Ace PMP Certification Exam Questions & Study Resources, Project Management Professional Certification

Question #1

A challenge of earned value management is predicting percent complete. The simplest formula to use to calculate EV is______________

A. 0/100 rule

B. 50/50 rule

C. (Percent complete)h budget at completion)

D. Milestone method

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Correct Answer: C

Question #2

Various tools and techniques are available to sequence activities, and several factors can help to determine which tool or technique to select. When a project manager decides to include sub-networks or a fragment network as part of his or her scheduling technique, what does this decision say about the project?

A. The work is unique requiring special network diagrams at various stages

B. Software that manages resources is available over an existing electronic network

C. Several identical or nearly identical series of activities are repeated throughout the project

D. Multiple critical paths exist in the project

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Correct Answer: C

Question #3

One way to develop an understanding of major project stakeholders to exchange and analyze project information about roles and interests is to______________

A. Conduct interviews

B. Hold profile analysis meetings

C. Use questionnaires and surveys

D. Conduct a stakeholder analysis and analyze the results with a focus group

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Correct Answer: B

Question #4

As you prepare to close your project, which of the following is an input to the close project or phase process?

A. Work performance information

B. Expert judgment

C. Accepted deliverables

D. Change requests

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Correct Answer: C

Question #5

Statistical sampling is a method in perform quality control to determine the conformance to requirements for some component or product of a project. Its greatest advantage is that it______________

A. Does not require a large expenditure of resources

B. Is accurate enough with a sampling of less than 1%

C. Does not require 100% inspection of the components to achieve a satisfactory inference of the population

D. Needs to be conducted only when a problem is discovered with the end product or when the customer has some rejects

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Correct Answer: C

Question #6

Your project sponsor wants to know whether process variables are within acceptable limits. To answer this question, you should______________

A. Conduct a process analysis

B. Conduct a root cause analysis

C. Use a control chart

D. Use a run chart

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Correct Answer: C

Question #7

Each one of the following statements about risk avoidance is true EXCEPT that it______________

A. Focuses on changing the project management plan to eliminate entirely the threat

B. Isolates the project's objectives from the risk's impact

C. Accepts the consequences of the risk event should it occur

D. Changes the project objective that is in jeopardy

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Correct Answer: C

Question #8

Diagram: What is the duration of the critical path in this network?

A. 10

B. 12

C. 14

D. 15

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Correct Answer: D

Question #9

You are the project manager for a major logistics installation project and must obtain specific services from local sources external to your project. Your subcontracts administrator has told you to prepare a product or service description, which is referenced in a______________

A. Project statement of work

B. Contract scope statement

C. Request for proposal

D. Contract

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Correct Answer: A

Question #10

Contract negotiations are NOT required when______________

A. A company uses sealed bids

B. There is a sole source procurement

C. A competitive range is established

D. A two-step process is used

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Correct Answer: A

Question #11

Working on your project to design and construct five new bridges for your City, you are striving to actively manage the stakeholders on your project, especially those who will be inconvenienced by the project and have indicated they do not support it. You decided to review your communications management plan as it______________

A. Contains issue management procedures

B. Describes the project's life cycle and the processes to be used in each phase

C. Sets forth an escalation process

D. Provides guidance as to how to best involve stakeholders in the project

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Correct Answer: C

Question #12

An intentional activity to ensure future performance of project work is aligned with the project management plan is______________

A. Preventive action

B. Corrective action

C. Implemented change requests

D. Work performance information

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Correct Answer: A

Question #13

You are a goal-oriented project manager who is more interested in work accomplishment than relationship building. This indicates that you tend to resolve conflicts primarily through the use of______________

A. Smoothing

B. Compromising

C. Collaborating

D. Forcing

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Correct Answer: D

Question #14

You are working on identifying possible risks to your project to develop a nutritional supplement. You want to develop a comprehensive list of risks that can be addressed later through qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. An information gathering technique used to identify risks is______________

A. Documentation reviews

B. Probability and impact analysis

C. Checklist analysis

D. Brainstorming

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Correct Answer: D

Question #15

Your project is using complex, unproven technology. Your team conducted a brainstorming session to identify risks. Poor allocation of project resources was the number one risk. This risk was placed on the risk register, which included at this point a______________

A. Watch list

B. Potential risk response

C. Known unknown

D. List of other risks requiring additional analysis

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Correct Answer: B

Question #16

A marketing campaign is being built to support a new product at a utility company. The company doesn't have data on what volume to expect from the marketing campaign and the associated advertising. This data is important because it will help drive the number of employees needed in the department so customers' needs can be met. The Project Manager remembers that a similar project was by a company his company acquired. He begins to review data from this project. This is a best example of what?

A. Historical information

B. Lessons learned

C. Constraints

D. Assumptions

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Correct Answer: A

Question #17

Contingency planning involves______________

A. Defining the steps to be taken if an identified risk event should occur

B. Establishing a management reserve to cover unplanned expenditures

C. Preparing a stand-alone document that is separate from the overall project plan

D. Determining needed adjustments to make during the implementation phase of a project

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Correct Answer: A

Question #18

You can use various estimating approaches to determine activity durations. When you have a limited amount of information available about your project, especially when in the early phases, the best approach to use is______________

A. Bottom-up estimating

B. Analogous estimating

C. Reserve analysis

D. Parametric analysis

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Correct Answer: B

Question #19

Schedule control is one important way to avoid delays. While planning and executing schedule recovery, one tool available to you for control schedules is______________

A. Changing the schedule management plan

B. Immediately rebase lining

C. Adjusting leads and lags

D. Changing all project and resource calendars

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Correct Answer: C

Question #20

The sponsor plays a key role in project success. Which of the following is the best description of the sponsor?

A. Senior management

B. Customer

C. Product manager

D. CIO

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Correct Answer: B

Question #21

Successful project management involves both project leadership as well as project management skills. Several different leadership styles are appropriate in different phases of the project life cycle. Assume that you are working on a project, and it is in the execution phase. The leadership style that is most appropriate should consist of a blend of all but which one of the following?

A. Change master

B. Decision maker

C. Team and synergy

D. Trustworthiness

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Correct Answer: A

Question #22

You are working on a construction project in a city different from your headquarters' location. You and your team have not worked in this city, City B, previously, and you lack knowledge of the local building codes. You had a team member review the codes, and he said they were in far greater detail than those in your city, City

A. When you asked him how much time he would need to spend to gain a complete understanding of these codes, he estimated that at least five weeks would be needed

A. Estimate costs

B. Define activities

C. Determine budgets

D. Develop schedule

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Correct Answer: A

Question #23

In project development, schedule information such as who will perform the work, where the work will be performed, activity type, and WBS classification are examples of______________

A. Activity attributes

B. Constraints

C. Data in the WBS repository

D. Refinements

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Correct Answer: A

Question #24

Your customer signed off on the requirements document and scope statement of your video game project last month. Today she stated she would like to make it an interactive game that can be played on a television and on a computer. This represents a requested scope change that, at a minimum______________

A. Should be reviewed according to the perform integrated change control process

B. Results in a change to all project baselines

C. Requires adjustments to cost, time, quality, and other objectives

D. Results in a lesson learned

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Correct Answer: A

Question #25

Written change requests should be required on______________

A. All projects, large and small

B. Only large projects

C. Projects with a formal configuration management system in place

D. Projects for which the cost of a change control system can be justified

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Correct Answer: A

Question #26

You are project manager on a systems engineering project designed to last six years and to develop the next-generation corvette for use in military operations. You and your team recognize that requirements may change as new technologies, especially in sonar systems, are developed. You are concerned that these new technologies may lead to changes in the scope of your product, which then will affect the scope of your project. Therefore your requirements traceability matrix should include tracing requirements

A. Business needs

B. Product design

C. Product development

D. Project verification

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Correct Answer: D

Question #27

Which of the following is an output of a change control system?

A. Change requests

B. Approved changes

C. Impact analysis

D. Signoff

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Correct Answer: B

Question #28

Your DVD training project is almost complete. You have outsourced the DVD creation to an out-of-state company to complete. As the project closes down, what will be completed last?

A. Closing the project

B. Contract Closure

C. Release of resources

D. Assignment of contracts for the next phase

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Correct Answer: B

Question #29

Assume that your company has a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contract value is $110,000, which consists of $100,000 of estimated costs with a 10-percent fixed fee. Assume that your company completes the work but only incurs $80,000 in actual cost. What is the total cost to the project?

A. $80,000

B. $90,000

C. $10,0000

D. $125,000

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Correct Answer: B

Question #30

Quality function deployment is one approach for collecting requirements. Assume that you have studied the work of numerous quality experts, such as Deming, Juran, and Crosby, and your organization has a policy that states the importance of quality as the key constraint of all project constraints. You and your team have decided to use quality function deployment on your new project to manufacture turbines that use alternative fuels. The first step you should use is to______________

A. Determine the voice of the customer

B. Build the house of quality

C. Address the functional requirements and how best to meet them

D. Hold a focus group of prequalified stakeholders

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Correct Answer: A

Question #31

You plan to award a contract to provide project management training for your company. You decide it is important that any prospective contractor have an association with a major university that awards master's certificates in project management. This is an example of______________

A. Setting up an independent evaluation

B. Preparing requirements for your statement of work

C. Establishing a weighting system

D. Establishing source selection criteria

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Correct Answer: D

Question #32

The sponsor is a key project stakeholder because he or she______________

A. Approves or manages the project's product, service, or result

B. Leads the project through initiating until it is formally authorized

C. Is the Chairperson of the project's Governance Board and makes the final go/no-go decision

D. Has a major management role within the administrative area of the business

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Correct Answer: B

Question #33

You are responsible for ensuring that your seller's performance meets contractual requirements. For effective contract control, you should______________

A. Hold a bidders' conference

B. Establish the appropriate contract type

C. Implement the contract change control system

D. Develop a statement of work

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Correct Answer: C

Question #34

The purpose of a numeric scale in risk management is to______________

A. Avoid high-impact risks

B. Assign a relative value to the impact on project objectives if the risk in question occurs

C. Rank order risks in terms of very low, low, moderate, high, and very high

D. Test project assumptions

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Correct Answer: B

Question #35

In what knowledge area does Activity Resource Estimating occur?

A. Scope

B. Human Resource

C. Time

D. Procurement

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Correct Answer: C

Question #36

You are conducting a stakeholder analysis on your project. After identifying potential stakeholders, the next step in the process is to______________

A. Determine their desired level of participation

B. Provide detailed contact information for each identified stakeholder

C. Perform an assessment to see how each stakeholder might react in certain situations

D. Analyze each stakeholder's impact or support and classify them

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Correct Answer: D

Question #37

Of the following, which one is NOT true concerning a contract?

A. It is a legal relationship subject to remedy in the courts

B. It can take the form of a complex document or a simple purchase order

C. It is a mutually binding legal relationship that obligates the seller to provide specific products, services, or results and obligates the buyer to pay the seller

D. It includes a specific contract management plan

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Correct Answer: D

Question #38

Most statistical simulations of budgets, schedules, and resource allocations use which one of the following approaches?

A. PERT

B. Decision-tree analysis

C. Present value analysis

D. Monte Carlo analysis

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Correct Answer: D

Question #39

Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process provides guidance on how stakeholders can best be involved in a project?

A. Feedback analysis

B. Stakeholder analysis

C. Communication management plan

D. Stakeholder management plan

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Correct Answer: C

Question #40

To meet regulatory requirements, you need to crash your project schedule. Your first step is to compute______________

A. The cost and time slope for each critical activity that can be expedited

B. The cost of additional resources to be added to the project's critical path

C. The time saved in the overall schedule when tasks are expedited on the critical path

D. Three probabilistic time estimates of PERT for each critical path activity

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Correct Answer: A

Question #41

All of the following could be considered functions of the GERT diagramming method except?

A. Some activities may be performed only in part

B. Some activities may be fast tracked

C. Some activities may be performed more than once

D. Some activities may not be performed

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Correct Answer: B

Question #42

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B. Assume you are managing an international project

C. Establishing the project culture during the initiating stage of the project

D. Identifying basic cultural characteristics and selecting one to follow

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Correct Answer: A

Question #43

The project planning for the trade show is progressing on schedule. The Project Manager and the team are meeting to begin cost estimating. The sponsor has said that estimates must be very accurate. Which of the following estimating techniques will provide the most accuracy?

A. Cost estimating

B. Bottom-up estimating

C. Analogous estimating

D. Parametric estimating

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Correct Answer: B

Question #44

A recent earned value analysis shows that your project is 20 percent complete, the CPI is 0.67, and the SPI is 0.87. In this situation, you should______________

A. Perform additional resource planning, add resources, and use overtime as needed to accomplish the same amount of budgeted work

B. Rebaseline the schedule, then use Monte Carlo analysis

C. Conduct a risk response audit to help control risk

D. Forecast potential deviation of the project at completion from cost and schedule targets

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Correct Answer: D

Question #45

You are the project manager for the construction of an incinerator to burn refuse. Local residents and environmental groups are opposed to this project. Management agrees to move this project to a different location. This is an example of which one of the following risk responses?

A. Passive acceptance

B. Active acceptance

C. Mitigation

D. Avoidance

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Correct Answer: D

Question #46

You are examining multiple scope change requests on a project you were asked to take over because the previous project manager decided to resign. To assess the degree to which the project scope will change, you need to compare the requests to which project document?

A. Preliminary scope statement

B. WBS

C. Change management plan

D. Scope management plan

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Correct Answer: B

Question #47

Diagram: What is the float for Activity G?

A. -2

B. 0C

D. 4

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Correct Answer: C

Question #48

As a project manager, not only must you be a leader, but you also must be responsible for the management, administrative, and technical aspects of the project. Which following skill is NOT representative of the skills needed for project leadership/interpersonal relations?

A. Influencing the organization by sharing power and getting others to cooperate toward common goals

B. Creating an environment to meet project objectives while offering maximum self-satisfaction related to what people value the most

C. Helping a group of people bound by a common sense of purpose to work interdependently with each other

D. Understanding of policies, operating procedures, and regulations of external stakeholder organizations

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Correct Answer: D

Question #49

Organizations perceive risks as:

A. events that will inevitably impact project and organizational objectives

B. the effect of uncertainty on their project and organizational objectives

C. events which could have a negative impact on project and organizational objectives

D. the negative impact of undesired events on their project and organizational objectives

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Correct Answer: D

Question #50

Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the close project or phase process?

A. Project management methodology

B. Work performance information

C. Expert judgment

D. Project management information system

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Correct Answer: C

Question #51

You are the Project Manager on a cellular bluetooth amplifier project and are in the Planning phase. During a team meeting, a Functional Manager attempts to validate if the project meets company goals. The Functional Manager will report this finding back to senior management to determine if the project should continue, be modified or be canceled. What is this process called?

A. Delphi Technique

B. Management by objectives (MBO)

C. Return on investment

D. Management product analysis

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Correct Answer: B

Question #52

You are working on a new project in your organization. You need to decide how best to staff the project and handle all its resource requirements. Your first step should be to______________

A. Conduct a make-or-buy analysis

B. Conduct a market survey

C. Solicit proposals from sellers using an RFP to determine whether you should outsource the project

D. Review your procurement department's qualified-seller lists and send an RFP to selected sellers

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Correct Answer: A

Question #53

All projects involve some extent of change, because they involve work that is unique in some fashion. Therefore, it is important that a project management plan includes a______________.

A. Description of the change request process

B. Configuration management plan

C. Methodology for preventive action to avoid the need for excessive changes

D. A work authorization system

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Correct Answer: B

Question #54

You have heard recently that the client calls your progress reports the "Code of Hammurabi" because they seem to be written in hieroglyphics and are completely indecipherable to all but an antiquities scholar. This situation could have been avoided by______________

A. Informing the client at the start of the project about the types of reports they will receive

B. Using risk management techniques to identify client issues

C. Hiring an expert report writer to prepare standard reports

D. Engaging in communications planning

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Correct Answer: D

Question #55

You are working on a project to upgrade the existing fiber-optic cables in your province. You have determined that a resource can install 25 meters of cable per hour, so the duration required to install 1,000 meters would be 40 hours. This means you are using______________

A. Productivity efficiency factors

B. Parametric estimating

C. Analogous estimating

D. PERT

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Correct Answer: B

Question #56

Assigning more talented resources to the project to reduce time to completion or to provide better quality than originally planned are examples of which one of the following strategies?

A. Enhance

B. Exploit

C. Share

D. Contingent response

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Correct Answer: B

Question #57

Your organization has decided to use project management for all of its endeavors. It has established a Center of Excellence for Project Management to support the movement into management by projects and has appointed you as its director. Since you work in a matrix environment, which of the following types of communications is the most essential for success?

A. Upward

B. Horizontal

C. Downward

D. Diagonal

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Correct Answer: B

Question #58

In order for a matrix organizational approach to be successful, the two-boss situation should be resolved. To overcome the two-boss problem, it is important to______________

A. Have the project manager and the functional manager work together to complete performance evaluations

B. Prepare a responsibility chart to define responsibilities

C. Guarantee a balance of power between the functional manager and the project manager

D. Promote interface relationship management

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Correct Answer: A

Question #59

What is the primary difference between a risk audit and a risk reassessment?

A. A risk reassessment is conducted at the completion of a major phase; audits are conducted after the project is complete

B. Project stakeholders conduct risk audits; management conducts reassessments

C. Risk reassessments are regularly scheduled; risk audits are performed as defined in the project's risk management plan

D. There is no difference; they are virtually the same

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Correct Answer: C

Question #60

Consider the data in the table below. Assume that your project consists only of these three activities. Your estimate at completion is $4,400.00. This means you are calculating your EAC by using which of the following formulas?

A. EAC = AC/EV × BAC

B. EAC = AC/EV × [work completed and in progress] + [actual (or revised) cost of work packages that have not started]

C. EAC = [Actual to date] + [all remaining work to be done at the planned cost including remaining work in progress]

D. EAC =% complete × BAC

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Correct Answer: C

Question #61

On large contracts, the contract administrator typically has a need to resolve ambiguity in the clauses that govern work performance and other issues. Assume that on your contract there is an order of precedence clause. This means that______________

A. Inconsistencies in the solicitation of the contract shall be resolved in a given order of procedure

B. An alternative dispute resolution process is in place that shall be followed to resolve any conflicts

C. Any ambiguities are generally interpreted against the party who drafted the document

D. Undefinitized contractual actions cannot be authorized

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Correct Answer: A

Question #62

The e-commerce project is six weeks behind schedule with five team members working on it. Three of these team members are working on the critical path related items. What is the slack of the critical path?

A. Negative six weeks

B. 30

C. 0 (Zero)

D. Not enough information

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Correct Answer: A

Question #63

Risk mitigation involves______________

A. Using performance and payment bonds

B. Eliminating a specific threat by eliminating the cause

C. Avoiding the schedule risk inherent in the project

D. Reducing the probability and/or impact of an adverse risk event to an acceptable threshold

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Correct Answer: D

Question #64

The Project Manager is creating an estimate for building a company WAN (wide area network). It is something that is new to the Project Manager and his team, and they want to make sure all the work of the project is covered. They decide to create a bottom-up estimate. All of the following are advantages of this type of estimate except...

A. It provides supporting detail of the estimate

B. It provides team buy-in when they help create it

C. It takes a great amount of time to create

D. It has a greater degree of accuracy because of the detail at which it was created

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Correct Answer: C

Question #65

A number of items in the stakeholder management plan are similar to those in the communications management plan. An example is______________

A. Method for updating and refining the plans as the project progresses and develops

B. Stakeholder communication requirements for the current project phase

C. Information to be distributed to stakeholders including language, format, content, and level of detail

D. Time frame and frequency for the distribution of required information to stakeholders

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Correct Answer: A

Question #66

You are managing a construction project for a new city water system. The contract requires you to use special titanium piping equipment that is guaranteed not to corrode. The titanium pipe must be resting in the ground a total of 10 days before connectors can be installed. In this example, the 10- day period is defined as______________

A. Lag

B. Lead

C. Float

D. Slack

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Correct Answer: A

Question #67

A key tool and technique used in define scope is______________

A. Templates, forms, and standards

B. Decomposition

C. Expert judgment

D. Project management methodology

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Correct Answer: C

Question #68

Your company decided to award a contract for project management services on a pharmaceutical research project. Because your company is new to project management and does not understand the full scope of services that may be needed under the contract, it is most appropriate to award a______________

A. Firm-fixed-price contract

B. Fixed-price-incentive contract

C. Cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost contract

D. Time-and-materials contract

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Correct Answer: D

Question #69

Assume your project communication management plan has been approved by your sponsor and the members of your Steering Committee. You are managing a global project and have team members working virtually in four continents and stakeholders in numerous locations. Your next step is to______________

A. Set up an information management system

B. Select communications technology

C. Determine performance reporting methods

D. Select a communications model

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Correct Answer: B

Question #70

Stakeholders often have issues, and you have asked each of your team members to document them. At each team meeting, you and your team discuss them and determine appropriate responses. You have a project issue log, which is______________

A. Part of the project's lessons learned

B. Added to the stakeholder register to show which stakeholder raised it

C. An output from the manage stakeholder engagement process

D. An output from the control stakeholder engagement process

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Correct Answer: C

Question #71

To assist your software development team in collecting requirements from potential users and to ensure that agreement about the stakeholders' needs exists early in the project, you decide to use a group creativity technique. Numerous techniques are available, but you and your team choose a voting process to rank the most useful ideas for further prioritization. This approach is known as______________

A. Brainstorming

B. Nominal group technique

C. Delphi technique

D. Affinity diagram

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Correct Answer: B

Question #72

In some cases, contract termination refers to______________

A. Contract closeout by mutual agreement

B. Contract closeout by delivery of goods or services

C. Contract closeout by successful performance

D. Certification of receipt of final payment

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Correct Answer: A

Question #73

Based on a recent quality audit of your project, your organization's quality assurance department is supportive of your approach as it notes the following characteristics of quality that are being followed consistency. They include all of the follow EXCEPT______________

A. Cost of quality Customer satisfaction Management responsibility

D. High-performing team

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Correct Answer: D

Question #74

Two people at work are discussing roles and responsibilities as they relate to the company and the projects it has. They are discussing the role of the Project Manager and the Functional Manager. What is the main role of the Functional Manager?

A. To control resources

B. To manage the project when the Project Manager isn't available

C. To define business processes

D. To manage the Project Managers

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Correct Answer: A

Question #75

Which of the following is a key input to define activities?

A. Project management plan

B. Project scope management plan

C. Schedule management plan

D. Project management software

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Correct Answer: C

Question #76

The primary benefit of contract control procurements is to ensure that______________

A. Buyers conduct performance reviews

B. Payment is made in a timely fashion

C. Disagreements are handled quickly and to everyone's satisfaction

D. Both parties meet contractual obligations and protect their legal rights

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Correct Answer: D

Question #77

Assume you are beginning your project to develop a series of residential condominiums in your city and are identifying possible stakeholders. A key organizational process asset you can review is______________

A. Organizational culture

B. Organizational standards

C. Lessons learned

D. Local trends

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Correct Answer: C

Question #78

Which of the following best describes utilizing program management across an organization?

A. Managing of related or similar projects in a coordinated way

B. The process of computer program management

C. Managing a television program

D. Done for a purpose

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Correct Answer: A

Question #79

Diagram: If the imposed finish time in question 3 above is removed and reset to 16 and the duration of Activity H is changed to 3, what is the late finish for Activity G?

A. -11

B. 11

C. -13

D. 13

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Correct Answer: B

Question #80

Expert judgment is a best practice as a tool and technique in many project management processes, and the list of possible sources for experts varies by the organization and by its association with others. One way once you have identified experts who you feel could be of assistance is to______________

A. Use a focus group

B. Review documentation

C. Hold one-on-one interviews

D. Conduct interviews

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Correct Answer: A

Question #81

You are planning to conduct the team-building portion of your new project management training curriculum out-of-doors in the local park. You are limited to scheduling the course at certain times of the year, and the best time for the course to begin is mid-July. One of the more common date constraints to use as you develop the project schedule is______________

A. "Start no earlier than"

B. "Finish no earlier than"

C. "Fixed late start"

D. "Fixed early finish"

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Correct Answer: A

Question #82

You are the Project Manager on a merger and acquisition project. Activity A (3 days) and activity B (4 days) can start immediately. Activity C (2 days) can start after A and B are complete. Activity D (5 days) can begin after activity B is complete. Activity E (6 days) can begin after activity B is complete. Activity F (4 days) can begin after activities C and D are complete. Activity G (5 days) can begin after activities D and E are complete. Activity H (4 days) can begin after activities F and G are compl

A. BCFH

B. BDFH

C. BEGH

D. ACFH

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Correct Answer: C

Question #83

As project manager, you need a relatively fast and informal method addressing disagreements with contractors. One such method is to submit the issue in question to an impartial third party for resolution. This process is known as______________

A. Alternative dispute resolution

B. Problem processing

C. Steering resolution

D. Mediation litigation

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Correct Answer: A

Question #84

The e-commerce project has gone well other than the fact that the sponsor changed three different times. The project is in closure. All of the following would be created in closing except?

A. Lessons learned

B. Release of resources

C. Contract audit

D. Project archives

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Correct Answer: C

Question #85

Your project team has identified all the risks on the project and has categorized them as high, medium, and low. The "low" risks are placed on which one of the following for monitoring?

A. Threat list

B. Low risk list

C. Watch list

D. Low impact list

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Correct Answer: C

Question #86

One way to help mitigate personnel risks that may occur during the end of the project is to ______________

A. Meet individually with each team member

B. Provide specific recognition to each team member who has worked on the project

C. Prepare a staff release plan

D. Document the time each person is to work on the project in a resource calendar

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Correct Answer: C

Question #87

On a wireless internet access project, the team is large with 40 people, and controlling communication has been a challenging for the team to make progress. The Project Coordinator has been used to help with this problem. What is one of the main differences between the Project Coordinator and the Project Expeditor?

A. The Project Expeditor is another title for the Project Manager

B. The Project Coordinator has decision-making ability

C. The Project Expeditor is another title for Project Coordinator

D. The Project Expeditor has decision-making ability

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Correct Answer: B

Question #88

The Project Manager is creating an estimate for building a cellular infrastructure base station. It is something that is new to the Project Manager and his team. They decide to create a bottom-up estimate. All of the following are advantages of this type of estimate except?

A. It provides supporting detail of the estimate

B. It provides team buy-in when they help create it

C. It takes a great amount of time to create

D. There is a greater degree of accuracy because of the detail it was created at

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Correct Answer: C

Question #89

As the project manager, you have the option of proposing one of three systems to a client: a full-feature system that not only satisfies the minimum requirements but also offers numerous special functions (the "Mercedes"); a system that meets the client's minimum requirements (the "Yugo"); and a system that satisfies the minimum requirements plus has a few extra features (the "Toyota"). The on-time records and associated profits and losses are depicted on the below decision tree. What is the expected moneta

A. $9,900

B. $44,000C

D. $48,000

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Correct Answer: B

Question #90

You are the Project Manager for a high speed data communications project. You have just finished putting together all the various plans into an integrated document. Which of the following will you do next?

A. Develop Project Management Plan

B. Integrated Change Control

C. Direct and Manage Project Execution

D. Charter Signoff

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Correct Answer: C

Question #91

The product scope description is documented as part of the project's scope statement. It is important to include it because it______________

A. Facilitates the project acceptance process

B. Describes specific constraints associated with the project

C. Progressively elaborates characteristics

D. Shows various alternatives considered

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Correct Answer: C

Question #92

You are the Project Manager of an engineering project for a cellular base station with a one-year schedule as defined by the project management plan. You need a spectrum analyzer. During the procurement process, you have decided to rent this equipment. The rental cost is $506 per month. What type of cost is this?

A. Indirect

B. Direct

C. Fixed

D. Variable

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Correct Answer: D

Question #93

The company is implementing an enterprise time system across the entire company. This will integrate a number of business units. As a result, it will be very resource-consuming, change a lot of the business processes and could cause reprioritization of other projects that it will replace or modify. Which of the following would concern you most?

A. How many resources you can keep

B. How your raise or promotion might be impacted by not being on the project

C. What impact the new project is expected to have on your biggest project

D. How many resources you might lose to the new project

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Correct Answer: C

Question #94

The principal function of a warranty is to______________

A. Provide assurance of the level of quality to be provided

B. Provide a way to assert claims for late payment

C. Provide a way to allow additional time following acceptance to correct deficiencies, without additional costs

D. Ensure that goods purchased fit the purposes for which they are to be used

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Correct Answer: A

Question #95

The customer has requested a five-week delay on the project while the company has winter holiday. This delay was not planned, but the union forced the issue. The company has limited resources. What is the best way to make up the five-week slip?

A. Fast tracking

B. Integrated change control

C. Put more resources on the project

D. Crashing

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Correct Answer: A

Question #96

You are managing a major international project that involves multiple performing organizations. To establish the guiding rules for the project regarding quality, you and your project team must develop a______________

A. Improvement management plan

B. Configuration management plan Quality policy

D.

E. List of quality metrics for the project

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Correct Answer: C

Question #97

The Project Manager and Functional Manager are having a disagreement on resource allocation for a new broadband project. The Functional Manager wants the resource for an operational issue that needs attention, and the Project Manager wants the resource to work on the project so it stays on schedule as planned. Which of the following roles can help resolve this problem?

A. Functional management

B. Senior management

C. Sponsor

D. Project management

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Correct Answer: B

Question #98

The development team is building a new product for their company. This is a new product type at their company, and the market for the product is extremely unstable. According to the product manager a key to success will be to have an extremely accurate estimate on the resource needs for the project, since the company is resource constrained. Which type of duration estimating approach is the most accurate?

A. Bottom-up estimating

B. Parametric estimating

C. Fast tracking

D. Analogous estimating

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Correct Answer: A

Question #99

Modifications may be needed to the WBS and WBS dictionary because of approved change requests, which shows that______________

A. Replanning is an output of control scope

B. Scope creep is common on projects

C. Rebaselining will be necessary

D. Variance is relative to the scope baseline

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Correct Answer: D

Question #100

You have been the project manager for your nuclear submarine project for four years. While you did not assume this position until the project management plan had been prepared and approved, you find you spend a significant amount of time collecting data and communicating. You also spend time reviewing the impact of project changes and implementing ones that have been approved. Often you have had to modify a non-conforming product, which means you are spending time on______________

A. Corrective actions

B. Updating the project's requirements

C. Updating the traceability matrix

D. Defect repair

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Correct Answer: D

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