If you want to reduce the number of quality inspections and thus reduce the cost of quality control for your project, which technique should be used?
Run Chart
Defect Repair Review
Statistical Sampling
Pareto Chart
Which of the following documents will help trace the requirements to product design?
Requirements traceability matrix
Design traceability matrix
Project scope statement
Product traceability matrix
You have just received notice that the organization you’ve been working for as a project manage has gone bankrupt. All employees have been given 72 hours notice of termination. What is the best course of action for the two projects you are managing?
Follow company directives.
Conduct a project closeout meeting.
Leave the office today.
Raise a claim for and on behalf of all the employees and contractors who were participating in the project
A project manager is estimating the project duration and finds that the only information available to him is a previous project that was quite different from the current one. However, some portions of the previous project were similar to the current one. Which of the following tools is the project manager likely to use?
Analogous estimating
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Three-point estimates
Parametric estimating
A management control point where scope, budget, actual cost and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement is called a:
Code of accounts
Control packages
Control account
Account Plan
As part of the Plan Risk Management process, a project manager is looking at the activity of preparing a risk management plan. Which of the following is true about risks?
A risk may have one or more causes and, if it occurs, may have one or more impacts.
A risk usually has a single cause and, if it occurs, may have one or more impacts.
A risk usually has a single cause and if it occurs usually has a single impact.
A risk usually has more than one cause, and if it occurs, may have one or more impacts.
A project manager was assigned to a project as the project charter was being developed. Which of the following is an input that the project manager will utilize to develop the project charter?
Make-or-Buy analysis
Organizational Process Assets
Project Acceptance Criteria
Project Scope Statement
You are working in an Information Technology project as a project manager to develop a shopping website for your customers. Some key stakeholders in the project suggested scope changes to improve the look and feel of the website. Your team has analyzed the impact of these changes and presented to the change control board for approval. What should be your next step if the change control board accepts all proposed changes?
Implement the change request and update stakeholders
Review change control board decisions and inform stakeholders for their input
Conduct a team status meeting to update the progress on change requests
Revise cost estimates, schedule dates, resource requirements and planning documents
Which of the following is neither an input nor an output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process?
Approved change requests
Change requests
Approved deliverables
Deliverables
Jane is managing a software development project. During one of the project update meetings, one of the key stakeholders raised a serious concern about the new project management approach being applied on the project. The rest of the stakeholders are comfortable with the new project management approach being used. What should Jane do?
Use coercive power to convince the stakeholder to accept the new approach.
Request stakeholders to vote for the right approach.
Have a separate one-to-one meeting with the stakeholder if the issue is not resolved during the update meeting.
Remove the troublesome stakeholder from the stakeholder register.
Why are the approved change requests input to the Direct and Manage Project Work process?
Approved change requests may be rejected by the project team during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
Approved change requests are implemented by the project team during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
Approved change requests are sent to the Change Control Board during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
Approved change requests are reviewed by the project team during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
Stakeholder identification is a continuous process. Which of the following statements about stakeholders is incorrect?
Positive stakeholders benefit from the outcome of a project
A project manager needs to focus on the positive stakeholders since their needs are best served by the project
Overlooking negative stakeholders can result in an increased likelihood of failure
Stakeholders can have conflicting or differing objectives
You have landed your dream job, as project manager working in an exotic sports car factory. Your project involves coming up with a smoother ride for the car. You have tasked the engineers to determine which type of suspension and what type of tires will provide the best ride and the most reasonable cost. This relates to which of the following processes?
Control Risks
Perform Quality Assurance
Control Quality
Plan Quality Management
The Project Manager controls the interfacing and overlapping areas of the organization’s procurement processes, and the project schedule with processes from this area:
Project Human Resource Management
Project Scope Management
Project Risk Management
Project Integration Management
You are an expatriate working in a foreign country and have been asked to offer a cash payment gift to the procurement manager at a company you are bidding on work for. How BEST should you interpret this request?
Agree to provide the cash payment because the procurement manager controls whether your bid is accepted.
Inform the procurement manager that offering such a payment would violate your professional standards.
Base your interpretation of the request on an understanding of the norms of the country you are in.
Express your anger at the request and inform the procurement manager that this would never happen in your home country.
You are in the midst of a major code roll out for a new software module. However, it has come to your attention that the resources promised for the roll out are not going to be available. As the Project Manager, what is the BEST thing to do?
Explain the impact of the lost resources to the stakeholders
Replan the project without the resources
Have the current staff work extra hours
Fast Track the schedule
While analyzing the risks in a project, a project manager came up with a Risk Urgency Assessment document. In which process would this be done?
Close Risks
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Plan Risk Management
Which of the following may help in ensuring that certain bidders in the procurement process do not receive preferential treatment that all prospective sellers have a clear and common understanding of the procurement?
Use of weighted criteria
Use of bidder conferences
Use of screening techniques
Use of expert judgement
You have your project team members record the time they spend on different activities during the day such as: programming, electrical, HVAC, etc. This is an example of a tool and technique in what process?
Manage Communications
Direct and Manage Project Work
Monitor and Control Project Work
Manage Project Team
Which process group corresponds to the “do” part of the plan-do-check-act cycle?
Closing
Monitoring and Controlling
Planning
Executing
Emily is the project manager of a project that involves a buyer-seller relationship. The source selection criteria is an input to which of the following processes?
Control Procurements
Conduct Procurements
Close Procurements
Plan Procurement Management
