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As of the data date, your project schedule has a BCWS of 100. The BCWP, however, is  90. This tells you that your project is currently 10 percent:

Cost associated with inspection, laboratory measurements and analysis, machinery maintenance and calibration, field-testing, and procedure checking are examples of which of the following ?

Due to cuts in funding, your project has been terminated. The scope verification process:

The MAJOR processes for project integration management are:

When a project manager places a purchase order for a piece of equipment, it represents which of the following?

You just identified a new external risk during the executing phase that may impact your project positively. What is your first step ?

A project management professional can compare earned value performance data to all of the following project management tools EXCEPT:

Complex projects, involving cross-disciplinary efforts, are MOST effectively managed by:

Risk quantification includes:

A KEY activity in closing out a project is to:

A project manager has six stakeholders during requirement gathering phase but the number increase to eleven in the design phase. How many additional channels communication were added at design phase ?

Project sponsors have the GREATEST influence on the scope, quality, time, and cost of the project during the:

A precise description of a deliverable is called a:

Risk response development is intended to:

A project manager wants to determine how his project is doing the end of sixth month. The actual total expense of the project is \$720,000. The planned budget for this length of the time was \$600,000. He finds that :

A project manager has a problem with a team member's performance. What is the BEST form of communication for addressing this problem ?

You are building a water treatment facility. Routine tests reveal that there are contaminants in the water but that they have an extremely low risk for causing any sickness. As the project manager, you should:

All the following statements about change control are incorrect, EXCEPT :

You have thirteen stakeholders in the construction project that you are overseeing. Your initial study about these stakeholders tells you most of them will actively support your project to be successful, but you have couple of stakeholders who may adversely impact your project. When do you think these stakeholders will have the most influence on your project ?

The subprocesses of a project are linked by one subprocess providing an output that feeds one or more subprocesses as an input. Thus, subprocess are defined by PMI as  having an input,________,, and an output.

Characteristics of a good project manager include all of the following except :

To control the schedule, a project manager is reanalyzing the project to predict project  duration. She does this by analyzing the sequence of activities with the LEAST amount of scheduling flexibility.  What technique is she using ?

The measure used to forecast project cost at completion is:

All the following statements concerning procurement documents are incorrect, EXCEPT :

You are asked by management to select a contract type that will obligate the seller to accept all liability for poor workmanship, engineering errors, and consequential damages in the project. Which of the following contact types will you select ?

Ideally, communication between the project manager and the project team members should take place:

The major processes of project communications management are:

You reviewed the WBS and an activity must be completed that your team may not have the expertise to accomplish. You find another team who is willing to take on the work and do the job. What risk response did you use ?

What is the MOST effective process to ensure that cultural and ethical differences do not impede success of your multi-national project?

While reviewing one of the activities of team member, you found out that the activity has an early start of days 5, an early finish of day 12, a late start of day 15, and a late  finish of 22 day. The team member tells you that he needs an additional four days to complete the activity due to various reasons he can think of. Which one of the following statements is TRUE ?

A Cost Performance Index (CPI) of 0.89 means :

Which of the following techniques is used to control the project  schedule?

Virtual team is a tool for which of the following processes ?

During the project scope planning process, the work breakdown structure should be developed to:

A likely result of using "compromise" to resolve a two-party conflict is:

Which of the following is true regarding the project charter ?

One common way to compute estimate at completion (EAC) is to take the budget at completion (BAC) and :

Scope change control MUST be integrated with all of the following control processes EXCEPT:

The MOST common cause of conflict on a project are schedules, project priorities, and :

Which of the following process group consists of the processes to complete the work defined in the  project management plan and ultimately satisfies the project specifications and objectives ?

A contractor's deliverable has been delayed 30 days. The process of determining how this event will affect the project schedule is called risk:

Which of the following is NOT a tool used to manage the stakeholder engagement ?Communication skills

Which of the following is output of Manage Project Knowledge process ?

A project's payback period ends when:

A scope statement is important because it:

Two of the types of discretionary dependencies that typically have an effect on the sequencing of the  activities in the schedule are those containing hard logic and  those containing soft logic. An example of a soft logic dependency would be:

A project was estimated to cost \$1.5 million and scheduled to last six months. After three months, the earned value analysis shows the following: BCWP = \$650,000 BCWS = \$750,000 ACWP = \$800,000 What are the schedule and cost variances?

A process is a series of actions to bring about a result. In a project, the five basic process groups (PG) are:

Which of the following is NOT a typical characteristic of a project management office (PMO) ?

When should the Validate Scope process be done ?

The sender-receiver model is a basic model of communication that demonstrates how information is sent from the sender and how it is received by the receiver. This model is designed to assist project managers and team members in improving their communication skills. This communication model highlights mostly on which one of the following ?

Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include:

The objective of fast tracking a project is to:

You have just been assigned as project manager for a large telecommunications project. This one year project is about halfway done. The project team consists of 5 sellers and 20 of your company's employees. You want to understand who is responsible for doing what on project. Where would you find such information ?

Which of the following is a KEY output of the Validate Scope process ?

A project's approved budget is \$250,000 and planned budget to date is \$150,000. What will be the Schedule Variance when Schedule Performer Index is 0.8 ?

A project had a list of identified risks. This list was the risks register. Where can one find the high-level risk ?

 A CPI value of 1.20 and an SPI value of 1.30 for a project mean which of the following ?

Configuration management is a technique for:

All of the following will occur during project initiating EXCEPT :