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PMP® Quiz Session #194

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
Date
1.

At a division project status meeting, all attendees receive a dashboard of cost metrics for each project, and each project manager is presenting the status of his or her project. The metrics for one project show a BAC of $1100, an EV of $998, and an EAC of $1099. However, the project manager is reporting an ETC of $354. What do you do?

a)

Notify the appropriate management there is a calculation error

b)

Do nothing

c)

Advise the project manager to take the additional funds from her project contingency budget

d)

Congratulate the project manager for being under budget

2.

Which of the following tools and techniques are not applicable while communicating project information?

a)

Communication requirements analysis

b)

Communication technology

c)

Communication methods

d)

Information management systems

3.

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

a)

ETC based on CPI

b)

ETC based on BAC

c)

ETC based on CPI and SPI

d)

ETC based on new estimate

4.

Your team has built an exotic sports car for a wealthy client. The project team verified every deliverable against the quality requirements, and the client accepted. Now the project manager is arranging for the car delivery. This is part of which process group?

a)

Closing

b)

Monitoring and Controlling

c)

Planning

d)

Execution

5.

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?

a)

Project charter

b)

Project management plan

c)

Project final report

d)

Project scope statement

6.

Skills such as empathy, influence, creativity, and group encouragement are valuable assets when managing the project team. These skills are often referred to as ___________.

a)

Effort-based management

b)

Feedback-based skills

c)

Ad hoc skills

d)

Soft skills

7.

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

a)

Reimbursable

b)

Fixed

c)

Direct

d)

Indirect

8.

Andrew was working as a senior project manager at a company when he resigned from his position. This company recently hired Jack to replace Andrew. Jack had worked with Andrew in the past, and he knows him personally. Jack is now in charge of a project that Andrew left in the middle. If Jack calls Andrew for an opinion on this project, this constitutes:

a)

Jack‘s incompetence since he is dependent on Andrew‘s opinion

b)

An example of obtaining expert judgment from a senior

c)

Unethical behavior by Jack since Andrew has already resigned from the company

d)

A conflict of interest situation as Jack knows Andrew

9.

Robert has recently joined an automobile manufacturer. He now has a project that was already in the execution phase. Recently, one of the key stakeholders has raised serious concerns over the project’s scope. Robert now wants to review the previous project communications to understand how the current project scope was agreed to by all key stakeholders in the past. Where can he find this information?

a)

Organizational process assets

b)

Project management plan

c)

Stakeholder register

d)

Enterprise environmental factors

10.

Which of these is an input to the Collect Requirements process?

a)

Observations

b)

Risk register

c)

Scope statement

d)

Project charter

11.

Tim is the project manager of a project that has a timeline of 18 months. Tim plans to send daily status reports to all stakeholders. After receiving two such reports, Sue, the project sponsor, informs Tim she

would like to have reports every two weeks only. Tim did an analysis of communications requirements and considered various attributes for the communications management plan. What aspect has he missed, which resulted in a daily status report being sent instead of two-week status reports?

a)

He has not considered the frequency of information distribution.

b)

He has not considered the purpose for distribution of information.

c)

He has not considered the project’s timeline.

d)

He has not considered the content of the information.

12.

A software development project team has determined that the best way to mitigate the risk of not having the computational resources to complete all bug testing on schedule is to add three more servers to the

test bed. However, the network may not have enough capacity to handle the extra load of those three servers and could fail. This type of risk is a _______________ risk.

a)

Simulation

b)

Secondary

c)

Bottleneck

d)

Hidden

13.

Which of the following enterprise environmental factors is not applicable to the Plan Resource Management process?

a)

Organizational culture and structure

b)

Existing resources, capabilities and competencies

c)

Marketplace conditions

d)

Lessons learned

14.

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:

a)

Control chart

b)

Pareto diagram

c)

Histogram

d)

Cause-and-effect diagram

15.

Which of the following actions decreases the risk of the project failing to meet its goals and objectives?

a)

Discouraging changes to the initial project scope

b)

Acquiring more than required resources

c)

Active management of stakeholders

d)

Fast-tacking the project schedule to finish the project before deadline

16.

You are assisting Benjamin, another project manager, to interview candidates for a resource position on his project. While reviewing your interview notes together, you notice that he sorts the candidate‘s resumes into two piles: One pile for further interviews, the other for candidates that did not meet the requirements for the position. You also 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 all these candidates are of the same ethnic group. What do you do?

a)

Excuse yourself from the interviewing process

b)

Report this to the appropriate management

c)

File a complaint with PMI

d)

Do nothing

17.

As a project manager, you are analyzing a process and looking for opportunities for improvements by identifying and analyzing nonvalue-added activities. This relates to which of the following tools and techniques of the Manage Quality process?

a)

Quality Audits

b)

Affinity diagrams

c)

Interrelationship digraphs

d)

Process Analysis

18.

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

a)

Develop Project Management Plan

b)

Perform Integrated Change Control

c)

Monitor and Control Project Work

d)

Determine Budget

19.

Which of the following interpersonal skills is of prime importance during the collection and analysis of stakeholders’ needs and expectations?

a)

Trust building

b)

Conflict resolution

c)

Overcoming resistance

d)

Active listening

20.

After receiving some news about a delay on one of your project tasks, you review the schedule to determine how it will affect the project. While there is a substantial delay on this task, it is not a critical path item and will not affect delivery of any of your milestones. Another project manager advises you to just present the milestone chart during your meeting with the project stakeholders and tell them the project is progressing as planned. What do you do?

a)

Present the project as a milestone chart and advise that the progress is tracking according to plan.

b)

Present the schedule in a milestone chart and disclose full details of the delay.

c)

Present the schedule in a network diagram and advise that the project is tracking according to plan.

d)

Present the schedule as a bar chart and advise that the project is tracking according to plan.

21.

The project manager in charge of a new credit card software project has asked the product manager to create a checklist to assist with identifying risks. A project manager can create a risk checklist from which of the following sources?

a)

Agreement templates

b)

Earned value measurements

c)

Project Management Information System

d)

The lowest level of the Risk Breakdown Structure

22.

A planning technique used to provide products, services, and results that truly reflect customer requirements, by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development, is:

a)

Six Sigma

b)

PDCA

c)

Voice of the Customer

d)

ISO

23.

Administrative closure involves all the activities in a step-by-step manner to satisfy various completion and exit criteria for the project. This is part of which Project Management Knowledge Area?

a)

Project Communications Management

b)

Project Scope Management

c)

Project Integration Management

d)

Project Procurement Management

24.

You are a project manager who is in charge of an important project for your company. The project includes producing widgets for your customer. The collected data helps identify the greatest causes of defects in the overall process. Which technique should you use to determine the correlation between two variables being analyzed?

a)

Statistical sampling

b)

Pareto chart

c)

Scatter diagram

d)

Control chart

25.

In a sender-receiver model for communication, information is sent and received between two parties, defined as the sender and the receiver. In such a model, anything that interferes with the transmission and understanding of the message is called:

a)

Constraint

b)

Medium

c)

Decode

d)

Noise