In project management, a temporary project can be:
Specification of both the deliverables and the processes is the focus of:
Which items are components of a project management plan?
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
An output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:
Power, urgency, and legitimacy are attributes of which stakeholder classification model?
Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
The scope management plan and scope baseline are contained in:
Projects that share common outcomes, collective capability, knowledge, or skills are often grouped into a:
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?
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
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:
Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
Which quality tool incorporates the upper and lower specification limits allowed within an agreement?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The free float for Activity E is how many days?
Progressively elaborating high-level information into detailed plans is performed by the:
Which project risk listed in the table below is most likely to occur?
Plan Communications Management develops an approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholders' needs and requirements and:
Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Those who enter into a contractual agreement to provide services necessary for a project are:
The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (VVBS) is called a/an:
The risk response strategy in which the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk is known as:
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward 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?
Which stakeholder approves a project's result?
In complex projects/ initiating processes should be completed:
A complete set of concepts, terms, and activities that make up an area of specialization is 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?
Which schedule method allows the project team to place buffers on the project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties?
Which enterprise environmental factors may influence Plan Schedule Management?
Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
Tools and techniques used in Direct and Manage Project Work include:
The process of defining how the project scope will be validated and controlled is known as:
The methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress is known as:
Which item is a cost of conformance?
High-level project risks are included in which document?
Which Process Group includes the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
The zero duration of milestones in project planning occurs because milestones:
Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?
Stakeholders can be identified in later stages of the project because the Identify Stakeholders process should be:
What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?
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:
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
Project deliverables that have been completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process are known as:
Through whom do project managers accomplish work?
The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?
Which type of graphic is displayed below?
An example of a group decision-making technique is:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
Which conflict resolution technique produces the most lasting results?
Which of the following are processes associated with Project Cost Management?
What organizational asset can influence the Plan Risk Management process?
What does an S-curve from a Monte Carlo analysis show?
In which sphere of influence is the project manager demonstrating the value of project management and advancing the efficacy of the project management office (PMO)?
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?
In which Project Cost Management process is work performance data included?
Under which circumstances should multiple projects be grouped in a program?
Which of the following are outputs from the process of creating a work breakdown structure (WBS)?
A project team submits a weekly progress report to the project manager. The project manager consolidates the same report and sends a complete progress report to the stakeholders. What is this an example of?
Make-or-buy analysis is a tool and technique of which process?
During the execution phase of a project a detect is found. The project manager takes responsibility and with the correct documentation, begins the task necessary to repair the defect. What process was applied?
Which of the following describes the similarities of the process groups and project life cycle?
Why is tailoring in a project necessary?
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?
What are the key tools for managing project knowledge?
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?
Once the make-or-buy analysis is completed, which document defines the project delivery method?
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)?
The project manager is distributing project communications, collecting and storing project information, and retrieving documents when required. In which process is the project manager involved?
Which group of inputs will a project manager use during the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?
What communication methods would a project manager use for overall effective project communication?
In a project using agile methodology, who may perform the quality control activities?
Which is the tool or technique that is used to obtain the list of activities from the work packages?
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?
Which tool should a project manager consider to deal with multiple sources of risk?
Which term refers to the work performed to deliver results with specified features and functions?
A project is just beginning, and management creates a long list of potential stakeholders. Which statement about identifying and engaging stakeholders is correct?
According to the PMI Talent Triangle. leadership skills relate to the ability to:
The features and functions that characterize a result, product, or service can refer to:
Due to today's competitive global market, organizations require more than technical project management skills. Which of the following skills can support long-range strategic objectives that contribute to the bottom line?
What does expert judgment provide as an input to the resource management plan?
Which of the following sets are inputs to the Collect Requirements process?
A project team conducts regular standup meetings to keep everyone updated on what each one of them is working on. What type of communication is this?
A project manager 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?
Given the following information.
Activity A takes one week.
Activity B takes three weeks.
Activity C takes two weeks.
Activity D takes five weeks.
Activity A starts at the same time as Activity B.
Activity C follows Activity B and Activity A.
Activity D follows Activity C.
How long will it take to complete the project?
A project manager is determining the amount of contingency needed for a project. Which analysis is the project manager using?
Which statement is related to the project manager's sphere of influence at the organizational level?
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?
What is a tailoring consideration in Project Integration Management?
The project manager is explaining to others the essential business aspects of the project. To which skill category does this ability belong?
Which project manager competency is displayed through the knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to specific domains of project, program, and portfolio management?
Which of the following best correspond to the organizational process assets (OPAs) that affect the project?
What conflict resolution technique involves delaying the issue or letting others resolve it?
What is the purpose of the project schedule management.
In which of the Risk Management processes is the project charter used as an input?
The project manager and the project team are having a meeting with the purpose of identifying risks. Which tools and techniques might help in this process?
Which set of activities should a project manager use as part of the Develop Team process?
Which of these is true of project integration management?
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 is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?
Which type of dependency is contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work?
Which of the following is a project constraint?
Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Which quality control technique illustrates the 80/20 principle?
Which of the following is an output of the Conduct Procurements process?
The total of the planned value (PV) is also known as:
One of the objectives of a quality audit is to:
The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:
In the basic communication model, which term refers to the method that is used to convey the message?
What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
Under which type of contract does the seller receive reimbursement for all allowable costs for performing contract work, as well as a fixed-fee payment calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs?
At which stage of team development do members begin to work together, adjust work habits, and trust each other?
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?
Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
Expected monetary value (EMV) is computed by which equation?
During project selection, which factor is most important?
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:
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
Projects are separated into phases or subprojects; these phases include:
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
A tool and technique used during the Collect Requirements process is:
Who is responsible for initiating a project?
The diagram below is an example of a:
An input to the Collect Requirements process is the:
Which tool or technique can a project manager use to select in advance a team member who will be crucial to the task?
Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?
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?
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:
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:
Inputs to the Plan Risk Management process include the:
Risk responses reflect an organization's perceived balance between:
A tool and technique used during the Define Scope process is:
Risk exists the moment that a project is:
When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:
Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?
Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
Which statement is true about the project management body of knowledge?
Which Control Scope input is compared to actual results to determine if corrective action is required for the project?
What is project management?
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?
The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?
Which of the following is an output of Define Scope?
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?
Which of the following Process Groups covers all nine Project Management Knowledge Areas?
Which is used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers?
The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?
In which process is a project manager identified and given the authority to apply resources to project activities?
Which of the following is an input to Control Scope?
Testing falls into which of the following categories of cost of quality?
Which of the following is an example of schedule compression?
Monte Carlo is which type of risk analysis technique?
The milestone list is an input to which process from the Planning Process Group?
In a weak matrix, the project managers role is:
What causes replanning of the project scope?
Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:
In which Project Management Process Group is the project charter developed?
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
Which piece of information is part of the WBS Dictionary?
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
A tool or technique in Perform Quality Control that a project manager would use is:
Which of the following processes audits the quality requirements and the results from quality control measures to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used?
Co-location is a tool and technique of:
In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
Which of the following is an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Which type of management focuses on ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation?
Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?
Which characteristic do projects and operational work share in common?
Which tool or technique is used in Manage Stakeholder Expectations?
Which of the following is an input to Develop Human Resource Plan?
What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?
Which of the following is the primary output of the Identify Risks process?
Which of the following is an input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Types of internal failure costs include:
During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
A purchase order for a specified item to be delivered by a specified date for a specified price is the simplest form of what type of contract?
The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the:
Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
A required input for Create WBS is a project:
Which tool within the Perform Quality Control process identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
The output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to:
Which of the following strategic considerations often results in project authorization?
Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
An input to the Plan Cost Management process is:
Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?
The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:
Which tool or technique is used in validating the scope of a project?
The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group includes processes that:
The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
An input to Close Project or Phase is:
Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
An input used in developing the communications management plan is:
Which tool or technique is effective in a project in which the deliverable is not a service or result?
Which Knowledge Area involves identifying the people, groups, or organizations that may be impacted by or impact a project?
Enterprise environmental factors are an input to which process?
Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?
Plan Schedule Management is a process in which Knowledge Area?
Which tools or techniques are used in the Plan Schedule Management process?
Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
An element of the project scope statement is:
Which tool or technique is used in the Estimate Costs process?
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
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 conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?
The business needs, assumptions, and constraints and the understanding of the customers needs and high-level requirements are documented in the:
Processes in the Planning Process Group are typically carried out during which part of the project life cycle?
The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is known as:
Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Organizational theory is a tool used in which Project Human Resource Management process?
A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?
Which item is an example of personnel assessment?
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 quality management and control tool is useful in visualizing parent-to-child relationships in any decomposition hierarchy that uses a systematic set of rules that define a nesting relationship?
Which tool or technique of the Define Activities process allows for work to exist at various levels of detail depending on where it is in the project life cycle?
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 item is an input to the Define Activities process?
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
A large portion of a projects budget is typically expended on the processes in which Process Group?
A project charter is an output of which Process Group?
Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
Sensitivity analysis is typically displayed as a/an:
Which process involves subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable portions?
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:
A reward can only be effective if it is:
Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?
Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?
Which type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?
The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:
The ability to influence cost is greatest during which stages of the project?
A tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process is:
Which Plan Schedule Management tool or technique may involve choosing strategic options to estimate and schedule the project?
What key component of the project charter defines the conditions for dosing a project phase?
The project manager is working in the Resource Management process. Which items may the project manager need to include in the team charter?
What behavior refers to leadership style?
Which tools and techniques should a project manager use to monitor risks?
A recently hired project manager is looking for templates to use for projects on which they will work. To what category of enterprise environmental factors should the project manager refer?
During what project management process does the project team begin identifying risks?
How should the project manager obtain the maximum engagement from stakeholders that have recently changed to become more connected to social media?
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?
For a 10-day project, activity B ' s duration is three days, and activity Cās duration is two days What is the duration of activity A if activities B and C are performed in parallel?
Which of the following tasks is related to the perform qualitative risk analysis process?
What is the primary benefit of the Manage Quality process?
What is the most important skill that project managers should possess to lead stakeholders throughout a project?
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 of the following set of items belongs to the communications management plan?
Match the life cycle type to when its requirements are defined.
Select three elements that apply to agile/ adaptive environments
Project governance refers to framework.......which of the following is a portfolio?
Pioject governance refers lo framework, functions, and processes that guide project management activates with a defined hierarchy between projects, programs and poctfotos. According to this hierarchy, which ot Die following is a portfolio?
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.
A project team of telecommuters located in three different time zones regularly misses project deadlines Daily meetings often start and end with the same person talking and the rest of the team listening The project manager determines that communication among team members must be addressed.
What communication step is missing from the daily meetings?
A project team is closing out a phase and updating the organizational knowledge base What organizational process asset (OPA) will the team update?
How can a project manager ensure effective project stakeholder engagement?
Which procurement management process includes obtaining seller response, seller selection, and contract awarding?
Match each tool or technique with its corresponding Project Cost Management process.
Which is the appropriate tool to identify the possible correlation two elements in aprocess?
At what stages of project should the identify Stakeholder process be performed?
A Project manager is using agile in a project. As development life cycle is adaptive, how does the project manager handle key stakeholder involvement?
What does earned value (EV) measure?
The table represents the possible durations of a specific project task.
Using the three-point estimating technique what is the expected number of days it should take to complete the task?
What process in Project Risk Management prioritizes project risks?
What does āverifiedā in verified deliverable represent?
Company Aās accountant sends notification about a change in the companyās tax classification.
What would a project have to be initiated?
How can a project manager represent a contingency reserve in the schedule?
What risk response strategy involves removing high- risk scope elements from a project?
What characteristic of servant leadership supports resource management in an agile environment?
Which kind of communication should the project manager use when creating reports for government bodies?
Which of the following is used as input to prepare a cost management plan?
Which additional considerations should the project manager make when managing risks in an agile/adaptive project?
Projects programs subsidiary portfolios.... objectives refer to?
Projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives refers to?
Match the process with its corresponding process group.
What tool or technique will establish expected behaviors for project team members?
How is program success measured?
Product requirements specify a functionality that depends upon expertise that is unavailable internally. What process should be implemented to generate a make-or-buy decision?
Which tools and techniques should a project manager use when estimating costs?
What tool or technique is primarily used to plan risk responses'?
What is a tailoring consideration for Project Scope Management'?
In agile projects while performing scope management. What is the definition of requirements
A project manager proactively meets with other project managers who manage other projects in the same program. To minimize the impact that other projects within the program may have on their project of what should the project manager be aware?
One of the outputs of the project schedule is a detailed plan. What is the main purpose of that detailed plan?
Which of the following conditions should the project manager consider when working on the scheduling for an adaptive environment?
A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?
Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
What is the function of a Project Management Office (PMO)?
Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
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?
Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes, and procedures?
In an organization with a projectized organizational structure, who controls the project budget?
Definitions of probability and impact, revised stakeholder tolerances, and tracking are components of which subsidiary plan?
Projects can be divided into phases to provide better management control. Collectively, what are these phases known as?
Assigned risk ratings are based upon:
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
When can pre-assignment of project team members occur?
Which of the following is an output of the Define Activities process?
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?
Who selects the appropriate processes for a project?
A project management office manages a number of aspects including the:
Most experienced project managers know that:
Organizations perceive risks as:
Which of the following consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associatedWBSand WBS dictionary?
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
The Define Scope process is in which of the following Process Groups?
Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?
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 activity is an input to the Conduct Procurements process?
Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
What is the probability of occurrence if the risk rating is 0.56 and the impact if the risk does occur is very high (0.80)?
Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Develop Project Charter process?
Which schedule network analysis technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Which type of managers do composite organizations involve?
Which Process Group typically consumes the bulk of a project's budget?
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
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:
What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
Which technique is used in Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Which type of manager is assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives?
An input of the Control Schedule process is the:
Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?
What is an objective of the Develop Project Team process?