Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
A benefit of using virtual teams in the Acquire Project Team process is the reduction of the:
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
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 process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
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?
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
Which type of contract is a hybrid of both a cost-reimbursable and a fixed-price contract?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
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:
Progressively elaborating high-level information into detailed plans is performed by the:
The process of defining how the project scope will be validated and controlled is known as:
Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?
Which of the following strategic considerations often results in project authorization?
An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
Which of the following Process Groups covers all nine Project Management Knowledge Areas?
The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to:
Which tool or technique can a project manager use to select in advance a team member who will be crucial to the task?
Which Control Scope input is compared to actual results to determine if corrective action is required for the project?
Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
Which of the following is a tool and technique used in the Develop Schedule process?
Which of the following is an input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Which of the following is an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
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:
Which of the Perform Quality Assurance tools and techniques may enhance the creation of the work breakdown structure (VVBS) to give structure to the decomposition of the scope?
Which process involves developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Power, urgency, and legitimacy are attributes of which stakeholder classification model?
Which process involves subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable portions?
Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
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:
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?
Which basic quality tool is most useful when gathering attributes data in an inspection to identify defects?
Those who enter into a contractual agreement to provide services necessary for a project are:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost performance index (CPI) for Task 2?
Which tool or technique is effective in a project in which the deliverable is not a service or result?
Which input may influence quality assurance work and should be monitored within the context of a system for configuration management?
Which document defines how a project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?
Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?
A project in which the scope, time, and cost of delivery are determined as early as possible is following a life cycle that is:
The planned work contained in the lowest level of work breakdown structure (WBS) components is known as:
Which type of project management office (PMO) supplies templates, best practices, and training to project teams?
Status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete are examples of:
Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?
Which earned value management (EVM) metric is a measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC) and is considered a critical EVM metric?
A project manager providing information to the right audience, in the right format, at the right time is an example of which type of communication?
Which conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?
Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?
Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?
Sending letters, memos, reports, emails, and faxes to share information is an example of which type of communication?
A project manager requesting industry groups and consultants to recommend project intervention is relying on:
Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
The organization's perceived balance between risk taking and risk avoidance is reflected in the risk:
Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
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?
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?
The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:
The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information become available is known as:
Which Knowledge Area involves identifying the people, groups, or organizations that may be impacted by or impact a project?
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?
Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:
Which process is engaged when a proiect learn inember makes a change to project budget with the project manager's approval?
Which tool or technique is used to manage change requests and the resulting decisions?
Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?
A project team is discussing an upcoming planned product launch of a highly visible technologically advanced artificial intelligence tool. The team is debating the aspect of iterative and hybrid approaches. Which aspect of tailoring would this best represent?
Which project manager competency is displayed through the knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to specific domains of project, program, and portfolio management?
What can increase the complexity of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
A project manager is monitoring and recording results of executing the quality management activities to assess performance and ensure the project outputs are complete, correct, and meet customer expectations. Which output is the project manager using?
Which tasks should a project manager accomplish in order to manage project scope correctly?
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?
In which type of organization does the project manager have the maximum influence
Which statement is related to the project manager's sphere of influence at the organizational level?
Which is a list of organizational systems that may have an impact on a project?
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?
How can a project manager determine if the project activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and procedures?
Which tasks should a project manager perform in order to manage the project schedule effectively?
During the planning phase, a project manager must create a work breakdown structure (WBS) to improve management of the project's components. What should be included in the WBS?
Which of the following are outputs of the Define Scope process in Project Scope Management?
What is the discipline that focuses on the interdependences between projects to determine the optimal approach for managing them?
What does expert judgment provide as an input to the resource management plan?
Which of the following project documents is an input to the Control Scope process?
Which components of the project management plan are inputs used when creating the stakeholder engagement plan?
The output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?
Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
Define Activities and Estimate Activity Resources are processes in which project management Knowledge Area?
Which process involves the creation of a document that provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to a project?
Technical capability, past performance, and intellectual property rights are examples of:
Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?
Which Control Stakeholder Engagement tool or technique allows the project manager to consolidate and facilitate distribution of reports?
At the completion of a project, a report is prepared that details the outcome of the research conducted on a global trend during the project. Which item did this project create?
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Which type of elaboration allows a project management team to manage at a greater level of detail as the project evolves?
Which of the following must be included in the risk register when the project manager completes the Identify Risks process?
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?
A project manager is launching an information system to provide a lessons learned database. This action is necessary for recipients to access content at their own discretion. Which communication method is described?
Which of the following is an example of an internal factor that influences the outcome of the project?
A projects purpose or justification, measurable project objectives and related success criteria, a summary milestone schedule, and a summary budget are all components of which document?
Which of the following is an information gathering technique in Identify Risks?
Which of the following statements is true regarding project and product lifecycles?
When addressing roles and responsibilities,which item ensures that the staff has the skills required to complete project activities?
Which type of analysis is used as a general management technique within the Plan Procurements process?
The process of identifying the stakeholders' information needs is completed during:
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
A project manager is identifying the risks of a project. Which technique should the project manager use?
In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?
Which quality tool may prove useful in understanding and estimating the cost of quality in a process?
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
Which procurement management process includes obtaining seller response, seller selection, and contract awarding?
A project team is meeting to seek solutions on a new problem that occurred recently. The meeting is comprised of two parts: the first is a generation of ideas and the second is an analysis. Which technique is the team using?
A practitioner organized a requirements workshop with the client's frontline application users. The users explained that one of the challenges of the current application is that they must click on each input before entering data, which happens thousands of times a day.
Which technique did the practitioner use to identify this pain point?
The project manager and project team are developing approximations of the cost of resources needed to complete the project work. On which process are they working?
A business analyst sent multiple meeting requests via instant message to a subject matter expert (SME) working in another country but did not receive a response. What should the business analyst do to reduce the likelihood of this occurring in the future with other stakeholders distributed across multiple locations?
A project manager is assigned to a new project with a defined scope. The project requires advanced planning at the start of the project. Which approach should the project manager select for the project?
During project planning, team members seemed clear on deliverables. However, as the project progressed deeper into the execution phase, team members expressed the need for smaller components to better understand what must be delivered.
What should the project manager do?
What process group establishes project scope: refines objectives, and defines the actions necessary to attain project objectives'?
A project team is brainstorming about the best methods and practices to adopt for an upcoming project. What is the project team trying to follow?
During a sprint demo, the customer says that one of the user stories is not ready for customer use. Which checklist should the team look at to find out what has been missed for the user story?
Projects programs subsidiary portfolios.... objectives refer to?
Projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives refers to?
Given the following information, what is the schedule variance (SV) for this project?
Early start date (ES): 16 weeks
Actual time: 12 weeks
Schedule performance index (SPI): 1.3
The project manager released a report A few stakeholders express the view that report should
have been directed to them
Which of the 5Cs of written communications does the project manager need to address?
A business manager wants to start a project to launch a new product. How should the manager initiate the project?
In the Control Quality process, which tools and techniques techniques can be applied to verify deliverable?
A business manager wants to start a project to launch a new product and submits a business case to the Portfolio Steering Committee for review. The committee asks the manager for details about the expectedbusiness value of the project. How can the manager document the business value for the Portfolio Steering Committee?
An organization is faced with increasing demand from the board of directors. They say budgets are flexible as long as the work gets completed. What project management approach should the organization use?
A business analyst sent multiple meeting requests via instant message to a subject matter expert (SME) working in another country but did not receive a response. What should the business analyst do to reduce the likelihood of this occurring in the future with other stakeholders distributed across multiple locations?
In the project charter process, which three of the following are discussed during meetings held with stakeholders? (Choose three)
Which of the following answers includes an input, a technique, and an output of the Plan Stakeholders Engagement process?
An adaptive team schedules 20 story points in the upcoming sprint. Historically, the team completes 25 story points on average per sprint. Each sprint is two weeks, and there is one day of float.
What is the likelihood the team will complete all 20 story points in the upcoming sprint?
A Project manager received a change request from a key stakeholder, documented it reviewed it with the team, and then presented if for decision. What was project manager trying to do?
When planning communications management what input identifies key stakeholders?
An organization is faced with increasing demand from the board of directors. They say budgets are flexible as long as the work gets completed.
What project management approach should the organization use?
A project manager is calculating the current budget. The earned value (EV) of the project is lower than the actual cost (AC) of the project. How should the project manager report the status of the project?
Which of the following activities are included as part of a project manager's responsibilities?
In the last two iterations, a project team failed to deliver all of the stories on time. What should the project manager do first in order to prevent this from recurring?
During a project team meeting, one of the team members suggested a product functionality that would immensely benefit the customer. The project manager documents the request for later analysis. What is this an example of?
A product owner wants to ensure that the project's requirements, including product requirements, are met and validated. To do this project manager wants.
Match each process to its definition.
As the project takes place and some issues arose, the project manager (Joe) finds out that some team members were not 100% committed to the project, and some of them were underperforming.
What should the project manager have done to avoid this situation?
An adaptive project manager is handling a five-sprint cycle to deliver a minimum viable product (MVP). After the third sprint, the productivity of the team drops to 30% due to a change in the way the team operates.
Which of the following changes has caused this loss in productivity?
What can the project manager find among the factors that could lead a project to be tailored
Project governance refers to framework.......which of the following is a portfolio?
Pioject governance refers lo framework, functions, and processes that guide project management activates with a defined hierarchy between projects, programs and poctfotos. According to this hierarchy, which ot Die following is a portfolio?
A few project team members are having issues understanding the requirements as described. Which action should be taken to resolve this issue?
During a project team meeting, one of the team members suggested a product functionality that would immensely benefit the customer. The project manager documents the request for later analysis.
What is this an example of?
A project manager has the task of determining the deliverables for a six-month project using a predictive approach. How should the project manager determine which processes to include in the project management plan?
When presenting a product roadmap to an adaptive team, which form of communication is the most appropriate?
A technical project manager uses a directive approach with the team. Some team members are growing increasingly frustrated when their recommendations are not adopted by the project manager. What should the project manager do to address this issue?
Which component of the project management plan should be updated if a change occurs?
A project manager is reviewing a past project with similar.... team choosing for tailoring?
A project manager is reviewing a past project with similar requirements to the project that is currently chartered. The project team decided to adopt quality tools, techniques and templates recommended at the organizational level after reviewing the lessons learned of the previous project What specific area of quality, is the project team choosing for tailoring?
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?
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?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
Which document includes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints?
The integrative nature of project management requires which Process Group to interact with the other Process Groups?
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:
A full-time project manager with low to moderate authority and part-time administrative staff is working in an organizational structure with which type of matrix?
The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?
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?
The project manager is explaining to others the essential business aspects of the project. To which skill category does this ability belong?
Which of the following describes the similarities of the process groups and project life cycle?
A project manager is assigned to a strategic project Senior management asks the project manager to give a presentation in order to request support that will ensure the success of the project.
Which entities will the project manager attempt to influence?
A project manager held a meeting and listed all team members' ideas for improving the product on a white board. What data gathering technique did the project manager apply?
A project manager is reviewing the change requests for project documents, deliverables, and the project plan. In which project management process does this review belong?
A project manager uses their networking skills to build agreement with a difficult stakeholder. What level of influence did the project manager apply?
Which of the following set of elements is part of an effective communications management plan?
Which are examples of processes that may be used once or at predefined points in the project life cycle?
A project team conducts regular standup meetings to keep everyone updated on what each one of them is working on. What type of communication is this?
In an agile or adaptive environment. when should risk be monitored and prioritized?
When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding project outcomes describes which classification model for stakeholder analysis?
When the business objectives of an organization change, project goals need to be:
Plan Communications Management develops an approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholders' needs and requirements and:
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:
Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Develop Project Charter process?
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)?
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
Who, along with the project manager, is supposed to direct the performance of the planned project activities and manage the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within the project?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
Which component of the human resource management plan describes when and how project team members are acquired and how long they will be needed?
Which type of manager is assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives?
At which point of the project is the uncertainty the highest and the risk of failing the greatest?
Which Knowledge Area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
Organizational planning impacts projects by means of project prioritization based on risk, funding, and an organizations:
Which technique should a project manager use in a situation in which a collaborative approach to conflict management is not possible?
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?
What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
Which of the seven basic quality tools is especially useful for gathering attributes data while performing inspections to identify defects?
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
In an organization with a projectized organizational structure, who controls the project budget?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?
The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?
The project scope statement and resource calendars are inputs to which Project Time Management process?
A project has a current cost performance index (CPI) of 1.25. To date, US$10,000 have been spent on performing the project work. What is the earned value of the work completed to date?
In the Develop Project Team process, which of the following is identified as a critical factor for a project's success?
The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:
What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data? BAC = $100,000 PV = $50,000 AC = $80,000 EV = $40,000
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?
The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline is:
The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the:
Change requests are an output from which Project Integration Management process?
Which Develop Schedule tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
Which is the Define Scope technique used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?
The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?
Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Which tools or techniques will a project manager use for Develop Project Team?
The formal and informal interaction with others in an organization industry, or professional environment is known as:
Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?
While preparing the project management plan on a weekly basis, the project manager indicates the intention to provide an issues report to the staff via e-mail. In which part of the plan will this type of information be included?
Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses the values of parameters from previous similar projects for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project?
Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
In the basic communication model, which term refers to the method that is used to convey the message?
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements describes management of which of the following?
Identify Stakeholders is the process of identifying all of the people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests in, involvement in, and impact on the project:
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?
Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
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:
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?
Correlated and contextualized information on how closely the scope is being maintained relative to the scope baseline is contained within:
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?
A complete set of concepts, terms, and activities that make up an area of specialization is known as:
Job satisfaction, challenging work, and sufficient financial compensation are values related to which interpersonal skill?