What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?
Which cost is associated with nonconformance?
Which of the following Process Groups covers all Project Management Knowledge Areas?
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
Which activity is an input to the Conduct Procurements process?
The component of the risk management plan that documents how risk activities will be recorded is called:
Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?
What is the definition of project plan execution?
Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?
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 of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?
Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
Power, urgency, and legitimacy are attributes of which stakeholder classification model?
Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Which of the following processes includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
For any given project, the project manager, in collaboration with the project team, is responsible for:
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
Which of the following is TRUE about most project life cycles?
Which activity is an input to the select sellers process?
The zero duration of milestones in project planning occurs because milestones:
The probability and impact matrix is primarily used to:
Monte Carlo is which type of risk analysis technique?
The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?
Which of the following is an output of the Define Activities process?
Which of the following is the primary output of the Identify Risks process?
A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?
In which Process Group are lessons learned documented?
Verification of project deliverables occurs during which process?
Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Which activity may occur at project or phase closure?
Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
An output of the Close Project (or Close Phase) process is:
Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
Procurement audits, negotiated settlements, and a records management system are tools and techniques used in which Procurement Management process?
During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
The project management processes presented in the PMBOK Guide® should:
When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
Types of internal failure costs include:
What type of reward can hurt team cohesiveness?
The links between the processes in the Process Groups are often:
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?
At the completion of a project, a report is prepared that details the outcome of the research conducted on a global trend during the project. Which item did this project create?
Which technique should a project manager use in a situation in which a collaborative approach to conflict management is not possible?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
What is a technique used in the performance reporting process?
The person assigned by the performing organization to be responsible for achieving the project objectives is the:
Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?
The completion of the project scope is measured against the:
The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:
Completion of the product scope is measured against the product:
The process for performing variance analysis may vary, depending on:
An output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is:
Which conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?
Stakeholder communication requirements should be included as a component of:
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
Which process develops options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives?
One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:
Which Define Activities tool or technique is used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts?
Which stakeholder classification model groups stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project?
Who, along with the project manager, is supposed to direct the performance of the planned project activities and manage the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within the project?
Which tool and technique of quality planning involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
Using values such as scope, cost, budget, and duration or measures of scale such as size, weight, and complexity from a previous similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measurement for a current project describes which type of estimating?
Which type of analysis is used to develop the communications management plan?
An input to the Plan Cost Management process is:
The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
During which process group is the quality policy determined?
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?
In a construction project schedule, what is the logical relationship between the delivery of the concrete materials and the pouring of concrete?
What defines the portion of work included in a contract for items being purchased or acquired?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?
Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?
The Create WBS process is in which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Which of the following lists contain processes that are included within Project Procurement Management?
The progressive detailing of the project management plan is called:
When does the project team determine which dependencies are discretionary?
Which component of the human resource management plan describes when and how project team members are acquired and how long they will be needed?
Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding project outcomes describes which classification model for stakeholder analysis?
Which Knowledge Area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
In the basic communication model, which term refers to the method that is used to convey the message?
Tools and techniques used for Plan Communications include the communication:
Ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation is a focus of which of the following?
The review of a sellers progress toward achieving the goals of scope and quality within cost and schedule compared to the contract is known as:
The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope as well as managing the changes to the scope baseline is known as:
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Determine Budget process?
The total of the planned value (PV) is also known as:
Which tool or technique is used in validating the scope of a project?
Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
An input of the Control Schedule process is the:
Which Perform Quality Control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Which of the following outputs from the Schedule Control process aids in the communication of SV, SPI or any performance status to stakeholders?
A tool and technique used during the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process is:
Schedule milestones and a predefined budget are examples of:
Change requests are an output from which Project Integration Management process?
The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to:
Cost of quality (COQ) refers to total cost of/to:
Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
Cost variance (CV) is equal to earned value:
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
A technique used to determine the cause and degree of difference between baseline and actual performance is:
Which term describes an assessment of correctness?
Scope, schedule, and cost parameters are integrated in the:
Which is one of the major outputs of Sequence Activities?
The approaches, tools, and data sources that will be used to perform risk management on a project are determined by the:
A tool or technique used during the Administer Procurements process is:
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
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?
On what is project baseline development established?
The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500. What is the actual cost of the project?
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?
Which of the following is a component of three-point estimates?
Your project has an EV of 100 work-days, an AC of 120 work-days, and a PV of 80 work days. What should be your concern?
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
The three types of estimates that PERT uses to define an approximate range for an activity’s cost are:
What is the lowest level in the Work Breakdown Structure called?
Which of the following factors is lowest at the start of the project?
Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
Processes in the Planning Process Group are typically carried out during which part of the project life cycle?
Which Process Group includes the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
An input to the Identify Stakeholders process is:
What are the Project Procurement Management processes?
A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
The group technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for prioritization is called the:
In which phase of team building activities do team members begin to work together and adjust their work habits and behavior to support the team?
Who is responsible for developing the project management plan and all related component plans?
The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
Inputs to the Define Activities process include:
A tool or technique in Perform Quality Control that a project manager would use is:
Which defines the portion of work included in a contract for items being purchased or acquired?
A project manager requesting industry groups and consultants to recommend project intervention is relying on:
Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Based on the following metrics: EV=$20,000, AC=$22,000, and PV=$28,000, what is the project CV?
Which of the following processes are within the Initiating Process Group?
The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is: