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NEW QUESTION 1
You know that PV = 470, AC = 430, EV = 480, EAC = 500, and BAC = 525. What is VAC?
A. 25
B. 30
C. 20
D. 70
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 2
At which point of the project is the uncertainty the highest and the risk of failing the greatest
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 3
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 4
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.
You are in the Closing process and know that product verification is for what purpose?
A. To verify that all the work was completed correctly and satisfactorily
B. To evaluate project goals and ensure that the product of the project meets the requirements
C. To verify the goals of the project and ensure that the product of the project is complete
D. To evaluate all the work of the project and compare the results to project scope
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 5
You have assembled your thoughts into a message. As you pass this information to a second party, you are
giving this person your:
B. Feedback
C. Data
D. Output
E. Input
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 6
B. Control Chart
C. Flowchart
D. Histogram
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 7
A. Cost Control
B. Cost Budgeting
C. Cost Estimating
D. Cost Planning
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 8
A. By identifying quality standards that are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
B. By monitoring specific project results in compliance with relevant quality standards and determining
corrective actions as needed.
C. By ensuring that the entire project team has been adequately trained in quality assurance processes.
D. By applying Monte Carlo, sampling, Pareto analysis and benchmarking techniques to ensure conformance
to quality standards.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 9
Which of the following can be used to track the requirements throughout the project life cycle?
C. Project charter
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 10
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 11
A. Pareto
B. Ishikawa
C. Shewart-Deming
D. Delphi
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 12
Which of the following does NOT assess the value a project brings to an organization?
C. Value analysis
D. Needs assessment
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 13
In which type of organization does a project manager have a moderate-to-high resource availability?
A. Functional
B. Weak
C. Balanced
D. Strong
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 14
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?
A. Process flowchart
B. Tornado diagram
C. Influence diagram
D. Fishbone diagram
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 15
The erection of foundation formwork before the placement of foundation concrete would be an example of a
_____ dependency.
A. Soft logic
B. Subcontracted
C. Mandatory
D. Discretionary
E. External
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 16
A. Collaborating
B. Issue log
C. Leadership
D. Motivation
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 17
Management reserves are normally defined as a % of the total budget. As a project progresses, the project
manager wants the $ value of management reserve to _____, whereas the customer wants the management
reserve to _____.
A. Increase, increase.
B. Increase, decrease.
D. Decrease, increase.
E. Decrease, decrease.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 18
E. A and C
Answer: E
NEW QUESTION 19
A team member from research and development tells you that her work is too creative to provide you with a
fixed single estimate for the activity. You both decide to use the average labor hours per installation from past
projects to predict the future. This is an example of which of the following?
A. Parametric estimating
B. Three-point estimating
C. Analogous estimating
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 20
A(n) _____ is defined as a specified accomplishment in a particular instant in time which does not consume
time or resources.
A. Event.
B. Activity
C. Correlation
E. Constant
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 21
A. Organizing
B. Controlling
D. Directing
E. Planning
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 22
Which tool or technique measures performance of the project as it moves from project initiation through
project closure?
A. Resource leveling
B. Parametric measuring
C. Pareto chart
D. Earned value
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 23
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?
A. Project A with a benefit cost ratio of 0.8, no project charter, and four resources
B. Project B with a net present value of $60,000, 12 resources, and variable costs between US $1,000 and
$2,000 per month
C. Project C with an opportunity cost of US $300,000, no project control plan, and an internal rate of return of
12 percent
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 24
A _____ estimate prepared from layouts, sketches and flowsheets, should be accurate within (-10, +25%).
A. Parametric
B. Bottom up.
C. Budget
D. Top down.
E. Definitive.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 25
C. Develop Schedule
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 26
Which of the following must not performed in the project initiation process?
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 27
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 28
A. Analogous estimating
B. Template estimating
C. Computerized estimating
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 29
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?
B. Project scope change uses workarounds to correct unexpected problems with scope change.
C. Project scope change uses inspection to determine whether change has occurred.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 30
An employee approaches you and asks to tell you something in confidence. He advises you that he has been
performing illegal activities within the company for the last year. He is feeling guilty about it and is telling you
in order to receive advice as to what he should do. What should you do?
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 31
A. EV
B. SPI
C. PV
D. ETC
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 32
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?
B. Acquire Staff
D. Resource Planning
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 33
What quality control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
A. Control chart
B. Flowchart
C. Run chart
D. Pareto chart
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 34
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 35
What are the performance measurements for the Schedule Control process?
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 36
A. Product
B. Cost benefit
C. Stakeholder
D. Research
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 37
Employee unions would most likely satisfy which level in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
A. Empowerment
B. Self-actualization
C. Belonging
D. Esteem
E. Safety
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 38
Many organizations categorize requirements into which of the following two categories?
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 39
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 40
Which of the following is NOT a reason to measure variances from the baseline?
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 41
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?
A. Do a benefit cost analysis of the project and submit it for management approval.
B. Submit the new product request to the PMO for review and approval before proceeding.
C. Inform the customer of the change in corporate direction and ask him/her to take another look at the
project.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 42
C. During execution
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 43
Which of the following is defined by a project's life cycle and varies by application area?
A. Product
B. Product-oriented processes
D. Project-oriented processes
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 44
A. BCWP/ACWP
E. (ACWP-BCWP)/BCWP * 100
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 45
A. words
C. language
D. gestures
E. symbols
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 46
A. The team
B. The buyer
C. The seller
D. Management
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 47
A. Positive
B. Zero
C. Negative
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 48
Using the chart, what is the lowest cost of crashing this project to save four weeks?
A. $18,000
B. $6,000
C. $7,000
D. $9,000
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 49
All of the following are tools and techniques of the Contract Administration process except for which one?
A. Contract change control system, buyer-conducted performance review, and inspections and audits
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 50
If you are the project manager for a new project. You have collected the necessary input information and
delivered the project charter to the stakeholders. What should you do next?
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 51
Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution Process?
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 52
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?
A. You decide to participate in the initial meetings with the foreign business partners because any information
you gain now will help you when you make the move to the new company.
B. You inform the foreign business partners that you're going to be working with a new company and that you
know the deal they'll receive from the competing company is better than the one this company is proposing.
C. You decline to participate in the initial meetings with the foreign business partners because of a conflict of
interest.
D. You've not yet received an official offer from the competing company for your new job opportunity, so you
choose to participate in the initial meetings with the foreign business partners.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 53
A. Both 1) the severity of the consequences, and 2)how likely the event is to occur with risk.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 54
B. Quality measurements.
C. Requirements documentation.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 55
A new project manager is having difficulty creating a WBS with the team. To alleviate this situation, the
project manager should ask for help from:
A. The sponsor.
D. The team.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 56
A person is writing a document identifying the business need for a project and is including a description of the
product created by the project. She includes a list of stakeholders and pre assigned resources. What is the
role of this person on the project?
B. A member of the project management team working at the direction of the project manager
D. A manager or executive in the organization who is higher in the corporate hierarchy than theproject
manager
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 57
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?
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 58
A. Stakeholder register
B. Requirements documentation
C. Prototypes
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 59
A project manager has finished the project. He knows that the project scope has been completed and is
within cost and time objectives set by management. Management, however, says that the project is a failure,
because the original schedule was for 27 weeks and the project was completed in 33 weeks. If the project
baseline was 33 weeks, the project is a success because:
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 60
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?
D. Orders incurring revenue over $100,000 would be considered projects and would involve project
management.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 61
Based on the network diagram in the chart, the resource working on activity G is replaced with another
resource with 50 percent of the productivity of the previous resource. How long will this project take?
A. 44
B. 51
C. 52
D. 36
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 62
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?
A. customer
B. team member
C. sponsor
D. senior manager
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 63
Many companies self insure against some risk. Problems which can arise from self-insurance include:
B. Both 1) failure to reserve funds to handle worst case scenarios (low probability events) resulting in severe
financial damage to the company, and 2) confusion of business risks with insurable risks.
E. failure to reserve funds to handle worst case scenarios (low probability events) resulting in severe financial
damage to the company
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 64
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?
A. Compromise
B. Smoothing
C. Forcing
D. Withdrawal
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 65
A. Defining and documenting project sponsors' needs to meet the project objectives
C. Defining and documenting the project teams' needs to meet the project objectives
D. Defining and documenting the project needs to meet the project objectives
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 66
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 67
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 68
Who must accept the end product for a project to be considered closed?
A. Project team
B. Project manager
D. Customer or sponsor
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 69
Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are
all outputs of which project management process?
B. Manage stakeholders
C. Scope definition
D. Performance reporting
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 70
The following reports are normally developed during the project closure phase?
D. Records Archive, Closure Report, lessons learned & Formal Acceptance Report
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 71
Total funding requirements and periodic funding requirements are derived from:
B. scope baseline
D. cost baseline.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 72
The project manager notices that project activities being completed by one department are all taking slightly
longer than planned. To date, none of the activities/work packages have been on the critical path, nor have
they affected the critical chain planning that has occurred. The project manager is bothered by the problem,
since four of the next five critical path activities are being completed by this department. After making three
calls, the project manager is finally able to converse with the department manager to determine what is going
on. The conversation is slow, because both speak different native languages and they are trying to converse
in French, a shared language. To make communication easier, the project manager frequently asks the
department manager to repeat back what has been said. The department manager communicates that his
staff is following a company policy that requires two levels of testing. During the conversation, the department
manager also makes a comment that leads the project manager to believe that the policy may include
excessive work. This is the fourth time the project manager has heard such a comment. What is the BEST
thing to do?
A. Create a better communications management plan that requires only one language to be the universal
language on the project and have translators readily available on a moment's notice.
B. Contact someone else in the department who speaks the project manager's native language better to
confirm the department manager's opinion.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 73
A. 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.
B. To coordinate and manage the procurement of projects relevant to the parent organization's business
objectives and to administer the project charters accordingly.
C. To administer performance reviews for the project manager and the project team members and to handle
any personnel and payroll issues.
D. To focus on the specified project objectives and to manage the scope, schedule, cost, and quality of the
work packages.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 74
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?
A. Requested changes
C. Constraints
D. Project specifications
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 75
The risk of accepting a lot of poor quality, in acceptance sampling, is referred to as:
A. type I error
B. producer's risk
C. consumer's risk
D. buyer's risk
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 76
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 have been invited to 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 for which one?
A. You should respect the cultural differences you'll encounter when working with your prospective foreign
business partners.
C. You should spend time building relationships with your prospective foreign business partners before
getting down to business.
D. You should explain your company's rules, standards, and operating policies at your first meeting with the
prospective foreign business partners.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 77
A. Staffing plan
B. External feedback
C. Performance reports
D. Co-Location
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 78
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 79
The project management office is worried about the quality of the company's various projects. They want to
know which projects are having problems and which ones are doing well. If the PMO receives the following
information, which project should they be the MOST concerned about?
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 80
As part of a mid-project evaluation, your project sponsor has asked you to provide a forecast of total project
cost. You should calculate the forecast using which of the following methods?
A. BAC
B. EAC
C. ETC
D. WBS
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 81
Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the monitoring and controlling
process group?
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 82
Which of the following consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS
dictionary?
A. Scope plan
B. Product scope
D. Scope baseline
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 83
A project manager has just been assigned to a new project and has been given the approved project charter.
The FIRST thing the project manager must do is:
B. Confirm that all the stakeholders have had input to the scope.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 84
Complete final contract performance reporting and verify product is done in _______ .
A. Conduct Procurements
B. Close Procurements
C. Plan Procurements
D. Administer Procurements
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 85
Control Charts, Flowcharting, Histograms, Pareto Charts, Scatter Diagrams are tools and techniques of what
process?
C. Quality Planning
D. Performance Reporting
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 86
Information distribution involves making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely
manner. What is an output from information distribution?
B. Trend analysis
C. Project records
D. Performance reviews
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 87
A. Rework
B. Inspections
C. Training
D. Testing
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 88
A. Weak matrix
B. Functional
C. Balanced matrix
D. Projectized
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 89
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 90
When managing a project team, what helps to reduce the amount of conflict?
B. Negotiation
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 91
A. EV less AC
B. AC less PV
C. EV less PV
D. AC less EV
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 92
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?
B. Project charter
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 93
If a project manager is using observation and conversation to help control the project, she must be involved
in which process?
B. Distribute Information
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 94
A(n) _____ system is designed to ensure the timely availability of nonhuman resources, and includes the
cost in procurement, shipping/freight, storage and loss.
A. Procurement.
C. Inventory control.
D. Materials management.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 95
A. An organizational chart
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 96
You are a project manager working on gathering requirements and establishing estimates for the project.
Which process group are you in?
B. Initiating
C. Executing
D. Planning
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 97
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 98
A. Process Analysis
B. Performance Measurements
D. Quality Audits
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 99
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?
A. The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting
project cost or schedule.
B. The project manager should add an activity to the project management plan with no associated time.
C. The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively
affected the overall project.
D. The project manager should create a change control form and have the customer approve thechange
since the change has already been made.
Answer: C
E. Both 1) using the WBS to do bottom up estimate, and 2) calculating the individual estimates of work
packages
Answer: A
A. Plan Procurements
B. Conduct Procurements
C. Administer Procurements
D. Close Procurements
Answer: C
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?
A. Residual risk
B. Mitigated risk
C. Secondary risk
D. Trigger risk
Answer: C
Which schedule development tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
B. Variance analysis
C. Schedule compression
Answer: A
What scope definition technique is used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of
the project?
B. Expert judgment
C. Alternatives identification
D. Product analysis
Answer: C
A. Bulletin boards
C. Publications
E. Reports
Answer: D
A. Shorter.
E. Longer
Answer: E
A. Quality metrics
B. Less rework
D. Benchmarking
Answer: B
A project manager arranges for project specific training for the new team members. Under which category
does this cost fall?
A. Appraisal
B. Internal failure
C. External failure
D. Prevention
Answer: D
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?
A. This project ended due to integration because it was completed and accepted.
B. This project ended due to extinction because it was completed and accepted.
C. This project ended due to integration because it was completed and accepted and the project manager
moved on to a new project.
D. This project ended due to addition because it was completed and accepted and archived into the
company's catalog of available films.
Answer: B
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?
A. Crashing
B. Floating
C. Leveling
D. Fast tracking
Answer: C
A. Expert judgment
C. Stakeholder analysis
Answer: D
Answer: A
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 the 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 ___________________.
Answer: B
Answer: D
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?
Answer: B
Which of the following describes the purpose of the quality control process?
Answer: C
A. Baseline
B. Planned value
D. Expenditure
Answer: C
Which of the following processes is necessary to ensure that the project employs all processes needed to
meet its requirements?
B. Quality Policy
D. Quality Planning
Answer: C
Continually measuring and monitoring the actual cost versus the budget is done to _____.
Answer: E
Which type of control tool identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
B. Control Charts
C. Pareto Chart
D. Histogram
Answer: B
D. Project specifications becoming more explicit and detailed as the project progresses
Answer: D
What is the status of the project whose data is shown in the following S-curve?
Answer: B
Which process group can be performed outside the project's scope of control?
A. Planning
C. Closing
D. Initiating
Answer: D
In which of the following team development stages does the team begin to work together, develop trust, and
adjust to the work habits and behavior?
A. Norming
B. Forming
C. Storming
D. Performing
Answer: A
A. Your project is behind schedule and you want your baseline to reflect estimated actual completion.
B. Your customer has approved a change request broadening the project scope and increasing the budget.
C. One of the risks identified in the Risk Management Plan occurs resulting in a schedule delay.
D. One of your key project team resources has left your team and no replacement is available.
Answer: B
A project manager for a small construction company has a project that was budgeted for US $130,000 over a
six-week period. According to her schedule, the project should have cost US $60,000 to date. However, it has
cost US $90,000 to date. The project is also behind schedule, because the original estimates were not
accurate. Who has the PRIMARY responsibility to solve this problem?
A. Project manager
B. Senior management
C. Project sponsor
Answer: A
Which tools or techniques will the project manager use for developing the project team?
A. Negotiation
Answer: C
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.)
A. The WBS template from a previous project, a tool and technique of the Create WBS process, was used to
create the WBS for this project. The WBS encompasses the major deliverables for the project.
B. Only the deliverables associated with the work of the project should be listed on the WBS.
Since product number three isn't being released until a later date it should not yet be included on the WBS.
C. The WBS encompasses the full scope of work for the project and the technique in the is called rolling wave
planning.
D. The WBS should be created next, and it encompasses the full scope of work for the project.
Answer: C
A line manager who is asked to wear two hats and function as a project manager at the same time is likely to
exercise:
B. Influence
C. Power
E. Authority
Answer: A
Answer: D
The project manager calculated a schedule performance index of 0.8 and a cost performance index of 1.1 for
the project. What is the actual status of this project?
Answer: B
A. Planning
B. Executing
D. Closing
Answer: B
A. Plan contracting
C. Select sellers
Answer: C
A. Requested changes
Answer: B
The customer's expectations for quality are shown on a control chart as the:
A. Mean.
B. Specification limits.
C. Rule of seven.
Answer: B
Which of the following statements is in agreement with McGregor's concepts concerning Theory X and
Theory Y managers?
B. Theory X managers tend to be autocratic whereas Theory Y managers are more likely to delegate
responsibility
C. Both 1) Theory X managers view subordinates as being lazy, irresponsible, and resistant to change, and 2)
Theory Y managers view subordinates as being imaginative, creative, and willing to accept responsibility
D. Theory Y managers view subordinates as being imaginative, creative, and willing to accept responsibility
E. Theory X managers view subordinates as being lazy, irresponsible, and resistant to change
Answer: A
A. Sponsor
B. Portfolio manager
C. Program manager
D. Project manager
Answer: C
Answer: E
A. BAC - EV/BAC - AC
B. A measure of the value of work completed compared to the actual cost or progress
D. AC + (BAC - EV)
Answer: A
A. Delphi technique
B. Unanimity
C. Observation
D. Presentation technique
Answer: A
Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
A. WBS directory
B. Activity list
C. WBS
D. Project schedule
Answer: C
Answer: C
A team member is not performing well on the project because she is inexperienced in system development
work. There is no one else available who is better qualified to do the work. What is the BEST solution for the
project manager?
A. Consult with the functional manager to determine project completion incentives for the team member.
Answer: C
A Project with a total funding of $70,000 finished with a BAC value of $60,000.
B. Cost Variance
C. Schedule Variance
D. Management Overhead
Answer: A
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical
characteristics?
A. Scope
B. Quality
C. Specification
D. Grade
Answer: D
Based on the following metrics: EV=$20,000, AC=$22,000 and PV=$28,000, what is the project CV?
A. -$8,000
B. -$2,000
C. $2,000
D. $8,000
Answer: B
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
A. Scope Management
B. Time Management
C. Communications Management
D. Quality Management
Answer: D
How many process groups are there according to the PMBOK Guide?
A. 5
B. 9
C. 10
D. 12
Answer: A
Answer: B
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?
A. Focus the negotiation on seller's profit margin in order to decrease the project cost.
B. Negotiate to get the work done even sooner than necessary in order to add a reserve.
D. Arrange to reschedule the negotiation until you can acquire information of which the seller is not aware.
Answer: C
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?
A. Extinction
B. Starvation
C. Addition
D. Integration
Answer: D
Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation,
collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
Answer: C
A. EV/PV
B. PV/EV
C. EV-PV
D. PV-EV
Answer: C
A. Analogous estimating
B. Bottom up estimating
C. Computerized
D. Square foot
Answer: B
B. Sequence Activities
C. Develop Schedule
Answer: A
A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete, and was to be finished today. As of today,
the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed.
A. -$700
B. -$200
C. +$200
D. +$500
Answer: A
Planning activities such that predetermined resource availability pools are not exceeded is called:
A. Manpower planning.
B. Manpower leveling.
C. Resource leveling.
Answer: E
Answer: A
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?
A. Functional organization
D. Projectized organization
Answer: C
The use of group creativity techniques as a tool and technique is done in which of the following processes?
A. Plan Quality
B. Collect Requirements
C. Define Scope
Answer: B
A. 5
B. 8
C. 9
D. 12
Answer: C
A. Constrained optimization
B. Comparative approach
C. Benefit measurement
D. Impact analysis
Answer: A
The inputs of the Performance Reporting process include all of the following except for which one?
A. Performance reviews
C. Forecasted completion
D. Performance measurements
Answer: A
B. Communications policy
D. Communications media
E. Reporting channels
Answer: C
Answer: B
Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the planning process group?
Answer: D
A. Lateral
B. Oral
C. Downward
D. Written
E. Upward
Answer: B
A computer tape which contains historical project information is called ____ tape.
A. Database
B. Archive.
C. Lessons learned.
D. Baseline.
Answer: B
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?
A. Critical path
B. Rolling Wave
C. PDM
D. Parametric
Answer: D
Which of the following would most likely increase the accuracy of estimating the project cost?
B. Pricing out the work at lower levels in the work breakdown structure.
C. Both 1) Pricing out the work at lower levels in the work breakdown structure, and 2) Talking to people who
have worked on similar projects.
E. 1) 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.
Answer: E
As project manager, you wish to impose a standard method by which subordinates calculate project costs.
Which level of communication should be required for this effort?
B. Face-to-face
C. Written
D. Non-verbal
E. Telephone
Answer: C
A project manager is asked to select a contract type for a new software development project that has
complete, detailed requirements. Which is the BEST contract to choose?
Answer: B
A. Work packages.
B. Activities.
C. Dependencies.
D. Discretionaries.
Answer: B
All of the following statements are true regarding the RBS except for which one?
A. The RBS is similar to the WBS in that the lowest levels of both are easily assigned to a responsible party or
owner.
C. The lowest level of the RBS can be used as a checklist, which is a tool and technique of the Risk
Identification process.
D. It describes risk categories, which are a systematic way to identify risks and provide a foundation for
understanding for everyone involved on the project.
Answer: A
B. Resource availability
Answer: A
B. Tracking systems
Answer: D
A. Contract plan
B. Procurement plan
C. Closure process
D. Procurement audits
Answer: D
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?
B. Selective Perception
C. Sensory Limitations
E. Sign Detection
Answer: E
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
Answer: A
What is the lowest level in the WBS at which the cost and activity durations for the work can be reliably
estimated and managed?
A. Work product
B. Work package
C. Project deliverable
D. Scope baseline
Answer: B
Control chart theory is based on the differentiation of the causes of variations in quality. Variations may be
produced by assignable causes. All of the following are examples of assignable causes except:
Answer: A
Answer: A
The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on the cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract. Each
month the sponsor 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:
A. The team is making sure the seller does not cut scope.
C. There can only be a maximum 10 percent increase if there is an unexpected cost overrun.
D. The fee is only received by the seller when the project is completed.
Answer: B
A project manager is responsible for managing which of the following at the project level?
A. Methodology
B. Standards
C. Constraints
D. Interdependencies
Answer: C
You are the project manager of a project .You have just completed the Collect
A. Control Scope
B. Create WBS
C. Value analysis
D. Verify Scope
Answer: B
Monitor and control project work is a process of which of the following knowledge areas?
Answer: D
Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have
been done sequentially?
A. Crashing
B. Fast tracking
Answer: B
A project manager discovers that two team members discussed what was needed to complete a work
package on the project and made many changes to the project scope. The work package is now completed
and the team members are planning to go on to the next work package. In looking at what was done, the
project manager determines that the work does NOT meet the requirements of the project. What is the BEST
course of action for the project manager?
A. Add another work package, formatted with the correct scope, to the project.
C. Have the team begin the work package again and include the incident in their performance reviews.
D. Ask the team member's manager to assign different people to the work package.
Answer: B
B. Subdivide project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components
D. Shorten the project schedule duration and the amount of resources needed
Answer: B
Answer: D
Objectives can be described as all of the following except for which one? Choose the least correct answer.
A. The monetary units used to express the cost criteria for the project
B. The functionality and specific conditions that must be met in order to satisfy the project, contract, standard,
or specification
C. The quantifiable results used to measure project success that should include schedule, cost, and quality
criteria
Answer: B
EAC (estimate at complete) is typically based on actual cost (AC) for work completed plus an ETC (estimate
to complete) the remaining work. Which of the following is a valid formula for calculating EAC?
B. EAC = BAC - AC
C. EAC = 1 - CPI
Answer: A
Answer: B
In which of the team development stages are the teams interdependent and work through issues smoothly
and effectively?
A. Norming
B. Forming
C. Storming
D. Performing
Answer: D
In which type of organization(s) is the project manager's role most likely part-time?
A. Functional
B. Weak Matrix
C. Balanced Matrix
Answer: D
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
Answer: B
Which of the following are outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
Answer: A
A. All employees report to two or more managers, but project team members show loyalty to functional
managers.
B. All employees report to one manager and have a clear chain of command.
Answer: B
When working in a matrix environment, all of the following are true regarding the Manage Project Team
process except for which one?
A. Communication methods and issue logs are used to create performance appraisals, provide feedback, and
track issues.
B. Managing project teams in a matrix environment is often a critical success factor for the project.
D. It's the project manager's responsibility to make certain this dual reporting relationship is managed
effectively.
Answer: A
A. Accepted deliverables
C. Requirements documentation
Answer: B
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