You are the project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost.
What action should be taken?
What scope definition technique is used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?
The decision to approve or reject a particular change request is made in which of the following processes?
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?
Quality and credibility of the qualitative risk analysis process requires that different levels of the risk ' s probabilities and impacts be defined is the definition of what?
Company A bought a well-defined project deliverable from Company B. Company A will pay a fixed total price plus a percentage premium for the schedule target achieved.
Information distribution involves making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner.
What is an output from information distribution?
Project team members begin to address the project work and technical decisions. The project team is in which of the following stages of team development?
A project manager has increased project costs by US $100,000, but completed the project four weeks earlier than planned.
What activity is BEST described here?
In a control chart, the consecutive measurements are 11, 13, 09, 07, 08, 09, 09, 09, 08, and 12. For the entire process, the goal is 10 and the standard deviation is 1.
For this data set, it is correct to say that the process:
Which tool and technique of quality planning 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?
Which may be employed to shorten a schedule without changing the scope of the task?
Executing the risk response plan in order to react to risk events throughout the project is called:
Given the following values, what is the calculated expected activity cost (CE) when using PERT?
CO = $7,000
CM = $10,500
CP = $11,000
A team member is not performing well on the project because she is inexperienced in system development work. There is no one else available who is better qualified to do the work.
What is the BEST solution for the project manager?
Which quality management tool would be used to determine potential causes of a production problem?
Which tools or techniques will the project manager use for developing the project team?
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
Which of the following is an output of the Estimate Activity Resources process?
Mathematical models using linear programming, dynamic, or algorithm models are considered:
Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?
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.)
Your company has asked you to be the project manager for the product introduction of its new DeskTop Rock media system. You recently published the project scope statement.
Which of the following is not contained in the project scope statement?
Control Charts, Flowcharting, Histograms, Pareto Charts, Scatter Diagrams are tools and techniques of what process?
A project team is in which of the following processes when they finalize all activities across all of the management process groups to formally complete the project?
A project manager and team from a firm that designs railroad equipment are tasked to design a machine to load stone onto railroad cars. The design allows for two percent spillage, amounting to over two tons of spilled rock per day.
In which of the following does the project manager document quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvements for this project?
A project team member tells you that she went to her project manager with a good idea for a useful change to the project. Instead of giving her approval to make the change, the project manager asked her to write a report describing the benefits of the change.
What is the MOST appropriate advice for the situation?
What defines the portion of work included in a contract for items being purchased or acquired?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?
A person is writing a document identifying the business need for a project and is including a description of the product created by the project. She includes a list of stakeholders and pre assigned resources.
What is the role of this person on the project?
The project team reviews identified risks and the risk response strategy. For one of the risks, the team realizes that the implementation of the risk response would generate another risk.
This new risk is which of the following types of risk?
Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the planning process group?
Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?
Which of the following lists contain processes that are included within Project Procurement Management?
Based on the chart, while completing the project, a team member tells you that the team forgot something during planning. Activity F needs the results of activity E before it can begin.
Taking this new dependency into account, what would be the effect on the project?
Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?
Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Which of the following provides a standardized, effective, and efficient way to centrally manage approved changes and baselines within a project?
Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
A project manager arranges for project specific training for the new team members.
Under which category does this cost fall?
Objectives can be described as all of the following except for which one? Choose the least correct answer.
You are the project manager for a new website for the local zoo. You need to perform Qualitative Risk Analysis.
When you ' ve completed this process, you ' ll produce all of the following as part of the risk register update output except which one?
The erection of foundation formwork before the placement of foundation concrete would be an example of a _____ dependency.
You know that PV = 470, AC = 430, EV = 480, EAC = 500, and BAC = 525.
What is VAC?
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?
Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes and procedures?
History has shown that project managers can be trained in a combination of ways.
Which method is usually preferred by most companies?
What tool or technique of Estimate Activity Durations uses parameters such as duration, budget, size, weight, and complexity from a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measure for a future project?
In which type of organization(s) is the project manager ' s role most likely part-time?
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected:
Actual cost = $50,000 Plan cost = $45,000 Earned value = $40,000
What is the cost performance index?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data?
BAC = $100,000
PV = $50,000
AC = $80,000
EV = $40,000
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?
You have accumulated project information throughout the project and need to distribute some important information you just received.
Which of the following is not an information distribution method?
The inputs of the Performance Reporting process include all of the following except for which one?
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
Providing forecasts to update current cost and schedule information is a part of which process?
You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on _______ during planning to improve your chance of success.
Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
A 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 about to begin negotiations with people from another country.
Which of the following should provide guidance on what business practices are allowed and not allowed?
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?
The sponsor has informed you that the resources for your project will be cut. The sponsor wants to know how long the project will take if only nine resources each month are committed to your project.
What is this activity called?
Response Planning is the responsibility of the functional areas and considers ___________.
Which of the following is a tool and technique for activity duration estimating?
Which of the following is not true for a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)?
A project manager discovers that two team members discussed what was needed to complete a work package on the project and made many changes to the project scope. The work package is now completed and the team members are planning to go on to the next work package. In looking at what was done, the project manager determines that the work does NOT meet the requirements of the project.
What is the BEST course of action for the project manager?
Which stakeholder is responsible for managing related projects in a coordinated way?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Which analysis helps to determine the risks that have the most potential for impacting the project?
A computer tape which contains historical project information is called ____ tape.
You are a project manager working on gathering requirements and establishing estimates for the project.
Which process group are you in?
You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country. You know, but have not yet informed your company, that you are going to go to work for the competitor, which happens to be bidding for this same opportunity.
What is the most appropriate response?
A(n) _____ is defined as a specified accomplishment in a particular instant in time which does not consume time or resources.
With triangular distribution, the low, likely and high values are 20, 30 and 40, respectively. The mean is _____.
Stakeholder analysis identifies what information and relates it to the purpose of the project?
There are seven members on the project team not counting the project manager and the sponsor. How many communication channels are there?
The Monitoring and Controlling process group contains which of the following processes?
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?
Which of the following is an example of a technique used in quantitative risk analysis?
Continually measuring and monitoring the actual cost versus the budget is done to _____.
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?
The person in the organization that authorizes the commencement of a project is the ______________?
What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
The positive value of conflict is underestimated. Properly managed, conflict is a valuable tool, particularly when __________.
Using the following data, what is the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)?
EV = $500
PV= $750
AC= $1000
BAC= $1200
Employee unions would most likely satisfy which level in Maslow ' s hierarchy of needs?
You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards.
What should you do in this situation?
In which of the following team development stages does the team meet and learn about the project and their formal roles and responsibilities?
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
A non-critical path activity is completed in half the time. Then, ___________.
During the opening rounds of contract negotiation, the other party uses a fait accompli tactic. Which of the following statements is true about fait accompli tactics?
Within a matrix organization, dual reporting of team members is a risk for project success.
Who is responsible for managing this dual reporting relationship factor?
Draw the precedence diagram for the dependencies and activity times below to answer the question. Use AON or another technique to derive the answer using F-S relationships.
What is the total float on path BEG?
The widget production project is well underway. The requirements are clear that each widget must weigh between 0.320 and 0.325 ounces. The first day of test production resulted in 1247 widgets. Of the widgets inspected, 47 percent fell within the acceptable weight range. This is an example of:
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?
The Java development of a project is outsourced to India. The project schedule is starting to slip.
What is the LEAST likely cause of the slippage?
What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Which of the following does NOT assess the value a project brings to an organization?
Which type of control tool identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, Activity B takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes 4 weeks and can start as soon as Activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before Activity G starts. Activity G requires 3 weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed.
Which activities have float available?
A project manager discovers an urgent need for outsourced resources on the project. He knows he has the money to cover the cost of these resources. He goes to the procurement manager and explains the situation, insisting a contract be drawn up today so he can obtain resources and circumvent the standard procedure. Is this the correct process to follow?
Cost management includes processes that are required to maintain financial control of projects. These processes may include:
All of the following are true regarding Communications Planning except for which one?
Which of the following correctly explains the term " progressive elaboration " ?
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?
The project manager has performed schedule network analysis, compressed the schedule, and completed a Monte Carlo analysis.
What time management activity should be done NEXT?