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WorksheetsPMI PMR Readiness (Exam 1)
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
Two teams working through a project conflict seek a win/win solution. Which conflict strategy should they employ?
Compromise/ Reconcile
Force/ Direct
Collaborate/ Problem-Solve
Smooth/ Accommodate
A construction company wants to follow proper processes for projects and their documentation. Which document serves as the official authorization for a project?
Statement of work
WBS
Project Charter
Project Scope
Which parts of a project plan are interdependent during the planning phase? (Choose three)
Quality
Schedule
Scope
Budget
Acceptance
A project to build a new library is behind schedule. Which adjustment to the project plan will have the best chance of putting the schedule back on track?
Reducing the number of quality inspections on the building.
Adding an additional team of builders to the project.
Removing a task to plant the garden.
Increasing the project budget by 10%
A project manager receives a suggestion for an app feature that was not part of the original development scoping. What should be the first step taken to add it to the project scope?
Make the change to the project scope.
Do an impact analysis on the change.
Send the change to the change review board.
Identify a change request,
A new project manager wants to know why closing contracts is an important part of the closing phase. What is the overall purpose?
To ensure a contract stayed under budget.
To transition a good or service to its maintenance phase.
To ensure work has been completed accurately and satisfactorily.
To see if any scope changes are needed.
Which project is utilizing a predictive approach?
A garden area that has a defined space and number of plants to be planted, but the time frame of the building of the garden is not set.
A science lab to where the specifications of the lab can be defined and adjusted once the core of the lab is built.
A building wing where all of the specifications for the classrooms are defined up front and any changes to the specifications have to go through a change control board.
A playground with multiple areas, each with its own individual project, with multiple fixed scopes, but the overall project is subject to change.
Which type of project authority is based on comprehensive respect for a manager's knowledge and leadership abilities, even if the manager is not a subject matter expert on the actual work to be done?
Credibility
Reverant
Association
Expert
In building a new kitchen for a cafeteria, a stove and the vent above the stove can be worked on simultaneously. The vent above the stove needs to be in place before the stove can be tested as part of its completion. Which type of dependency exists between the vent and stove tasks?
Start-start
Start-finish
Finish-finish
Finish-start
For the construction of new stands inside a gymnasium, which project task is considered to be a procurement?
Obtaining the wood to build the stands.
Starting the big process for a vendor to build the stands.
Securing the internal designer's availability to design the stands.
Finalizing a contract to build the stands.
Arrange in order, the phases that comprise the project life cycle.
Initiating
Planning
Executing
Monitoring and controlling
Closing
A new hire is assigned to a team addressing a product backlog. What will this person be working on?
A list of products that need to be released.
A list of prioritized tasks for a sprint within a project.
A list of maintenance tasks for a finished product.
A list of tasks that have slipped behind schedule.
Which project situation best lends itself to a hybrid approach?
A gym space with modular sections.
A community garden.
A financial software project built to regulations.
A healthcare software project built to regulations.
A software development project has had many aspects added that were not approved, nor were they presented to a change control board. As a result, the project will take longer and there is an aggregate risk it will not be done on time. What has taken place in the project?
Scope creep
Product backlog
Slipping
Gold plating
A development team discovered a faster way to review code without sacrificing quality. What should be done during the closing phase?
Archive the newly discovered process for future projects.
Adjust the project budget.
Adjust the project scope.
Adjust the project schedule.
For each project scenario, indicate whether the project best fits a predictive, adaptive, or hybrid approach.
Adaptive
Building an airplane
Predictive
Planting seeds in land over time
Hybrid
Building a headquarters and a website
A project manager is analyzing a project plan to ensure it is accurate. What part of the plan consists of tasks that are in scope, compared to the scope statement?
Tasks that are completed on time.
Tasks with no risks.
Tasks that contribute toward the work that needs to be completed.
Tasks that are completed within budget.
A project team is struggling to stay under budget with a gymnasium build. The project manager is offering team members free gym memberships for a year if it is finished on time and under budget. What type of tactic is being used to get the project back on schedule?
Motivation
Accommodating
Authority
Problem-solving
Using drag and drop, match each element of a project charter to its description.
Objectives
The end goal
Milestones
Significant events
Project purpose
Specific goals
Project team members want to know why having a change management process is important. What is the goal of the process?
Preventing budget overruns
Preventing scope creep
Preventing schedule extensions
Preventing gold plating
A project manager is told to be an active listener in order to be more successful as a manager. What are examples of active listening? (Choose two)
Seek to clearly understand
Help finish a thought.
Listen well enough to reply.
Reword to confirm understanding.
Which conflict management strategy is known to not really solve a conflict between parties?
Force/direct
Smooth/accommodate
Withdraw/avoid
Compromise/reconcile
An external vendor is attempting to sell a team member a lower-quality grade of wood to build stands inside a gymnasium. What should the team member do?
Report the situation to the project manager.
Accept the discounted materials from the vendor.
Report the vendor to the appropriate regulation authorities.
Report the situation to the project sponsor.
Which communications element interferes with the effectiveness of communication?
Feedback
Decoder
Noise
Message channel
A project manager wants to add resources to reduce the overall time it will take to complete a project. On which tasks will the adding of resources impact the schedule?
Adding resources to tasks with measured work.
Adding resources to tasks with no dependencies.
Adding resources to tasks on the critical path.
Adding resources to tasks with dependencies.
A new project manager wants to know the difference between quality assurance and quality control. Which aspects of quality are a part of quality assurance in project development? (Choose two)
The attempt to prevent defects in a product.
The finding and fixing of defects in a product.
The process by which quality is measured.
The preventing of future errors in a project.
Team members are inquiring as to why they need to report to their managers when tasks are finished. The manager tells them the reason is to ensure there are no slipped tasks. What is a slipped task?
A task that needs additional resources to be completed in less time.
A task that is changed to being done concurrently with other tasks instead of sequentially with those tasks.
A task that is in progress and behind schedule.
A task completed behind schedule.
Project team members have expressed a preference to receive communication through a news feed, such as what is found on SharePoint. Which method of communication do the members prefer?
Push
Pull
Feedback
Interactive
What are the main elements of a project status update? (Choose two)
What is forecast to be completed in the next time period.
What has been completed within a specific time period.
Overall progress on all projects in progress.
Year-to-date statistics on all projects in progress.
A project manager is trying to estimate costs for a new project to develop bottles out of recycled material. What method should be utilized for this type of estimating?
Parametric
Top-down
Bottom-up
Analogous
A project manager has been told by another stakeholder that a project budget must be watched closely as a project progresses. Which stakeholder is most interested in making sure a project stays on budget?
Team member
Project sponsor
Project manager
Manager
A project for building a new basketball court is in progress. The hoops are supposed to be 10 feet high but upon the customer suspecting a height error and measuring the height of the hoops, one hoop is 10 1/2 feet high and the other is 11 feet high. What should be done to address this quality issue? (Choose two)
The installers should look to improve the installation process to avoid this error in the future.
The height of the rims should be adjusted and the customer should be notified of the repair.
The customer should be told that the rims cannot be adjusted.
The height of the rims should be adjusted and the customer should be charged for the repair.
Which stakeholder has the ultimate signoff decision on a project and its deliverables?
Project sponsor
Project manager
Team member
Customer
After the completion, team members want to know why there is a meeting to share lessons learned. What is the main benefit of such documentation?
Brainstorm future projects.
Improve product maintenance.
Improve the project's overall quality.
Improve processes in future, similar projects.
Which part of a project management plan uses a Gantt Chart as a management tool?
Schedule
Risk
Scope
Budget
The definition of a project's objectives is found in which project management document?
Project charter
Business case
Procurement document
Project scope
A consulting firm is building an app for a company that sells various types of containers. In this project scenario, which stakeholder has the final say on whether the app was built to its required specifications?
Project Manager
Customer
Manager
Project Sponsor
In which phase of a project plan is a project charter created and approved?
Initiating
Monitoring and Controlling
Executing
Planning
Which project document secures the services of and defines compensation for external resources?
Project scope
MOU
Request for bid
Contract
When problems arise during a project, what is the first step a project manager should take in the decision-making process?
Implement a solution.
Identify a problem.
Generate possible solutions.
Generate criteria for solutions.
Due to an increase in supply costs, a project manager indicates that a project is currently 5% over budget. What should the project manager do first to solve the budget problem?
Access money from the management reserve, if it is available.
Cut future supplies by 5%
Access money from the contingency reserve, if it is available.
Cut the project scope by 5%.
Which groups of stakeholders are responsible for functional testing for products created in a project plan? (Choose two)
Customers
Managers
Team members
Project managers
A project team member raises an issue about quality defects in an app that is due to be released. The team member is insistent the issue be resolved so as not to embarrass the company developing the app. In response, the project manager insists that the app be released as is. What type of conflict management has been used?
Smooth/accommodate
Withdraw/avoid
Force/direct
Compromise/reconcile
As part of a project management plan, which states the work done to deliver a product, service, or results?
Project scope
Deliverable
Project charter
Portfolio
What aspect of a project is unique and is required to be produced to complete a process, phase, or project?
Deliverable
Program
Milestone
Task
In a WBS, which type of package is the lowest level of a work breakdown structure for which cost and duration are managed?
Planning
Phase
Deliverable
Work
Which Code of Ethics value applies to someone who needs to make sure that companies have an equal opportunity to bid for contractual work for deliverables that will be outsourced?
Fainess
Respect
Honesty
Responsibility
Which statement best describes the role of a project sponsor?
A non-key stakeholder
The only stakeholder
Not a stakeholder
A key stakeholder
Which key project stakeholder has the largest role in managing expectations of other stakeholders?
Project client
Team leader
Project manager
Project sponsor
Which project diagram shows the scope of a project, broken down into phases, then deliverables, and then work packages?
Critical path
Gantt Chart
WBS
RBS
