The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
Skills necessary for project management such as motivating to provide encouragement; listening actively; persuading a team to perform an action; and summarizing, recapping, and identifying next steps are known as:
Which type of dependency used in the Sequence Activities process is sometimes referred to as preferred logic, preferential logic, or soft logic?
Correlated and contextualized information on how closely the scope is being maintained relative to the scope baseline is contained within:
Processes in the Initiating Process Group may be completed at the organizational level and be outside of the project's:
Projects that share common outcomes, collective capability, knowledge, or skills are often grouped into a:
Which process is usually a rapid and cost-effective means of establishing priorities for Plan Risk Responses?
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost performance index (CPI) for Task 2?
Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Activity cost estimates and the project schedule are inputs to which Project Cost Management process?
A project manager should communicate to stakeholders about resolved project issues by updating the:
Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
Analytical techniques are a tool and technique of which process in Project Procurement Management?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:
The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:
A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response is called a:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
Which of the Perform Quality Assurance tools and techniques may enhance the creation of the work breakdown structure (VVBS) to give structure to the decomposition of the scope?
Which project document is updated in the Control Stakeholder Engagement process?
Organizational process assets, a lessons-learned database, and historical information are all inputs to which process?
Project deliverables that have been completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process are known as:
The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is known as its risk:
Which basic quality tool explains a change in the dependent variable in relationship to a change observed in the corresponding independent variable?
The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?
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:
Identify Stakeholders is the process of identifying all of the people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests in, involvement in, and impact on the project:
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?
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses the values of parameters from previous similar projects for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project?
Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
A project manager has created an issue log to document issues communicated by project team members during weekly team meetings. This is an input of:
The contract in which the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and then receives a fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives is called a:
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?
A project manager at a publishing company decides to initiate the editing phase of the project as soon as each chapter is written. Which type of Sequence Activities tool and technique is involved, considering that there was a start-to-start relationship with a 15-day delay?
The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
Which tool or technique can a project manager use to select in advance a team member who will be crucial to the task?
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Determine Budget process?
In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
For a 10-day project, activity B ' s duration is three days, and activity C’s duration is two days What is the duration of activity A if activities B and C are performed in parallel?
Due to new market conditions a five-year project......need to be updated
Due to new market conditions a five-year project requires a full revision of project objectives. Which components to the stakeholder engagement plan need to be updated?
Which tool should a project manager use to calculate cost variance for a project?
While executing a building construction project, the supplier may delay the delivery and increase the cost of materials due to new safety regulations. The team has identified an option to absorb the cost by reducing the lag for some of the tasks.
What should the team do to ensure that this situation is managed?
A key stakeholder has left the project management team. The team now has a new key stakeholder who is requesting project reports from team members out of sequence. What should the project manager do first?
Which procurement management process includes obtaining seller response, seller selection, and contract awarding?
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?
What process is used to identify quality requirements and/or standards for a project and its deliverables'?
A new project manager is assigned to a high-visibility project. The project manager starts with the requirements analysis process. Who should the project manager onboard to assist with the requirements traceability matrix or analysis?
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?
A project manager is updating their CV or resume and realizes that they need to improve skills related to expertise in the industry and organizational knowledge. Which dimension of PMI’s Talent Triangle best relates to this need to improve?
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?
A technical project manager uses a directive approach with the team. Some team members are growing increasingly frustrated when their recommendations are not adopted by the project manager. What should the project manager do to address this issue?
What do top project managers do to maximize their sphere of influence within a project team?
Considering a highly dynamic project environment, which approach should the project manager adopt to manage the project team?
What should be the frequency for meetings when transitioning from Scrum to Kanban?
During a project team meeting, one of the team members suggested a product functionality that would immensely benefit the customer. The project manager documents the request for later analysis. What is this an example of?
A project manager is reviewing a past project with similar.... team choosing for tailoring?
A project manager is reviewing a past project with similar requirements to the project that is currently chartered. The project team decided to adopt quality tools, techniques and templates recommended at the organizational level after reviewing the lessons learned of the previous project What specific area of quality, is the project team choosing for tailoring?
A project team member is discussing a new project with their manager. The project is very similar to a project that was delivered last year and the scope is very well documented.
Which of the following project delivery approaches should be recommended?
Match the method for categorizing stakeholders with its corresponding description
A project manager needs to determine the schedule variance (SV). The project manager's latest schedule indicates 14 units of work completed against a plan of 23 units.
What is the SV?
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?
A company has implemented an adaptive project management framework for a new project. When planning for an iteration, how should risks be addressed? Choose two.
All testing on a project has been performed successfully and all acceptance criteria have been met. What is the next step?
During project execution, a team member has identified and then analyzed an opportunity that
will yield a net saving of 10% and reduce time in the schedule by 20%
Which strategy should the project manager adopt to accommodate this opportunity?
A project team is brainstorming about the best methods and practices to adopt for an upcoming project. What is the project team trying to follow?
A subject matter expert (SME) was recently assigned to a project to manage the new compliance requirement. The SME claimed that the activity's prioritization needed to change and the schedule could be cut to mitigate the effect of this new compliance need.
How should the project manager proceed?
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
A project team member identifies a possibility......the team member's idea?
A project team member identifies a possibility of increasing project performance by adopting an innovative approach to a proposed solution. This also will save resources for the company and increase stakeholder satisfaction.
How should the project manager evaluate the team member's idea?
Which of the following is the key construction to controlling the costs and achieving the schedule in projects with high variability?
An adaptive team schedules 20 story points in the upcoming sprint. Historically, the team completes 25 story points on average per sprint. Each sprint is two weeks, and there is one day of float. What is the likelihood the team will complete all 20 story points in the upcoming sprint?
Two members of the team are having a conflict..............or partially resolve the problem
Two members of the team are having a conflict. The project manager decides that, in this case, the best solution is to bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties, in order to temporarily or partially resolve the problem.
Which technique should the project manager use?
During the execution of a project, a stakeholder asks a project manager whether the project is falling behind or ahead of its baseline schedule. The project manager calculates the earned value analysis (EVA) schedule variance and it comes out to be zero. Which of the following is correct about the EVA schedule variance?
For which kind of quantitative risk analysis chart can a tornado diagram represent values?
A new game development process must have three versions. Each version is to be developed in approximately five iteration cycles with a duration of one month each. This will help this small enterprise to have a return on investment (ROI) as the project runs from the first cycle. Which methodology should the project manager adopt and implement in the project?
A project manager is working with the project sponsor to identify the resources required for the project. They use a RACI chart to ensure that the team members know their roles and responsibilities. What are the four elements of a RACI chart?
In one of the project meetings during project execution, a new stakeholder attends and highlights a new risk. What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is managing a small project that has a time constraint. What should the project manager do to ensure the delivery is on time?
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?
A product owner wants to ensure that the project's requirements, including product requirements, are met and validated. To do this project manager wants.
Match each process to its definition.
What key component of the project charter defines the conditions for dosing a project phase?
Which is a method of prototyping that creates a functioning representation of the final finished product to the user?
A business analyst sent multiple meeting requests via instant message to a subject matter expert (SME) working in another country but did not receive a response. What should the business analyst do to reduce the likelihood of this occurring in the future with other stakeholders distributed across multiple locations?
A project manager oversees a project in an adaptive environment. After each iteration, which type of meeting should the project manager conduct?
A project team is meeting to seek solutions on a new problem that occurred recently. The meeting is comprised of two parts: the first is a generation of ideas and the second is an analysis. Which technique is the team using?
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?
During a project's execution phase, the project manager reviews the communications management plan for communication technology factors. What can affect the choice of communications?
The project manager notes that stakeholders are aware of the project and potential impacts and are actively engaged in ensuring that the project is a success. The engagement level of the stakeholders should be classified as:
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?
If the most likely duration of an activity is five weeks, the best-case duration is two weeks, and the worst-case duration is 14 weeks, how many weeks is the expected duration of the activity?
The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
Which Develop Schedule tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
The group technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for prioritization is called the:
Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?
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?
Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
In the basic communication model, which term refers to the method that is used to convey the message?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
Which group creativity technique asks a selected group of experts to answer questionnaires and provide feedback regarding the responses from each round of requirements gathering?
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
Projects can be divided into phases to provide better management control. Collectively, what are these phases known as?
Which schedule network analysis technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500.What is the actual cost of the project?
Which Knowledge Area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
Which written document helps monitor who is responsible for resolving specific problems and concerns by a target date?
In a construction project schedule, what is the logical relationship between the delivery of the concrete materials and the pouring of concrete?
Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
In which process might a project manager use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
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 tools and techniques is used in the Verify Scope process?
Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:
Which type of agreement is legal, contractual, and between two or more entities to form a partnership, joint venture, or some other arrangement as defined by the parties?
A tool or technique in Perform Quality Control that a project manager would use is:
When large or complex projects are separated into distinct phases or subprojects, all of the Process Groups would normally be:
As the project progresses, which of the following is routinely collected from the project activities?
When addressing roles and responsibilities,which item ensures that the staff has the skills required to complete project activities?
Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
A measure of cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal and is expressed as the ratio of the cost needed for finishing the outstanding work to the remaining budget is known as the:
What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?
A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
What is a deliverable-oriented, hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?
The project scope statement and resource calendars are inputs to which Project Time Management process?
Which type of management focuses on ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation?
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
What is the name of the statistical method that helps identify which factors may influence specific variables of a product or process under development or in production?
Organizational planning impacts projects by means of project prioritization based on risk, funding, and an organizations:
Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
Which type of manager is assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?
As part of a mid-project evaluation, the project sponsor has asked for a forecast of the total project cost. What should be used to calculate the forecast?
Which of the following is a tool and technique for Estimate Activity Durations?
While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery. What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Which of the following is a tool and technique used in the Develop Schedule process?
Which of the following Process Groups covers all nine Project Management Knowledge Areas?
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
Which document in the project management plan can be updated in the Plan Procurement Management process?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The free float for Activity E is how many days?
Which process involves the creation of a document that provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to a project?
A stakeholder expresses a need not known to the project manager. The project manager most likely missed a step in which stakeholder management process?
Technical capability, past performance, and intellectual property rights are examples of:
The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (VVBS) is called a/an:
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
Which earned value management (EVM) metric is a measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC) and is considered a critical EVM metric?
A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?
The ways in which the roles and responsibilities, reporting relationships, and staffing management will be addressed and structured within a project is described in the:
Which process develops options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives?
A project in which the scope, time, and cost of delivery are determined as early as possible is following a life cycle that is:
Which process numerically analyzes the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives?
Payback period, return on investment, internal rate of return, discounted cash flow, and net present value are all examples of:
Organizational theory is a tool used in which Project Human Resource Management process?
Which input may influence quality assurance work and should be monitored within the context of a system for configuration management?
Which tool or technique is used to manage change requests and the resulting decisions?
A method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before actually building is known as:
Which Plan Schedule Management tool or technique may involve choosing strategic options to estimate and schedule the project?
A risk response strategy in which the project team shifts the impact of a threat, together with ownership of the response, to a third party is called:
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
The number of potential communication channels for a project with 5 stakeholders is:
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?
When a backward pass is calculated from a schedule constraint that is later than the early finish date that has been calculated during a forward pass calculation, this causes which type of total float?
The process of estimating the type and quantity of material, human resources, equipment, or supplies required to perform each activity is known as:
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 type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?
The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is known as:
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Which document describes the necessary information to determine if a project is worth the required investment?
Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?
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 effective in a project in which the deliverable is not a service or result?
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?
A project manager is appointed full-time to a project and is given full-time administrative staff and full-time project team members. This situation describes which type of organizational structure?
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?
What is the discipline that focuses on the interdependences between projects to determine the optimal approach for managing them?
According to the PMI Talent Triangle. leadership skills relate to the ability to:
What conflict resolution technique involves delaying the issue or letting others resolve it?
A project manager uses their networking skills to build agreement with a difficult stakeholder. What level of influence did the project manager apply?
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?
A sponsor asks a project manager to provide a project's expected total costs based on its progress. What formula should the project manager use to determine this?
When project requirements are documented in user stones then prioritized and refined just prior to construction, which approach is being used for scheduling?
In a project using agile methodology, who may perform the quality control activities?
A new project manager wishes to recommend creating a project management office to senior management. Which statement would the project manager use to describe the Importance of creating the project management office?
The project manager is using co-location and providing training to the project team. On which of the following Project Resource Management processes is the project manager working?
Which tools and techniques will a project manager use to develop a project charter?
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?
Which of the following lists represents the outputs of the Monitor Communications process?
Analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints for project execution and monitoring and controlling relates to which process?
Stakeholder identification and engagement should begin during what phase of the project?
In a large organization, with projects of different types and sizes, what kind of approach or method would be best to use?
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 company must implement sales software because it is opening a new branch in a foreign market. Although this software is used in every domestic branch, multiple changes are expected during the implementation because It is a foreign location.
Which type of life cycle would the project manager use in this case?
In an agile or adaptive environment. when should risk be monitored and prioritized?
In which type of organization does the project manager have the maximum influence
Which tasks should a project manager accomplish in order to manage project scope correctly?
Which of the following is used to classify stakeholders based on their assessments of power, urgency, and legitimacy?
Which project manager competency is displayed through the knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to specific domains of project, program, and portfolio management?
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 features and functions that characterize a result, product, or service can refer to:
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 reports an earned value (EV) of USS45 for work completed with an actual cost (AC) of US$40. What is the cost performance index (CPI)?
Which of the following technology platforms is most effective for sharing information when managing virtual project teams?
Which are examples of processes that may be used once or at predefined points in the project life cycle?
How can a project manager maintain the engagement of stakeholders in a project with a high degree of change?
Which of the following must be included in the risk register when the project manager completes the Identify Risks process?
A project manager is monitoring and recording results of executing the quality management activities to assess performance and ensure the project outputs are complete, correct, and meet customer expectations. Which output is the project manager using?
Match each dimension of the communications management plan to its corresponding focus.
What charts and (igures should project managers use during the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
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?
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 manager is identifying the risks of a project. Which technique should the project manager use?
A project team is discussing an upcoming planned product launch of a highly visible technologically advanced artificial intelligence tool. The team is debating the aspect of iterative and hybrid approaches. Which aspect of tailoring would this best represent?
Which is the tool or technique that is used to obtain the list of activities from the work packages?
In order to detect quality Issues earlier in the project life cycle, the project manager is using an agile/adaptive environment. What is the main difference between waterfall and agile/adaptive development approaches tor Project Quality Management?
A team receives four different requests from separate stakeholders related to one application Match each requirement with its corresponding type of change request.