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PMP Question Bank - 400 PMP Sample Questions 1st Edition M Fahad Usmani - Solutions
Due to the lack of available expertise in your area, you have hired many team members from diverse geographical areas and cultures. Therefore, they are having problems with technical terms used by other team members. Sometimes they agree on the definition of a term and other times they do not. What
Based on the above Tornado Diagram, you can tell management that:(a) The project is at high risk (b) Event 4 is least important event (c) Event 2 has more influence on the project than event 3 (d) Event 1 is a very low risk event Event - 1 Event-2 Event-3 Event-4 Event-5
During the status review with your stakeholders, one of the stakeholders told you that they were not asked for their opinion, and now they need a change in the product characteristics. This change may lead to a change in your cost and schedule baseline. Which of the following processes could have
You are in a process which helps you evaluate the effectiveness of the risk process throughout the project. Which of the following documents will not be updated here? (a) Assumption log (b) Issue log (c) Risk report (d) Change log
You arrive at a site to inspect a deliverable. Suddenly a team member comes to you and he is sweating and exhausted. He shouts at you and tells you that some equipment has failed and it urgently needs to be replaced, otherwise other activities may be impacted severely. Which of the following
You are in a process whose objective is outlining and guiding team selection and responsibility assignment to obtain a successful team. Which of the following is an output of this process? (a) Virtual team (b) Human resource management plan (c) Project staff assignments (d) Change request
You have joined an ongoing project. This project is in trouble, so you identify the issues which have the highest effect on the project, and now you are analyzing the reason for these issues. Which tool are you using now? (a) Fishbone diagram (b) Pareto diagram (c) Scatter diagram (d) Tornado
During the risk identification process, your team identifies an event for which you are not able to find the probability and its impact. This event is known as: (a) Uncertainty (b) A risk (c) A negative risk (d) An unknown risk
Which of the following theories is based on trust and emphasizes involving workers with the management? (a) Expectancy theory (b) Theory X & Y (c) Theory Z of Ouchi (d) Herzberg motivation theory
You have joined an ongoing project which is on schedule, but over budget, and the cost performance index is 0.55. There was something wrong with the project cost estimate. Therefore, you started reviewing the project management plan and found that the previous manager used a very old project’s
You are in the planning phase of a project and you find that, due to a miscommunication, some additional features were added to the product which were not requested by any of your stakeholders. Which of the following could help you avoid such a situation? (a) Requirements traceability matrix (b)
Your project is spread over a large geographical area so your team is also spread throughout the globe. During a recent virtual meeting, you noticed that there is a communication gap among some team members. What will you do to improve communication? (a) Create a ground rule and stick to it (b)
Your project is running late and you are over budget. You review the situation and find that it would be difficult for you to complete the project with the given budget. You inform management and they ask you to come up with a new budget. After estimating the new cost, you inform management that
In a SWOT analysis, when you are able to convert threats into opportunities and weaknesses into strengths, it is known as: (a) Conversion strategy (b) Reverse strategy (c) FMEA analysis (d) Benefit realization
Two team members come to you with a dispute regarding their roles and responsibilities. To resolve the dispute, which document will you refer to? (a) Resource histogram (b) RAM matrix (c) Scatter diagram (d) Stakeholder register
You are reviewing a plan which explains how changes to the product will be initiated, how impacts will be analyzed, and how they will be traced, tracked, and reported, as well as the authorization levels required to approve these changes. What document is this? (a) Monitor and control project work
Calculate which choice is a better choice. (a) Choice A (b) Choice B (c) Choice C (d) None of the above
Based on the below figure, calculate the Expected Monitory Value (EMV) of Choice A.(a) -280 USD (b) -380 USD (c) -320 USD (d) -220 USD 30% -$100 Choice A -$500 40% -$200 Choice B Decision Choice C -$400 35% -$150 -$350
You are comparing the actual vs planned practice to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices and provide a basis for measuring performance. What tool are you using here? (a) Continuous improvement (b) Statistical sampling (c) Process analysis (d) Benchmarking
You are planning to implement a change in your project. There is a 75% chance that it will help your organization to save 100,000 USD. However, there is a 25% chance of losing 50,000 USD. Calculate the expected monitory value (EMV). (a) 37,500 USD (b) 12,500 USD (c) 87,500 USD (d) 62,500 USD
The cost which changes according to the scope and the scale of the project is known as: (a) Wage (b) Fixed cost (c) Variable cost (d) None of the above
You are sitting with your team members and experts in a room and defining the definition of probability of events occurring and the impact. What process is this? (a) Identify risks (b) Perform qualitative risk analysis (c) Plan risk management (d) Plan risk responses
You were recently appointed as a project manager in an organization. You are well recognized in the organization because of your connection with management, and team members obey you because of this relationship. What kind of power do you possess here? (a) Relational power (b) Punishment power (c)
You have estimated the cost of your project by calculating the cost of each activity, adding them together to get the cost of a work package, and then you adding together the cost of all work packages. What kind of estimate are you using here? (a) Top down (b) Bottom up (c) Parametric (d) Ball park
An issue has arisen which forces you to schedule a meeting with your stakeholders. A project team member tells you that one of your influential stakeholders may not come to the meeting because of a personal issue. You choose not to take any action because you think that you will manage without the
According to Herzberg, hygiene factors are not enough to motivate employees. To motivate employees, you need other factors, which are called satisfiers. According to Herzberg, which of the following is a satisfier? (a) Salary (b) Self-growth (c) Working condition (d) None of the above
You and your management are inspecting project deliverables with the client and are determining if this is as per the stated requirements or not. Which of the following statement is true about the above process? (a) You are in the verify scope process. (b) You are in the validate scope process. (c)
You are managing a project with a budget of 500,000 USD, and 250,000 USD has been spent. Upon review, you observe that only 40% of the work has been completed, your schedule says that you should have completed 50% of the work. What will be estimate to complete (ETC)? (a) 625,000 USD (b) 500,000 USD
You are managing a project with a budget of 500,000 USD, and 250,000 USD has been spent. Upon review, you observe that only 40% of the work has been completed. Your schedule says that you should have completed 50% of the work. What is estimate at completion (EAC)? (a) 625,000 USD (b) 500,000 USD
You are managing a project with a budget of 500,000 USD, and 250,000 USD has been spent. Upon review, you observe that only 40% of the work has been completed. Your schedule says that you should have completed 50% of the work. What is the schedule performance index (SPI)? (a) 1.25 (b) 0.8 (c) 1 (d)
Because of the huge size of your project, you have divided it into several phases. After completing each phase, you hand it over to the client and then move on to the next phase. Which process ensures that the previous phase has met all of its requirements so you can move on to the next phase? (a)
You are making some changes to the scope and schedule baseline because you have identified a high-impact risk and management does not want to take a risk. What process is this? (a) Plan scope management (b) Plan risk response (c) Develop schedule (d) Control scope
You receive an email in French. Since you’re unable to read French, you bring in a translator to translate the message into English. What is the translator doing here? (a) Encoding (b) Acting as a medium (c) Removing noise (d) Decoding
According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, once your need on a particular level is filled, you look for the next level requirement. Now your physiological and safety needs have been met. What will your next requirement be? (a) Self-esteem (b) Social (c) Self-actualization (d) None of the above
You are developing a quality management plan for your project. During the planning process, one of your team members tells you that, in the past, the organization has completed a similar project. You start to review the old project and find that some of its quality metrics can be used in your
During the quality control process, you are reviewing a chart which has many limits such as upper control limit, lower control limit, upper specification limit, and lower specification limit. While observing chart, you notice that a parameter of a specimen is outside of specification limits, so you
The scope baseline provides a detailed description of project deliverables and their components that provide a basis for the measurement of changes from that baseline. In which process is the scope baseline developed? (a) Plan scope management (b) Create WBS (c) Collect requirement (d) Define scope
You are working on a project to build a production line to produce round balls. During the inspection, you observe that some of these balls are not round. You analyze the problem and find that it can be prevented by making some changes to the procedures. Therefore, you make changes to the procedure
Suddenly, during the project execution, a generator breaks down, and you don’t have any other generators available. You review your risk management plan to see if you have any responses to this situation. Unfortunately, you do not find anything relating to generator failures. Therefore, you call
You call your team member and give some instructions. She receives your message and gives her feedback. What is the role of the team member in this conversion? (a) Sender (b) Receiver (c) Medium (d) None of the above
Your project is very complex and due to a scope change, you need a few additional experts, which you did not think of earlier. You request that your company provide you with some experts for consultancy work. Although your company has provided you with those experts, they are located in a different
You have joined a company which is producing IC chips for mobile phones. The quality is imperative for the product and so the company is following the Six Sigma methodology for its operations. In this methodology, what percentage of defective product is allowed? (a) 0.0030127 (b) 0.0000034 (c)
You are in the process of defining policies, procedures, and guidance to help you manage the project costs. In which process you are working? (a) Determine budget (b) Develop schedule (c) Control costs (d) Plan cost management
What is the Late Finish (LF) of activity E? (a) 24 (b) 5 (c) 29 (d) 30
What is the Early Start (ES) of activity F? (a) 31 (b) 16 (c) 15 (d) 6
What is the duration of path ABFG? (a) 30 days (b) 25 days (c) 17 days (d) 35 days
Based on the table shown below identify the Critical Path (draw the network diagram considering day 1 as the first day of the project. Answers to questions are based on the diagram considering day 1 as the first day of the project).(a) Path HIJ (b) Path ABFG (c) Path EFG (d) Path ABCD Activity Name
You are busy with an important milestone, and after that, you have to deliver a deliverable to the client. Since the client is known for his difficult behavior, management is worried whether the client will accept the deliverable. Therefore, they tell you to check the product acceptance criteria
The client asks you for some minor changes to the project and you discuss this matter with your team members. One of your team members told you that he thinks that it will not affect any other project objective. What will you do now? (a) Review the request according to integrated change control
Risk tolerance is the degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand. It helps the project manager to: (a) Rank the risks (b) Identify the risks (c) Develop the contingency reserve (d) Develop the cost baseline
You are working on a big project and team members are located in different geographic locations. Your team has encountered some issues while communicating. During phone calls, some voices get lost and members also face difficulties in understanding the problems. So, you decide to find a better
Two team members come to you with a dispute. Since you are very busy, you briefly listen to one member, agree with him, and support his view. What kind of problem-solving technique is this? (a) Withdraw (b) Compromise (c) Force (d) Problem Solving
Cost of quality includes all costs incurred over the lifetime of the product by investing in the prevention of nonconformance to requirements, appraising the product or service for conformance to requirements, and failing to meet requirements. Which is not an example of the cost of non-conformance?
Your project has a cost overrun and a new budget has been approved. Which formula will you use to calculate the TCPI? (a) (BAC–AC) / (BAC–EV) (b) (BAC–AC) / (EAC–EV) (c) (BAC–EV) / (BAC–AC) (d) (BAC–EV) / (EAC–AC)
You are in the process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule. Which of the following is not a tool and technique of this process? (a) Expert judgment (b) Decomposition (c) Data analysis (d)
A document provides detailed deliverables, activities, and scheduling information about components. Other information includes the code of account identifier, assumptions and constraints, schedule milestones, resources required, and acceptance criteria. This document can possibly be: (a) WBS
You are working on a project which is under budget and ahead of schedule. The project is 85% complete, and the client comes and asks you to terminate the project because he fears a possible regulation can impact his project. You review the project parameters and find that you can complete the
You have signed a contract with a contractor which states that you will pay for the entire contractor’s legitimate costs, plus a fee based on the subjective evaluation of his performance; this will not be subject to an appeal. What kind of contract is this? (a) CPIF (b) CPFF (c) FPIF (d) CPAF
If you finish your project early, there is a chance that you may get another project, so you are trying very hard to get your project finished. You use fast tracking, crashing, overtime, etc. Which strategy is this? (a) Exploit (b) Enhance (c) Accept (d) Mitigate
You are working with a big organization which follows a matrix structure. As the organization is big, the communication channels are complex and cross functional. You occasionally communicate with your equivalents in other departments as well. You have several team members working under you who
Julia is a longtime employee of your organization and is given to you for your new project. She was very good in her previous position but you notice that she is not performing well with the assignment you have given her. After further investigation, you learn that she is lacking skills to complete
You are having many issues on your project and progress is not good. Because of the large number of issues, you decide to solve those issues that have the highest numbers of occurrences and impact on your project. Which tool will you use in this situation? (a) Fishbone diagram (b) Pareto diagram
You are in the process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline. What process is this? (a) Estimate cost (b) Determine budget (c) Plan cost management (d) Control cost
You have one document which hierarchically categorizes labor, equipment, and materials, etc. This document is known as: (a) RBS (b) Resource calendar (c) RACI matrix (d) RAM chart
In the create WBS process, you sub-divide project deliverables and project work into smaller and more manageable components. The output of this process is the scope baseline and project document update. Which of the following truly represents the scope baseline? (a) Scope statement, scope
You are over budget and it is impossible to complete the project with the given budget.Therefore, you raise the change request which management approves. After the change request is approved, you update the cost baseline and update other project documents. The document used to register any changes
Your project is behind schedule and over budget, and the actual cost is on its way to being higher than the target cost. You and the client both are worried about the project’s progress and there is a high probability that the point of total assumption will be crossed. Which of the following
You have identified a risk that at a certain point in your project you may need extra quantities of a consumable which you thought of earlier. The chance of this event occurring is 20% and if it occurs it will cost you 150 USD. So, you develop a contingency plan for this risk and assign a risk
You are in a conference room meeting with bidders and answering their queries. Some bidders brought their laptops and are busy with them, many of them are busy with asking you questions. There is also a cleaner who is vacuuming the floor outside your conference room. Which of the following is an
You are working on a project to build a canal for irrigation purposes. Six months have passed, and now the team is working as a well-organized unit. Team members are interdependent, working smoothly, and working effectively. What team formation stage is this? (a) Performing (b) Storming (c) Norming
A team of experts come to your project and ask for approved procedures to verify your team is following these procedures. This is an example of which of the following? (a) Quality control (b) Manage quality (c) Verify scope (d) Control scope
You calculated the cost of constructing the walls by multiplying the cost per square foot with the total area of the wall. This is an example of which of the following? (a) Parametric Estimation (b) Bottom Up (c) Top Down (d) Analogous
During the project execution, a stakeholder comes to you and argues against a particular deliverable. You investigated it and found that this particular deliverable was based on his requirement. To prove this, what document will you show to him?(a) Scope statement (b) Requirement traceability
During the planning phase, you have created the WBS for the work that you are about to complete. However, because of a lack of information you are not able to create the WBS for the rest of the work, so you leave it until you get the correct and detailed information. This is an example of: (a)
You are working in a large organization and managing a project to construct a road. To help you in your project, your PMO is providing you with their support and require you to comply with them. What kind of PMO is this? (a) Supportive (b) Controlling (c) Directive (d) Helping
Due to an error in the process, a defect is occurring in a deliverable. You identified the root cause of the problem and made some changes to the process to stop the defect from occurring. This process is known as: (a) Root cause analysis (b) Corrective action (c) Defect repair (d) Preventive action
You are a project manager of a complex project which involves many procurement contracts with subcontractors. During the execution phase, a subcontractor comes to you and says that he has completed his part of the work. You reviewed the facts and provided the subcontractor with a formal written
During the project execution you run a program for some parameters and draw a bell curve as shown in the figure below. After analyzing this figure, you come to the conclusion that:(a) The process is too risky (b) The process is not too risky (c) The data is in sufficient (d) The process is under
You are having a session with five team members. During the session, you notice that one team member is reading messages, the second team member is talking with another team member, the fourth team member is looking at the slides, and the fifth is making eye contact with you. Which of the following
You have a team of 10 members. They started to work together and are learning to trust each other. In which stage are they working? (a) Forming (b) Storming (c) Performing (d) Norming
Due to an unknown process error, you have been facing problems and the project is being delayed. To solve the problem, you call for a meeting with experts and discuss the issue. After the meeting, you discover the error and start working on resolving the issue. Where will you go to solve the
You have been given a task to estimate a budget for your project. You are using a bottom up cost estimation technique to calculate the cost of each activity. Management told you that the management reserve will be 6% of the cost baseline. Which of the following represents the budgeted cost of the
You are sitting in a group discussion with 13 stakeholders and collecting ideas. Now you are in the final stage and are selecting the final idea. As there are many ideas, you decide to vote. After voting you see that a particular idea receives 7 votes, so you go with that option. What kind of
Your project has successfully completed; the deliverable is handed over to the client, and you are in the close phase or project process. Which of the following activities will you not perform in the close phase or project process? (a) Update lessons learned (b) Release the resources (c) Acceptance
Alice is a new team member in your project and she does not have much experience. As the project is big and involves many governmental departments, you ask Alice to pay more attention to some standards and regulations. Which of the following statements is true about the standards and regulations?
John is a stakeholder of your project and is known for creating problems. During the project execution, you noticed that he started creating problems with your project and you are afraid that if this issue is not solved, it will affect your project. So, to avoid this situation, which of the
You are reviewing seller-prepared documents and quality audits are conducted during the seller’s execution of the work with an objective to identify performance success and failure. What process is this? (a) Conduct Procurement (b) Control Procurement (c) Close Procurement (d) Verify Scope
You have developed a risk response plan which says if the trigger occurs, the risk response owner asks the risk action owner to implement the plan and update him with the result. What is the trigger condition in risk management? (a) A warning sign that an identified risk is about to occur (b) A
You publish some informative notes on the company’s web portal and ask stakeholders to review it. What kind of communication method is this? (a) Pull (b) Push (c) Interactive (d) None of the above
Your project team is located in different locations. Your schedule is delayed and you’re facing many issues. Which of the following is the best solution to this problem? (a) Give training to team members (b) Warn them to improve performance (c) Co-locate them (d) Review the project management plan
You are observing a chart which has a line drawn between the X and Y axis. The X-axis shows the time and Y-axis shows the data points. What kind of information can you find here? (a) Pattern and trends in a row of data points (b) Standard deviation (c) Variance (d) All of above
You are working in a big organization which manages many projects simultaneously. They have provided you with a separate floor in their building for administrative activities. As you are using the company’s space, they regularly send you an electricity bill to pay. The cost of electricity used by
You have been given a research project to develop a new medication to treat an infection. You are in the process of calculating the duration of the project. As this is a unique project and the calculation of activity duration is not easy, you ask experts to come up with several possible duration
You gave the responsibility of collecting requirements from project stakeholders to four of your team members. After starting the requirements collection process one of your team members left the job and the requirements could not be compiled properly. Initially, you did not notice this, however,
You receive an urgent change request from the client. You review the request and find that it might cost a lot if you implement this change request. What will be your next step? (a) Discuss the cost impact with the client (b) Implement it straight away (c) Since it increases the cost, reject it (d)
In your organization, all PCs are outdated and you have to order new ones, including an operating system and office suite. You contacted one supplier and he told you that he can provide you with PCs for 1,000 USD including everything. You agree and are now ready to procure 500 PCs. What type of
You suspect that a PMP credential holder has given false information to PMI while applying for the exam. What should you do? (a) Report to PMI (b) Do nothing (c) Investigate it (d) Ask him for more detail
You have received many bids from contractors and are now separating them according to their experience, technical expertise, and capabilities. After segregating these responses, you are reviewing them to see if they are capable of doing the job or not. What process is this? (a) Conduct procurement
During a meeting, you notice that some members are dominating other members, and a few members are keeping silent. Which tool ensures a fair contribution from all members and removes dominance? (a) Focus group (b) Facilitated workshop (c) Brainstorming (d) Delphi technique
You have joined AVC Corp and are immediately assigned a project. The project charter is signed, stakeholders have been identified and now you are classifying them according to the direction of influence. Which of the following is not a way to classify the project stakeholders under this technique?
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