Arrange in order, the phases that comprise the project life cycle.

A new hire is assigned to a team addressing a product backlog. What will this person be working on?

Which project situation best lends itself to a hybrid approach?

In which phase of a project plan is a project charter created and approved?

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?

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?

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?

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)

Which conflict management strategy is known to not really solve a conflict between parties?

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?

Two teams working through a project conflict seek a win/win solution. Which conflict strategy should they employ?

Which communication element interferes with the effectiveness of communication?

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?

What are the main elements of a project status update? (Choose two)

The definition of a project's objectives is found in which project management document?

A construction company wants to follow proper processes for projects and their documentation. Which document serves as the official authorization for a project?

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?

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?

When problems arise during a project, what is the first step a project manager should take in the decision-making process?

Which statement best describes the role of a project sponsor?

Which key project stakeholder has the largest role in managing expectations of other stakeholders?

Which groups of stakeholders are responsible for functional testing for products created in a project plan? (Choose two)

As part of a project management plan, which states the work done to deliver a product, service, or results?

Which part of a project management plan uses a Gantt Chart as a management tool?

Which parts of a project plan are interdependent during the planning phase? (Choose three)

A project manager is analyzing a project plan to ensure it is accurate. What part of the plan consists of tasks that are in scopes, compared to the scope statement?

Which project diagram shows the scope of a project, broken down into phases, then deliverables, and then work packages?

In a WBS, which type of package is the lowest level of a work breakdown structure for which cost and duration are managed?

What aspect of a project is unique and is required to be produced to complete a process, phase, or project?

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?

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?

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?

Which project document secures the services of and defines compensation for external resources?

For the construction of new stands inside a gymnasium, which project task is considered to be a procurement?

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?

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?

Team members are questioning 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 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?

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?

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)

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)

Project team members want to know why having a change management process is important. What is the goal of the process?

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?

A new project manager wants to know why closing contracts is an important part of the closing phase. What is the overall purpose?

Which stakeholder has the ultimate signoff decision on a project and its deliverables?

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?

A development team discovered a faster way to review code without sacrificing quality. What should be done during the closing phase?

In a project charter, which element describes the end goal of the project?

Which element of project charter refers to the specific goals that measure project success?

Which element of a project charter identifies significant events that occur throughout the project?

Which aspects are indicative of a predictive approach to project management? (Choose two)

In which phase of the project life cycle are business needs determined?

In which phase of the project life cycle does the process of verifying deliverables take place?

Which characteristics are common to the adaptive approach of project management? (Choose two)

A hybrid approach combines elements of which project approaches? (Choose two)

A project team member notices another member downloading confidential information to a USB drive. He also finds out the employee is about to quit the company and work for a competitor. What should the team member do?

Two businesses are having conflicts over an interface design for an app. Eventually, the businesses meet and agree to implement some aspects, while each yields on others. Which conflict management strategy is being used?

A project manager is looking for ways to motivate staff, to help ensure projects are completed on time and within budget. What should they use as a starting point for motivation?

A project manager tries to update a sponsor on a project's status, but the sponsor does not seem to focus on what the project manager says. What type of listening is taking place?

A team member approaches a project manager with an insistence on completing tasks in a different way than prescribed in the project plan. Even though the manager knows that the project plan contains the fastest way to complete these tasks, he acquiesces with the team member. Which conflict management strategy has been employed?

A project manager needs to conduct peer reviews with team members as a part of closing a project. Which communication method should the project manager use?

What is the range of activities reported on within a status update for a project plan?

Which term best represents a significant point or event within a project?

A project manager is looking for a place to document objectives. In which project document should objectives be located?

A new project manager is learning the role of documents within the planning phase. What purpose does a project charter serve?

Which roles describe a vendor within a project plan for developing a database to interact with a customer-facing website? (Choose two)

Which stakeholders make the largest contributions to ensuring the project plan objectives are met?

Which stakeholders are initially responsible for reporting the completion of project tasks?

In which project management organization type does a project manager function more as a coordinator?

A manager wants to move a team member from one task to another to help someone who is struggling to complete a task on time. Who has the authority to move the team member?

A project manager finds for a park irrigation project the normal supplier for pipes may not have the ones needed. Another supplier has the pipes but at a higher cost. Which components of the project management plan should be updated? (Choose two)

Which project management document lists identified risks and the severity of those risks?

During a project planning session for a playground project, a group of people also want the existing backdrop to be removed, which is not part of the original project plan. Adding this will result in a budget increase. What else will be affected as part of the project plan? (Choose two)

A project manager is tasked with building a WBS. What does a WBS contain?

What is the purpose of a scope statement?

When tasks that are out of scope are added to a project, what is the end result?

A new project manager is trying to understand the differences between a task and similar events in a project. What does a task consist of? (Choose two)

Assuming a task is on the critical path, what can change to affect the path? (Choose two)

In a project plan to build new fences for an elementary school, which tasks will have their durations affected based on the number of resources assigned to them? (Choose two)

A project manager is building a budget by estimating the cost of each task and then using that estimate of the cost of each deliverable. What kind of budgeting is occurring?

A new project manager is asked to learn about procurement tasks by looking through previous projects. Which statement defines procurement tasks?

Which types of external resources receive contracts to perform work or provide materials necessary to complete project tasks?

As part of a bathroom remodel a project manager notices the shower doors a customer wants are not available from the vendor that typically provides them. The same doors are available from another vendor but will take a week longer to arrive, and cost more than what was originally quoted to the customer. What should the project manager do first to resolve the problem?

During a lessons learned meeting near the end of a project, a manager claims that gold plating took place during the executing phase. What happened within the project to warrant that claim?

A hospital wing construction project is behind schedule. The project manager is looking to fast-track the project to bring it back in line. What is the project manager looking to do?

A sponsor wants to see a contingency plan for a project's budget. What should the contingency plan contain?

In a project plan, what is scope variance?

Testers are reporting a new app is slower than the one it is replacing. Part of the project requirements dictate the new app be faster. What should be done first to rectify this quality issue?

Metrics are used to measure which part of a project management plan?

As part of a change management plan, who is responsible for approving changes to a project scope?

As part of change management, who is responsible for implementing approved change requests?

When the change management process results in approval of a change, what part of a project plan is always affected?

What is verified during the contract closing process?

Besides a customer, who needs to sign off on a project to indicate it is indeed completed?

Which group of stakeholders benefits the most from documenting lessons learned on a project plan?

What is the main reason for archiving project documents?