During the auction, you see an auctioneer who is your close friend. What should your next step be?

You are managing a project to build five bridges. The project consists of five sequential phases with each phase delivering one bridge. After the first phase of the project is complete, which process group of the second phase should follow?

The project aims to investigate the feasibility of constructing a hydroelectric dam from a technical, economic, and social point of view. The project charter created by the project manager on behalf of the project sponsor is now approved. Which of the following processes should be performed next?

The project sponsor asks for a copy of the document that contains the description, owner, source, priority, and status of product requirements. Which project document is the project sponsor requesting?

Development is a critical aspect in a project with large size and regulatory and environmental considerations. What is the first thing you should do as a starting point for initial project planning?

A company sets up a change control board (CCB) dedicated to the purpose of reviewing and evaluating the changes submitted for all projects. Which of the following best describes an individual or group that can request a change on a project in a situation where the project sponsor is a member of the CCB?

A project is divided into four sequential phases. The second phase of the project has just been completed, and the third phase is about to begin. What should the project manager do first?

Begin the process of directing and managing the project work

Execution

How many knowledge areas are in the PMP 6th

Is the procurement process in the 6th PMP applicable in Vietnam?

How many processes does PMP 6th Integrated Management have?

How many processes does Scope Management have?

How many processes does Scope Management have?

How many processes does Cost Management have?

How many processes does Quality Management have?

How many processes does Human Resource Management have?

Which of the following is least likely to be a project manager's role?

A project is:

Governance is the framework within which authority is exercised in organizations. This framework includes all of the following components EXCEPT:

In which process is the project management plan developed and approved?

A Program is a

Which of the following is least likely to be within the project manager's sphere of influence?

For a project to be successful, the project should generally achieve all of the following EXCEPT:

Which process involves tracking, reviewing, and regulating the progress and performance of the project?

Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at $2 Million Dollars. You have just been assigned as the project manager for this project. Which of the following is not the First thing you should do once you hear of this new project?

You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on _____ during planning in order to improve your chance of success.

The following are the key benefits of the Develop Project Charter process EXCEPT:

You have recently joined as the project manager for a hotel construction project. During the introduction meeting with the sponsor, he hands over a document to you. He also warns you that you should not update or modify the document. The document describes the necessary information from a business standpoint to determine whether the expected outcomes of the project justify the required investment. Which of the following documents did the sponsor give you?

The project kick-off meeting is usually associated with the end of planning and start of executing. As the project manager, you will use the kick-off meeting for all of the following outcomes EXCEPT:

A manager and the head of engineering discuss a change to a major work package. After the meeting, the manager contacts you and tells you to complete the paperwork to make the change. This is an example of:

During project executing, a team member comes to the project manager because he is not sure what work he needs to accomplish on the project. Which of the following documents contains detailed descriptions of work packages?

During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope mentioned by these stakeholders. The best thing for the project manager to do is to:

John is a project manager of a complicated project. When he started creating a work breakdown structure for his project, he realized that it is too complex to complete a work breakdown structure on a single sheet. You, as a colleague of John, recommend using a work breakdown structure numbering system for John to:

Which of the following techniques includes measuring, testing, and validating whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?

You are trying to gather ideas related to project and product requirements. Which technique is appropriate for this?

You have just been appointed Project Manager of the ABC project. You are trying to read the WBS and cannot understand some elements of the WBS. What is your first step to understanding this?

Using an agile framework, you are to lead a product development project. You want to bring together stakeholders and SMEs to discuss risk, success criteria and other topics. What is the best way for you to accomplish this objective?

Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long. If the project network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to do?

Fast track the project.

An activity has an early start (ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an early finish (EF) of day 9, and a late finish (LF) of day 19. The activity:

AOA activity diagrams are only represented using which representation?

A Project Manager is using AOA to perform critical path analysis. The network diagram is represented as shown below. Which of the following represents the path:

You are planning to use PERT for planning of your project. A task has pessimistic estimate of 24 days, most likely estimate of 15 days and optimistic estimate of 12 days. What is the mean using the PERT technique?

A team member submits a draft of the requirements management plan to the project manager for a review. The project manager notices that one of the components included in the plan does not belong there.

Which of the following components did the project manager most likely notice?

A project manager is leading a process improvement project for a factory operation. Currently, the project manager and the team are performing the Monitor and Control Project Work process.

Which of the following activities might be carried out during this process?

A project manager meets with a customer for initial discussions about an upcoming project. At the end of the meeting, the customer asks the project manager for a rough estimate of the project duration. Based on her experience with three similar projects, the project manager provides an estimate of 8-10 months.

What estimation technique does the project manager use?

You are about to start planning for a large and complex project. Due to the size of the project along with the regulatory and environmental considerations, the development of a detailed project management plan will be critical.

As a starting point for initial project planning, what is the first thing you should do?

While reviewing your project's performance, you discover a significant variance. If the issue is not fixed before the next customer inspection, your project might be canceled. However, after a further review conducted by the project team, you are glad to hear that bringing the project back on track requires only a minor correction to a configuration element.

What should you do first?

You are working with a team to estimate how much time is required for each activity. You are using a document that contains information on the categories of labor, material, and equipment required to complete the project. You are also interested in the skill levels, required certifications, and the grade levels for supplies.

Which of the following documents would you primarily refer to for this purpose?

To define the product that will be produced by the project, the project team is using a product analysis technique that helps with breaking down the high-level requirements into the level of detail needed to design the product.

Which of the following is the product analysis technique used by the team?

You are facing problems decomposing the testing work package into the final activities required to complete the work package. Detailed testing plans and activities cannot be determined until the system is at least 50% developed and more details become available. The system development work package will take at least three months to complete.

What is the best way to resolve this problem

An organization has a policy that a change control board (CCB) must review all change requests for every project in the organization, and that the CCB follows the recommended activities outlined in the PMBOK® Guide. Project managers and the project team do not serve as members of the CCB.

Based on this scenario, which of the following activities might be performed by members of the CCB?

The project sponsor asks for a copy of the document that contains the description, owner, source, priority, and status of product requirements. Which project document is the project sponsor requesting?

An example of a mandatory dependency is:

You are managing a global project that Involves stakeholders in several international locations. You are likely to consult the WBS dictionary to find:

When performing integration on the project, the role of the project manager is:

Agile scope planning is especially useful when

In rolling wave planning

The types of project management office (PMO) structures in organizations include all of the following EXCEPT

A change control board (CCB) is

What is the WBS typically used for?

For project scheduling, bar charts show

All of the following are generally true about leadership in a project environment EXCEPT:

Project managers spend the majority of their time communicating with team members and other project stakeholders. To communicate effectively, the project manager should generally perform all of the following EXCEPT:

Actions and activities necessary to transfer the project's products, services, or results to the next phase or to production and/or operations are addressed

The precedence diagramming method (PDM) is:

All of the following are characteristics of the Project Management Information System (PMIS) EXCEPT :

Earned value management (EVM) is a commonly used:

There have been some changes to your project that are affecting your cost and schedule estimates. This invalidated the original estimate assumptions. What is the Estimate at Completion (EAC) for your project based on the following parameters?

BAC = 360.000 USD

AC = 120.000 USD

EV = 180.000 USD

CPI = 1,2

ETC = 145.000 USD

You are working on a project to build a bridge. You have reached the halfway mark as planned. The total expected cost at this stage is five hundred dollars. The actual work completed at this stage was worth $400. You spent a thousand dollars on the project. What is the schedule variance?

In earned value management, the cost variance is equal to:

A project has a 60% chance of making a profit of $100,000 and a 40% chance of losing $100,000. The expected monetary value for the project is:

You are having difficulty accurately assessing the cost impact of the risk. You should evaluate on a(n) :

Your vice president asked you what the Estimate at Completion (EAC) will be for a small project you are working on. You were given a budget of $30,000, and to date you have spent $20,000 but only completed $10,000 worth of work. You are sure the future work will be accomplished at the planned rate. What is the EAC?

You are in the process of developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project work for a large-scale multinational project which will take at least seven years to complete. Your previous projects have all been domestic with short timeframes.

As part of the process you are currently performing, what might you need to do differently compared with your past projects?

What does a Cost Performance Index (CPI) of more than 1.0 indicate?

Project cost control includes all of the following EXCEPT:

The CPI of 0.73 means?

You are trying to establish a cost performance baseline for your project in the Determine Budget Process. You can use the following tool and techniques EXCEPT:

When tracking the cost baseline of a project, it is important to note that the project's costs at this time are higher than expected. What is the most likely cause of this?

During project execution, several unexpected issues have developed and are now threatening the project schedule and budget.

What is the best course of action for the project manager to address the issues?

In the early stages of the project, you are discussing with the sponsor what estimating techniques should be used. You want a form of expert judgement, but the sponsor argues forAnalogous estimating. It would be BEST to:

To reduce the defect rate of a manufacturing process, a project is carried out. The project team is carrying out QA activities to analyze and improve the process. Which of the following would be the most beneficial for this project?

You are a program-level manager with several project activities underway. In the implementation process group, you begin to have concerns about the accuracy of the project's progress reports. What would BEST support your opinion that there is a problem?

You are the project manager for a large project. Someone from the quality department will contact you about initiating a quality check on your project. The group, already under pressure to complete the project as soon as possible, objected to the audit. You should explain to the team that the purpose of quality testing is:

Project quality management....

You are the Project Manager for the ABC project. You need to figure out which problem has the maximum impact on the project. Which tool should you use?

Which of these is a process that falls under the Scope Management knowledge area

RACI stands for

You are leading a software development project where the developers are colocated within rented office space. Writing the code is taking longer than anticipated, and you have contacted the landlord requesting to rent the office for another week. Unfortunately, the landlord tells you that the office is already booked. You capture the problem in the project documents. What should you do next?

You are working as a project manager in a company. You have the ultimate authority, you're working full-time on your project, and you manage the project's budget. What is the organizational structure in your company?

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this is the lowest level that must be met before the other levels can be met.

John is an excellent engineer. Management assumes that because he is a good technical performer, he will also be a good project manager. Based on this, John was promoted to Project Manager. Here is an example of

You are facilitating a meeting with your project team to develop the team charter. At the start of the meeting, a team member states, "I don't understand the importance of this meeting. We are all professionals, and this isn't our first project working together. Wouldn't our time be better spent getting an early start on project execution?" The body language of the other team members suggests that they agree with the comments.

How should you respond to the team member?

The team has just reported to you that they have completed the Plan Quality Management process. You review their work and see that they have produced the quality management plan, and made the necessary updates to the project management plan and project documents.

What did they forget?

A project manager is performing quality assurance for a project whose quality standards are very stringent. To meet and exceed the quality requirements, the project manager uses a set of technical guidelines, which were applied during the design phase of the project to optimize quality.

What tool or technique is the project manager using in this scenario?

A servant leader has just been assigned to an upcoming product development project and believes that the project is well-suited to Kanban. However, the development team is unfamiliar with this approach.

What is the servant leader's best course of action

The quality management plan specifies the use of a data representation technique to show the strength of relationships between four factors.

Which of the following tools or techniques should be used to comply with the plan?

In the design phase, external experts verified that the team's blueprints for a new crane complied with requirements. During the build phase, the customer performed a walkthrough and found that some welding joints on the crane were defective. The crane needs to be reworked to ensure it can be operated safely.

How could this situation have been avoided?

A project is behind schedule because department managers reassigned project team members to work on other assignments. After negotiations with the managers, you agreed to a temporary solution where a core group of project resources is dedicated to performing the project work until more resources are approved.

What conflict resolution technique did you most likely employ in this situation?

You have been requested to fill in for a project manager who has called in sick midway into project execution. As you get yourself familiar with the project team, you are impressed to see how well the team members collaborate and work through issues smoothly and effectively.

Based on your observations, where is the team on the Tuckman ladder?

Recently, you promoted your star programmer, Sam, to lead the agile development team. Sam was a fantastic software coder, and you thought the promotion would mean that he could now share his expertise with the other development team members. However, you are surprised to learn that the performance of Sam in his new role is not meeting your expectations.

Which empirical rule did you forget while considering the promotion of Sam?

During an inspection of a project deliverable, the team detects the same defect in the deliverable that has already been identified during a previous inspection. The project manager is confused about how this could have happened since a change request was approved to repair the defect. After discussing the issue with the team, the project manager learns that the team never implemented the approved change request.

What could have helped prevent this situation?

As part of preparing the communications management plan for a construction project, you want to determine the project stakeholders' needs for information. Your focus is on the type and format of information needed to pass on to them. What is your best course of action?

A project manager communicates primarily through email with her team members, internal and external project stakeholders. Certain techniques are incorporated to ensure there are no misunderstandings. Which of the following is not considered one of these techniques?

In the context of the desired communication model between sender and receiver, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

You are the project manager of a software project team consisting of 2 analysts, 4 software developers, and 3 test engineers. A new test engineer will join the team in two weeks. How many communication channels are there after a new test engineer joins the team?.

Which of the following conflict resolution techniques will generate the MOST lasting solution?

What percentage of time does a project manager spend on communication?

Risk tolerance level is determined to help:

A project manager is quantifying risk for her project. Several of her experts are offsite, but wish to be included. How can this be done?

Risk transfer determination is made in which risk management process?

You need to establish the relative priorities of risks recognized in a project. Which of the following tasks is the most likely to not affect this prioritization?

A project manager is quantifying risk for her project. She needs an expert opinion in this process and related experts are spread over different geographical locations. How can she continue?

During risk management activities, 236 risks are identified and are caused by 13 root causes. You could eliminate 234 risks through your risk management activities. For the remaining 2 risks, you, together with your team, could not find a way to mitigate or insure the risks. Also, these 2 risks cannot be outsourced or removed from the project scope. What is the best solution?

You are a project manager in a bicycle manufacturing company. Rubber for brake mechanism for your bicycles supplied by RuBrake Inc could not reach due to flood affecting the transportation routes. This was a risk you thought it could happen since it happens each year in the same season. So, as per your risk response plan, you started to use rubbers delivered one year ago. However, this response brought another risk old rubbers have higher breaking risks during implementation to the brake system.This new risk can also be called:

You have documented all possible risks that could impact your project with appropriate risk responses as they occur in your risk management plan. All other remaining risks are known as:

You are the project manager of the ABC project. During the project implementation, an important part was discovered to be defective. This was not planned for. The team met after the event and tried to get the product working without faulty components. Here is an example of

You are the Project Manager of the ABC project. The project is being implemented in an earthquake-prone area. To solve this problem, you buy earthquake insurance. Here is an example of

You want to group your project stakeholders based on their authority and involvement in the project. Which of the following models is suitable for this?

You must manage stakeholder expectations as a project manager. All of the following are communication skills you should practice EXCEPT:

An important trend in project stakeholder engagement is...?

What process involves determining everyone involved in the project or affected by it, and determining the best ways to manage relationships with them?

Project stakeholder management is an integral part of project management. The effectiveness of stakeholder analysis carried out early in a project can decide its fate. Which of the following is the least important consideration during stakeholder analysis, especially when analyzing stakeholders who are also decision-makers?

Smith’s project has successfully been initiated, and all the major roadblocks are removed. The senior stakeholders have now switched from a leading role to a supportive role. What is Smith’s next step once the first version of the project stakeholder register is developed?

Henry is the project manager for a process improvement project. Henry is a recently hired Six Sigma expert. David is the process owner of the process Henry must optimize. During the project kick-start meeting with the project sponsor, David said he supports all continuous improvement efforts. However, David is unaware of the Six Sigma technique and feels threatened by the newly hired expert, and as a result, is blocking Henry’s ideas. What is David’s current engagement level with the project?

To produce the deliverables, the project will procure goods and services from outside the organization. The project manager has instructed the team to develop a comprehensive list of individual project risks related to those procurements.

What is the best course of action for the project team?

The project team is undergoing an agile transformation. This requires the team members to maintain their original project plans in the current management tool, but also enter performance data in the new tool built around agile practices. The team identified that the information in the two tools is out of sync. This risk has been identified earlier in project planning.

What is the best course of action for the project manager?

A project manager does most of her communicating with team members, internal project stakeholders, and external project stakeholders via email. The project manager incorporates specific techniques when composing her emails to reduce any misunderstandings.

Which of the following is not considered one of these techniques?

You are establishing the relative priorities of individual risks identified in the project.

Which of the following tasks is the least likely to impact this prioritization?

A team member volunteered to provide the project status update in a weekly presentation to the key stakeholders. After the first meeting has taken place, feedback from the stakeholders suggests that the presentation was not very engaging.

What is the best way for the project manager to address this situation with the team member?

At times over a project life cycle, the team must adopt a few agile ceremonies. The aim is to communicate quicker in times of tight deadlines. Unfortunately, team members are not getting the information needed during the ceremonies.

What is the best option to confirm that the information is received and understood?

The construction project has many people and specialized teams at the worksite every day. Frequent communication between the team leads is critical for safety and efficiency. Which agile ceremony can this project incorporate to increase timely cross-functional communication?

The project management plan specifies that a predictive development approach has been selected to produce the project deliverables.

Where in the project life cycle will the overall project risk be the lowest?

Your sponsor has committed to building a high-speed rail from one major inland city, Azules, to the coast. You have two possible routes, either Brazos or Corazon.

Given the costs, odds, and rewards of high demand and low demand of each route in this decision tree, what is the expected monetary value of the route to Brazos?

You are developing the communications management plan for a construction project. You want to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders, specifically focusing on the type and the format of information that will be required to communicate with the stakeholders.

What is your best course of action?

You have just taken over a project in execution. During your first week, you determine that the project team members spend a lot of time responding to unexpected requests for information from different project stakeholders. Because of these interruptions, the team cannot focus on their project activities, and as a result, the project is behind schedule.

What should you do first?

Benchmarking involves comparing actual or planned project practices to those of comparable projects with all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

Project management is

All of the following are external environmental factors EXCEPT

You are involved in collecting requirements for your project. You are likely to use the stakeholder register for all of the following EXCEPT:

Project Quality Management includes the processes for incorporating the organization's quality policy regarding planning, managing, and controlling project and product quality requirements to

Meet standards of performance for the project team

Which of the following processes is included in Project Integration Management?

Your earned value management analysis indicates that your project is falling behind its schedule. You know this because the cumulative EV is much:

The major processes of Project Resource Management are

The critical path is established by calculating the following dates

Which of the following cumulative measures Indicates that your project is about 9% under budget?

Motivating involves creating an environment to meet project objectives while providing

satisfaction related to what people value most. All of the following are reasons of motivation

EXCEPT

An input to the Define Scope process is

Which of the following statements is true about the work breakdown structure (WBS)?

Tools and techniques of the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process include:

All of the following are information management and distribution tools EXCEPT

The major processes of Project Resource Management are

Which of the following processes is included in Project Integration Management?

Which of the following is NOT a process in Project Stakeholder Management?

Performing integration is a cornerstone skill for all project managers; the following describe

the three different levels of performing integration EXCEPT

The following are all key differences between management and leadership EXCEPT

A primary function of a project management office (PMO) is to support project managers in a variety of ways, which may include all of the following EXCEPT: