What Knowledge Area must be led by the project manager and cannot be delegated to other specialists?
Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?
Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
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 review of a sellers progress toward achieving the goals of scope and quality within cost and schedule compared to the contract is known as:
Which conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?
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:
Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?
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?
What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?
A project team member agrees to change a project deliverable after a conversation with an external stakeholder. It is later discovered that the change has had an adverse effect on another deliverable. This could have been avoided if the project team had implemented:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
When painting a bedroom, preparing the walls can be done while the paint is being chosen. This is an example of a:
Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
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?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Progressively elaborating high-level information into detailed plans is performed by the:
Job satisfaction, challenging work, and sufficient financial compensation are values related to which interpersonal skill?
When the business objectives of an organization change, project goals need to be:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The shortest non-critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
Which schedule method allows the project team to place buffers on the project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties?
In which phase of team building activities do team members begin to work together and adjust their work habits and behavior to support the team?
Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?
Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:
A benefit of using virtual teams in the Acquire Project Team process is the reduction of the:
An element of the modern quality management approach used to achieve compatibility with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is known as:
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 probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?
For a stakeholder with low interest and high power, the project manager should:
Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?
Which type of analysis is used as a general management technique within the Plan Procurements process?
The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to:
Define Activities and Estimate Activity Resources are processes in which project management Knowledge Area?
The project scope statement and resource calendars are inputs to which Project Time Management process?
Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
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 process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline is:
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
When large or complex projects are separated into distinct phases or subprojects, all of the Process Groups would normally be:
A project has a current cost performance index (CPI) of 1.25. To date, US$10,000 have been spent on performing the project work. What is the earned value of the work completed to date?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
The formal and informal interaction with others in an organization industry, or professional environment is known as:
Which component of the human resource management plan describes when and how project team members are acquired and how long they will be needed?
What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
A project manager is launching an information system to provide a lessons learned database. This action is necessary for recipients to access content at their own discretion. Which communication method is described?
Which statement is related to the project manager's sphere of influence at the organizational level?
How can a project manager determine if the project activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and procedures?
How can a project manager maintain the engagement of stakeholders in a project with a high degree of change?
Company A has just been notified about a new legal requirement for its business operations. What is the classification of this item?
Which of the following are outputs from the process of creating a work breakdown structure (WBS)?
A project manager is determining the amount of contingency needed for a project. Which analysis is the project manager using?
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?
Which of the following strategic considerations often results in project authorization?
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?
As the project progresses, which of the following is routinely collected from the project activities?
Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
Which Process Group contains those processes performed to define a new project?
Which of the following is a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a prespecified product, result, or service?
Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
Which process should be conducted from the project inception through completion?
When addressing roles and responsibilities,which item ensures that the staff has the skills required to complete project activities?
Which of the following project documents is an input to the Control Scope process?
Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding project outcomes describes which classification model for stakeholder analysis?
The component of the risk management plan that documents how risk activities will be recorded is called:
To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
Which of the following is a tool and technique used in the Develop Schedule process?
The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
Which tool should a project manager consider to deal with multiple sources of risk?
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?
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 management plan requires the acquisition of a special part available from a supplier located abroad. Which source selection method is being used?
Which group of inputs will a project manager use during the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?
Analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints for project execution and monitoring and controlling relates to which process?
A project stakeholder is requesting changes to the project plan. Which process group addresses 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)?
A project manager is working in an environment where requirements are not very clear and may change during the project. In addition, the project has several stakeholders and is technically complex.
Which strategies should the project manager take into account for risk management in this environment?
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?
Which of the following are components of the technical project management skill?
Which of the following must be included in the risk register when the project manager completes the Identify Risks process?
In a functional organization, the director of an important stakeholder business group expressed concern to a line manager about the progress of the project. What should the line manager do next?
What is the project manager's responsibility in Project Integration Management?
Which of the following are outputs of the Define Scope process in Project Scope Management?
When a project is undertaken to reduce defects in a product or service, the objective of the project is to create a/an:
A complete set of concepts, terms, and activities that make up an area of specialization is known as:
Which Control Stakeholder Engagement tool or technique allows the project manager to consolidate and facilitate distribution of reports?
Which type of dependency used in the Sequence Activities process is sometimes referred to as preferred logic, preferential logic, or soft logic?
Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes, and procedures?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
Which process is included in the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
Which tools or techniques will a project manager use for Develop Project Team?
Which document includes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints?
Identifying major deliverables, deciding if adequate cost estimates can be developed, and identifying tangible components of each deliverable are all part of which of the following?
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 consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associatedWBSand WBS dictionary?
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 seven basic quality tools is especially useful for gathering attributes data while performing inspections to identify defects?
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?
The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
The most commonly used type of precedence relationship in the precedence diagramming method (PDM) is:
At which point of the project is the uncertainty the highest and the risk of failing the greatest?
Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Which is the Define Scope technique used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?
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 is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
Which of the following is a tool and technique for Estimate Activity Durations?
The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?
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 of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables 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:
Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?
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?
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 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:
Which type of dependency is contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work?
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
Prototype development may be used as a tool for which of the following risk response strategies?
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 item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
Which Control Scope input is compared to actual results to determine if corrective action is required for the project?
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
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?
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 process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
Which tool or technique can a project manager use to select in advance a team member who will be crucial to the task?
The project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces, while in practice they:
The group technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for prioritization is called the:
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?
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 should consider the impact of project..............manager following
A project manager should consider the impact of project decisions on supporting and maintaining the product along with project results Which process is the project manager following?
The project manager is new to the company in order to effectively manage the project, which components of the organizational governance framework does the project manager need to take into account?
At what stages of project should the identify Stakeholder process be performed?
A project manager is working in an environment where requirements are not very clear and may change during the project. In addition, the project has several stakeholders and is technically complex.
Which strategies should the project manager take to account for risk management n this environment’
A project was sent for early customer testing and the customer reported that some of the features do not features do not meet the requirements. What should the project manager have done to avoid this scenario?
A product owner reviews the list of stakeholders to confirm their continued involvement with the product team. A new stakeholder is identified as actively involved in the next product release.
What should the project manager do next to engage the new stakeholder?
When planning communications management what input identifies key stakeholders?
A project manager is performing a specific process and has..........is being referred to?
A project manager is performing a specific process and has a list of accepted deliverables One of the stakeholders points out that they have just reviewed the verified deliverables, and come up with the list of accepted deliverables Which process is being referred to?
In which of the risk management processes is the processes is the project charter used as an input?
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?
Which project management process is used by the project manager to ensure that stakeholders receive timely and relevant information?
A project team is closing out a phase and updating the organizational knowledge base What organizational process asset (OPA) will the team update?
For what project management process is work performance information an output?
A project manager was assigned to a project with high uncertainty. What is the recommended method to calculate the project budget?
What is a characteristic of the relationship among projects, programs, and portfolios?
What kind of skills should a project manager use when attempting to achieve consensus by balancing the conflicting and competing goals of project stakeholders?
What characteristic of servant leadership supports resource management in an agile environment?
During what project management process does the project team begin identifying risks?
Which additional considerations should the project manager make when managing risks in an agile/adaptive project?
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?
Which of the following techniques should a project manager of a large project with virtual teams use to enhance collaboration?
Which procurement management process includes obtaining seller response, seller selection, and contract awarding?
Which process is engaged when a project team member makes a change to project budget with project manager's approval
Match the praxes manager's sphere of influence with the associated primary role:
Which of the following is least influenced by a project manager, according to the project manager's sphere of influence?
Considering a highly dynamic project environment, which approach should the project manager adopt to manage the project team?
A project manager is working on project cost management. The following information is current.
* Planned value = 30
* Actual cost = 35
* Earned value = 28
Considering this data, which project indicator is correct?
On which type of project.... only after the final iteration?
On wtiich type of project lite cycle is ihe deliverable produced trough a series of ileralrons considering thai the deliverable ts completed only after the Imal iteration?
What document gathers all of the lessons learned at the end of a phase or project
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.
Which of the following set of items belongs to the communications management plan?
Match each tool or technique with its corresponding Project Cost Management process.
Project reporting is a tool that is most closely associated with which process?
Which two processes should be used to influence costs in the early stages of a project?
A project manager is preparing to meet with three crucial project stakeholders on a new project Which tools and techniques can the project manager use to capture stakeholder interest?
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?
During which process of Project Cost Management does a project manager produce the cost baseline?
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?
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?
When developing the project schedule, a project manager uses decomposition and rolling wave planning techniques in this process.
A project manager is searching for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily resolve a conflict. What conflict management technique is described in this situation?
The project manager is creating the communications management plan Which group of inputs Is required to begin?
The project manager is working in an agile/adaptive environment. The project manager is considering different approaches for applying Project Integration Management in this environment. How can the project manager ensure that this will work for the project?
Which is the tool or technique that is used to obtain the list of activities from the work packages?
Which is a list of organizational systems that may have an impact on a project?
Which process is engaged when a proiect learn inember makes a change to project budget with the project manager's approval?
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?
Which input may influence quality assurance work and should be monitored within the context of a system for configuration management?
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:
Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?
During which process does a project manager review all prior information to ensure that all project work is completed and that the project has met its objectives?
Which Process Group and Knowledge Area include the Sequence Activities process?
The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is known as:
Which tool or technique is used to manage change requests and the resulting decisions?
Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?
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 alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
What is the estimate at completion (EAC) if the budget at completion (BAC) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $50, and the earned value (EV) is $25?
Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
Which input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?
Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?
Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Which document defines how a project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?
The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information become available is known as:
Which process involves defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive 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?
A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis is a tool or technique used in which process?
Which process develops options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives?
Which process identifies whether the needs of a project can best be met by acquiring products, services, or results outside of the organization?
Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?
Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?