In the Plan Procurement Management process, which source selection criteria analyzes if the seller's proposed technical methodologies, techniques, solutions, and services meet the procurement documents requirements?
Which basic quality tool explains a change in the dependent variable in relationship to a change observed in the corresponding independent variable?
Power, urgency, and legitimacy are attributes of which stakeholder classification model?
A complete set of concepts, terms, and activities that make up an area of specialization is known as:
Which project document is updated in the Control Stakeholder Engagement process?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
Which process is usually a rapid and cost-effective means of establishing priorities for Plan Risk Responses?
When a project is undertaken to reduce defects in a product or service, the objective of the project is to create a/an:
Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?
The process of defining how the project scope will be validated and controlled is known as:
The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?
Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
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:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
A project manager requesting industry groups and consultants to recommend project intervention is relying on:
The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
A graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships is known as a:
Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding project outcomes describes which classification model for stakeholder analysis?
Which process is included in the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
Which of the following consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associatedWBSand WBS dictionary?
Which tool or technique of Plan Quality involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
Which Process Group's purpose is to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes?
Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
Which of the seven basic quality tools is especially useful for gathering attributes data while performing inspections to identify defects?
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 group creativity technique asks a selected group of experts to answer questionnaires and provide feedback regarding the responses from each round of requirements gathering?
Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Which of the following is a tool and technique for Estimate Activity Durations?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
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 of the following is an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Develop Project Charter process?
Sharing good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the organization and/or industry is an example of:
Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?
Which technique should a project manager use in a situation in which a collaborative approach to conflict management is not possible?
Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
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)?
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?
Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?
Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
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 of the following statements correctly characterizes pull communication?
The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
Which of the following processes are part of the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail using which type of estimating?
Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
The process of identifying the stakeholders' information needs is completed during:
Managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance are part of which process?
A project has an EV of 100 workdays, an AC of 120 workdays, and a PV of 80 workdays. What should be the concern?
Which of the following is developed from the project scope baseline and defines only that portion of the project scope that is to be included within a related contract?
Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Define Activities process?
Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
Which of the following strategic considerations often results in project authorization?
Which type of risk diagram is useful for showing time ordering of events?
Which can be used to determine whether a process is stable or has predictable performance?
Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?
Which type of elaboration allows a project management team to manage at a greater level of detail as the project evolves?
Which written document helps monitor who is responsible for resolving specific problems and concerns by a target date?
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?
In which Project Management Process Group is the project charter developed?
Define Activities and Estimate Activity Resources are processes in which project management Knowledge Area?
Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
Which of the following is an output of the Distribute Information process?
When large or complex projects are separated into distinct phases or subprojects, all of the Process Groups would normally be:
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 outputs from the Control Schedule process aids in the communication of schedule variance (SV), schedule performance index (SPI), or any performance status to stakeholders?
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
In which process might a project manager use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
When addressing roles and responsibilities,which item ensures that the staff has the skills required to complete project activities?
The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:
Using parametric estimating, if an assigned resource is capable of producing 120 units per hour, how many hours are required to produce 12,000 units?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The free float for Activity E is how many days?
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?
What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?
The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope as well as managing the changes to the scope baseline is known as:
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?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The shortest non-critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
For a stakeholder with low interest and high power, the project manager should:
The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
Which enterprise environmental factors may influence Plan Schedule Management?
Which kind of communication should the project manager use when creating reports for government bodies?
In the Control Quality process, which tools and techniques techniques can be applied to verify deliverable?
After an internal deliverable review session with the team, the project manager indicates some issues that need to be fixed before submitting the deliverable for formal approval. The project manager will need to manage the additional costs and the required network. How would the project manager define extra costs?
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?
In what type of organizational structure does a project manager develop their role and work with a team assigned by job function?
What kind of skills should a project manager use when attempting to achieve consensus by balancing the conflicting and competing goals of project stakeholders?
To ensure stakeholder satisfaction; identified stakeholder needs should all be
What important qualities should project managers possess for strategic and business management?
Which additional considerations should the project manager make when managing risks in an agile/adaptive project?
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?
Company A’s accountant sends notification about a change in the company’s tax classification.
What would a project have to be initiated?
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?
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?
What process group establishes project scope: refines objectives, and defines the actions necessary to attain project objectives'?
For which kind of quantitative risk analysis chart can a tornado diagram represent values?
Which document can help a project manager to leverage historical project information?
What tools or techniques are necessary to create the project management plan?
A software development team is pulling work from its backlog to be performed immediately as they become available. What emerging practice for project scheduling is the team using?
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?
A stakeholder is reading project documents given by the project manager. The stakeholder is
curious about the difference between a verified deliverable and an accepted deliverable.
Which of the following definitions can the project manager use to explain the difference?
Which is the appropriate tool to identify the possible correlation two elements in aprocess?
What do top project managers do to maximize their sphere of influence within a project team?
A project manager is working on the communications management plan. Which of these documents are inputs to consider?
Which enterprise environmental factors should be considered when creating a new procurement contract?
One of the outputs of the project schedule is a detailed plan. What is the main purpose of that detailed plan?
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.
What is purpose of using the building information model (BIM) in software tools in the construction field?
What is the process of ensuring that project resources are assigned and available?
Which can be used to convert a verified deliverable to an accepted deliverable?
Which of the following conditions should the project manager consider when working on the scheduling for an adaptive environment?
Which tools and techniques should a project manager use when estimating costs?
A project manager can choose from several techniques to resolve conflicts between team members. Which technique can result in a win-win solution?
Which of the following set of items belongs to the communications management plan?
A project manager was assigned to a project with high uncertainty. What is the recommended method to calculate the project budget?
In which project risk management process is the data analysis technique not used?
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?
What purpose does the hierarchical focus of stakeholder communications serve?
What is the most important skill that project managers should possess to lead stakeholders throughout a project?
A project team is closing out a phase and updating the organizational knowledge base What organizational process asset (OPA) will the team update?
A project manager managing a cross-cultural virtual project team across several time zones should be concerned about the impacts of which communication technology factor?
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?
The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:
Which stakeholder classification model groups stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project?
Which process determines the risks that may affect the project and documents their characteristics?
The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is known as:
Regression analysis, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), and trend analysis are examples of which tool or technique?
A temporary endeavor that creates a unique product or service is called a:
Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?
Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?
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 Process Group and Knowledge Area include the Sequence Activities process?
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?
External organizations that have a special relationship with the enterprise and provide specialized expertise are called:
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?
Status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete are examples of:
Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?
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:
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
The number of potential communication channels for a project with 5 stakeholders is:
Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?
An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?
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?
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
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 used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Which process identifies whether the needs of a project can best be met by acquiring products, services, or results outside of the organization?
Which basic quality tool is most useful when gathering attributes data in an inspection to identify defects?
Which Knowledge Area involves identifying the people, groups, or organizations that may be impacted by or impact a project?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) if the planned value (PV) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $150, and the earned value (EV) is $50?
What purpose does the hierarchical locus of stakeholder communications serve?
How can a project manager maintain the engagement of stakeholders in a project with a high degree of change?
It you established a contingency reserve including time, money, and resources, how are you handling risk?
Which of the following can a project manager use to represent dellned team member roles in a group of tasks?
What is the discipline that focuses on the interdependences between projects to determine the optimal approach for managing them?
The Agile principle "welcome changing requirement, even late in development" relates to which agile manifesto?
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?
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 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?
The features and functions that characterize a result, product, or service can refer to:
Which is the correct hierarchy in a project environment, from most to least Inclusive?
When managing costs in an agile environment, what should a project manager consider?
A project manager is identifying the risks of a project. Which technique should the project manager use?
What is a tailoring consideration for the application of Project Risk Management processes?
A project manager is formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables. What is an input to this 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?
When developing the project schedule, a project manager uses decomposition and rolling wave planning techniques in this process.
The project manager is working in the processes of Project Resource Management. Which process is the project manager developing if they are using parametric estimation?
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 organizational asset can influence the Plan Risk Management process?
A project manager uses their networking skills to build agreement with a difficult stakeholder. What level of influence did the project manager apply?
Which is the best way for a project manager to ensure efficient and frequent communication with management and stakeholders in an agile/adaptive environment?
When project requirements are documented in user stones then prioritized and refined just prior to construction, which approach is being used for scheduling?
What scenario describes when a project must be created due to market demand?
The project manager is dividing the project scope into smaller pieces, and repeating this process until no more subdivisions are required. At this point the project manager is able to estimate costs and activities for each element.
What are these elements called?
In which Project Cost Management process is work performance data included?
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 is an example of an organizational system that is arranged based on the job being performed?
Which of the following are processes associated with Project Cost Management?
In a large organization, with projects of different types and sizes, what kind of approach or method would be best to use?
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 is working on an estimate. The project team is estimating each work package and then finding the total of all the work packages.
Which technique is the project manager using?
What can increase the complexity of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
Which are examples of processes that may be used once or at predefined points in the project life cycle?
At the beginning of an iteration, the team will work to determine how many of the highest-priority items on the backlog list can be delivered within the next iteration. Which of the following activities is done first?
A project manager Is in the process of working with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations, and identifying and fostering communication and involvement. Which process does this typically represent?
The procurement requirements for a project include working with several vendors. What should the project manager take into consideration during the Project Procurement Management processes?
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?
Which risk response strategy is common for both positive and negative risks?
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?
Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique used in which process?
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Which of the following is an input to the Develop Project Charter process?
The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
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 type of contract is a hybrid of both a cost-reimbursable and a fixed-price contract?
The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
At which stage of team development do members begin to work together, adjust work habits, and trust each other?
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
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 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 group technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for prioritization is called the:
The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
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:
When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:
Prototype development may be used as a tool for which of the following risk response strategies?
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?