Using the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely duration is four months, the optimistic duration is two months, and the pessimistic duration is one year, how many months is the expected activity duration?
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
While preparing the project management plan on a weekly basis, the project manager indicates the intention to provide an issues report to the staff via e-mail. In which part of the plan will this type of information be included?
The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
The group technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for prioritization is called the:
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Which type of dependency is contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work?
Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?
In Plan Risk Management, which of the management plans determines who will be available to share information on various risks and responses at different times and locations?
Prototype development may be used as a tool for which of the following risk response strategies?
Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
The project has a current cost performance index of 0.80. Assuming this performance wi continue, the new estimate at completion is $1000. What was the original budget at completion for the project?
Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to:
Under which type of contract does the seller receive reimbursement for all allowable costs for performing contract work, as well as a fixed-fee payment calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs?
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?
Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
The project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces, while in practice they:
The processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project has been undertaken to achieve are grouped within which Process Group?
Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique used to shorten the project schedule without changing project scope. Which of the following can result from fast tracking?
The technique of subdividing project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work and deliverables are defined to the work package level is called:
The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
In the basic communication model, which term refers to the method that is used to convey the message?
Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?
Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
Which Knowledge Area involves identifying the people, groups, or organizations that may be impacted by or impact a project?
Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
A project manager providing information to the right audience, in the right format, at the right time is an example of which type of communication?
Which key interpersonal skill of a project manager is defined as the strategy of sharing power and relying on interpersonal skills to convince others to cooperate toward common goals?
Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Stakeholders can be identified in later stages of the project because the Identify Stakeholders process should be:
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
The review of a sellers progress toward achieving the goals of scope and quality within cost and schedule compared to the contract is known as:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedule performance index (5PI) for Task 4?
When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
Which type of dependency is established based on knowledge of best practices within a particular application area or some unusual aspect of the project in which a specific sequence is desired, even though there may be other acceptable sequences?
A project in which the scope, time, and cost of delivery are determined as early as possible is following a life cycle that is:
Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?
A projects purpose or justification, measurable project objectives and related success criteria, a summary milestone schedule, and a summary budget are all components of which document?
Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?
A benefit of using virtual teams in the Acquire Project Team process is the reduction of the:
The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope as well as managing the changes to the scope baseline is known as:
A project requires a component with well-understood specifications. Performance targets are established at the outset, and the final contract price is determined after completion of all work based on the seller's performance. The most appropriate agreement with the supplier is:
Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding project outcomes describes which classification model for stakeholder analysis?
Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
External organizations that have a special relationship with the enterprise and provide specialized expertise are called:
The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:
Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?
Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) if the planned value (PV) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $150, and the earned value (EV) is $50?
The planned work contained in the lowest level of work breakdown structure (WBS) components is known as:
Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is used to document changes that occur during the project?
Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Which input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?
Which process identifies whether the needs of a project can best be met by acquiring products, services, or results outside of the organization?
Which Plan Schedule Management tool or technique may involve choosing strategic options to estimate and schedule the project?
Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
Which type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?
The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information become available is known as:
Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?
The business needs, assumptions, and constraints and the understanding of the customers needs and high-level requirements are documented in the:
Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Which tool or technique of the Define Activities process allows for work to exist at various levels of detail depending on where it is in the project life cycle?
Organizational theory is a tool used in which Project Human Resource Management process?
What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?
Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?
What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Which tools or techniques will a project manager use for Develop Project Team?
Which Develop Schedule tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
An electronics firm authorizes a new project to develop a faster, cheaper, and smaller laptop after improvements in the industry and electronics technology. With which of the following strategic considerations is this project mainly concerned?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
The formal and informal interaction with others in an organization industry, or professional environment is known as:
Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
Organizational planning impacts projects by means of project prioritization based on risk, funding, and an organizations:
Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
Which document includes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints?
Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and the cost of changes as project time advances?
Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
Which of the following is a tool and technique for Estimate Activity Durations?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?
In an organization with a projectized organizational structure, who controls the project budget?
Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
Activity resource requirements and the resource breakdown structure (RBS) are outputs of which Project Time Management process?
The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
Which process is included in the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?
Which tool or technique of Plan Quality involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
Which group of inputs will a project manager use during the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?
A project manager is formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables. What is an input to this process?
According to the PMI Talent Triangle. leadership skills relate to the ability to:
Which two processes should be used to influence costs in the early stages of a project?
In which organizational structure would the project manager have most authority?
A project manager is reviewing the change requests for project documents, deliverables, and the project plan. In which project management process does this review belong?
A project manager is assigned to a strategic project Senior management asks the project manager to give a presentation in order to request support that will ensure the success of the project.
Which entities will the project manager attempt to influence?
A project manager has to share a status report with a new stakeholder and is trying to determine the level of detail to include in the report. Which document best details the information the project manager needs lo make this decision?
A project is in progress and about to move to a different phase, according to the plan. This will be a good opportunity for the project manager to:
Which of the following describes the similarities of the process groups and project life cycle?
Which is the tool or technique that is used to obtain the list of activities from the work packages?
The project manager is distributing project communications, collecting and storing project information, and retrieving documents when required. In which process is the project manager involved?
Which tasks should a project manager perform in order to manage the project schedule effectively?
Which of the following lists represents the outputs of the Monitor Communications process?
Match the project manager's sphere of influence with the associated primary role.
Which of the following can a project manager use to represent dellned team member roles in a group of tasks?
With regard to a project manager's sphere of influence in a project, which of the following does the project manager influence most directly?
The project leam is brainstorming on approaches to deliver the upcoming product launch for which the project has been chartered. The project manager is laying out hybrid, adaptive, iterative methods. What is the team trying to address?
When project requirements are documented in user stones then prioritized and refined just prior to construction, which approach is being used for scheduling?
A project team conducts regular standup meetings to keep everyone updated on what each one of them is working on. What type of communication is this?
A project manager held a meeting and listed all team members' ideas for improving the product on a white board. What data gathering technique did the project manager apply?
The project manager is creating the communications management plan Which group of inputs Is required to begin?
Which task will a project manager undertake while conducting Project Resource Management?
A project manager has just completed several brainstorming sessions and has gathered the data to show commonality and differences in one single place. What technique was followed?
When managing costs in an agile environment, what should a project manager consider?
What does expert judgment provide as an input to the resource management plan?
Analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints for project execution and monitoring and controlling relates to which process?
During the planning phase, a project manager must create a work breakdown structure (WBS) to improve management of the project's components. What should be included in the WBS?
The project manager and the project team are having a meeting with the purpose of identifying risks. Which tools and techniques might help in this process?
In which of the Risk Management processes is the project charter used as an input?
Directing another person to get from one point to another using a known set of expected behaviors and the ability to lead a team and inspire them to do their jobs well is related to?
What should the project manager use to evaluate the politics and power structure among stakeholders inside and outside of the organization?
The procurement requirements for a project include working with several vendors. What should the project manager take into consideration during the Project Procurement Management processes?
Deciding the phases of a project life cycle would be considered a part of which of these knowledge areas?
Which knowledge area includes the processes to identify, define, and unify the various project management processes?
Which of the following is an example of an organizational system that is arranged based on the job being performed?
An important project stakeholder has low risk tolerance. Which type ot communication should a project manager use to provide this stakeholder with a difficult update?
A project has an estimated duration of 10 months with a total budget of US$220,000. At the end of the fifth month, it is estimated that at completion, the project will incur US$250,000. If the actual cost (AC) calculated is US$150,000, what is the earned value (EV) of the project?
The project manager is dividing the project scope into smaller pieces, and repeating this process until no more subdivisions are required. At this point the project manager is able to estimate costs and activities for each element.
What are these elements called?
A team was hired to develop a next generation drone. The team created a prototype and sent it to the customer for testing. The feedback collected was used to refine the requirements. What technique is the team using?
A project manager Is addressing risks and potential concerns related to stakeholder management, and Is clarifying and resolving previously Identified issues. In which process is the project manager engaged?
In a large organization, with projects of different types and sizes, what kind of approach or method would be best to use?
Which of the following must be included in the risk register when the project manager completes the Identify Risks process?
At the beginning of an iteration, the team will work to determine how many of the highest-priority items on the backlog list can be delivered within the next iteration. Which of the following activities is done first?
While processes in the Planning Process Group seek to collect feedback and define project documents to guide project work, organizational procedures dictate when the project planning:
Which Perform Quality Assurance tool or technique is used to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it, and develop preventative actions?
Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
Which Define Activities tool or technique is used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts?
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
Which quality tool incorporates the upper and lower specification limits allowed within an agreement?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
A full-time project manager with low to moderate authority and part-time administrative staff is working in an organizational structure with which type of matrix?
What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost variance (CV) for Task 6?
Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
A project manager should communicate to stakeholders about resolved project issues by updating the:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:
Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Which schedule method allows the project team to place buffers on the project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties?
Projects that share common outcomes, collective capability, knowledge, or skills are often grouped into a:
In a preliminary meeting for a project, team members decide to execute the project with methodology A finance team member wants to know how project cost will be determined at this early stage. How will the project team determine project cost?
A project manager has just consolidated the project risk management plan and sent it to the sponsor. The sponsor wants to reduce the likelihood of a specific risk.
Which approach should the project manager take?
The project manager released a report A few stakeholders express the view that report should
have been directed to them
Which of the 5Cs of written communications does the project manager need to address?
A project manager is reviewing some techniques that can be used to evaluate solution results. The intent is to evaluate the solution in the larger context to ensure it does not behave in unacceptable ways when deployed to production.
Which evaluation technique should be used here?
On a clinical trial project, the project manager is worried about maintaining control of the project. The project manager decides to use a requirements traceability matrix.
What is the advantage of using this tool?
Given the following information, what is the schedule variance (SV) for this project?
Early start date (ES): 16 weeks
Actual time: 12 weeks
Schedule performance index (SPI): 1.3
What do top project managers do to maximize their sphere of influence within a project team?
Based on a previous project that has been completed, a project manager decides the best way to estimate costs is through historical data. What kind of estimating is this?
In an adaptive project environment, which action helps the project manager ensure that the team is comfortable with changes?
When executing a project, a recently hired subject matter expert (SME) who reviewed the execution progress remarked that the schedule could be crashed and that the schedule was not assessed properly. What should the project manager do next?
During the execution phase of a multibillion-dollar project, the project manager encountered performance issues with some of the team members. In a performance review meeting, the project manager noticed that the team members do not follow SMART objectives.
What are SMART objectives?
What can a requirements traceability matrix enable regardless of the project methodology being used?
A project is delivering an integrated solution to an external client on a fixed-price contract. The project has a significant technical component and has a dedicated technical project manager working with a business program manager and the client's project manager. The technical lead is requesting two new developers.
Which plan should the project manager use to identify who is responsible for finding the budget for additional developers?
At the end of the third iteration, the project team gathers to discuss the stories to be implemented in the next iteration. What should the team do during this session?
The project manager released a report. A few stakeholders express the view that the report should not have been directed to them.
Which of the 5Cs of written communications does the project manager need to address?
What is the most important skill that project managers should possess to lead stakeholders throughout a project?
A project team is tasked with decomposing the scope to enable detailed cost and duration estimates. What should the team do to achieve this requirement?
Which tool should a project manager use to calculate cost variance for a project?
A project sponsor has asked the project manager to determine how soon the project can be completed. Which of the following methods can a project manager use to find this information?
An employee was hired to work on ongoing, repetitive activities in the accounting department. The employee's duties are managing and controlling day-to-day activities. Which type of managing is the employee performing?
A project team for a marketing company is acquiring leaflets and materials from competitors. The team is working on a project to release new products, and they are trying to get ideas on how to most efficiently market these new products.
Which activity is the project team conducting?
What communications management process enables an effective information flow among project stakeholders'?
A project team has completed the sprint review and the users are impressed by the demo. However, another functionality included in the sprint that was not discussed in the review is not ready for production deployment.
What should the project team do?
Calculate the Schedule Performance Index (SPI) based on the following information: earned value (EV) is 30 and planned value (PV) is 15.
What document gathers all of the lessons learned at the end of a phase or project
A project manager has joined the sponsor to verify the last deliverable of the project. The sponsor is measuring and examining the deliverable to determine whether it meets the requirements and product acceptance criteria. Which activity is being performed?
A project manager has the task of determining the deliverables for a six-month project using a predictive approach. How should the project manager determine which processes to include in the project management plan?
A project veers off track due to scope creep. The project management team requests an immediate response from the major stakeholders.
What should the project manager do next to avoid project failure?
Construction of a building has stopped due to a supplier's failure to deliver concrete. The project schedule is behind by three months.
What should the project manager do to overcome this problem and put the project back on track?
During project execution, a key resource leaves the team for another job. What should the project manager do in this situation?
Match each tool or technique with its corresponding Project Cost Management process.
Which is a method of prototyping that creates a functioning representation of the final finished product to the user?
How does a requirements traceability matrix help to determine whether a product is ready for delivery?
A new business analyst has joined the team in the middle of a project and the requirements traceability matrix has been updated. What should the business analyst do next?
A project is in its final stages when a competitor releases a similar product. This could make the project redundant. What should the project manager do next?
The project manager is looking at a precedence diagram.... the duration of this task?
The project manager is looking at a precedence diagram and needs to report back about the project status The total duration of the task is ten days, and both Activity A and B need be completed. Activity A has a duration of six days, and activity B has a duration of four days Activity B has a finish-to-start relationship with activity A Under current circumstances, activity A will take about seven days to complete.
What is the outcome of the duration of this task'?
What process in Project Schedule Management identifies and documents specific actions to be performed to produce a project’s deliverables?
Which organizational process asset can make an impact on the outcome of a project?
A project's aim, from a business perspective, is moving an organization from one level to another to achieve a specific objective. What is the goal for a project's successful completion?
The table represents the possible durations of a specific project task.
Using the three-point estimating technique what is the expected number of days it should take to complete the task?
It’s time to perform code review on a software project that has over three million lines of code written. Which management tool should the project manager use?
A project manager is assigned to a project, and the sponsor signals to perform first actions. However, the project manager is unsure how to apply organizational resources into project activities before a formal authorization. Which document should be used in this case?
A project is in the planning phase and ready for plan review and approval when a sponsor switch happens. What should the next course of action be?
Which of the following can a project manager conduct if they have a stakeholder who is unresponsive and/or unsupportive?
What tool or technique will establish expected behaviors for project team members?
A team has been tasked with designing a product to address a problem they have never faced before. The project team is struggling to get traction as the solutions are not clear. What should the project manager do next?
A new project was approved by the project management office (PMO), and the scope of the project is to build a new detachable classroom. What delivery method and artifacts should the project manager use to deliver this project?
Which is the correct hierarchy in a project environment, from most to least Inclusive?
A project manager is leading a technology project that is about to enter the execution phase. The project requires the procurement of certain key components from an external vendor. The project manager has been notified that because of a government regulation, some parts can no longer be used in the country and the vendor will be unable to deliver them.
What should the project manager do?
Which of the following processes audits the quality requirements and the results from quality control measures to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used?
What is a deliverable-oriented, hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
Which of the following outputs from the Control Schedule process aids in the communication of schedule variance (SV), schedule performance index (SPI), or any performance status to stakeholders?
The output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:
Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?
Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?
The risk management team of a software project has decided that due to the lack of adequate talent in the company, development of a specific part of the system is under high risk, so the team has decided to outsource it. This is an example of which risk response?
In a construction project schedule, what is the logical relationship between the delivery of the concrete materials and the pouring of concrete?
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
The process of identifying the stakeholders' information needs is completed during:
Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
The milestone list is an input to which process from the Planning Process Group?
During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Define Activities process?
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
In the Develop Project Team process, which of the following is identified as a critical factor for a project's success?
Which can be used to determine whether a process is stable or has predictable performance?
Which type of elaboration allows a project management team to manage at a greater level of detail as the project evolves?
Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?
Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?
Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?
The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
A purchase order for a specified item to be delivered by a specified date for a specified price is the simplest form of what type of contract?
Which of the following reduces the probability of potential consequences of project risk events?
Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the Verify Scope process?
What is the responsibility of the project manager and the functional manager respectively?
Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
Which process should be conducted from the project inception through completion?
Which of the following is a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a prespecified product, result, or service?
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