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Head First PMP 3rd Edition Jennifer Greene, Andrew Stellman - Solutions

13. A junior project manager is studying for her PMP exam, and asks you for advice. She's learning about Earned Value Management, and wants to know which of the variables represents the difference between what you expect to spend on the project and what you actually spent. What should you tell her?
12. If AC (ACWP) is greater than your EV (BCWP), what does this mean? A. The project is under budget. B. The project is over budget. C. The project is ahead of schedule. D. The project is behind schedule.
11. During the execution of a software project, one of your programmers informs you that she discovered a design flaw that will require the team to go back and make a large change. What is the BEST way to handle this situation? A. Ask the programmer to consult with the rest of the team and get back
What does CPI really mean, and why can it predict your final budget?
You’re a project manager working on a large project scheduled to last for two years. You’ve got six different teams working on five major functional areas. Some teams are ahead of schedule, and others are falling behind. That means that you have cost overruns in some areas, but you’ve saved
You are the project manager at an industrial design firm. You expect to spend a total of $55,000 on your current project. Your plan calls for six people working on the project eight hours a day, five days a week for four weeks. According to the schedule, your team should have just finished the
21. Your company has previously run other projects similar to the one you're currently managing. What is the BEST way to use that information? A. Check the organizational process assets for lessons learned and other information about the past projects. B. Use parametric estimation to estimate your
20. You're managing a software project, when your customer informs you that a schedule change is necessary. Which is the BEST thing to do? A. Consult the schedule management plan. B. Notify the team and the sponsor that there's going to be a schedule change. C. Influence the factors that cause
19. For that same network diagram below, what's the float for activity G? A. 0 weeks B. 2 weeks C. 4 weeks D. 5 weeks Start A 1 week B 2 weeks 2 E 2 weeks 3 weeks 5 G 2 weeks F 2 weeks 3 G 5 weeks 6 H 1 week End
18. For that same network diagram below, what's the float for activity F? A. 0 weeks B. 2 weeks C. 4 weeks D. 5 weeks Start A 1 week B 2 weeks 2 E 2 weeks 3 weeks 5 G 2 weeks F 2 weeks 3 G 5 weeks 6 H 1 week End
17. Given the network diagram below, what's the critical path? A. Start-A-B-C-End B. Start-A-E-F-C-End C. Start-A-E-G-H-End D. Start-D-G-H-End Start A 1 week B 2 weeks 2 E 2 weeks 3 weeks 5 G 2 weeks F 2 weeks 3 G 5 weeks 6 H 1 week End
16. You're working on a project schedule network diagram, and you need to decide on either the arrow diagramming method or precedence diagramming method. Which of the following is NOT true? A. PDM has activities on arrows, while ADM has activities on nodes B. ADM uses dummy activities with zero
15. Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique used in Activity Duration Estimating? A. SWAG Estimation B. Parametric Estimation C. Analogous Estimation D. Three-Point Estimation
13. You're managing a construction project. You've decomposed work packages into activities, and your client needs a duration estimate for each activity that you come up with. Which of the following will you use for this? A. Milestone list B. Activity list C. Critical path analysis D. Project
12. Slack is a synonym for: A. Float B. Lag C. Buffer D. Reserve
22. You're planning the schedule for a highway construction project, but the final date you came up with will run into the next budget year. The state comes up with capital from a reserve fund, and now you can increase the budget for your resources. What's the BEST way to compress the schedule? A
23. You're managing a software project. You've created the schedule, and you need to figure out which activities absolutely cannot slip. You've done critical path analysis, identifying the critical path and calculating the early start and early finish for each activity. Which activities cannot slip
24. You're managing a construction project. You've decomposed work packages into activities, and your client needs a duration estimate for each activity that you came up with. Which of he following will you use for this? A. Activity sequencing B. Resource calendar C. Critical path analysis D.
What’s the difference between Actual Cost and Planned Value? What does it mean if your AC is bigger than your PV? What if it’s smaller?
104. You are managing a highway construction project. You have to build a three-mile interchange at a cost of $75,000 per quarter-mile.Your project team consists of a road planner, an architect, an engineer, a foreman and sixteen highway workers. The workers are will not be available until week 10
Given what you already know about scope control and schedule control, how would you handle this problem?
I still don’t get Net Present Value.What do I use it for?
My company needs to handle maintenance of projects after we release them. How do you estimate for that?
What if I don’t have all of this information and I am supposed to give a ballpark estimate?
In my job I am just handed a budget. How does estimating help me?
Isn’t it enough to know my project’s scope and schedule, and then trust the budget to come out alright?
Once Alice has an estimate of the project’s cost, what should she do with that information?
11. You're managing an interior decoration project, when you've found out that you need to get it done earlier than originally planned. You decide to fast-track the project. This means: A. Starting the project sooner and working overtime B. Assigning more people to the tasks at a greater total
14. What's the correct order of the Time Management planning processes? A. Activity Sequencing, Activity Definition, Activity Resource Estimating, Activity Duration Estimating, Schedule Development B. Activity Definition, Activity Sequencing, Schedule Development, Activity Resource Estimating,
Fill in the blanks to come up with your own “Which-One” question! Start by thinking of the correct tool and then figure out three really similar answers that sound right, but can’t be because the question gives more specific details allowing you to eliminate the wrong ones. A. B. D. You're
20. Validated defect repair is an output of which process? A. Integrated Change Control B. Quality Planning C. Perform Quality Control D. Perform Quality Assurance
19. Which of the following is associated with the 80/20 rule? A. Scatter chart B. Histogram C. Control chart D. Pareto chart
18. You are looking at a control chart to figure out if the way you are doing your project is fitting into your company's standards. Which process are you using? A. Quality Planning B. Quality Assurance C. Quality Control D. Quality Management
17. Which Quality Control tool is used to analyze processes by visualizing them graphically? A. Checklists B. Flowcharts C. Pareto charts D. Histograms
16. What's the difference between Perform Quality Control and Perform Quality Assurance? A. Perform Quality Control involves charts like histograms and control charts, while Perform Quality Assurance doesn't use those charts B. Perform Quality Control and Perform Quality Assurance mean the same
15. The project team working on a project printing 3,500 technical manuals for a hardware manufacturer can't inspect every single manual, so they take a random sample and verify that they have been printed correctly. This is an example of: A. Root cause analysis B. Cost benefit analysis C.
14. Which of the following BEST describes defect repair review? A. Reviewing the repaired defect with the stakeholder to make sure it's acceptable B. Reviewing the repaired defect with the team to make sure they document lessons leamed C. Reviewing the repaired defect to make sure it was fixed
13. You are using a control chart to analyze defects, when something on the chart causes you to realize that you have a serious quality problem. What is the MOST likely reason for this? A. The rule of seven B. Upper control limits C. Lower control limits D. Plan-Do-Check-Act
12. You're a project manager at a wedding planning company. You're working on a large wedding for a wealthy client, and your company has done several weddings in the past that were very similar to the one you're working on. You want to use the results of those weddings as a guideline to make sure
11. What's the difference between Quality Control and Scope Verification? A. Quality Control is done at the end of the project, while Scope Verification is done throughout the project B. Quality Control is performed by the project manager, while Scope Verification is done by the sponsor C. Quality
10. When is inspection performed? A. At the beginning of the project B. Any time a project deliverable is produced C. Just before the final product is delivered D. At the end of the project
9. Which tool or technique is used to analyze trends? A. Scatter chart B. Run chart C. Checklist D. Flow chart
8. You're managing a highway construction project. The foreman of your building team alerts you to a problem that the inspection team found with one of the pylons, so you use an Ishikawa diagram to try to figure out the root cause of the defect. What process is being performed? A. Quality
7. Which of the following tools and techniques is used to show which categories of defects are most common? A. Control charts B. Pareto charts C. Run charts D. Flow charts
6. Which of the following is NOT part of the quality management plan? A. Strategies for handling defects and other quality problems B. Guidance on how the project team will implement the company's quality policy C. Metrics for measuring your project's quality D. A description of which deliverables
5. You're managing a project to deliver 10,000 units of custom parts to a manufacturer that uses Just In Time management. Which of the following constraints is most important to your client? A. The parts must be delivered on time B. The parts must be delivered in a specific order C. The parts must
4. You're working with an audit team to check that your company's projects all meet the same quality standards. What process is being performed? A. Quality Planning B. Perform Quality Control C. Perform Quality Assurance D. Perform Quality Management
3. Which of the following is NOT an example of Cost of Quality? A. Having team members spend extra time reviewing requirements with the stakeholders B. Paying extra programmers to help meet a deadline C. Hiring extra inspectors to look for defects D. Sending a crew to repair a defective product
2. A project manager is using a histogram to analyze defects found by the team during inspection activities. What process is being performed? A. Quality Planning B. Perform Quality Control C. Perform Quality Assurance D. Scope Verification
1. Which of the following is NOT a part of quality? A. Fitness to use B. Conformance to requirements C. Value to the sponsor D. Customer satisfaction
3. You look at defects in all of the inspection runs for the past year and notice that you seem to be finding more and more defects per inspection as time goes on. You create a quality task force to try to figure out what is causing these defects.10 ???? Perform Quality Control ???? Perform Quality
2. You use a histogram to look at the root cause category for all defects that have been found over the past year. You find that Machine errors are habitually responsible for the largest number of errors across all batches of Black Boxes. You schedule Machine calibration checks at the start of
1. You use a Pareto chart to figure out which root causes are responsible for the most defects in the current batch of Black Boxes. It looks like most of them are coming from a Machine Calibration problem. So you run them back through the machine after recalibrating it.???? Perform Quality Control
What do you do if the quality is good but you aren’t satisfied with the speed or efficiency of the work?
I still don’t get that thing where a control chart can show you defects that are out of control, but also show you that your process is out of control
If I am trying to prevent quality problems, why can’t I just test more?
What exactly are Pareto charts for?
83. You're managing a project to install 13,000 light switches in a new strip mall. You hire a team of inspectors to help your lead electrician find any defective light switches. They check a sample of 650 light switches, and find that 15% of them are defective. You ask your lead electrician to
I don’t really have good requirements for my projects because everyone on the team starts out with just a good idea of what we’re building. How do I handle quality?
How do you know your benchmarks before you start building?
Why do you need to track the cost of testing?
3. You write up a list of all of the tests you are going to run on the Black Box 3000™ when it rolls off the assembly line. You determine what kinds of failures might cause you to stop testing, what it would take for you to resume test activities, and requirements that the product would need to
2. You add up all of the costs projected for quality activities and track that number in your quality plan. You use this number to gauge the health of your project compared to other projects in your company.Tool/technique:
1. You look through your company’s asset library and find that a recent project was able to reduce defects by 20% by inserting defect prevention meetings early in the construction phase. You put the same process in your quality plan and set the target for shipped defects to be 20% lower than the
6. The programmers on your team write unit tests before they write the code for the application they’re writing. That helps them to think of ways that the application’s design might go wrong and avoid major pitfalls.???? Prevention ???? Inspection
5. You set up code reviews at important milestones in your project to catch defects as early as you can.???? Prevention ???? Inspection
4. Some of the black boxes being built at the factory are only heating up to 500 degrees when the button is pushed. So you set up an automated button presser to press each one and measure its temperature as it comes off of the assembly line.???? Prevention ???? Inspection
3. The applications being built by your programming team have lots of bugs. So you write up coding standards that will guide everyone in building the product with more attention to quality.???? Prevention ???? Inspection
2. The applications being built by your programming team have lots of bugs. So you add extra test cycles and make them longer and more intensive to try to find more problems before you ship.???? Prevention ???? Inspection
1. You find that 40% of the sneakers your factory makes have the left foot insole put into the right shoe and the right insole put into the left shoe. So, you print an L on the underside of the left insole so that factory workers can tell them apart more easily.???? Prevention ???? Inspection
We’ve talked about how you can’t just test the product to figure out its quality. Can you think of ways that you can make a product’s quality higher?
How can you tell a high quality product from a low quality one?
24. You are the project manager for a software project. One of the teams discovers that if they deviate from the plan, they can actually skip one of the deliverables because it's no longer necessary. They do the calculations, and realize they can save the customer 10% of the cost of the project
23. Which of the following BEST describes the change control system? A. It describes processes that guide you in building the scope statement, breaking down the work, and verifying the scope B. It describes all of the deliverables in the project decomposed into work packages C. It contains
22. You are a project manager working on a project. Your sponsor wants to know who a certain work package is assigned to, what control account to bill it against, and what work is involved. What document do you refer her to? A Scope Management Plan B. WBS C. WBS Dictionary D. Scope Statement
21. You are the project manager for a construction project. You have completed project initiation activities, and you are now creating a document that describes processes to document the scope, decompose deliverables into work packages, verify that all work is complete, and manage changes to the
20. The project manager for a telecommunications project is using the Scope Definition process. Which BEST describes this? A. Creating a document that lists all of the features of the product B. Creating a plan for managing changes to the scope baseline C. Creating a document that describes all of
19. You are the project manager for a new project, and you want to save time creating the WBS. Which is the BEST way to do this? A. Make decomposition go faster by cutting down the number of deliverables B. Use a WBS from a previous project as a template C. Don't create the WBS Dictionary D. Ask
18. Which of these processes is not a part of Scope Management? A. Scope Identification B. Scope Planning C. Scope Control D. Scope Verification
17. Which of the following is NOT an input to scope control? A. WBS Dictionary B. Approved change requests C. Requested changes D. Project scope statement
16. You are the project manager for a telecommunications project. You are working on the project scope statement. Which of the following is NOT included in this document? A Authorization for the project manager to work on the project B. Requirements that the deliverables must meet C. A description
15. You are managing an industrial design project. One of your team members comes to you with a suggestion that will let you do more work while at the same time saving the project 15% of the budget. What is the BEST way for you to proceed? A. Tell the team to make the change because it will deliver
14. You're the project manager on a software project. Your team has only completed half of the work, when the sponsor informs you that the project has been terminated. What is the BEST action for you to take? A. Verify the deliverables produced by the team against the scope, and document any place
13. You have just started work on the project scope statement. You are analyzing the expected deliverables, when you discover that one of them could be delivered in three different ways. You select the best method for creating that deliverable. What is the BEST way to describe what you are doing?
12. A project manager on an industrial design project finds that the sponsor wants to make a change to the scope after it has been added to the baseline. What document should he consult? A. WBS B. Scope management plan C. Change request form template D. Preliminary scope statement
11. You have just been put in charge of a project that is already executing. While reviewing the project documentation, you discover that there is no WBS. You check the Scope Management Plan and discover that there should be one for this project. What is the BEST thing for you to do: A. Immediately
10. It's the end of execution for a large highway construction project. The work has been done, and the workers are ready to pack up their equipment. The project manager and project sponsor have come by with specialists to check that each requirement has been met, and that all of the work in the
9. Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of the project scope statement? A. It describes the features of the product of the project B. It is created before the scope management plan C. It decomposes deliverables into work packages D. It describes the objectives, requirements, and
8. You've taken over as a project manager on a highway construction project, and the execution is already underway. Your sponsor tells you that moving forward, all asphalt should be laid down with a 12" thickness. The scope statement and the WBS call for 9" thick asphalt. What is the BEST course of
7. Historical information and lessons learned are part of: A. Organizational process assets B. Enterprise environmental factors C. Project management information system (PMIS) D. Work performance information
6. The goal of Scope Verification is: A. To inspect the scope statement for defects so that it is correct B. To gain formal acceptance of the project deliverables from the sponsor and stakeholders C. To get everyone in the project working together towards a common goal D. To verify that all PMBOK
5. You are managing a software project. Your team has been working for eight weeks, and so far the project is on track. The lead programmer comes to you with a problem: there is a work package that is causing trouble. Nobody seems to know who is responsible for it, the accounting department does
4. What is the correct order of the scope management processes? A. Scope Definition, Create WBS, Scope Planning, Scope Verification B. Scope Planning, Scope Control, Create WBS, Scope Verification C. Scope Planning, Scope Definition, Create WBS, Scope Verification D. Scope Planning, Scope Baseline,
3. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about a work breakdown structure? A. It describes processes to define the scope, verify work, and manage scope changes. B. It contains a graphical, hierarchical list of all work to be performed C. It can be broken down by project phase or deliverable D. It is
2. Which is NOT an output of a scope management process? A. Preliminary scope statement B. WBS Dictionary C. Requested changes D. Accepted deliverables
1. Which of the following is TRUE about a work breakdown structure? A. It contains work packages that are described in a linear, unstructured list B. Each item in the WBS represents a feature in the product scope C. The WBS represents all of the work that must be done on the project D. The WBS is
I thought the configuration management system was part of the Project Management Information System from the Integration chapter. What does that have to do with change control?
How can you do variance analysis without knowing all of the changes are that are going to happen?
What if a change is really small? Do I still have to go through all of this?
Is scope control always about work and project scope? Can it ever be about deliverables and product scope?

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