
"Which of the following is one of the tools and techniques for the Define Activities process?",
"Rolling wave planning"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting the logical relationships among schedule activities. Which of the following are NOT tools/ techniques you can use in this process?",
"Rolling wave planning"
"Which of the following is NOT output of Qualitative Risk Analysis?",
"Root Cause Analysis"
"Which of the following technique to identify the underlying cause of a problem and take steps to prevent further occurrence?",
"Root cause analysis"
"You are currently in the process of prioritizing risks by their impact or probability of occurrence. Which of following tools/ techniques are LEAST useful?",
"Root cause identification"
"To ensure the effectiveness of corrective actions, corrective actions frequently require which of the following?",
"Root-cause analysis"
"You are the project manager at the Java Ice Cream Factory. You are currently supervising the manufacturing of a new flavor of ice cram JavaBean Burgundy Crunch. The manufacturing of this new flavor was proceeding as planned, until a manufacturing error occurred that requires corrective actions to be taken. To ensure the effectiveness of corrective actions, corrective actions frequently require which of the following?",
"Root-cause analysis"
"Which of the following provides the least accurate in estimating?",
"Rough order of magnitude"
"Which of followings can be used to perform trend analysis to forecast future outcomes based on historical patterns",
"Run chart"
"Which of the following is an effective tool to observe trends and results over a specified period of time?",
"Run chart"
"This type of project has significant cost or schedule overruns and often does no risk management at all",
"Runaway"
"To make milestones meaningful, some people use the ____ criteria to help define them",
"SMART"
"Which describes the product and the service to be delivered in an agreement?",
"SOW"
"What are the performance measurements for the Schedule Control process?",
"SV (EV - PV) and SPI (EV PV)"
"Which of the following is a technique for Identify Risks?",
"SWOT analysis"
"You are in process of identifying and documenting project risks. You are using various information gathering techniques to identify the project risks. All of the following are information gathering techniques EXCEPT",
"SWOT analysis"
"You are the project manager at Happy Coffee Café, a rapidly growing franchise selling premium blended coffee. Currently, your company is planning on opening additional stores through the United states. Your target markets primarily include densely populated metropolitan areas. Your company is evaluating different areas for expansion, including New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. Based on your market analysis you have obtained the following information",
"San Francisco since the IRR is the highest"
"Which of the following are NOT parts of the PMI professional Code of Conduct?",
"Satisfying stakeholder requirement"
"You are the project manager of a project. If there are approved changes to the original scope, what you do with the old original scope?",
"Save the old versions"
"Which of the following can we use to show if there is a relationship",
"Scatter diagram"
"Which of the following techniques accounts for path convergence and generally estimates project durations more accurately?",
"Schedule Simulation"
"What two main knowledge areas are not listed in the execution process of the project, but rather a part of the controlling process?",
"Schedule and cost"
"Which of the following are NOT outputs of the Activity Duration Estimation process?",
"Schedule baseline"
"You are in the process of analyzing activity sequence, durations, resource requirement, and schedule constraints in order to create the project schedule. Which of the following is least helpful input in this process?",
"Schedule baseline, performance reports"
"Which of the following BEST describes the procedures by which the project schedule can change, and includes the paperwork, tracking systems, and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes?",
"Schedule change control system"
"Which of the following processes uses the approved project schedule as an input?",
"Schedule control"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding project time management?",
"Schedule development involves estimating type and qualities of resources required to perform each schedule activity"
"Which of the following processes involves analyzing activity sequences, activity duration, and resource requirements, to develop the project schedule?",
"Schedule development"
"You are an information security project manager responsible for securing your cooperate network. Due to new regulations mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley act your company's upper management has tasked you with securing the company's network infrastructure. Unfortunately, you lacked detailed knowledge regarding firewall and IPS-related technologies. You are relying on an outside security consulting firm to provide you with expert judgment regarding these technologies. You are trying to forecast how often you'll require their expert judgment during your project. Expert judgment is a tool/ technique in all of the following processes EXCEPT",
"Schedule development"
"You are in the process of developing an approximation of the costs of resources needed to complete each schedule activity. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful input?",
"Schedule management plan, staffing management plan, risk"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to the project schedule. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Schedule model data"
"You are in the process of estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following are valuable inputs to this process except",
"Schedule model data"
"Which of the following statements regarding Schedule Network Analysis is true EXCEPT",
"Schedule network analysis provides a graphical representation of situations showing casual influences, time ordering of events, and relationships among variables and outcomes"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to project schedule. All of the following are tools/ techniques of this process EXCEPT",
"Schedule network analysis"
"Which of the following will be required to perform simulation for schedule risk analysis?",
"Schedule network diagram and duration estimates"
"Which schedule format usually shows both the project network logic and the project's critical path schedule activities with activity date information?",
"Schedule network diagram"
"Which of the following are NOT tools or techniques of the Activity Definition process?",
"Schedule network templates"
"Which of the following statements is true regarding schedule variances?",
"Schedule variances sometimes impact the schedule"
"You are a project manager at for an information technology division of a large financial brokerage in the United States. Due to new regulatory requirements enacted by Sarbanes-Oxley you have been assigned to audit all I.T. systems to ensure compliance. You need to ensure that all data in the data base in encrypted to ensure confidentially. You need to ensure that all users are properly authenticated. You also need to verify that authorization to confidential financial information follows the least-privilege principle",
"Schedule"
"You are about to take over a project from another project manager and find out the following information about the project. Activity Z has an early start (ES) of day 15 and a late start (LS) of day 20. Activity Z is a difficult activity. The cost performance index (CPI) is 1.1. The schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.8. There are 11 stakeholders on the project",
"Schedule"
"You are about to take over a project from another project manager and find out the following information about the project. Activity Z has an early start (ES) of day 15 and a late start (LS) of day 20. Activity Z is a difficult activity. cost performance index (CPI) is 1.1. The schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.8. There are 11 stakeholders on the project",
"Schedule"
"You are taking over a project and determine the following",
"Schedule"
"You are taking over a project and determine the following:",
"Schedule"
"You are the project manager at information technology division of a large health care provider in the United States. Due to the new regulatory requirements enacted by HIPAA to ensure the privacy of confidential medical records, you have been assigned to audit all I.T. system to ensure compliance",
"Schedule"
"The tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger",
"Scope Creep"
"Which one of the following comes first in the project plan?",
"Scope Statement"
"Your company has just received approval to purchase a company that offers complementary services to your company. They have assigned you as the project manager for the acquisition. The CFO has handed you a Project Charter that describes how this acquisition will improve penetration and open up a new distribution channel for your company's products. She has also given you authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. You are anxious and excited as you head back to your office to organize your thoughts and begin the planning process. Using the Project Charter you define the deliverables and the objectives. The output from this process is the",
"Scope Statement"
"Your project terminated early due to budget cuts. You' like to document the current level and completion of your project, even though your project terminated prematurely. In which of the following processes would you document the level of work completed for your project?",
"Scope Verification"
"The tendency for project bound to keep getting bigger",
"Scope baseline"
"Which of the following consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary?",
"Scope baseline"
"You are in process of creating the detailed project scope statement. All of the following are inputs to this process EXCEPT",
"Scope baseline"
"Valid reasons for considering termination of a project include all of the following except",
"Scope change requests are numerous and continuous"
"You are the project manager in the I.T department of the local university. Your current project involves developing a web-based interface for legacy student registration application. Your current project has recently experienced a change where you have been asked to support an additional data base system, instead of current database system in use. As a result, many of the greed upon WBS elements were modified. Which type of change has occurred within your project?",
"Scope change"
"You are the project manager in the I.T. department of a major hospital. Your current project involves developing a web-based interface for legacy mainframe patient-tracking application. Your current project has recently experienced a change where many of the agreed-upon WBS elements were modified as a result. Which type of change has occurred within your project?",
"Scope change"
"You are currently the project manager for a software development project, developing a next generation data-mining tool. Your team is developing a new software product that will help customers better manage large volumes of data, especially for data reporting purposes. Midway through the project your customers has asked you to add additional reporting functionality to the software, specifically to correlate sales data across multiple geographic regions based on time. The functionality was NOT part of the original project plan. This is an example of which of the following?",
"Scope creep"
"You are the project manager at a utility company. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, your organization is exploring cheaper, alternative forms of energy. You have just completed the project scope changes, requested changes, and updates to the project scope management plan. Which of the following process did you just complete?",
"Scope definition"
"Which of the following knowledge areas leads to specific project objectives?",
"Scope management"
"You are the project manager for a software company that develops sports-based video games. You have been assigned to develop a new 3D interactive basket ball video game. You have just completed the development of the project scope management plan. Which of the following processes did you just complete?",
"Scope planning"
"Which one of the following is not an output of contract closure?",
"Scope statement"
"You are an information security project manager responsible for securing your cooperate network. Due to new regulations mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley act your company's upper management has tasked you with securing the company's network infrastructure. You have just completed the Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement process. However, upon review you have determined that the resulting Preliminary Project Scope Statement is ambiguous and poorly written. A poorly written Preliminary Project Scope Statement will directly impact all of the following subsequent processes EXCEPT",
"Scope verification"
"You are the project manager for the international contract manufacturing firm with manufacturing the plants and offices in India, China and Thailand. Your company design and manufacture various consumer electronics such as flat screen, television, laptop computers, monitors, e.t.c. Your company is currently under contract to manufacture the next generation 128-bit video game console for x-cube station. Work has begun on the project, and you are in the process of confirming the initial work results with stakeholders. You are in the process of working with the stakeholders to confirm acceptance of the initial work results. Which process are you performing?",
"Scope verification"
"What are the components of the "triple constraint"?",
"Scope, time, cost"
"You are project manager of a project. During the process of selecting the sellers, you reject one vendor because it doesn't have the manufacturing capability. This is an example of which selection tool?",
"Screening system"
"Which of the following establishes minimum requirements of performance for one or more evaluation criteria when selecting a prospective seller?",
"Screening systems"
"You are a project manager working on a software development project. You've developed the risk management plan, identified risks, and determined risk responses for the risks. One of the risks you identified occurs, and you implement the response for that risk. Then, another risk occurs as a result of the response you implemented. What type of risk is this called?",
"Secondary risk"
"Which of the following best describes risks that arise as a direct implementation of implementing a risk response?",
"Secondary risks"
"These risks are a direct result of implementing a risk response",
"Secondary"
"You are managing an internal project where a vice president from the user group is acting as the sponsor. You have just been informed by your team that the critical path has slipped by three weeks. You should",
"See the sponsor after you have evaluated alternatives, recommendations, and performed an impact analysis"
"Which of Covey's habits does Douglas Ross suggest differentiates good project managers from average or poor project managers",
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"
"Which of Covey's habits does Douglas Ross suggest differentiates good project managers from average or poor project managers?",
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"
"Which of Coveys habits does Douglas Ross suggest differentiates good project managers from average or poor project managers",
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"
"Weighting systems, screening systems, and independent estimates are tools of which process?",
"Select sellers"
"You are the project manager for a company that sells online music. The company is growing so well that the company has outgrown its I.T infrastructure. In fact, the company's current infrastructure is unable to handle the terabytes of music download each day. As a result, the company has decided to outsource its music download infrastructure to a third party content management vendor. The content management vendor will host the compressed music files across its geographically distributed web server farms, and handle all the logistics with music file downloads and data streaming. On your qualified sellers list, you have identified one potential vendor MusikCM. Your procurement department is conducting an independent estimate of costs of the proposals in order to compare the vendor prices. However, your procurement department has identified a large difference between the independent estimate and the proposed vendor cost. In which process is this taking place?",
"Select sellers"
"You are the project manger at a construction company. Your company is currently in the process of developing a 500-unit apartment complex. Your company plans to subcontract all the electrical wiring of the building to an outside vendor",
"Select sellers"
"Who is responsibility for making sure that a message in the project team is understood",
"Sender"
"What are the four parts of the communications model?",
"Sender, Message, Medium, Receiver"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding sensitivity analysis?",
"Sensitivity analysis is a tool used in quantitative risk analysis"
"Which analysis helps to determine the risks that have the most potential for impacting the project?",
"Sensitivity analysis"
"Which of the following is an example of a technique used in quantitative risk analysis?",
"Sensitivity analysis"
"This analysis is a technique used to show the effects of changing one or more variables on an outcome",
"Sensitivity"
"You are the project manager of a project .You have just completed the Define Activities, activity resources estimating, and Estimate Activity Durations processes. Which process have you left out?",
"Sequence Activities"
"What are three basic types of project phase-to-phase relationships?",
"Sequential, Iterative, Overlapping"
"This rule states that if seven data points in a row are all below the mean, above the mean, or are all increasing or decreasing, then the process needs to be examined for non-random problems",
"Seven run"
"Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?",
"Share"
"You are a project manager at an utility company. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, the market demand for cheaper, alternate forms of energy have grown exponentially. Your company has identified, a multi billion dollar market opportunity for alternate forms of energy",
"Share"
"What name(s) is (are) associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle?",
"Shewart-Deming"
"You have been assigned to take over a project that is 60 percent complete according to the schedule. After evaluation, you find that the project is running far behind schedule, and that the project will probably take double the time originally estimated by the previous project manager. However, the sponsor has been told that the project is on schedule. What is the BEST course of action you will take?",
"Show your evaluation to sponsor"
"You have created the project charter, but could not get it approved. Your manager and his boss have asked that the project begins immediately. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do",
"Show your manager the impact of proceeding without approval"
"You are in a meeting with someone who just ate a slice of garlic bread. Your are distracted by his pungent breath. Which of the following communication barriers describe these distractions?",
"Sign Detection"
"You are the project manager within an information technology department of a large retailer In order to allow for better real-tracking, in inventory control, and supply chain management, in inventory control, and supply chain management, your company in financing a project to install and to install and deploy RFID on all items of merchandise. As the project manager, you've just completed the select sellers' process, and selected 5 different vendors on your qualified sellers list who has responded to your company's RFP. One of the vendors remaining the qualified sellers list is RFID-PM Inc. although you have no financial interest in this company, one of yours old high school buddies, Terence, sits on the board of directors of this company. Is there a conflict of interest in this situation?",
"Since neither you nor your family members has any financial interests in this company there is no conflict of interest"
"You are the project manager within and information technology department of a large retailer. You are responsible for updating the network infrastructure of the company. As a project manager, you are in the Select Sellers process, and have four different vendors on your qualified sellers list. One of the vendors on your list has invited you and your family to Hawaii for a 'convention'. The vendor assures that the convention is for legitimate business purposes and will be helpful in letting your company better evaluating their offerings. However, you are hesitant to accept the gift. To appraise your concerns, the vendor tells you that they will be doing a demo of the systems and other members of your project team in the past have attended. What should you do?",
"Since the convention may be useful, you may accept the invitation. However, you should report the acceptance of the gift to the appropriate people in your organization so that your actions are not questioned later on"
"The target for perfection in this system is the achievement of no more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities",
"Six sigma"
"Which conflict resolution style emphasizes agreement rather than focusing on areas of disagreement?",
"Smoothing"
"Which of the following best describes a conflict resolution technique the temporarily solves a problem by downplaying the problem to make the problem appear less important/ critical?",
"Smoothing"
"Which of the following is conflict resolution technique?",
"Smoothing"
"Which of the following is not a form a leadership power?",
"Smoothing"
"Which of the following is a conflict resolving technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?",
"Smoothing/Accommodating"
"Which of the following is not a tool or technique for managing project teams?",
"Social Styles Profile"
"You are project manager of a project and as part of the team acquisition process; you hire a new employee and assigns him to your project team. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, what needs level he most likely is at?",
"Social need"
"Which of the following processes involves obtaining information (bids and proposals) from prospective sellers?",
"Solicitation"
"Which of the following are true regarding statistical perform quality control?",
"Special causes are the result of variances that are linked to unusual events"
"Which of the following are ALL items included in cost management plan?",
"Specifications for how estimates should be stated, rules for measuring cost performance, the level of accuracy needed for estimates"
"Which of the following are ALL items included in the cost management plan?",
"Specifications for how estimates should be stated, rules for measuring cost performance, the level of accuracy needed for estimates"
"You are taking over a project during the planning process group and discover that six individuals have signed the project charter. Which of the following should MOST concern you?",
"Spending more time on configuration management"
"Who authorizes a project?",
"Sponsor"
"You have had your Scope Definition approved and are working on your budget and schedule. In order to estimate the labor costs and the schedule you need to know who your team members are, and what their skill level is. You consult your staffing management plan and your staffing pool description. By following the recruitment practices and working with the procurement department to negotiate for various external contractors you are able to complete a project directory. All these are steps in what process?",
"Staff Acquisition"
"What is not among the tools and techniques of an Organizational Planning?",
"Staffing management plan"
"This management plan describes when and how people will be added to and taken off the project team",
"Staffing"
"Which of the following functions does not pertain to the roles and responsibilities of the project manager?",
"Staffing"
"Unaware, Resistant, Neutral, Supportive, Leading",
"Stakeholder Engagement Levels"
"Which is a tool or technique used in scope definition?",
"Stakeholder analysis"
"Which of the following are not tools/techniques of the develop project charter process?",
"Stakeholder analysis"
"Which is an input to the Collect Requirements process?",
"Stakeholder register"
"Which of the following is an input to Collect Requirements?",
"Stakeholder register"
"The work breakdown structure can BEST be thought of as an effective aid for ____ communications",
"Stakeholder"
"The work breakdown structure can BEST be thought of as an effective aid for ____ communications.",
"Stakeholder"
"Which type of analysis is used to develop the communications management plan?",
"Stakeholder"
"Which of the following is not included in project scope statement?",
"Stakeholders influence"
"Which of the following is NOT included in the project scope statement?",
"Stakeholders influences"
"Which of the following is NOT considered an organizational process asset?",
"Stakeholders risk tolerance"
"Which ofthe following BEST describes the relationship between standard deviation and risk?",
"Standard deviation tells you how unsure the estimate is"
"You would like to measure the association between tow variables. Which of the following is NOT a measuring technique or measure you would use to do this?",
"Standard deviation"
"Which of the following are NOT tools/ techniques of the Plan Contracting Process?",
"Standard forms"
"You are the chief technology officer of a major stock exchange in United States. You have just been provided a preliminary project scope statement from your project sponsor with regards to reengineering the organization's back office accounting, billing and administrative system. Which of the following the BEST NEXT plan of action?",
"Start establishing management plans"
"You are a project manager at construction company, assigned to repaint the 30-story building. One of the initial tasks are to scrape the original paint off the building and then to prime the building. But before the building can be primed, the original paint must be scraped off the building",
"Start to start"
"Which of the following relationships is rarely used in PDM (Precedence Diagramming Method)?",
"Start-to-Finish"
"Which of these are logical dependencies in a precedence diagram method?",
"Start-to-start"
"You r the project manager at a large accounting firm in the United States. Throughout the year your firms provides both the consulting services and accounting/auditing services to XYZ Widgets, Inc, a publicity traded company listed on a New York stock exchange. Currently your project involves auditing and financial statements to XYZ widgets, in the preparation of annual shareholders meeting",
"Starvation"
"What is a technique used in the performance reporting process?",
"Status review meetings"
"Which of the following are not tools/ techniques of Manage Stakeholders process?",
"Status review meetings"
"This report describes where the project stands at a specific point in time",
"Status"
"You are a project manager for the manufacture of children's toys. Your project team is in the process of designing a new children toy for New Year Christmas season",
"Storming"
"You are managing a project that will implement a new MARKETING software package. You have assigned the resources and want to keep the IT manager in the loop by informing him or her of your decisions. Which type of organizational structure are you working in?",
"Strong Matrix"
"You are managing a project that will implement a new MARKETING software package. You have assigned the resources and want to keep the IT manager in the loop by informing your decisions. Which type of organizational structure are you working in?",
"Strong Matrix"
"Which of the following describes the following organizational structure?",
"Strong matrix Org"
"Which of the following are not indirect costs?",
"Subcontract costs"
"You are in the process of directing the performance of the planed project activities and managing the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within your project. All the following are actions that you should perform in this stage except",
"Subdivide the major project deliverable into smaller, more manageable work packages"
"You are about 30% through a project. In reviewing the product requirements you realize that one of the product functionalities has been omitted in the project plan. At this point you",
"Submit a change request to the change control board and re-baseline the project"
"Your company has just presented its new five-year strategic plan. You have received a new product request from a customer that is in line with the previous five-year strategic plan, but it does not meet the objectives of the new plan. The product description seems to have a valid business driver and to be a straightforward development effort. As project manager, what is the BEST course of action?",
"Submit the new product request to the PMO for review and approval before proceeding"
"You are currently analyzing the schedule for a project. You've noticed that for a certain activities in the project, large schedule variances exist. Which of the following activities are true?",
"Such schedule variances may sometimes impact the schedule"
"You are currently analyzing the schedule of a project. You have noticed that for certain critical-path activities in the project, the schedule completion date of activity versus the actual completion date of the activities differed significantly. Which of the following statements are true?",
"Such schedule variances will impact the schedule"
"The section of the project management plan describing management and technical approaches should include the following information, except for",
"Summary schedule"
"Thick black bars",
"Summary tasks"
"Which of the following best describes cost incurred in the past whose total will not be affected by any decisions made now or in the future?",
"Sunk cost"
"You are a project manager for a company that publishes children books. Five years ago, your company purchased a sophisticated printing press capable of high-volume production. The company originally purchased the printing press for $500,000. However, printing press's current book value is $200,000. The $200,000 book value is best considered a",
"Sunk cost"
"You are asked to prepare a budget for completing a project that was started last year and then shelved for six months. All the following would be included in the budget EXCEPT",
"Sunk costs"
"You are asked to prepare a budget for completing a project that was started last year and then shelved for six months. All the following would be included in the budget EXCEPT:",
"Sunk costs"
"What is a risk trigger?",
"Symptom of risk"
"Which of the following is not a phase of the traditional project life cycle?",
"System analysis"
"the screens and reports the system generates",
"System outputs"
"You are presented the following schedule data regarding various project activities on the critical path",
"T, U, V"
"Thepresents subjects with a series of ambiguous pictures and asks them to develop a spontaneous story for each picture, assuming they will project their own needs into the story",
"TAT"
"The WBS provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance",
"TRUE"
"The same organization can have different subcultures",
"TRUE"
"The tasks in a WBS do not have to be developed as a sequential list of steps",
"TRUE"
"The term "e-procurement" often describes various procurement functions that are now done electronically",
"TRUE"
"The term e-procurement often describes various procurement functions that are now done electronically",
"TRUE"
"The total value of the contract is a function of the quantities needed to complete the work",
"TRUE"
"Total slake is the amount of time one can delay the start of a particular task, without delaying the completion of the project",
"TRUE"
"Understanding which variables affect outcome is a very important part of quality planning",
"TRUE"
"Understanding which variables affect outcome is a very important part of quality planning____",
"TRUE"
"Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top management in the military, computer, and construction industries",
"TRUE"
"Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top management in the military, computer, and construction industries. Today's project management involves much more, and people in every industry and every country manage projects",
"TRUE"
"Using Six Sigma principles is an organization-wide commitment",
"TRUE"
"Using Six Sigma principles is an organization-wide commitment____",
"TRUE"
"Using a systems approach is critical to successful project management",
"TRUE"
"When an organization outsources work, it often does not have as much control over those aspects of projects that suppliers carry out",
"TRUE"
"When using the confrontation mode, project managers directly face a conflict using a problem-solving approach that allows affected parties to work through their disagreements",
"TRUE"
"When you use face-to-face communication, ... actual words",
"TRUE"
"When you use face-to-face communication, actual words.",
"TRUE"
"Winners in project delivery know that strong program managersreferred to as project leadersare crucial to project success",
"TRUE"
"Winners in project delivery know that strong program managers—referred to as project leaders—are crucial to project success",
"TRUE"
"You can break down the technology risk category into hardware, software, and network technology",
"TRUE"
"You can only enter duration estimates for work packages",
"TRUE"
"You are the program manager for a new commercial jet. A new robotic technology has just emerged that will improve the accuracy of machining connectors to within 3 microns. This technology will also result in a savings from the previous method. As a result of this, all program managers are being asked to come up with a new estimate at completion for their in-process projects. The most accurate method to develop the new estimate is to",
"Take the actuals to date and develop a new estimate for all remaining work"
"You are working with an organization and you found that one stakeholder not disclosing all of costs involved with an upcoming project. Rather, this CAPM is constructing a WBS that does not include all the tasks necessary to get the project done. What you should do?",
"Talk to the CAPM about the WBS to see if you can rework it to reflect actual costs of the project"
"Which of the following definition is not correct",
"Team Building - Forming a team from scratch for a new project"
"Which of the following definition is not correct:",
"Team Building - Forming a team from scratch for a new project."
"Which of the following is the MOST valuable result of creating the work breakdown structure?",
"Team buy-in"
"Which of the following are outputs of the develop project team process?",
"Team performance assessment"
"You are in the process of obtaining the necessary human resources to complete the project. Which of the following are NOT outputs of this process?",
"Team performance assessment"
"You are in the process of tracking team member performance, providing feedback, and coordinating changes to improve project performance. Which of the following tools/ techniques is LEAST helpful?",
"Team performance assessment"
"You are in the process of tracking identified risks, monitoring residual risks, and executing the risk response plans. Which of the following tools/ techniques are you LEAST likely to use during this process? Risk audits",
"Technical performance measurement"
"which of media is the best choice when you want to make a simple request",
"Telephone call/Email"
"You have just joined the project management office after five years of working on projects. One of the things you want to introduce to your company is the need to create and utilize WBSs. Some of the project managers are angry that you are asking them to do 'extra work'.",
"Tell them it will prevent work from slipping through the cracks"
"You have just joined the project management office after five years of working on projects. One of the things you want to introduce to your company is the need to create and utilize WBSs. Some of the project managers are angry that you are asking them to do extra work",
"Tell them it will prevent work from slipping through the cracks"
"You are the project manager for a new construction project in your city. Your personal friend is bidding on the project. Your friend has asked you to give them an indication of the budget for this project so that they do not overbid and lose the deal. What is the most appropriate response?",
"Tell your friend that after all this time, they should know you better than to think you had put your personal integrity on the line or compromise your job because of a conflict of interest. Decline to give them the information"
"You are the project manager for a software company that develops children's video games. You have been assigned to develop a new game that makes mathematics fun for children. You need to gather necessary information to write the project scope management plan. Which of the following information do you NOT need as inputs to your current process?",
"Templates, forms, and standards"
"Which of the following is the definition of a project?",
"Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result"
"Which of the following is not true for a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)",
"Text description of roles, responsibilities, authorities"
"Which of the following choices indicates that a project has a burn rate of 1.2? (Hint: Burn rate is the same as cost Performance Index)",
"The AC is 100 and the EV is 120"
"Which of the following choices indicates that a project has a burn rate of 1.2? (Hint: Burn rate is the same as the Cost Performance Index)",
"The AC is 100 and the EV is 120"
"Which of the following choices indicates that a project has a burn rate of 1.5? (Hint: Burn rate is the same as cost Performance Index)",
"The AC is 100 and the EV is 150"
"Which of the following choices indicates that a project has a burn rate of 1.5? (Hint: Burn rate is the same as the Cost Performance Index)",
"The AC is 100 and the EV is 150"
"Which of the following choices indicates that a project has a burn rate of 1.5?",
"The AC is 100 and the EV is 150"
"Which of the following statements best describes the responsibility of the Change Control Board (CCB)?",
"The CCB is responsible for approving/ rejecting change requests"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the critical chain method?",
"The CCM focuses on managing the total float of network paths to ensure that project are delivered on schedule"
"You are a project manager for a company that sells online music. Your project is to develop a new content management system that will not only manage all users purchase downloads, but will automatically learn the users music interests in order to make future product recommendations. In addition your content management system must scale to support millions of concurrent music downloads a day. Your team has made significant progress on the project. You are preparing the performance of a project to date and have calculated the following measurements",
"The CV is positive number, which implies that your project is under budget"
"With respect to risk management, which of the following are not true regarding decision tree analysis?",
"The PDM schedule is typically used to construct the decision tree"
"What is the document that gives the PM the authority to apply organizational resources?",
"The Project Charter"
"Which of the following statements regarding Resource Breakdown structure are true EXCEPT",
"The RBS is a structure that relates the organizational breakdown structure to WBS to ensure that each work component is properly assigned to a responsible person/ team"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the Resource Calendar?",
"The Resource Calendar provides a hierarchal structure of the identified resources by resource category and resource type"
"You are a project manager for a company that sells online music. The company is going so well that company has outgrown its I.T infrastructure. In fact the company's current infrastructure is unable to handle the terabytes of music downloads each day. As a result company decided to give music download to 3rd party content. On your qualified seller list you have identified one potential vendor, music CM. your procure department has identified a large difference between the independent estimate and proposed vendor cost. Which of the following statements are true?",
"The SOW did not contain the enough detail"
"Which of the following is CORRECT in regard to the Control Scope process?",
"The Scope Control process must be integrated with other control processes"
"Your company, Kick That Ball Sports, has appointed you project manager for its new Cricket product line introduction. This is a national effort, and all the retail stores across the country need to have the new products on the shelves before the media advertising blitz begins. The product line involves three new products, two of which will be introduced together and a third one that will follow within two years. Product number three will be elaborated in more detail closer to the product's release date, while the first two products will be elaborated in great detail now. The scope management plan has just been completed. Which of the following is true? (Choose the best response.)",
"The WBS encompasses the full scope of work for the project and the technique in the question is called rolling wave planning"
"Which of the following statements regarding WBS are FALSE?",
"The WBS is used to show which work components have been assigned to which organizational units"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding the administrative closure procedure?",
"The administrative closure procedure addresses the terms and conditions of the contract for contract closure"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding cost and schedule variances?",
"The amount of variance of CV and SV values tend to decrease as the project reaches completion"
"You are using the three-point estimating technique to estimate the duration of a schedule activity. You are given the following data: [Pessimistic=100days] | [optimistic=40days] | [most likely=65 days] Which of the following statements are true?",
"The beat distribution gives an estimate with smaller uncertainty compared to the triangular distribution"
"Which of the following is included in a project charter?",
"The business need for the project"
"When a project is being performed under contract, who provides SOW?",
"The buyer"
"You are using the three points estimating techniques to estimate the duration of the scheduled activities. Which of the following statements are true given the following data?",
"The calculation were performed assuming a triangular distribution"
"You are using the three-point estimating technique to estimate the duration of a schedule activity. You are given the following data",
"The calculations were performed assuming a beta distribution"
"You are using three point estimating technique to estimate the duration of a schedule activity. Which of the following statements are true given the following data",
"The calculations were performed assuming a triangular distribution"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding the close project process?",
"The close project process is necessary for managing the contract and relationship between the buyer and seller"
"The unique identifiers assigned to each item of a WBS are often collectively known as",
"The code of accounts"
"You are about to begin negotiations with people from another country. Which of the following should provide guidance on what business practices are allowed and not allowed?",
"The company code of conduct"
"You are the project manager at a company developing an online music store. You are in the process of calculating the cost budget for this project using a combination of parametric estimation and bottom-up estimation. Which of the following statements are FALSE",
"The cost baseline is an output of the Cost Estimating process"
"The time phased budget that is used to measure and monitor cost performance is",
"The cost baseline"
"Which of the following statements are TRUE",
"The cost change control system is an input to the Cost Control process"
"You are project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena for the upcoming Olympics. Construction began on a project over a year ago. The stakeholders of the project want a status report on the performance of the project to date. You've obtained the following measurements: BAC=500, ETC=200, PV=500, AC=200, EV=300, CPI=1.5 Based on the measurements above, which of the following statements are TRUE?",
"The cost performance of the project is better than expected"
"Which of the following is CORRECT",
"The critical path helps prove how long the project will take"
"Which of the following is CORRECT?",
"The critical path helps prove how long the project will take"
"You have a project with the following activities: Activity A takes 40 hours and can start after the project starts. Activity B takes 25 hours and should happen after the project starts. Activity C must happen after activity A and takes 35 hours. Activity D must happen after activities Band C and takes 30 hours. Activity E must take place after activity C and takes 10 hours. Activity F takes place after Activity E and takes 22 hours. Activities F and D are the last activities of the project. Which of the following is TRUE if activity B actually takes 37 hours?",
"The critical path is Start, A, C, E, F, End"
"You are the project manager for the LLL Project. Steven, a project team member, is confused about network diagrams. Specifically",
"The critical path is the path with the longest duration"
"You are the project manager for the LLL Project. Steven, a project team member, is confused about network diagrams. Specifically, he wants to know what the critical path is in a network diagram",
"The critical path is the path with the longest duration"
"You are the project manager for the LLL Project. Steven, a project team member, is confused about network diagrams. Specifically, he wants to know what the critical path is in a network diagram. Your answer is which one of the following?",
"The critical path is the path with the longest duration"
"You are the project manager for the LLL Project. Steven, a project team member, is confused about network diagrams. Specifically, he wants to know what the critical path is in a network diagram.",
"The critical path is the path with the longest duration"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the critical path method?",
"The critical path method calculates the early start, early finish, late start, late finish dates, and float times for each activity"
"You are the project manager at a manufacturer of electronic components. Your company had been a long time market leader in electronic components distribution industry. However, in recent years, the Internet has transformed the competitive landscape. As a result company's market share has been eroding",
"The estimates should have come form the project team members"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding CPM method?",
"The float /slack time is determine by subtracting the early start date from the early finish date"
"Which is the most appropriate description that explains a project team member?",
"The group that carries out the work of the project"
"Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and cost of changes as project time advances?",
"The influence of the stakeholders decreases, cost of changes increases"
"You are the project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?",
"The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting project risks",
"The input of this process include the project scope statement, risk management plan, and project management plan"
"Which of the following statements regarding risk register is FALSE?",
"The lowest level of the RBS can be used as the risk register"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the Risk Breakdown Structure?",
"The lowest level of the Risk Breakdown Structure can be used as risk checklist"
"Which of the following statement are correct regarding managing stakeholders except",
"The manage stakeholder process is the part of project executing process group"
"Two people are arguing about what needs to be done to complete a work package. If the project manager wants to know what is going on, she should pay MOST attention to",
"The pitch and tone of the voices, and physical mannerisms"
"Two people are arguing about what needs to be done to complete a work package. If the project manager wants to know what is going on, she should pay MOST attention to:",
"The pitch and tone of the voices, and physical mannerisms"
"Your project sponsor has asked you to produce a Risk Management Plan for your current project. Which of the following best describes how you should tailor the plan to your project?",
"The plan must ensure that the level of details and risk management efforts are commensurate with the level of risk and importance of the project"
"You are a project manager for a documentary film company. In light of a recent regional tragedy, the company president wants to get a new documentary on the rescue efforts of the heroic rescue teams to air as soon as possible. She's looking to you to make this documentary the best that has ever been produced in the history of this company. She guarantees you free rein to use whatever resources you need to get this project done quickly. However, the best photographer in the company is currently working on another assignment. Which of the following is true?",
"The primary constraint is quality because the president wants this to be the best film ever produced by this company. She's given you free rein to use whatever resources needed to get the job done"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the procurement audit?",
"The primary purpose of procurement audit is to identify lessons learned during the procurement process"
"Which of the following statement are FALSE regarding the probability impact matrix technique?",
"The probability impact matrix is a tool/ technique of the quantitative risk analysis process"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding the probability impact matrix?",
"The probability impact matrix is a tool/ technique of the quantitative risk analysis process"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the process improvement plan?",
"The process improvement plan is an output to the perform quality control process"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the procurement management plan?",
"The procurement management plan explains how multiples vendors should be managed"
"Which of the following is a project constraint?",
"The product is needed in 250 days"
"You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into the planning processes when a project stakeholder asks you for the projects budget and cost baseline. What should you tell her?",
"The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the project charter?",
"The project charter describes the business needs of the project and should be published by a manager external to the project"
"Which of the following statements regarding the project charter is FALSE?",
"The project charter provides the project manager with functional power over personnel"
"Which of the following regarding project charter is FALSE?",
"The project charter should be published by the project manager"
"Which of the following is true about the project charter?",
"The project charter should be published under the name of a manager external to the project"
"Which of the following statements regarding project charter is false?",
"The project charter should include the preliminary scope statement for the project"
"Which document formally authorizes a project?",
"The project charter"
"You are the project manager for the MNB Project. You and your project team are about to enter into the activity duration estimating process",
"The project contract"
"You are the project manager for the MNB Project. You and your project team are about to enter into the activity duration estimating process. Which of the following will not be helpful in your meeting?",
"The project contract"
"You are the project manager for the MNB Project. You and your project team are about to enter into the activity duration estimating process.",
"The project contract"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the difference between a project expediter and coordinator roles?",
"The project coordinator reports to higher-level manager"
"You are a project manager for Giraffe Enterprises. You've recently taken over for a project manager who lied about his PMI certification and was subsequently fired. Unfortunately, he did a poor job of scope definition. Which of the following could happen if you don't correct this?",
"The project costs could increase, there might be rework, and schedule delays might result"
"Two project managers have just realized that they are in a weak matrix organization and that their power as project managers is quite limited",
"The project expediter cannot make decisions"
"Two project managers have just realized that they are in a weak matrix organization and that their power as project managers is quite limited.",
"The project expediter cannot make decisions"
"Which of the following statements are TRUE regarding the difference between a project expeditor and project coordinator roles?",
"The project expeditor cannot make or enforce decisions"
"Which of the following BEST describes the project manager's role during the procurement process?",
"The project manager should supply an understanding of the risks of the project"
"Who has the MOST power in a projectized organization?",
"The project manager"
"Who is directly responsible for satisfying project requirements?",
"The project manager"
"Who is ultimately responsible for quality management on the project",
"The project manager"
"You are considering outsourcing some of the work on your project. Doing this will reduce the amount of time it takes to complete the milestone, and it will increase the budget. You should document your decision and the reasons for it in",
"The project plan"
"You've been assigned as a project manager on a research and development project for a new dental procedure. You're working in the Scope Planning process. What is the purpose of the project scope management plan?",
"The project scope management plan describes how project scope will be developed and how changes will be managed"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding project scope management plan?",
"The project scope management plan is an output of the Scope Definition process"
"Who is responsible for issuing the project charter?",
"The project sponsor"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the project statement of work?",
"The project statement of work describes the business needs, product scope description, and strategic plan for the project"
"You are the project manger at a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics, personal computers and peripherals. Unfortunately, your company is facing a rapidly maturing market characterized by consolidation and commoditization. Hence you have been assigned a project to drive growth and profit by integrating an online CRM (costumer relationship management) solution. Industry benchmarks suggest the CRM solution should generate $100-$300M in bottom the benefits",
"The project was unsuccessful since it was gold plated"
"Your company manufactures CPU for high-end workstation computers. Your current project involves manufacturing a very high speed CPU (~10GHZ)",
"The project's preliminary project scope statement which defines the scope of the project"
"Your company manufactures memory chips for workstation computer. Your project involves manufacturing a very high capacity memory chip. 128GB",
"The project's preliminary scope statement that document the characteristic of the project"
"You are the project manager for the international contract manufacturing firm with manufacturing the plants and offices in India, China and Thailand",
"The qualified seller list is input to the select seller process and provides information about the seller"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding quality planning and perform quality assurance?",
"The quality planning process uses the tool such as benefit costs analysis, benchmarking, flow charting, and design of experiment and cost of quality. Quality assurance involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project"
"When a risk should be avoided?",
"The risk event is unacceptable - generally one with a very high probability of occurrence and high impact"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the scope baseline for a project?",
"The scope baseline is an output of the create WBS process"
"Who has cost risk in a fixed price (FP) contract?",
"The seller"
"Who has the cost risk in a fixed price (FP) contract?",
"The seller"
"You are in the process of developing an approximation of the costs of the resources needed to complete each schedule activity. Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding this process?",
"The staffing management plan is an input to this process and describes the type and quantity of resources required to complete project work"
"Which of the following is TRUE about most project life cycles?",
"The stakeholders' influence is highest at the start"
"Your project has just been fast tracked and you are looking to quickly bring in a subcontractor to complete networking. There is no time to issue a request for proposal (RFP), so you choose to use a company you have used many times before for software development. A PRIMARY concern in this situation is",
"The subcontractor's qualifications"
"Your project has just been fast tracked and you are looking to quickly bring in a subcontractor to complete networking. There is no time to issue a request for proposal (RFP), so you choose to use a company you have used many times before for software development. A PRIMARY concern in this situation is:",
"The subcontractor's qualifications"
"Which is the correct explanation of Scope?",
"The sum of the products and services created as a project"
"Which of the following statements are TRUE regarding the scope verification process?",
"The tool/ technique of scope verification is inspection"
"You are in the process of defining how to plan and execute the risk management activities for your project. Which of the following statements are FALSE?",
"The tools/ techniques of this process are checklist analysis and diagramming techniques"
"You are using three point estimating technique to estimate the estimate of a scheduled activity. Which of the following statement are true given the following data",
"The triangular distribution gives an estimate with larger uncertainty"
"Which statement is TRUE about Present Value(PV)?",
"The value today of future cash flow"
"Which of the statements regarding the WBS is FALSE?",
"The work activity is the lowest level of the WBS and is the point at which the cost and schedule for the work can be reliably estimated"
"You are the project manager within a large multi-national company. Your current project involves a large software development project that involves coordination of resources across four different reengineering teams across three different countries. Specifically your UI team is based in India, your database team and middleware team is in U.S., and your QA team is in Canada. The engineers in each of the team report to geographic functional manger, but are currently on loan to you for your project",
"The work packages were not adequately defined for the project"
"Which of the following best describes project scope?",
"The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions"
"Which of the follwing describes the theory Z style of management?",
"Theory Z based on the Japanese approach to motivating workers, emphasizing trust, quality, collective decision making, and cultural values"
"Which of the following describes the theory Z style of management",
"Theory Z is based on the Japanese approach to motivating workers, emphasizing trust, quality, collective decision making, and cultural values"
"Which of the following describes the theory Z style of management?",
"Theory Z is based on the Japanese approach to motivating workers, emphasizing trust, quality, collective decision making, and cultural values"
"Which of the following statement regarding competitive methods, scoring methods, and cash flow analysis?",
"There are benefit measurement methods used as tools in the initiating process group"
"Your project has an EV of 100 work-days, an AC of 120 work-days, and a PV of 80 work-days.What should be your concern?",
"There is a cost overrun"
"You have been recently assigned to provide an accurate project schedule for a large construction company. You are evaluating the network diagram for the construction project",
"There is approx. 68 percent chance that the activity will complete roughly between 36 days and 53 days"
"What is the duration of a milestone?",
"There is no duration"
"You are a PM at a pharmaceutical company. You are the project manager in charge of the development of a new drug that will reduce the after effects of chemo-therapy. What is an assumption that you might have as part of your project plan?",
"There will not be a cure for cancer in the next 5 years"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding decision models using multi objective programming algorithms?",
"These are constrained optimization methods/ mathematical models"
"Which of the following statements are TRUE regarding comparative methods, scoring method, and cash flow analysis?",
"These are project selection methods"
"Which is not true about change requests",
"They always require additional funding"
"Which of the following is not true about change requests?",
"They always require additional funding"
"Within the five overlapping process groups of initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing which processes dominate in all project phases?",
"They are all essential in each phase"
"Which of the following is true of projects?",
"They have a unique purpose"
"Which of the following is CORRECT about quality improvements?",
"They require the preparation of change requests or the recommendation of corrective actions"
"You are a project manager working in a foreign country. You observe that some of your project team members are having a difficult time adjusting to the new culture. You provided them with training on cultural differences and the customs of this country before arriving, but they still seem uncomfortable and disoriented. Which of the following statements is true?",
"This condition is known as culture shock"
"Your management has decided that all orders will be treated as "projects" and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, to resolve issues, and to ensure that the customer formally accepts the product within 30 days of completion. Revenue from the individual orders can vary from US $100 to US $150,000. The project manager will not be required to perform planning or provide documentation other than daily status. How would you define this situation?",
"This is a recurring process"
"You are the project manger assigned to build the house. You have determined the dependencies between activities on the project. One of the activity dependencies is that the foundation of the house must be created prior to the construction of the frame which of the following is true?",
"This is an example of mandatory dependency"
"You are a project manager at day-old donuts, a rapidly growing franchise selling premium donuts at a discount. Currently your company is planning for opening new stores throughout the United States. You have been asked to open a store in Manhattan, New York. Construction on a new store is about to begin. You have determined the dependencies between activities on a project. One of the activity dependencies is that the trusses on the building must be installed prior to the installation of the roofing. Which of the following is true?",
"This is finish-to-start relationship"
"You are the project manager for an information technology division of a large health care provider in the United States. Due to the new regulatory requirements enacted by HIPAA to ensure the privacy of confidential medical records, you have been assigned to audit all I.T systems to ensure compliance",
"This project came about due to legal requirements, and the primary constraint is schedule"
"You are a project manager for Cinema Snicker Productions. Your company specializes in producing comedy films for the big screen. Your latest project has just been completed and accepted. You've been given your next project, which starts right away. Which of the following statements is true?",
"This project ended due to extinction because it was completed and accepted"
"Your project team consists of 12 people in the same building you're located in, 4 people from the West Coast office, 2 people from the Kansas City office, and 6 people from the London office. Your office works different hours than all the other offices. Additionally, not all of the resources in your building are available at the same times during the day. Three of the 12 team members work swing shift hours. You use tools like web conferencing and email to distribute information to the team. Which of the following is true?",
"This question describes virtual teams from the Acquire Project Team process and information distribution methods from the Information Distribution process"
"Thomas is a project manager at a biotech company. He is an excellent project manager with a very successful track record managing large, complex R&D projects. During his leisure time, Thomas competes in amateur body-building contests",
"Thomas is violating one of the responsibilities of the PMI code of conduct"
"Which of the following techniques incorporates a form of risk assessment?",
"Three-point estimating"
"When does risk monitoring and control occur?",
"Throughout the life of the project"
"What does a resource histogram show that a responsibility assignment matrix does not?",
"Time"
"You are the project manager fro the large children's toy manufacturer. You have been asked to manufacture the latest craze in 'Dancing Widgets'for upcoming Christmas season. You've been informed that the company needs at least one month lead time in order to have Widgets on retailer's shelves for Christmas season. Hence, based on the current sales forecast you've been asked to deliver 100,000 units by November 1st at the least. Since the toys will be used by young children, the 'Dancing Widgets'must be manufactured to meet very specific safety specifications",
"Time, since the delivery cannot be changed"
"valid formats of the project schedule",
"Time-scaled scheduled network diagram"
"With respect to management planning, timing defines how often risk management process should be performed throughout the project lifecycle. Which of the following is the key factor affects timing?",
"Timing should allow results to be developed early enough to affect decisions"
"With respect to risk management planning, timing defines how often risk management processes should be performed throughout the project lifecycle. Which of the following is the key factor affecting timings?",
"Timing should allow the results to be developed early enough to affect decisions"
"Which of the following describes the purpose of the quality control process?",
"To assess performance and recommend necessary changes"
"Which of the following is NOT a reason to measure variances from the baseline?",
"To create a project control system"
"What is the function of a Project Management Office (PMO)?",
"To focus on the coordinated planning, prioritization, and execution of projects and subprojects that are tied to the parent organizations' or the client's overall business objectives"
"You are a project manager for a major information systems project. Someone from the quality department comes to see you about beginning a quality audit of your project. The team, already under pressure to complete the project as soon as possible, objects to the audit. You should explain to the team that the purpose of a quality audit is",
"To identify inefficient and ineffective policies"
"You are a project manager for Dutch Harbor Consulting. Your latest project involves the upgrade of an organization's operating system on 236 servers. You performed this project under contract",
"To verify that all the work was completed correctly and satisfactorily"
"You are currently in the closing process and are involved in the product verification. Which of the following best describes the purpose of product verification?",
"To verify whether the work was completed correctly"
"Your project team has identified several potential risks on your current project that could have a significant impact if they occurred. The team examined the impact of the risks by keeping all the uncertain elements at their baseline values. What type of diagram will the team use to display this information?",
"Tornado diagram"
"Which of the following is the total amount of time that a scheduled activity may be delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date?",
"Total float"
"Which of the following best describes the amount of time one can delay the start of task without delaying the completion of the project?",
"Total slack"
"Which of the following is not a preferred section in communication plan?",
"Training activities"
"You are in the process of identifying and documenting the project roles and responsibilities and create staffing management plan. All of the following should be addressed when listing the roles and responsibilities EXCEPT",
"Training needs"
"Which of the following is NOT considered a cost of non-conformance to quality?",
"Training"
"Which of the following processes is considered the most effective process to ensure that cultural and ethical differences do not impede success of your multi-national project?",
"Training"
"Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?",
"Transfer"
"The sending or conveying of information from one place to another is the process of ____",
"Transmitting"
"The sending or conveying of information from one place to another is the process of",
"Transmitting"
"The sending or conveying of information from one place to another is the process of:",
"Transmitting"
"You are approximately 30% through your project and the sponsor wants a forecast of the final budget based on what has already been spent. You create an S curve chart display of what kind of performance report",
"Trend analysis"
"Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?",
"Trend"
"This model describes five stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning",
"Tuck man"
"Which of the following is not a consideration in selecting project staff members?",
"Type of organization"
"Which of the following statements is false",
"Uncertainty and risk are lowest at the start of the project and greatest at the end"
"Which of the following statements is false?",
"Uncertainty and risk are lowest at the start of the project and greatest at the end"
"What is the status of a project if cost Performance Index is 1.25 and the Schedule Performance Index is 0.75?",
"Under budget and behind schedule"
"Which of the following defines a characteristic of a project?",
"Unique"
"Which of the following is not a part of the Earned Value calculations?",
"Unknown Unknowns"
"Which of the following best describes why one would use a resource histogram versus a responsibility assignment matrix?",
"Unlike the responsibility assignment matrix, a resource histogram shows when people will do their jobs"
"To manage a project effectively, work should be broken down into small pieces. Which of the following does NOT describe how far to decompose the work?",
"Until it can be done by one person"
"Which of the following activities is not part of Plan Risk Management?",
"Updating risk register"
"Which of the following is not an example of project integration management",
"Upon identifying a risk to the project you perform a risk analysis to ascertain the likelihood of the risk occurring and the impact on the project"
"What is included in a control chart?",
"Upper specification limit"
"You have inherited a project that is in trouble. The team members are spread out in 5 states, the schedule is behind by 20%, the former project manager alienated the team and there is no communication plan. The first issue you must work on is building a cohesive team to get the project back on track. Which of the following is not a technique that you would use in team development",
"Use performance reports to get feedback on individual performance"
"You are working on a project that is similar in scope to a project performed last year by your company. You might consider which of the following?",
"Using the previous project's WBS as a template"
"While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery. What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?",
"Utilize the change control process"
"Which of the following calculates the difference between the budget at completion and estimate at completion?",
"VAC"
"Which of the following does NOT assess the value a project brings to an organization?",
"Value analysis"
"Which of the following techniques is used during Control Scope?",
"Variance Analysis"
"Which technique is utilized in the Schedule Control process?",
"Variance Analysis"
"What cost control technique is used to compare actual project performance to planned or expected performance?",
"Variance analysis"
"You are in the process of monitoring the various project processes and their performance. Which of the following is the LEAST appropriate tool/ technique to use in this process?",
"Variance analysis"
"You are the project manager responsible for developing a new hybrid engine for a major auto manufacturer. You are in the process of developing the project schedule and would like to access the feasibility of your project schedule under various different conditions. Which of the following scheduling techniques is the LEAST appropriate?",
"Variance analysis"
"You are in the process of establishing a total cost baseline for measuring project performance. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful tool / technique?",
"Vendor bid analysis"
"Which of the following is not an input into procurement planning?",
"Vendor lists"
"What is the difference between a Verify Scope process and quality control?",
"Verify Scope is primarily concerned with the acceptance of work results while quality control is primarily concerned with the correctness of work results"
"Which of the following is required for Control Scope?",
"Verify Scope"
"You are project manger of an existing project. You have been with your company for several years but not in the area where this project is occurring. A Project Management Plan is in place. The project has not exceeded many baseline change thresholds. The customer is not happy with the status of the project. Which of the following is the BEST initial action?",
"Verify the customer's needs and expectations"
"Which of the following is not a primary input of activity duration estimation process?",
"WBS Dictionary"
"Which of the following is not an output of activity resource estimation process?",
"WBS Dictionary"
"Which of the following are not tools/ techniques that can be used to create the WBS?",
"WBS dictionary"
"Which of the following document include a code of account identifier, a statement of work, and a list of schedule milestones for each WBS component?",
"WBS dictionary"
"Which of the following documents generated by the create WBS process includes a code of account identifier, a statement of work, and a list of schedule milestones for each WBS component?",
"WBS dictionary"
"You are in process of controlling changes to the project cost baseline. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"WBS updates, WBS dictionary updates"
"Theprovides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance",
"WBS"
"Which of the following are not inputs to the develop preliminary project scope statement?",
"WBS"
"Which of the following is NOT an input of close project process?",
"WBS"
"Which of the following is not an output from the activity duration estimating process?",
"WBS"
"Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?",
"WBS"
"Which of the following is not true about Project Plan Development?",
"Wait until all the other planning outputs are complete, then compile them into one final project plan"
"Which of the following best describes the following organizational structure?",
"Weak matrix Org"
"You have been assigned to a project that will allow job seekers to fill out applications and submit them via the company website. You report to the VP of human resources. You are also responsible for screening applications for the information technology division and setting up interviews. The project coordinator has asked for the latest version of your changes to the online application page for his review. Which organizational structure do you work in?",
"Weak matrix organization"
"You are the project manager at Day-Old donuts a rapidly growing franchise selling premium donuts at a discount. Currently, your company is planning on opening additional stores throughout Europe. Your company is evaluating different areas for expansion including France, Germany and England. Your steering committee used a weighted score model and found that in England with a score of 75, provided the best opportunities for expansion. Which of the following statements are true?",
"Weighted scoring models are benefit measurement method, and is tool/ technique of the initiation process group"
"Which of the following is a method for quantifying qualitative data in order to minimize the effect of personal prejudice on source selection?",
"Weighting system"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding weighting and screening systems?",
"Weighting systems and screening systems are tool/ techniques of request seller responses process"
"Which of the following is a tool and technique to develop the schedule?",
"What-if scenario analysis"
"When should the project expeditor form of organization be used?",
"When a project's cost and importance are relativelylow"
"When is the earned-value approach appropriate to use",
"When accurate and timely cost data are available"
"When is the earned-value approach appropriate to use.",
"When accurate and timely cost data are available"
"Which of the following is LEAST likely to improve the accuracy of cost estimates produced through parametric cost estimating techniques?",
"When cost estimates for work packages, control accounts, and planning packages in the WBS are accurate and detailed"
"Which of the following is LEAST likely to improve the accuracy of cost estimates produced through parametric cost estimating technique?",
"When cost estimates of individual work packages are detailed and accurate"
"Which of the following situations will cause schedule activity duration estimates to directly influence cost estimates EXCEPT",
"When resource cost rate information is unavailable from commercial databases"
"When can pre-assignment of project team members occur?",
"When the project is the result of specific people being promised as part of a competitive proposal"
"When is a project finished?",
"When the project objectives have been met"
"When should a risk be avoided?",
"When the risk event is unacceptable -- generally one with a very high probability of occurrence and high impact."
"What is risk tolerance?",
"Willingness to accept varying degrees of risks"
"When using the ____, project managers retreat or withdraw from actual or potential disagreement. This approach is also called avoiding mode",
"Withdrawal mode"
"When using the ____, project managers retreat or withdraw from actual or potential disagreement. This approach is also called avoiding mode.",
"Withdrawal mode"
"What conflict resolution technique is a project manager using when he says, 'I cannot deal with this issue now!'",
"Withdrawal"
"What conflict resolution technique is a project manager using when he says, I cannot deal with this issue now!",
"Withdrawal"
"Which of the following conflict resolution techniques describes a lose- lose situation where one of the parties involved in the conflict reduces to discuss the conflict, and hence, a resolution is never achieved",
"Withdrawal"
"Which of the following models of conflict resolution allows a cooling off period, but seldom resolves the issue in the long term?",
"Withdrawal"
"Which of the following is not a tool or technique for overall change control?",
"Work Authorization system"
"What is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?",
"Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)"
"Which of the following can be used to determine what work is included in each work package for each of your team members?",
"Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary"
"Which of the following can be used to determine what work is included in",
"Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary"
"Your company has just received approval to purchase a company that offers complementary services to your company. As PM on the acquisition, you develop a deliverable-oriented grouping of project elements that organizes and defines the total scope of the project. This output is called",
"Work Breakdown Structure"
"Which of the following is not an output of scope change control?",
"Work arounds"
"Which of the following tools/techniques can be used to help ensure that project work tasks will NOT be duplicated by multiple team members?",
"Work authorization system"
"Which process is not included in the Project Time Management process?",
"Work breakdown structure (WBS)"
"Which is not a tool or technique for project plan execution",
"Work breakdown structure"
"Which of the following is useful in Identify Risks because it permits a systemic evaluation of the work?",
"Work breakdown structure"
"Work packages are described in the ____",
"Work breakdown structure"
"You are the project manager of a project. You have to determine the staffing requirements of the project. Which of the following you need",
"Work breakdown structure"
"Which of the following is NOT a key input for preparing the project scope statement?",
"Work breakdown structures"
"Which of the following statements regarding WBS are true?",
"Work not included in the WBS is considered outside the scope of the project"
"What is the lowest level in a WBS called?",
"Work package"
"What is the lowest level in the WBS at which cost and activity durations for the work can be reliably estimated and managed?",
"Work package"
"Which of the following is an important input to the integrated change control process?",
"Work performance information"
"You are in the process of controlling changes to the project scope. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT",
"Work performance information"
"You are in the process of directing the performance of a planned project activities and managing various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within your project. All of the following are required inputs EXCEPT",
"Work performance information"
"What is an output of Control Scope?",
"Work performance measurements"
"Which of the following is an input to the information distribution process?",
"Work results"
"Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the planning process group?",
"Work with the customer to determine acceptance criteria"
"Which of the following best describes what is a workaround?",
"Workarounds are unplanned responses to risks that were previously unidentified or accepted"
"Which of the following is not an output of the cost control process?",
"Workarounds"
"Which of the following tool/ technique are unplanned responses to risks that were previously unidentified?",
"Workarounds"
"unplanned responses to risk events that must be done when there are no contingency plans",
"Workarounds"
"unplanned responses to risk events when there are no contingency plans in place",
"Workarounds"
"The three major types of communication are",
"Written, verbal, and non-verbal"
"The three major types of communication are: ____",
"Written, verbal, and non-verbal"
"The three major types of communication are:",
"Written, verbal, and non-verbal"
"You are the project manager for a company that sells online music. The company is growing so well that the company has outgrown its I.T infrastructure. In fact, the company's current infrastructure is unable to handle the terabytes of music download each day. As a result, the company has decided to outsource its music download infrastructure to a third party content management vendor. The content management vendor will host the compressed music files across its geographically distributed web server farms, and handle all the logistics with music file downloads and data streaming. On your qualified sellers list, you have identified one potential vendor MusikCM. Your procurement department is conducting an independent estimate of costs of the proposals in order to compare the vendor prices. However, your procurement department has identified a large difference between the independent estimate and the proposed vendor cost. Which of the following statements are FALSE?",
"You are currently in the request seller responses process"
"You are the project manager at a construction company. Your company is in the process of developing a 500-unit apartment complex. Your company has subcontracted all the electrical wiring of the building to XYZ Electrical. The subcontractor's work involved wiring the building for electrical power, as well as cable and Internet/Ethernet wiring. The subcontractor has just completed the work, and you are in process of inspecting his work",
"You are in the quality assurance process, and performed a quality audit of the contractor's work"
"You are a project manager for Picture Shades, Inc. It manufactures window shades that have replicas of Renaissance-era paintings on the inside for hotel chains. Picture Shades is taking its product to the home market, and you're managing the new project. It will offer its products at retail stores as well as on its website. You're developing the project schedule for this under-taking and have determined the critical path. Which of the following statements is true?",
"You calculated the early and late start dates, the early and late finish dates, and float times for all activities"
"You have been with the organization; you constantly hear rumours about a certain CAPM failing to live up to the CAPM Code. What you should do?",
"You can gather as much information as you can before proceeding"
"You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country. You know, but have not yet informed your company, that you are going to go to work for the competitor, which happens to be bidding for this same opportunity. What is the most appropriate response?",
"You decline to participate in the initial meetings with the foreign business partners because of a conflict of interest"
"You work at RFID-PM Inc, a publicly traded company that develops RFID technology. Radio Frequency Identification RFID is a method of remotely storing and retrieving data using devices called RFID tags/ transponders. An RFID tag is a small object, such as an adhesive sticker, that can be attached to or incorporated into a product Your friend, Nelson, has asked you for the financial information regarding your company. So you decide to forward him the pro forma financial statements for the upcoming quarterly report that you obtained from your finance department. Have you provided insider information regarding your company?",
"You have not provided insider information and violated the professional code of conduct"
"You work at RFID-PM Inc, a publicly traded company that develops RFID technology. Radio Frequency Identification RFID is a method of remotely storing and retrieving data using devices called RFID tags/ transponders. An RFID tag is a small object, such as an adhesive sticker, that can be attached to or incorporated into a product Your friend, Nelson, has asked you for the financial information regarding your company. So you decide to forward him the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) 10K filing/ financial statements from the SEC web-site. Hove you provided insider information regarding your company?",
"You have not provided insider information since you merely forwarded publicly available data"
"You are in the process of making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner. Which of the following statements are true?",
"You need the communications management plan as one of the process inputs"
"You are a contract manager within an information technology department of a large retailer. You are responsible fro developing a new ecommerce website for the retailer. You are in process of selecting the vendor who will provide the hardware, including computer servers and networking equipment. As a project manager, you are in the Select Sellers process, and have three different vendors on your qualified sellers list who have responded to your company's RFP",
"You should disclose that you are an investor to the company"
"You are a project manager for Food Plaza, which is a retail food delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country. You have been invited for a dinner with the prospective foreign business partners and their spouses upon your arrival. You know that all of the following statements are generally true except",
"You should explain your company's rules, standards, and operating policies at your first meeting with the prospective foreign business partner!"
"You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country",
"You should explain your company's rules, standards, and operating policies at your first meeting with the prospective foreign business partners"
"You are currently working on a web development project to develop a new user-interface for a legacy mainframe banking application. You are under a Times and Material contract to develop a wed based interface for this application. You have finished the work 20 hours earlier than expected. This means that the profit of your company will decrease. What should you do?",
"You should inform the customer that your project is complete"
"You are the project manager within an information technology department of a large retailer. In order to allow for better real-time tracking, inventory control, and supply chain management, your company is financing a project to install and deploy RFID tags on all items of merchandise. As a project manger, you've just completed the Select Sellers process, and selected a vendor to perform the RFID installation and deployment",
"You should not accept the gift, as it may have an appearance of impropriety"
"You are the project manager within and information technology department of a large retailer. You are responsible for updating the network infrastructure of the company. As a project manager, you are in the Select Sellers process, and have four different vendors on your qualified sellers list. One of the vendors on your list has invited you to lunch to a very high- class and expensive restaurant. In fact, a meal can cost anywhere from $500-$1000 USD. What should you do?",
"You should review your company's policy on the type of gifts you can accept"
"You are currently the project manager at a rapidly growing retailer of high-performance audio equipment. You have been asked to lead the project to expand the retail business in the Unite States. You are currently deciding amongst three promising geographic locations: New York, Seattle, and San Francisco",
"You should select Seattle, as it provides the highest expected monetary value"
"Your friend Robert has recently achieved his PMP certification. Prior, to receiving his PMP, he had worked as a project manager, for various I.T projects over the past 4 years. Robert is familiar with various techniques fir I.T quality control and assurance. However, Robert is currently advertising himself as an expert in quality control for the manufacturing industry. But you know that the quality issues and techniques differ greatly between the I.T. industry and the manufacturing industry. In fact, you know that Robert has never even used control charts or cause-and-effect diagramming techniques. You feel that Robert is falsely advertising his credentials and expertise",
"You should talk to Robert to have him stop falsely advertising his experience. Let him know you'll report him to the PMI otherwise"
"You are the project manager at a software company developing the next-gen OODBMS (Object Oriented Data Base Management System). You are in the process of developing project schedule using CPM (Critical Path Method)",
"You should use resource leveling heuristics to reassign the resource appropriately"
"You are a project manager for an engineering company. Your company won the bid to add ramp- metering lights to several on-ramps along a stretch of highway at the south end of the city. You subcontracted a portion of the project to another company. The subcontractor's work involves digging the holes and setting the lamp poles in concrete. The subcontractor's performance is not meeting the contract requirements. Which of the following is not a valid option?",
"You submit a change request through Contract Administration demanding that the subcontractor comply with the terms of the contract"
"Which of the following events would result in a baseline update?",
"Your customer has approved a change request broadening the project scope and increasing the budget"
"You are the project manager at a large accounting firm in the United States. Throughout the year your firm provides both consulting services and accounting/ auditing services to XYZ Widgets, Inc, a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Currently, your project involves auditing the financial statements of XYZ Widgets Inc, in preparation for the annual shareholders/ investors meeting",
"Your project ended due to extinction"
"Your company is making a strategy shift: form being focused on fulfilling customer requests for becoming the best cost dairy producer in industry. Its existing cost manufacturing cost system, however fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small production orders, and complex delivery and order processing options. Hence you've been assigned to supervise an existing project to develop a new time-drive, activity-based costing system that will capture the full complexity of the company's operations and gives managers new insights into the profitability orders, products, and customers. Senior management will use the information to enhance process efficiencies, negotiating new terms with customers, and attempt to win new business",
"Your project team will exhibit low productivity levels, poor morale, and high levels of conflict throughout the project"
"What is the total float of the critical path?",
"Zero or negative"
"Which of the following is false regarding recognition and rewards?",
"Zero sum rewards, that only a limited number of project team members can achieve"
"You are using the three-point estimating technique to estimate the duration of a schedule activity. Which of the following is the correct formula for calculating variance assuming a triangular distribution?",
"[(optimistic-pessimistic)^2+(most likely-pessimistic)*(most likely-optimistic)]/18"
"Which of the following items is not normally included in a project charter?",
"a Gantt chart"
"What type of diagram shows planned and actual project schedule information?",
"a Tracking Gantt chart"
"What tool can you use to determine whether a process is in control or out of control?",
"a control chart"
"Which of the following is not a key output of project cost management?",
"a cost management plan"
"What do many experts agree is the greatest threat to the success of any project?",
"a failure to communicate"
"What tool could you use to see if there is a relationship between two variables?",
"a scatter diagram"
"The WBS is ____",
"a task oriented family tree of the project"
"The WBS is ____.",
"a task oriented family tree of the project"
"which of the following is NOT a project",
"a technician updates incorrect data weekly"
"What symbol on a Gantt chart represents a slipped milestone?",
"a white diamond"
"Those who are ____ have a higher tolerance for risk, and their satisfaction increases when more payoff is at stake",
"a.risk-seeking"
"You are project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena for the upcoming Olympics. Construction begins on a project over a year ago. The stakeholders of the project want a status report on the performance of the project to date. You've obtained the following measurements",
"a400"
"Your organization hired a specialist in a certain field to provide training for a short period of time. Which reason for outsourcing would this fall under?",
"accessing skills and technologies"
"Theprovide(s) schedule-related information about each activity, such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions related to the activity",
"activity attributes"
"Which one of the following is not an acquisition method?",
"advertising"
"The term ____ has become popular to describe new approaches that focus on close collaboration between programming teams and business experts",
"agile software development"
"The use of quality circles",
"allows workers the opportunity to generate solutions for chronic quality problems"
"Your project sponsor has requested a cost estimate for the project on which you're working. This project is similar in scope to a project you worked on last year. She would like to get cost estimates as soon as possible. Accuracy is not her primary concern right now. She needs a ballpark figure by tomorrow. You decide to use ____",
"analogous estimating techniques"
"Which of the following statements regarding WBS is false? To identify the major deliverables of the project requires",
"analyzing the preliminary project scope statement The work package is the lowest level in the WBS"
"Which of the following statements re true regarding Bidder Conferences, and Develop Qualified Sellers List? They are tool/techniques used to process bid/ proposals in order",
"and proposals from prospective sellers"
"Which of the following is cost of evaluating processes and their outputs to ensure that a project is error-free or within an accepted or rejected?",
"appraisal cost"
"Which of the following is the cost of evaluating processes and their outputs to ensure that a project is error-free or within an accepted or rejected?",
"appraisal cost"
"Theory Y",
"assumes individuals consider work as natural as play or rest and enjoy the satisfaction of esteem and self-actualization needs"
"Theory X",
"assumes workers dislike and avoid work, so managers must use coercion, threats and various control schemes to get workers to meet objectives"
"Your project team has decided not to use an upcoming release of software because it might cause your schedule to slip. Which negative risk response strategy are you using?",
"avoidance"
"Which of Covey's habits does Douglas Ross suggest differentiates good project managers from average or poor project managers?",
"b.Seek first to understand, then to be understood"
"When using the ____, project managers exert their viewpoint at the potential expense of another viewpoint",
"b.compromise mode d.forcing mode"
"Utility rises at a decreasing rate for a ____ person",
"b.risk-averse"
"The stakeholder's influence is greatest at the ____ of the project",
"beginning"
"You have been recently assigned to provide an accurate project schedule for a large construction company",
"between 64 days and 78 days"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding project funding requirements?",
"but are included in the budget for the project"
"Which of the following statements regarding quality audits are FALSE",
"but can also be performed in parallel with scope verification Quality audits examines how the project is progressing and"
"Unenforceable conditions or contract clauses, and adversarial relations are risk conditions associated with the ____ project management knowledge area",
"c.Procurement"
"The term ____ describes a product produced as part of a project",
"c.deliverable"
"The ultimate goal of ____ is to create a realistic project schedule that provides a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project",
"c.developing the schedule"
"There are ____ main processes involved in project scope management",
"c.five"
"William Ibbs and Young H. Kwak's study revealed that the ____ industry had the lowest level of project management maturity in the area of quality management",
"c.information systems"
"William Ibbs and Young H. Kwak's study revealed that the ____ industry had the lowest level of project management maturity in the area of risk management",
"c.information systems"
"There are ____ main processes involved in project time management",
"c.six"
"Theprocess involves gaining stakeholder and customer acceptance of the final products and services and bringing the project, or project phase, to an orderly end.",
"closing"
"You have just completed the progress planning process group and are ready to begin the project executing process group. You will need to perform all the following executing processes except",
"collect and distribute project performance information"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding the communication process?",
"complete"
"With the _, project managers use a give-and-take approach to resolving conflicts",
"compromise mode"
"With the ____ ____, project managers use a give-and-take approach to resolving conflicts",
"compromise mode"
"When the stakes are high, ____ is never far away",
"conflict"
"When using the ____, project managers directly face a conflict using a problem-solving approach that allows affected parties to work through their disagreements",
"confrontation mode"
"When using the ____, project managers directly face a conflict using a problem-solving approach that allows affected parties to work through their disagreements.",
"confrontation mode"
"Themode is also called the problem-solving mode",
"confrontation"
"Your project involves using a new release of a common software application, but if that release is not available, your team has ____ plans to use the current release",
"contingency"
"Your project involves using a new release of a common software application, but if that release is not available, your team has ____ plans to use the current release.",
"contingency"
"The unique resources and strengths that an organization's management considers when formulating strategy",
"core competencies"
"Total funding requirements and periodic funding requirements are derived from",
"cost baseline"
"Which type of contract has the least amount of risk for seller",
"cost plus percentage of costs"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE about cost reimbursable contracts?",
"cost-reimbursable contracts resemble fix unit agreements when the unit rates are preset by the buyer and seller"
"Which of the following MUST NOT performed in project initiation process?",
"create project scope statement"
"The ways in which customers become part of the process and the extent of their participation (high or low)",
"customer involvement"
"Theultimately decides if quality is acceptable",
"customer"
"You are working with XYZ organization. Your senior manager imposed new delivery date which is earlier than mentioned project deliverables date in scope statement. To whom you are most accountable?",
"customer"
"There are ____ major processes involved in risk management",
"d.six"
"You are the project manager for a new software development project. You are in process of assigning resources to your project using a work authorization system. Which of the following statements are FALSE? A work authorization system should balance the value of control",
"decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team A work authorization system is a formal procedure for"
"What is the first process in planning a project schedule?",
"defining activities"
"The termdescribes a product produced as part of a project",
"deliverabl"
"Which of the following processes is NOT a part of project integration management",
"develop the project business case"
"Which of the following processes is NOT a part of project integration management?",
"develop the project business case"
"Which of the following processes is not part of project integration management?",
"develop the project business case"
"The ultimate goal ofis to create a realistic project schedule that provides a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project",
"developing the schedule"
"The role of the ____ can be invaluable in problem solving",
"devils advocate"
"Which is not an example of formal communication?",
"email"
"Which of the following statements are true regarding random causes and special causes with respect to statistical Perform Quality Control? Special causes area result of variance that are always present in",
"events"
"The tasks vary the most from project to project",
"executin"
"Which process group normally requires the most resources and time?",
"executing"
"Understanding the stakeholders ____ can help in managing issues",
"expectations"
"Understanding the stakeholders' ____ can help in managing issues",
"expectations"
"What tool and technique is used for all of the other project integration management processes?",
"expert judgment"
"You cannot start editing a technical report until someone else completes the first draft. What type of dependency does this represent?",
"finish-to-start"
"The step in the planning process is to tie the information technology strategic plan to the organizations overall strategic plan",
"first"
"Which of the following is closest to Juran's definition of Quality",
"fitness for use"
"Which type of contract has the least amount of risk for buyer",
"fixed-price"
"Using a win-lose approach to conflict resolution to get a way",
"forcing mode"
"When using the, project managers exert their viewpoint at the potential expense of another viewpoint.",
"forcing mode"
"What are five stages in Tuckman's model of team development, in chronological order?",
"forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning"
"Tom DeMarco, a well-known author on software development, suggests ____ reasons for the inaccuracies of many information technology project cost estimates and some ways to overcome them",
"four d. six"
"There are ____ main processes of project procurement management",
"four"
"Tom DeMarco, a well-known author on software development, suggestsreasons for the inaccuracies of many information technology project cost estimates and some ways to overcome them",
"four"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding RACI charts? RACI charts are tools/ techniques of Human Resource Planning",
"fro project team"
"Three general classifications of organizational structures are ____, project, and matrix",
"functional"
"You are the project manager and at the completion of the project, you MUST",
"get a sign-off from the customer"
"Which of the following characteristics show the degree to which work activities are organized around groups or team, rather than individuals?",
"group emphasis"
"To handle complex situations effectively, project managers need to take a(n) ____ view of a project and understand how it relates to the larger organization",
"holistic"
"which of the following knowledge areas is a facilitating knowledge area tha means througn which the project objectives are achieved",
"human resources management"
"Themodel provides for progressive development of operational software, with each release providing added capabilities",
"incremental build life cycle"
"Which of the following is not a process in project communications management?",
"information planning"
"William Ibbs and Young H. Kwak's study revealed that the ____ industry had the lowest level of project management maturity in the area of quality management",
"information systems"
"William Ibbs and Young H. Kwak's study revealed that the ____ industry had the lowest level of project management maturity in the area of risk management",
"information systems"
"William Ibbs and Young H. Kwak's study revealed that the ____ industry had the lowest level of project management maturity in the area of risk management.",
"information systems"
"What is the first step in the four-stage planning process for selecting information technology projects?",
"information technology strategy planning"
"Which of the following is not part of the three-sphere model for systems management?",
"information"
"Which of the following is most closely associated with pure risk",
"insurance"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the project scope management plan?",
"interest of the stakeholders and documents their expectations The project scope management plan is an output of the Scope"
"You are the project manager within an information technology department of a retailer. In order to allow for better real-tracking, in inventory control, and supply chain management, your company in financing a project a project to install and deploy RFID on all items of merchandise. As the project manager you're in select sellers process, and have 4 different vendors on your qualified sellers list. One of the vendors on your list has invited you to lunch. What should you do? You can accept the invitation, as there shouldn't conflict of",
"interest with this invitation"
"Which of the following is cost incurred to correct an identified defect before the customer receives the product?",
"internal failure cost"
"Which of the following is the cost incurred to correct an identified defect before the customer receives the product?",
"internal failure cost"
"You can determine a projectsby finding what discount rate results in an NPV of zero for the project",
"internal rate of return (IRR"
"You can determine a project's ____ by finding what discount rate results in an NPV of zero for the project",
"internal rate of return (IRR)"
"You can determine a project's ____ by finding what discount rate results in an NPV of zero for theproject",
"internal rate of return (IRR)"
"Which tool or technique for collecting requirements is often the most expensive and time consuming?",
"interviews"
"Theory Z",
"introduced in 1981 by William Ouchi and is based on the Japanese approach to motivating workers, emphasizing trust, quality, collective decision making, and cultural values"
"What tool can you use to help manage stakeholders by ranking scope, time, and cost goals in order of importance and provide guidelines on balancing these constraints?",
"issue log"
"What tool can you use to help manage stakeholders by ranking scope, time, and cost goals in order of important and provide guidelines on balancing these constraints?",
"issue log"
"What type of report do project teams create to reflect on what went right and what went wrong with the project?",
"lessons-learned report"
"Which of the following is not a cost of non-conformance?",
"maintenance and calibration"
"Which of the following is NOT part of stakeholder's management?",
"make sure all the stakeholders are in project plan"
"Which of the following is not part of the triple constraint of project management?",
"meeting communication goals"
"Your are in the process o reviewing offers and choosing among potential sellers. All of the following are tools you can use except",
"methods to review seller progress to date"
"What approach to developing a WBS involves writing down or drawing ideas in a non-linear format?",
"mind mapping"
"What approach to developing a WBS involves writing down or drawing ideas in a nonlinear format",
"mind mapping"
"Which of the following items is not a step in four-stage planning processes for selecting IT project?",
"mind mapping"
"What approach to developing a WBS involves writing down or drawing ideas in a nonlinear format?",
"mindmapping"
"What approach to developing a WBS involves writing down or drawing ideas",
"mindmapping"
"Which of the following is not a suggestion for performing integrated change control?",
"minimize change"
"Which of the following is not a sugge control?",
"minimizechange"
"Which is a valid response to negative risks?",
"mitigation"
"The seven run rule states that if seven data points in a row on a control chart are all below the mean, above the means, or all increasing or decreasing, then the process needs to be examined for ____ problems",
"non-random"
"The seven run rule states that if seven data points in a row on a control chart are all below the mean, above the means, or all increasing or decreasing, then the process needs to be examined for ____ problems.",
"non-random"
"What term is used to describe when an organization acquires goods and/or sources from an outside source in another country?",
"offshoring"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding Monte Carlo analysis?",
"one of its inputs"
"Two people have ____ communications channel",
"one"
"Two people have communications channel",
"one"
"The Sales VP approaches you to change the visitor logon screen on the company's website to include a user name with at least eight characters. This is considered",
"ongoing operations"
"The systematic design, direction, and control of processes that transform inputs into services and products for internal, as well as external, customers",
"operations management"
"The term " ____ " refers to work done in organizations to sustain the business",
"operations"
"The term "____" refers to work done in organizations to sustain the business",
"operations"
"The term ____ refers to work done in organizations to sustain the business",
"operations"
"You are preparing a cost estimate for a building based on its location, purpose, number of square feet, and other characteristics. What cost estimating technique are you using?",
"parametric"
"You are the project manager at a large automaker in Japan. Your project involves designing the next generation 4-wheel drive Sport Utility vehicle for the Asian market. A new fuel efficient engine design is required as part of your project",
"performance meets the contractual obligations"
"Which risk management process involves prioritizing risks based on their probability and impact of occurrence?",
"performing qualitative risk analysis"
"With a(n) ____, you can simply add all the points to determine the best projects for selection, without having to multiply weights and scores and sum the results",
"point model"
"The systematic study of the activities and flows of each process to improve it",
"process improvement"
"Tools to assist in contract closure include ____, negotiated settlements, and a records management system",
"procurement audits"
"The term ____ is widely used in government",
"procurement"
"Understanding the ____ is just as important to good project management as understanding the phases of the traditional project life cycle",
"product life cycle"
"The section of the project management plan describes how to monitor project progress and handle changes",
"project controls"
"Using good ____ can change the false perception that costs grow and failures are to be expected",
"project cost management"
"Using good ____ can change the false perception that costs grow and failures are to be expected____",
"project cost management"
"Which of the following is not an attribute of a project?",
"project involve little uncertainly"
"You are in process of defining how to plan and execute the risk management activities for your project. Which of the following statements are false?",
"project management plan, and the risk register The tools/ techniques of this process are planning meetings and"
"which of the following will help an organization make sure that the projects contribute to the entire enterprise's success",
"project management"
"Top management and ____ can have the greatest impact on the quality of projects by doing a good job of quality assurance",
"project managers"
"Top management and ____ can have the greatest impact on the quality of projects by doing a good job of quality assurance____",
"project managers"
"Who is responsible for the quality of projects?",
"project managers"
"The section of the project plan should describe the major project functions and activities and identify those individuals who are responsible for them",
"project responsibilities"
"Themodel requires heavy user involvement, and developers use a model to generate functional requirements and physical design specifications simultaneously",
"prototyping life cycle"
"Theprocess is often associated with the technical tools and techniques of quality management, such as Pareto charts, quality control charts, and statistical sampling",
"quality control"
"You are currently in the process of analyzing activity sequences, duration, resource requirements, and schedule to create the project schedule. Which of the following are not tools/ techniques you can use?",
"quantity of work to be performed by the productivity rate"
"Which of the following is used to maintain an index of contract documents and correspondence, and assist with retrieving and archiving contracts documentation?",
"record management system"
"What is the last step in the four-stage planning process for selecting information technology projects?",
"resource allocation"
"What technique can you use to resolve resource conflicts by delaying tasks?",
"resource leveling"
"Which of the following statements are false regarding reward recognition systems?",
"rewards and recognition systems are tools of human resource planning process"
"Utility rises at a decreasing rate for a ____ person.",
"risk-averse"
"Which of followings can be used to perform trend analysis to forecast future outcomes based on historical patterns?",
"run chart"
"Which of the following is a line chart that show data points plotted in the order in which they occur",
"run chart"
"which of the following can we use to show if there is a relationship between two variables?",
"scatter diagram"
"The should list and describe all of the deliverables required for the project",
"scope statement"
"Which of the following is not a best practice for new product development projects?",
"selectprojects that will take less than two years to provide payback"
"Which of the following is not a best practice for new product development",
"selectprojects that will take less than two years to provide payback"
"The states that if seven data points in a row are all below the mean, above the mean, or are all increasing or decreasing, then the process needs to be examined for non-random problems.",
"seven run rule"
"When you see the functional form of organization on the exam, think ____",
"silo"
"There are ____ anagement",
"six"
"There are ____ main processes involved in project integration management",
"six"
"There aremain processes involved in project integration management",
"six"
"There aremain processes involved in project time management",
"six"
"What works on one project may not work on another, so it is essential for project managers to continue to develop their knowledge and ____ in managing projects",
"skills"
"What works on one project may not work on another, so it is essential for project managers to continue to develop their knowledge and in managing projects.",
"skills"
"When using the ____, the project manager deemphasizes or avoids areas of differences and emphasizes areas of agreement.",
"smoothing mode"
"When using the, the project manager deemphasizes or avoids areas of differences and emphasizes areas of agreement",
"smoothing mode"
"With the ____, project managers use a give-and-take approach to resolving conflicts",
"smoothing mode"
"You have two project stakeholders who do not get along at all. You know they both enjoy travelling, so you discuss great travel destinations when they are both in the room together to distract them from arguing with each other",
"smoothing mode"
"You have two project stakeholders who do not get along at all. You know they both enjoy travelling, so you discuss great travel destinations when they are both in the room together to distract them from arguing with each other. What conflict-handling mode are you using?",
"smoothing mode"
"You have two project stakeholders who do not get along at all. You know they both enjoy travelling, so you discuss great travel destinations when they are both in the room together to distract them from arguing with each other.",
"smoothing mode"
"You have two project stakeholders who do not get along at all. You know they both enjoy traveling, so you discuss great travel destinations when they are both in the room together to distract them from arguing with each other. What conflict-handling mode are you using?",
"smoothing"
"Watts S. Humphrey defines a(n) ____ as anything that must be changed before delivery of the program",
"software defect"
"Watts S. Humphrey defines a(n) ____ as anything that must be changed before delivery of the program____",
"software defect"
"Which communication skill is most important for information technology professionals for career advancement?",
"speaking"
"When the project team directs staff assignments, which of the following is not considered in the selection of a staff?",
"staff age"
"The serves as a good starting point for information distribution",
"stakeholder communications analysis"
"The work breakdown structure can BEST be thought of as an effective aid for____ communications.",
"stakeholder"
"Who are the audience of project charter?",
"stakeholders"
"The term sigma means ____ ____ which measures how much variation exists in a distribution of data",
"standard deviation"
"The synchronization of a firm's processes with those of its suppliers and customers to match the flow of materials, services, and information with customer demand",
"supply chain management"
"Which of the four frames of organizations addresses how meeting are run, employee dress codes, and expected work hours?",
"symbolic"
"When project managers use a(n) ____, they are better able to make decisions that address the needs of the entire organization",
"systems approach"
"What the term used to describe a framework of the phases involved in developing information systems?",
"systems development life cycle"
"The strong matrix versus a weak matrix",
"team members are more likely to be assigned to the project office in a strong matrix"
"The section of the project management plan describes specific methodologies a project might use and explains how to document information",
"technical processes"
"Which of the following is not one of the top ten skills or competencies of an effective project manager?",
"technical skills"
"The three spheres of systems management are business, organization, and ____",
"technology"
"Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding rolling wave planning?",
"term tasks"
"Which of the following statement are true regarding the CPI (cost performance index) measurements?",
"than expected"
"You are currently the project manager at a consulting company specializing in developing financial software models. Your company has been awarded a fixed fee contract to develop a sophisticated portfolio risk analysis software application for a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. During project execution, one of your team members delivers one of the completed risk analysis module to your client. The model uses the capital asset pricing model and Monte Carlo simulations to determine the best risk-adjusted returns for the portfolio. Unfortunately, the buyer refuses the deliverable, stating that the model did not meet he technical requirements as specified in the contract you have reviewed the specs, and agree with the buyer's assessment. Which of the following is the best action to take?",
"the appropriate team members"
"You are project manager at a large multinational company developing a next generation mobile phone using voice over IP technology. The project involves significant coordination of resources across multiple different engineering teams located in various different countries. Specifically your mobile handset team is based in India, your design team in U.S.A, and your QA team in Canada",
"the work packages were not adequately defined for the project"
"There are ____ main processes in project communications management",
"three"
"What is the main goal of project cost management?",
"to complete a project within an approved budget"
"What is not the purpose of project quality management?",
"to ensure that the project team doesn't miss any requirement item"
"Which of the following IT project portfolio categories will an organization have the highest risk when implementing?",
"transform the business projects"
"Two people have ____ communications channel(s)",
"two"
"What is the preferred order for performing testing on information technology projects?",
"unit testing, integration testing, system testing, user acceptance testing"
"Themodel assumes that requirements will remain stable after they are defined",
"waterfall life cycle"
"You are a project manager at a real estate company that develops and manages commercial, retail and residential properties in South America, Europe, and Asia. As a company continues to grow, the company's IT infrastructure is unable to meet business needs of organization",
"with minimal impact to the project"
"When using the ____, project managers retreat or withdraw from an actual or potential disagreement",
"withdrawal mode"
"When using the ____, the project manager deemphasizes or avoids areas of differences and emphasizes areas of agreement",
"withdrawal mode"
"When using the, project managers retreat or withdraw from an actual or potential disagreement",
"withdrawal mode"
"The work breakdown structure comprises several levels of decomposition of the total project. The lowest level of definition is always the ____",
"work package"
"The work breakdown structure comprises several levels of decomposition of the total project. The lowest level of definition is always the ____.",
"work package"
"What is the lowest level in a work breakdown structure?",
"wrl< package"
