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Payback period, return on investment, internal rate of return, discounted cash flow, and net present value are all examples of:
Sending letters, memos, reports, emails, and faxes to share information is an example of which type of communication?
Identify Stakeholders is the process of identifying all of the people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests in, involvement in, and impact on the project:
Which process is included in the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
The methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress is known as:
Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?
Definitions of probability and impact, revised stakeholder tolerances, and tracking are components of which subsidiary plan?
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
Which type of analysis systemically gathers and analyzes qualitative and quantitative information to determine which interests should be taken into account throughout the project?
Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?
Which process determines the risks that may affect the project and documents their characteristics?
What is the responsibility of the project manager and the functional manager respectively?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
In which process is a project manager identified and given the authority to apply resources to project activities?
Which input to the Plan Risk Management process provides information on high-level risks?
Which tool or technique can a project manager use to select in advance a team member who will be crucial to the task?
Project deliverables that have been completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process are known as:
Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Projects can be divided into phases to provide better management control. Collectively, what are these phases known as?
Which of the following is a conflict resolution technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
In the Initiating Process Group, at what point does the project become officially authorized?
Which of the following is the process of identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables?
Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
Which quality management and control tool is useful in visualizing parent-to-child relationships in any decomposition hierarchy that uses a systematic set of rules that define a nesting relationship?
The specific technique for identifying a problem, discovering the causes that lead to it, and developing preventive actions is:
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
Which process involves the creation of a document that provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to a project?
Which can be used to determine whether a process is stable or has predictable performance?
Define Activities and Estimate Activity Resources are processes in which project management Knowledge Area?
The formal and informal interaction with others in an organization industry, or professional environment is known as:
Plan Communications Management develops an approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholders' needs and requirements and:
Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?
A Project Management Office (PMO) manages a number of aspects, including what?
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:
The organizational process assets that are of particular importance to Plan Communications are:
Stakeholder communication requirements should be included as a component of:
Which process develops options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives?
Which tools or techniques will the project manager use for developing the project team?
One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?
Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?
The process of identifying the stakeholders' information needs is completed during:
Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (WBS) is called a/an:
In the Define Activities process, the schedule management plan is used to:
Who, along with the project manager, is supposed to direct the performance of the planned project activities and manage the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within the project?
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the Develop Project Team process?
Which basic quality tool explains a change in the dependent variable in relationship to a change observed in the corresponding independent variable?
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and the cost of changes as project time advances?
Which of the following processes are part of the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
Which of the following is an input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
In an organization with a projectized organizational structure, who controls the project budget?
Which of the following is an input to the Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:
Which tools or techniques are used in the Plan Schedule Management process?
Which document in the project management plan can be updated in the Plan Procurement Management process?
Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?
The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action is known as:
What is the probability of occurrence if the risk rating is 0.56 and the impact if the risk does occur is very high (0.80)?
During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
Which of the following tools and techniques are utilized in the Close Project or Phase process?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
If the most likely duration of an activity is five weeks, the best-case duration is two weeks, and the worst-case duration is 14 weeks, how many weeks is the expected duration of the activity?
When a backward pass is calculated from a schedule constraint that is later than the early finish date that has been calculated during a forward pass calculation, this causes which type of total float?
Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:
During which process would you obtain stakeholders’ formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
Retreating from an actual or potential conflict or postponing the issue to be better prepared or to be resolved by others describes which of the five general techniques for managing conflict?
A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?
A project has a current cost performance index (CPI) of 1.25. To date, US$10,000 have been spent on performing the project work. What is the earned value of the work completed to date?
In the Develop Project Team process, which of the following is identified as a critical factor for a project's success?
The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:
Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
Which tools or techniques are used during the Close Project or Phase process?
Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?
Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?
Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?
Which of the following is a complete set of indexed contract documentation, including the closed contract?
Which of the following is a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a prespecified product, result, or service?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
External organizations that have a special relationship with the enterprise and provide specialized expertise are called:
Which of the following is a measure of the value of work completed compared to the actual cost or progress made on the project?
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Using parametric estimating, if an assigned resource is capable of producing 120 units per hour, how many hours are required to produce 12,000 units?
A technique used to determine the cause and degree of difference between baseline and actual performance is:
Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?
While processes in the Planning Process Group seek to collect feedback and define project documents to guide project work, organizational procedures dictate when the project planning:
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique used in which process?
A project team member agrees to change a project deliverable after a conversation with an external stakeholder. It is later discovered that the change has had an adverse effect on another deliverable. This could have been avoided if the project team had implemented:
A project requires a component with well-understood specifications. Performance targets are established at the outset, and the final contract price is determined after completion of all work based on the seller's performance. The most appropriate agreement with the supplier is:
A tool and technique used during the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process is:
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation is a focus of which of the following?
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
Which type of estimating can produce higher levels of accuracy, depending upon the sophistication and underlying data built into the model?
Which of the following are outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
Processes in the Initiating Process Group may be completed at the organizational level and be outside of the project's:
The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?
The iterative and interactive nature of the Process Groups creates the need for the processes in which Knowledge Area?
Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500. What is the actual cost of the project?
Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
An element of the modern quality management approach used to achieve compatibility with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is known as:
Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?
The contract in which the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and then receives a fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives is called a:
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Determine Budget process?
Forecasts, requested changes, recommended corrective actions, and organizational process asset updates are all outputs of which process?
Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
Which Develop Schedule tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Which technique is commonly used for the Quantitative Risk Analysis activity?
Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?
An imposed date for completion of the project by the customer is an example of a project:
Issue change requests and adapt approved changes into the project’s scope, plans, and environment is an activity included in which of the following project management processes?
The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
What scope definition technique is used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?
Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
Which of the following tools will be used to produce performance reports that provide information to stakeholders about project cost, schedule progress, and performance?
Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique used to shorten the project schedule without changing project scope. Which of the following can result from fast tracking?
A project manager managing a cross-cultural virtual project team across several time zones should be concerned about the impacts of which communication technology factor?
The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline is:
Which schedule development tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:
Which cost estimate technique includes contingencies to account for cost uncertainty?
Which process group contains the processes performed to finalize all activities?
Projects can intersect with an organization’s operations at various points during the product life cycle such as:
Which of the following is a tool and technique used in all processes within Project Integration Management?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data? BAC = $100,000 PV = $50,000 AC = $80,000 EV = $40,000
Which of the following are documented directions to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks?
Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:
Correlated and contextualized information on how closely the scope is being maintained relative to the scope baseline is contained within:
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
Which stakeholder communicates with higher levels of management to gather organizational support and promote project benefits?
What is the estimate at completion (EAC) if the budget at completion (BAC) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $50, and the earned value (EV) is $25?
Which of the following is a tool or technique for the Plan Procurements process?
Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
Within project integration management, the statement of work (SOW) references which aspects of the project?
The project manager for XYZ stationers is sequencing the activities for the project to set up a new office. It is known from knowledge of best practices that it is better to wait for the painters to finish painting the walls before the new floors are installed. This is an example of which of the following types of dependency?
To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
For a stakeholder with low interest and high power, the project manager should:
Processes in the Planning Process Group are typically carried out during which part of the project life cycle?