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1. Conflict should be best addressed in which manner?

Early, in private, using a direct, collaborative approach

Early, in public, using an indirect, collaborative approach

Early, in private, using an indirect, cooperative approach

As late as possible, in public, using a direct, confrontational approach

2. Which of the following sets are inputs to the Collect Requirements process?

Project charter and requirements documentation

Project charter and business documents

Project charter and stakeholder requirements

Business documents and requirements traceability matrix

3. Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?

Approved change requests

Approved contract documentation

Work performance information

Rejected change requests

4. Which of the following technology platforms is most effective for sharing information when managing virtual project teams?

Video conferencing

Audio conferencing

Shared portal

Email/chat

5. The diagram below is an example of a:

Risk breakdown structure (RBS).

Project team.

SWOT Analysis.

Work breakdown structure (WBS).

6. What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?

Insufficient project funding and disqualification of sellers

Insufficient project funding and ineffective use of resources

Disqualification of sellers and non-productive management efforts

Non-productive management effort and inefficient use of resources

7. A firm contracted an event management company to conduct the annual sales day event. The agreement states that the event management company will charge the firm for the actuals and receive 8% of the total cost.

What type of contract Is this?

Time and material (T8M)

Fixed price incentive fee (FPIF)

Cost plus fixed fee (CPFF)

Cost plus award fee (CPAF)

8. What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?

Role dependencies chart

Reporting flow diagram

Project organization chart

Project team structure diagram

9. The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:

Develop Project Team.

Manage Project Team.

Acquire Project Team.

Plan Human Resource Management.

10. 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?

BAC

EAC

ETC

WBS

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11. Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?

Communication methods

Information technology

Communication models

Information management systems

12. An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:

smooth/accommodate.

force/direct,

collaborate/problem solve,

compromise/reconcile.

13. 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:

a control chart.

baseline.

Create WB

decomposition.

14. In a large organization, with projects of different types and sizes, what kind of approach or method would be best to use?

Predictive

Adaptive

A mix

Agile

15. The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500.

What is the actual cost of the project?

US$158,700

US$172,500

US$187,500

US$245,600

16. 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 risk of achieving the shortened project time is increased.

The critical path will have positive total float.

Contingency reserves are released for redeployment by the project manager.

Duration buffers are added to maintain a focus on planned activity durations.

17. Which of the following is a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a prespecified product, result, or service?

Portfolio

Process

Project

Program

18. Which action is included in the Control Costs process?

Identify how the project costs will be planned, structured, and controlled

Determine policies, objectives, and responsibilities to satisfy stakeholder needs

Develop an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities

Monitor cost performance to isolate and understand variances from the approved cost baseline

19. Which of the following project documents is an input to the Control Scope process?

Vendor risk assessment diagram

Risk register

Requirements traceability matrix

Area of responsibility summary

20. A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:

Change control plan

Stakeholder register

Risk log

Communications management plan

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21. Which of the following is an output from Control Scope?

Change requests

Variance analysis

Accepted deliverables

Requirements documentation

22. In an agile and adaptive project, which scope management entity invokes stakeholder engagement?

Collect Requirements

Create work breakdown structure (WBS)

Plan Scope Management

Scope Baseline

23. Which tool or technique is used in the Plan Scope Management process?

Document analysis

Observations

Product analysis

Expert judgment

24. What is one of the main purposes of the project chatter?

Formal authorization of the existence of the project

Formal acceptance of the project management plan

Formal approval of the detailed project budget

Formal definition of stakeholder roles and responsibilities

25. How can a project manager determine if the project activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and procedures?

Look at the quality metrics.

Validate the scope.

Review the quality checklist.

Conduct a quality audit.

26. Which Define Activities tool or technique is used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts?

Decomposition

Inspection

Project analysis

Document analysis

27. Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?

Requirements documentation

Requirements traceability matrix

Project management plan updates

Project documents updates

28. Which Knowledge Areas include processes from the Closing Process Group?

Project Quality Management and Project Time Management

Project Scope Management and Project Risk Management

Project Stakeholder Management and Project Cost Management

Project Integration Management and Project Procurement Management

29. The chart below is an example of a:

Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

RACI chart

Requirements traceability matrix

30. Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?

Analogous

Parametric

Three-point

What-if scenario analysis

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31. The following is a network diagram for a project.

What is the critical path for the project?

A-B-C-F-G-I

A-B-C-F-H-I

A-D-E-F-G-I

A-D-E-F-H-I

32. Which of the following is an example of an organizational system that is arranged based on the job being performed?

Simple

Multi-divisional

Functional

Project-oriented

33. The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to:

establish and manage project communication channels, both external and internal to the project team.

influence the stakeholders that want to circumvent integrated change control so that their changes are implemented.

monitor the ongoing project team against the team performance assessments and the project performance baseline.

observe and measure project performance regularly and consistently to identify variances from the project management plan.

34. Which is one of the major outputs of Sequence Activities?

Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

Work breakdown structure (WBS) update

Project schedule network diagram

Mandatory dependencies list

35. The precedence diagramming method (PDM) is also known as:

Arrow Diagram.

Critical Path Methodology (CPM).

Activity-On-Node (AON).

schedule network diagram.

36. The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:

Planning.

Executing,

Monitoring and Controlling.

Closing.

37. The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:

A risk urgency assessment.

The scope baseline.

Work performance information.

Procurement audits.

38. Which item is an example of personnel assessment?

Resource calendar

Tight matrix

Team-building activity

Focus group

39. If you are using an Ishikawa diagram to determine the root cause of problems, which process are you engaged in?

Plan Quality Management

Control Quality

Risk Management

Plan Scope Management

40. What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?

Decomposition

Benchmarking

Inspection

Checklist analysis

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41. The probability and impact matrix is primarily used to:

Quantify risk issues for trends during a quality audit.

Develop a risk register for risk planning.

Evaluate each risk’s importance and priority during Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis.

Define risk and compare impacts during Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis.

42. 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?

Performance organizations

Schedule baselines

Work performance measurements

Change requests

43. Which of the following is an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

Project document updates

Organizational process assets updates

Change requests

Deliverables

44. What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?

Quality metrics

Less rework

Quality control measurements

Benchmarking

45. What is a deliverable-oriented, hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?

Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)

Work performance information

Work package

Work breakdown structure (WBS)

46. One of the objectives of a quality audit is to:

highlight the need for root cause analysis.

share the process documentation among stakeholders.

offer assistance with non-value-added activities.

identify all of the gaps or shortcomings.

47. Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?

Cost risk simulation analysis

Expected monetary value analysis

Modeling and simulation

Sensitivity analysis

48. Which type of contract gives both the seller and the buyer flexibility to deviate from performance with financial incentives?

Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF)

Fixed Price Incentive Fee (FPIF)

Cost Pius Award Re (CPAF)

Time and Material (T&M)

49. In Plan Risk Management, which of the management plans determines who will be available to share information on various risks and responses at different times and locations?

Schedule

Quality

Communications

Cost

50. "Tailoring" is defined as the:

effort of addressing each process to determine which are appropriate and their appropriate degree of rigor.

act of creating a project team with the specialized skills required to produce a required product or service.

action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications.

adjustment of the respective influences of time, cost, and quality in order to most efficiently achieve scope.

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51. Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?

Portfolio

Project

Program

Operations

52. Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?

Project management plan

Activity resource requirements

Resource calendar

Project staff assignments

53. Which Control Quality tool is also known as an arrow diagram?

Matrix diagram

Affinity diagram

Tree diagram

Activity network diagram

54. Which element does a project charter contain?

Management reserves

Work breakdown structure

Stakeholder list

Stakeholder register

55. Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?

Independent estimates

Market research

Analytical techniques

Bidder conferences

56. Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?

-8000

-2000

2000

8000

57. Which project manager competency is displayed through the knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to specific domains of project, program, and portfolio management?

Leadership management

Technical project management

Strategic management

Business management

58. The Human Resource Management processes are:

Develop Human Resource Plan, Acquire Project Team, Develop Project Team, and Manage Project Team.

Acquire Project Team, Manage Project Team, Manage Stakeholder Expectations, and Develop Project Team.

Acquire Project Team, Develop Human Resource Plan, Conflict Management, and Manage Project Team.

Develop Project Team, Manage Project Team, Estimate Activity Resources, and Acquire Project Team.

59. Which of the following are outputs from the process of creating a work breakdown structure (WBS)?

Project scope statement and accepted deliverables

Scope baseline and project documents update

Accepted deliverables and enterprise environmental factors

Scope baseline and work performance information

60. Which is an enterprise environmental factor?

Marketplace conditions

Policies and procedures

Project files from previous projects

Lessons learned from previous projects

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61. The features and functions that characterize a result, product, or service can refer to:

project scope

product scope

service scope

product breakdown structure

62. Which schedule network analysis technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?

Human resource planning

Fast tracking

Critical chain method

Rolling wave planning

63. Through whom do project managers accomplish work?

Consultants and stakeholders

Stakeholders and functional managers

Project team members and consultants

Project team members and stakeholders

64. Using values such as scope, cost, budget, and duration or measures of scale such as size, weight, and complexity from a previous similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measurement for a current project describes which type of estimating?

Bottom-up

Parametric

Analogous

Three-point

65. 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?

Monitor and Control Project Work

Perform Quality Assurance

Close Project or Phase

Control Scope

66. An example of a group decision-making technique is:

nominal group technique

majority

affinity diagram

multi-criteria decision analysis

67. Which set of competencies should a project manager have?

Leadership, strategic and business management, and technical project management

Expertise in the Industry, leadership and business management, and bilingual skills

Technical project management, expertise in every role, and PMP certification

Expertise in every detail on project activities. PMP certification, and leadership

68. The links between the processes in the Process Groups are often:

Intuitive

Iterative

Measured

Monitored

69. Why is tailoring required in a project?

Because a one-size-fits-all approach avoids complications and saves time.

Because every project is unique and not every tool, technique, input, or output identified in the PMBOK Guide is required.

Because tailoring allows us to identify the techniques, procedures, and system practices used by those in the project.

Project managers should apply every process in the PMBOK Guide to the project, so tailoring is not required.

70. DRAG DROP

Match the project manager's sphere of influence with the associated primary role.

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71. Which technique is utilized in the Control Schedule process?

Performance measure

Baseline schedule

Schedule network analysis

Variance analysis

72. When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?

Interactive communication

Claims administration

Conflict management

Performance reporting

73. An output of Control Schedule is:

A project schedule network diagram

A schedule management plan

Schedule data

Schedule forecasts

74. A project manager who communicates to the project team though email is using which type of communication?

Formal

Informal r

Horizontal

Unofficial

75. 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?

Bottom-up

Parametric

Analogous

Three-point

76. Which item is an output of Plan Quality Management and an input to Perform Quality Assurance?

Organizational process updates

Quality metrics

Change requests

Quality control measurements

77. When is a project finished?

After verbal acceptance of the customer or sponsor

After lessons learned have been documented in contract closure

When the project objectives have been met

After resources have been released

78. Types of internal failure costs include:

inspections.

equipment and training.

lost business.

reworking and scrapping.

79. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:

defect repair

work repair

corrective action

preventive action

80. The Identify Stakeholders process is found in which Process Group?

Initiating

Monitoring and Controlling

Planning

Executing

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81. The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:

objectives

schedule

product

approach

82. When does Monitor and Control Risks occur?

At project initiation

During work performance analysis

Throughout the life of the project

At project milestones

83. Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

Decomposition

Modeling techniques

Resource optimization

Meetings

84. 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:

Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF).

Fixed Price Incentive Fee (FPIF).

Cost Plus Award Fee (CPAF).

Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment (FP-EPA).

85. Which tools or techniques are used during the Close Project or Phase process?

Reserve analysis and expert judgment

Facilitation techniques and meetings

Expert judgment and analytical techniques

Performance reviews and meetings

86. Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?

Develop Schedule

Sequence Activities

Create WBS

Applying leads and lags

87. What type of change requires the submission of a change request?

Changes in assigned resources

Changes in a technical solution

Changes in status reporting

Changes in the project's scope

88. Which activity may occur at project or phase closure?

Acceptance of deliverables

Change requests

Project management plan updates

Benchmarking

89. What is the definition of Direct and Manage Project Execution?

Integrating all planned activities

Performing the activities included in the plan

Developing and maintaining the plan

Execution of deliverables

90. Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Develop Project Charter process?

Organizational standard processes

Marketplace conditions

Historical information

Templates

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91. Which items are an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

Work performance reports

Accepted deliverables

Project management plan updates

Organizational process assets

92. When managing costs in an agile environment, what should a project manager consider?

Lightweight estimation methods can be used as changes arise.

Agile environments make cost aggregation more difficult.

Agile environments make projects more costly and uncertain.

Detailed cost calculations benefit from frequent changes.

93. Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?

Project management information system

Work performance information

Work breakdown structure

Variance analysis

94. Which is an output from Distribute Information?

Earned value analysis

Trend analysis

Project records

Performance reviews

95. An organizational structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques is referred to as:

Project Management Information System

Project Management System

Project Management Office

Project Management Knowledge Area

96. Which characteristic do projects and operational work share in common?

Performed by systems

Constrained by limited resources

Repetitiveness

Uniqueness

97. Which tools and techniques will a project manager use to develop a project charter?

Project manager experience, expert judgment, scope statement, and meetings

Lessons learned database. Interpersonal and team skills, cost baseline, and meetings

Expert judgment, data gathering. scope statement, schedule baseline, and meetings

Expert judgment, data gathering. interpersonal and team skills, and meetings

98. Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?

Activity-on-arrow diagramming

Precedence diagramming

Project schedule network diagramming

Mathematical analysis diagramming

99. The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.

Based on the chart, what is the cost variance (CV) for Task 6?

-2,000

1,000

2,000

100. How should a project manager plan communications for a project which has uncertain requirements?

Include stakeholders in project meetings and reviews, use frequent checkpoints, and co-locate team members only.

Invite customers to sprint planning and retrospective meetings, update the team quickly and on a daily basis, and use official communication channels.

Adopt social networking to engage stakeholders, issue frequent and short messages, and use informal communication channels.

Adopt a strong change control board process, establish focal points for main subjects, and promote formal and transparent communication.

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101. Change requests are an output from which Project Integration Management process?

Direct and Manage Project Execution

Develop Project Management Plan

Close Project

Develop Project Charter

102. Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?

Corrective action

Defect repair

Preventative action

Probable action

103. In project management, a temporary project can be:

Completed without planning

A routine business process

Long in duration

Ongoing to produce goods

104. Which quality control technique illustrates the 80/20 principle?

Ishikawa diagram

Control chart

Run chart

Pareto chart

105. 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:

budget at completion (BAC)

earned value management (EVM)

to-complete performance index

cost performance index

106. Quality metrics are an output of which process?

Plan Quality

Perform Quality Control

Perform Quality Assurance

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

107. An input required in Define Scope is an organizational:

structure.

process asset.

matrix.

breakdown structure.

108. Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?

Collect Requirements

Plan Scope Management

Define Scope

Define Activities

109. The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:

Plan Quality.

Perform Quality Assurance.

Perform Quality Control.

Total Quality Management.

110. When sequencing activities, what does the common acronym FF stand for?

Fixed Fee

Free Float

Fixed Finish

Finish-to-Finish

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111. What is a tailoring consideration for the application of Project Risk Management processes?

Project complexity

Procurement criteria

Communication technology

Knowledge management

112. 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?

Uniform

Continuous

Discrete

Linear

113. An output of the Develop Project Team process is:

change requests

team performance assessments

project staff assignments

project documents updates

114. The ways in which the roles and responsibilities, reporting relationships, and staffing management will be addressed and structured within a project is described in the:

Human resource management plan.

Activity resource requirements.

Personnel assessment tools,

Multi-criteria decision analysis.

115. The completion of the project scope is measured against the:

requirements documentation.

project scope statement.

project management plan.

work performance measurements.

116. Which document defines how a project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?

Strategic plan

Project charter

Project management plan

Service level agreement

117. Which of the following is a category of organizational process assets?

Government standards

Organizational culture

Employee capabilities

Organizational knowledge bases

118. 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?

Projectized

Weak matrix

Functional

Balanced matrix

119. 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:

Cost management plan.

Work performance information.

Quality management plan.

Work breakdown structure.

120. The risk management team of a software project has decided that due to the lack of adequate talent in the company, development of a specific part of the system is under high risk, so the team has decided to outsource it.

This is an example of which risk response?

Transfer

Avoid

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121. How can a project manager maintain the engagement of stakeholders in a project with a high degree of change?

Monitor project stakeholder relationships using engaging strategies and plans

Send all project documents to stakeholders each time they are modified

Schedule monthly meetings with the stakeholders, including team members

Engage only with the project sponsors

122. Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?

Plan Risk Responses

Manage Stakeholder Expectations

Define Scope

Report Performance

123. The stakeholder register is an output of:

Identify Stakeholders.

Plan Stakeholder Management.

Control Stakeholder Engagement.

Manage Stakeholder Engagement.

124. DRAG DROP

A team receives four different requests from separate stakeholders related to one application Match each requirement with its corresponding type of change request.

125. The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:

Control Schedule.

Quality Control.

Perform Integrated Change Control.

Develop Schedule.

126. What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?

0.03

0.06

0.10

0.50

127. Status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete are examples of:

Earned value management.

Enterprise environmental factors.

Organizational process assets.

Work performance information.

128. High-level project risks are included in which document?

Business case

Risk breakdown structure

Project charter

Risk register

129. The iterative and interactive nature of the Process Groups creates the need for the processes in which Knowledge Area?

Project Communications Management

Project Integration Management

Project Risk Management

Project Scope Management

130. Which tool or technique is required in order to determine the project budget?

Cost of quality

Historical relationships

Project management software

Forecasting

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131. When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:

event.

response,

perception.

impact.

132. An input of the Plan Procurement Management process is:

Make-or-buy decisions.

Activity cost estimates.

Seller proposals.

Procurement documents.

133. Risk exists the moment that a project is:

planned.

conceived.

chartered.

executed.

134. Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:

Conduct Procurements.

Close Procurements.

Administer Procurements,

Plan Procurements.

135. What can increase the complexity of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?

The project must be of high quality.

The stakeholders are from different countries.

The project must comply with strict local government regulations.

The project has a tight budget and timeline.

136. 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?

Organizational process assets

Change management plan

Communications management plan

Resource management plan

137. Which Knowledge Area involves identifying the people, groups, or organizations that may be impacted by or impact a project?

Project Risk Management

Project Human Resource Management

Project Scope Management

Project Stakeholder Management

138. 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?

Customer request

Market demand

Technological advance

Strategic opportunity

139. The correct equation for schedule variance (SV) is earned value:

minus planned value [EV - PV].

minus actual cost [EV - AC].

divided by planned value [EV/PV],

divided by actual cost [EV/AC].

140. Which of the following describes the similarities of the process groups and project life cycle?

The life cycle involves three project management process groups.

Both provide a basic framework to manage the project.

Each project must have a life cycle and all processes in the five process groups.

The project life cycle is managed by executing the processes within the five process groups.

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141. What type of meeting is held to discuss prioritized product backlog items?

Status

Daily standup

Iteration planning

Release planning

142. Which of the following factors is lowest at the start of the project?

Cost of changes

Stakeholder influences

Risk

Uncertainty

143. What tool or technique can improve a products final characteristics?

Design for X (DfX)

Problem solving

Process analysis

Risk report

144. An input to the Estimate Activity Resources process is:

Activity resource requirements.

Published estimating data.

Resource calendars.

Resource breakdown structure (RBS).

145. Which document includes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints?

Project charter

Project scope statement

Scope management plan

Project document updates

146. An input to the Plan Stakeholder Management process is:

The project charter.

The stakeholder analysis.

A communication management plan.

A stakeholder register.

147. Which Control Stakeholder Engagement tool or technique allows the project manager to consolidate and facilitate distribution of reports?

Information management systems

Work performance reports

Stakeholder analysis

Data gathering and representation

148. Recognition and rewards are tools and techniques of which process?

Develop Team

Manage Team

Control Resources

Plan Resource Management

149. The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.

Based on the chart, what is the schedule variance (SV) for Task 8?

-2,000

-1,000

1,000

2,000

150. The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:

Executing.

Initiating,

Monitoring and Controlling.

Planning.

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151. When a project is undertaken to reduce defects in a product or service, the objective of the project is to create a/an:

improvement

program

result

portfolio

152. Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?

Brainstorming

Strategies for opportunities

Decision tree analysis

Risk data quality assessment

153. 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?

Hold a face-to-face meeting with the project manager and warn them.

Point the director to a link where they can take a look at the reports.

Invite stakeholders to attend monthly progress review meetings.

Ask the project manager to update the monthly status report distribution list.

154. In a project, total float measures the:

Ability to shuffle schedule activities to lessen the duration of the project.

Amount of time an activity can be extended or delayed without altering the project finish date.

Cost expended to restore order to the project schedule after crashing the schedule.

Estimate of the total resources needed for the project after performing a forward pass.

155. The Verify Scope process is primarily concerned with:

formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.

accuracy of the work deliverables.

formalizing approval of the scope statement.

accuracy of the work breakdown structure (WBS).

156. Company A has just been notified about a new legal requirement for its business operations.

What is the classification of this item?

Internal enterprise environmental factor

Risk register database

External enterprise environmental factor

Organizational process asset

157. Which tool should a project manager consider to deal with multiple sources of risk?

An updated risk register

Risk breakdown structure

Issue log

Stakeholder register

158. The scope management plan and scope baseline are contained in:

organizational process assets

a requirements traceability matrix

the project charter

the project management plan

159. The definition of when and how often the risk management processes will be performed throughout the project life cycle is included in which risk management plan component?

Timing

Methodology

Risk categories

Budgeting

160. Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?

An organizational chart

Glossary of common terminology

Organizational process assets

Enterprise environmental factors

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161. Which process requires implementation of approved changes?

Direct and Manage Project Execution

Monitor and Control Project Work

Perform Integrated Change Control

Close Project or Phase

162. 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:

Cost Plus Incentive Fee Contract (CPIF).

Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contract (CPFF).

Fixed Price Incentive Fee Contract (FPIF).

Time and Material Contract (T&M).

163. The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:

Control Schedule.

Sequence Activities.

Define Activities.

Develop Schedule.

164. Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and the cost of changes as project time advances?

The influence of the stakeholders increases, the cost of changes increases.

The influence of the stakeholders decreases, the cost of changes increases.

The influence of the stakeholders increases, the cost of changes decreases.

The influence of the stakeholders decreases, the cost of changes decreases.

165. When project requirements are documented in user stones then prioritized and refined just prior to construction, which approach is being used for scheduling?

Iterative scheduling with backlog

On-demand scheduling

Life cycle scheduling with backlog

Defining Iterative activities

166. Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?

Procurement audit

Lessons learned

Performance reporting

Payment requests

167. Which basic quality tool explains a change in the dependent variable in relationship to a change observed in the corresponding independent variable?

Cause-and-effect diagram

Histogram

Control chart

Scatter diagram

168. An input of the Create WBS process is:

requirements documentation.

scope baseline.

project charter.

validated deliverables.

169. In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:

enterprise environmental factors.

organizational process assets.

project management plan,

project funding requirements.

170. Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?

Scope baseline

Organizational process assets

Enterprise environmental factors

Risk register

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171. Which type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?

Mandatory

Discretionary

Internal

External

172. At the start of a typical project life cycle, costs are:

low, peak as work is carried out, and drop as the project nears the end.

low, become steady as work is carried out, and increase as the project nears the end.

high, drop as work is carried out, and increase as the project nears the end.

high, become low as work is carried out, and drop as the project nears the end.

173. In a construction project schedule, what is the logical relationship between the delivery of the concrete materials and the pouring of concrete?

Start-to-start (SS)

Start-to-finish (SF)

Rnish-to-finish (FF)

Finish-to-start (FS)

174. The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:

quality.

value.

technical performance.

status.

175. 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?

Perform Quality Control

Quality Metrics

Perform Quality Assurance

Plan Quality

176. While processes in the Planning Process Group seek to collect feedback and define project documents to guide project work, organizational procedures dictate when the project planning:

ends.

begins.

delays.

deviates.

177. Progressively elaborating high-level information into detailed plans is performed by the:

project management office

portfolio manager

program manager

project manager

178. Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?

Update

Preventive action

Defect repair

Corrective action

179. Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?

Mitigate

Transfer

Exploit

Avoid

180. Which process involves defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive plan?

Direct and Manage Project Work

Develop Project Management Plan

Plan Quality Management

Monitor and Control Project Work

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181. What communication methods would a project manager use for overall effective project communication?

Interactive communication, push communication, interpersonal communication

Interactive communication, push communication, pull communication

Push communication, pull communication, interpersonal communication

Pull communication, interactive communication, interpersonal communication

182. Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?

Ground rules

Expert judgment

Team-building activities

Interpersonal skills

183. Why is tailoring in a project necessary?

Requirements keep changing.

An artifact must be produced.

A tool or technique is required.

Each project is unique.

184. 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?

Initiating

Planning

Executing

Monitoring and Controlling

185. Which item is a cost of conformance?

Training

Liabilities

Lost business

Scrap

186. Which task will a project manager undertake while conducting Project Resource Management?

Identity the different aspects of me team to manage and control physical resources efficiently.

Procure equipment, materials, facilities, and infrastructure for the project.

Train the team members in project skill sets.

Define the roles and responsibilities of each team member.

187. An output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is:

Deliverables.

Activity lists.

A work breakdown structure.

A scope statement.

188. What should a project manager use to determine how much money is needed to complete a project?

Earned value management (EVM)

Estimate at completion (EAC)

Earned value analysis (EVA)

Budget at completion (BAG)

189. Which type of agreement is legal, contractual, and between two or more entities to form a partnership, joint venture, or some other arrangement as defined by the parties?

Teaming

Collective bargaining

Sharing

Working

190. Which of the following is a conflict resolution technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?

Compromising

Collaborating

Smoothing

Problem Solving

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191. How can a project manager evaluate project team development?

Produce team performance assessments.

Hold weekly meetings to engage every member

Complete a personal skill assessment on each team member

Provide recognition awards to team members

192. Work performance information and cost forecasts are outputs of which Project Cost Management process?

Estimate Costs

Plan Cost Management

Determine Budget

Control Costs

193. A project in which the scope, time, and cost of delivery are determined as early as possible is following a life cycle that is:

Adaptive

Predictive

Incremental

Iterative

194. A collection of projects managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives is referred to as a:

plan

process

program

portfolio

195. A disadvantage associated with virtual teams is that they:

Require communication technology that is not readily available.

Create difficulties when including people with disabilities.

Often cannot accommodate teams that work different hours or shifts.

Create the possibility for misunderstandings to arise.

196. Which statement is related to the project manager's sphere of influence at the organizational level?

A project manager interacts with other project managers to detect common interests and impacts between their projects.

A project manager facilitates communication between the suppliers and contractors on the project.

A project manager considers the current industry trends and evaluates how they can impact or be applied to the project.

A project manager may inform other professionals about the value of project management.

197. 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?

Negative

Zero

Positive

Free

198. The scope management plan is a subsidiary of which project document?

Schedule management plan

Project management plan

Quality management plan

Resource management plan

199. 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:

mitigate

transfer

avoid

200. Which of the following is an output of the Define Activities process?

Activity list

Project plan

Activity duration estimates

Project schedule

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201. What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?

Organizational chart

Organizational theory

Organizational structure

Organizational behavior

202. Which input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?

Stakeholder register

Scope management plan

Stakeholder management plan

Project charter

203. Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?

Variance Analysis

Define Scope

Verify Scope

Control Scope

204. What is one of the objectives of Project Risk Management?

Decrease the probability and impact of an event on project objectives.

Distinguish between a project risk and a project issue so that a risk mitigation plan can be put in place.

Increase the probability and impact of positive events.

Removal of project risk.

205. Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?

Performance reports

Project charter

Outputs from planning processes

Enterprise environmental factors

206. 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?

It will give the project manager Independence to make decisions without other departmental input.

It Integrates organizational data and information to ensure that strategic objectives are fulfilled.

The project management office can execute administrative tasks.

The project management office can coordinate projects.

207. What is a tool or technique used in the Control Quality process?

Attribute sampling

Parametric estimating

Statistical sampling

Expert judgment

208. Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to:

Create WB

complete project work.

calculate costs.

Develop Project Management Plan.

209. Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?

Affinity

Scatter

Fishbone

Matrix

210. The purpose of the Project Communications Management Knowledge Area is to:

Monitor and control communications throughout the entire project life cycle.

Maintain an optimal flow of information among all project participants.

Develop an appropriate approach for project communications.

Ensure timely and appropriate collection of project information.

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211. Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding project outcomes describes which classification model for stakeholder analysis?

Influence/impact grid

Power/influence grid

Power/interest grid

Salience model

212. Which of the following are outputs of Develop Project Team?

Human resources plan changes and project staff assignment updates

Project management plan updates and enterprise environmental factor updates

Resource calendars and project management plan updates

Team performance assessments and enterprise environmental factor updates

213. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is known as:

Plan Human Resource Management.

Acquire Project Team.

Manage Project Team.

Develop Project Team.

214. Definitions of probability and impact, revised stakeholder tolerances, and tracking are components of which subsidiary plan?

Cost management plan

Quality management plan

Communications management plan

Risk management plan

215. What are the objectives of Initiation processes?

Initiation processes are performed in order to develop the project charier and Identify stakeholders.

Initiation processes are performed in order to obtain budget approval for a project or phase and approve scope with customers.

Initiation processes are performed to identify business objectives for a project or phase and identify stakeholders' goals.

Initiation processes are performed to map initial requirements for a project or phase and prioritize them with stakeholders.

216. An input to Close Project or Phase is:

Accepted deliverables,

Final products or services,

Document updates,

Work performance information.

217. Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?

Pareto diagram

Performance reporting

SWOT analysis

Expert judgment

218. Which format can a network diagram take?

Flow chart

Control chart

Affinity diagram

Cause-and-effect diagram

219. The following is a network diagram for a project.

What is the critical path for the project?

A-B-D-G

A-B-E-G

A-C-F-G

A-C-E-G

220. Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?

Configuration Identification

Configuration Status Accounting

Configuration Verification and Audit

Configuration Quality Assurance

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221. When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:

under budget and behind schedule.

over budget and ahead of schedule.

on schedule.

complete; all planned values have been earned.

222. The project scope statement and resource calendars are inputs to which Project Time Management process?

Sequence Activities

Estimate Activity Resources

Develop Schedule

Control Schedule

223. Which tool or technique is used in Close Procurements?

Contract plan

Procurement plan

Closure process

Procurement audits

224. Which Process Group contains those processes performed to define a new project?

Initiating

Planning

Executing

Closing

225. Who selects the appropriate processes for a project?

Project stakeholders

Project sponsor and project stakeholder

Project manager and project team

Project manager and project sponsor

226. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished is known as:

Start-to-start (SS).

Start-to-finish (SF).

Finish-to-start (FS).

Finish-to-finish (FF).

227. Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?

Applying calendars

Resource leveling

Resource planning

Resource conflict management

228. The project manager notes that stakeholders are aware of the project and potential impacts and are actively engaged in ensuring that the project is a success.

The engagement level of the stakeholders should be classified as:

Supportive

Leading

Neutral

Resistant

229. What is a tailoring consideration in Project Integration Management?

Validation and control

Benefits

Technology support

Physical location

230. Perform Quality Control is accomplished by:

Identifying quality standards that are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

Monitoring and recording the results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes.

Ensuring that the entire project team has been adequately trained in quality assurance processes.

Applying Monte Carlo, sampling, Pareto analysis, and benchmarking techniques to ensure conformance to quality standards.

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231. 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?

One

Five

Six

Seven

232. A project stakeholder is requesting changes to the project plan.

Which process group addresses this?

Initiating Process Group

Planning Process Group

Executing Process Group

Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

233. A project manager is analyzing a few network diagrams in order to determine the minimum duration of a project.

Which diagram should the project manager reference?

A diagram in which resource optimization has been applied.

A diagram in which the critical path method has been applied.

A diagram in which a predefined series of activities has been organized.

A diagram which shows a combination of resource and time optimization.

234. Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?

Estimate Costs

Control Costs

Determine Budget

Plan Cost Management

235. Which type of project life cycle uses an iteration plan?

Agile

Predictive

Waterfall

Product

236. Which cost is associated with nonconformance?

Liabilities

Inspections

Training

Equipment

237. Which of the following is TRUE about most project life cycles?

Staffing level is highest at the start.

The stakeholders' influence is highest at the start.

The level of uncertainty is lowest at the start.

The cost of changes is highest at the start.

238. At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?

Positive

Zero

Negative

Greater than one

239. Projects that share common outcomes, collective capability, knowledge, or skills are often grouped into a:

portfolio

program

selection

sub portfolio

240. When the business objectives of an organization change, project goals need to be:

realigned.

performed.

improved.

controlled.

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241. Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?

Procurement documents

Communications plan

Project charter

Stakeholder register

242. What charts and (igures should project managers use during the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?

Tornado diagrams and influence diagrams

Detectability bubble charts and probability and impact matrix

Hierarchical charts and burndown charts

Flow charts and responsible, accountable, consult, and inform (RACI) charts

243. A team was hired to develop a next generation drone. The team created a prototype and sent it to the customer for testing. The feedback collected was used to refine the requirements.

What technique is the team using?

Early requirements gathering

Feedback analysis

Progressive elaboration

Requirements documentation

244. The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (VVBS) is called a/an:

work package

deliverable

milestone

activity

245. Which key interpersonal skill of a project manager is defined as the strategy of sharing power and relying on interpersonal skills to convince others to cooperate toward common goals?

Collaboration

Negotiation

Decision making

Influencing

246. 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?

Histogram

Quality audits

Benchmarking

Performance measurement analysis

247. Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?

Requested changes

Approved change requests

Work performance information

Implemented defect repair

248. In which process is a project manager identified and given the authority to apply resources to project activities?

Acquire Project Team

Develop Project Management Plan

Manage Project Execution

Develop Project Charter

249. What are the key tools for managing project knowledge?

Expert judgment and data gathering

Networking and storytelling

Data analysis and decision making

Prototypes and product analysis

250. Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?

Requirements traceability matrix

Work breakdown structure (WBS) dictionary

Requirements management plan

Requirements documentation

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251. Which items are components of a project management plan?

Change management plan, process improvement plan, and scope management plan

Agreements, procurement management plan, and work performance information

Schedule management plan, project schedule, and resource calendars

Scope baseline, project statement of work, and requirements traceability matrix

252. What scenario describes when a project must be created due to market demand?

A public company authorizes a project to create a new service for electric car sharing to reduce pollution.

A car company authorizes a project to build more fuel-efficient cars in response to gasoline shortages.

Researchers develop an autonomous car. with several new features to be commercialized in the future.

Stakeholders request that raw matenais be changed due to locally high costs.

253. The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:

Plan Procurements.

Control Procurements.

Close Procurements.

Conduct Procurements.

254. 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?

Inspection

Quality audits

Design of experiments

Root cause analysis

255. A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner.

This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:

risk management plan

human resource management plan

scope management plan

procurement management plan

256. 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?

Review stakeholder register and meeting

Data analysis and communication skills

Data gathering and data analysis

Communication skills and cultural awareness

257. 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?

Withdraw/avoid

Smooth /accommodate

Collaborate/problem solve

Compromise/ reconcile

258. Deciding the phases of a project life cycle would be considered a part of which of these knowledge areas?

Project Schedule Management

Project Scope Management

Project Resource Management

Project Integration Management

259. In the Define Activities process, the schedule management plan is used to:

Capture the lessons learned from other projects for comparison.

Contain the standard activity list.

Document and support the project change requests.

Prescribe the level of detail needed to manage the work.

260. Projects are undertaken by an organization to support the:

Product performance.

Budget process.

Collective capabilities.

Organizational strategy.

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261. The following is a network diagram for a project.

The total float for the project is how many days?

262. An output of the Develop Project Team process is:

Organizational process assets.

Enterprise environmental factors updates.

Project staff assignments.

Organizational charts and position descriptions.

263. A required input for Create WBS is a project:

quality plan.

schedule network.

management document update.

scope statement.

264. The Plan Stakeholder Management process belongs to which Process Group?

Executing

Initiating

Planning

Monitoring and Controlling

265. Which conflict resolution technique produces the most lasting results?

Withdraw/avoid

Smooth/accommodate

Compromise/reconcile

Collaborate/problem solve

266. Which of the seven basic quality tools is especially useful for gathering attributes data while performing inspections to identify defects?

Histograms

Scatter diagrams

Flowcharts

Checksheets

267. What is the best tool to calculate the critical path on a project?

Critical chain method

Graphical evaluation and review technique (GERT) diagram

Gantt chart

Project network diagram

268. Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?

Schedule network analysis

Reserve analysis

Alternative analysis

Variance analysis

269. What does an S-curve from a Monte Carlo analysis show?

Cumulative probability distribution representing probability of achieving a particular outcome

Individual project risks or uncertainties that have the most potential impact on outcome

Best alternative out of the possible solutions, incorporating associated risks and opportunities

Diagram for all project uncertainties and their influence over a period of time

270. The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:

Acquire Project Team.

Plan Human Resource Management.

Manage Project Team.

Develop Project Team.

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