26. Which process group includes the creation of a project charter?

A. Planning

B. Initiating

C. Monitoring and controlling

D. Executing

27. Which of the following is correct in regard to the Control Scope process? A. Effective scope definition can lead to a more complete project scope statement. B. The Control Scope process must be integrated with other control processes. C. The Control Scope process must be done before scope planning D. Controlling the schedule is the most effective way of controlling scope

28. You are working with a multicountry project team developing a new drilling device for the oil and gas industries. Some events have had unanticipated impacts on the project. One is that the cost of testing was significantly less than expected based on the three-point estimate. There were also several conflicts and issues with the team that had to be resolved. The leadership in your publicly held company has to do a presentation to the shareholders and wants information to present. After analyzing the status of your project, you determine the earned value (EV) is lower than the planned value (PV). What should you tell the leadership to expect as an outcome if this trend continues? A. The project will finish behind schedule. B. The project will finish below the original cost estimate. C. The actual cost will be lower than planned. D. The estimate at completion will be lower than planned

29. Which of the following statements best describes how stakeholders are involved on a project? A. They approve the project charter, help provide assumptions, and create the management plans. B. They help to determine the project schedule, deliverables, and requirements. C. They help to determine the project constraints and product deliverables. D. They help to determine the resource needs and resource constraints on the project

30. A project manager is determining the factors that might influence specific quality variables. He has chosen to analyze the color/size combination that will contribute most to the functionality of the new product. In what part of the quality management process is the project manager involved? A. Plan Quality Management B. Manage Quality C. Quality Analysis D. Control Quality

31. A project manager knows she can delay the start of certain activities within the project schedule to coincide with the mitigation of a known risk. She knows exactly the work and duration needed, should the risk event occur. She is confident the finish date will not be impacted by the time delay. Which of the following aspects of schedule development has the project manager used in this situation? A. She has relied on her certainty that, for risk planning purposes, assumptions are considered to be true, real, or certain. B. GERT probability factors provide her with certainty that there will be activities in the current schedule that will not be performed at all. C. The project manager's risk management plan was to build in buffer time to all the project activities during schedule development in order to cover any risk event occurrence. D. Her float calculations have revealed those activities that allow sufficient time for the inserted activities.

32. A project manager and team from a firm that designs railroad equipment are tasked to design a machine to load stone onto railroad cars. The design allows for 2 percent spillage, amounting to over two tons of spilled rock per day. In which of the following does the project manager document this for this project? A. Quality management plan B. Quality audit documentation C. Control charts D. Quality policy

33. The schedule management processes are generally completed in which order? A. Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule B. Develop Schedule, Define Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence Activities C. Define Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule, Sequence Activities D. Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Define Activities, Develop Schedule

34. If a data point falls outside the upper control limit of a control chart, the process is said to be: A. Gold plated B. Out of control C. In control D. Assigned a cause

35. Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include collaborating, smoothing, forcing, and: A. Controlling B. Organizing C. Directing D. Withdrawing

36. Instead of celebrating the end of the project, the stakeholders are breathing a sigh of relief. None of them were confident the project would meet the end date. Which of the following is probably not one of the reasons this project had difficulty? A. Lack of a communications management plan B. Lack of milestones C. Lack of a payback period D.Lack of a staffing management plan

37. A seller is working on a cost-reimbursable (CR) contract when the buyer decides he would like to expand the scope of services and change to a fixed-price (FP) contract. All of the following are the seller's options except: A. Negotiating a fixed-price contract that includes all the work B. Completing the original work and rejecting the additional work C. Completing the original work on a cost-reimbursable basis and then negotiating a fixed price for the additional work D. Starting over with a new contract

38. Your project is one of several in a program. At a program-level meeting, you learn information regarding the solution that another project is implementing. You believe you've identified some problems with the proposed solution. This is especially concerning to you because your project has dependencies on this other project's solution. You approach the project manager for this other project and share your concerns. The other project manager thanks you for your input, but you eventually discover he proceeded with the solution as planned. What should you do? A. Add the other project's deliverables to your risk register B. Ask for a meeting with the other project manager's functional manager and express your concern. C. Ask for a meeting with the program manager to express your concerns about the other project's solution. D. Record the issue in the issue log

39. Your department is currently working on four urgent projects when it is assigned a major new project. To staff the new project, one of the four urgent projects needs to be terminated. The benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) for the four projects are listed. Which would you select for termination? A. 0.3 B. 0.9 C. 1.9 D. 1.1

40. The project budget is proving to be inaccurate. The SPI is 1.1. The team has had negative deviation from the activity attributes, and the sponsor has inserted herself on the change control board. What is the best thing for the project manager to do? A. Recompute the project schedule B. Calculate the cost performance index. C. Reestimate the activity attributes. D. Encourage the sponsor to remove herself from the change control board

42. In project initiating, the project manager is collecting everything required to initiate the new project. He obtains historical information, high-level stakeholder needs, information on how the project fits with the organization's strategic goals, what is included in the project, and what constitutes success. Which of the following is not something he has forgotten to consider? A. Initial project organization B. Rough order of magnitude estimates C. What to purchase D. Constraints and assumptions

43. In the precedence diagramming method, the nodes represent: A. Dependencies B. Work packages C. Discretionaries D. Activities

44. Which of the following is the best thing for a project manager to do in the Conduct Procurements process? A. Answer sellers' questions about the procurement documents. B. Select a contract type C. Evaluate risks. D. Perform market research

45. A project manager has discovered a team member has gold plated the work done in an activity. In order to discover this, the project manager must have been performing: A. Cost management B. Staffing management C. Scope management D. Time management