PMP_QA_1000_Questions Part 06

 

 

Question 389

You are the project manger at a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics, personal computers and peripherals. Unfortunately, your company is facing a rapidly maturing market characterized by consolidation and commoditization. Hence you have been assigned a project to drive growth and profit by integrating an online CRM 

(costumer relationship management) solution. Industry benchmarks suggest the CRM solution should generate $100-$300M in bottom the benefits.

The project timeline is very aggressive and a lot is at stake with this project. Hence every week you report on the progress and status of the project to all the stakeholders and project sponsors. Your project team has already completed the project initials and project planning activities and received sign off and approval on the project charter, project scope and detailed work packages. Your project team is in the process of completing all the work packages. The project time line is very aggressive and your project has a SPI of 1.2 and CPI of1.3. Final review of the project deliverables have been scheduled for the end of the months. 

Unfortunately as your project near completion you are informed that your project is being cancelled since the resulting product is unacceptable and does not meet the business needs of the organization. Which of the following is most likely cause of this scenario?

A. The project status was not properly communicated to the interested parties

B. Your project resources were required on the higher priority project

C. The project was behind schedule and plagued with cost overrun D. The project charter did not provide enough detail regarding the project goals prior to sign off

E. A key stakeholder is not sufficiently involved in the project Answer: E

Question 390

Which of the following is true regarding configuration control board?

A. A CCB describes how change request will be managed and tracked

B. A CCB is a collection of procedures that describes how to submit change request

C. A CCB defines the level of authority needed to approve changes

D. A CCB has the authority to approve  or project request Answer: D

Question 391

Which of the following is configuration management activity that is involved with ensuring that the performance and the functional requirement defined in the configuration document have been met?

A. Configuration status accounting 

B. None of the choices are correct

C. Configuration definition

D. Configuration identification

E. Configuration verification and auditing 

Answer: E

Question 392

You are a project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena in preparation of upcoming Olympics. Construction begins on the project over a year ago. The stakeholder of a project wants a status report on the performance of the project to date. 

Unfortunately you are afraid to tell your stakeholders that your project is coming in significant behind schedule. In fact schedule delays are so severe that the rebaselining of the project schedule is required. Which of the following statement are true?

A. Rebaselining is used as your first resort in controlling the schedule

B. Approval from all stakeholders is required prior to rebaselining the schedule

C. Historical data may be removed when you rebaseline the schedule

D. None of the choices are correct

Answer: C

Question 393

All are the part of scope baseline except:

A. Project scope statement

B. WBS

C. WBS dictionary

D. Corrective actions

Answer: D

Question 394

Risk monitoring and control process involves all of the following except:

A. Quantifying the possible outcome for the project and their probabilities

B. Reanalyzing existing risks

C. Monitoring trigger for contingency plan

D. Reviewing execution of risk Reponses

E. Tracking identified risks

Answer: A

Question 395

You are a project manager at java ice cream factory. You are currently supervising the manufacturing of new flavor ice cream java bean, burgundy crunch. The manufacturing of this flavor was proceeding as planned, until a manufacturing error occurred that requires corrective action to be taken. Ironically the manufacturing error resulted in a new variant of the flavor.

Product team really thinks that flavor would be a success in a marketplace. They have asked you to cancel the corrective action, and integrate this serendipitous discovery in the manufacturing process. As a project manager you have realized that this has resulted in a change in project scope. Which of the following statement are true?

A. Workarounds are used to correct problems that occur with changes in the project scope

B. Changes to the product scope should be in the project scope C. Changes to the product scope are a result of implementing corrective actions

D. Changes to the product scope are defined in the integrated change control plan 

Answer: B

Question 396

You are a project manager for a company that sells online music. Your project is to develop a new content management system that will not only manage all users purchase downloads, but will automatically learn the users music interests in order to make future product recommendations. In addition your content management system must scale to support millions of concurrent music downloads a day.

Your team has made significant progress on the project. You are preparing the performance of a project to date and have calculated the following measurements.

PV=4,000

 EV= 3,500

 AC= 3,000

Which of the following statements are true?

A. The CV is positive number, which implies that your project is under budget

B. The CV is positive number, which implies that your project is over budget

C. The CV is negative number, which implies that your project is under budget

D. The CV is negative number, which implies that your project is over budget

Answer: A

Question 397

Which of the following statements are true regarding project risk management?

A. None of the statements are true

B. Qualitative risk analysis involves numerically analyzing the impacts of identified risks

C. Risk monitoring and control involves tracking identified risks and executing risk response

D. Risk identification involves how to plan and execute risk management activities

E. Risk management planning involves determining which risks might affect the project

Answer: C

Question 398

Which of the following statements are true regarding cost and schedule variances?

A. The amount of variance of CV and SV values tend to increase as the project reaches completion

B. The amount of variance of CV and SV values remain the same as the project reaches completion

C. Schedule variance will ultimately equal to cost variance when project is completed

D. The amount of variance of CV and SV values tend to decrease as the project reaches completion

Answer: D

Question 399

You are the project manager for the company that sells online music. 

Your project is to develop a new content management system that will not only manage all users purchases and downloads, but will automatically learn the users music interests in order to make future product recommendations. In addition your content management system must scale to support millions of concurrent music downloads a day.

Your team has made significant progress on the project. You are preparing the performance of a project to date and have calculated the following measurements.

PV=4,000

 EV= 3,500

 AC= 3,000

What is the SPI of this project?

A. 1.333

B. 0.875

C. 1.14

D. 1.16

E. 0.75

Answer: B

Question 400

Which of the following statements are false regarding the cost change control system?

A. It defines the procedures by which the cost baseline may be changes

B. It defines the approval level necessary for authorizing the changes

C. It provides information on the project scope and cost performance, such as which budgets have been met and which are not.

D. It should be integrated into the integrated change control system

E. Integrated change control system

Answer: C

Question 401

Which of the following statements are NOT techniques used to resolve conflicts on a project?

A. Directing, smoothing

B. Forcing, smoothing

C. Compromise, confrontation

D. Withdrawal, forcing

E. Controlling, compromise

Answer: A, E

Question 402

Which of the following s most likely to require a rebaselining in order to provide a realistic measure of performance?

A. Revised cost estimates

B. Corrective actions

C. Change requests

D. Budget updates

Answer: D

Question 403

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. She is in the process of developing the project schedule, and has determined that the project has 4 critical paths. Which of the following BEST describes how the project will be impacted?

A. The project will cost more

B. The scenario is incorrect, as a project can only have one critical path

C. The project will require more people

D. The project risk will increase

Answer: D

Question 404

You are the project manager within a large multi-national company. 

Your current project involves a large software development project that involves coordination of resources across four different reengineering teams across three different countries. Specifically your UI team is based in India, your database team and middleware team is in U.S., and your QA team is in Canada. The engineers in each of the team report to geographic functional manger, but are currently on loan to you for your project.

You are currently in the process of assessing the completion status for each work packages. In order to develop an accurate status of the project, you’ve asked each of the engineers to report their percentage complete for their respective deliverables.

However, when asked for the percentage completion status, one of the QA engineers innocently responds, “Percentage complete of what exactly?” ever since the project started you’ve always thought that this QA engineer was difficult to manage. Especially tired of such comments, you finally decided to report to the QA engineer’s functional manager regarding the engineer’s lack of cooperation. 

Based on the scenario described above, which of the following BEST 

describes the real problem?

A. The QA engineer was not technically competent and could not meet the satisfy his assigned responsibilities.

B. There was a conflict of interest between your project and QA engineer’s objectives

C. You should have met with functional manager the first time you encountered problems with this engineer, rather than let the problem escalate.

D. You did not receive the necessary support from the functional manager regarding your project

E. The work packages were not adequately defined for the project Answer: E

Question 405

You are in the process of controlling changes to the project cost baseline. Which of the following is the LEAST helpful tool/ technique?

A. Cost change control system

B. Forecasting, variance management

C. Analogous estimating, parametric estimating

D. Performance measurement analysis

E. Project performance reviews

Answer: C

Question 406

Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding project time management?

A. Schedule cost involving changes to the project schedule B. Activity resource estimating involves estimating type and qualities of resources required to perform each schedule activity C. None of the choices are correct

D. Activity sequencing involves identifying dependencies among schedule activities

E. Schedule development involves analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements in order to create project schedule

Answer: C

Question 407

The applied level of change control is LEAST dependent upon: A. Complexity of specified project

B. Context and environment in which project is performed C. Application area

D. Stakeholder risk tolerances

E. Contract requirements

Answer: D

Question 408

Which of the following calculates the difference between the budget at completion and estimate at completion?

A. EAC

B. VAC

C. EV

D. CV

E. SV

Answer: B

Question 409

Which of the following best describes this illustration?

A. Cause and effect diagram

B. Histogram

C. Gantt chart

D. Scatter diagram

E. Pareto chart

Answer: B

Question 410

Approved corrective actions are an input to which process?

A. Schedule development 

B. Direct an manage project execution

C. Integrate change control

D. Scope verification

E. Scope control

Answer: B

Question 411

Change control system, variance analysis, replanning and configuration management systems are tool/ techniques of which process?

A. Scope planning

B. Scope control

C. Scope verification

D. Scope definition

Answer: B

Question 412

You are project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena for the upcoming Olympics. Construction began on a project over a year ago. The stakeholders of the project want a status report on the performance of the project to date. You’ve obtained the following measurements:

BAC=500, ETC=200, PV=500, AC=200, EV=300, CPI=1.5

You believe the type of variances that have occurred on the project to date are typical, and do not expect these variances to continue. What is the VAC for the project?

A. 100

B. 400

C. 300

D. 200

E. 333.33

Answer: A

Question 413

Which of the following consists of tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of the project management processes?

A. EVM

B. PDM

C. WBS

D. PMIS

E. ADM

Answer: D

Question 414

You are the project manager at the Java Ice Cream Factory. You are currently supervising the manufacturing of a new flavor of ice cram JavaBean Burgundy Crunch. The manufacturing of this new flavor was proceeding as planned, until a manufacturing error occurred that requires corrective actions to be taken. To ensure the effectiveness of corrective actions, corrective actions frequently require which of the following?

A. Resource leveling

B. Rebaselining project schedule baseline

C. Performance measurements

D. Rebaselining project cost baseline

E. Root-cause analysis

Answer: E

Question 415

All of the following statements are TRUE regarding ground rules EXCEPT:

A. Ground rules area tools/ techniques of develop project team process

B. Ground rules are a list of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors adopted by project team.

C. All project team members share responsibility for enforcing the ground rules

D. Ground rules help to improve working relationships and communication

E. Ground rules help to authorize and define the scope of a new phase or project.

Answer: E

Question 416

You are in the process of reviewing all change requests and controlling changes to deliverables and organizational process assets. All of the following are INPUTS except:

A. Work performance information

B. Recommended preventive actions and corrective actions C. Requested changes

D. Forecasts

E. Project management plan

Answer: D

Question 417

Which of the following BEST describes the procedures by which the project schedule can change, and includes the paperwork, tracking systems, and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes?

A. Schedule change control system

B. None of the statements are correct

C. Integrated change control

D. Schedule comparison bar charts

E. Configuration management system

Answer: A

Question 418

The administrative closure procedure is an output of the close project process. It is an input to which process?

A. Manage stakeholders

B. Integrated change control

C. Direct and manage project execution

D. Contract closure

Answer: C

Question 419

You are the project manager at a large accounting firm in the United States. Throughout the year your firm provides both consulting services and accounting/ auditing services to XYZ Widgets, Inc, a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. 

Currently, your project involves auditing the financial statements of XYZ Widgets Inc, in preparation for the annual shareholders/ investors meeting.

While your team is in the midst of project execution, you are informed that your project is due to new SEC regulations. Specifically, a new 

SEC regulation prohibits accounting firms from providing both consulting services and auditing services to a client, due to potential conflicts of interest that could arise from such business relationships.

As a result, your project is cancelled, and the budget for your project is cut. Without the necessary budget, your project team is disbanded and your project team members go to their separate ways. Which of the following statements are true?

A. Since the project ended due to starvation, the scope verification process is no longer necessary

B. Since the project ended due to integration, the scope verification process is no longer necessary

C. Since the project ended due to starvation, you should document the level and degree of completeness during the Scope Verification process.

D. Since the project ended due to integration, you should document the level and degree of completeness during the Scope Verification process.

E. Since the project ended due to extinction, the scope verification process is no longer necessary

Answer: C

Question 420

The administrative closure procedure that is an output of the close project process includes all of the following EXCEPT: A. Define stakeholders approval requirements for changes B. Validate exit criteria have been satisfied 

C. Verify all deliverables have been provided and accepted D. Close all contracts associated with the completed project E. Confirm that the project has met sponsor and stake holder’s requirements

Answer: D

Question 421

In which of the following documents will you find specific procedures for contract closure?

A. Contract terms and conditions

B. Project plan

C. Procurement audit documentation

D. Contract change control system

E. Contract file

Answer: A

Question 422

Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding the relationship between project phase and project life cycles?

A. Collectively, the project phases are known as the project life cycle

B. The conclusion of project phase is generally marked by a review of key deliverables and current project performance

C. Project phase-end reviews are often called phase-exits D. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more milestones

Answer: D

Question 423

All of the following are outputs of the close project process EXCEPT: A. Historical information

B. Project management plan updates

C. Project closure documents

D. Formal acceptance documentation

E. Project files

Answer: B

Question 424

Your project is coming to an end, and you are in the process of listing the activities that must be performed to close out the project. Which of the following should be performed during the closing processes?

A. Seek legal counsel from the company’s attorney prior to closing the project

B. Request final inspection reports for all vendor supplied products C. Issue a formal notice of project completion to sellers D. Issue payment schedules and requests

Answer: C

Question 425

Which of the following documents formally indicates that the customer or sponsor has officially accepted the project deliverables?

A. Historical information

B. Formal acceptance documentation

C. Project closure documents

D. Project files

Answer: B

Question 426

Historical record from previous project are generally used for all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Lessons learned

B. Estimating

C. Risk management

D. Project planning

Answer: A

Question 427

Which of the following statements are true?

A. Procurement audits review the procurement process from plan purchases and acquisition to contract administration

B. Procurement audits review the procurement process from plan purchases and acquisition to close project

C. Procurement audits review the procurement process from plan purchases and acquisition to contract closure

D. Procurement audits review the procurement process from plan contracting to contract closure

Answer: A

Question 428

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. All the technical work has already been completed on the project, and the project is in the closing phase. All of the following should be performed at this stage EXCEPT:

A. Analyze the success or failure of the project

B. Documents lessons learned

C. Perform product verification

D. Create the project archives

E. Obtain formal acceptance of the project scope and deliverables Answer: E

Question 429

Which of the following statements are true regarding the procurement audit?

A. The primary purpose of procurement audit is to identify lessons learned during the procurement process

B. The procurement audit is a tool/ technique of the contract administration process

C. The procurement audit is a tool/ technique of the close project process

D. The procurement audit provides information regarding how effectively the seller is meeting contractual obligations Answer: A

Question 430

You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a bio-tech company to develop anew drug for the treatment of malignant melanoma. As part of feasibility study, your team has been evaluating the feasibility for such a drug using computer simulation.

Your team has just completed one of the project phases by designing a potential chemical compound using a sophisticated computer model. 

You would like to have model reviewed prior to deciding whether to move to the next phase of the project. According to the PMI, these type of reviews are called:

A. Phase exists

B. Deliverables

C. Target goals

D. Milestones

Answer: A

Question 431

Which of the following formulas is used to calculate the SPI (schedule performance index)?

A. EV-PV

B. EV-AC

C. EV/PV

D. EV/AC

E. EAC-AC

Answer: C

Question 432

Which of the following statements are false regarding the administrative closure procedure?

A. The administrative closure procedure is an output of the close project process

B. The administrative closure procedure addresses the terms and conditions of the contract for contract closure

C. The administrative closure procedure addresses the completion or exit criteria for the project

D. The administrative closure procedure describes the procedure to transfer the project products or services to production and/ or operations

E. The administrative closure procedure addresses the stakeholders approval requirements

Answer: B

Question 433

Contract file and formal acceptance and closure are outputs of which processes?

A. Contract closure

B. Contract administration

C. Information distribution

D. Manage stakeholders

E. Performance reporting

Answer: A

Question 434

Product verification is usually performed in the closing process. Which of the following statements are true?

A. Product verification is performed during the close project process B. Product verification provides management with information about how effectively the seller is achieving the contractual objectives

C. Product verification is a method for quantifying qualitative data to minimize the effect of biases during select sellers D. Product verification includes samples of the suppliers previous products for the purpose of providing a way to evaluate a supplier’s capabilities

Answer: A

Question 435

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

Which of the following is the LEAST helpful input?

A. Work performance information

B. Project funding requirements

C. Performance measurements

D. Performance reports

E. Project management plan

Answer: C

Question 436

A WBS can be used foe all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Describe functional managers for each team member

B. Manage/ control scope creep

C. Communicate with customers

D. Help new team members understand their roles

Answer: A

Question 437

Recommended corrective actions are an input to which process?

A. Integrate change control

B. Direct and manage project execution

C. Scope verification

D. Scope control

E. Schedule development

Answer: A

Question 438

You are the project manager at a large accounting firm in the United States. Your current project involves auditing the financial statements of a Fortune 100 company. You are currently utilizing network diagrams to track and schedule the execution of various auditing tasks through out the project. 

You are performing a backward pass analysis of the project schedule. 

It is important for you to examine activities that have _________ 

slack?

A. Negative

B. Forward

C. Backward

D. Zero

E. Positive

Answer: A

Question 439

Which of the following objectives is LEAST likely accomplish by implementing a project-wide application of the configuration management system?

A. Provides a mechanism to communicate changes to stakeholders B. Provides opportunities to improve the project by considering the impact of each change

C. Provides a method to identify and manage risks

D. Establishes a method to identify and request changes to project baseline

Answer: C

Question 440

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.

The project timeline is very aggressive and a lot is at stake with this project. Hence, every week you report on the progress and status of the project to all the necessary stakeholders and sponsors. Your project team has already completed all the initial and project planning activities and received sign-off and approvals on the project charter, project scope, and detailed work packages. Your project team is in the process of completing all the work packages. Te project timeline is very aggressive, and your project has the SPI of 1.2 and CPI of 1.3. A final review of the project deliverables has been scheduled foe the end of the month.

Unfortunately, as your project near completion, you are informed that your project is being cancelled since the resulting product is unacceptable and does not meet the business needs of the organization. All the resources on your project are being reassigned to another project. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this scenario?

A. The project charter did not provide enough details regarding the project goals prior to sign-off

B. The project was behind schedule and plagued with cist overruns

C. A key stakeholder was not sufficiently involved in the project D. Your project resources were required on a separate project E. A project status was not properly communicated to the interested parties

Answer: C

Question 441

Which of the following calculates how much additional budget is required in order to complete the project, assuming the current project performance to date?

A. CV

B. EV

C. ETC

D. VAC

E. EAC

Answer: C

Question 442

Which of the following is most likely to require a rebaselining of the cost baseline in order to provide a realistic measure of performance?

A. Change requests

B. Revised cost estimates

C. Budget updates

D. Cost management plan update

E. Corrective actions

Answer: C

Question 443

All of the following are FALSE regarding bar charts EXCEPT: A. Bar charts are generally better at illustrating the resource trade-offs compared with network diagrams

B. Bar charts are generally better at illustrating progress or status compared with network diagrams

C. Bar charts are generally better at illustrating critical paths compared with network diagrams

D. Bar charts are generally better at illustrating logical relationship compared with network diagrams

Answer: A

Question 444

All of the following statements are true regarding the cost control process EXCEPT:

A. Prevent authorize changes from being included in the cost baseline

B. Inform stakeholders from authorize changes

C. Monitor cost performance and understand cost variances D. Changes are accurately reflected in the project scope Answer: D

Question 445

You have been assigned to a project to build the largest U.S. natural gas pipeline project in more than 20 years. The proposed 1,350-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline will provide valuable infrastructure allowing producers in the Rocky Mountain region to deliver their natural gas to attractive markets in the Midwest and northeastern parts of the U.S.

You are in the process of developing the schedule for the project and you have given the following activity duration estimates. However the project sponsor would like to share a few weeks off the project duration. Which activity should you shorten in order to reduce the overall duration of the project?

A. Activity Start-U

B. Activity W-End

C. Activity T-S

D. Activity Start-S

E. Activity T-X

Answer: B

Question 446

You are a project manager at a real estate company that develops and manages commercial, retail and residential properties in United States and Europe. As a company continues to grow, the company’s IT 

infrastructure is unable to meet business needs of organization.

Specifically, you have been assigned to upgrade the company’s IT 

infrastructure. Specifically, your team has been asked to implement a corporate general ledger system, improve accounting and real estate processes, develop and implement lease tracking system, and implement HR and payroll systems and perform diagnostics and monthly closures.

Your project team has already completed all the initiating / project planning activities and received sign-off approvals on the project charter, project scope, and detailed work packages. Your project team is in the process of completing all the work packages.

However, your client has just file a change request to add additional reporting functionality to the IT application. Fortunately you have already determined that this functionality will only add one week to the critical path. To accommodate with the request, you’ve determined that you could compress the schedule to recover one extra week. 

Which of the following should you perform NEXT?

A. Implement the change request

B. Consult the project sponsor before taking action

C. Investigate other options on how to implement the change requests with minimal impact to the project

D. Evaluate the impact to the change request on the other project constraints

E. Inform the client the impact of the change

Answer: B

Question 447

All of the following are reporting techniques used in the Cost control process EXCEPT:

A. Cost-benefit analysis

B. Earned value technique

C. Trend analysis

D. Variance analysis

Answer: A

Question 448

With respect to value analysis which of the following is the portion of the approved cost estimate that has been budgeted for an activity during a certain time period?

A. Planned value (PV)

B. Earned value (EV)

C. Actual cost (AC)

D. Cost variance (CV)

Answer: A

Question 449

You are in the process of reviewing all change requests and controlling changes to deliverables and organizational process asset. All of the following are inputs you need EXCEPT:

A. Recommended defect repair

B. Requested changes

C. Project charter

D. Work performance information

E. Project management plan

Answer: C

Question 450

Which of the following are true regarding statistical perform quality control?

A. Special causes are the result of variances that are always present in process

B. Special causes are the result of variances that are linked to unusual events

C. Random causes are the result of variances that are always present in he process

D. Random causes are the result of variances that are linked to unusual events

Answer: B, C