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Management styles associated with production environments, such as assembly lines commonly include:
Surveys have shown that the primary skill needed to be a project manager is communication skill. The typical project manager spends approximately ______ percent of his or her time communicating.
When using the Delphi technique for gathering information, what forecasting method is being used?
On what is project baseline development established?
A quality control manager decides to increase his daily sample size from three to six. The size of the control band will:
Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?
Which of the following is generally the MOST CORRECT use of a project network diagram?
Trend Analysis is best described as:
The Communications Management Plan should contain the following:
During which process would you obtain stakeholders' formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
The Delphi Method is well-suited for:
Which analysis uses beta and triangular distributions as a tool and technique?
What are three basic types of project phase-to-phase relationships?
A project manager in a predominantly hierarchical organization has been assigned a major project with aggressive timelines. The BEST approach for developing an initial project charter in this environment is to:
Risk event probability is defined as:
Which of the following is NOT included in a schedule change control system?
What is a specific advantage of analogous estimating in comparison with other cost estimate techniques?
Project team members begin to address the project work and technical decisions. The project team is in which of the following stages of team development?
The widget production project is well underway. The requirements are clear that each widget must weigh between 0.320 and 0.325 ounces. The first day of test production resulted in 1247 widgets. Of the widgets inspected, 47 percent fell within the acceptable weight range. This is an example of:
Which tool or technique uses the 80/20 principle?
Which tool and technique of quality planning involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
The methods and techniques for determining the economic costs, the environmental impact, the economic returns, and the probability for success are called:
Which is one of the determining factors used to calculate CPI?
The highest degrees of project risk and uncertainty are associated with the following phase of the project:
Which is the document that presents a hierarchical project organization?
You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States government. Your mission-should you choose to accept it-is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is that finding contractors with top-secret clearances takes quite a bit of time, and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director's hot new project.
Which of the following type of project ending is this?
Which of the following is a technique for resolving conflict?
A(n) _____ is defined as a specified accomplishment in a particular instant in time which does not consume time or resources.
Which process group typically consumes the bulk of a project's budget?
What is the status of a project if the Cost Performance Index is 1.25 and the Schedule Performance Index is 0.75?
What cost control technique is used to compare actual project performance to planned or expected performance?
In which of the following is the cost of risk hidden by the contractor?
In a control chart, the consecutive measurements are 11, 13, 09, 07, 08, 09, 09, 09, 08, and 12. For the entire process, the goal is 10 and the standard deviation is 1.
For this data set, it is correct to say that the process:
Which of the following is an input to identify risk?
The Define Scope process is in which of the following process groups?
Which may be employed to shorten a schedule without changing the scope of the task?
A project manager you are mentoring comes to you for help because he is about to face his first procurement audit. You might explain that he should NOT worry about such an audit because it:
What is a technique used in the performance reporting process?
The project manager notices that project activities being completed by one department are all taking slightly longer than planned. To date, none of the activities/work packages have been on the critical path, nor have they affected the critical chain planning that has occurred. The project manager is bothered by the problem, since four of the next five critical path activities are being completed by this department. After making three calls, the project manager is finally able to converse with the department manager to determine what is going on. The conversation is slow, because both speak different native languages and they are trying to converse in French, a shared language. To make communication easier, the project manager frequently asks the department manager to repeat back what has been said. The department manager communicates that his staff is following a company policy that requires two levels of testing. During the conversation, the department manager also makes a comment that leads the project manager to believe that the policy may include excessive work. This is the fourth time the project manager has heard such a comment.
What is the BEST thing to do?
A non-critical path activity is completed in half the time. Then, ___________.
What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?
The decomposition technique is used to do which of the following?
What is the first step in preparing the risk register?
A project manager has limited authority in which type of organizational structure?
Which process includes facilitated workshops as a tool and technique?
An activity-on-node (AON) network diagram shows the following activities on two critical paths; Start, D, E, J, L, End and Start, D, E, G, I, L, End. Each activity is at least three days in duration, except for activity L, which is one day in duration.
If you are directed to reduce the project by one day, which activities are MOST likely to change?
A Project Management Office (PMO) manages a number of aspects, including what?
The project manager and project sponsor are discussing the project costs and whether it is better to have their own company do part of the project or hire another company to do the work. If they asked for your opinion, you might say it would be better to do the work yourself if:
Which project management process ensures the seller's performance meets procurement requirements and that the buyer performs according to the terms of the legal contract?
All of the following are true regarding Communications Planning except for which one?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships among schedule activities?
Continually measuring and monitoring the actual cost versus the budget is done to _____.
A project manager has just been assigned to a new project and has been given the approved project charter. The FIRST thing the project manager must do is:
In which of the team development stages are the teams interdependent and work through issues smoothly and effectively?
Which of the following is a tool or technique used to verify scope?
The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on the cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract. Each month the sponsor requires the project manager to submit CPI calculations and an analysis of the cost to complete. The project manager explains to the sponsor that extra profits should NOT be a worry on this project because:
The Java development of a project is outsourced to India. The project schedule is starting to slip.
What is the LEAST likely cause of the slippage?
As project manager, you wish to impose a standard method by which subordinates calculate project costs.
Which level of communication should be required for this effort?
What is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
What is a tool to improve team performance?
What is Project Portfolio Management?
What quality control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
How many process groups are there according to the PMBOK Guide?
If two events cannot both occur in a single trial, they are:
Rolling wave planning is used as a tool and a technique in which of the following processes?
What is the name of the statistical method that helps identify which factors may influence specific variables of a product or process under development or in production?
In attempting to complete the project faster, the project manager looks at the cost associated with crashing each activity. The BEST approach to crashing would also include looking at the:
Root Cause Analysis related to ________.
Generally, when is the BEST time to create a procurement management plan?
Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?
Resource leveling _____________.
While preparing your risk responses, you realize that you have not planned for unknown risk events. You need to make adjustments to the project to compensate for unknown risk events. These adjustments are based on your past project experience when unknown risk events occurred and knocked the project off track.
What should you do?
The project team reviews identified risks and the risk response strategy. For one of the risks, the team realizes that the implementation of the risk response would generate another risk.
This new risk is which of the following types of risk?
If a risk has a 20 percent chance of happening in a given month, and the project is expected to last five months, what is the probability that this risk event will occur during the fourth month of the project?
The management theory that all people can direct their own efforts is:
Earned value measurement is an example of:
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Which of the following is CORRECT?
You are a project manager for a software manufacturing firm. The project you've just finished created a new software product that is expected to become a number-one seller. All prerelease of software is handled through the marketing department. A friend of yours is a certified software instructor. They have asked you for a copy of the software prior to the beta release so they can get familiar with it.
What is the most appropriate response?
In which type of organization does a project manager have a moderate-to-high resource availability?
Going from Level 2 to Level 4 in the work breakdown structure will result in ___________.
Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the planning process group?
You are about to begin negotiations with people from another country.
Which of the following should provide guidance on what business practices are allowed and not allowed?
The risk of accepting a lot of poor quality, in acceptance sampling, is referred to as:
Total funding requirements and periodic funding requirements are derived from:
Decomposition is a tool and technique used in which of the following?
Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
Reviewing, tracking, and regulating the process to meet performance objectives defined in the project management plan are part of which process?
Which of the following can be used to track the requirements throughout the project life cycle?
Given the following values, what is the calculated expected activity cost (CE) when using PERT?
CO = $7,000
CM = $10,500
CP = $11,000
You are working on a project that is similar in scope to a project performed last year by your company.
You might consider which of the following?
Which of the following does NOT assess the value a project brings to an organization?
If you know expected value is 500 and the standard deviation is 12, you can say with approximately a 95 percent confidence rating which of the following?
You are a contract project manager for a wholesale flower distribution company. Your project is to develop a website for the company that allows retailers to place their flower orders online. You will also provide a separate link for individual purchases that are ordered, packaged, and mailed to the consumer directly from the grower's site. This project involves coordinating the parent company, growers, and distributors. You are preparing a performance review and have the following measurements at hand: PV = 300, AC = 200, and EV = 250.
What is the CPI of this project?
All of the following are typical concerns of matrixed team members EXCEPT:
The project manager has performed schedule network analysis, compressed the schedule, and completed a Monte Carlo analysis.
What time management activity should be done NEXT?
Which of the following is NOT a reason to measure variances from the baseline?
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
Which of the following risk management processes uses brainstorming as a technique?
Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the monitoring and controlling process group?
The performing organization is trying to decide whether to split the contracts department and assign procurement responsibilities to departments directly responsible for the projects. A procurement professional might not want this split to occur because they would lose ___________ in a decentralized contracting environment.
The scope management plan is a subsidiary of which project document?
In the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely estimate for an activity to complete is 100 days, the optimistic estimate is 60 days, and the pessimistic estimate is 200 days, what is the expected duration in which the activity will be completed?
Reserve Analysis a technique not used in:
There are seven members on the project team not counting the project manager and the sponsor. How many communication channels are there?
Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes and procedures?
What document should be reviewed by a project manager before finalizing the project closure?
You are a project manager for Giraffe Enterprises. You've recently taken over for a project manager who lied about his PMI certification and was subsequently fired. Unfortunately, he did a poor job of scope definition.
Which of the following could happen if you don't correct this?
As part of a mid-project evaluation, your project sponsor has asked you to provide a forecast of total project cost.
You should calculate the forecast using which of the following methods?
In which type of organization(s) is the project manager's role most likely part-time?
Job descriptions are examples of ______communications.
Bar charts are most appropriate for:
Scope verification is PRIMARILY concerned with which of the following?
A project team is in which of the following processes when they finalize all activities across all of the management process groups to formally complete the project?
Project leadership requires that the project manager pay attention simultaneously to the:
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
All of the following are tools of Perform Quality Control EXCEPT:
What name(s) is (are) associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle?
What is an output of Control Scope?
The following reports are normally developed during the project closure phase?
When can pre-assignment of project team members occur?
Perform quality assurance belongs to which of the following process groups?
All of the following are inputs to the quality process EXCEPT:
The estimated cost to complete (ETC) is _____.
In which type of organizational structure are staff members grouped by specialty?
A project manager is creating a risk response plan. However, every time a risk response is suggested, another risk is identified that is caused by the response.
Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?
A project manager is assigned to a project which phase of the project?
Which of the following methods is a project selection technique?
You have been assigned to a project that will allow job seekers to fill out applications and submit them via the company website. You report to the VP of human resources. You are also responsible for screening applications for the information technology division and setting up interviews. The project coordinator has asked for the latest version of your changes to the online application page for his review.
Which organizational structure do you work in?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
The purpose of configuration management is to:
The Monitoring and Controlling process group contains which of the following processes?
Which technique is utilized in the Schedule Control process?
In which of the following contract types does the buyer have the most cost risk?
A line manager who is asked to wear two hats and function as a project manager at the same time is likely to exercise:
The role of the _____ can be invaluable in problem solving.
Which of the following outputs from the Schedule Control process aids in the communication of SV, SPI or any performance status to stakeholders?
Which of the following equations is used to calculate cost variance?
Which of the following describes the purpose of the quality control process?
Which document is a narrative description of products or services to be delivered by the project?
Which of the following is NOT part of stakeholder's management?
What is one of the advantages of a functional organization?
Which quality control technique illustrates the 80/20 Principle?
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) should be considered as a:
Overlapping activities on a project, such as design and construction, is referred to as:
Risk mitigation includes all but which of the following:
Which of the following is a technique for Identify Risks?
Who is responsible for determining which processes from the Process Groups will be employed and who will be performing them?
What information does the stakeholder register contain?
Which of the following choices is a contract closure tool or technique?
What is the standard deviation for the estimates in the above problem?
Make payment to seller is done in _______.
Which involves estimating the cost of individual work items:
You are working on a project that was proceeding well until a manufacturing glitch occurred that requires corrective action. It turns out the glitch was an unintentional enhancement to the product, and the marketing people are absolutely crazy about its potential. The corrective action is canceled, and you continue to produce the product with the newly discovered enhancement. As the project manager, you know that a change has occurred to the project scope.
Which of the following statements is true?
Information distribution involves making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner.
What is an output from information distribution?
In what type of contract is the seller reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and receives a predetermined fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives as set forth in the contract?
A project manager discovers that two team members discussed what was needed to complete a work package on the project and made many changes to the project scope. The work package is now completed and the team members are planning to go on to the next work package. In looking at what was done, the project manager determines that the work does NOT meet the requirements of the project.
What is the BEST course of action for the project manager?
Which of the following events would result in a baseline update?
Activity resource requirements and resource breakdown structure are outputs from what Project Time Management process?
Communication in both project and non-project-driven organizations should occur in __________ directions.
Which of the following is not true for a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM):
Which of the following is a conflict resolving technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
During what process is the quality policy determined?
The Japanese Quality Control (QC) Circle movement motivated its participants in many ways.
Which of the following represents the most important motivation for the QC circle participants?
You are a project manager for an engineering company. Your company won the bid to add ramp-metering lights to several on-ramps along a stretch of highway at the south end of the city. You subcontracted a portion of the project to another company. The subcontractor's work involves digging the holes and setting the lamp poles in concrete. The subcontractor's performance is not meeting the contract requirements.
Which of the following is not a valid option?
What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?
Power games, withholding information, and hidden agendas are examples of ___________.
Collect Requirements is:
Which of the following defines a characteristic of a project?
Which performance measurement tells you what the projected total cost of the project will be at completion?
Which of the following correctly explains the term "progressive elaboration"?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
All the techniques described below can be used to keep a meeting focused except:
A work authorization system can be used to:
Employee unions would most likely satisfy which level in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Which schedule development tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
The PV is $1000, EV is $2000 and AC is $1500.
What is CPI?
Which of the following statements is in agreement with McGregor's concepts concerning Theory X and Theory Y managers?
A quality management plan is created during which of the following?
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
A work breakdown structure is most useful for:
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