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In which of the following organizational structures does the project manager have full authority on a project?
A project manager is creating a risk response plan. However, every time a risk response is suggested, another risk is identified that is caused by the response.
Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?
A project manager discovers that two team members discussed what was needed to complete a work package on the project and made many changes to the project scope. The work package is now completed and the team members are planning to go on to the next work package. In looking at what was done, the project manager determines that the work does NOT meet the requirements of the project.
What is the BEST course of action for the project manager?
Your company has just presented its new five-year strategic plan. You have received a new product request from a customer that is in line with the previous five-year strategic plan, but it does not meet the objectives of the new plan. The product description seems to have a valid business driver and to be a straightforward development effort.
As project manager, what is the BEST course of action?
Projects can be divided into phases to provide better management control. Collectively, what are these phases known as?
Perform quality assurance belongs to which of the following process groups?
A clear definition of the user's needs serves as the direct basis for the:
A new project manager is having difficulty creating a WBS with the team. To alleviate this situation, the project manager should ask for help from:
What is the expected activity cost for a project having a most likely cost of $140, a best case scenario of $115, and a worst case scenario of $165?
You are a project manager for an engineering company. Your company won the bid to add ramp-metering lights to several on-ramps along a stretch of highway at the south end of the city. You subcontracted a portion of the project to another company. The subcontractor's work involves digging the holes and setting the lamp poles in concrete. The subcontractor's performance is not meeting the contract requirements.
Which of the following is not a valid option?
Linear programming is an example of what type of project selection criteria?
You are a project manager for Giraffe Enterprises. You've recently taken over for a project manager who lied about his PMI certification and was subsequently fired. Unfortunately, he did a poor job of scope definition.
Which of the following could happen if you don't correct this?
Which tool and technique uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate estimates?
The customer's expectations for quality are shown on a control chart as the:
The project team reviews identified risks and the risk response strategy. For one of the risks, the team realizes that the implementation of the risk response would generate another risk.
This new risk is which of the following types of risk?
While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only.
Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?
An employee approaches you and asks to tell you something in confidence. He advises you that he has been performing illegal activities within the company for the last year. He is feeling guilty about it and is telling you in order to receive advice as to what he should do.
What should you do?
The inputs of the Performance Reporting process include all of the following except for which one?
The positive value of conflict is underestimated. Properly managed, conflict is a valuable tool, particularly when __________.
If the Schedule Variance (SV) =$55, and the Planned Value (PV) =$11, what is the Earned Value (EV)?
What component of the project scope definition defines project exclusions?
A non-critical path activity is completed in half the time. Then, ___________.
In which of the following contract types does the buyer have the most cost risk?
Which of the following are outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
The project manager calculated a schedule performance index of 0.8 and a cost performance index of 1.1 for the project. What is the actual status of this project?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Executing the risk response plan in order to react to risk events throughout the project is called:
Your project team consists of 12 people in the same building you're located in, 4 people from the West Coast office, 2 people from the Kansas City office, and 6 people from the London office. Your office works different hours than all the other offices. Additionally, not all of the resources in your building are available at the same times during the day. Three of the 12 team members work swing shift hours. You use tools like web conferencing and email to distribute information to the team.
Which of the following is true?
A project manager is responsible for managing which of the following at the project level?
Project team members begin to address the project work and technical decisions. The project team is in which of the following stages of team development?
Which of the following must not performed in the project initiation process?
The risk of accepting a lot of poor quality, in acceptance sampling, is referred to as:
A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, Activity B takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes 4 weeks and can start as soon as Activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before Activity G starts. Activity G requires 3 weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed.
Which activities have float available?
What is the difference between expected monetary value and net present value?
Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique used to shorten the project schedule without changing project scope.
Which of the following can result from fast tracking?
Which of the following is one of the key components of the basic communications model?
Who is responsible for determining which processes from the Process Groups will be employed and who will be performing them?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Based on the chart, while completing the project, a team member tells you that the team forgot something during planning. Activity F needs the results of activity E before it can begin.
Taking this new dependency into account, what would be the effect on the project?
A project manager in a predominantly hierarchical organization has been assigned a major project with aggressive timelines. The BEST approach for developing an initial project charter in this environment is to:
Which of the following is defined by a project's life cycle and varies by application area?
While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery.
What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
The seller tells you that your activities have resulted in an increase in their costs. You should:
Which tool or technique measures performance of the project as it moves from project initiation through project closure?
In an organization with a projectized organizational structure, who controls the project budget?
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
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?
You are managing an internal project where a vice president from the user group is acting as the sponsor. You have just been informed by your team that the critical path has slipped by three weeks. You should:
Risk event is the description of what may happen to the _____ of the project.
Which of the following describes the purpose of the quality control process?
Which of the following is one of the tools and techniques for the Define Activities process?
The widget production project is well underway. The requirements are clear that each widget must weigh between 0.320 and 0.325 ounces. The first day of test production resulted in 1247 widgets. Of the widgets inspected, 47 percent fell within the acceptable weight range. This is an example of:
Company A bought a well-defined project deliverable from Company B. Company A will pay a fixed total price plus a percentage premium for the schedule target achieved.
Objectives can be described as all of the following except for which one? Choose the least correct answer.
Identifying major deliverables, deciding if adequate cost estimates can be developed, and identifying tangible components of each deliverable are all part of which of the following?
A project manager has finished the project. He knows that the project scope has been completed and is within cost and time objectives set by management. Management, however, says that the project is a failure, because the original schedule was for 27 weeks and the project was completed in 33 weeks. If the project baseline was 33 weeks, the project is a success because:
Planning activities such that predetermined resource availability pools are not exceeded is called:
What is the lowest level in the WBS at which the cost and activity durations for the work can be reliably estimated and managed?
You are working with XYZ organization. Your senior manager imposed new delivery date which is earlier than mentioned project deliverables date in scope statement.
To whom you are most accountable?
You are a project manager for an agricultural supply company. You have just completed and obtained sign-off on the project scope statement for your new Natural Bug Busters project. A key stakeholder has informed you that a deliverable is missing from the project scope statement. This deliverable is a critical success factor.
Which of the following actions should you take?
You know that PV = 470, AC = 430, EV = 480, EAC = 500, and BAC = 525.
What is VAC?
What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes and procedures?
Forecasts, requested changes, recommended corrective actions, and organizational process asset updates are all outputs of which process?
Which of the following risk management processes uses brainstorming as a technique?
The quality management plan documents how the project team will implement the quality policy.
It must address all of the following except which one?
TESTED 23 Nov 2024