PMP_QA_1000_Questions Part 09

 

 

Question 601

You are in the process of numerically analyzing the effects of identified risks. Which of the following are not tool/ techniques you can use in this process?

A. Expert judgment

B. Sensitivity analysis

C. Probability-impact matrix

D. Probability distributions

E. Data gathering and representation techniques

Answer: C

Question 602

Which of the following represents a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources to be used on the project?

A. WBS

B. BOM

C. None of the choices are correct

D. OBS

E. RBS

Answer: E

Question 603

You are the project manager for a software company that develops sports-based video games. You have been assigned to develop a new 3D interactive basket ball video game. You have just completed the development of the project scope management plan. Which of the following processes did you just complete?

A. Develop preliminary project scope statement

B. Cope definition

C. Scope control

D. Scope planning

E. Scope verification

Answer: D

Question 604

Which of the following is LEAST likely to improve the accuracy of cost estimates produced through parametric cost estimating techniques?

A. When cost estimates for work packages, control accounts, and planning packages in the WBS are accurate and detailed.

B. When model is scalable

C. When parameters used in the model are quantifiable D. When historical information used to develop the model is accurate

Answer: A

Question 605

What is the total slack for the following project?

A. 34

B. 131

C. 73

D. None of the choices are correct

E. 107

Answer: B

Question 606

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. 65

B. 12.3

C. 248.6

D. 68.33

E. 151.4

Answer: E

Question 607

Which of the following best describes why one would use a resource histogram versus a responsibility assignment matrix?

A. Unlike the responsibility assignment matrix, a resource histogram shows when people will do their jobs

B. Unlike the responsibility assignment matrix, a resource histogram shows the reporting relationships of project team members

C. Unlike the responsibility assignment matrix, a resource histogram is helpful in tracking project costs and can be aligned with the organization’s accounting systems

D. Unlike the responsibility assignment matrix, a resource histogram describes the inert-dependencies among project activities.

Answer: A

Question 608

Which of the following statements are true regarding the critical chain method?

A. In CCM, planned activities are scheduled to their latest possible planned and start and finish dates

B. The CCM uses, aggregate problem buffers in the project plan instead of individual activity/ task buffer

C. The critical chain describes longest path through a project schedule network after resource leveling

D. CCM factors in resource availability limitations when constructing the project schedule

E. The CCM focuses on managing the total float of network paths to ensure that project are delivered on schedule

Answer: E

Question 609

Which of the following statement regarding WBS are true?

A. Work include in the WBS is considered outside the scope of the project

B. For productivity reasons, the WBS should be organized in the hierarchy that models the organizational hierarchy

C. The WBS is an output of scope definition process

D. Each item in the WBS is generally assigned a unique identifier that can provide a means to track costs and resources E. The lowest level in a WBS is called a work activity Answer: D

Question 610

You are a project manager at an utility company. Due to the recent rise in the cost of petroleum, the market demand for cheaper, alternate forms of energy have grown exponentially. Your company has identified, a multi billion dollar market opportunity for alternate forms of energy.

However your organization does not have enough resources and expertise to exploit this market opportunity. Hence your organization has decided to form joint ventures and risk sharing relationship with various other utility companies to coordinate research and development activities. Which of he following best describes the best strategy you are using with this market opportunity?

A. Enhance

B. Share 

C. Avoidance

D. Exploit 

E. Acceptance

Answer: B

Question 611

Which of the following are the outputs of the activity resource estimating process?

A. WBS

B. Activity resource requirements

C. Activity list

D. Cost estimates

E. Cost baseline

Answer: B

Question 612

You are a project manager at day-old donuts, a rapidly growing franchise selling premium donuts at a discount. Currently your company is planning for opening new stores throughout the United States. You have been asked to open a store in Manhattan, New York. 

Construction on new store is about to begin. This corporate head quarter wants to be informed when construction is nearly complete, so they can produce all the supplies and inventories just in time.

You have been given a project charter, progressively elaborate the requirements, and have just completed the scope definition/create WBS processes. However while you are in activity definition process, you realize that certain deliverables are missing from create WBS 

process. What is your next plan of action?

A. Include the deliverable as a part of the activity definition process B. Consult the scope management plan to determine how to revise the project scope to include this deliverable

C. Review the WBS to include the missing deliverables, and define the relevant appropriate activities

D. Consult your supervisor as to whether to include the deliverables as a part of project

Answer: C

Question 613

The risk register describes all identified risks. Which of the following is not including as a part of risk register?

A. Probability of occurrence, impact on objectives

B. Reporting formats, tracking

C. Proposed responses, owners, current status

D. Risk description, category, causes

Answer: B

Question 614

You are the project manager at information technology division of a large financial services firm in the United States. Your company offers a web based trading platform that provides options and futures trading for U.S commodities market. Due to the rise in popularity in futures and options trading, your company has grown rapidly. In fact, due to the rapid growth, the company’s infrastructure is unable to meet the growing demands.

To keep up with demands, you have bee assigned the responsibilities of upgrading the company’s network and computing infrastructure. 

You have already inspected the existing infrastructure defined the detailed project scope statement for your project. You are in the process of developing the WBS. All of he following are outputs of the following process except:

A. WBS

B. WBS dictionary

C. Scope baseline

D. Updates to project management plan

E. Requested changes

F. Performance reports

Answer: F

Question 615

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. Schedule model data 

B. Activity resource requirements, resource calendar

C. Duration estimating database

D. Historical information, historical reference data 

E. Risk register, activity cost estimates

Answer: A

Question 616

Which of the following is a planning tool describing how the project team will define the project scope, develop the detailed project scope statement define and develop the work break down structure, verify project scope, and control the project scope?

A. Project scope management plan

B. Project management plan

C. Preliminary project scope statement

D. None of the choices are correct

E. Detailed project scope statement

Answer: A

Question 617

Which of the following describes how the various risk management processes will be implemented, monitored, and controlled throughout the project and describes the criteria that are used to establish the risk threshold?

A. Workaround plans

B. Residual risks

C. Risk management plans

D. Checklists

E. Risk response plans

Answer: C

Question 618

All of the following statements regarding management reserves are true EXCEPT:

A. Management reserves are not part of the project cost baseline but are included in the budget for the project

B. Any gap at the end of a project between the funds allocated and the cost baseline and cash flow mounts shows the amount of the management reserve that was not used.

C. Management reserve describes the difference between the maximum funding and the end of the cost baseline

D. Management reserves are allowance for unplanned, but potentially require to changes to the project scope and cost E. Management reserves are distributed as part of the budget and are part of earned value calculations

Answer: E

Question 619

Which of the following is the amount of time that a scheduled activity may be delayed without delaying the early start of any immediately following schedule activities?

A. Free float

B. Average float

C. Critical float

D. Total float

E. None of the choices are correct

Answer: A

Question 620

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 621

Which of the following are NOT part of the PMI professional code of contact?

A. Ensuring personal integrity of others

B. Enhancing professional capabilities

C. Responsibility for actions

D. Professional conduct

Answer: A

Question 622

Thomas is a project manager at a biotech company. He is an excellent project manager with a very successful track record managing large, complex R&D projects. During his leisure time, Thomas competes in amateur body-building contests.

Body-building is an extremely competitive sport. So Thomas takes performance enhancing drugs, such as steroids, in order to maintain his competitive edge. His company does not have any policies prohibiting usage of such performance enhancing drugs. How does this affect his PMI status?

A. Since Thomas exhibits professional conduct on his project, he his still considered a successful project manager, irrespective of his outside activities

B. Since his company does not have an explicit policy prohibiting steroid usage, his steroid usage should not e called into question C. Thomas is violating one of the responsibilities of the PMI code of conduct

D. His status with PMI is not affected, as his activities outside of work is not of concern to the PMI. PMI code of conduct in not applicable to personal and private lifestyle choices

Answer: C

Question 623

You work at RFID-PM Inc, a publicly traded company that develops RFID technology. Radio Frequency Identification RFID is a method of remotely storing and retrieving data using devices called RFID tags/ 

transponders. An RFID tag is a small object, such as an adhesive sticker, that can be attached to or incorporated into a product Your friend, Nelson, has asked you for the financial information regarding your company. So you decide to forward him the pro forma financial statements for the upcoming quarterly report that you obtained from your finance department. Have you provided insider information regarding your company?

A. Although you have not provided, insider information you have violated the confidentiality agreement with your company B. Although you have not provided, insider information you have violated the non-disclosure agreement with your company C. You have not provided insider information since you merely forwarded publicly available data

D. You have not provided insider information and violated the professional code of conduct

Answer: D

Question 624

Which of the following are NOT described in the PMI’s member Standards of Conduct?

A. Responsibilities of PMI membership

B. Professional best practices

C. None of the choices are correct

D. Relationship with the public and global community

E. Relationship with customers, client, and employers Answer: B

Question 625

Which of the following are NOT parts of the PMI professional Code of Conduct?

A. Enhancing professional capabilities

B. Professional conduct

C. Satisfying stakeholder requirement D. Responsibility for actions

Answer: C

Question 626

Integrate change control includes the following activities EXCEPT: A. Reviewing and approving requested changes

B. Monitoring implementation of approved changes as they occur C. Reviewing and approving recommended corrective and preventive actions

D. Maintaining the integrity of the baselines by releasing approved changes

E. Influencing the factors that affect change

Answer: B

Question 627

Which of the following statements regarding configuration management systems is LEAST true?

A. Configuration management systems establish a method to consistently identify and request changes to establish baselines B. Configuration management systems provides mechanism to communicate changes to all stakeholders

C. Configuration management systems provides opportunities to improve project by considering impact of changes

D. Configuration management systems provides mechanisms to estimate project costs and schedules

Answer: D

Question 628

Which of the following statements regarding networking is false?

A. Networking is a tool/technique of manage project team process B. Networking is a technique of developing relationships with people who may be able to assist in the achievement of objectives

C. Networking activities include proactive correspondence, luncheon meetings, informal conversations

D. None of the choices are correct

Answer: A

Question 629

You are project manager responsible for constructing a new sports arena for the upcoming Olympics. Construction begins 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, 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 expect these variances to continue throughout the project. Based on the information above, what is the ETC for the project?

A. 200

B. 250

C. 133.33

D. 333.33

E. 400

Answer: C

Question 630

Which of the following is a configuration management activity that provides the basis from which the configuration of products is defined and verified, products and documents are labeled, and changes are managed?

A. Configuration identification

B. Configuration definition

C. Configuration verification and auditing

D. None of the choices are correct

E. Configuration status accounting

Answer: A

Question 631

Which of the following best describes the difference between risk audits and risk reviews?

A. Risk audits are more proactive responses to project risks, while risk reviews are more reactive responses to risks

B. Risk reviews are performed on smaller projects, while risk audits are performed on larger projects

C. Risk audits should be performed by an outside party, while risk reviews are performed by the project team.

D. Risk reviews are also called risk audits

Answer: C

Question 632

Project cost control includes all of the following EXCEPT: A. Identifying various costing alternatives

B. Monitoring cost performance to detect variances from cost baseline

C. Ensuring requested changes are agreed upon

D. Bringing expected cost overruns within acceptable limits E. Informing stakeholders of approved changes

Answer: A

Question 633

You are the project manager at a large investment bank. Your current project involves developing a creative financing solution for a large bio-tech company in order to facilitate the acquisition of another company. Specifically, your project involves issuing convertible debt securities in order to access a new pool of low-cost capital. This transaction is the largest ever convertible transaction in the bio-tech company.

Fortunately, your project is a head of schedule and below budget, with a CPI of 1.5 and SPI of 1.2. Hence, you have some flexibility to accept a new work without delaying your current project or exceeding the project budget. Midway through your budget, one of the stakeholders of your project issues a change request to the change control board to add a new task to your project. Specifically, the new work involves developing the risk control system to manage the client company’s pension plans.

Although you have flexibility to accommodate the work change, you don not understand how the new work fits within the existing project for your current charter. After evaluating the change request, you determine that work is self-contained with no overlap between the existing work and new work. Furthermore, different skill sets are required to implement the change request. Which of the following is the BEST plan of action in this scenario?

A. Identify the project objectives and create the preliminary project scope statement

B. Identify the specific changes that are required in order to implement the change requests

C. Implement the corresponding corrective actions associated with the change requests

D. Re-evaluate the impact of the change requests on the project budget and project schedule

E. Re-plan the project based on the newly added request

Answer: A

Question 634

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. Analogous estimating

C. Performance reports

D. Performance reviews

E. Trend analysis

Answer: A

Question 635

You are the project manager at a large automaker in Japan. Your project involves designing the next generation four wheel drive Sports Utility vehicle for the Asian market. Your project team is attempting to determine the right combination of suspension, tires and chassis that will ensure the stability of SUV at high speeds.

Your team members are using statistical methods to identify which factors will influence specific variables related to vehicle stability. This method is best described as:

A. Benefit cost analysis

B. Design of experiments

C. Cause effect analysis

D. Flowcharting

E. Benchmarking

Answer: B

Question 636

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

A. None of the choices are true

B. Activity sequencing involves identifying the specific schedule activities that need to be performed to produce project deliverables

C. Activity definition involves identifying and documenting dependencies among schedule activities

D. Schedule development involves estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities 

E. Activity resource estimating involves estimating the type and quantities of resources required to perform each schedule activity

Answer: E

Question 637

Which of the following processes uses the approved project schedule as an input?

A. Activity duration estimating

B. Schedule development

C. Activity definition

D. Schedule control

E. Activity sequencing

Answer: D

Question 638

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

A. A cost change control system is integrated with integrated change control process

B. A cost change control system is included as part of the cost management plan

C. cost change control system defines the procedures by which the cost baseline can be changed

D. A cost change control system integrates project scope, cost and schedule to help the project management team assess the project performance

E. A cost change control system includes forms, documentation, and approval level required to for authorizing changes Answer: D

Question 639

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.

You’ve determined the following information so far: Activity X has an early start of day3, early finish of day6, and a late finish of day10. 

Activity Y is being performed by resource that had been very difficult to obtain. The CPI of the project is 0.8 and the SPI is 1.2. Based on the information above, which of the following areas should cause the MOST concern?

A. Schedule

B. Cost

C. Quality

D. Float

E. Resource

Answer: B

Question 640

Which of the following best describes what is a workaround?

A. Workarounds are ways to mitigate risk using avoidance, transfer, or risk mitigation

B. Workarounds are equivalent to corrective actions

C. Workarounds are unplanned responses to risks that were previously unidentified or accepted

D. Workarounds are result of implementing a risk response E. Workarounds are used for monitoring overall project performance against a baseline plan

Answer: C

Question 641

Which of the following best describes risks that arise as a direct implementation of implementing a risk response?

A. Contingency risks

B. Secondary risks

C. Tertiary risks

D. Residual risks

Answer: B

Question 642

The monitor and control project work process is performed to monitor project processes and performance. Which of the following are you LEAST concerned with during this process?

A. Analyzing and tracking project risks

B. Reviewing and approving requested changes

C. Providing forecast to update current costs

D. Providing information to support status reporting

E. Assessing performance to determine whether corrective actions are necessary

Answer: B

Question 643

You are presented the following schedule data regarding various project activities on the critical path:

You are told that the project has a negative float of 4 months. Which activity or activities would you crash to save four months on the project?

A. T, U, V

B. T, V

C. S, V

D. S,T, U

E. X

Answer: A

Question 644

You are the project manager at a manufacturer of electronic components. Your company had been a long time market leader in electronic components distribution industry. However, in recent years, the Internet has transformed the competitive landscape. As a result company’s market share has been eroding.

Hence, your current project involves implementing the company’s internet strategies to best exploit these altered dynamics and increase the company’s market share. You are in the project planning process, and are personally estimating the time needed for each activity. Once 

you’ve created the overall project estimate. You commit to completing the project deliverables to this date. Which of the following BEST 

explains why this is the INCORRECT way to estimate the schedule?

A. The estimates should have come form the project team members

B. The estimate should have accounted for the market dynamics and timing requirements

C. The project sponsor should have been actively involved in producing the estimates

D. The estimates should have been created by management Answer: A

Question 645

All of the following statements are true regarding scatter diagrams?

A. Scatter diagrams use statistical measurement to identify the most important problems through different measurement scales, i.e. frequency, cost, etc, and directs attention and efforts to the most significant problems and/ or opportunities

B. Scatter diagrams illustrate the relationship between two variables

C. Scatter diagrams illustrates a chart with upper and lower control limits on which values of some statistical measure for a series of samples are plotted

D. Scatter diagrams display the duration of a set of activities in a project’s cycle

Answer: B

Question 646

All of the following are examples of quality metrics EXCEPT: A. Test coverage

B. Checklists

C. Defect density

D. Reliability

E. Failure rate

Answer: B

Question 647

All of the following can be used to reduce the amount of conflict in a project team?

A. Role definition

B. Group norms

C. Recognition and rewards

D. Communication planning

E. Team ground roles

Answer: C

Question 648

All of the following are part of cost baseline EXCEPT: A. WBS dictionary

B. Project scope management plan

C. WBS

D. Project scope statement

Answer: B

Question 649

Which of the following statements are false?

A. The evaluation of a team’s effectiveness can include indicators such as reduce staff turnover rate

B. The management project team process involves tracking project team member performance, providing feedback, and 

coordinating changes to improve project performance.

C. As a result of managing the project team, the staffing management plan is updated, changes requests are submitted, and issues are resolved

D. Management of the project team is simplified when team members are accountable to both a functional manager and a project manager within a matrix organization

Answer: D

Question 650

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, you would like to make a minor change to the project management plan. You have already investigated the options on how to implement the change and determined that the change has no effect on the components of the “triple constraints”. Which of the following should you perform NEXT?

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

B. Ask project sponsor for approval

C. Implement the change to the project management plan D. Ask the change control board for approval

E. Evaluate the impact of change request on other project constraints

Answer: C

Question 651

All of the following statements are true regarding the critical path EXCEPT:

A. A project can have negative float

B. A critical path can run over a dummy activity

C. Changes to the end date of a project will require a change to the project network diagram

D. A project can have multiple critical paths

Answer: C

Question 652

Which of the following is NOT and output of manage stake holders process?

A. Resolved issues

B. Approved corrective actions

C. Issue logs

D. Approved change requests

E. Project management plan updates

Answer: C

Question 653

You are currently analyzing the schedule for a project. You’ve noticed that for a certain activities in the project, large schedule variances exist. Which of the following activities are true?

A. Such schedule variances will impact the schedule

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

D. Such schedule variances will not impact the schedule E. Such scope variances are a result of scope changes Answer: B

Question 654

You are the project manager for the international contract manufacturing firm with manufacturing the plants and offices in India, China and Thailand. Your company design and manufacture various consumer electronics such as flat screen, television, laptop computers, monitors, e.t.c. 

Your company is currently under contract to manufacture the next generation 128-bit video game console for x-cube station. Work has begun on the project, and you are in the process of confirming the initial work results with stakeholders. You are in the process of working with the stakeholders to confirm acceptance of the initial work results. Which process are you performing?

A. Control administration

B. Perform quality assurance

C. Scope verification

D. Perform quality control

E. Performance reporting

Answer: C

Question 655

You are the project manager in the I.T. department of a major hospital. Your current project involves developing a web-based interface for legacy mainframe patient-tracking application. Your current project has recently experienced a change where many of the agreed-upon WBS elements were modified as a result.  Which type of change has occurred within your project?

A. Project change

B. Quality change

C. Scope change

D. Schedule change

E. WBS update

Answer: C

Question 656

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.

Unfortunately, you have very limited knowledge of this technical area. 

Fortunately, some of your project team members are highly technical, and hence you’ve decided to delegate most of the project management activities to them. Specifically, you have delegated schedule development, cost estimating, an assignment of project activities to your technical team members, while you serve as an occasional coordinator of project activities. Which of the following will be the MOST likely result of this arrangement?

A. Your project team will initially exhibit a high level of productivity, but performance and effectiveness will decrease as the project progresses

B. Your project team will exhibit low productivity levels, poor morale, and high levels of conflict throughout the project C. Your project team will exhibit a high level of creativity, commitment, and productivity throughout the entire project D.  Your project team will exhibit low productivity levels throughout but will exhibit a strong team spirit and morale due to the shared nature of responsibilities

E. Your project team will initially exhibit a low level of productivity, but after an adjustment period, will exhibit high levels of effectiveness and cohesiveness

Answer: B

Question 657

You are in the process of controlling changes to the project scope. All of the following are tools/techniques you can use EXCEPT: A. Variance analysis

B. Replanning

C. Configuration management system

D. Product analysis

E. Change control system

Answer: D

Question 658

The Estimate At Completion (EAC) can be used to forecast the most likely total project cost based upon the current project performance. 

Which of the following formulas cannot be used to calculate the EAC 

when past estimating assumptions are incorrect or past assumptions are no longer relevant?

A. EAC=AC + ETC

B. EAC= AC+BAC+PV

C. EAC= AC+BAC-EV

D. EAC=(AC+(BAC-EV)/CPI)

E. EAC=(AC+(VAC-EV)/CPI)

Answer: A

Question 659

Quality audits are a tool/technique of which of the following processes?

A. Scope verification

B. Perform quality assurance

C. Perform quality control

D. Quality planning

E. Manage stakeholders

Answer: B

Question 660

The risk monitoring and control process involves all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Choosing alternate strategies

B. Modifying the project management plan

C. Analyzing quality of the risk data

D. Executing a contingency plan

E. Taking corrective actions

Answer: C

Question 661

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.

You’ve determined the following information so far: Activity X has an early start of day3, early finish of day6, and a late finish of day10. 

Activity Y is being performed by resource that had been very difficult to obtain. The CPI of the project is 1.2 and the SPI is 1.3.

Midway through your project, your client has requested additional deliverables to your project. Fortunately, you have already determined that this functionality will only add one extra week to the critical path. 

To accommodate this request, you’ve determined that you could fast-track the schedule to recover one extra week. Which of the following should you perform NEXT?

A. Evaluate the impact of the change request on the other project constraints

B. Inform the client the impact of the change

C. Consult the project sponsor before taking action

D. Implement the change request

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

Answer: C

Question 662

You are the project manager at a manufacturer of electronic components. Your company had been a long time market leader in electronic components distribution industry. However, in recent years, the Internet has transformed the competitive landscape. As a result company’s market share has been eroding.

Hence, your current project involves implementing the company’s internet strategies to best exploit these altered dynamics and increase the company’s market share. Unfortunately, your project is plagued by frequent changes to the project charter. Who should be the primary person responsible for deciding whether the changes to the project charter are necessary?

A. Stakeholders

B. Project team

C. Project sponsor

D. Change control board

E. Project manager

Answer: C

Question 663

You are in the process of controlling changes to the project schedule. 

All of the following are tool/ techniques of this process EXCEPT: A. Variance analysis

B. Schedule change control system

C. Progress reporting

D. Performance measurement

E. Resource leveling

Answer: E

Question 664

Which of the following statements are true regarding the SPI (schedule performance index) measurement?

A. A SPI greater than one indicates that schedule performance is better than expected

B. A negative SPI indicates that schedule performance is better than expected

C. A SPI less than one indicates that schedule performance is better than expected

D. A positive SPI indicates that schedule performance is better than expected

Answer: A

Question 665

All of the following statements are true regarding a change control system EXCEPT:

A. A change request system has the authority to approve or reject change requests

B. A change request system defines the level of authority needed to approve changes

C. A change control system is a collection of procedures that describe how to submit change request

D. A change control system tracks the status of change requests E. A change control system is an output of the integrated change control process

Answer: A, E

Question 666

You are in the process of monitoring the various project processes and their performance. Which of the following is the LEAST appropriate tool/ technique to use in this process?

A. Expert judgment

B. Earned value technique

C. Project management methodology

D. Variance analysis

E. Project management information system

Answer: D

Question 667

Which of the following best describes a conflict resolution technique the temporarily solves a problem by downplaying the problem to make the problem appear less important/ critical?

A. Compromise

B. Confrontation

C. Smoothing

D. Withdrawal

E. Forcing

Answer: C

Question 668

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

A. Recommended corrective actions

B. Work performance information

C. Project management plan updates

D. Scope baseline updates

E. Requested changes

Answer: B

Question 669

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

A. Performance measurement analysis

B. Forecasting, variance management

C. Reserve analysis

D. Project performance reviews

E. Cost change control system

Answer: C

Question 670

With respect to the earned value analysis, which of the following will tell you whether costs are higher or lower than budgeted?

A. Cost variance

B. Schedule variance

C. Actual costs

D. Earned value

E. Planned costs

Answer: A

Question 671

Which of the following techniques may be used on a project to resolve conflicts?

A. Controlling, forcing, compromise, withdrawal

B. Directing, forcing, compromise, confrontation

C. Controlling, directing, compromise, confrontation, smoothing D. Forcing, smoothing, compromise, confrontation, withdrawal Answer: D

Question 672

Which of the following statements are true regarding quality planning and perform quality assurance?

A. The quality planning process uses the tool such as benefit costs analysis, benchmarking, flow charting, and design of experiment and cost of quality. Quality assurance involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project.

B. Quality planning is the totality of characteristic of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. Quality assurance involves evaluating overall project performance to ensure that the project will satisfy quality standards.

C. Quality assurance is the totality of characteristic of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. Quality assurance involves evaluating overall project performance to ensure that the project will satisfy quality standards D. Quality planning involves evaluating overall project performance to ensure that the project will satisfy quality standards. Quality assurance involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project.

Answer: A

Question 673

Consider the project integration management knowledge area. Which of the following process are NOT included?

A. Integrated change control

B. Develop preliminary project scope statement

C. Develop project management plan

D. None of the choices are true

E. Direct and manage execution

Answer: A

Question 674

Which of the following best describes the expectancy theory of motivation?

A. People are motivated by expectation of positive outcomes B. People are motivated by five basic, hierarchical needs C. People are motivated by hygiene factors

D. People are motivated by achievement, power, and affiliation Answer: A

Question 675

Which of the following process involves making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?

A. Performance reporting

B. Communications planning

C. Information distribution

D. Manage stakeholders

Answer: C

Question 676

You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a bio-tech company to develop anew drug for the treatment for diabetes. George is your chief scientist. Over the past few years, George has helped the company develop various patents and technologies with regard to treating diabetes. To say the least, George is critical to company’s success.

Lately, George has been demanding a 50% increase in his salary. He is threatening to leave the company if he does not receive a salary increase. Which type of power is George yielding in order to get his pay increase?

A. Expert power

B. Referent power

C. Legitimate power

D. Coercive power

E. Punishment power

Answer: A

Question 677

All of the following knowledge area process do NOT have processes in the Executing process group EXCEPT:

A. Project Cost Management

B. Project Time Management

C. Project Risk Management

D. Project Scope Management

E. Project Procurement Management

Answer: E

Question 678

You are a project manager for the manufacture of children’s toys. Your project team is in the process of designing a new children toy for New Year Christmas season.

With the rapidly approaching deadline, your team members are frequently arguing with each other, even if they agree on some real issues. Within, your team there is a strong resistance to quality approaches and resistance to new tasks. Which of the following stages of develop project team best describes your team?

A. Storming

B. Norming

C. Forming

D. None of the choices are correct

E. Performing

Answer: A

Question 679

Which of the following statements are FALSE regarding Herzberg’s Hygiene Theory?

A. None of the choices are correct

B. Motivation factors include achievement, job advancement, and recognition

C. Motivation factors help avoid job dissatisfaction but will NOT lead to job satisfaction

D. Hygiene factors help avoid job dissatisfaction but will not lead to job satisfaction

E. Hygiene factors include pay, salary and benefits

Answer: C

Question 680

You are a project manager at a biotech company, where you are leading a cross functional team to develop a treatment for diabetes. 

The organization has a weak matrix structure, where al of your team members report to different functional managers and none of the team member report to you directly. Your project has extremely high visibility in the company, and there is a lot of pressure on you to deliver on time and within budget. However, you are concerned whether you will have the necessary authority and power to complete the project deliverables. Which of the following types of powers will be MOST effective in your situation?

A. Reward power

B. Referent power

C. Punishment power

D. Legitimate power

Answer: A

Question 681

Which of the following statements are false regarding RACI charts?

A. A RACI chart is type of RAM.

B. RACI stands for Responsibility, Accountable, Consult and Isolate.

C. RACI charts allow person to see all activities associated with one person or to see all people associated with one activity D. RACI charts are tools/ techniques of Human Resource Planning Answer: B

Question 682

Which of the following tool / technique are of develop project team process EXCEPT:

A. Negotiation

B. Recognition and rewards

C. Co-location

D. Training

E. General management skills

Answer: A

Question 683

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/analysis and robust two-factor authentication.

The ATM system has been shipped to several large banks and customers. However, one of your customers is complaining that your ATM system does not adequately perform two-factor authentication. In fact, there is a potential vulnerability in the software that would allow a sophisticated attacker to withdraw money from other people’s account.

In light of these issues, your company has decided to recall all the ATM 

systems, and perform a hardware/ software upgrade. Which of the following best describes these costs associated with your project? 

A. Appraisal costs

B. Prevention costs

C. Defect costs

D. Failure costs

E. Rework costs

Answer: D

Question 684

Which of the following BEST describes a mutually binding legal agreement that obligates the seller to provide specified products / 

services and obligates the buyer to pay the seller?

A. None of the choices are correct

B. Contract

C. NDA agreements

D. Contract management plan

E. Procurement document package

Answer: B

Question 685

Which of the following statements are true regarding proposals EXCEPT:

A. None of the choices are correct

B. Proposals are seller-prepared documents that describe the seller’s ability to provide requested changes

C. Proposals are not considered legally binding

D. Proposals are outputs of the request seller responses process

Answer: C

Question 686

All of the following statements are true regarding the request seller responses process EXCEPT:

A. The tool/technique of this process are weighting systems, independent estimates, and screening systems

B. The prospective sellers, normally at no direct cost to the project, expend most of the actual effort in this process

C. The output of this process include proposals and qualified sellers list

D. The process involves obtaining responses from prospective sellers on how project requirements can be satisfied

E. The process is a part of the project executing process group Answer: A

Question 687

Which of the following tools/ technique of the quality planning process can be used to identify the project variables that will have the greatest impact on overall project outcomes and results?

A. Flowcharting

B. Design of experiments

C. Benefit/ cost analysis

D. Benchmarking

Answer: B

Question 688

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

The company is growing so well that the company has outgrown its I.T 

infrastructure. In fact, the company’s current infrastructure is unable to handle the terabytes of music download each day.

As a result, the company has decided to outsource its music download infrastructure to a third party content management vendor. The content management vendor will host the compressed music files across its geographically distributed web server farms, and handle all the logistics with music file downloads and data streaming.

On your qualified sellers list, you have identified one potential vendor MusikCM. Your procurement department is conducting an independent estimate of costs of the proposals in order to compare the vendor prices. However, your procurement department has identified a large difference between the independent estimate and the proposed vendor cost. Which of the following statements are FALSE?

A. The SOW did not contain the enough detail B. The vendor failed to respond to all the requirements specified in the contract

C. The terms of the contract did not contain enough details D. You are currently in the request seller responses process E. The vendor failed to respond to all items in the SOW

Answer: D

Question 689

Which of the following statements are FALSE?

A. Approved change requests are input to the Direct and Manage Execution process and consists of documented, authorized directions that reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks

B. Approved defect repair are input to the Direct and Manage Execution process and consists of documented, authorized requests for product correction of a defect found during quality inspection

C. Approved corrective actions are input to the Direct and Manage Execution process and consists of documented, authorized directions required to bring expected future project performance into conformance with project plan

D. None of the statements are false

E. Validated defect repair are input to the Direct and Manage Execution process and consists of notification that re-inspected repaired items have been either rejected or accepted

Answer: A

Question 690

You are in the process of making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

A. You need the communications management plan as one off the process inputs

B. Communication skills, information distribution methods, and lessons learned processes are tools/ techniques you can use C. Performance reports are one of the process outputs D. You are in the project executing process group

Answer: C

Question 691

The project management executing processes include all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Information distribution, request seller responses B. Select seller, acquire project team

C. Perform quality assurance, develop project team

D. Request seller responses, risk identification

Answer: D

Question 692

Which of the following process is involved with collecting and disseminating performance information?

A. Information distribution

B. Communications planning

C. Manage stakeholders

D. Performance reporting

Answer: D