PMP -Integration/Time (Situations)-Exam#10

Your team has built an exotic sports car for a wealthy client. Every deliverable has been verified by the project team against the quality requirements and accepted by the client. Now the Project Manager is reviewing the car to ensure it meets the specifications of the client, as agreed to in the project plan. What project management process is represented here?

• Closing
• Controlling & Monitoring
• Planning
• Execution

You are assisting another project manager interview candidates for a resource position on his project. While reviewing your interview notes together, the other project manager sorts the candidate's resumes into two groups: one for further interviews, the other for candidates that did not meet the requirements for the position. You notice that he has placed several of the highly qualified candidates in the second pile, stating that those interviewees "did not fit the corporate profile." Upon further review, you discover that these candidates are all of the same ethnic group. What do you do?

• Excuse yourself from the interviewing process.
• Report this to the appropriate management.
• File a complaint with PMI
• Do nothing

You are a PMP reviewing project files to help you write a lessons learned document on a software project you are finishing. Which of the following is not a part of a project file?

• Change management documentation
• Project calendars
• Project management plan
• Project deliverables

Which of the following processes gives the project management team insights into the health of the project?    

• Develop Project Management Plan
• Perform Integrated Change Control
• Monitor and Control Project Work
• Determine Budget

During the planning phase of your project, your team decided to procure a certain brand of hardware because it had the lowest price and free shipping and installation. This approach saved $6,000 over the other brands being considered. Since that purchase, however, it has been discovered that the annual maintenance costs for this hardware are $2,500 per year, and $12,500 over the life of the hardware. These costs were not budgeted in the project, nor were they included in the TCO analysis that was done as part of the project business case. What should you do?

• Request a new budget.
• Notify the stakeholders immediately.
• Revise the business case
• Do nothing. This will not impact the project budget.

You are an inexperienced project manager who has been appointed to manage a project in a matrix organization. Because of this you can expect the communication in this project to be:  

• Open and Accurate
• Easy to Automate 
• Simple
• Complex

Predicting future performance based on historical events is called ___________.

• Historical analysis
• Trend analysis
• Parametric analysis
• Pareto analysis

Which option is NOT representative of the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

• PMIS, Project Management Plan, and Deliverables
• Deliverables, Approved Change Requests, and Project Management Information System
• Approved Change Requests, Validated Changes, and PMIS
• Approved Change Requests, Project Management Plan, and Work Performance Data

You are the Project Manager for the production of an exotic car. You have completed the Define Scope process for your project. Which of the following may be generated through this process?

• Project scope statement, Project charter
• Project scope statement, Updates to Requirements traceability matrix
• WBS, Updates to Requirements traceability matrix
• Project scope statement, WBS

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