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PMI Authorized Standard PMP Simulator Exam

180 QUESTIONS TO ANSWER IN 230 MINUTES

The Passing grade is 150/180

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A project manager managing a video project was informed by a team member about a complex problem that can have a drastic negative impact on the project. The project manager immediately defined the cause of problem by analyzing the problem using a fishbone diagram, identified a solution, and implemented the solution. The project manager recently received a call from the same team member and was informed that the same problem has resurfaced. What did the project manager most likely forget to do?

Validate the solution to the sponsors

Confirm that the solution solved the problem

Use a Pareto chart

Identify why the problem occurred

You are overseeing the implementation of a new computer structure at the local hospital. You are currently identifying all the internal and external stakeholders who have an interest in your project and can positively or negatively impact your project. While identifying the stakeholders, you realize that stakeholder identification:

Is the responsibility of the project sponsor

Must be carried out throughout the project life cycle

Must be completed in the initial stage of the project life cycle

Must be focused only on stakeholders who will contribute positively to your project

Stakeholders have to be identified early in the project, and the needs of stakeholders have to be documented. While the project progresses, changes could occur to the list of project stakeholders. What should the project manager should do to remain updated about stakeholders and their needs?

Once identified, stakeholders remain throughout the project, and the project manager must engage with them.

The list of stakeholders is absolute and will not change.

The list of identified stakeholders must be reviewed to identify and update changes.

A project manager is evaluating options to set expectations to the team clearly so that the team complies to the code of conduct. What is the project manager trying to establish?

Project Charter

Ground Rules

Project Plan

Resource Management Plan

Which of the following financial metrics measures the loss or gain based on the money invested and returns?

Return on investment (ROI)

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

Net Present Value (NPV)

Project life cycle

Organizational culture plays a vital role in the success of projects and is an important consideration. Which of the following factors does NOT shape culture?

Shared Vision, Mission, Values

Stakeholder analysis

Risk Tolerance

Motivation and reward system

You have recently been assigned as a project manager for a new and highly complex project to send a satellite into space. There are several stakeholders in the project, and you are working on a communications plan to identify the information and communication needs of the people involved. You do this by determining what needs to be communicated, when, to whom, with what method, in which format, and how frequently. It is extremely important that you develop your communications plan

Throughout the project life cycle

At the earliest stage of the project

On completion of the project plan

During execution of the project

You are working for a healthcare facility and are overseeing the implementation of a new computer infrastructure and office automation project at the local hospital. You have made efforts to ensure that a rigorous test was done and scope was validated prior to any major release in the project. Recently, you made the final delivery to the customer and communicated news of the success to all relevant members of the project. You were surprised when the customer called to inform you that he was not happy with the release as it did not support one of his key functionalities and demanded that the feature be added as soon as possible. What should you do first in this kind of situation?

Estimate the time, cost, and resources required to add the feature specified by the customer

Have an urgent meeting with the sponsor to discuss the customer's concern

Inform the customer that the project has been delivered and closed, and that any addition will be treated as a new project

Perform root cause analysis on how the scope validation and testing procedures missed the key requirement

A software company created a base package that must be implemented for each customer. Which of the following will be used to ensure that the new base functionality does not break existing custom features and that the changes are evaluated across all relevant versions of the product?

Configuration management system

Process improvement plan

Perform integrated change control

Work authorization system

Which of the following techniques translates project objectives into tangible deliverables and requirements by improving the project team’s understanding of the product?

Product analysis

Alternative generation

Inspection

Decomposition

To ensure that the project deliverables meet requirements, it is essential to understand the team’s strengths. Which of the following tools is useful to assess the team’s strengths?

Team Charter

Resource Analysis

SWOT Analysis

RACI Chart

Regular assessment and training is essential for project team members so that they will have the skills required to deliver the task assigned to them. What would be best course of action to confirm the effectiveness of the training?

Pre-Training Assessments

Training Review

Training Retrospective

Post-Training Assessments

The project manager of a global project engages with the team virtually and spends significant amount of time and energy to ensure effective team collaboration. Which of the following can be the best alternative to team reviews in virtual environments?

Team meeting

Videoconferencing

Team engagement

Video communication

Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning a project management office (PMO)?

It can be responsible for the direct management of projects and programs.

It is an organizational body responsible for establishing and maintaining templates, policies, procedures, best practices, and standards for project management methodologies.

In order to be managed together, the various projects supported by a PMO should be related.

It conducts periodic project audits to monitor compliance with project management standards.

You are managing a large IT project. A severe cost overrun causes major concern to the key stakeholders and sponsor. You schedule an urgent meeting to discuss the root cause of the concern and illustrate the corrective and preventive actions you are planning to take. You are also planning to inform the audience in the meeting that the project is ahead of schedule and that most of the major deliverables are already completed and accepted by the stakeholders. What kind of communication does this meeting represent?

Informal verbal

Formal written

Informal written

Formal verbal

Which of the following is NOT true about Motivator-Hygiene theory?

Hygiene factors are not sufficient to motivate people, and motivating agents provide the best positive reinforcement.

Hygiene factors can destroy motivation, but improving them under most circumstances will not improve motivation.

Motivating people is best done by rewarding people and letting them grow.

Improving hygiene factors will certainly improve motivation.

17. Ashley, a senior project manager, recently took over a project to produce a safe and effective drug from another project manager who just left the company. Ashley was surprised to find there was no change control board or change control process established for the project. Why is it important to have robust change control for any project to be successful?

It will ensure that only stakeholders with significant authority can submit change requests.

It will minimize the number of changes in the project.

It will ensure that only necessary changes are considered and implemented.

It will maintain the record of all changes for budget tracking purposes.

18. Which of the following is NOT a typical external factor that influences a project?

Political

Emotional

Commercial

Social

19. You were given a budget of $3000, and you spent $2000. However, you only completed $1200 worth of work. What do you currently expect the TOTAL project to cost, considering your situation?

Not possible to estimate

5000

6000

6200

20. During a team meeting, there are disagreements among the team members regarding a few stories. What is helpful in specifying how the team handles such disagreements?

Project Charter

Team meeting guidelines

Team Charter

Project meeting guidelines

21. Which of the following is not a tool used for pre-assessment?

Ability Test

Structured Interview

Focus Group

Testing

22. While reviewing your project schedule, you realize that you have two pending activities that you need to complete as soon as possible. You must set up the development server in the lab and then start coding. Upon further investigation, you find out that you must run the server for three days without failure before the coding starts. This is an example of:

Lead

Crash

Critical chain

Lag

23. You are utilizing a technique of reconciling the expenditure of funds with the funding limits set for the project. As per the variance between expenditure of funds and planned limit, you are trying to reschedule activities to level out the rates of expenditures. This technique is known as:

Funding limit reconciliation

Cost aggregation

Reserve analysis

Forecasting

24. You are overseeing a project to implement an online travel package reservation system that has 6 sponsors and 13 stakeholders. You want to make sure that your project stakeholders will receive the correct version of the product. Which of the following plans will you use to specify how versioning information will be tracked?

Quality management plan

Scope management plan

Change management plan

Configuration management plan

25. Senior management has asked you to shorten your project schedule by 2 months by any means. In order to achieve the target, you added a couple of additional resources to the team and also approved unlimited overtime for the team members. You realize that you are taking the risk of potential conflicts and additional management time and cost to the project. The technique you are using is:

Crashing

Critical chain

Critical path

Fast tracking

26. Team norms have to be established during the beginning of the project so that the team is equipped to handle challenges as the project progresses. Which of the following is NOT included in the team norms?

Meetings

Communication Approaches

Monitoring the performance

Shared Values

27. During the executing stage of a project to develop a cashiering application for a retail customer, a senior stakeholder requested that you slightly modify the project scope to incorporate an additional feature. What will be your first course of action?

Submit the change request to the change control board for its approval or rejection

Document the change request as per the project scope management plan

Perform an impact analysis on all project objectives such as scope, time, cost, quality, risk, and others

Deny the request since it is too late in the project life cycle to incorporate any new change

28. You are overseeing a project to build a robot which will operate on electricity as well as solar power. The robot should have face and voice recognition capability; it should help the owner with daily household activities and keep him or her company. The robot should be able to learn from various experiences, develop its memory, and gradually make more complex decisions on its own. In which of the following documents should this information be captured?

Project scope

Scope baseline

Product scope

Requirements traceability matrix

29. You are managing a project to develop an online PMP exam simulator to help students practice exam questions in a real-life environment. The team has completed design work, received approval from the technical review team, and initiated coding work. Your management asks you what you currently expect the TOTAL project to cost, and you assure them that the rest of the job will be done as per budget. Which of the following formulas will you use to get the most accurate estimate at completion (EAC)?

EAC = AC+(BAC-EV)

EAC = AC+BOTTOM-UP ETC

EAC = (BAC/EV)/CPI*SPI

EAC = BAC/CPI

30. The project manager, project team members, and procurement managers are actively involved in negotiating contracts. Which of the following may the Project team NOT suggest?

Deliverables and Milestones

Data consideration

Risk and issues

Resource requirements

31. Task identification and tracking is done by the team without active involvement of the project managers in typical Agile approaches. Which of the following can the team use as an information radiator to track the tasks?

Report dashboard

Kanban Board

Review structure

Activity documentation

32. Which of the following techniques can a project manager use to analyze skill gaps of team members?

Team Gap analysis

Team Performance analysis

Training Gap analysis

Team knowledge analysis

33. Which of the following is useful for effective planning of meetings, coordination, feedback, and improving visibility?

Calendar

Display system

Kanban Board

Process report

34. A new stakeholder has recently been identified for your project. He will be helping team members with data validation and other testing. The stakeholder asks the project manager about the scheduling methodology and tools that will be used in the schedule development. He would also like to know about schedule change control procedures, reporting formats, and frequencies. Which of the following documents may the project manager refer him to?

Project charter

Stakeholder register

Schedule management plan

Schedule baseline

35. Your team is working on the installation and configuration of a database server. A project manager from another project called you to inform you that she is waiting for the completion of the server setup as her team will also be using the server for their testing. You inform the project manager that the server installation and configuration will be delayed by a few days. What kind of dependency does the other project have on your project?

Discretionary dependency

Mandatory dependency

Internal dependency

External dependency

36. A project is following a life cycle where requirements are defined in a backlog, and the project team delivers the backlog items based on the priorities of the project sponsor in two-week iterations. What type of project life cycle is the team following?

Rolling Wave

Agile

Waterfall

Scaled Agile Framework

37. Multiphase projects are planned by developing phases that are performed sequentially to ensure proper control of the project and attain the desired product, service, or result. In some cases, it is necessary to accelerate the project life cycle by overlapping project phases. Which of the following is NOT true about this kind of overlapping relationship?

This technique can be applied as a schedule compression technique called fast-tracking.

This kind of relationship may increase project risk and the potential for conflicts. A subsequent phase can progress before accurate information is available from the previous phase.

In this kind of relationship, a phase is planned at a given time; planning for a subsequent phase is carried out as work progresses on the current phase or deliverables.

This kind of relationship can reduce the ability to develop long-term planning, but it is suitable in an undefined, uncertain, and rapidly changing environment.

38. Which of the following does NOT describe the project charter?

Formally initiates the project

Includes high-level details of the project

Provides detailed plan for project management

Formalizes the assignment of the project manager

39. As a project manager, you and your team are mainly focused on finding a less costly way to do the same work and on achieving more out of the project in every possible way to increase the bottom line, decrease costs, improve quality, and optimize the schedule without reducing or impacting the scope. Which of the following techniques are you most likely using?

Benchmarking

Value analysis

Life cycle costing

Reserve analysis

40. Which of the following leadership styles focuses on supporting the team and addressing their needs?

Servant leadership

42. Which of the following assessments explores alternatives to overcome or avoid the risk?

Backlog Assessment

Skill Gap Assessment

Risk Assessment

Team Assessment

43. A project manager working on implementing WIMAX connectivity in a rural area has to deploy several network devices and set up POPs to house those devices. She performed a cost-benefit analysis and was concerned about the high cost of nonconformance as a result of not following the proper quality procedures in the project. What should the project manager do?

Look for benchmarks

Allocate additional budget to deal with the situation

Utilize the existing reserve money to deal with her situation

Perform a quality audit

44. A project manager has observed that the project team members’ performance is deteriorating and motivation has also reduced. What is the best course of action the project manager can initiate?

Reward & Recognition

Reward & Regulation

Penalty for degraded performance

Allow team to improve themselves

45. Which of the following tools is not used to measure team performance?

Sprint

Kanban Board

Earned Value

Velocity

46. A project manager is performing formal and informal assessments to identify the specific training, coaching, mentoring, assistance, or changes required to improve a team’s performance and effectiveness. Which of the following is the project manager performing?

Team performance assessment

Project performance assessment

Observations and conversations

Team-building activities

47. A project manager overseeing a WIMAX deployment project just completed negotiation for three additional resources from different functional areas as well as extra reserve money for her project. During the negotiation, two of the functional managers were very skeptical about the request for additional resources and were reluctant to assign their resources to her project. She attempted to influence the functional managers using her association with a high-level executive. Which of the following forms of power is she using in this situation?

Referent

Coercive

Expert

Reward

48. A project manager overseeing a construction project negotiated a deal with a tools and equipment rental company for different tools needed for the project. As a part of the deal, the rental company will supply all ten pieces of equipment for a total price of $3000/month for the duration of the project. Which of the following costs is this an example of?

Indirect cost

Sunk cost

Opportunity cost

Fixed cost

49. A project manager is in the Acquire project team process and is trying to secure the best possible resources to build a project team for carrying out project activities efficiently. What will be the output of this process?

Resource management plan

Project staff assignments

Team performance assessments

Change requests

50. Which of the following is essential for delivering the high-level organization strategy?

Quality Management

Change Management

Knowledge Management

Transition Management

51. Identifying and assessing the stakeholders is accomplished various ways. Which of the following would NOT be suitable for this?

Analogous Technique

52. In Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, accomplishment, respect, attention, and appreciation are represented as:

Physiological

Self-actualization

Esteem

Social

53. You presented your project cost estimates to the sponsor, but she is upset about the inaccuracy of the estimates and demands that the estimates be as accurate as possible. Which of the following techniques will help you most in the situation?

An order of magnitude estimate

A heuristic estimate

A bottom-up estimate

A top-down estimate

54. Steve is a system engineer who is extremely dedicated and hardworking. His deliverables are always on time, accurate, and of desired quality. He also has a reputation of being a nice guy and being liked by everyone in the organization. Considering all these factors, senior management has decided to assign Steve as a project manager for a critical engineering project. This is an example of:

Rewarding good behavior

The halo effect

Victor Vroom's expectancy theory

Perquisites

55. Henry, a project manager, utilizes different conflict resolution techniques to resolve conflicts in his project. He created an open environment so that his team members feel free to discuss their concerns and issues. He is also focused on resolving issues rather than fixing the personalities of his team members, and he pays more attention to the present than the past. Which of the following conflict resolution techniques will lead to the least sustaining positive result?

Withdrawing or avoiding

Forcing

Confronting or problem-solving

Compromising

56. Facilitating meetings and sessions is an effective technique for:

Meetings

One-on-one mentoring

Collaboration

Team management

57. Which of the following is NOT an element of self-regulation?

Self Control

Trustworthiness

Adaptability

Agility

58. You are responsible for making arrangements for your company’s annual picnic. You have taken all the necessary actions and have reserved an outdoor park on a particular day. You have bought umbrellas and rented tents just in case you need them. Which of the following risk strategies are you using in this case?

Passive acceptance

Contingency planning

Avoidance

Transference

59. Steve is a project manager for a power company and is currently supervising a solar panel installation project for a local real estate builder. The project has fifteen team members and eighteen internal and external stakeholders. One of the team leads sends Steve a status report of his team’s deliverables and indicates that a major component is completed. Steve is convinced that the team lead is not fully honest in his communication and that the major component is far from being completed. Steve is about to have a meeting with the key stakeholders on the project status. What is the best course of action for Steve in this kind of situation?

Ask the team under the lead to explain the cause of discrepancy

Challenge the team lead about the validity of the report

Attend the status meeting with stakeholders and not mention anything about the major component

Inform the stakeholder that you will need a little more time to verify the information about the component and will follow up shortly

60. In the communication process, a basic model of communication that exhibits how information is sent from the sender and how it is received by the receiver has all the following components EXCEPT:

Sender

Message and feedback message

Urgency

Noise

61. While overseeing a software engineering project, you find that one of the subcontractors failed to deliver on the last three projects. Upon further investigation, you learn that there are several complaints filed against this subcontractor and that they have a very bad reputation in the market. Realizing that is it too big a risk, you terminate the contract with the subcontractor and instead hire a couple of individuals to work on the components. Which risk response strategy did you use in this situation?

Transfer

Mitigate

Avoid

62. Your management asked you to study the work method to determine a faster, less costly, and more efficient method to complete the project. This is an example of:

Value engineering

Resource leveling

Schedule compression

Learning curve

63. You are in the monitor risks process of identifying, analyzing, and planning for newly arising risks, taking corrective actions, and reviewing the execution and effectiveness of risk responses. Which of the following is NOT a tool and technique to monitor risks?

Risk reassessment

Reserve analysis

Enhance

Risk audits

64. Why is it essential to document assumptions from the point of initiation of your project?

Failure to validate assumptions may result in significant risk events

Assumptions are absolute and nonnegotiable

Assumptions allow for baseline adjustments in case of project crisis

Assumptions limit the project team's options for decision-making

65. Which of the following is NOT a tool and technique of the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?

Risk probability and impact assessment

Probability and impact matrix

Expected monetary value analysis

Risk data quality assessment

66. You are overseeing a large construction project to build a power plant. Your company has purchased a big piece of land close to a mountain and far away from the city for the plant. One of your team members reports to you that they found some artifacts during construction. Upon initial assessment, you realize these artifacts have some archaeological significance. What should you do in this kind of situation?

Ask the team members to keep it a secret and collect all the artifacts for the benefit of the project.

This kind of finding is a norm in construction projects; thus, ignore the finding and proceed with the project as per the plan.

Proceed with the project as planned but inform the higher management about the findings.

Stop digging and call the archaeological department to quickly research the finding.

67. An important stakeholder identified a problem with one of the features of a software application your team is working on and submitted a change request. Even though it was out of the project’s scope, the change control board approved the change. What should you do next?

Add the risk to the risk register and gather information about its probability and impact

Disregard any risk at this stage of the project life cycle

Have a meeting with the stakeholder to discuss the risk

Identify what went wrong in the Identify Risks process

68. You have identified various impediments, obstacles, and blockers in a project, and they must be resolved on priority. You decide to refer to the project management best practices and identifies the popular techniques. Which of the following is NOT the right technique to prioritize impediments, obstacles, and blockers?

Unique Gaming

Fist to Five

T-Shirt Sizes

Planning Poker

69. While working on a construction project, you need to find out if any of your team members are available to work during the coming weekend. Which of the following documents will help you MOST in this situation?

Project team directory

Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) chart

Resource breakdown structure (RBS)

Resource calendar

70. You will be making $10,000 in a two-year project. The cost of capital is ten percent and the initial investment is $6000. You have another project that has a net present value of $9500. If you compare the net present value, which project should you select?

The first project

The second project

Neither one

Cannot be determined

71. Your team members have created a requirement document, a scope statement document, and a work breakdown structure. They have identified twenty work packages and completed the WBS dictionary. Some of these team members were also involved in creating the business case and conducting the feasibility study at the early stage of the project. Which of the following items will the team members work on now?

Help the project manager to develop the schedule

Create the detailed activity list

Create the network diagram

Identify the sequence of the activities

72. Your twenty-mile railway construction project is not going well. You were supposed to complete the project today, exactly forty weeks from the start of the project. You found out that only 75 percent of the work is completed. Based on this status, approximately when would you expect the project to be completed?

20 weeks

10 weeks

15 weeks

5 weeks

73. You created a change control board (CCB) for your project since there is no centralized one in your organization. You also want to follow a robust integrated change control process in your project. Which of the following is NOT a primary goal of performing the integrated change control process?

Prevent unnecessary changes in your project

Deny changes whenever possible

Evaluate the possible impacts of changes in our project

Manage changes as they occur

74. One of your hardware vendors sends you an e-mail stating that due to severe bad weather, she will not be able to deliver the networking equipment on time. You respond to this risk by leasing the required equipment from a local company until yours arrives. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

This is risk avoidance.

This is risk mitigation.

This is risk acceptance.

This is risk exploitation.

75. You are trying to measure how diverse the population is in your data set. First, you find the mean by taking the average of all data points and then you calculate the average of how far each individual point is from that mean. You are using:

Standard deviation

Statistical sampling

Mutual exclusivity

Normal distribution

76. Conflicts in the project happen for various reasons, and it is very important to resolve them. Effective resolution requires proper understanding of the causes of the conflicts. Which of the following are the probable causes of conflicts?

Proportions

Perceptions

Programs

Preparations

77. Your organization is having a severe cash flow problem, and you were asked to minimize the cost in your small project as much as possible. Which of the following processes may you consider eliminating in such a scenario?

Perform Quantitative Risk analysis

Monitor risks

Identify risks

Plan risk management

78. Which of the following is TRUE about the request for bid (RFB) or an invitation for bid (IFB)?

Buyers request all potential sellers for the details of how work will be performed.

Buyers request all potential sellers to submit a total price bid for the work to be performed.

Buyers request all potential sellers to submit a price quote per item, hour, foot or other unit of measure.

Buyers request all potential sellers to submit a detailed statement of work from the buyer.

79. According to Herzberg’s Motivator-hygiene theory, which of the following is not a hygiene factor?

Variety of work

Compensation

Personal life

Working conditions

80. You decide to use a combination of tools and techniques to identify risks in your data center project. Which of the following tools is NOT used for risk identification?

SWOT analysis

Assumption analysis

Brainstorming

RACI chart

81. Which of the following processes documents configuration management activities in a project?

Collect requirement

Define scope

Plan scope management

Validate scope

82. While overseeing a construction project, you are informed by the site supervisor that the painting team has showed up even though the dry wall team is not even half done. The painting team lead is not sure when his team is supposed to start the work. Which of the following is contributing MOST to this issue?

Team cohesiveness is poor.

Communication management plan is not developed.

A proper work authorization system is not established in the project.

The site supervisor lacks experience.

83. Stakeholders collaborate frequently during the project through daily standups, review meetings, and informal discussions so that there are timely updates to status of the project. On what basis should the frequency of stakeholder engagement be defined?

Mutual needs and expectations of the stakeholders

The project manager's judgement

Regular discussions and brainstorming

Review of the project status

84. You are managing a software application project to develop an online PMP simulator budgeted for $90,000 to assist students to practice exam questions in a real-life environment. The team has completed design work, received approval from the technical review team, and initiated coding work. When asked by management what you currently expect the project to cost, you think that the costs you have incurred till now are typical for the rest of the project. While reviewing the current status of the project, you found that AC = $30,000 and EV = $35,000. What is your estimate at completion (EAC)?

85000

77856

90000

60000

85. While in the control procurements process, you are meeting with your seller to inspect the seller’s progress in delivering the project scope and quality within cost and on schedule as specified in the contract. Your objective is to identify the performance progress or failures, noncompliance, and areas where performance is a problem. Which of the following are you performing?

Performance reporting

Procurement performance reviews

Inspections and audits

Claims administration

86. You are working for a cruise company as a project manager. Your company offers luxury tours to couples at a reasonable price. Currently, the company is considering adding more tours to a few other popular destinations during the holiday season in order to enhance traffic and profitability. Which risk response strategy are you using?

Exploit

Enhance

87. Your organization has outsourced a large portion of the activities of an ERP implementation project to a vendor. According to the contract, the vendor is supposed to review the design and code of any major component with the technical review group (TRG) of your organization. So far, the vendor has completed and deployed three major components without the approval of the TRG team. As a project manager, what should you do in this situation?

Terminate the contract immediately as the vendor has breached the contract

Stop payment for the components that were deployed without approval

Do not worry too much as the approval of the TRG is not that important

Issue a default letter to the vendor

88. You are having an issue with one of the manufacturing processes used to create the required parts for routers and switches that your company produces. Due to this major quality problem, only 15 percent of the parts manufactured have been within the control limits set by the manage quality team. Higher management asks you to review the process activities to determine where the process went wrong. Which type of diagram should you use?

Control chart

Pareto chart

Scatter diagram

Flow chart

89. A project manager is in the Plan Communications Management process of identifying the information and communication needs of the people involved in a project by determining what needs to be communicated, when, to whom, with what method, in which format, and how frequently. Which of the following is NOT a tool and technique in this process?

Performance reporting

Communication requirement analysis

Communication methods

Communication technology

90. To improve the proficiency of team members, it is very essential to coach and mentor them regularly. Which of the following can help the project manager ensure the effectiveness of coaching and mentoring?

Defining the communication management plan

Determining appropriate feedback

91. As an employee, working conditions, salary, status, and job security matter a lot to you, just like they do to your other coworkers. However, you feel that you will be more motivated and will contribute more if you are rewarded for your contribution to a project and given the opportunity to grow professionally. Which motivational theory does this refer to?

McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory

Dr.William Ouchi's Theory Z

92. While determining the funds needed for your project, you obtained historical information from previous projects to determine the price per square foot of carpeting and to calculate the cost of 20,000 square feet of carpeting that is required for this project. Which technique did you use to create the estimate?

Analogous estimating

Three-point estimating

Heuristic estimating

Parametric estimating

93. The flexibility or total float in a schedule is measured by subtracting the early dates from the late dates. Which one of the following will help you identify the flexibility in your schedule?

Precedence diagramming method

Resource leveling

Critical path method (CPM)

Parametric estimating

94. You recently completed the SOW detailing the specifications and other requirements for an expensive item you would like to purchase for one of your projects. While working on the SOW, you identified some of the source selection criteria, terms and conditions, and the contract type that you want to use. Also, you put together some documents to solicit proposals from potential vendors. What tools and techniques will you use in the next process?

Market research, make-or-buy analysis, and expert judgement

Bidder conference, proposal evaluation techniques, and advertising

Procurement audits, procurement negotiations, and records management system

Contract change control system, procurement performance reviews, and claims administration

95. An independent team from your organization has identified wasted steps that are not necessary for creating the product for your project. They have recommended a few actions for process improvement and have requested that some of the process documents be updated. Which of the following best describes what is being performed?

They are performing manage quality activity.

They are performing quality control activity.

They are monitoring and controlling activities.

They are directing and managing project work.

96. Emotional Intelligence (EI) helps assess and understand the emotions of oneself and others so that conflicts are minimized. Besides, EI is used describe a key set of personal and interpersonal skills. What are the personal skills?

Self-awareness, Self actualization

Self-Motivation, Self-Regulation, Self-actualization

Self-awareness, Self-Regulation, Motivation

Self-actualization, Motivation

97. You have been managing a software application project to automate the accounting system for your client. Your team has completed work as specified in the contract statement of work. You get a call from the buyer that he is disappointed with the result, even though he admits that the project team has met the terms and conditions of the contract. In this situation, the contract is considered to be:

Complete

Waived

Closed

Null and Void

98. You are a Project Manager of a software project that has finished the design stage and is moving to the implementation stage. At the end of the design phase, you got the document reviewed and you tracked and closed the defect logs. Also, as part of the design stage review and kick-off for the implementation phase, you checked current SPI and CPI and revisited the risks. What did you forget to do?

Identify new risks for the next stage and update risk register

Take corrective and preventive actions from design review so that defects can be minimized

Conduct an impact analysis of the defects found during the design review

Communicate project-stage review findings to all the stakeholders

99. While overseeing the development of a new wireless media streaming device, you notice that your team members are having significant difficulties resolving an issue that they have discovered during unit testing. After working on the issue for a week, the team members identify a number of possible causes for the issue and narrow them down to two main causes. You ask the team members to determine if there is any interdependency between these two causes that would necessitate further action. Which of the following tools would be the BEST to use in this situation?

Histogram

Flow chart

Scatter diagram

SWOT analysis

100. It is essential that project team members demonstrate compliance to ethical and professional standards. These standards include responsibility, ________, fairness, and honesty

Respect

Regulation

Temperament

Transaction

101. You are overseeing a construction project to build identical custom houses. Your initial estimate suggests that each of the houses will take approximately two months to complete at a cost of $50,000. The sponsor strongly disagrees with your estimate. What is a reason for this?

You have not considered the law of diminishing returns.

You have not considered the learning curve.

You cannot estimate the time and cost until you complete one house.

The estimates are way too high.

102. Depending on the specific business and business environment, there are various different compliance categories. Which of the following is not a compliance category?

Communication plan

103. At the end of each iteration or sprint, teams organize and conduct sprint reviews to confirm and update the completion of the user stories that were planned to be delivered during the sprint. This results in the creation of capability that is defined as:

A release package

Potentially Shippable

A release unit

Potentially capable

104. Steve, the project manager for an ERP implementation project, was asked by the client via a change request to delay the implementation of one of the modules by one week. What should Steve do first in this situation?

Instruct the team member responsible for the module to delay the implementation as per the client's request

Deny the request as it will delay the entire project

Inform the sponsor about the change request

Evaluate the impact of the requested change

105. The cost baseline is displayed as an S-curve because of the way project spending occurs. This S-curve indicates that:

The bulk of the project cost is spent during the initiating and the closing phases.

The cost starts off low, accelerates throughout the later phases of the project, and gradually slows down during the closing.

The project cost is directly proportional to the size of the project.

Projects run in a cycle

106. A Project manager must foster a culture where team members establish and maintain good relationships with each other and engage effectively. Which of the following are required to build the team?

Contract management

Conflict Management

Team building

Servant leadership

107. Which of the following can be used to manage and store all documents, correspondence, and communication relevant to a contract?

Lessons learned

Records management system

Audit reports

Procurement documentation

108. During the execution of a project, one of the team members was found to be sharing sensitive information related to the project with unauthorized stakeholders, which is considered a violation of the code of conduct. What would be the best course of action a project manager can take?

The project manager should warn the team member and ensure this is not repeated.

The Project Manager should evaluate why the team member shared the information.

The Project Manager should assess the opportunities for remediation; based on the seriousness of the violation, action needs to be taken.

The Project Manager should assess the situation and terminate the team member.

109. Retrospective is an event defined in the Agile framework that provides an opportunity to reflect upon performance and identify problems, resolutions, improvements, etc. The best model to run retrospective includes the following steps: Set the stage, Gather the data, Generate insights, and _____________.

Make Decisions and Close

Close and Communicate

Make Decisions, Communicate and Close

Close, Communicate and Confirm

110. You have a signed contract with one of your major vendors. The vendor recently informed you that they can no longer deliver equipment on the agreed due date. This will cause a major disaster in your project since you will have to wait at least three months for the vendor to deliver the equipment. You know that there is another vendor who can deliver the equipment for a small increase in costs. What will be your best course of action?

Sue the vendor

Terminate the contract stating that it is for convenience

Terminate the contract with the vendor for defaulting

Give the vendor a time extension

111. According to McClelland’s Achievement Motivation theory, individuals who work best when cooperating with others and working in a team, seek to maintain good relationships and approval rather than recognition, and perform well in a customer-facing team position have a need for ________.

Power

Affiliation or association

Achievement

Self-actualization

112. A stakeholder register contains stakeholder classification, identification, and assessment information. It also points out challenges related to working with the stakeholders as well as the project manager’s impression of their knowledge, skills, capabilities, and attitudes. Which of the following is TRUE regarding the stakeholder register?

It should be accessible to all the team members and stakeholders.

It should be accessible only to the sponsor.

A project manager may publish it with other project documentation or keep it in reserve for personal use only.

It should be accessible only to the PMO.

113. While reviewing the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix, you notice that one of the important stakeholders is at an unaware state at the moment and has no clue about what is going on in your project. As this stakeholder can contribute significantly to your project success, you decide to bring him to a “supportive” or “leading” state. Which of the following will help you to achieve your goal with this stakeholder?

Send him regular reports on the project and its benefits

Offer him a paid vacation in Hawaii in exchange for his support

Assign top priorities to his expectations, concerns, and issues

Involve him in some project activities

114. The higher management in your organization is very averse to risk. While planning the procurement strategy, you would like to make sure that you select the contract type that will have the least risk for the organization. Which of the following contract options will be best in this scenario?

Cost reimbursable

Fixed price with economic price adjustment

Fixed price

Time and material

115. You are responsible for delivering a few expensive pieces of equipment to a hospital in a foreign country. As per the agreement, your company is responsible for moving the equipment all the way to the nineteenth floor of the client’s premises. Your local contact informs you that you need to pay a certain fee to the lift operator for coordinating the movement of the equipment through the elevator to the specific floor at night. What should you do in this situation?

Pay the fee

Have a discussion with the customer and express your concern about the bribe

Consider the fee a bribe and refuse to pay it

Hire a local subcontractor to arrange the delivery

116. Regular evaluation of the team performance is required to identify training requirements and evaluate training options. Which of the following is NOT a training option?

Self-Paced Learning

Document Reviews

Virtual Instructor-led training

Training gap analysis

117. Your management has asked you to lead a team to negotiate and finalize a deal with one of the vendors. While negotiating, you will NOT be focused on:

Developing a good understanding and relationship with the seller

Obtaining a fair and reasonable price for the product, service, or result

Obtaining the lowest possible price and commitment for the shortest project duration from the vendor

Discovering and dealing with disputes as much as possible prior to signing the contract

118. You are overseeing a large data center project and have requested bids from several vendors to procure numerous networking devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, PCs, servers, etc. You decide to go for the lowest bidder since all the bidders are offering devices from the same manufacturer. Senior management suggests that you conduct a bidder conference prior to selecting a specific seller. Which of the following mandatory standards in the PMI code of ethics and professional conduct will the bidder conference satisfy?

Respect

Honesty

Fairness

Responsibility

119. While reviewing a deliverable due today to the customer, you noticed a technical defect. Upon further inspection, you realize that even though the deliverable fails to meet the project quality standards, it fully satisfies the contractual requirements. You are aware that the customer does not have the domain knowledge and technical expertise to notice the defect. The team member responsible for this deliverable tells you that fixing the defect will be time consuming and superfluous. What is your best course of action?

Contact the customer immediately and inform them that the deliverable will be late due to some unavoidable consequences

Make sure that the issue is captured in the lessons learned so that future projects can benefit from this

Have a discussion with the customer about the issue with the deliverable

Do not mention anything and get formal acceptance from the customer

120. You are overseeing a project to implement a new computer infrastructure at the local hospital. You are finding it difficult to evaluate the exact cost impact of some risks identified in the project. In this kind of situation, you should consider evaluating on a _______.

Numerical basis

Quantitative basis

Qualitative basis

Forecast basis

121. You have been managing a top-secret government project, which has been progressing as planned until recently. Suddenly, one of your team members calls and informs you that the project has encountered an unexpected major problem that was not included in the risk register. What should be your first course of action?

Take corrective and preventive actions

Update the risk management plan

Create a workaround

Create a fallback plan

122. While overseeing a web-based application project, you notice that one of the team members is extremely dedicated to the project and is a consistent overachiever. In order to appreciate her contribution to the project, you offer her a corner office where she can concentrate on her work without much interruption. This kind of reward is a:

Perquisite

Fringe benefit

Special achievement award

Bribe

123. It is important to realize that stakeholders play a major role in project success. Which of the following is NOT necessary to ensure that stakeholders’ expectations are managed properly throughout the life of a project?

Build trust with the stakeholders

Resolve conflicts among the stakeholders

Actively listen to the stakeholders' concerns

Convey ground rules to the stakeholders

124. One of your team members informs you that she has identified a design defect that will delay the project by two weeks. You check the risk register and realize that no response plan for this situation had been documented. What action should you take FIRST?

Replace the team member who made the mistake in design

Call the customer immediately and inform them about the situation

Contact the sponsor for advice

Evaluate the impact and brainstorm options with the team members

125. For effective evaluation of virtual team engagement, a project manager defines the guidelines based on Project Management best practices. This involves tracking the progress, conducting daily stand-up meetings, using appropriate tools, and ___________.

Retrospective

Timeboxing the meeting

Sprint Planning

Sprint Review

126. You recently awarded a contract to a vendor after rigorous negotiation. You realize that you have missed a few important clauses that you wanted to include in the contract. You decide to modify the contract and include time is of the essence and retainage clauses. How should you proceed in this case?

You should proceed with a contract change control system at your end.

You should inform the seller about the change through a formal written communication.

You should have an urgent meeting with the seller to discuss the change.

It is too late to make any changes in the contract as it is legally binding and cannot be modified once signed.

127. You are managing a project to build a new plant for a semiconductor company. You just found out that the entire site was badly affected by a severe tornado, and your newly developed structures were destroyed. Your client demands that you continue work despite the disaster and refuses to take any responsibility for the damage or allow you a time extension. You reviewed the contract and found a clause that states that you are not responsible for any more work. This is referred to as:

An indemnification clause

A mitigation clause

An arbitration clause

A force majeure clause

128. You are approaching the end of your project and are asked to release the resources so that they can be assigned to other projects. Before releasing the resources, you want to make sure that you have completed certain necessary actions. Which of the following is the correct order of actions that you should take during the Closing process?

Get final acceptances, hand over the deliverables, write lessons learned, and ensure customer satisfaction

Get formal acceptances, release the team, write lessons learned, and close the contract

Write lessons learned, release the team, get formal acceptances, and close the contract

Release the team, get formal acceptances, close the contract, and write lessons learned

129. Your team members have sent you their weekly updates on the deliverables they are working on. While reviewing updates from the team members, you find out that the CPI = 1.1 and SPI = 1. What should you do next with the results of your analysis?

Distribute the results to project stakeholders as per your communications management plan

Since the project is on track, you do not have to do anything at this time

Find out where you can spend the money that was saved

Instruct the team members to improve their time

130. A project manager overseeing an age verification online tool is in the Control Procurements process of ensuring that the seller’s performance meets contractual requirements, ensuring that both seller and buyer meet their contractual obligations, and ensuring that the legal rights of both the buyer and seller are protected. Which of the following tools and techniques is not used in this process?

Claims administration

Procurement performance review

Inspection and audits

Procurement negotiation

131. Which of the following integration management processes is responsible for implementing process improvement activities?

Direct and Manage Project Work

Monitor and Control Project Work

Develop Project Charter

Perform Integrated Change Control

132. You have been assigned to create a diagram that will demonstrate the logical relationships that exist between activities. You are also asked to display how long the project activities will take. Which of the following methods will you utilize to achieve this goal?

Pareto chart

CPM

Check sheet

PDM

133. You recently took over a project from a senior project manager who just left the company. You realize that several team members lack critical skills to carry out the project activities. The previous manager also mentioned that many of the team members will need specialized training. Which of the following actions should you take next to identify the appropriate training for the team members?

Refer to the PMBOK Guide

Review the WBS and WBS dictionary

Analyze the responsibility assignment matrix

Refer to the resource management plan

134. Scrum, an agile practices, uses ceremonies that help in establishing the cadence of meeting and preparing the report of the project as it progresses. The agile ceremonies include Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and __________.

Sprint Retrospective

Sprint iterations

Scrum Retrospective

Scrum iterations

135. A cost plus incentive fee (CPIF) contract has an estimated cost of $250,000 with a predetermined fee of $15,000. If the seller can save the buyer any money, the sharing ratio will be 75/25 (buyer/seller). The maximum fee is $24,000, and the minimum fee is $8,000. The actual cost of the project is $225,000. What will be the final fee for the seller and the total savings for the buyer?

$21,250, $18,750

$15,000, $25,000

$25,000, $20,000

None of the above

136. As a project manager, you have managed several projects in your organization. You notice that not all the projects are given the proper support and importance from higher management. You also notice that projects get terminated while they are in progress due to other higher-priority projects in the organization. You will be managing an IT project soon and want to make sure that your project will get the required support from the organization. What will be your best course of action?

Make sure that the project meets the personal objectives of the sponsor

Communicate the project details and benefits to higher management on a regular basis

Align your project with strategic organizational objectives and goals

Justify that your project should be the highest-priority project in the organization

137. While managing an ERP project, you realize the targeted project end date will be delayed by several days. Upon further investigation, you identify some activities that can be performed in parallel. You also realize that you have not fully utilized some of your resources in the project. What will be the BEST course of action in this situation?

Apply leads and lags

Apply resource leveling

Apply fast tracking and crashing

Develop a new project schedule

138. Which of the following is NOT true about the goal and objective of a bidding conference?

All questions are submitted in writing and issued to sellers as an addendum to the procurement document so that all sellers respond to the same scope of work.

There is no collusion among sellers and/or buying agents.

Sellers do not save questions for later private meetings in order to gain a competitive advantage.

The seller who is best capable of performing the project work is selected.

139. In a negotiated cost plus incentive fee (SPIF) contract, the following figures were finalized: a target cost of $355,000, a target fee of $45,000, and a sharing ratio of 75/25. If the actual cost of the project is $390,000, what will be the final fee to the seller?

36250

8750

35000

45000

140. In the data center project that you are managing, you identified several internal and external restrictions or limitations that will affect the performance of a process within the project. Which of the following BEST identifies these issues?

Project assumptions

Project scope

Project requirement

Project constraint

141. You have been assigned to identify the key stakeholders for an internal project that has recently been formally approved. Which of the following is your starting point?

Project charter

Business case

Statement document

Procurement document

142. Every team member comes from different backgrounds and experiences. A project manager should engage with them to understand these diversities and ensure team effectiveness. What are the various diversities a project manager should consider?

Expectation, Energy, and Ego

Experience, Expectation, and Availability

Experience, Age, and Culture

Availability, Adherence, and Age

143. Your team has estimated that there is a 40 percent probability of a delay in the receipt of required parts with an additional cost of $15,000 to the project. This delay will cost the company $20,000 in lost business. Upon further investigation, you identified that if an existing component could be adapted, it would save the project $10,500 in engineering costs. There is a 30 Percent probability that the team can take advantage of that opportunity. What is the total expected monetary value (EMV) of these two events?

-10850

14000

3150

144. You are overseeing a project to implement a payroll application and are currently in the Identify Risks process of identifying and documenting the projects risks. Which of the following information gathering techniques is NOT used in the Identify Risks process?

Checklist analysis

The Delphi technique

Interviewing

Brainstorming

145. Which of the following is TRUE about stakeholders?

Only the stakeholders who can positively impact the project should be listed in the stakeholder register.

Stakeholder identification is a continuous and sometimes strenuous process.

Change requests from the stakeholders with the most influence should be given the highest priority.

Stakeholders should be given extras in order to meet and exceed expectations.

146. Which process is MOST closely associated with continuous process improvement?

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

Manage quality

Control Quality

Plan Quality Management

147. You are trying to identify and categorize as many potential risks as possible in the mission critical project that you are overseeing. Which of the following will NOT help you with your effort?

Root cause analysis

Brainstorming

SWOT analysis

Risk register

148. The cost of developing a product fix is related to which costs of quality category?

A prevention cost

An internal failure cost

An appraisal cost

An external failure cost

149. Which of the following statements is FALSE about qualified sellers list in a project?

It is a list of preapproved or prequalified prospective sellers interested in and capable of doing contract services for the organization.

It is a part of the project management plan.

It is a list of prescreened sellers.

It is a tool in the Conduct Procurement process.

150. The change control board just approved a change request to modify one of the major deliverables. In which process will this change be implemented?

Perform Integrated Change Control

Monitor and Control Project Work

Close Project or Phase

Direct and Manage Project Work

151. You have been assigned as a project manager for a project expected to last five months. The project has a budget of $450,000 and should be implemented in three different departments in your organization. While reviewing the status of the project after two months, you find that the project is 35 percent complete. Which of the following statements is TRUE about your project?

Your project is on schedule.

Your project is behind schedule.

Your project is ahead of schedule.

You cannot determine if your project is behind or ahead of schedule from the information given.

152. Your organization has the resources only to work on one of two potential projects and decides to use the net present value (NPV) to assess and select the best project for the organization. Project Alpha has an NPV of $45,000 and Project Beta has an NPV of $60,000. Project Alpha will take 3 years to complete and Project Beta will take 4 years. What will be the opportunity cost of the project chosen?

160000

45000

25000

105000

153. Project teams involve various stages of development. What is the correct order of various team development stages?

Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning

Forming, Norming, Performing, Storming, Adjourning

Forming, Performing, Storming, Norming Adjourning

Forming, Storming, Performing, Norming Adjourning

154. You have been appointed as a project manager in a hospital. While working on a project, you find that your employer is violating several codes issued by the local health department. What should be your first action in this situation?

Have a discussion with your employer to find out if they are aware of the violations

Immediately resign from the company

Immediately inform the local health department about the violations

Do not worry about it since it is none of your business.

155. A project comes to halt when team members come across impediments, obstacles, and blockers. Which of the following does not describe an impediment, obstacle, or blocker?

Team is unable decide upon the folder to store documents.

Team is unable to assess the root cause due to limited capability

There are insufficient user licenses to access the testing tool.

The team is able to communicate with stakeholders.

156. Higher management has assigned you as the project manager very early in the project life cycle for a very critical project. You are asked to start working on the project charter immediately. Which of the following activities will you NOT be performing?

Develop the scope statement document

Identify and document high-level risks

Identify project constraints and assumptions

Perform order of magnitude estimating

157. You are a project manager struggling with your communication skills. You like to keep to yourself unless prompted for your input. On the other hand, Steve is highly regarded by everyone and very well liked. You consider Steve to be your role model as he is capable of getting others to see his way on many issues. What type of power does Steve possess?

Expert power

Reward power

Referent power

Legitimate power

158. While managing an ERP solution implementation project, you realize that you are not utilizing your resources evenly in the project. You find out that you are using almost all of your resources in some work weeks and hardly using any in some other work weeks. You consider moving around some of the activities and resources so that you can utilize your resources evenly throughout the project life cycle. Which of the following techniques would you use?

Fast tracking

Crashing

Resource leveling

Critical chain

159. Ashley, a senior project manager, recently took over a project from another project manager who just left the company. Ashley was surprised to find out that there was no change control board to review, approve, or deny a change request for the project. Upon further investigation, she found that there was no organizational change control board to manage changes for the entire organization. What should Ashley do in this situation?

Carry on with the change request without a change control board

Establish a change control board for her project

Make all the decisions about the requested changes herself with the help of the team members

Ask the sponsor to approve or deny the change requests

160. As a project manager, you have collected information about Sabrina, a team member, from multiple sources, including other team members and management staff. You have identified several areas for improvement for Sabrina that you want to discuss with her. You are particularly concerned that Sabrina is having a lot of conflicts with other team members. During your one-on-one meeting, both of you agree on a training program to address the conflicts with other team members. You ensure that Sabrina understands she needs to submit her status and progress reports at the beginning of every week. Which action are you currently engaged in with Sabrina?

Observation and conversation

Project performance appraisal

Team performance assessment

Conflict management

161. There is an issue with one of the manufacturing processes that is used to create the required parts for routers and switches that your company produces. What should you use to identify the cause of this issue and the effect it may have on your project?

Continuous improvement

Histogram

Ishikawa diagram

Flow chart

162. While creating the stakeholder register, you realize that some of the stakeholders can negatively impact your project. Which of the following elements should you NOT include in your stakeholder register?

List of key expectations identified for each stakeholder

Contact information of the stakeholders

A rating of the stakeholders' impact and influence on the project

A plan to increase support and minimize obstruction for each stakeholder

163. What are the end results of the Plan Quality Management process?

Quality control measurements, validated changes, and change request

Quality management plan, quality metrics, and project document updates

Quality management plan, quality checklist, and quality control measurements

Work performance information, quality management plan, and process improvement plan

165. When conflict occurs in a project, it has to be resolved following a specific approach based on the conflict type. Which of the following is NOT a conflict resolution technique?

Collaborate

Compromise

Smooth

166. Active involvement of the project stakeholders is essential to ensure that information and knowledge is shared regularly so that better visibility of the project status can be obtained. The team also builds trust while engaging regularly. Which of the following is most effective at building trust among stakeholders?

Communication

Contribution

Collaboration

Connection

167. Your sponsor is not happy with the cost estimate you submitted for a construction project. The sponsor suggested that you come up with an exceptionally accurate cost estimate at your earliest convenience. What will be your best course of action in this situation?

Use the historical information from a similar project and make adjustments for known differences

Use a rule of thumb estimate

Perform a cost aggregation for raw materials and labor for each activity in the WBS

Use the three-point estimate technique

168. You are overseeing the ERP implementation project that will cost the company $1 million and will take three years to complete. Six months into the project, higher management decides to terminate your project as it finds an off-the-shelf solution that can be implemented in three months at a fraction of the planned cost. What is the first thing you should do in a situation when your project no longer seems commercially viable for the company?

Conduct scope verification

Release the team immediately

Document the lessons learned

Have an urgent meeting with the sponsor to discuss the situation

169. You are overseeing a software project to develop a new video console game. Which of the following statements is TRUE about your project?

A phase will not start until the deliverables for the previous phase have been reviewed and approved.

Your internal and external stakeholders will have the same level of influence throughout your project.

Any scope change during the initial phase of the project will be very time consuming and expensive.

You will be acquiring several team members during the executing phase.

170. While overseeing a new smartphone application development project, you notice that your team is measuring the quality of an item on a pass/fail basis. Which of the following methods is the team using?

Mutual exclusivity

Statistical independence

Normal distribution

Attribute sampling

171. You decide to use a technique called rolling wave planning in your web-based insurance and tax payment application project. Which of the following may be your key reason for selecting this technique?

To prioritize project activities

To achieve the appropriate level of detail in each work package at the right time

To sequence project activities

To estimate the duration of project activities

172. Your PMO stipulates that plurality support is the minimum level of support for any major decision in a project. You disagree with a block of supporters on a plan to purchase a piece of expensive equipment for your project. This block is larger than any other in your team even though it is only 45 percent of the total team. What should you do in this kind of situation?

Have an urgent meeting with the sponsor

Insist that any major decision should be supported by more than 50 percent of the team

Do nothing as the PMO permits decisions to be made by a plurality rather than a majority

Ask PMO to reevaluate their policy

173. You have been assigned as a project manager for an ongoing project and asked to provide activity duration estimates as soon as possible. You are surprised to find out that there is no detailed information available on the project. You explore your organizational process assets and identify a few similar projects that had been completed in the past. Which of the following tools are you using?

Analogous estimate

Three-point estimate

Heuristic estimate

One point estimate

174. A control chart measures the results of processes over time, displays them in a graph format, and measures variances to determine whether process variances are in control or out of control. The upper and lower control limits are usually set as:

+-1 Sigma - 68.26 percent of the occurrences will fall within 1 sigma from the mean

+-2 Sigma - 94.46 percent of the occurrences will fall within 2 sigma from the mean

+-3 Sigma - 99.73 percent of the occurrences will fall within 3 sigma from the mean

+-6 Sigma - 99.99985 percent of the occurrences will fall within 6 sigma from the mean

175. The constant contribution by team members results in the continual delivery of the project outputs and outcomes that compliment project objectives. Which of the following are important for making team members more proficient?

Coaching and Mentoring

Collaboration and Controlling

Training and Evaluation

Communication and Controlling

176. You are overseeing a project to implement an online travel package reservation system that has 6 sponsors and 13 stakeholders. You want to make sure that your project stakeholders receive the correct version of the product. Which of the following plans will you use to specify how versioning information will be tracked?

Quality management plan

Scope management plan

Change management plan

Configuration management plan

177. Workarounds, or unplanned responses to emerging risks that were previously unidentified or accepted, are determined during _______.

Plan Risk Management process

Monitor Risks process

Plan Risk Responses process

Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process

178. There are 36 communication channels in your project. How many members do you have in your team?

179. While identifying risks in your project, your team cannot find an efficient way to reduce the impact and probability or to insure against one of the risks. The relevant work is integral to the project; thus, you cannot simply remove the work package. There is no suitable company to outsource the work to either. What is the best course of action in this situation?

Identify ways to transfer the risk

Accept the risk and have contingency reserves

Identify ways to avoid the risk

Keep looking for ways to mitigate the probability and impact of the risk

180. You notice that you are not utilizing your resources evenly in the project. You want to apply resource leveling by moving some of your activities from a week when you are using a lot of resources to a week when you are hardly using any. Which of the following tools and techniques would be a good choice in this situation?

Network diagram

Responsibility assignment matrix

Organizational breakdown structure

Resource histogram

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Stakeholders have to be identified early in the project, and the needs of stakeholders have to be documented. While the project progresses, changes could occur to the list of project stakeholders. What should the project manager should do to remain updated about stakeholders and their needs?

A project manager is evaluating options to set expectations to the team clearly so that the team complies to the code of conduct. What is the project manager trying to establish?

Which of the following financial metrics measures the loss or gain based on the money invested and returns?

Organizational culture plays a vital role in the success of projects and is an important consideration. Which of the following factors does NOT shape culture?

A software company created a base package that must be implemented for each customer. Which of the following will be used to ensure that the new base functionality does not break existing custom features and that the changes are evaluated across all relevant versions of the product?

Which of the following techniques translates project objectives into tangible deliverables and requirements by improving the project team’s understanding of the product?

To ensure that the project deliverables meet requirements, it is essential to understand the team’s strengths. Which of the following tools is useful to assess the team’s strengths?

Regular assessment and training is essential for project team members so that they will have the skills required to deliver the task assigned to them. What would be best course of action to confirm the effectiveness of the training?

The project manager of a global project engages with the team virtually and spends significant amount of time and energy to ensure effective team collaboration. Which of the following can be the best alternative to team reviews in virtual environments?

Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning a project management office (PMO)?

Which of the following is NOT true about Motivator-Hygiene theory?

18. Which of the following is NOT a typical external factor that influences a project?

19. You were given a budget of $3000, and you spent $2000. However, you only completed $1200 worth of work. What do you currently expect the TOTAL project to cost, considering your situation?

20. During a team meeting, there are disagreements among the team members regarding a few stories. What is helpful in specifying how the team handles such disagreements?

21. Which of the following is not a tool used for pre-assessment?

23. You are utilizing a technique of reconciling the expenditure of funds with the funding limits set for the project. As per the variance between expenditure of funds and planned limit, you are trying to reschedule activities to level out the rates of expenditures. This technique is known as:

26. Team norms have to be established during the beginning of the project so that the team is equipped to handle challenges as the project progresses. Which of the following is NOT included in the team norms?

27. During the executing stage of a project to develop a cashiering application for a retail customer, a senior stakeholder requested that you slightly modify the project scope to incorporate an additional feature. What will be your first course of action?

30. The project manager, project team members, and procurement managers are actively involved in negotiating contracts. Which of the following may the Project team NOT suggest?