The PMP Exam: How To Pass On Your First Try (Test Prep Series) 3rd Edition Andy Crowe PMP - Solutions

If you're preparing for the PMP Exam using Andy Crowe's renowned textbook, "The PMP Exam: How To Pass On Your First Try," our comprehensive resource is your go-to solution. We offer an extensive collection of solved problems and step-by-step answers, designed to guide you through the most challenging questions and answers found in the textbook. Access our free download, complete with a detailed answers key and solutions PDF, to enhance your study experience. Our instructor manual, test bank, and chapter solutions provide in-depth insights, ensuring you're well-prepared for success. Uncover the secrets to mastering the PMP exam with our complete solution manual.

If you are working on a project where there is no definite detailed scope, but there are similar projects in the past, what is the correct Estimate Activity Durations tool to use?Analogous Estimating Parametric Estimating Critical Path Estimation Three Point Estimating
Which of these is not an established Estimate Activity Durations technique?Three Point Estimating Parametric Estimating Analogous Estimating Critical Path Estimation
While analyzing a project, the project manager calculated the ratio of the Earned Value (EV) to the Actual Costs (AC) and obtained a value of 1.2. The project manager decided this was an unfavorable condition for the project and decided to take corrective action. What is your view?The project
A good project manager knows the value of effective stakeholder management. What is the ultimate goal of effective stakeholder management?Stakeholder engagement Project success Stakeholder satisfaction Meeting project objectives
How does time-boxing help minimize scope creep in agile projects?It forces the team to create project WBS using the user stories.It forces the sponsor to allocate a Scrum master who helps in eliminating scope creep.It forces the team to process essential features first, then other features.It
At the end of a project, what will your schedule variance be equal to?Zero Equal to the total PV One Equal to the total EV
Midway through a project, a project manager determined the project was running far behind schedule. If the project manager needs to shorten the project schedule without changing the project scope, which of the following schedule compression techniques could he use?Crashing Reserve Analysis
On-demand scheduling is one of the techniques used in agile projects.This type of scheduling relies on:A schedule that was developed previously for the development of the project increments.Discretionary dependencies that cannot be changed by the project team.Skills of the project manager rather
George is managing a telecommunication network deployment project.Most of the key project stakeholders are happy with the project so far.However, George has some potential concerns that might become issues in the near future. The next project status update meeting with the key stakeholders is the
Measuring the quality of items in a sample on a pass/fail basis is:Biased sampling Variable sampling Stratified sampling Attribute sampling
Which of the following is not a part of the data gathering tools used in Control Quality process?Checklists Control Chart Check sheets Statistical sampling
Large organizations typically manage a wide range of projects; from small projects to large initiatives requiring long-term commitments.Which of the following factors can be used in scaling such projects:Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational complexity,
If you want to compress a project schedule, what are two of the recommended alternatives to consider?Fast Tracking and Schedule Network Analysis Crashing and Fast Tracking Resource Levelling and What-If Scenario Analysis Crashing and Schedule Network Analysis
In projects with adaptive life cycles, many of the project management processes are repeated in each iteration of the project except:Develop Project Charter Collect Requirements Define Scope Create WBS
Two efficiency indicators that reflect the cost and schedule performance of a project are:Cost Projection Index (CPI) and Schedule Projection Index (SPI)Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index(SPI)Actual Cost (AC) and Planned Value (PV)Cost Pricing Index (CPI) and Schedule
As a project manager, you perform various project performance measurements to assess the magnitude of variation. You then attempt to determine the cause and decide whether corrective action is necessary.This is:Scope Analysis Variance Analysis Performance Reporting Configuration Management
In general, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis is:Not often completed Complete and 100 percent accurate In-depth and thorough focused on high-priority risks
Change control tool selection should be based on the needs of the project stakeholders, including organizational and environmental considerations and/or constraints. Which of the following is not a key change management consideration while selecting an appropriate change control tool for a
With a growing awareness of so-called unknowable-unknowns, the existence of emergent risk is becoming clear. These are risks that can only be recognized after they have occurred. Emergent risks can be tackled through developing:Project resilience Project charter Project management plan Project risk
James is managing a shopping mall construction project. During the project execution, he learns the project communications management plan is not effective and requires a major update. Which of the following processes will issue a change request for the required update?Plan Communications
Maintaining good supplier relationships should be important to all project managers. A good buyer-seller relationship is a partnership that results in a win-win situation that nurtures both parties. Which of the following is both a short- and long-term benefit of treating a supplier with courtesy,
Laurence is the PMO manager at ANZ Company. The CEO of the company asked Laurence to review the business requirements and develop the current year’s capital management plan. The capital management plan will outline the key business deliverables (capital projects) and will go to the board for
A good project manager always gathers and documents lessons learned throughout the project lifecycle rather than delaying the effort until the project closure. Which of the following is not a risk associated with postponing the lessons-learned gathering effort until the very end of the project?The
Which of the following is not a project competing constraint?Budget Procurement Risk Resource
A single point of failure (SPOF) is the part of a system that, upon failure, stops the entire system from working or makes the system useless. Which of the following events can render a knowledge management system ineffective?If project team is not motivated.Project team is geographically
Fill in the blank. _______________ indicates that planning and documentation are iterative or ongoing activities.Progressive management Iterative elaboration Waterfall development Progressive elaboration
Projects operating in agile environments where a high degree of uncertainty exists and where the scope is not yet fully defined, may not benefit from detailed cost calculations due to frequent changes. Instead, lightweight estimation methods can be used to generate a fast, highlevel forecast of
Estimating the type and quantities of material, people, equipment, and supplies required to perform each activity is:Estimate Activity Workload Estimate Activity Input Resource calendars Estimate Activity Resources
Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor?Configuration management knowledge base Change control procedures Historical information Commercial databases
The resource optimization technique during the Control Schedule process allows a project manager to:Schedule training sessions for the project team members to optimize their performance.Schedule activities considering both the resource availability and the project time.Provide monetary incentives
The transition from one phase to another within a project's lifecycle(e.g., from design to manufacturing) is typically marked by:Kill point Monte Carlo Constraint Decision tree
A project manager is managing a research project. Typically, research projects are not clearly defined and involve a lot of uncertainty. The project has four phases in which a phase can only start when its previous phase is complete. What project lifecycle and phase-to-phase relationship should the
Which of the following is not a PMBOK Knowledge Area?Procurement management Integration management Execution management Communications management
When is Rolling Wave Planning useful in a project?You should use Rolling Wave Planning to help you achieve the appropriate level of detail in each work package at the right time.You should use Rolling Wave Planning to determine the correct sequencing for long-term items.You should use Rolling Wave
A control chart should always contain:Upper and lower warning limits The moving average Upper and lower control limits Upper and lower specification limits
Project risks should be identified by:Those invited to the risk identification process only Key project stakeholders only The project manager only All project personnel
During which stages of a project should the project manager be most active in managing project stakeholders’ needs and expectations?Initiating and planning Planning and executing Executing and controlling Controlling and closing
Kevin is assigned to a software development project that will start in the near future and is currently tailoring the PMBOK processes to satisfy the project’s specific needs. Kevin wants to introduce a new process, “Identify Key Deliverables”, to the existing six project scope management
What is the traditional way to display a reporting structure among project team members?Text-oriented role description Flowchart Project organization charts Matrix-based responsibility chart
An effective quality audit should be:Structured and independent Informal and independent Informal and internal Structured and internal
The output of the Validate Scope process is accepted deliverables that are formally signed off by the stakeholders. The stakeholders, on some projects, can get involved with the project as early as:During the project initiation During the project planning During the project execution During the
Which of these precedence relationships is most commonly used in the Precedence Diagramming Method?Finish-to-Start Start-to-Finish Start-to-Start Finish-to-Finish
If you are creating a new WBS for your project, what should you do to save time during the creation process?Delegate the WBS creation since it is not an important process.Skip the WBS process.Use a previous WBS from a similar project as a template.Create a less detailed WBS.
Which of the following defines the total scope of the project and represents the work specified in the current approved project scope statement?Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)Bill of Material (BOM)Project Charter Requirements Breakdown Structure (RBS)
The technique most commonly used by project management software packages to construct a project schedule model is:Precedence diagramming method (PDM)Finish-to-Start (FS)Activity-In-Node (AIN)Node-On-Activity (NOA)
Which of these processes is not a Project Schedule Management process?Create WBS Develop Schedule Define Activities Sequence Activities
During the Plan Risk Management process, assigning ___________ will help you and the project team identify all important risks and work more effectively during the identification process.Risk factors Blame Risk mitigation plans Risk categories
Which term best describes the Identify Risks process?Finite Redundant Iterative Inconsequential
Which of the following processes are usually performed once or at predefined points in the project:“Develop Project Charter” and “Close Project or Phase”“Develop Project Charter” and “Develop Project Management Plan”“Develop Project Management Plan” and “Direct and Manage
Which of the following should you not use as an input into creating the WBS structure?Bill of Material (BOM)Project scope statement Organizational process assets Requirements documentation
The Requirements Traceability Matrix helps in tracing all the following except:Requirements to project objectives Requirements to project scope Requirements to test strategy Requirements to project risk
Which of the following tools and techniques is useful to process work performance data to identify sources of project defects during the Control Quality process?Data analysis Salience model Schedule model Communication model
A project manager scheduled a review at the end of a phase, with the objective of obtaining authorization to close the current project phase and initiate the next phase. Which of the following is an incorrect way of describing this review?Phase gate Phase planning Kill point Stage gate
Increasing the number of resources in order to crash a project schedule does not always cut the time by the same factor. In worst cases, too many resources assigned to an activity may actually increase the activity duration. This is because:Decrease in cost budget Required additional coordination
Jane is currently reviewing a list of project proposals. All the proposed projects achieve some of the organizational strategic objectives and their expected costs are known. However, Jane cannot execute all the projects due to the funding limitation. How shall Jane determine which projects she
Project knowledge management is concerned with managing which type of project knowledge?Both “explicit” and “tacit” knowledge “Explicit” knowledge; as this can be readily codified “Tacit” knowledge; as this is difficult to express “Tacit” knowledge; as this involves beliefs,
Recently, a junior team member has challenged the project management approach since not all requirements identified during the Collect Requirements process were documented in the project scope statement.You are the project manager, what should you do first?Remove the junior team member from the
Each critical project communication requirement must be carefully analyzed. One good way is to use a communication model to design effective communications. What is the sequence of steps in a basic communication model?Encode -> Decode -> Transmit -> Acknowledge -> Feedback Encode -> Transmit ->
A contractor is currently constructing a new building for your organization on a cost-plus-incentive contract. You just received the project status report from the contractor’s project manager. According to the report, the project’s CPI is 1.5. You are shocked because you believe the project
If the project's current total earned value (EV) is $100,000 and the actual amount spent (AC) is $95,000, what is the cost variance of the project?The cost variance is $1.05 The cost variance is $5,000 The cost variance is $0.95The cost variance is $-5,000
A RACI chart is an example of a _________________.Network Flowchart Responsibility assignment matrix Hierarchical-type organization chart
Which of these types of precedence relationships is least commonly used in the Precedence Diagramming Method?Start to Start Finish to Finish Finish to Start Start to Finish
If a project manager believes that a particular subcontract needs to be terminated, which of the following can provide guidance on the contract termination procedure?The contract termination procedures in the organizational process assets The termination clause of the specific subcontractThe change
A business is considering more than a dozen infrastructure upgrade projects. These projects, once delivered, will add to the organization’s overall performance but will not contribute to any of the revenue streams. Prior to initiating any such project, the value of the project to the organization
If an investment in a project returns 15 percent annually, how much should you invest to get $5 million by the end of the fifth year?2485884 2857143 2501376 2685292
Which of the following is a hierarchical representation of project risks?Risk Register Risk Mitigation Risk Categories Risk Breakdown Structure
The most detailed level of the WBS is the _______________ .Control Account Work package Scope statement Accepted Deliverable
Various tools and techniques determine project requirements during the Collect Requirements process. These requirements form the basis for defining the project scope. One of the responsibilities of a project manager is to identify key project deliverables during this exercise.Where are the key
In order to facilitate project configuration and change management on complex projects, a project manager relies on configuration and change management tools. Such tools:a. Can be manual or automatic; the selection depends on the project’s environment and requirements.b. Must be manual; a complex
During the Control Procurements process, a number of documents might get updated due to various reasons. Which of the following components of the project management plan is least likely to get updated during this process?a. Quality management planb. Procurement management planc. Schedule baselined.
If you are managing changes to the project's cost baseline, which process are you using?a. Negotiate Costsb. Estimate Costsc. Control Costsd. Determine Budget
After brainstorming potential project risks, what is the recommended method for prioritizing these risks and their mitigation plans?a. RACI chartb. Control chartc. Fishbone diagramd. Probability and impact matrix
Few project managers collect lessons-learned information throughout the project’s life. Most tackle this in the final days of the project or, worse, after the project is complete. What is the negative consequence of this approach?a. It makes compiling and obtaining project information
During the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process, a number of project documents might get updated. Which of the following project documents get updated the most during this process?a. Stakeholder registerb. Risk registerc. Project reportsd. Project presentations
Which of the following is not an organizational process asset used during the Plan Resource Management process?a. Template for resource management planb. Resource management policies and proceduresc. Historical information about previous projectsd. Standardized stakeholder list
Which of the following statements most accurately describes a project scenario?a. Changes in project scope during the initial phases of the project are very expensive.b. The influence of the stakeholders is the same all through the project.c. Staffing peaks during the execution phase of a
What is the primary risk when including reserves, or contingency allowances, in your cost estimate?a. Cancelling your projectb. Understating the cost estimatec. Overstating the cost estimated. Tracking the funds
The Create WBS process identifies the deliverables at the __________ level in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).a. Lowestb. Anyc. Tenthd. Highest
During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager is usually dependent on the expert judgment of senior stakeholders to identify and plan effective stakeholder management strategies. Which of the following stakeholders cannot guide the project manager in
As you create the Activity List, which technique is recommended for subdividing the project into smaller components called activities?a. ecompositionb. Rolling Wave Planningc. Expert Judgmentd. Deconstruction
Which of the following components of a project scope statement is useful in reducing scope creep?a. Acceptance criteriab. Deliverablesc. Scope descriptiond. Exclusions
During which of the following project processes do key stakeholders engage with the project for the first time?a. Develop Project Charterb. Identify Stakeholdersc. Collect Requirementsd. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, a project manager is usually dependent on the voice of the project stakeholders to obtain expert opinion. Which of the following is an important tool available to the project manager for gathering and organizing stakeholders’
Bringing the entire project team and the customer on site to work together is an example of:A. Communication control.B. Collocation.C. Active participation.D. Collective team distribution.
A project is scheduled to last 4 months and cost $300,000. At the end of the 1st month, the project is 20% complete. What is the schedule performance index?
Which definition below best describes cost aggregation?A. A risk management technique to view costs and their risks by an aggregated group instead of by an individual work package.B. Adding the costs associated with each work package back up to the parent nodes on the WBS to ultimately get a total
You are managing a project when an unplanned risk event occurs. You meet with experts and determine a workaround to keep the project on track. In which process are you engaged?A. Qualitative Risk Analysis.B. Quantitative Risk Analysis.C. Risk Response Planning.D. Risk Monitoring and Control.
Who issues the quality policy?A. The performing organization.B. The stakeholders.C. The project manager.D. A standards body.
The MAIN use of a project network diagram is to:A. Create the project plan.B. Show activity percentages complete.C. Show activity sequences and dependencies.D. Create paths through the network.
Evaluating overall project performance on a regular basis to ensure that it meets expectations takes place in which process group of project management?A. Planning.B. Executing.C. Monitoring and controlling.D. Closing.
A cable company is installing new fiber optic cables in a community.You are the project manager and you will be using subcontractors to provide some of the installations. You have completed the procurement management plan and the statement of work, and you have gathered and prepared the documents
You have assumed the position of project manager for a project that is nearly 50% complete. Because this project has reportedly had many quality problems, you want to review what trends and variances have occurred over time. Which tool would be most helpful to you?A. Cause and effect diagrams.B.
Your team has created a project scope statement and a work breakdown structure. What is the NEXT step that needs to be taken?A. Create a network diagram.B. Develop the schedule.C. Determine the critical path.D. Create the activity list.
What is the difference between a Gantt chart and a milestone chart?A. A Gantt chart is a project plan and a milestone chart is not.B. A milestone chart is a project plan and a Gantt chart is not.C. A milestone chart shows interdependencies between activities.D. A milestone chart shows only major
The fact that a software program must be written before it can be tested is an example of a:A. Mandatory dependency.B. Discretionary dependency.C. External dependency.D. Milestone dependency.
All of the following are needed for creating the project budget except:A. Cost estimates.B. Schedule.C. Resource calendar.D. Organizational policies.
Alex is a project manager who wants to motivate his team by offering them a week of paid vacation if the project is delivered on time. When presenting this to the team, he spends extra time convincing the team that this goal is very achievable. What theory BEST explains Alex's behavior?A.
Stakeholder analysis is performed as part of:A. Schedule Development.B. Human Resource Planning.C. Scope Definition.D. Risk Management Planning.
Linda is managing a multi-national project that utilizes several subproject teams. Before the last team meeting, the sponsor asked her to bring a Control Account Plan for him to review. Which of the following statements is MOST correct regarding the Control Account Plan?A. A control account plan is
A construction company is building a new office complex and has contracted with a computer hardware firm to install computer networking cables throughout the buildings. 'The contract states that the construction company will buy the materials and pay an hourly rate to the computer firm to cover

Showing 7100 - 7200 of 8740

First
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
Last

The PMP Exam: How To Pass On Your First Try (Test Prep Series) 3rd Edition Andy Crowe PMP - Solutions

Step by Step Answers