What should the project manager use to evaluate the politics and power structure among stakeholders inside and outside of the organization?
Deciding the phases of a project life cycle would be considered a part of which of these knowledge areas?
Creating the project scope statement is part of which process?
The project manager is working in the processes of Project Resource Management. Which process is the project manager developing if they are using parametric estimation?
During which process of Project Cost Management does a project manager produce the cost baseline?
An organizational structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques is referred to as:
What is the discipline that focuses on the interdependences between projects to determine the optimal approach for managing them?
Which of the following technology platforms is most effective for sharing information when managing virtual project teams?
Which project manager competency is displayed through the knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to specific domains of project, program, and portfolio management?
What is a tool or technique used in the Control Quality process?
Which statement about identification and engagement of stakeholders during a project is correct?
Why is tailoring in a project necessary?
A project manager uses their networking skills to build agreement with a difficult stakeholder. What level of influence did the project manager apply?
What is the best tool to calculate the critical path on a project?
Which of the following are outputs from the process of creating a work breakdown structure (WBS)?
An important project stakeholder has low risk tolerance. Which type ot communication should a project manager use to provide this stakeholder with a difficult update?
Which statement summarizes the role of the change control board?
A project manager is searching for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily resolve a conflict. What conflict management technique is described in this situation?
A project manager is launching an information system to provide a lessons learned database. This action is necessary for recipients to access content at their own discretion. Which communication method is described?
A project is just beginning, and management creates a long list of potential stakeholders. Which statement about identifying and engaging stakeholders is correct?
Which set of competencies should a project manager have?
The project manager is creating the communications management plan Which group of inputs Is required to begin?
What scenario describes when a project must be created due to market demand?
Which action should the project manager take after the team finishes executing the scope?
In order to detect quality Issues earlier in the project life cycle, the project manager is using an agile/adaptive environment. What is the main difference between waterfall and agile/adaptive development approaches tor Project Quality Management?
Which role does the project manager resemble best?
What are the inputs of the Estimate Costs process?
What is the project manager's responsibility in Project Integration Management?
When managing costs in an agile environment, what should a project manager consider?
A sponsor asks a project manager to provide a project's expected total costs based on its progress. What formula should the project manager use to determine this?
Which of the following is an example of facit knowledge?
With regard to a project manager's sphere of influence in a project, which of the following does the project manager influence most directly?
What are the objectives of Initiation processes?
Which of the following are components of the technical project management skill?
A functional manager is delegating a key project to a project team without a project manager. Which communication method will be most effective?
A team was hired to develop a next generation drone. The team created a prototype and sent it to the customer for testing. The feedback collected was used to refine the requirements. What technique is the team using?
A project using the agile/adaptive approach has reached the Project Integration Management phase. What is the project manager's key responsibility during this phase?
A project manager needs to tailor the Project Cost Management process. Which considerations should the project manager apply?
What organizational asset can influence the Plan Risk Management process?
During the execution phase of a project a detect is found. The project manager takes responsibility and with the correct documentation, begins the task necessary to repair the defect. What process was applied?
Make-or-buy analysis is a tool and technique of which process?
It you established a contingency reserve including time, money, and resources, how are you handling risk?
Which components of the project management plan are inputs used when creating the stakeholder engagement plan?
The project manager is dividing the project scope into smaller pieces, and repeating this process until no more subdivisions are required. At this point the project manager is able to estimate costs and activities for each element.
What are these elements called?
A project manager is assigned to a strategic project Senior management asks the project manager to give a presentation in order to request support that will ensure the success of the project.
Which entities will the project manager attempt to influence?
What is the difference between verified and accepted deliverables?
A project manager has just completed several brainstorming sessions and has gathered the data to show commonality and differences in one single place. What technique was followed?
A project manager is monitoring and recording results of executing the quality management activities to assess performance and ensure the project outputs are complete, correct, and meet customer expectations. Which output is the project manager using?
A project manager is reviewing the change requests for project documents, deliverables, and the project plan. In which project management process does this review belong?
Which are examples of processes that may be used once or at predefined points in the project life cycle?
Which of the following is an example of an internal factor that influences the outcome of the project?
What is the difference between quality metrics and quality measurements?
What process is included in Project Schedule Management?
Which is the best way for a project manager to ensure efficient and frequent communication with management and stakeholders in an agile/adaptive environment?
A new project has been set. Four main stakeholders besides the project manager and four other team members have been identified. How many communication channels are available?
What is the first step in the Stakeholder Management process?
What is the definition of Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Organizations perceive risks as:
The most commonly used type of precedence relationship in the precedence diagramming method (PDM) is:
A procurement management plan is a subsidiary of which other type of plan?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
Which Process Group's purpose is to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes?
Outputs of the Control Communications process include:
The Define Scope process is in which of the following Process Groups?
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?
Assigned risk ratings are based upon:
A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?
An input required in Define Scope is an organizational:
Which type of analysis systemically gathers and analyzes qualitative and quantitative information to determine which interests should be taken into account throughout the project?
Activity resource requirements and the resource breakdown structure (RBS) are outputs of which Project Time Management process?
An input of the Plan Procurement Management process is:
Conflict should be best addressed in which manner?
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
When is a project finished?
What is the name of the statistical method that helps identify which factors may influence specific variables of a product or process under development or in production?
Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
To which process is work performance information an input?
The scope management plan is a subsidiary of which project document?
Which of the following is TRUE about most project life cycles?
The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
Which group creativity technique asks a selected group of experts to answer questionnaires and provide feedback regarding the responses from each round of requirements gathering?
Which type of manager is assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives?
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
Most experienced project managers know that:
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?
The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?
What name(s) is (are) associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle?
Which type of managers do composite organizations involve?
During which process group is the quality policy determined?
Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
The project management processes presented in the PMBOK Guide® should:
A project management office manages a number of aspects including the:
Which tool or technique of Plan Quality involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
Which tools or techniques will a project manager use for Develop Project Team?
Which is one of the major outputs of Sequence Activities?
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 consists of the detailed project scope statement and its associatedWBSand WBS dictionary?
Which of the following techniques is used during Control Scope?
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
When is a Salience Model used?
Sharing good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the organization and/or industry is an example of:
Which technique should a project manager use in a situation in which a collaborative approach to conflict management is not possible?
The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables is known as:
What is an objective of the Develop Project Team process?
Which is a tool or technique used in Define Scope?
Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
An input of the Control Schedule process is the:
Which of the following is an output of the Define Activities process?
The product scope description is used to:
Projects are separated into phases or subprojects; these phases include:
The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
The technique of subdividing project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work and deliverables are defined to the work package level is called:
Which is an output of the Collect Requirements process?
Which risk response strategy is common for both positive and negative risks?
When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:
The completion of the project scope is measured against the:
Which type of contract is a hybrid of both a cost-reimbursable and a fixed-price contract?
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
The diagram below is an example of a:
Which technique is utilized in the Control Schedule process?
At which stage of team development do members begin to work together, adjust work habits, and trust each other?
The cost benefit analysis tool is used for creating:
Using the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely duration is four months, the optimistic duration is two months, and the pessimistic duration is one year, how many months is the expected activity duration?
Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
Resource calendars are included in the:
What is project management?
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
The three processes of Project Cost Management are:
Expected monetary value (EMV) is computed by which equation?
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?
The total of the planned value (PV) is also known as:
While preparing the project management plan on a weekly basis, the project manager indicates the intention to provide an issues report to the staff via e-mail. In which part of the plan will this type of information be included?
Which of the following is an output of Close Procurements?
During project selection, which factor is most important?
Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?
Which tool or technique can a project manager use to select in advance a team member who will be crucial to the task?
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:
The process for performing variance analysis may vary, depending on:
The probability and impact matrix is primarily used to:
Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?
Which of the following is a group decision-making technique?
Prototype development may be used as a tool for which of the following risk response strategies?
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique used in which process?
Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses the values of parameters from previous similar projects for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project?
At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?
The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
Which of the following can be used as an input for Define Scope?
The processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project has been undertaken to achieve are grouped within which Process Group?
Risk exists the moment that a project is:
An input of the Create WBS process is:
An input to the Estimate Activity Resources process is:
The staffing management plan is part of the:
Which statement is true about the project management body of knowledge?
Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?
In Plan Risk Management, which of the management plans determines who will be available to share information on various risks and responses at different times and locations?
Which of the following is an output of the Conduct Procurements process?
Which baselines make up the performance measurement baseline?
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?
Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
A project lifecycle is defined as:
The project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces, while in practice they:
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
Monte Carlo is which type of risk analysis technique?
When sequencing activities, what does the common acronym FF stand for?
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
Which of the following is the primary output of the Identify Risks process?
Which of the following strategic considerations often results in project authorization?
Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the Verify Scope process?
Which characteristic do projects and operational work share in common?
Which of the following is developed from the project scope baseline and defines only that portion of the project scope that is to be included within a related contract?
The PV is $1000, EV is $2000, and AC is $1500. What is CPI?
What causes replanning of the project scope?
The risk management team of a software project has decided that due to the lack of adequate talent in the company, development of a specific part of the system is under high risk, so the team has decided to outsource it. This is an example of which risk response?
To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
The purpose of inspection in Perform Quality Control is to keep errors:
Which type of agreement is legal, contractual, and between two or more entities to form a partnership, joint venture, or some other arrangement as defined by the parties?
A tool and technique used during the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process is:
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
A purchase order for a specified item to be delivered by a specified date for a specified price is the simplest form of what type of contract?
A required input for Create WBS is a project:
The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline is:
Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?
What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?
In which Process Group are lessons learned documented?
How many Project Management Process Groups are there?
What is the most accurate rough order of magnitude (ROM)?
Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?
Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?
Which tool and technique is used in Conduct Procurements?
Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
Which of the following is an output of Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
Quality metrics are an output of which process?
Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
Which piece of information is part of the WBS Dictionary?
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?
What is a deliverable-oriented, hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
Which cost estimate technique includes contingencies to account for cost uncertainty?
Which can be used to determine whether a process is stable or has predictable performance?
In a weak matrix, the project managers role is:
Which is an output from Distribute Information?
Change request status updates are an output of which process?
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 types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
The precedence diagramming method (PDM) is also known as:
Another name for an Ishikawa diagram is:
Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?
Changes to formally controlled documentation, plans, etc. to reflect modified or additional ideas or content are known as:
Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
The project manager at an organization has just realized that some of the engineering staff has been allocated to project Y and will not be available to finish task X. The project manager has also discovered that at the current pace, it will not be possible to complete the project on time. Due to cost constraints, hiring more work force is not a viable option. Which tools are at the manager's disposal?
A project has an EV of 100 workdays, an AC of 120 workdays, and a PV of 80 workdays. What should be the concern?
Which tool within the Perform Quality Control process identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Which process is usually a rapid and cost-effective means of establishing priorities for Plan Risk Responses?
The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is called risk:
In a typical project, project managers spend most of their time:
Job satisfaction, challenging work, and sufficient financial compensation are values related to which interpersonal skill?
Skills necessary for project management such as motivating to provide encouragement; listening actively; persuading a team to perform an action; and summarizing, recapping, and identifying next steps are known as:
Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?
Which items are components of a project management plan?
A full-time project manager with low to moderate authority and part-time administrative staff is working in an organizational structure with which type of matrix?
Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost variance (CV) for Task 6?
Project Stakeholder Management focuses on:
The purpose of the Project Communications Management Knowledge Area is to:
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
Which of the Perform Quality Assurance tools and techniques may enhance the creation of the work breakdown structure (VVBS) to give structure to the decomposition of the scope?
Specification of both the deliverables and the processes is the focus of:
Which type of graphic is displayed below?
For a stakeholder with low interest and high power, the project manager should:
Which type of dependency used in the Sequence Activities process is sometimes referred to as preferred logic, preferential logic, or soft logic?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (VVBS) is called a/an:
Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost performance index (CPI) for Task 2?
The purpose of developing a project scope management plan is to:
A benefit of using virtual teams in the Acquire Project Team process is the reduction of the:
Project Scope Management is primarily concerned with:
Stakeholder communication requirements should be included as a component of:
Which item is a cost of conformance?
Stakeholders can be identified in later stages of the project because the Identify Stakeholders process should be:
Projects that share common outcomes, collective capability, knowledge, or skills are often grouped into a:
Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?
Which process involves the creation of a document that provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to a project?
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
In project management, a temporary project can be:
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:
Tools and techniques used in Direct and Manage Project Work include:
The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
Which action is included in the Control Costs process?
A project manager should communicate to stakeholders about resolved project issues by updating the:
A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response is called a:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
Which Define Activities tool or technique is used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts?
An element of the modern quality management approach used to achieve compatibility with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is known as:
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?
An input to the Control Quality process is:
Completion of the product scope is measured against the product:
The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:
Which output is the approved version of the time-phased project budget?
Which project document is updated in the Control Stakeholder Engagement process?
Every project creates a unique product, service, or result that may be:
Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
Those who enter into a contractual agreement to provide services necessary for a project are:
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 team is feeling pressured to begin development work due to tight project deadlines. There are stakeholders with similar functions located in multiple countries. To accelerate the process, the business analyst has limited the requirements elicitation sessions to times that work for stakeholders in one time zone.
To reduce the risk with this approach, which step should the business analyst take?
Which of the following projects is a quality candidate for adaptive approaches?
A new project was approved by the project management office (PMO), and the scope of the project is to build a new detachable classroom. What delivery method and artifacts should the project manager use to deliver this project?
During a sprint demo, the customer says that one of the user stories is not ready for customer use. Which checklist should the team look at to find out what has been missed for the user story?
A project team has completed the first iteration and the testing manager approved the test report, indicating that the acceptance criteria have been met. The manager of the business unit that will use the new product is asking for additional functionality before approving the rollout for their team.
What should the project manager do next?
A project manager is working with the project sponsor to identify the resources required for the project. They use a RACI chart to ensure that the team members know their roles and responsibilities. What are the four elements of a RACI chart?
Which is the main benefit of managing and tailoring strategies in the Stakeholder Engagement process?
Which can be used to convert a verified deliverable to an accepted deliverable?
A project manager should consider the impact of project..............manager following
A project manager should consider the impact of project decisions on supporting and maintaining the product along with project results Which process is the project manager following?
A project manager was assigned to a project to implement a manufacturing system in a food factory. The main project objective is to deliver machines that are ready to process food. The project manager decides that this particular project does not require the use of timeboxed iterations.
Which method should the project manager adopt?
A project manager is assigned to a project, and the sponsor signals to perform first actions. However, the project manager is unsure how to apply organizational resources into project activities before a formal authorization. Which document should be used in this case?
Which enterprise environmental factors should be considered when creating a new procurement contract?
What can a project manager review to understand the status of a project?
The activity tailoring is necessary because:
A project is in its final stages when a competitor releases a similar product. This could make the project redundant. What should the project manager do next?
Match the praxes manager's sphere of influence with the associated primary role:
Agile release planning provides a high-level summary timeline of the release schedule based on.
What is the purpose of the protect management process groups?
Which tool should a project manager use to calculate cost variance for a project?
Which of the following factors within a company cloud trigger the creation of a project?
A stakeholder is reading project documents given by the project manager. The stakeholder is
curious about the difference between a verified deliverable and an accepted deliverable.
Which of the following definitions can the project manager use to explain the difference?
A program consists of four agile teams. Each team has a separate daily standup. Later each day, there is another standup meeting attended by one member from each team.
Which Scrum technique is this?
One of the outputs of the project schedule is a detailed plan. What is the main purpose of that detailed plan?
How is program success measured?
What organizational process asset (OPA) might impact a project's outcome?
A project is in the planning phase and ready for plan review and approval when a sponsor switch happens. What should the next course of action be?
A project manager read the initial contract when a project was started. The contract states a house has to be built in one year, and the foundation has to be completed in 30 days. What should the project manager do?
During the execution phase of a multibillion-dollar project, the project manager encountered performance issues with some of the team members. In a performance review meeting, the project manager noticed that the team members do not follow SMART objectives.
What are SMART objectives?
A Project manager is using agile in a project. As development life cycle is adaptive, how does the project manager handle key stakeholder involvement?
Select two key benefits of the Control Procurements process
Who defines the scope of the product
During project execution, a team member has identified and then analyzed an opportunity that
will yield a net saving of 10% and reduce time in the schedule by 20%
Which strategy should the project manager adopt to accommodate this opportunity?
What tool or technique is primarily used to plan risk responses'?
Which process determines the correctness of deliverables?
How does a requirements traceability matrix help to determine whether a product is ready for delivery?
Which of the following conditions should the project manager consider when working on the scheduling for an adaptive environment?
An employee was hired to work on ongoing, repetitive activities in the accounting department. The employee's duties are managing and controlling day-to-day activities. Which type of managing is the employee performing?
What statement describes the function or responsibility of a project manager?
After winning a large government contract, a company needs to hire a portfolio manager What vital qualification should candidates possess?
Which of the following lists of tools and techniques is used when conducting procurements?
A project team is starting to work on a project based on a Kanban approach. In order to frame the capacity of the team's workflow at any moment, the project manager will need to restrict the maximum amount of activities to be performed.
Which element will the project manager handle?
Which subsidiary management plan.... during the project ilfe cycle?
Which Subsidiary management plan would a project manager create to manage Information dissemination during the project life cycle?
The project manager and the project team are in the process of documenting procurement decisions. Which of the following will be the procurement strategy?
A project team working on an automobile manufacturing project is detailing the parts needed for a car door design. The door is composed of several parts that have to be developed in sequence, as the frame is needed before other parts can be designed and built. What activity is the team involved in?
A project team is working on a complex product and the work breakdown structure (WBS) is finalized. The team determines that the best approach is to use an adaptive delivery method and is now tasked with converting the WBS for adaptive delivery.
How can the team manage the conversion of the existing WBS to an adaptive approach?
During a project's execution phase, the project manager reviews the communications management plan for communication technology factors. What can affect the choice of communications?
The project manager implemented the stakeholder engagement plan and realized that some uploads should be made. Which components of the project management plan should be modified?
An adaptive team is performing the kickoff meeting and planning the project management approach. After defining project events, one team member argues that the artifacts are missing. The project manager coaches the team to complete the planning.
Which two of the following items should be included in the planning? (Choose two)
The project manager has following information about duration for an activity:
* Most likely [tM] - 15 days
* Pessimistic [tP] - 20 days
* Optimistic [tO] - 10 days
What is the estimated duration of this activity, according to the triangular distribution technique?
Which three of the following interpersonal skills does a project manager rely on when developing the project management plan? (Choose three)
Which of the following are components of the project management plan?
Which of the following is part of the project sponsor's responsibility?
Why is a project undertaken?
A project manager was assigned to a project with high uncertainty. What is the recommended method to calculate the project budget?
What is the Project Schedule Management practice used to deliver incremental value to the customer'?
A project manager is preparing a monthly status report for the project, which includes project performance compared to the baseline schedule. How can the project manager calculate the schedule variance (SV) for tasks on the critical path?
Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?
An input to the Plan Cost Management process is:
Which tool or technique is effective in a project in which the deliverable is not a service or result?
Which cost is associated with nonconformance?
The Plan Stakeholder Management process belongs to which Process Group?
A reward can only be effective if it is:
Which input may influence quality assurance work and should be monitored within the context of a system for configuration management?
Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?
When should quality planning be performed?
Which type of contract gives both the seller and the buyer flexibility to deviate from performance with financial incentives?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) if the planned value (PV) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $150, and the earned value (EV) is $50?
What are the Project Procurement Management processes?
The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?
An input to Develop Project Charter is a/an:
In the Plan Stakeholder Management process, expert judgment is used to:
Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
Which tool or technique is used to manage change requests and the resulting decisions?
Which Control Quality tool is also known as an arrow diagram?
Which type of dependency is established based on knowledge of best practices within a particular application area or some unusual aspect of the project in which a specific sequence is desired, even though there may be other acceptable sequences?
Identify Risks is part of which Process Group?
An input to the Plan Procurement Management process is:
The business needs, assumptions, and constraints and the understanding of the customers needs and high-level requirements are documented in the:
An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
Stakeholder satisfaction should be managed as a key project:
Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
Which document describes the necessary information to determine if a project is worth the required investment?
Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Risk categorization is a tool or technique used in which process?
An input to Close Project or Phase is:
Status of deliverables, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete are examples of:
Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
Which input to the Plan Risk Management process provides information on high-level risks?
The ability to influence cost is greatest during which stages of the project?
Which input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?
An input to the Identify Stakeholders process is:
Which item is an output of Plan Quality Management and an input to Perform Quality Assurance?
A key benefit of the Manage Communications process is that it enables:
Which tool or technique is used in validating the scope of a project?
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 process determines the risks that may affect the project and documents their characteristics?
Which process develops options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives?
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 tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?
Typical outcomes of a project include:
The definition of when and how often the risk management processes will be performed throughout the project life cycle is included in which risk management plan component?
The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:
An output of the Create WBS process is:
Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?
Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?
An output of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is:
The planned work contained in the lowest level of work breakdown structure (WBS) components is known as:
