Question 189

You are the project manager of a company that is building ATM 

software for a large bank and financial institutions. You have been told that the ATM software must meet very stringent quality standards. 

Including rigorous auditing of all transactions, ability to recover in case of software/ hardware errors, and fraud detection and analysis.

In order to ensure that these quality standards are met, you’ve invested heavily in proper training of your project staff, instrumented numerous design review and rigorous performed quality planning. 

Which of the following best describes the cost associated with you project?

A. Prevention costs

B. Failure costs

C. Defect cost

D. Appraisal cost

E. Rework cost

Answer: A

 

 

Question 190

A Responsibility Assigned Matrix (RAM) can be used for all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Identifying critical organizational interfaces

B. Determine who is accountable for which activity

C. Track who must review and approve work results

D. Identifying project Schedules and timelines

Answer: D

 

Question 191

Which of the following statements are true regarding Project Scope Management?

A. None of the statements are true

B. Scope verification involves developing a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions

C. Scope control involves creating a project scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined and controlled

D. Scope planning involves developing the preliminary scope statement

E. Scope definition involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller more manageable components

Answer: A

 

Question 192

Configuration management activities included in the integrated change control process include all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Configuration monitoring and control

B. Configuration identification

C. Configuration status accounting

D. Configuration verification and auditing

Answer: A

 

Question 193

You are in the process of controlling changes to project schedule. All of the following are tools/ techniques of this process EXCEPT: A. Schedule control change system

B. Variance analysis

C. Performance measurement

D. Progress reporting

E. Schedule network analysis

Answer: E

 

Question 194

One of your friends is a manager at telecommunications company. She is currently managing a project developing a VoIP (Voice over IP) gateway that addresses the challenges facing service providers deploying packer-based voice networks. The gateway offers a comprehensive approach to implementing high-density carrier-class voice over packet gateway applications.

The project is going well, except for the large number of changes being made for the project requirements. The project is fairly complex, requiring coordination across several different functional departments, 

including marketing, manufacturing, engineering, and finance. To help manage the project, twenty project management processes, were selected for use during this project. In addition, the project manager is also a technical expert regarding VoIP applications and is adept at managing people and communications. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the project is expecting problems?

A. The functional organizational structure made it difficult for the project to be scope correctly

B. Not enough project management processes were utilized C. The project manger did not receive adequate training with regards to the organizational culture and environment D. Stakeholders were not adequately identified

E. The project did not receive adequate management support Answer: D

 

Question 195

You are currently analyzing the schedule of a project. You have noticed that for certain critical-path activities in the project, the schedule completion date of activity versus the actual completion date of the activities differed significantly. Which of the following statements are true?

A. Such schedule variances will impact the schedule

B. Such schedule variances will not impact the schedule C. Such schedule variances may sometimes impact the schedule D. Not enough information is provided

E. Such schedule variances area result of scope changes Answer: A

 

Question 196

You are in the process of tracking team member performance, providing feedback, and coordinating changes to improve project performance. Which of the following tools/ techniques is LEAST 

helpful?

A. Observation and conservation

B. Conflict management

C. Project performance appraisals

D. Team performance assessment

E. Issue log

Answer: D

 

Question 197

You are in process of controlling changes to the project scope. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT:

A. Project scope management updates

B. Scope baseline updates

C. Project management plan updates

D. None of the choices are correct

E. Work break down structure updates

Answer: D

 

Question 198

You are in process of controlling changes to the project cost baseline. 

All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT: A. WBS updates, WBS dictionary updates

B. Lessons learned, project management plan updates

C. Requested changes, recommended corrective actions

D. Cost estimates updates, cost baseline updates

E. Performance measurements, forecasted completion

Answer: A

 

Question 199

You are in process of exterminating which set of project activities will take the longest to complete. Which of the following is the MOST 

appropriate tool to use?

A. Milestone chart

B. WBS

C. RBS

D. Gantt chart

E. Network diagram

Answer: E

 

Question 200

You are a project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena in preparation of the upcoming Olympics.

Construction began on the project a year ago. The stakeholder of the project want a status report on the performance of the project to the date.

Unfortunately, you are afraid of telling your stakeholders that your project is coming in over the budget and the cost change is required using the cost change control system. Which of the following tools were used to calculate the cost variance projection?

A. Performance measurement analysis

B. Project management software

C. Parametric estimating 

D. Performance reports

E. Computerized tools

Answer: A

 

Question 201

Ishikawa diagrams are used in which of the following processes?

A. Perform quality control

B. Create WBS

C. Schedule development

D. Risk management planning

Answer: A

 

Question 202

You are the Chief Technology Officer of a major stock exchange. You are in the charge of the project to reengineer the organization’s back office accounting, billing and administrative system. Your project team is in the process of implementing the technical work required for the project. However one of the stakeholders for your project is requesting variance changes to the project. Which of the following is the best approach to take the beginning of the project in order to manage the project?

A. Add contingency reserves into overall project schedule to plan for any potential change requests

B. Contact the stakeholder to dissuade him from submitting un necessary change request

C. Contact the stakeholder’s supervisor to request that the stakeholder’s activities be limited to the agreed upon scope of he project

D. Involve the stakeholder in the project as early as possible Answer: D

 

Question 203

Which of the following best describes the conflict resolution technique that involves problem solving and fact-finding missions in order to discuss a win-win resolution?

A. Withdrawal 

B. Forcing

C. Confrontation

D. Smoothing 

E. Compromise

Answer: C

 

Question 204

Which of the following statements regarding configuration management system is least true?

A. Configuration management systems establish a method to consistently identify and request changes to established baselines

B. Configuration management systems provide mechanisms to communicate changes to all stakeholders

C. Configuration management systems provide mechanisms to manage risk and implement risk response activities

D.  Configuration management systems provide opportunities to improve project by considering impact of changes

Answer: C

 

Question 205

Which of he following best describes the risks that still remain after avoidance , transfer, or mitigation responses have been implemented?

A. Contingency risks

B. Tertiary risks

C. Residual risks

D. Secondary risks

Answer: C

 

Question 206

With respect to earned value analysis, which of the following is the value of work actually completed?

A. Actual cost(AC)

B. Planed value(PV)

C. Cost variance(CV)

D. Earned value(EV)

Answer: D

 

Question 207

Which of the following illustrate a chart with upper /lower limits on which value of some statistical measure for a series of samples are plotted using sample measure measurement, where the mean and standard deviation are determine from the sample selected?

A. Statistical sampling

B. Gantt chart

C. Pareto diagram

D. Scatter diagram

E. Control chart

Answer: E

Question 208

Which of the following statement are false regarding issue logs?

A. Issue logs are written logs that document person responsible for resolving for specific issue by a target date 

B. Issue logs are tool of manage stakeholders process C. Issue logs are tool of manage project team process D. Issue logs describes the ground rules and conflict management procedures to manage the project

Answer: D

 

Question 209

Your company is making a strategy shift: form being focused on fulfilling customer requests for becoming the best cost dairy producer in industry. Its existing cost manufacturing cost system, however fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small production orders, and complex delivery and order processing options. 

Hence you’ve been assigned to supervise an existing project to develop a new time-drive, activity-based costing system that will capture the full complexity of the company’s operations and gives managers new insights into the profitability orders, products, and customers. Senior management will use the information to enhance process efficiencies, negotiating new terms with customers, and attempt to win new business.

You are taking over the project during the planning process group. 

Upon reviewing the project charter, you discover that eight individuals were requiring to sign-off the project charter in order to authorize the project. Which of the following should cause the MOST concern?

A. Your ability to yield adequate authority to make resource allocation decisions regarding the project

B. The difficulty in determining who will serve on the change control board due to the number of stake holders.

C. The overhead that is required to notify the large number of stakeholders regarding changes that affect the project D. The ability to develop adequate cost and scope baseline E. The amount of time that will be spent on configuration management due to the number of stake holders

Answer: E

 

Question 210

Product analysis uses which of the following techniques EXCEPT: A. Value analysis

B. Inspection

C. Product break down

D. Systems engineering

E. Functional analysis

Answer: B

 

Question 211

A poorly defined staffing management plan will LEAST impact: A. Human resource planning

B. Acquire project team

C. Manage project team

D. Cost estimating

E. Develop project team

Answer: A

 

Question 212

You are the project manager responsible for constructing new 100-unit apartment in downtown Manhattan. As part of construction project, you are planning to outsource the electrical wiring of the building to an outside contracting firm. The contracting firm has requested a statement of work from you. Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the contract SOW?

A. The SOW contains the objectives of the project

B. As a buyer, you re required to write SOW

C. The SOW is an output of the and acquisitions process and an input to the plan contracting process

D. The outside contracting firm requires a SOW to determine they have the capabilities to meet the detailed specifications of the project

Answer: B

 

Question 213

Activity cost estimates and its supporting details are output of which process?

A. Activity duration estimation

B. Cost control

C. Cost estimating

D. Activity resource estimating

E. Cost budgeting

Answer: C

 

Question 214

Which of the following best describes the amount of time one can delay the start of a task without delaying the start of a successor task?

A. Lag time

B. Lead time

C. None of the choices are correct

D. Total slack

E. Free slack

Answer: E

 

Question 215

You’ve been hired as a project manager for a local community college. 

The community college wants you upgrade the hardware for each of its web servers, and install the necessary security patches for each web-server.

You are ready to begin the activity duration estimation process. You are told that there are total 50 web-servers that need to be upgraded. 

From past experience, you know that it takes about two hours to upgrade the hardware and install patches on each web server. 

Therefore, you estimate that it will take approximately 100 hours to complete this project. Which duration estimation technique did u just see?

A. Analogous estimation

B. Quantitatively based durations

C. Decomposition

D. Expert judgment

E. Reserve time

Answer: B

 

Question 216

A risk management plan is a subset of the project management plan and describes how risk management should be performed. All of the following should be included in the risk management plan EXCEPT: A. None of the choices are correct

B. Budgeting, timing, risk categories

C. Methodology, roles and responsibilities

D. P-l matrix, tracking

E. Stakeholder tolerance, reporting formats

Answer: A

 

Question 217

You are using the three-point estimating technique to estimate the duration of a schedule activity. Which of the following is the correct formula for calculating variance assuming a triangular distribution?

A. [(optimistic-pessimistic)^2+(most likely-pessimistic)*(most likely-optimistic)]/18

B. ((optimistic-pessimistic)/6)^2

C. (pessimistic + optimistic + most likely )/3

D. (pessimistic +4 *(most likely)+ optimistic)/6

Answer: A

 

Question 218

You are in the process of identifying and documenting the logical relationships among schedule activities. Which of the following are NOT inputs to this process?

A. Project scope statement

B. Project schedule network diagram

C. Approved change requests

D. Activity lists, activity attributes

E. Milestones list

Answer: B

 

Question 219

You are in the process of estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following are tools techniques you can use EXCEPT:

A. Estimating duration from a previous similar schedule activities based upon historical information and expert judgment B. Estimation duration by using contingency reserves

C. Estimating duration by multiplying the quantity of work to be performed by productivity rate

D. Estimating duration by performing a forward pass and backward pass analysis through the project schedule network paths E. Estimating duration by calculating the average of three duration estimates (most likely, optimistic, pessimistic)

Answer: D

 

Question 220

Which of the following best describes a cost and schedule planning techniques where details are developed for the near term and general allocations are made for work far in the future. Detail is developed for work far in the future as information becomes available to do so.

A. Milestone lists

B. Planning components

C. Schedule network templates

D. Rolling wave planning

E. Decomposition

Answer: D

 

Question 221

You are in the process of defining activities that need to be performed to develop the necessary project deliverables. Which of the following are NOT outputs that you will produce during this process?

A. Milestone list

B. Planning component

C. Requested changes

D. Activity attributes

E. Activity list

Answer: B

 

Question 222

All of the following are types of strategies that one can use to deal with risks with upside opportunity EXCEPT:

A. Transfer

B. Enhance

C. Exploit

D. Accept

E. Share

Answer: A

 

Question 223

You are in the process of estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities. All of the following are valuable inputs to this process EXCEPT: A. Risk register, activity cost estimates

B. Historical information, historical reference data

C. Project schedule network diagrams

D. Duration estimation databases

E. Activity resource requirements, resource calendar

Answer: C

 

Question 224

You are in the process of establishing a total cost baseline for measuring project performance. Which of the following is the LEAST 

helpful tool / technique?

A. Reserve analysis

B. Vendor bid analysis

C. Cost aggregation

D. Parametric estimation

E. Funding limit reconciliation

Answer: B

 

Question 225

In which of the project processes should one determine whether to obtain products and services from outside the organization?

A. Plan purchases and acquisition

B. Schedule development

C. Activity sequencing

D. Scope definition

E. Risk identification

Answer: A

 

Question 226

Expert judgment is a tool/ technique in all of the following EXCEPT: A. Develop project management plan

B. Develop project charter

C. Communications planning

D. Develop preliminary project scope statement

E. Scope planning

Answer: C

 

Question 227

You have been recently been assigned to provide an accurate project schedule for constructing a new 50-story casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. You are evaluating the network diagram for the construction project, and are using the forward pass calculations to construct the schedule.

You are trying to calculate the earliest start time for laying the foundation of the building. The expected duration for this task is 150 

days. The task must be completed within 300 days, while the expected completion is within 220 days. The latest finish time is 200 days. 

Based on this information, what is the earliest start time of this task?

A. 50

B. 300

C. Not enough information is provided

D. 150

E. 200

Answer: C

 

Question 228

You are the project manager responsible for renovating a 70-year old office building. You intend to hire an outside construction firm to seismic retrofit the building in order to make that the building can with stand large earthquakes. You are in the process of selecting a contract type best suited for this project. You would like to select a contract type that transfers the risks onto the seller for any cost risk and non-performance issues. Which contract type should you choose?

A. CPPC contracts

B. CPFF contracts

C. Cost reimbursable contracts

D. T&M contracts

E. Fixed price contracts

Answer: E

 

Question 229

All of the statements regarding decision tree analysis is true EXCEPT: A. Decision tree analysis is a tool/ technique of Quantitative Risk Analysis

B. Decision tree analysis uses EMV analysis

C. Decision tree is a technique for measuring the performance of a work and is used to create the performance measurement baseline

D. EMV is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome of project outcomes based on various assumptions and scenarios E. Decision tree is a diagramming technique used to select the best course of action in situations where the future outcomes are uncertain

Answer: C

 

Question 230

Qualitative risk analysis requires accurate data as its input. Risk Data Quality Assessment is a technique to evaluate the degree to which the data regarding risks would be useful. What is the best course of action if the Risk Data Quality Assessment for most of the identified risks are low?

A. Attempt to gather more accurate data

B. Re-evaluate the risk data quality assessment

C. Develop a probability-impact matrix to compensate for the low rankings

D. No further actions are needed, since a low Risk Data Quality Assessment is ideal

Answer: A

 

Question 231

Which of the following are not tools/ techniques that can be used to create the WBS?

A. WBS dictionary

B. Decomposition

C. None of the choices are correct

D. Work breakdown structure templates

Answer: A

 

Question 232

Which of the following statements are true regarding Management Reserves?

A. Management Reserves are used to ensure that the expenditure of funds is reconciles with the funding limits imposed by the performing organization

B. Management Reserves describes the differences between the maximum funding and the end of the cost baseline

C. Management Reserves are part of the project management plan and is usually displayed as a S-Shaped curve.

D. Management Reserves is a technique for measuring the performance of work and is used to establish the performance measurement baseline

Answer: B

 

Question 233

You are currently in the process of prioritizing risks by their impact or probability of occurrence. Which of following tools/ techniques are LEAST useful?

A. Risk categorization

B. Root cause identification

C. Risk urgency assessment

D. Risk data quality assessment

E. Probability impact matrix

Answer: B

 

Question 234

All of the following statements regarding Control Accounts are true EXCEPT:

A. A control account is an assigned WBS level used to monitor cost and schedule performance of significant element of work.

B. Control accounts are also referred to as cost accounts C. None of the choices are correct

D. A control account is a management control point for cost summarization, scope description, and variance analysis and reporting.

E. Each work package/ planning package may be associated with only one control account

Answer: C

 

Question 235

Keeping up with the growth was becoming a problem for a privately owned Chinese financial services company. Although it easily lured business from state-owned competitors, low skill levels and weak accounting systems threaten the company’s cash flow. Moreover, poorly invested assets were delivering inadequate returns.

Hence, you have been assigned over an existing project to upgrade the IT system to allow for an expansion. Specifically, the IT upgrade will enable the company to serve more competitors, expand the product line, gain market share, and win more licenses.

Your project team has already created the WBS, developed estimates for the work packages, and created the project network diagram. 

Which of the following should you perform NEXT?

A. Implement schedule change control system

B. Finalize risk management activities

C. Create the preliminary project schedule

D. Identify logical relationship among activities

E. Decompose the work packages into smaller components called schedule activities

Answer: C

 

Question 236

You are in the process of establishing a total cost baseline for measuring project performance. All of the following are outputs of this process EXCEPT:

A. Cost management plan updates

B. Scope baseline

C. Activity cost estimates

D. Project funding requirements

E. Requested changes

Answer: C

 

Question 237

You are the project manager for a construction company. Your firm has been contracted to complete the construction of a 10-story office building. This project will use three point estimates to calculate the estimates for activity duration. You have the following estimates for task A (creating the foundation).

Assuming the triangular distribution what is the average duration estimate based on the following three point estimates?

Pessimistic= 100 days

Optimistic= 40 days

Most likely=65 days

A. 66.66

B. 75

C. 70

D. 68.33

E. 65

Answer: D

 

Question 238

Which of the following processes is involved with identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and devising a plan on how to meet / satisfy these standards?

A. Perform quality control

B. None of the choices are correct

C. Quality planning 

D. Perform quality assurance

Answer: C

 

Question 239

Which of the following statement are FALSE regarding the probability impact matrix technique?

A. The probability impact matrix specifies combinations of probability and impact that rank the risk as high, moderate and low priority

B. Either descriptive terms or numeric rankings can be used to assign risk rankings to identified risks.

C. In the probability impact matrix the probability and impacts of each risks are accessed against defined scale, and plotted on a two-dimensional grid.

D.  Opportunities and threats should not be evaluated in the same matrix concurrently.

E. An organization can rate a risk separately for each objective (i.e. 

cost, time, scope)

Answer: D

 

Question 240

You are the project manger at a software company developing the next-gen web application server. As software development can be very chaotic, your company has elected to follow the more rigorous approach to software development. Specifically, your company has chosen to adopt the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for your current software project.

The RUP methodology is highly iterative and produces numerous deliverables include UML diagrams, architecture diagrams, prototypes, and test-cases. You have just produce the project schedule network diagram and just updated the project activity list. Which process have you just finished?

A. Activity sequencing

B. Activity duration estimation

C. Schedule development

D. Activity definition

Answer: A

 

Question 241

You are in the process of identifying and documenting the project roles and responsibilities and create staffing management plan. All of the following are tools/ techniques you can use EXCEPT:

A. RBS, OBS

B. Organizational theory

C. RAM, RACI

D. General management skills

E. Networking

Answer: D

 

Question 242

You are in the process of painting your house. Since you do not want to start painting your house prior to rain storm, you check the weather report to make sure that weather is permitting. Which type of dependency best describes the relationship between the weather and your project?

A. External dependency

B. Discretionary dependency

C. Mandatory dependency

D. None of the choices are correct

Answer: A

 

Question 243

The risk register is initiated in the Risk Identification process and further updated in the Qualitative Risk analysis and Quantitative Risk analysis processes. Which of the following are NOT risk register updates as part of the Quantitative Risk Analysis process?

A. Prioritized list of qualified risks

B. Residual risk that remain after planned responses are executed C. Probabilistic analysis of the project

D. Trends in quantitative risk analysis results

E. Probability of achieving cost and time objects

Answer: B

 

Question 244

You are the project manager at Construction Company, assigned to build 30-storey apartment building. In order to being constructing the 

frame of the building, the foundation of the building must be built. 

Which of the following relationship types best describes this dependency between framing and foundation?

A. Finish-To-Start

B. Start-To-Start

C. Finish-To-Finish

D. Start-To-Finish

Answer: A

 

Question 245

You are the project manager at a utility company. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, your organization is exploring cheaper, alternative forms of energy. You have just completed the project Scope Planning process and created the Scope management plan. 

However, upon review, you have determined that the resulting  project scope management plan is ambiguous and poorly written. A poorly written project scope management plan will directly impact all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Ability to define, prepare and integrate, all subsidiary plan, into the project management plan

B. Ability to formalize acceptance of the project deliverables C. Ability to create a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions.

D. Ability to control changes to the project scope

E. Ability to identify the necessary activities that needs to be performed to produce project deliverables

Answer: A

 

Question 246

All of the following are considered schedule network analysis techniques EXCEPT:

A. What-if analysis

B. Critical chain method

C. Critical path method

D. Resource leveling

E. PDM/ ADM

Answer: E

 

Question 247

Which of the following processes involves determining what resource and what quantities of each should be used to perform project activities?

A. Activity definition

B. Cost budgeting

C. Cost estimation

D. Activity resource estimation

E. Activity sequencing

Answer: D

 

Question 248

Which of the following documents generated by the create WBS 

process includes a code of account identifier, a statement of work, and a list of schedule milestones for each WBS component?

A. WBS

B. Scope baseline

C. WBS dictionary

D. Organizational process assets

E. WBS templates

Answer: C

 

Question 249

You are the project manager assigned to construct a new 10-story office building. You are trying to estimate the costs for this project. 

You start by assigning the costs associated with each of the project activity. Then you sum up all the individual costs into a final cost estimate. Which type of cost estimation technique did you use?

A. Analogous estimation

B. Parametric estimation

C. Monte Carlo methods

D. Bottom-up estimation

Answer: D

 

 

Question 250

The risk register describes all the identified risks. Which of the following is NOT included as part of the risk register?

A. Risk description, category, cause

B. Risk-related contractual agreements

C. Proposed responses, owners, current status

D. Probability of occurrence, impact on objectives

Answer: B