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PMP Exam Prep Questions, Answers, & Explanations 1000+ Practice Questions With Detailed Solutions 6th Edition Christopher Scordo - Solutions
Which of the following statements is correct?The buyer-seller relationship exists only between organizations external to the acquiring organization.The buyer-seller relationship exists only between organizations internal to the acquiring organization.The buyer-seller relationship exists at the top
During the course of the project, the project management team developed a forecast for the estimate at completion (EAC) based on the project performance. Which of the following statements about EAC is correct?The EAC forecast based on the Bottom-up estimate to complete(ETC) requires a new
A project manager is performing a set of processes in the Initiating Process Group. Which of the following is likely to be part of the Initiating Process Group?Develop Project Management Plan Define Scope Develop Project Charter Plan Quality Management
Your company took over the management of a project from another company that went out of business. To minimize disruptions related to the transition, your company hired a number of the employees from the other company. One of these employees has delivered a 300-page document a week ahead of
A key project in an organization has been ignored, due to high travel expenses associated with the movement of subject matter experts and other specialists across various project locations. Which of the following might allow such a project to be undertaken in a cost-efficient manner?Management
Stakeholder analysis is an important technique in the Identify Stakeholders process. One of the steps involved is to identify the potential impact of each stakeholder and classify him or her appropriately. Which of the following is not a valid stakeholder categorization method?Salience model
You are working in Lab-X, a laboratory experimental project to research the effect of a virus on human male bodies. This project needs local government approval for carrying out tests on living people.However, the local authorities informed you were informed it would take at least three weeks to
Variance Analysis is an important tool used in the Control Costs process. Which of the following statements regarding variances is correct?The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to increase as more work is accomplished.The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to
A project team is currently focusing on Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process to reassess the project stakeholders' current engagement levels and to review the current stakeholder engagement strategy. Which of the following is an output of this process?Project documents updates Stakeholder
Rick, a project manager, is updating the status of his project. Based on the performance indices, he expects the project to finish a month earlier than the planned finish date. However, he expects the project to exceed the budgeted costs. What can you say about the schedule performance index (SPI)
Rina and Gimo are the senior developers in a website development project. They have argued about the best web design product to use in developing the new website. As the project manager, you use a forcing approach to make a decision and reduce the conflict. What is the main characteristic of this
Sheila is a project manager who manages a global project. She has stakeholders located in various parts of the globe. Due to the nature of the project, she also has large volumes of information she needs to share with the recipients. What type of communication method should she prefer for this
Why are the approved change requests input to the Direct and Manage Project Work process?The project team may reject approved change requests during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.Approved change requests are implemented by the project team during the Direct and Manage Project Work
You are managing a project to design microprocessor control systems.The design work was estimated to be complete in 3.5 months with seven milestones. The sixth milestone is the prototype to be transferred to manufacturing. All milestones before prototyping have been completed ahead of schedule,
You are the project manager of a project executing work under a contract signed with a buyer organization. Just after the project has started, you notice that the buyer organization had made a mistake in the financial terms, and your organization stands to benefit considerably from this oversight.
The Actual Cost (AC) is the total cost actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed for an activity or work breakdown structure component. What is the upper limit for the AC?50 percent over and above the Planned Value (PV)The Actual Cost (AC) is limited to the Planned Value
Which of the following is incorrect regarding a bidders conference?Questions from each seller should be handled confidentially and not shared with other sellers.No bidders should receive preferential treatment, even if they are part of the company's existing list of approved suppliers.Bidder
A seller organization was executing work for a project under a contract.During the course of the project, a number of disputes arose over the scope and quality of the work. Which of the following is the preferred method of resolving these claims?Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)Claims court
You have just taken over a project from another project manager about six months into a 12-month project. As you get to know the staff on the project, you become aware that five staff members are relatives of the previous project manager. What do you do?Notify your project stakeholders there is a
Which of the following is true about risks?A risk may have one or more causes, and, if it occurs, may have one or more effects.A risk usually has a single cause and, if it occurs, may have one or more effects.A risk usually has a single cause and, if it occurs, usually has a single effect.A risk
Which of the following is neither an input nor an output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process?Approved change requests Change requests Approved deliverables Deliverables
Sensitivity analysis helps to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. A project manager prepared a display chart of sensitivity analysis for his project. The diagram contained a series of bars with the length of the bars corresponding to the risk impact on the project.
Decision tree analysis is used to calculate the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. What are a decision node’s inputs and outputs?Input: Cost of each decision; Output: Probability of occurrence Input: Cost of each decision; Output: Decision made Input:
Stanley's project is in execution. Stanley has a monthly stakeholder update meeting scheduled in which he presents the project's progress and current issues to the key stakeholders. During the last stakeholder update meeting, the stakeholders requested Stanley to provide biweekly project updates
A first-time project manager created a Work Breakdown Structure(WBS) where the deliverables had different levels of decomposition.What would your comment on this be?This is incorrect. All deliverables need to have the same level of decomposition.This is incorrect. Only deliverables under different
You are working in a matrix project environment where functional managers have control over the resources. You are well aware that not acquiring the project team soon enough for your project could result in changes to the schedule, cost, and quality. To acquire the project team from functional
A project can be authorized by any of the following except:The project manager The PMO The sponsor The portfolio steering committee
A project manager needed to shorten a project schedule and decided to employ crashing, a schedule compression technique. Which of the following activities would not be an example of crashing?Bringing in additional resources Reducing project scope Paying to expedite delivery activities Approving
Nancy's project is in execution. Nancy is currently planning to execute the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process. She has gathered the project documents such as the issue log, the change log, the stakeholder register, the lessons learned register and the necessary organizational process assets.
Procurement statement of work (SOW) is a narrative description of the products or services to be delivered by the vendor. It usually references all the following except:The business case Product specifications Work location Performance requirements
Which of the following techniques focuses on identifying non-valueadded activities in a project?Pareto charting Process analysis Root cause analysis Affinity diagrams
A project charter that formally authorized a project was created. The project charter documented the initial requirements to satisfy stakeholders' needs and expectations. How often should the project charter be revised?At the beginning, middle, and end of a project Once a month Project charter is
Which of the following is not an example of a work performance report?Status report Project charter Progress report Project dashboard
Nancy’s project has a large number of key positive and negative stakeholders. To ensure the project’s success, it is essential to manage the influential negative stakeholders closely. Do the key positive stakeholders need to be managed, too?No; more attention needs to be given to the key
Which of the following is not an example of parametric estimating?Activity duration estimated based on the number of drawings multiplied by the number of labor hours per drawing Activity duration estimated based on the number of labor hours per meter for cable installation.Activity duration
A project needed to monitor the technical performance of the project and capture data related to how many errors or defects had been identified and how many remained uncorrected. Which of the following techniques should the project use?Scatter diagram Flowchart Histogram Control chart
As part of the Estimate Costs process, a project manager obtained access to certain commercially available databases to get resource cost rate information. Such published commercial information is considered what type of input?Enterprise environmental factor Historical information Organizational
You are a certified PMP, and the PMI has contacted you as part of an investigation it is conducting into allegations of improper conduct by your manager, who is also a PMP. A complaint has been filed stating your manager has received bribes related to a large procurement contract on another
All the monitoring and controlling processes and many of the executing processes can produce change requests as an output. Change requests may require corrective actions and preventive actions. Which of the following are normally affected by corrective and preventive actions?Defect repair
Which of the following processes will determine the correctness of deliverables?Plan Deliverables Plan Quality Management Control Quality Manage Quality
During the Collect Requirements process, a group of people were discussing multiple alternatives. One of the individuals in the group made the decision for the group. This method of reaching a group decision is termed:One Thinking Hat Autocratic Plurality Autonomy
In which of the following situations would it be better to avoid using Analogous Estimating?When the project team members have the needed expertise When an accurate estimate is required When a low value estimate is required When the previous activities are similar in fact and not just appearance
Miranda is an experienced project manager. As part of the Collect Requirements phase, she decides to use a group creativity technique.This technique is intended to enhance brainstorming with a voting process and can be used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming or prioritization.
A first-time project manager is advised by an experienced project manager to plan for cost of quality. The first-time project manager is not sure which costs are included in the cost of quality. What would your advice be?Cost of quality only includes cost of nonconformance.Cost of quality includes
Which of the following structures helps track project costs and can align with the organization’s accounting system?Project breakdown structure (PBS)Matrix breakdown structure (MBS)Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)
Joe has been managing a project for Exton Oil Corp. This project involves redesigning filling stations across the state. The redesign involves new gas pumps, security cameras, convenience stores, and use of environmentally friendly materials in the construction. While the redesigning work proceeds,
A project manager is currently ensuring that the stakeholders clearly understand the project goals, objectives, benefits, and risks. This relates to which of the following processes?Control Stakeholder Identify Stakeholders Plan Communications Management Manage Stakeholder Engagement
The WBS structure can be created in a number of forms except which of the following?Using work packages as the second level of decomposition, with the project deliverables inserted at the third level Using major deliverables as the second level of decomposition Using phases of the project lifecycle
During the execution of a project, a large number of defects were discovered. The project manager ensured that the issues, defect resolution, and action item results were logged into a defects database.What would the defect database be considered a part of?Expert Judgment Deliverables Change
Which of the following is not an input to the Conduct Procurements process?Proposal evaluation techniques Seller proposals Cost baseline Procurement management plan
A project manager is looking at a make-or-buy analysis as part of the Procurement Management process. What type of costs should the project manager consider for this analysis?Direct costs Indirect costs Out-of-pocket costs Both direct as well as indirect costs
You are meeting with your stakeholders to gather requirements for your project. You are well aware that requirements to be gathered include both product and project requirements. All the following tools can be used to gather, define, and analyze project requirements from stakeholders except:Surveys
Jackie is the project manager of a large project. During the Determine Budget process, she identifies that contingency reserves need to be set up for unplanned but potentially necessary changes that could result from realized risks identified in the risk register. Which of the following is true
However, he also tells you that Susan is not particularly religious; if pushed a bit and offered some incentive, she may forego celebrating this holiday and come to work. What should you do?Check whether one of her colleagues can share some of her workload this week Increase her project incentive
Due to a change in the critical path, her deliverable will be needed two days sooner. However, as the new deadline is still two weeks away and she is ahead of schedule, you are confident her delivery will be on time. During a staff meeting, you learn from John, her functional manager, that Susan
You are managing a project with a large multinational staff. Susan, one of the engineers, was originally asked to deliver her part of the work on October
The scope of work in a project could not be clearly defined. There was also a strong possibility that the scope would change during the course of the project. Which type of contract would suit this type of situation?Fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract Fixed-price contract
A project manager is considering risk in a project. When does risk come into play in a project?During the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis During the Identify Risks phase As soon as the Plan Risk Management phase begins As soon as a project is conceived
Erica is managing a kitchen tools manufacturing project, which is intended to produce modern cooking ovens. This project is hugely important for the company as well as for Erica‘s career. Although the project scope statement was well-defined and requirements were gathered from stakeholders in the
A project manager estimated that a project would require 4375 person hours of effort. The project ended up using 6250 person-hours of effort.The difference between these two figures is a:Variance Control Limit Threshold Standard Deviation
Dina, the project manager of a hardware project, is performing a structured review of the procurement process. She would like to examine each document from the Plan Procurement Management process through the Control Procurements process to identify failures.What tool should Dina use?Procurement
Which of the following scenarios is likely to occur in a project?Cost and staffing levels are low at the start of the project.Stakeholders' influence on the project is lowest at the start of the project.Risk and uncertainty are lowest at the start of the project.Cost of changes are the highest at
To define the logical relationship among dependencies accurately, a project manager is determining which ones require a lead or a lag.Which of the following correctly describes leads or lags?A lead allows a successor activity to be delayed.A lag directs a delay in the predecessor activity.A lag
A project manager was involved in preparation of the project charter for an external project. One of the inputs to the project charter was a statement of work (SOW). The SOW may have been received from the customer as part of any of the following except:As part of a request for information As part
Sheila is the project manager of a website development project. After a detailed discussion with the project management team, she decides to create an informal, broadly framed quality management plan. What would your comment on this be?This is incorrect. A quality management plan should be formal
You are just about to present your project’s status to your company’s executive team. Just as you are leaving your desk for the meeting, one of your resources hands you an updated report on the progress of a critical deliverable. As you are walking to the conference room, you review the report
Which of the following statements about project teams is incorrect?The project management team is usually a team external to the project team.The project management team is a subset of the project team.For smaller projects, the entire team can share the project management responsibilities.For
A project manager needs team members that report to a functional manager. What technique is the project manager most likely to use to obtain these resources?Pre-assignment Authority Negotiation Coercion
A project manager created a resource histogram. On the histogram, some bars extended beyond the maximum available hours. What does this usually signify?This means that the resources on those bars are being underused.This means that a resource optimization strategy needs to be applied.This means the
During a project status meeting, a project manager presented sensitive information related to the project. However, this information was not intended to be available to the audience. Which of the following processes was done incorrectly, resulting in the project manager communicating sensitive
After conducting a bidder conference, you receive an email from one of the bidders requesting additional information. The information was neither included in your request for proposal, nor did anyone ask for it during the bidder conference. You realize the answer to this question is critical to
A project manager is estimating project costs and needs to decide whether the estimates will include direct costs only or include indirect costs, as well. In which of the following phases does this decision need to take place?Define Scope Estimate Costs Plan Expenses Determine Budget
A buyer and seller set the rates for junior engineers, senior engineers, architects, and other predefined roles. In what type of contract would this be applicable?Fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract Fixed-price incentive contract Fixed-price contract Time and material contract
Acceptance is a strategy adopted because it is not possible to eliminate all risks from a project. This strategy indicates that the project management team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk. What action does passive acceptance require?Passive acceptance is no
A project manager manages a distributed team with team members located in five countries. Due to time zone differences, he cannot find a time that is acceptable to all team members. Which conflict resolution technique is best suited for this situation?Compromise Force Withdraw Avoid
A new project manager has just taken over a project that is 50 percent complete. As part of the hand-over process, the outgoing project manager provided the new project manager with a list of stakeholders that needed to be managed. The list had been compiled at the start of the project. Which of
The Identify Risks process involves determining which risks may impact a project. It is considered an iterative process. What is the frequency of the iteration?Every month Every two weeks The frequency of iteration will vary based on the situation Every week
Bill and Jake are two team members in a project. They do not get along well and are constantly involved in verbal conflicts. The project manager understands the characteristics of conflict and the conflict management process and tries to resolve the situation. Which of the following is not a
Which of the following statements accurately describes how the completion of project scope and the completion of product scope are measured?The completion of project scope and product scope are both measured against the product requirements.The completion of project scope is measured against the
Kelly is part of a project management office (PMO). Her office is responsible for the centralized and coordinated management of 18 projects. Each project has its own project manager. Which of the following will not typically be a responsibility of her PMO?Coaching, mentoring, training, and
Jessica is managing an office refurbishment project. All the project stakeholders are identified and classified. The stakeholder engagement plan is also approved. Jessica is managing a project for the first time, and she is relying on the PMBOK guide as a reference to deliver an excellent project.
A project manager used the services of a trained moderator during the Collect Requirements process. Which of the following is likely to have required the services of a trained moderator?Interviews Prototypes Questionnaires Focus groups
Sally, a project manager, was reconciling expenditure of funds with funding limits on the commitment of funds for the project. She found a large variance between the funding limits and planned expenditures. As a result, she decided to reschedule work to level out the rate of expenditures. This
A project manager uses the precedence diagramming method (PDM)for constructing a project schedule network and creates a network diagram for the purpose. He decides to use the most common type of precedence relationship for all activities. Which of the following relationships would he
While preparing a resource management plan, a project manager designated one of the senior programmers on the team to make decisions on whether the quality of deliverables met the project's documented standards. Which of the following aspects of a resource management plan does this
Mark is managing an airport construction project. He is currently identifying his project stakeholders, and he has compiled a long list of stakeholders already. Managing expectations of every project stakeholder is not practical. What should he do in this situation?Project stakeholders should be
During a discussion with the quality department, Dave, a project manager, was told that as applied to projects, the terms “prevention”and “inspection” are synonymous. However, his understanding of the terms is different. What would you comment on this situation?The project manager is
Bill is the project manager of an external project for a customer. The project is expected to take about a year to complete. Six months into the project, the customer informs Bill that he or she needs to scrap the project. During which of the following processes would procedures be developed to
As part of a strategy to handle negative risk, a project manager decided to adopt less complex processes, conduct more tests, and choose a more stable supplier. What strategy would this be classified as?Acceptance Transference Mitigation Avoidance
A government agency has awarded your company a massive software project. This project has an early completion incentive, and your company has a policy of paying a bonus to the project manager if such an incentive is awarded. However, this particular government agency has a reputation for being
At the beginning of the project, a project manager realized the technical expertise of the team was limited, a risk to the project. Midway through the project, the project manager decided that this was no longer a risk and considered it outdated. As part of which process would he do the risk
With high levels of uncertainty and unpredictability in a fast-paced and highly competitive global marketplace, where long-term scope is difficult to define, it is becoming even more important to have a __________ for effective adoption and tailoring of development practices to respond to the
If a project has a 60 percent chance of a $100,000 profit and a 40 percent chance of a $100,000 loss, the expected monetary value of the project is:$20,000 profit$40,000 loss $100,000 profit $60,000 loss
During which stage of risk planning are risks prioritized based on their relative probability and impact?Perform Qualitative risk analysis Identify Risks Perform Quantitative risk analysis Plan Risk Responses
Which of the following is true about risks?The risk register documents all the identified risks in detail.Risk impact should be considered, but probability of occurrence is not important.Risks always have negative impact and not positive.Risk Response Plan is another name for Risk Management Plan.
Which of these is an input to the Monitor Risks process?Risk audits Change requests Work performance information Work Performance Reports
Your project sponsor has asked you to present your project’s high-level risk register to him in the next project update meeting. To create your high-level risk register, which of the following processes must be performed?Plan Risk Management Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis Identify Risks
Anne is the project manager of a project. She has evaluated certain responses from prospective sellers and wants to select a contract model that will transfer risk to the seller. Which of the following should she select in order to achieve this?Time and Material contract Fixed price contract
Which of these is accurate regarding risk management?Organizations are not likely to perceive risk as a threat to project success.It has its origins in the uncertainty present in all projects.The attitudes of individuals and organizations must not be a factor affecting risk management.It is a
Which of these is a valid negative risk response?Exploit Mitigate Enhance Share
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