PMP Lesson 8

The Close Project or Phase process is not performed when:

• Cancelling projects

• Closing projects

• Closing project phases

• Reactivating projects

What is the difference between the Monitor and Control Project Work process and the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

• The Monitor and Control Project Work process is a sub-process of the Direct and Manage Project Work process.

• The Monitor and Control Project Work process monitors the project performance while the Direct and Manage Project Work process is concerned with performing the activities to accomplish project requirements.

• The Monitor and Control Project Work and the Direct and Manage Project Work processes are the same.

• There is no such thing as the Monitor and Control Project Work process.

Which of the Project Schedule Management processes involves identifying and documenting dependencies among schedule activities?

• Control Schedule

• Sequence Activities

• Define Activities

• Develop Schedule

What does it mean if the Earned Value is equal to Actual Cost?

• Schedule Variance Index is 1

• Project is on budget and on schedule

• There is no schedule variance

• There is no cost variance

You are the project manager managing a project to design a print head for dot matrix printers. In order to determine ideal settings for print quality, the quality manager of the company suggests trying out various scenarios for printing by varying certain parameters on the print head. Identifying such variables which influence the product or process under development is called:

• Design of Experiments

• Benchmarking

• Brainstorming

• Statistical Sampling

The Cost Management Plan is an output of the Plan Cost Management process. This plan is then integrated with other project plans in which of these processes?

• Monitor and Control Project Work

• Perform Integrated Change Control

• Develop Project Management Plan

• Direct and Manage Project Work

Which of the following methods of forecasting EAC and ETC is the most accurate?

• ETC based on new estimate

• ETC based on CPI and SPI

• ETC based on BAC

• ETC based on CPI

The project sponsor has asked you to prepare a summary level description of each phase of the project, and also include a summary of the validation information for the final project deliverables. Which document is the sponsor asking you to prepare?

• Project scope statement

• Project management plan

• Project charter

• Project final report

As part of the quality control in your project, you are exploring a technique that shows the history and pattern of variation. This is a line graph that shows data points plotted in the order in which they occurred. You are most likely looking at a:

• Cause-and-effect diagram

• Control chart

• Pareto diagram

• Histogram

The cost of running a project management office is an example of what type of cost?

• Fixed

• Direct

• Indirect

• Reimbursable