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Question 1

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A project manageris managing his second project. It started one month after the first, and both are in process. Though his first project is small, this one seems to be growing size every day. As each day passes, the project manager is beginning to feel more and more in need of help. The project manager has recently heard that there was another project in the company last year that is similar to his second project. What should he do?
Answer
  • Contact the other project manager and ask for assistance
  • Obtain historical records and guidance from the project management office (PMO)
  • Wait to see if the project is impacted by the growth in scope
  • Make sure the scope of the project is agreed to by all the stakeholders

Question 2

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Two project managers have just realized that they are in a weak matrix organization and that their power as project managers is quite limited. One figures out that he is really a project expediter, and other realizes he is really a project coordinator. How is a project expediter different from a project coordinator?
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  • The project expediter cannot make decisions
  • The project expediter can make more decisions
  • The project expediter reports to a higher-level manager
  • The project expediter has some authority

Question 3

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All of the following are characteristic of a project EXCEPT:
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  • It is temporary
  • It has a definite beginning and end
  • It has interrelated activities
  • It repeats itself every month

Question 4

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A framework for keeping an organization focused on its overall strategy is:
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  • Organizational project management (OPM)
  • The PMBOK Guide
  • Project governance
  • Portfolio Management

Question 5

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Which of the following BEST describes the major constraints on a project?
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  • Scope, number of resources, and cost
  • Scope, cost, and time
  • Scope, time, cost, quality, risk, resources, and customer satisfaction
  • Time, cost, and number of changes

Question 6

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If a project manager is concerned with gathering, integrating, and disseminating the outputs of all project management processes, she should concentrate on improving the:
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  • Work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Communications management plan
  • Project management information system (PMIS)
  • Scope management plan

Question 7

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A project team is working on manufacturing a new product, but they are having difficulty creating a project charter. What is the BEST description of the real problem?
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  • They have not identified the project objectives
  • They are working on a process and not a project
  • The end date has not been set
  • The have not identified the product of the project

Question 8

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One of your team members informs you that he does not know which of the many projects he is working on is the most important. Who should determine the priorities between projects in a company?
Answer
  • The project manager
  • The project management team
  • The project management Office (PMO)
  • The team

Question 9

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The difference between a project, program, and portfolio is:
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  • A project is a temporary endeavor with a beginning and an end, a program may include other non-project work, and a portfolio is all the project in a given department or division
  • A project is a lengthy endeavor with a beginning and an end, a program combines tow or more unrelated projects, and a portfolio combines two or more programs
  • A project is a a temporary endeavor with a beginning and an end, a program is a group of related projects, and portfolio is a group of projects and programs related to a specific objective
  • A project is a contracted endeavor with a beginning and end, a portfolio is a group of projects with more open-ended completion dates, and a program combines two or more portfolios

Question 10

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Operational work is different from project work in that operation work is
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  • Unique
  • Temporary
  • Ongoing and repetitive
  • A part of every project activity

Question 11

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Company procedures require the creation of a lessons learned document. Which of the following is the BEST use of lessons learned?
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  • Historical records for future projects
  • Planning record for the current project
  • Informing the team about what the project manager has done
  • Informing the team about the project management plan

Question 12

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Lessons learned are BEST completed by:
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  • The project manager
  • The team
  • The spnsor
  • The Stakeholders

Question 13

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Consideration of ongoing operations and maintenance is crucially important to a products of projects. Ongoing operations and maintenance should:
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  • Be included as activities to be performed during project closure
  • Have a separate phase in the project life cycle, because a large portion of life cycle costs is devoted to maintenance and operations
  • Not be viewed as part of a project
  • Be viewed as a separate project

Question 14

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What is a program?
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  • An initiative set up by management
  • A means to gain benefits and control of related projects
  • A group of unrelated projects managed in a coordinated way
  • A government regulation

Question 15

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A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the BEST way to accomplish this?
Answer
  • Create Project management plans
  • Create lessons learned
  • Create network diagrams
  • Create status reports

Question 16

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Use the project scope statement to gain approval of the "final" scope from the stakeholders before further planning is done. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 17

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Determine high-level requirements, constrains, assumptions, and risks. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring and Controlling
  • Closing

Question 18

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Measure against the performance measurement baseline. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring and Controlling
  • Closing

Question 19

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Implement approved changes, including corrective actions, preventive actions, and defect repair. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 20

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Reanalyze existing risks. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 21

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Use the high-level planning and estimating data to determine whether the product can be achieved with the given constraints. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 22

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Verify and document that the project, or project phase, meets completion or exit criteria set in place during project planning. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Execution
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 23

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Hold team-building activities. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 24

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Evaluate the effectiveness of risk responses in a risk audit. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 25

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Determine how you will plan the planning, executing, and controlling efforts for stakeholders, requirements, scope, schedule, cost, quality, process improvement, human resources, communications, risk, procurement, changes, and configuration, and put that information into the beginnings of management plans. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 26

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Obtain formal (legal) sign-off and final acceptance of the product of the project from the customer. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 27

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Increase the effectiveness of processes. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 28

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Recalculate how much the project will cost and how long it will take, and create forecasts. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 29

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Plan what will be communicated on the project, to whom, by whom, when, and how. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 30

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Spend time trying to improve quality. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 31

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Make sure the business case and the analysis supporting the need for the project are documented and understood. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 32

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Evaluate how effectively the team members function as a team. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 33

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Determine how you will improve the processes in use on the project. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 34

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Determine measurable project and product objectives. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 35

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Manage time and cost reserves. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 36

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Focus on looking for exceptions to the approved project management plan in team members' performance, rather than checking up on every person's work or babysitting. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 37

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Develop the final project management plan, project documents, and performance measurement baseline by performing schedule network analysis, looking for options, and confirming that project objectives can be met. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 38

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Gather final lessons learned. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 39

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Keep everyone focused on completing the project to the project charter and project management plan. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 40

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Calculate estimate to complete. During which process group is this done?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring & Controlling
  • Closing

Question 41

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In which project management process group is the detailed project budget created?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Before the project management process
  • Planning
  • Executing

Question 42

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The project charter is created in which project management process group?
Answer
  • Executing
  • Planning
  • Closing
  • Initiating

Question 43

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The project team has just completed the initial project schedule and budget. The NEXT thing to do is to:
Answer
  • Identify risks
  • Begin iterations
  • Determine Communications requirements
  • Create a bar (Gantt) Chart

Question 44

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A detailed project schedule can be created only after creating the:
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  • Project Budget
  • Work breakdown structure
  • Project management plan
  • Detailed risk assessment

Question 45

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The person who should be in control of the project during project planning is the:
Answer
  • Project Manager
  • Team member
  • Functional manager
  • Sponsor

Question 46

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Which of the following is NOT an input to the initiating process group?
Answer
  • Company processes
  • Company culture
  • Historical WBSs
  • Project scope statement

Question 47

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The project sponsor has just signed the project charter. What is the NEXT thing to do?
Answer
  • Begin to complete work packages
  • Validate scope
  • Start integrate change control
  • Start to create management plans

Question 48

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The high-level project schedule constraints have just been determined. What project management process group are you in?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Monitoring and Controlling

Question 49

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The WBS and WBS dictionary are completed. The project team has begun working on identifying risks. The sponsor contacts the project manager, requesting that the responsibility assignment matrix be issued. The project has a budget of US $100,000 and taking place in three countries using 14 human resources. There is little risk expected for the project, and the project manager has managed many projects similar to this one. What is the NEXT thing to do.
Answer
  • Understand the experience of the sponsor on similar projects
  • Create an activity list
  • Make sure the project scope is defined
  • Complete risk management and issue the responsibility assignment matrix

Question 50

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A project manager does not have much time to spend on planning before the mandatory start date arrives. He therefore wants to move through planning as effectively as possible. What advice would you offer?
Answer
  • Make sure you have signed charter and then start the WBS
  • Create an activity list before creating a network diagram
  • Document all the known risks before you document the high level assumptions
  • Finalize the quality management plan before you determine quality metrics

Question 51

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The BEST time to assign a project manager to a project is during:
Answer
  • Integration
  • Project selection
  • Initiating
  • Planning

Question 52

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A project manager gets a call from a team member notifying him that there is a variance between the speed of a system on the project and the desired or planned speed. The project manager is surprised because that performance measurement was not identified in planning. If the project manager then evaluates whether the variance warrants a response, he is in which part of the project management process?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Executing
  • Monitoring and controlling
  • Closing

Question 53

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A team member notifies the project manage that the activities comprising a work package are no longer appropriate. It would be BEST for the project manager to be in what part of the project management process:
Answer
  • Corrective action
  • Integrated change control
  • Monitoring and controlling
  • Project closing

Question 54

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During a meeting, a team member asks about the measurements that will be used on the project to assess performance. The team member feels that some of the measures related to activities assigned to him are not valid measurements. The project is BEST considered to be in what part of the project management process?
Answer
  • Closing
  • Monitoring and controlling
  • Executing
  • Initiating

Question 55

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Which of the following is the MOST appropriate thing to do during the initiating process group?
Answer
  • Create a detailed description of the project deliverables
  • Get familiar with the company culture and structure as they relate to the project
  • Identify the root cause of problems
  • Ensure all project management processes are complete

Question 56

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Which of the following is a characteristic of project management processes?
Answer
  • Iterative
  • Unique
  • Unnecessary
  • Standardized

Question 57

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Which project management process group generally takes the MOST project time and resources?
Answer
  • Planning
  • Design
  • Integration
  • Executing

Question 58

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All of the following must be performed during project initiating EXCEPT:
Answer
  • Identify and document business needs
  • Create a project scope statement
  • Divide a large project into phases
  • Accumulate and evaluate historical information

Question 59

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Closure includes all of the following EXCEPT:
Answer
  • Determining performance measures
  • Turning over the product of the project
  • Documenting the degree to which each project phase was properly closed after its completion
  • Updating the company's organizational process assets

Question 60

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The first phase of your project has come to an end. What is the MOST important thing to ensure is done BEFORE beginning the next phase?
Answer
  • Verify that the resources are available for the next phase
  • Check the project's progress compared to its baselines
  • Confirm that the phase has reached it objectives, and have its deliverable formally accepted
  • Recommend corrective action to bring the project results in line with project expectations

Question 61

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During which process group does the team measure and analyze the work being done on the project?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Executing
  • Monitoring and controlling
  • Closing

Question 62

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Which process groups must be included in every project?
Answer
  • Planning, executing, and closing
  • Initiating, planning, and executing
  • Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing
  • Planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling

Question 63

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Which of the following is the MOST appropriate thing to do in project closing?
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  • Work with the customer to determine acceptance criteria
  • Collect historical information from previous projects
  • Confirm all the requirements in the project have been met
  • Gain formal approval of the management plans

Question 64

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Which process group focuses on completing the requirements of the project?
Answer
  • Initiating
  • Planning
  • Executing
  • Closing

Question 65

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All of the following occur during the planning process group EXCEPT:
Answer
  • Develop Project Charter
  • Create WBS
  • Estimate Costs
  • Sequence Activities

Question 66

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A market demand, a business need, and/or a legal requirement are examples of:
Answer
  • Reasons to hire a project manager
  • Reasons projects are initiated
  • Reasons people or businesses become stakeholders
  • Reasons to sponsor a project

Question 67

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The need for _______________ is one of the major driving forces for communication in a project.
Answer
  • Optimization
  • Integrity
  • Integration
  • Differentiation

Question 68

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The customer has accepted the completed project scope. However, the lessons learned required by the project management office have not been completed. What is the status of the project?
Answer
  • The project is incomplete because it needs to be replanned
  • The project is incomplete until all project and product deliverables are complete and accepted
  • The project is incomplete because the customer has accepted the deliverables
  • The project is incomplete because it has reached its due date

Question 69

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When it comes to changes, the project manager's attention is BEST focused on:
Answer
  • Making changes
  • Tracking and recording changes
  • Informing the sponsor of changes
  • Preventing unnecessary changes

Question 70

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The customer on a project tells the project manager they have run out of money to pay for the project. What should the project manager do FIRST?
Answer
  • Shift more of the work to later in the schedule to allow time for the customer to get the funds
  • Close Project or Phase
  • Stop work
  • Release part of the project team

Question 71

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All of the following are parts of an effective change management plan EXCEPT:
Answer
  • Procedures
  • Standards for reports
  • Meeting
  • Lessons learned

Question 72

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A work authorization system can be used to:
Answer
  • Manage who does each activity
  • Manage when and in what sequence work is done
  • Mange when each activity is doen
  • Manage who does each activity and when it is done

Question 73

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A project is plagued by changes to the project charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary?
Answer
  • The project manager
  • The project team
  • The sponsor
  • The stakeholder

Question 74

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Effective project integration usually requires an emphasis on:
Answer
  • The personal careers of the team members
  • Timely updates to the project management plan
  • Effective communication at key interface points
  • Product control

Question 75

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Integration is done by the:
Answer
  • Project Manager
  • Team
  • Sponsor
  • Stakeholders

Question 76

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Which of the following BEST describes the project manager's role as an integrator?
Answer
  • Help team members become familiar with the project
  • Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole
  • Put all the pieces of a project into a program
  • Get all team members together into a cohesive whole

Question 77

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Approved corrective actions are an input to which of the following processes?
Answer
  • Validate Scope
  • Direct and Manage Project Work
  • Develop Project Charter
  • Develop Schedule

Question 78

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Double declining balance is a form of:
Answer
  • Decelerated depreciation
  • Straight line depreciation
  • Accelerated depreciation
  • Life cycle costing

Question 79

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Which of the following BEST describes what a project charter may be used for when the work is being completed?
Answer
  • To make sure all the team members are rewarded
  • To help determine if a scope change should be approved
  • To assess the effectiveness of the change control system
  • To make sure that all the documentation on the project is completed

Question 80

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Which of the following BEST describes a project management plan?
Answer
  • A printout from project management software
  • A bar chart
  • Risk, human resource, process improvement, and other management plans
  • The project scope

Question 81

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Which of the following is TRUE about the development of a project charter?
Answer
  • The sponsor creates creates the project charter, and the project manager approves it
  • The project team creates the project charter, and PMO approves it
  • The executive manager creates the project charter, and the functional manager approves it
  • The project manager creates the project charter, and the sponsor approves it

Question 82

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A project management plan should be realistic in order to be used to manage the project. Which of the following is the BEST method to achieve a realistic project management plan?
Answer
  • The sponsor creates the project management plan based on input from the project manager
  • The functional manager creates the project management plan based on input from the project manager
  • The project manager creates the project management plan based on input from senior management
  • The project manager creates the project management plan based on input from the team

Question 83

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You are taking over a project during project planning and discover that six individuals have signed the project charter. Which of the following should MOST concern you?
Answer
  • Who will be a member of the change control board
  • Spending more time on configuration management
  • Getting a single project sponsor
  • Determining the report stucture

Question 84

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The project manager is working to clearly describe the level of involvement expected from everyone on the project in order to prevent rework, conflict, and coordination problems. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager's efforts?
Answer
  • Develop Project Management Plan and Plan Quality Management
  • Manage Stakeholder Engagement and Direct and Manage Project work
  • Validate Scope and Control Quality
  • Identify Risks and Develop Project Team

Question 85

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All of the following are parts of the Direct and Menage Project Work process EXCEPT:
Answer
  • Identify changes
  • Using a work breakdown structure
  • Implementing corrective actions
  • Setting up a project control system

Question 86

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A project manager is appointed to head a highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be:
Answer
  • A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment
  • A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion, but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit
  • A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager
  • A team tat is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high levels of conflict, and high turnover

Question 87

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You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:
Answer
  • Show how the resources were originally promised to your project
  • Re-plan the project without the resources
  • Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available
  • Crash the project

Question 88

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The primary customer of a project has requested an application change during user testing. As project manager, how should you BEST address this issue?
Answer
  • Develop a risk mitigation plan
  • Create a formal change request
  • Inform the project sponsor of changes to scope, cost, and schedule
  • Ensure the scope change complies with all relevant contractual provisions

Question 89

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Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at US $2,000,000. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new project?
Answer
  • Ask management how the new project will use resources
  • Resource level your project
  • Crash your project
  • Ask management how the new project will affect your project

Question 90

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The project manager has just received a change from the customer that does not affect the project schedule and is easy complete. What should the Project Manager do FIRST?
Answer
  • Make the change happen as soon as possible
  • Contact the project sponsor for permission
  • Go to the change control board
  • Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints

Question 91

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Understanding the culture, policies, and procedures of the organization in which the project is being performed is MOST challenging in:
Answer
  • Global organization
  • Manufacturing organization
  • Small organization
  • Agile organization

Question 92

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In a projectized organization, the project team:
Answer
  • Reports to many bosses
  • Has no loyalty to the project
  • Reports to the functional manager
  • Will not always have a "home"

Question 93

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A project manager is trying to complete a software development project, but cannot get enough attention for the project. Resources are focused on completing process related work, and the project manager has little authority to assign resources. What form of organization must the project manager be working in?
Answer
  • Functional
  • Matrix
  • Expediter
  • Coordinator

Question 94

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A project manager has very little project experience, but he has been assigned as the project manager of a new project. Because he will be working in a matrix organization to complete his project, he can expect communications to be:
Answer
  • Simple
  • Open and accurate
  • Complex
  • Hard to automate

Question 95

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A project team member is talking to another team member and complaining that many people are asking him to do things. If he works in a functional organization, who has the power to give direction to the team member?
Answer
  • The project manager
  • The functional manager
  • The team
  • The PMO

Question 96

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The previous project manager for your project managed it without much project organization. There is a lack of management control and no clearly defined project deliverables. Which of the following would be the BEST choice for getting your project better organized?
Answer
  • Adopt a life cycle approach to the project
  • Develop lessons learned for each phase
  • Develop specific work plans for each work package
  • Develop a description of the product of the project

Question 97

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The project life cycle differs from the project management process in that the project management process:
Answer
  • Is the same for every project
  • Does not incorporate a methodology
  • Is different for each industry
  • Can spawn many projects

Question 98

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Who has the MOST power in a projectized organization?
Answer
  • The project manager
  • The functional manager
  • The team
  • The all share power

Question 99

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Your management has decided that all orders will be treated as "projects" and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, to resolve issues, and to ensure the customer formally accepts the product within 30 days of completion. Revenue from the individual orders can vary from US $100 to US $150,000. The project manager will not be required to perform planning or provide documentation other than daily status. How would you define this situation?
Answer
  • Because each individual order is a "temporary endeavor", each order is a project
  • This is program management since there are multiple projects involved
  • This is a recurring process
  • Orders incurring revenue over $1000,000 would be considered projects and would involve project management

Question 100

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To obtain support for the project throughout the performing organization, it's BEST if the project manager:
Answer
  • Ensures there is a communications management plan
  • Correlates the need for the project to the organization's strategic plan
  • Connects the project to the personal objectives of the sponsor
  • Ensures that the management plan includes the management of team members
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