In Earned Value Management Technique, you can compute the Cost Performance Index (CPI) by applying which of following formula?

True or False: Project manager should consider using milestones for high level reporting

True or False: Project scope statement is better to define inclusions (in-scope items) than identify only exclusions (out of scope items).

Which one is NOT the approach to shorten your project schedule?

A market demand, a business need, and a legal requirement are examples of:

You have finished planning and have begun executing the project when the client asks if you would shorten the project duration so that the project can finish 2 weeks earlier than the original plan. How are the triple constraints affected?

You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of the project. The project is within the baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the first thing you should do?

In our lessons the acronym RAM stands for:

When you report project status you compare actual performance to:

Which organization structure can provide the most power for the project manager?

Which project management process group generally takes the most project time and resources?

True or False: Each group of persons involved in the project should be assigned, and always needs to know their role and responsibility.

Which one is not the causes of scope creep?

True or False: Project quality focuses on the project management processes used to meet project objectives.

Lateral communication is NOT communication to/from:

True or False: In the context of a project, change is always a bad thing.

Project scope differs from product scope in that:

Your project has a team of which consists of yourself, a tester, five developers and a communicator. How many communication channels on your team?

True or False: The Cost Baseline is equal to the total of Activity Cost Estimates plus contingency reserves

True or False: The danger of estimating using the same parametric model is the no longer applicable of historical data

All of the following are inputs to estimating activity duration except:

What are the 5 approaches to conflict discussed in the Project Human Resources Management Lesson?

As you plan your project, you do so thinking that all team members will be assigned to your project for at least 50% of their available time. This is an example of:

Which of the following is the most correct statement regarding management and contingency reserves?

All the following occur during the planning process group EXCEPT:

True or False: Influence means you have the right to apply resources, make decisions and give approvals.

Which item would most likely NOT be part of a basic communication plan:

To calculate late start (LS) of an activity, you will

Which of the components below do you think NOT belong in the cost management plan?

True or False: Conflict management is the process by which the project manager uses appropriate managerial techniques to deal with the inevitable disagreements that develop among those working toward project accomplishment.

You are scheduling an activity which involves a government agency. What type of dependency are you working on?

True or False: Project Human Resource Management includes the processes that organize, manage, and lead the project team.

A project manager can defend against scope creep with a good ____________!

Your stakeholder register is your primary output and should at least contain:

Once you and your team identify and assess risks and develop responses you:

If "review online modules" needs to begin before "develop online modules" can finish, that is called a

True or False: The Project Sponsor is responsible for stakeholder expectations management.

To manage a project effectively, work should be broken down into small pieces. Which of the following does not describe how far to decompose the work?

What description defines Bottoms Up Estimating?

Which of the following action should not include in the Scope Management Plan?

Define how to identify and manage triple constraints.

The definition of a stakeholder includes:

The purpose of project risk management is to:

Which element should NOT be included in risk management plan?

An estimate created by looking at a similar project or activity and then adding or subtracting to or from the estimate based on the differences between the two is called:

True or False: Project Human Resource Management includes the processes that define the tasks and assign them to suitable resources, and motivate project team to complete the tasks.

All of the following is responsible for documenting lessons learned, except:

When you schedule work in a specific order because it cannot be completed any other way, what is the type of dependency used?

True or False: Performance reporting aims to inform stakeholders how resources are being used to achieve the project's objectives.

True or False: The primary goal of project risk management is to maximize the likelihood and impact of negative events or threats and to minimize the likelihood and impact of positive events or opportunities.

The network diagram is the best tool for demonstrating:

Which statement is not correct?

As you plan your project, the sponsor informed you that all team members will be assigned to your project for at most 50% of their available time. This is an example of:

True or False: Project Cost Management processes aim to help the project can be completed within the approved budget.

Which of the following is NOT the disadvantages of top-down estimating?

Which one of these is not the approaches to conflict discussed in the Project Human Resources Management Lesson?

True or False: The Backward Pass is used through the activities to determine the critical path & available float of the project.

True or False: Performing quality control within the context of a project involves taking actions to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory project performance.

True or False: Risk management is one-time process. You need to plan for all possible risks at the project beginning and then follow defined actions to control those risks until they are closed or cancelled.

Your Schedule Performance Index (SPI) is greater than 1 means you are:

True or False: If "develop online modules" needs to begin before "review online modules" can begin, that is called a start to start relationship.

Which process group focuses on completing the requirements of the project?

True or False: The worst organization to use to run a project will always be the functional organization.

Which of the following best describes the project manager's role as an integrator?

True or False: If you want to identify who your stakeholders are, asking who will not be impacted by the product or service being created can be helpful.

When you and your team know that a positive risk has a high likelihood of occurring and it will be very beneficial if it does:

Which risk response is appropriate when you want to reduce the likelihood of a threat occurring?

In a RACI matrix, what do the Consulted (C) stakeholders primarily do?

What does an S-Curve most commonly display in project control?

How do you calculate the Late Finish (LF) for an activity with a single successor in a finish-to-start relationship?

Which estimating approach is best when detail is available and high accuracy is needed?

When durations or resource quantities are uncertain, which estimating approach is preferable?

Who typically authorizes the project charter?

Effective project communication management primarily aims to do what among stakeholders?

What is the best way to share an urgent, important announcement with your project team for immediate clarity and follow-up?

Which statement best defines management reserve?

From the WBS, which of the following is NOT directly derived?

Operational work differs from project work in that operational work is primarily what?

Authority in project management grants the right to do which of the following?

A client requests adding significant features during execution. Which constraints are most likely impacted?

Which formula correctly estimates EAC when future performance is expected to continue at the current CPI?

Downward communication typically flows to which audience?

Which statement about the critical path is correct?

In a matrix organization, project communications can best be expected to be what?

Finalizing the scope baseline primarily involves contributions from whom?

Which artifact is least likely used to define or communicate roles and responsibilities?

Which chart best shows responsibilities across project roles and deliverables?

You are building a square fence project: four sides, one day per side, $1,000 budget per side, done sequentially. Today is end of day 3. Using the project status chart, calculate current CV.

You are building four 10,000 sq ft buildings using the same drawings used two years ago in another city. What is a danger of estimating with the same parametric model of $50 per square foot?

The 8‑80 rule refers to:

Which view of conflict is correct?

If “develop online modules” must finish before “review online modules” can finish, this is called a:

The team must estimate several activities never previously done by the company. What is the best method for estimating these activities?

Which of the following is NOT an output of Plan Scope Management? Choose 2 answers.

A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a deliverable‑oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team.

To control the incidence and frequency of change, the project manager establishes a:

You should compare project performance against the performance measurement baseline to look for potential changes in the project.

Project quality focuses on the goods and services.

A sponsor requires local government approval of a proposed building design before construction can begin. This dependency is:

Crashing is the approach to re‑plan the work and try to perform more overlapping sequential activities in parallel.

The Process Improvement Plan is a component of the project management plan detailing how project management and development processes are analyzed to increase their value.

In a projectized organization, team members are never assigned to the project full time.

Which of these is an example of role conflict?

The term resources only refers to people; it does not include money or equipment.

To calculate early start (ES) of an activity with more than one immediate predecessor, you will:

All of the following tools and techniques can be valuable in risk identification, EXCEPT:

Using the RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform) version of the RAM, those who are responsible are:

Which one is not mentioned explicitly in the three components of the triple constraints?

The following table is an activity list that includes the duration and predecessor for a series of project activities. What is the duration of the critical path?

True or False: Quality management is the job done by project manager herself to determine quality policies, objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.

Which one of these is not the major source of conflict that a project manager may influence?

True or False: Performance reporting aims to inform stakeholders the good achievements of the project's objectives weekly or monthly.

The purpose of project risk management is to:

Downward communication is communication to/from:

Which of the following is included in a project charter?

True or False: Using bottom-up estimating techniques when the detail is available and the accuracy is needed

A cost can be either direct or indirect. Which of the following statements are correct (choose 2 answers)

Which of the following is NOT the advantages of top-down estimating?

A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the best way to accomplish this?

Identify the five engagement levels of stakeholders:

True or False: The Project Budget is equal to only the Cost Baseline budget

Which of the following is NOT true regarding milestones?

The network diagram can be used to:

If the response you choose is to accept a risk this means that

All of the following are inputs to estimating activity durations except:

True or False: Performing quality control within the context of a project involves taking actions to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory project performance.

Which project management process group generally takes the most project time and resources?

A project manager is trying to complete a software development project, but cannot get enough attention for the project. Resources are focused on completing process-related work, and the project manager has little authority to assign resources. What form of organization must the project manager be working in?

A project manager's primary responsibility is to deliver the product of the project within project constraints. Actions taken and changes made to the benefit of one constraint could negatively affect another. Which of the following best describes the major constraints on a project?

Which of the following best describes a project management plan?

True or False: The Project Charter is a document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project. It provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

Scope creep results in all of the following, except

True or False: In the context of a project, change is always a bad thing.

During executing, the project manager determines that a change is needed to material purchased for the project. The project manager calls a meeting of the team to plan how to make the changes. This is an example of

Company procedures require the creation of a lessons learned register. Which of the following is the best use of lessons learned?

A new project manager asks for advice on creating a work breakdown structure (WBS). You explain that the picture is not the most valuable result of creating a WBS. The most valuable result of a WBS is:

A project manager may use ___ to make sure the team members clearly know what is included in each of their work packages.

All of the following are inputs to estimating activity durations except:

Your team member informs you that the test system must be refreshed with your test data before testing begins. This dependency is:

True or False: If "review online modules" needs to begin before "develop online modules" can finish, that is called a start-to-finish relationship.

To calculate late finish (LF) of an activity which has more than one successor, you will

True or False: The critical path is made up of all zero float activities (activities have floats equal to zero) in the project network diagram.

True or False: Fast Tracking is the approach to add more resources (labor, overtime, etc.) into the activities to reduce their durations.

Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of top-down estimating?

A team member tells you that her work is too creative to provide a fixed single estimate for the activity. You both decide to use the average labor hours (from past, similar projects) to develop a prototype. This is an example of which of the following?

The Project Scope Statement should include the following:

True or False: The WBS should completely depict the scope of your project that if something is not in the WBS it is because it is NOT part of the project.

True or False: The Forward Pass is used through the activities to determine the critical path and available float of the project.

True or False: The Project Budget is equal to only the Cost Baseline budget.