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Lessons learned are most often based upon project historical records. Lessons learned can be used to:

In which type of organization(s) is the project manager’s role most likely part-time?

A(n) _____ is defined as a specified accomplishment in a particular instant in time which does not consume time or resources.

Trend Analysis is best described as:

Overlapping activities on a project, such as design and construction, is referred to as:

All the techniques described below can be used to keep a meeting focused except:

Resource leveling _____.

The highest degrees of project risk and uncertainty are associawith the following phase of the project:

You are a project manager for an engineering company. Your company won the bid to add ramp- metering lights to several on-ramps along a stretch of highway at the south end of the city. You subcontracted a portion of the project to another company. The subcontractor’s work involves digging the holes and setting the lamp poles in concrete. The subcontractor’s performance is not meeting the contract requirements. Which of the following is not a valid option?

Job descriptions are examples of ______communications.

You are in a meeting with someone who just ate a slice of garlic bread. Your are distracted by his pungent breath. Which of the following communication barriers describe these distractions?

Group brainstorming encourages all of the following except:

In crashing a task, you would focus on:

You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to expand three miles of the north-to south highway through your city by two lanes in each direction. You are in charge of the demolition phase of this project, and you report to the project manager in charge of this project. You have been hired on contract and will be released at the completion of the demolition phase. What type of organizational structure does this represent?

You are a project manager of ABC organization. You are estimating the project in initiation phase.
What level of accuracy you can expect?

Root Cause Analysis related to ________.

Range estimating in determining cost risk probabilities requires _____ .

When working in a matrix environment, all of the following are true regarding the Manage Project Team process except for which one?

Who are the audience of project charter?

Communication always makes use of.

The major difference between PERT and CPM networks is:

Risk event probability is defined as:

You’ve been assigned as a project manager on a research and development project for a new dental procedure. You’re working in the Scope Planning process. What is the purpose of the project scope management plan?

What are you likely to see as a project progresses in a schedule with must fix dates and little or no slack?

The ability to achieve cost savings is inversely proportional to _____.

The scope of a project can be expected to change if:

Work authorization forms are needed in order to:

Cost management includes processes that are required to maintain financial control of projects. These processes may include:

Communication plays a major role in:

Project with a total funding of $70,000 finished with a BAC value of $60,000.
What term can best describe the difference of $10,000?

You are a project manager for an agricultural supply company. You have just completed and obtained sign-off on the project scope statement for your new Natural Bug Busters project. A key stakeholder has informed you that a deliverable is missing from the project scope statement. This deliverable is a critical
success factor. Which of the following actions should you take?

Control chart theory is based on the differentiation of the causes of variations in quality. Variations may be produced by assignable causes. All of the following are examples of assignable causes except:

The basic elements of communication include:

Life seems to be going very well for your close friend, a fellow PMP. She has taken a trip to France, bought a new car, and stocked her wine cellar with a half dozen expensive bottles of wine, all within the last six months. After a few cocktails one evening, she tells you her secret. The vendor she’s working with on the $4 billion project she’s managing has given her all of these items as gifts. Which of the following should you do? (Choose the best answer.)

All of the following are tools and techniques of the Contract Administration process except for which one?

Company expenses such as auditing costs, supervision, office supplies, building rent and maintenance are elements of the:

You are the project manger for Xylophone Phonics. This companyproduces children’s software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You are ready to assign project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships. Which project Planning process are you working on?

The process of Manage Stakeholder Expectations is part of which process?

Collect Requirements is:

Which is not one of the triple constraint of a project?

The Japanese Quality Control (QC) Circle movement motivated its participants in many ways. Which of the following represents the most important motivation for the QC circle participants?

The methods and techniques for determining the economic costs, the environmental impact, the economic returns, and the probability for success are called:

Which of the following statements is true regarding schedule variances?

You know that PV = 470, AC = 430, EV = 480, EAC = 500, and BAC = 525. What is VAC?

In general, attempts to smooth out period to period resources will _____ the scheduled time and _____ project costs.

Bar charts are most appropriate for:

All of the following may hinder a person’s ability to transmit/receive a message except:

The Communications Management Plan should contain the following:

A project manager believes that the best way to manage is to form a good, harmonious working relationship with the team, and high performance will follow. The project manager could be defined as a _____ manager.

Which involves estimating the cost of individual work items:

A(n) _____ system is designed to ensure the timely availability of nonhuman resources, and includes the
cost in procurement, shipping/freight, storage and loss.

Mathematical models using linear programming, dynamic, or algorithm models are considered:

The purpose of configuration management is to:

The project charter is developed by:

Lessons learned are most often based upon project historical records. Lessons learned can be used to:

You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your project is to develop a website for the company that allows retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered, packaged, and mailed to the consumer directly from the grower’s site. This project involves coordinating the parent company, growers, and distributors. You are preparing a performance review and have the following measurements at hand: PV = 300, AC = 200, and EV = 250. What is the CPI of this project?

A work breakdown structure is most useful for:

You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States government. Your mission-should you choose to accept it-is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is that finding contractors with top-secret clearances takes quite a bit of time, and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director’s hot new project. Which of the following type of project ending is this?

Define Activities is typically performed by which of the following:

Which of the following is closest to Juran’s definition of Quality:

Which of the following MUST NOT performed in project initiation process?

You are a project manager for a software manufacturing firm. The project you’ve just finished created a new software product that is expected to become a number-one seller. All prerelease of software is handled through the marketing department. A friend of yours is a certified software instructor. They have asked you for a copy of the software prior to the beta release so they can get familiar with it. What is the most appropriate response?

Resource leveling will often affect the project by making it:

Going from Level 2 to Level 4 in the work breakdown structure will result in

The role of the _____ can be invaluable in problem solving.

Which of the following must not performed in the project initiation process?

The quality management plan documents how the project team will implement the quality policy. It must address all of the following except which one?

Which quality management tool would be used to determine potential causes of a production problem?

A project may be defined as _____

You are a project manager for Dutch Harbor Consulting. Your latest project involves the upgrade of an organization’s operating system on 236 servers. You performed this project under contract. You are in the Closing process and know that product verification is for what purpose?

Which of the following is not a cost of non-conformance?

In which of the following types of contracts is it most important for the contractor to maintain control of cost, schedule and scope changes.

You are working with XYZ organization. Your senior manager imposed new delivery date which is earlier than mentioned project deliverables date in scope statement. To whom you are most accountable?

The LEAST effective form of communication for complex situations is:

If you know expected value is 500 and the standard deviation is 12, you can say with approximately a 95 percent confidence rating which of the following?

You are working on a project that was proceeding well until a manufacturing glitch occurred that requires corrective action. It turns out the glitch was an unintentional enhancement to the product, and the marketing people are absolutely crazy about its potential. The corrective action is canceled, and you
continue to produce the product with the newly discovered enhancement. As the project manager, you know that a change has occurred to the project scope. Which of the following statements is true?

You are managing an internal project where a vice president from the user group is acting as the sponsor. You have just been informed by your team that the critical path has slipped by three weeks. You should:

Parametric estimates are based on variables such as:

All of the following are true regarding Communications Planning except for which one?

The Delphi Method is well-suited for:

A non-critical path activity is completed in half the time. Then,

Advantages of the functional (hierarchical) form of organization include _____ and creation of technical competence.

During your project meeting, a problem was discussed, and a resolution to the problem was reached. During the meeting, the participants started wondering why they thought the problem was such a big issue. Sometime after the meeting, you received an email from one of the meeting participants saying they’ve changed their mind about the solution reached in the meeting and need to resurface the problem. The solution reached during the initial project meeting is a result of which of the following conflict resolution techniques?

Which of the following would most likely increase the accuracy of estimating the project cost?

You are a project manager of Software Product Company. After hired a person you got to know that many of this person’s ideas were developed by the competing company. Are you going to implement the same ideas?

Risk Event Status is defined as _____ .

Which statement is TRUE about Present Value(PV)?

All of the following are tools and techniques of the Performance Reporting process except which one?

Most project (and non-project) managers prefer _____ communications.

Employee unions would most likely satisfy which level in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

A project manager believes that modifying the scope of the project may provide added value for the customer. The project manager should:

What are the Scope Definition process tools and techniques?

All of the following statements about acceptance sampling are true except:

Who is responsible for issuing the project charter?

The use of quality circles:

You are a project manager working on gathering requirements and establishing estimates for the project. Which process group are you in?

You have been assigned to a project that will allow job seekers to fill out applications and submit them via the company website. You report to the VP of human resources. You are also responsible for screening applications for the information technology division and setting up interviews. The project coordinator has asked for the latest version of your changes to the online application page for his review. Which organizational structure do you work in?

Planning activities such that predetermined resource availability pools are not exceeded is called:

As project manager, you wish to impose a standard method by which subordinates calculate project costs. Which level of communication should be required for this effort?

A line manager who is asked to wear two hats and function as a project manager at the same time is likely to exercise:

By which process may an unsuccessful supplier seek remedy for unjust awards?

The project charter:

If you are the project manager for a new project. You have collected the necessary input information and delivered the project charter to the stakeholders. What should you do next?

You are a project manager working on a software development project. You’ve developed the risk management plan, identified risks, and determined risk responses for the risks. One of the risks you identified occurs, and you implement the response for that risk. Then, another risk occurs as a result of the response you implemented. What type of risk is this called?

A project manager is assigned to a project which phase of the project?

Which describes how cost variances will be managed?Cost management plan describes how cost variances will be managed. Cost management plan describes how cost variances will be managed.

History has shown that project managers can be trained in a combination of ways. Which method is usually preferred by most companies?

Who is responsible for decide project management process for a particular project?

The most common form of written project communication is

Which performance measurement tells you what the projected total cost of the project will be at completion?

Your project team consists of 12 people in the same building you’re located in, 4 people from the West Coast office, 2 people from the Kansas City office, and 6 people from the London office. Your office works different hours than all the other offices. Additionally, not all of the resources in your building are available at the same times during the day. Three of the 12 team members work swing shift hours. You use tools like web conferencing and email to distribute information to the team. Which of the following is true?

You are a project manager for a documentary film company. In light of a recent regional tragedy, the company president wants to get a new documentary on the rescue efforts of the heroic rescue teams to air as soon as possible. She’s looking to you to make this documentary the best that has ever been produced in the history of this company. She guarantees you free rein to use whatever resources you need to get this project done quickly. However, the best photographer in the company is currently working on another assignment. Which of the following is true?

Which may be employed to shorten a schedule without changing the scope of the task?

Surveys have shown that the primary skill needed to be a project manager is communication skill. The typical project manager spends approximately ______percent of his or her time communicating.

A computer tape which contains historical project information is called ____ tape.

Power games, withholding information, and hidden agendas are examples of-.

Your team is split between two buildings on either side of town. As a result, the team isn’t very cohesive because the members don’t know each other very well. The team is still in the storming stage because of the separation issues. Which of the following should you consider?

Risk event is the description of what may happen to the _____ of the project.

Which of the following is NOT part of stakeholder’s management?

On what is project baseline development established?

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?

What is the definition of project plan execution?

What is a tool to improve team performance?

Which type of analysis is used to develop the communications management plan?

Information distribution involves making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner. What is an output from information distribution?

Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?

You are assigned to implement the project control plan. What should you do to ensure the plan is effective and current?

Which of the following is an example of a risk symptom?

During what process is the quality policy determined?

What is one of the MAJOR outputs of activity sequencing?

Scope verification is PRIMARILY concerned with which of the following?

Which of the following is an example of contract administration?

Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?

A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete, and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed.
What is the cost variance?

How is quality control performed?

As part of a mid-project evaluation, your project sponsor has asked you to provide a forecast of total project cost. You should calculate the forecast using which of the following methods?

How is scheduled variance calculated using the earned value technique?

The project management processes presented in the PMBOK Guide should:

Who is responsible for determining which processes from the Process Groups will be employed and who will be performing them?

Which of the following processes is necessary to ensure that the project employs all processes needed to meet its requirements?

Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?

The Define Scope process is in which of the following process groups?

Which activity is an input to the select sellers process?

What name(s) is (are) associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle?

The strong matrix versus a weak matrix.

According to Herzberg, which of the following is a motivational factor?

Communication plays a major role in:

What is one of the advantages of a functional organization?

Which is not an example of formal communication?