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A project manager is creating a work breakdown structure for her project.In the breakdown structure the lowest level of the breakdown for the project manager is called the:a. Activity.b. Task.c. Work package.d. Cost account.
A project manager is employed by a construction company and is responsible for the furnishing of the completed building. One of the first things that the project manager for this project should do is to write a:a. Work breakdown structure.b. Budget baseline.c. Project charter.d. Project plan.
Configuration management is:a. Used to ensure that the description of the project product is correct and complete.b. The creation of the work breakdown structure.c. The set of procedures developed to ensure that project design criteria are met.d. A mechanism to track budget and schedule variances.
The process of establishing clear and achievable objectives, measuring their achievement, and adjusting performance in accordance with the results of the measurement is called:a. Strategic planning.b. Contingency planning.c. Detailed planning.d. Management by objectives.
An example of scope verification is:a. Reviewing the performance of an installed software module.b. Managing changes to the project schedule.c. Decomposing the WBS to a work package level.d. Performing a benefit-cost analysis to determine if we should proceed.
A project manager makes a narrative description of the work that must be done for her project. This is called a:a. Project plan.b. Control chart.c. Statement of work.d. Project objective.
A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a new product or service is called a:a. New product development.b. Project.c. Program.d. Enterprise.
During the full life cycle of the project, a plot of the project’s expected expenditures will usually follow a characteristic ‘‘S’’ shape. This indicates that:a. There is a cyclic nature to all projects.b. Problems will always occur in the execution phase.c. There are high expenditures
A group of related projects that are managed in a coordinated way that usually include an element of ongoing activity is called a:a. Major project.b. Project office.c. Program.d. Group of projects.
If the net present value for each of the cash flows were calculated at a 10% interest rate, the net present value cash flow at the end of five years would be:a. Greater than the total cash flow without the net present value applied.b. Less than the total cash flow without the net present value
What is the net cash flow at the end of five years?a. 50,000b. 50,000c. 850,000d. 100,000
What is the payback period for this project?a. One yearb. Two yearsc. Three yearsd. Four years
A person who is involved in or may be affected by the activities or anyone who has something to gain or lose by the activity of the project is called a:a. Team member.b. Customer.c. Stakeholder.d. Supporter.
Any numbering system that is used to monitor project costs by category such as labor, supplies, or materials, for example, is called:a. Chart of accounts.b. Work breakdown structure.c. Universal accounting standard.d. Standard accounting practices.
Decomposing the major deliverables into smaller, more manageable components to provide better control is called:a. Scope planning.b. Scope definition.c. Scope base lining.d. Scope verification.
Which of the following is NOT an output of the Manage Stakeholder Expectations process?A. Change requests B. Deliverables C. Updates to the project management plan D. Organizational process asset updates
You are managing a large construction project that’s been broken down into subprojects (or phases). Each of these subprojects is scheduled to take between three and six months to complete. At the end of each subproject, you plan to go through the closing processes and document lessons learned.
A project manager discovers that a project problem has occurred. The problem was never discussed during risk planning activities or added to the risk register, and it will now cost the project money. What is the BEST response?A. Don’t take any action, just accept that there’s a problem that the
Your project just completed, and one of your subcontractors has sent you floor seats to the next big hockey game to thank you for your business. What is the BEST way to respond?A. Thank the subcontractor, but do not give him preference in the next RFP B. Thank the subcontractor, but politely refuse
In which process do you create the Risk Breakdown Structure?A. Identify Risks B. Plan Risk Responses C. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis D. Plan Risk Management
What are the strategies for dealing with positive risks?A. Avoid, mitigate, transfer, accept B. Transfer, mitigate, avoid, exploit C. Exploit, share, enhance, accept D. Mitigate, enhance, exploit, accept
Which of the following is NOT typically found in a project charter?A. Project requirements B. Authorization for a project manager to work on a project C. Work packages decomposed into activities D. An initial set of schedule milestones
You work for a consulting company and your team has implemented an approved scope change on your project. You need to inform your client that the change has been made.What’s the best form of communication to use for this?A. Formal verbal B. Formal written C. Informal written D. Informal verbal
Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique of Monitor and Control Risks?A. Bringing in an outside party to review your risk response strategies B. Revisiting your risk register to review and reassess risks C. Using Earned Value analysis to find variances that point to potential project
Over half of conflicts on projects are caused by:A. Bad habits, defects, technology B. Resources, priorities, schedules C. Budget, carelessness, personalities D. Technology, money, personalities
You’ve been hired by a large consulting firm to lead an accounting project. You determine the needs of the project and divide the work up into work packages so that you can show how all of it fits into categories. What are you creating?A. A WBS B. A schedule C. A Project Scope Statement D. A
Approved changes are implemented in which process?A. Direct and Manage Project Execution B. Monitor and Control Project Work C. Perform Integrated Change Control D. Develop Project Management Plan
You’ve been hired by a large consulting firm to evaluate a software project for them. You have access to the CPI and EV for the project, but not the AC. The CPI is .92, and the EV is $172,500. How much money has actually been spent on the project?A. $158,700 B. $172,500 C. $187,500 D. There is
As you determine the requirements, constraints, and assumptions for the project you record them in which document?A. Project Management Plan B. Project Scope Statement C. Project Charter D. Communications Management Plan
A project manager is faced with two team members who have conflicting opinions. One team member explains her side of the conflict, and presents a possible solution. But before the other team member starts to explain his side of things, the project manager says, “I’ve heard enough, and I’ve
Which of the following is a defect?A. A mistake made by a team member on the job B. A change that the team needs to make in how they do the work C. A project management plan that does not meet its requirements D. A change request that’s been rejected by the change control board
You have been asked to select between three projects. Project A has a net present value of $54,750 and will take six months to complete. Project B has a net present value of $85,100 and will take two years to complete. Project C has a net present value of $15,000 and a benefitcost ratio of 5:2.
You are managing a project with 23 team members and 6 key stakeholders. Two team members identify a problem with the current approach. Addressing that problem will require changes to the project plan and its subsidiary plans. One of the stakeholders previously indicated that any delays are
At the beginning of the project, you hold a meeting with all of the stakeholders in your project in order to figure out how everyone will communicate as the work goes on. Which of the following terms best describes that meeting?A. Qualitative Analysis B. Status meeting C. Communication Plan meeting
Which of the following is the correct order of actions that you take during the Closing processes?A. Get formal acceptance, release the team, write lessons learned, close the contract B. Write lessons learned, release the team, get formal acceptance, close the contract C. Get formal acceptance,
Which is NOT an input to the Create WBS process?A. Project Scope Statement B. Organizational Process Assets C. Requirements Documentation D. WBS Dictionary
Which of the following is NOT an example of a deliverable?A. Project Management Plan B. Project Schedule C. Work Breakdown Structure D. Parametric Estimation
You are the project manger of a software project. Two developers, Bill and Alfredo, are having an argument about how to implement a feature. Bill thinks that it’s more important that the project get done quickly, so he’s suggesting that you re-use some work that’s been done on a previous
Which of the following is NOT an output of Monitor & Control Project Work?A. Project management plan updates B. Change request status updates C. Change requests D. Project document updates
Which of the following BEST describes when you perform the Monitor and Control Project Work process?A. Continuously throughout the project B. As soon as every deliverable is completed C. At scheduled milestones or intervals during the project D. At the end of every project phase
A project manager is running into problems with the team. People are repeatedly running into trouble over seemingly small problems: who takes notes at meetings, what dress is appropriate for the office, who people need to notify when they take a day off. The problems started out small, but as more
You are managing a project to build a new wing onto a local school building over a summer break. One night, the school and your construction site are destroyed by a tornado.Your client demands that you continue work despite the disaster, but you consult the contract, and find a clause that states
Which of the following tools is used to document the lessons that were learned when the contract was administered?A. Quality audit B. Buyer-conducted performance review C. Contract review D. Procurement audit
You are working on a construction project. You, your team, and your senior manager all feel that the work is complete. Your stakeholders have communicated their final acceptance of the project. You are now meeting with your team to update the organizational process assets with a record of knowledge
Which of the following is an output of Direct and Manage Project Execution?A. Work Performance Information B. Statement of Work C. Approved Change Requests D. Contract
Which of the following are valid ways to breakdown the work in a WBS?A. By risk or quality metric B. By product feature or unit of work C. By project phase or project deliverable D. By charge code or initial estimate
Which of the following is NOT part of the Close Project or Phase process?A. Making sure that all exit criteria have been met B. Obtaining formal acceptance of all deliverables from all stakeholders C. Moving the project’s deliverables to the next phase or into production D. Writing down lessons
You’re managing a software project. Your team has discovered a problem, and as a result you’ve requested a change. The change will cost the project an extra three weeks, but without it several stakeholders might have problems with the final product. What’s the NEXT thing that you should do?A.
What are the 5 kinds of power?A. Legitimate, expert, reward, political, and bargaining B. Legitimate, expert, reward, political, and punishment C. Legitimate, expert, reward, economic, and bargaining D. Legitimate, expert, reward, referent, and punishment
You are working with potential sponsors to determine which project your company will pursue. Based on the benefit-to-cost (BCR) ratios, which of the following four projects should you recommend?A. Project A has a BCR of 5:2 B. Project B has a BCR of 5:4 C. Project C has a BCR of 3:1 D. Project D
You are managing a construction project to install wiring in an office building. You discover that one of your team members has taken a box of cable from the job site so he can wire his attic. What is the BEST way to respond?A. Do nothing B. Report the team member to your manager C. Report the team
You’re holding a PMP training seminar for people in your company to help them obtain enough hours to qualify to take the PMP exam. This is an example of:A. Organizational process assets B. Contributing to the project management body of knowledge C. Cheating, which should be reported to PMI D.
Amit is the manager of a software project. His client has agreed on a Project Scope Statement at the beginning of the project, but whenever the client verifies deliverables, he comes up with features that he would like to add into the product. Amit is working with the client to find what
Mike is a project manager for an IT technology implementation project. He is using an Ishikawa diagram to figure out what could cause potential risks on his project. Which process is he doing?A. Identify Risks B. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis C. Perform Quality Control D. Plan Risk Responses
Your project has a virtual team. Half of your team members are located in another country, where they are working for a subcontractor. The subcontractor’s team members speak a different dialect of English than your team does. After a conference call, two of your team members make jokes about the
A company uses a management technique that employs quality assurance techniques to continuously improve all processes. This is called:A. Just In Time Management B. Kaizen C. Ishikawa Diagrams D. Inspection
Information about the project must be distributed to all stakeholders. Which of the following process outputs is used to report the status and cost of project activities?A. Work performance information B. Issue logs C. Status reports D. Project records
You are the project manager for a railroad construction project. Your sponsor has asked you for a forecast for the cost of project completion. Which of the following is the BEST metric to use for forecasting?A. EV and AC B. SV and CV C. ETC and VAC D. SPI and CPI
A project manager is creating a report of the final status of a closed project to the stakeholders. Which of the following is NOT used in a final project report to communicate the status of a project?A. Variance information B. Lessons learned C. Scope baseline D. Status of deliverables
You are talking to experts and gathering independent estimates for your contract. Which of the following BEST describes what you are doing?A. Plan Procurements B. Conduct Procurements C. Administer Procurements D. Close Procurements
A project manager on a construction project includes a line item in the budget for insurance for the equipment and job site. This is an example of:A. Transference B. Mitigation C. Avoidance D. Acceptance
You are managing an industrial design project for an important client. Two of your team members have a disagreement on project priorities. One person wants to do certain activities first, while the other feels they should be left until the end of the project. You work with both people to forge a
Which of the following contracts has the MOST risk for the seller?A. Cost plus fixed fee (CPFF)B. Time and Materials (T&M)C. Cost plus percentage of costs (CPPC)D. Fixed price (FP)
Which of the following is NOT included in a cost of quality calculation?A. Team members’ time spent finding and repairing defects B. Quality managers’ time spent writing quality standards C. Project managers’ time spent creating the project management plan D. Team members’ time spent
There have been several rounds of layoffs at your company. Now your project team is worried about their job security, and you’ve noticed that their performance has decreased significantly because of it. This is predicted by which motivational theory?A. McGregor’s Theory of X and Y B. Maslow’s
You are a project manager for a software project. As you are defining the scope of the work you need to do, you sit down with all of the project’s stakeholders and record all of the requirements you can get from them.Which of the following is NOT a valid requirement from stakeholder analysis?A.
Which risk analysis tool is used to model your risks on a computer to show random probabilities?A. Computerized risk audit B. Monte Carlo analysis C. EMV analysis D. Delphi technique
You’re managing a construction project to install several hundred air conditioner panels in a new office building. Every floor has identical panels. The customer, a construction contracting company, has provided specifications for the installations. The team is using a process to install and
Which of the following is NOT true about the Project Charter?A. It formally assigns the project manager B. It is always created by the project manager C. It contains external constraints and assumptions D. Includes a high-level milestone schedule
You have been hired by a contractor, who wants you to manage a construction project for one of their clients. The project team has been working for two months, and is 35% done with the job. Two of your team members come to you with a conflict about how to handle the ongoing maintenance for a piece
A member of your seven-person project team comes up with a controversial idea. Two others agree that it should be pursued. Two members of the team are opposed to it, while the remaining two have a different approach. You end up going with the controversial idea. This is an example of:A. Unanimity
Which of the following describes the contents of a staffing management plan?A. Organizational Chart, Training Needs, Estimated Labor Cost, and Release Criteria B. Sponsor, Organizational Chart, Verify Scope Plan, and Schedule C. RACI Matrix, Organizational Chart, Performance Improvement Plan, and
Joe is an excellent programmer. He was promoted to a role of Project Manager because he understands technology better than anyone else in the company. Unfortunately, he is having trouble doing the project management job and his projects are failing. What is this an example of?A. Gold plating B.
You are a project manager on a large military contract that involves 7 subcontractors and a total of 1,253 team members, 752 stakeholders and sponsors, and 14 project managers (including you). You need to get a handle on the communications channels, because otherwise your project will devolve into
As you complete each deliverable for your project, you check that it is correct along with your stakeholders and sponsors. Which process are you performing?A. Define Scope B. Define Activities C. Verify Scope D. Control Scope
Which of the following helps you identify the root cause of 80% of the defects in your project using the 80/20 rule?A. Scatter chart B. Control chart C. Cause-and-effect diagram D. Pareto chart
You’re managing a project that is currently executing. You’re evaluating the work being performed by constantly measuring the project performance, and recommending changes, repairs, and corrections where necessary. What process are you performing?A. Integrated Change Control B. Monitor &
After a status meeting, one of your team members, John, pulls you aside and tells you that he was insulted by a comment from another team member. He felt that the comment was racist. You meet with the team member who made the comment, Suzanne, but she says that the other team member’s performance
You are managing a software project. The stakeholders have found a few requirements that were missed in the initial Project Scope Statement. You put the requested changes through change control and they are approved so you need to update the Scope Statement to include the new work. Where can you
Two of your project team members approach you with a conflict that they are having with each other over the technical approach to their work. One of the two people is very aggressive, and tries to get you to make a decision quickly. The other team member is quiet, and seems less willing to talk
The project charter is typically approved by the project sponsor, although some charters can be approved by key stakeholders instead. Which of the following BEST describes the role of the project sponsor on the project?A. The sponsor manages the project B. The sponsor provides funding for the
You’re holding a PMP study group so that you and your coworkers can work together to study for the exam. One person recently took and passed the exam, and has offered to give you all of the questions he can remember. How should you respond?A. Accept the questions, but to be fair to everyone in
Which of the following project selection methods is NOT a comparative approach (or benefit measurement model)?A. Linear programming B. Murder boards C. Benefit-to-cost ratios D. Peer review
There are 17 people on a project. How many lines of communication are there?A. 136 B. 105 C. 112 D. 68
Which of the following is the BEST example of a reward system?A. The team member who works the hardest will receive $1,000 B. Everyone will get a bonus of $500 if the project meets its quality goals, $500 if it meets its budget goals, and$600 if it comes in on time C. The five team members who put
You’re managing a project with a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.07 and a cost performance index(CPI) of 0.94. How would you BEST describe this project?A. The project is ahead of schedule and within its budget B. The project is behind schedule and within its budget C. The project is ahead
Which of the following are NOT all examples of project documents?A. Scope Baseline, Project Funding Requirements, Stakeholder Requirements B. Activity List, Stakeholder Register, Teaming Agreements C. Forecasts, Risk Register, Quality Metrics D. Basis of Estimates, Resource Requirements, Statement
As you are executing your project you are constantly checking your risk register to be sure that you have planned responses for all of your risks. At one team status meeting, you find that a lower-priority risk has suddenly become more likely. Where do you keep information about low-priority
Your team has recommended a change to the Verify Scope process. What’s the first thing you should do?A. Implement the change B. Analyze the change versus the Project Management plan to see what its impact will be C. Write up a change request D. Tell your team that the process has already been
You are having lunch with one of your colleagues. He tells you in confidence that he lied about having a PMP certification, and never actually passed the exam. What is the BEST way to handle this situation?A. Report the person to PMI B. Report the person to his manager C. Ask him to tell the truth
Which of the following is NOT an input of the Administer Procurements process?A. Work Performance Information B. Procurement Management Plan C. Contract D. Procurement Documents
You are being hired to manage a highway construction project for a contractor working for Smith County. The sponsor is a project officer who works for the Smith County municipal government. You have three separate teams working all three shifts, with a separate foreman for each team. Each team has
Which of the following types of power is the most effective in leading teams?A. Expert B. Referent C. Reward D. Punishment
You are interviewing new project managers for your company. One of the candidates claims to be a PMPcertified project manager, but you discover that she has never taken the PMP exam. What is the BEST way to handle this situation?A. Do nothing B. Report the person to your manager C. Report the
The project manager for a construction project discovers that the local city council will vote on a zoning change that would open up a new neighborhood to commercial building. She contacts other construction companies in the area that would benefit from the change to ask them to attend the council
Paul is a project manager for an industrial design project. The project has a 60% chance of making the company $230,000 over the next year. It has a 40% chance of costing the company $150,000. What’s the project’s EMV?A. $138,000 B. $60,000 C. $78,000 D. $230,000
What is the main output of the Define Scope process?A. Requirements Documentation B. Scope Definition C. Scope Dictionary D. Project Scope Statement
Which of the following is NOT a stakeholder?A. A project team member B. An attorney from your company’s competitor C. A representative from your project team’s union D. The project sponsors
Which is NOT an example of cost of quality?A. The cost of inspecting your product to be sure that it meets requirements B. The cost of reviewing documents used to produce your product to be sure that they do not have defects C. The cost of training your team on techniques that will help them avoid
A project manager is negotiating with a contractor. Neither has a good idea of how long the project will take, or how much the materials will cost. Which contract type is MOST appropriate for this project?A. Cost plus fixed fee (CPFF)B. Time and Materials (T&M)C. Cost plus award fee (CPAF)D. Firm

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