Which of the following is a tool and technique for activity duration estimating?
What is a tool to improve team performance?
Collect Requirements is:
Management reserves are normally defined as a % of the total budget. As a project progresses, the project manager wants the $ value of management reserve to _____, whereas the customer wants the management reserve to _____.
Which quality assurance tool and technique confirms the implementation of approved change requests, corrective actions, defect repairs, and preventive actions?
Instead of celebrating the end of the project, the stakeholders are breathing a sigh of relief. None of them were confident the project would meet the end date.
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons this project had difficulty?
What component of the project scope definition defines project exclusions?
The decision to approve or reject a particular change request is made in which of the following processes?
A project manager has increased project costs by US $100,000, but completed the project four weeks earlier than planned.
What activity is BEST described here?
Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?
A project manager believes that the best way to manage is to form a good, harmonious working relationship with the team, and high performance will follow. The project manager could be defined as a _____ manager.
Make payment to seller is done in _______.
Formal written communication is mandated for which of the following?
What scope definition technique is used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?
You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your project is to develop a website for the company that allows retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered, packaged, and mailed to the consumer directly from the grower's site. This project involves coordinating the parent company, growers, and distributors. You are preparing a performance review and have the following measurements at hand: PV = 300, AC = 200, and EV = 250.
What is the CPI of this project?
Which document contains initial requirements that satisfy stakeholders' needs and expectations?
Control Charts, Flowcharting, Histograms, Pareto Charts, Scatter Diagrams are tools and techniques of what process?
A team member notifies the project manager that the activities comprising a work package are no longer appropriate.
It would be BEST for the project manager to be in what part of the project management process?
What are the components of the "triple constraint"?
Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?
Which of the following methods is a project selection technique?
Decomposition is a tool and technique used in which of the following?
Which of the following is an input to the Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Which of the following is a technique for resolving conflict?
Another name for an Ishikawa diagram is:
How many knowledge areas are there according to PMBOK Guide?
Risk event probability is defined as:
There are seven members on the project team not counting the project manager and the sponsor. How many communication channels are there?
Which is not one of the triple constraint of a project?
Linear programming is an example of what type of project selection criteria?
In which of the following is the cost of risk hidden by the contractor?
A contract management plan is a subsidiary of what other type of plan?
The methods and techniques for determining the economic costs, the environmental impact, the economic returns, and the probability for success are called:
Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data?
BAC = $100,000
PV = $50,000
AC = $80,000
EV = $40,000
Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
You are a contract project manager working with the State of Bliss. Your latest project involves rewriting the Department of Revenue's income tax system. As project manager, you have taken all the appropriate actions regarding confidentiality of data. One of the key stakeholders is a huge movie buff, and she has the power to promote you into a better position at the conclusion of this project. She's reviewing some report data that just happens to include confidential information regarding one of her favorite movie superstars.
What is the most appropriate response?
Advantages of the functional (hierarchical) form of organization include _____ and creation of technical competence.
Which of the following is a technique for Identify Risks?
Which of the following provides a comprehensive and consistent method of controlling the project and ensuring its success?
Parametric estimates are based on variables such as:
Which of the following is an example of a group creativity technique?
What tool and technique includes all costs incurred over the life of a product by investment in preventing nonconformance to requirements?
The product scope description is used to:
What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?
What is an output of Control Scope?
ABC project is at risk for failing to achieve a major project objective due to unresolved stakeholder issues. Team member morale is low.
Who is primarily responsible for the project being at risk?
Communication plays a major role in:
Total funding requirements and periodic funding requirements are derived from:
A Project with a total funding of $70,000 finished with a BAC value of $60,000.
What term can best describe the difference of $10,000?
Which of the following is an output of Define Scope?
What are assigned risk ratings based upon?
If a project manager is using observation and conversation to help control the project, she must be involved in which process?
Which tools or techniques will the project manager use for developing the project team?
Which technique is utilized in the Schedule Control process?
Which of the following is CORRECT about quality improvements?
Which process group defines the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve?
A project may be defined as ________.
Which tool or technique uses the 80/20 principle?
Rolling wave planning is used as a tool and a technique in which of the following processes?
What information does the stakeholder register contain?
Co-location can help with:
Which of the following is a Process Group?
What does a CPI value greater than 1.0 indicate?
Which of the following is NOT a reason to measure variances from the baseline?
Which is the duration of the project?
Which of the following is a conflict resolving technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
Which of the following describes the purpose of the quality control process?
What is the expected activity cost for a project having a most likely cost of $140, a best case scenario of $115, and a worst case scenario of $165?
Earned value measurement is an example of:
A project manager you are mentoring comes to you for help because he is about to face his first procurement audit. You might explain that he should NOT worry about such an audit because it:
What does a SPI value greater than 1.0 indicate?
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
A project has experienced significant delays due to equipment problems, staff attrition, and slow client reviews. The project is 40 percent complete and has used 60 percent of the available calendar time.
What is the FIRST thing you should do?
A weighting system is a tool for which area of procurement?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Which of the following is one of the key components of the basic communications model?
What are the Scope Definition process tools and techniques?
How is scheduled variance calculated using the earned value technique?
Which is a true statement regarding project governance?
Which Activity Duration Estimating technique incorporates additional timing for contingency purposes?
Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
During project executing, a project team member informs the project manager that a work package has not met the quality metric, and that she believes it is not possible to meet it. The project manager meets with all parties concerned to analyze the situation.
Which part of the quality management process is the project manager involved in?
To complete performance index (TCPI) is represented by which of the following?
A project manager has finished the project. He knows that the project scope has been completed and is within cost and time objectives set by management. Management, however, says that the project is a failure, because the original schedule was for 27 weeks and the project was completed in 33 weeks. If the project baseline was 33 weeks, the project is a success because:
What is the status of the project whose data is shown in the following S-curve?
Which of the following will be required to perform simu-lation for schedule risk analysis?
Lessons learned are most often based upon project historical records. Lessons learned can be used to:
The decomposition technique is used to do which of the following?
Which of the following inputs is required for the WBS creation?
When managing a project team, what helps to reduce the amount of conflict?
An activity-on-node (AON) network diagram shows the following activities on two critical paths; Start, D, E, J, L, End and Start, D, E, G, I, L, End. Each activity is at least three days in duration, except for activity L, which is one day in duration.
If you are directed to reduce the project by one day, which activities are MOST likely to change?
You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards.
What should you do in this situation?