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Daniel is managing the development of an ecommerce website for his organization. Daniel enjoys coercive powers and has assigned Julie, a project team member, to facilitate the team meetings. During any team meeting, Julie must?
2.
During the execution phase, you discover that several regulatory requirements have not been addressed in the project management plan. However, implementing these regulations could result in the cancellation of the project. What should you do?
3.
A functional organization creates a special project team to handle a critical project. This team has many of the characteristics of a project team in a project organization and has a Project manager dedicated to the project. Such an organization would be called:
4.
As you are preparing activity lists of a WBS, which technique is recommended for subdividing the project into smaller components called activities?
5.
Linda has been assigned to establish a PMO in her organization. As the first step, she needs to develop her stakeholder register. Which of the following processes must be started by Linda to produce the project stakeholder register?
6.
Making deliverables ie. reports can be inserted at the __________ level of WBS
7.
A team recently finished an agile project in which they created a retail shopping application but clients think the application has too many features and is too difficult to use. What may be the reason ?
8.
With the establishment of a PMO in an organization, the agile jargon is being adopted by the employees. However, few people are still struggling with new terms. One of the most common confusion is the difference between a project manager & a scrum master. Who are the scrum master ??
9.
After brainstorming potential project risks, what is the recommended method for prioritizing these risks and their mitigation plans?
10.
Before implementing agile to any new project, what should we do first?
11.
If you are requesting a vendor quote for a clearly defined scope, what is the recommended contract type?
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All of the following are interpersonal skills EXCEPT:
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At the end of an interation we should expect
14.
The lowest part of the WBS is called the _______________ .
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Which of the following is a hierarchical representation of project risks?
16.
User story consists of
17.
A company plans for a pilot project using agile methods. Which of the following characteristics should we not consider when selecting a pilot project?
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During the Plan Procurement Management phase, the make-or-____analysis must be completed. This technique prompts the project team to determine the source of their item.
19.
Which of these precedence relationships is least commonly used in Precedence Diagramming Method?
20.
A RACI chart is an example of a _________________.
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If the project's EV is \$100,000 and the AC is \$95,000, what is the cost variance of the project?
22.
Your company has temporarily assigned you to serve as a project manager at a company location outside your home country. While meeting with a vendor your first day on the job, you are presented with a gift. The corporate policy at the headquarters in your home country prohibits employees from accepting these types of gifts. However, as you are new to this location, you believe- but are not sure-that the local policy, as well as local custom may differ. How should you respond?
23.
If you are writing a proposal for additional funding, which communication style should you choose?
24.
If you want a group of experts to identify project risks, but also want unbiased data, what is an appropriate technique to use?
25.
If you are working on a project with constantly changing scope, which contract type would work best when hiring an outside vendor to complete a portion of the work?
26.
Which process of integrative project management documents the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project management plan?
27.
A project owner schedules a meeting at the beginning of a sprint, with the objective of describing the products to be developed. What is this meeting about?
28.
If you are solving 20 % of the project problems and expect the rest 80% of the complaints will disappear. This is called
29.
The Requirements Traceability Matrix helps in tracing all of the following except:
30.
Near the completion of the first iteration, the agile project team must demonstrate the potentially shippable product increment to the project stakeholders. What scrum ceremony would be appropriate to conduct this demo?
31.
Which term best describes the Identify Risks process?
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During the Plan Risk Management process, assigning ___________ will help you and the project team identify all important risks and work more effectively during the identification process.
33.
Which of these processes is NOT a project time management process?
34.
The technique most commonly used by project management software packages to construct a project schedule network diagram is:
35.
Which of the following defines the total scope of the project and represents the work specified in the current approved project scope statement?
36.
If you are creating a new WBS for your project, what should you consider to save time during the creation process?
37.
Max is a developer on a software team. A person facilitates a daily 15- minute meeting, removes any blockers a teammate may have, and encourages the team to keep making progress. What kind of project methodology approach does Max’s team have?
38.
You are the project manager in your organization. You have very limited authority over the projects you manage, and you are mainly engaged in project coordination activities. You are currently struggling with obtaining the required human resources for your project during the Acquire Project Team process. Who you need to negotiate with to obtain these resources?
39.
A good quality audit should be:
40.
What is the main purpose of the requirements traceability matrix?
41.
Who should authorizes a project by using a project charter?
42.
In an ongoing project, the project sponsor and a manager of the performing organization are having conflicts. What would be your comment on this situation?
43.
Project risks should be identified by:
44.
A control chart should always contain:
45.
When would Rolling Wave Planning be useful in a project?
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Manny is the BA of a large technology project for the Monday Company. Which of the following is not a BA key role or responsibility?
48.
If you want to have multiple vendors bid on your contract, what is the best way to ensure that all vendors have the same information before bidding?
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Randy is managing a project and identifies that there are 8 stakeholders in the project. He is worried that he might end up with an unmanageable number of communication channels. In your view, how many communication channels does Randy have to plan for?
50.
What is the role of the product owner in an agile project?
51.
You have been asked to establish a project charter for your new project. According to PMBOK, who normally has the responsibility to authorize the charter?
52.
In general, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis is:
53.
All stakeholders are in a meeting to discuss a new project that is expected to start within one month and to last at least ten iterations. One of the stakeholders mentions that someone should take responsibility for developing and maintaining the product roadmap. Who should have this responsibility?
54.
Two efficiency indicators that reflect the cost and schedule performance of a project are:
55.
Sarah has just started the Identify Stakeholders process for her project. She is currently looking for a template for the stakeholder register so that she doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. Where can she find stakeholder register templates?
56.
If you want to compress a project schedule, what are two of the recommended alternatives to consider?
57.
A project manager wishes to expand an existing list of sellers. Which of the following techniques should she consider?
58.
Which of these tools is NOT a part of the Seven Basic Tools of Quality?
59.
Which quality control technique or tool should be used when trying to determine the cause of a major defect?
60.
Which of the following is not a valid requirement type classification when gathering project requirements for business analysis?
61.
Jose is a BA working with an agile team to develop user stories. What is the purpose of user stories?
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Midway through a project, a project manager determined that the project was running way behind schedule. If the project manager needs to shorten the project schedule, without changing the project scope, which of the following schedule compression techniques could be applied?
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At the end of a project, what will your schedule variance be equal to?
64.
Quantitative risk analysis should be performed:
65.
Which of the following is not an advantage of using prototypes for requirements gathering?
66.
While analyzing a project, the project manager calculated the ratio of the Earned Value (EV) to the Actual Costs (AC) and obtained a value of 1.2. The project manager decided that this was an unfavorable condition to the project and decided to take corrective action. What is your view?
67.
Which of these is not an approved Estimate Activity Durations technique?
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If you are working on a project where there is no definite project detailed scope, but similar projects have been completed in the past, what is the correct Estimate Activity Durations tool to use?
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As project manager, you would like to show the relationship between two variables to help your project team understand the quality impacts better. Which tool should be used?
70.
You have been called in to give an executive presentation on the status of your project. Just before you walk into the meeting, you are informed that a critical resource for the project is no longer available, and could result in a substantial delay to the project. However, you believe there may be an alternative resource that could be used. What do you tell the executive committee?
71.
In a cause and effect diagram, which of these is not a potential cause?
72.
Which of the following is inaccurately represented by the term Progressive elaboration?
73.
Which document describes the project's deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables?
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During a presentation to management, you want to display the project schedule with only the key deliverables displayed. What is the correct tool for this purpose?
75.
Which of these items are important to address when determining each person's role in the project team?
76.
If you want to reduce the number of quality inspections and thus reduce the cost of quality control for your project, which technique should be used?
77.
When beginning a new outsourcing project, what is the best way to determine which companies you should request a bid from?
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Which of the following is not a general management technique used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the project work?
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Amer is the project manager of the BYD Project. His project customer has demanded that the project be completed by December 1. December 1 is an example of which one of the following?
80.
Where would you find a detailed list and description of specific project assumptions associated with the project?
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The date through which the project has provided actual status and accomplishments is called:
82.
Which of these is NOT a risk diagramming technique?
83.
Which of the following is a tool or technique for the Develop Project Team process?
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A hierarchical structure of resources organized by resource type category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules is known as:
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A Project Manager's primary professional responsibility is towards:
86.
What does a Cost Performance Index (CPI) of more than 1.0 indicate?
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Which of the following statements is correct?
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A project team member finds that the color scheme of the webpage he is designing appears too gaudy and decides to change it to a mellowed down color scheme. The independent testing team flags this as a defect and there is a heated discussion between the team member and the testing team. What is your view?
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Which of the following items needs to be kept in mind when relying on risk identification checklists?
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Bill’s current project was originally estimated to cost \$1.5 million, with a completion target of six months. Bill is three months into the project and has performed an earned value analysis with the following results: EV = \$650,000, PV = \$750,000, and AC = \$800,000. What are the schedule and cost variances?
91.
What is the advantage of preparing an estimate of costs by an outside professional estimator?
92.
What is the best definition of quality?
93.
If you have an unresolved issue while working on a project, what is the best way to communicate that issue?
94.
Your manager has asked you to include the Human Resource Management Plan and the Schedule Management Plan in your Project Management Plan. Is this the appropriate place for these items?
95.
On obtaining the project charter, the Project Manager of a project immediately starts acquiring the project team. Is this correct?
96.
Your project schedule shows a 15 month finish, but your customer has just realized there is a regulatory requirement to complete the project by a certain date and insists this project must be finished in 12 months. Which of the following is the best approach?
97.
What is the difference between a histogram and a Pareto chart?
98.
As a project manager, you are responsible for determining and delivering the required levels of both grade and quality. Select which of the following statements you disagree with.
99.
Which of the following processes produces a work breakdown structure as an output?
100.
Michael is managing a construction project. The project charter has been approved by the project sponsor. What should Michael do next?
101.
Most project management software packages use a method of constructing a project schedule network diagram known as:
102.
When a negative unidentified risk occurs in a project, a response to it would be called:
103.
Martin is the project manager of a project that is in an early phase. He needs to estimate costs but finds that he has a limited amount of detailed information about the project. Which of the following estimation techniques would be least suited to his requirements?
104.
If you had an experience with a particularly good or poor performing vendor, what is the correct way to document this experience for future projects?
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John is managing a software development project for the first time. He is facing issues with scheduling meetings with the senior project managers at the company as they are extremely busy with their current assignments. John needs to understand what went right and wrong on previous similar projects so that he can manage his project better. In this situation, what should John do?
106.
Which of these is not a tool or technique for the Control Procurements process?
107.
You are looking at various process improvement models. Which of the following is not a process improvement model?
108.
Before closing a contract, the project manager should:
109.
Carole is the project manager for a healthcare facility construction project. She is currently holding a board briefing and updating the project's current status to the board members. When Carole was presenting her project risks, the chairman suggested some preventive actions. What should Carole do first?
110.
A management control point where scope, budget, actual cost and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement is called a:
111.
Which of the following best describes the Validate Scope process?
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As a project manager of a project, you are analyzing the costs which have incurred. Which of the following costs cannot be classified under 'Cost of non-conformance'
113.
You are a consulting project manager with over 15 years experience running software development projects. You have been engaged to manage a finance application project for a new customer. However on the first day onsite at the customer's headquarters you are told the project has been cancelled, but there is a need for a project manager to manage a major infrastructure project to deploy a large number of servers and storage devices. The customer asks if you would be interested in leading this project. You have never managed this type of project before but would be interested in the…
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A technical team can begin editing of a large document 15 days after they begin writing it. What kind of a dependency would this be represented as?
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While managing a project, you decide to prepare an email for the project stakeholders describing the current project status. This is best described as an example of:
116.
During the execution of your project, you decide that you would like to have charts of your project status - cost and schedule, display certain key project data, and hold your project meetings in a specific conference room. Such a place would be called:
117.
The document that formally authorizes a project is the:
118.
You are presented with a situation in a project where you need to measure the performance of the project. Which of these techniques would suit your requirement?
119.
Which of the following Project Scope Management processes documents a configuration management system?
120.
The stakeholders of a project typically have:
121.
A project was estimated to cost \$ 200,000 with a timeline of 10 months. Due to a shipment delay, the schedule was slightly delayed. This was however made up by receiving the first batch of materials for the project by air. The net result was that there was some additional cost in the project. At the end of the second month, the Project Manager reviews the project and finds that the project is 20% complete and Actual Costs are \$ 50,000. The Estimate to complete (ETC) for the project would now be:
122.
As a project manager, where would you document the escalation process to resolve issues that cannot be resolved at a lower staff level?
123.
While developing the project schedule, you find that the completion of a successor activity depends on the completion of its predecessor activity. What is this dependency called?
124.
Which of the following is not a tool and technique of the Collect Requirements process?
125.
You are planning out the communications methods to use as part of stakeholder management. The most effective means for communicating and resolving issues with stakeholders is:
126.
Many project managers have seen a graph which shows "Influence of Stakeholders" starting out high and declining as the project progresses. Conversely, it shows the "Cost of Changes" starting out low and increasing as the project progresses. What is the key message a project manager should obtain from this graph?
127.
Which of the following contains an extensive procurement changes approval process?
128.
A project manager found that some of the project work was not done at the right time and was done in an improper sequence. What do you think was the likely issue?
129.
Aileen knows she can present project information in many different ways. Which one of the following is not a method Aileen can use to present project performance?
130.
A control chart is used to determine whether or not a process is stable or has predictable performance. When a process is within acceptable limits, the process need not be adjusted. What are the upper and lower control limits usually set as?
131.
Robert is currently identifying his project stakeholders. Which of the following is the key input to this process?
132.
What is the name of the document that lists any problems that stakeholders may have and records what is being done about them?
133.
The Cost Management Plan is an output of the Plan Cost Management process. This plan is then integrated with other project plans in which of these processes?
134.
The three categories into which contracts can be broadly classified are:
135.
The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle as the basis for Quality Improvement is generally attributed to:
136.
For any complex project, once the project stakeholders are identified, the next step is to classify these stakeholders based on their current and desired engagement levels. What is the benefit of classifying the project stakeholders?
137.
A ______ is a collection of projects or programs grouped together for strategic business needs.
138.
In a Finish to Start relationship between predecessor and successor activities, a project manager decides to schedule a successor activity 5 days before its predecessor is complete. This is accomplished by providing 5 days of:
139.
While managing a project, you decide to contract to an external enterprise. You enter into a contract where you pay the external enterprise a set amount (as defined by the contract), irrespective of the seller's costs. What would best describe this type of contract?
140.
Which of the following inaccurately describes a prototype?
141.
Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique of the Acquire Project Team process?
142.
Before implementing the project we should come up with acceptance criteria which is also called
143.
Lee is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct response of implementing this risk response, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These would be termed as:
144.
You have been identified as the project manager for constructing a large shopping mall in your city. Which of the following are not necessarily stakeholders in your project?
145.
A tool that provides a visual representation of human resource allocation to a project, number of working hours and availability on the project is a:
146.
A project team is currently inspecting the recent project deliverables. The team is recording the number and the nature of defects found in these deliverables. The defect details list in this case is an example of?
147.
Which of the following is least likely to be a project?
148.
What does it mean if the Earned Value is equal to Actual Cost?
149.
Your project sponsor has asked you to add 30% contingency to your project budget as a hedge against any unforeseen costs that could exceed the currently forecasted expenses, but has not provided any additional detail about why this is required. What do you do?
150.
The functions of PMO are
