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PMP Question Bank - 400 PMP Sample Questions 1st Edition M Fahad Usmani - Solutions
Jackson was a very good programmer on your team and your company is very pleased with his performance. Therefore, the top management promoted him to a manager of another department. However, in his new role, his performance is below average. This effect is known as: (a) Ouchi effect (b) Halo effect
During the control quality process, you are reviewing a chart which has some lines above and below the x-axis and a cyclic line between them. What is the purpose of this chart? (a) To gather quality control data (b) To find the dependency between the variables (c) To find the trend (d) To determine
Due to some issues, your project is behind schedule and over budget, therefore management is very concerned about the future of your project. To show the exact picture of your project you calculate the TCPI, and you go to management. What does this TCPI show the management? (a) The required cost
You are working in a project to analyze the impact of pollution on human life, and you have drawn a network diagram for this project. Which type of relationship have you used in this network diagram? (a) Start to Finish (b) Start to Start (c) Finish to Start (d) All of the above
During the collect requirements process, an influential stakeholder requested a feature which was rejected. During the project execution, you notice that you have an opportunity to incorporate the requirement of this stakeholder into the product and it will cost you nothing. By doing so, the
As per the PMBOK Guide, the project life cycle is a series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure, and these phases are generally sequential. Which of the following is not a project life cycle phase?(a) Starting the project (b) Organizing and preparing (c)
You are working in an organization where the work group arrangement is flexible, team members work side by side, and you have little authority. What type of organizational structure is this? (a) PMO (b) Functional (c) Weak Matrix (d) Organic
You notice that one of your colleagues has not come to work for two days, and he did not inform anyone about it. Upon enquiring, he told you that he will cover it by working overtime. What should you do? (a) Nothing because he will cover the time (b) Warn him not to do this again (c) Report to the
You are in the process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations and address issues as they occur. Which option is a tool and technique of this process? (a) Interpersonal skills (b) Stakeholder analysis (c) Analytical technique (d) Change request
You are analyzing a particular task with your team members to determine if the task should be done by your team, or if it should be contracted out to a contractor. Which process is this? (a) Conduct procurement (b) Plan cost management (c) Plan human resource (d) Plan procurement
You are working on a medium-sized project and management has decided to forego the perform quantitative risk analysis process. So, after identifying risks, you start the qualitative risk analysis process and now you are going to prioritize them. Which of the following techniques are you going to
Rob and Matt are two important and influential stakeholders of your project and they are having a conflict. As they are influential, the conflict between them can jeopardize the success of your project. Therefore, you decide to step in and ask them to meet with you in private. They come and discuss
You have noticed that some of your team members are not attending meetings, a few are always late and are frequently disruptive. Therefore, to remove these issues you set guidelines and establish clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members. Who will be responsible for
Which of the following tools helps you to determine whether the subcontractor’s work is meeting the quality requirements? (a) Quality control (b) Quality audit (c) Inspection of deliverables (d) Delphi technique
You have just been given a project and management wants to know the lump-sum cost of the project. Therefore, you give them the rough order magnitude estimate. What is the range of the rough order magnitude estimate at the Initiation phase of the project? (a) (-25) to (+75%) (b) (-10) to (+10%) (c)
You have been given a project to construct a bridge. You have done the planning and the network diagram is drawn with following paths: First Path: Start -> A -> B -> C-> End, duration: 31 months. Second Path: Start ->D -> E ->F -> K->End, duration: 31 months.Third Path: Start -> D -> B -> C -> End,
While collecting work performance data, one of your team members has a misunderstanding about the description of work of several activities, their cost estimates, and the resources required by them. She comes to you and explains the situation. To answer her questions, what document will you ask her
You join a new company and have been assigned a new project. What will your first step be before starting to develop the project management plan? (a) Review the historical records (b) Start collecting the requirements (c) Create the communication plan (d) Ask for the budget
You have a few important stakeholders who are not comfortable with each other, and you require their input on some issues to reach a consensus. Which of the following tools will you use in the current scenario? (a) Decision Tree method (b) Facilitated workshop (c) Brainstorming (d) Delphi technique
The client asks you to inflate the budget by at least 10% because there is a chance that his management will reduce it by 10%. What will your response be in this situation? (a) You will increase the budget by 10% (b) You will increase the budget by 5% (c) You will give the exact budget with the
You are currently in a process whose main benefit is to increase support and minimize resistance from stakeholders as the project evolves and environment changes. Which is not a tool and technique of this process? (a) Ground rules (b) Expert judgment (c) Document analysis (d) Meetings
You have been appointed a project manager for ABC Inc. and are given a project. While in the planning stage, you find that your organization is lacking the skills and manpower to complete a part of the work and the scope is also unclear. You decide to contract this work to a third party. What kind
After identifying the risks, you analyze them qualitatively and quantitatively to see if your risk response planning will effectively minimize the project risk or not. If not, you will tweak your risk response plan so the project risks fall within the stakeholders’ tolerance limits. Which of the
You were working on a project to develop a high-end product. The budget of the project was huge and you were able to complete it on time and within the approved budget. Now, your project is closed and the deliverable is accepted by the client. What will the next recommended step be for you? (a)
You are a PMP and you have managed numerous projects. You have sound knowledge of project management tools & techniques and your team members respect your knowledge and experience. Which of the following powers do you possess? (a) Referral power (b) Expert power (c) Formal power (d) Penalty power
Your company has been acquired by a new organization. The new management is very particular about quality and they are not happy about the current quality of your organization’s products. So, to improve the quality of the process and product, they have employed a philosophy to continuously
In any project there are numerous types of cost expenditures involved. Out these costs, which cost is more difficult to manage for a project manager? (a) Cost of materials (b) Cost of equipment (c) HR cost (d) Overhead cost
You have been given a task to install grass. The area of the lawn is 30 square meters, and it will take 5 more days for the supplier to deliver the required quantity of grass. At your best performance, you usually take 10 days to complete the task and in the worst case, it might take 22 days.
While working on a deliverable which is 95% complete, two stakeholders come and enquire about it. They argue with you that this deliverable was not part of the project and it was not requested by any stakeholders, which you disagree with. Therefore, to prove your point, which document will you show
A state government has passed the resolution that every motorbike driver and passenger has to wear a helmet. Your company sees an opportunity in this and gives you the project to build the facility to manufacture the helmets. Who is the user of this project? (a) The state government (b) A person
The cost performance baseline is a time phased funding of your project and you measure, monitor, and compare your project performance against it. In which of the following forms do you usually represent it? (a) P-curve (b) Pie curve (c) S-curve (d) Symmetric curve
Which chapter of PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct says: “We are truthful in our communications and in our conduct.” (a) Chapter 2: Responsibility (b) Chapter 3: Respect (c) Chapter 4: Fairness (d) Chapter 5: Honesty
In your project, two important stakeholders are having some issues. To keep this issue from escalating further you intervene and resolve the issue. After the issue is resolved you asked your team member to record the issue so in the future a lesson can be learned from it. Where will you note the
In your project, you are going to use a large generator. The rental cost for this generator is 250 USD per day which is quite high. Since the rental cost is high, and you are going to use it for a long duration, your team members suggest that you should buy this generator for 50,000 USD. What is
During the risk analysis process, you find that a specific risk has a remote chance of happening and if it occurs, it will have very little effect on the project objective. What will you do with this risk? (a) Analyze it further (b) Assign it a risk owner (c) Keep it in watch list (d) You will
You are discussing an issue with your team member. While you are talking, he is rubbing his nose, looking around, and slouching. What kind of communication is he showing by using these activities? (a) Para-lingual communication (b) Active listening (c) Feedback (d) Non-verbal communication
During the team member acquiring process, you observe that a particular employee from another department can be used for your project for some work. Therefore, you ask their functional manager to provide the employee on alternate days. The functional manager says they can provide you with the
The plan–do–check–act cycle is defined and modified by Shewhart & Deming. It is a four–step model for carrying out change and improving processes. In these four stages, which stage involves the evaluation of improvement? (a) Do (b) Check (c) Plan (d) Act
You are managing a multi-year project whose budget is 500,000 USD. The cost variance is -45,000 USD, the actual cost is 200,000 USD, and the planned value is 140,000 USD. Based on the above data which statement is correct? (a) The project is behind schedule (b) The project is ahead of schedule (c)
You have two activities with Finish to Start sequences. The duration of the first activity is 10 days, and the duration of the second activity is 8 days. The estimated time completed for these activities is 18 days. The client asks you complete these activities within 15 days; you review his
While finalizing the WBS you assign each work package to a control account and establish a unique identifier for the same work from a code of account. These identifiers help you find a hierarchical sum of costs, schedule, etc. Which statement is true about the WBS? (a) It contains all project work
You are reviewing an old project file where you find a document which contains the project description, important requirements, milestones, and project budget. What document is it? (a) Scope statement (b) Project charter (c) Scope baseline (d) Procurement document
The client has requested a change in a deliverable which you have processed through a change request and it is approved. Now, you are in the process of implementing this change into the project. In which of the following processes do you implement the approved change? (a) Monitor and control
“We report unethical or illegal conduct to appropriate management and, if necessary, to those affected by the conduct.” The above statement belongs to: (a) Responsibility: mandatory standards (b) Responsibility: aspirational standards (c) Fairness: aspirational standards (d) Fairness: mandatory
Project success is all about managing stakeholders efficiently and fulfilling their requirements. To keep them satisfied you will have to compare the current engagement level of all stakeholders with the planned stakeholder engagement throughout the project life cycle. As per the PMBOK Guide Sixth
You had contracted a Fixed Price Incentive Fee contract with the seller with the following parameters: Target cost: 500,000 USD Target profit: 50,000 USD Target price: 550,000 USD Ceiling price: 600,000 USD Share ratio: 80/20 The contractor has completed the work for 400,000 USD. How much actual
You prepared a Minutes of Meeting, got it signed by your boss, and sent it to all attendees. This communication is an example of which of the following? (a) Formal written (b) Informal written (c) Formal verbal (d) Informal verbal
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is represented in a hierarchical pyramid with five levels. The four lower levels are considered physiological needs, and the top level is considered growth needs. The lower level needs must be satisfied before higher-order needs can influence behavior. Which of the
To reduce the cost of inventory, you are using a very famous Japanese methodology which emphasizes reducing the cost of inventory to a minimum level. In this methodology, how much inventory are you allowed to keep in stock? (a) 25% of inventory (b) 50% of inventory (c) 10% of inventory (d) No
You have been given a multi-year project to build a refinery. This is a very large and complex project, and you now need to estimate the cost for this project. What basic assumption will you need to make while estimating the cost for this project? (a) If you get the project budget in phases (b) You
Which of the following helps you to use existing knowledge and contribute to organizational learning? (a) OPA (b) EEF (c) Lessons learned (d) Manage project knowledge
To collect the requirements for your project you have decided to use a few techniques including group creativity techniques. Which of the following is not an example of group creativity techniques? (a) Brainstorming (b) Nominal group technique (c) Interview (d) Affinity diagram
You have been assigned as a project manager for a project which was terminated a few years earlier due to some government regulations. Now you reviewing this document to start again. This document is an example of: (a) Enterprise environment factor (b) Organizational process assets(c) Stakeholder
You are managing four projects in your organization. Two projects are of a similar type, but the other two are entirely different. What is your role in the organization? (a) Portfolio manager (b) Program manager (c) Project manager (d) Program coordinator
You’re working in a third world country with a high level of political volatility. Your team member told you that you will have to pay some bribes to get faster approval. What will your next step be? (a) You will pay the bribe (b) You will negotiate it (c) You will inform management (d) You will
You have recently joined an ongoing project and you just had a meeting with the project sponsor and other important members. Since you are new to the project, how will you know their views about the project? (a) You will ask team members about it (b) You will arrange a party and invite them (c) You
During a project management process, you are reviewing proposals from many bidders using some predetermined criteria. Based on this review, you prepare a final list of bidders and then select a bidder from this list. What project management process is this? (a) Plan procurement (b) Conduct
During the project execution, some equipment breaks down. This risk was not identified earlier. So, to manage the situation you contacted several equipment holding companies and rented new equipment until your equipment is repaired. This is an example of: (a) Defect repair (b) Risk mitigation (c)
Your team has 10 members, including you. Two new members are added to it. How many have the lines of communication increased? (a) 111 (b) 66 (c) 45 (d) 21
Your project consists of 150 team members and most of them are from the local area. One day you hear that two team members are fighting with each other because of a parking place. You call both team members, listen to them, and decide that whoever arrives first will park their vehicle in that
Which of the following control charts will you use to monitor discrete data for a product to be considered a pass or fail? (a) p-chart (b) np-chart (c) u-chart (d) c-chart
Assuming your past performance will be the same as the future performance, you have calculated the EAC as 250,000 USD. Your previous budget was 200,000 USD and you have earned 50,000 USD to date. What is the money spent to date? (a) 40,000 USD (b) 50,000 USD (c) 90,000 USD (d) 62,500 USD
You are constructing a school building and due to some unforeseen incidents, your project is delayed. To bring the project on schedule, you are thinking about running several activities in parallel which were earlier planned to run sequentially. So, you started reviewing activities such as
The client has given you a project to build a research center for him. You have met with all stakeholders, noted down their requirements, and you are now deciding which requirements should be included in the project and which should not. What process is this? (a) Identify stakeholders (b) Collect
You have completed your project to construct a railway bridge. The project is in the closing phase and you are now archiving various documents such as the stakeholder register, risk register, project calendar, etc. All these documents are part of: (a) Project closure documents (b) Historical
A project manager has some authority to manage the budget; however, he does not have any full-time employees under him. In what type of organization is he working? (a) Strong matrix (b) Weak matrix (c) Balanced matrix (d) Projectized
You are driving to a meeting and you are late. If you drive over the speed limit and run a few signals, you can reach the meeting on time as nobody is there to watch or catch you. Which of the following should you do? (a) Since no one is watching, you can break the rule (b) You will never break the
You have been given a big project to complete. This is an important project for your company, therefore management does not want any delay in completion. As soon as the project charter is signed, you start identifying and categorizing stakeholders using various data representation tools. Which of
You have signed a contract to construct a cross-country gas pipeline. The duration of the project is 5 years. Although the scope is well defined and the duration is long, the seller is insisting you reimburse any costs which may increase due to the time factor. What kind of contract will you select
In your project you identified a risk; there is a chance you may lose a critical employee. You have identified an employee from another project to bring into your project if your team member leaves you. However, this employee is known for his bad behavior and creating trouble for other employees.
You have been appointed a project manager for a project which involves more than 3,000 stakeholders. After identifying your project stakeholders, you are in the process of determining the method to use for transferring information to your stakeholders. Which of the following factors will not affect
You are working in a functional organization as a line supervisor. Your job is to inspect products, fill out the checklist, write your observations, and hand the product over to your boss before the end of the day. Your boss reviews it and comes with you to inspect the product himself and then
There are many problems causing trouble for your project. You want to see the sources that are causing the majority of the problems for your project. Which diagram will you refer to in order to find this information?(a) Flow chart (b) Run chart (c) Pareto chart (d) None of the above
You are over budget and it seems difficult for you to complete with your current budget which is 250,000 USD. Considering your current cost performance will be the same as the future cost performance, you calculate your new budget as 300,000 USD. To date, you have spent 100,000 USD. What is the
What kind of dependency is shown in the given exhibit?(a) Start to Start (SS) (b) Finish to Start (FS) (c) Finish to Finish (FF) (d) Start to Finish (SF) A B
You are in the define scope process and defining the detailed scope of the product and the project. This process helps you define the description of product, service or result and define boundaries and tells you about requirement inclusion and exclusion. Which of the following is not an outcome
The project charter is the document that authorizes the existence of the project and contains a great deal of important information. Which of the following options shows the correct content of a project charter? (a) Project purpose, high level requirements, assumptions and constraints, summary
You are on a committee and are in the process of selecting a project. This committee is asking tough and critical questions from team members. Which of the following project selection techniques is the committee using here? (a) Benefit cost ratio (b) Scoring model (c) Murder board (d) Benefit
You have floated a firm fixed price contract for some work. Since the scope of the work is not clear, the risk is higher and contractors are hesitant to bid for your contract.You are very busy and don't have time to monitor the contractor’s bill. In this case, what kind of contract will you
You have been appointed project manager of a project. The project charter is signed and you have started working on it. As the project is big and involves many stakeholders, you start identifying your project’s stakeholders. The number of identified stakeholders is huge and you are worried about
Your company has signed up to build a high-tech machine in collaboration with ABC Corp in Japan. ABC Corp will provide the expert, technical know-how and any spare parts you may need. This is a very high-tech machine, the exact description of work is not yet clear, and you are building it for the
You have identified a risk that your work might be affected due to an equipment malfunction. Which of the following risk response strategies will you use to contain this risk? (a) Exploit (b) Enhance (c) Mitigate (d) None of the above
You met with your team member at a dinner party, where he discussed some issues regarding the project stakeholders. What kind of communication was this? (a) Para-lingual (b) Verbal (c) Formal verbal (d) Informal verbal
You are working in a matrix organization and managing a project. You are having trouble working with one deliverable so you ask the functional manager to send you two team members who are experts in dealing with this type of work. She agrees and provides you with two of her best employees. They
While you are in the execution phase of your project, management informs you that some ISO certified people are coming to your project to see if you’re complying with standards, policies, and procedure. This act is part of which of the following processes? (a) Quality control (b) Manage quality
You have received an urgent call from management and they asked you to find the cost estimate of a new project. Since time is critical and you have to provide them with the cost estimate, which technique will you use to calculate the project cost?(a) Parametric (b) Analogous (c) Bottom up (d)
You have identified your project stakeholders and are now analyzing them with the help of a salience model in order to manage them effectively. Which of the following parameters are used in the salience model? (a) Power, urgency, legitimacy (b) Power, interest, influence (c) Power, impact,
During the project execution, some people stole your consumables. You did not identify this threat earlier, though you were able to manage the situation through a workaround. This risk did not have much of an impact on your cost baseline but the schedule was impacted. Management is aware of the
In change management, CCB reviews the changes in processes or in the baseline and then make a decision to either approve or reject it. On the other hand, configuration control deals with any change in product specification and the processes. Which of the following activities is not included in the
Which of the following are the four basic elements of the PMI code of ethics and professional conduct? (a) Responsibility, respect, fairness, honesty (b) Responsibility, accountability, fairness, honesty (c) Responsibility, respect, fairness, transparency (d) Responsibility, transparency, fairness,
You have been given a project to build a park for a local community. Currently you are developing approaches to involve project stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests, and potential impact on the project. Which of the following is not an output of this process? (a) Communication
You have signed a contract with the client to provide manpower for 50 USD/hour. Moreover, you will also be reimbursed for any costs incurred, along with a fixed fee of 25,000 USD. What kind of contract is this? (a) FPIF (b) T&M (c) CPAF (d) CPIF
You are a risk manager of a project and the project manager has given you the responsibility of developing the risk management plan. So, you start collecting the risks and then you categorize them based on their impact on the project objectives. Afterward, you analyze them and develop the risk
Your project is going full steam and to prepare a monthly report you collect some data and give it to John who is your team member. You ask him to provide you with work performance information. He analyzes the information, compiles the data, and gives you the requested information which includes
You are attending a monthly status meeting with your stakeholders. During the discussion with an influential stakeholder, he asks you about a particular deliverable, He would like to know why it is taking so long to deliver and who is responsible for it. To answer his query, you refer a document
You are in the middle of your project and working on a deliverable which is 90% completed. It is time for the yearly audit. A team of auditors are about to come and verify if you are following the process as defined or not. However, as the deliverable is about to be completed, you check it and
You are working on a project to set up a call center for your client. The duration of the project is two years. One year has passed, however, only 40% of the work has been completed against the schedule, which says that by now 50% of the work should have been completed. To date, you have spent 60%
You have been given a project to construct a small dam. Currently, you are visiting your project stakeholders and asking about their needs and expectations. You also have had many workshops and brainstorming sessions with them. Which process is this? (a) Identify stakeholders (b) Collect
You have been hired by ABC Inc. and appointed as a project manager for their new project. The project charter has been signed and currently you are busy with preparing a detailed description of your project and the product. The description is in detail, the final requirements are identified, the
You have been developing a next generation electric engine for high-speed electric trains. The project is 25% completed, you have spent 21% of your budget and you are slightly behind the schedule. The client is worried and asks you to provide him with the progress and forecasting report as soon as
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