The approaches, tools, and data sources that will be used to perform risk management on a project are determined by the:
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?
Retreating from an actual or potential conflict or postponing the issue to be better prepared or to be resolved by others describes which of the five general techniques for managing conflict?
In an agile and adaptive project, which scope management entity invokes stakeholder engagement?
The project has a current cost performance index of 0.80. Assuming this performance wi continue, the new estimate at completion is $1000. What was the original budget at completion for the project?
A project manager oversees a project in an adaptive environment. After each iteration, which type of meeting should the project manager conduct?
What purpose does the hierarchical focus of stakeholder communications serve?
A technical project manager uses a directive approach with the team. Some team members are growing increasingly frustrated when their recommendations are not adopted by the project manager. What should the project manager do to address this issue?
A project manager is assigned to a project, and the sponsor signals to perform first actions. However, the project manager is unsure how to apply organizational resources into project activities before a formal authorization. Which document should be used in this case?
Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?
For a 10-day project, activity B ' s duration is three days, and activity C’s duration is two days What is the duration of activity A if activities B and C are performed in parallel?
Which of the following is least influenced by a project manager, according to the project manager's sphere of influence?
The project sponsor wants to know when an in-flight adaptive project will be done. Which of the following metrics will help the team to predict how much longer the project will take?
A project receives budget approval, but the risk of extra costs is expected. Which of these inputs should the project manager check in order to make a qualitative risk analysis?
A project manager is responsible for delivering new software for their company. Based on previous experiences, the project manager decides to use the dynamic systems development method (DSDM). The project manager will use this method to prioritize the scope to meet project constraints.
Which elements are included in the DSDM framework?
Company A’s accountant sends notification about a change in the company’s tax classification.
What would a project have to be initiated?
A project's aim, from a business perspective, is moving an organization from one level to another to achieve a specific objective. What is the goal for a project's successful completion?
A stakeholder is reading project documents given by the project manager. The stakeholder is
curious about the difference between a verified deliverable and an accepted deliverable.
Which of the following definitions can the project manager use to explain the difference?
Drag the five stages of team development on the left onto the blocks on the right to place them in sequential order.
What can a requirements traceability matrix enable regardless of the project methodology being used?
Which of the following projects is a quality candidate for adaptive approaches?
What is the Project Schedule Management practice used to deliver incremental value to the customer'?
It’s time to perform code review on a software project that has over three million lines of code written. Which management tool should the project manager use?
A new project was approved and the project manager is discussing the most suitable delivery approach with the project sponsor. Which three of the following are characteristics of a traditional project delivered using a linear delivery approach? (Choose three)
A few project team members are having issues understanding the requirements as described. Which action should be taken to resolve this issue?
The formal and informal interaction with others in an organization industry, or professional environment is known as:
Identifying major deliverables, deciding if adequate cost estimates can be developed, and identifying tangible components of each deliverable are all part of which of the following?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?
A project team is evaluating criteria to determine project viability. Which of these activities will provide insight into making a go/no-go decision to start the project?
A project team is tasked with decomposing the scope to enable detailed cost and duration estimates. What should the team do to achieve this requirement?
What communications management process enables an effective information flow among project stakeholders'?
Which three of the following are key traits of a project leader? (Choose three)
The project manager needs to manage a critical issue immediately, and this requires action from the upper management of a specific stakeholder group. Which plan should plan the project manager consult?
A project manager is reviewing a past project with similar.... team choosing for tailoring?
A project manager is reviewing a past project with similar requirements to the project that is currently chartered. The project team decided to adopt quality tools, techniques and templates recommended at the organizational level after reviewing the lessons learned of the previous project What specific area of quality, is the project team choosing for tailoring?
A production support system is being managed by a team. The team members cannot plan their work in advance, even for a week, because they do not know when new support issues will be submitted. The team cannot start working on new issues until they finish existing issues, no matter how long it takes to finish the existing issues.
Which method should be used in this situation?
A project manager should consider the impact of project..............manager following
A project manager should consider the impact of project decisions on supporting and maintaining the product along with project results Which process is the project manager following?
Sharing good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the organization and/or industry is an example of:
During what project management process does the project team begin identifying risks?
During a project team meeting, one of the team members suggested a product functionality that would immensely benefit the customer. The project manager documents the request for later analysis.
What is this an example of?
An organization's project management office (PMO) has issued guidelines that require a specific template to be used for onboarding resources for a project. Where can the project manager find this template?
An adaptive project team is meeting for the first time and deciding on the project management approach. After defining the project artifacts, one team member argues that the events are missing. The scrum master coaches the team to complete the planning.
Which two of the following elements should be included? (Choose two)
What type of stakeholder is part of a project manager 's sphere of influence on a project?
A project manager is developing the work breakdown structure (WBS) for a project. The team is asking at what level should they decompose their assigned work.
What should the project manager answer?
A project manager is reviewing some techniques that can be used to evaluate solution results. The intent is to determine if the solution provides the functionality for typical usage by a stakeholder with in-depth business knowledge.
Which evaluation technique is most effective for this situation?
What method for categorizing stakeholders is suitable for small projects with simple relationships among stakeholders'?
Project managers plan a key role performing integration on the project what are the three different levels of integration?
What is the probability of occurrence if the risk rating is 0.56 and the impact if the risk does occur is very high (0.80)?
Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements describes management of which of the following?
What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?
Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?
The most commonly used type of precedence relationship in the precedence diagramming method (PDM) is:
Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
Which technique should a project manager use in a situation in which a collaborative approach to conflict management is not possible?
Which of the seven basic quality tools is especially useful for gathering attributes data while performing inspections to identify defects?
Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Develop Project Charter process?
While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery. What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and the cost of changes as project time advances?
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
Activity resource requirements and the resource breakdown structure (RBS) are outputs of which Project Time Management process?
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
What cost control technique is used to compare actual project performance to planned or expected performance?
Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
Which component of the human resource management plan describes when and how project team members are acquired and how long they will be needed?
In Plan Risk Management, which of the management plans determines who will be available to share information on various risks and responses at different times and locations?
Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
Identify Stakeholders is the process of identifying all of the people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests in, involvement in, and impact on the project:
Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?
Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique used to shorten the project schedule without changing project scope. Which of the following can result from fast tracking?
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
A project manager has created an issue log to document issues communicated by project team members during weekly team meetings. This is an input of:
The group technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for prioritization is called the:
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables is known as:
Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
A team was hired to develop a next generation drone. The team created a prototype and sent it to the customer for testing. The feedback collected was used to refine the requirements. What technique is the team using?
According to the PMI Talent Triangle. leadership skills relate to the ability to:
Which task will a project manager undertake while conducting Project Resource Management?
In which type of organization does the project manager have the maximum influence
Which of the following is used to classify stakeholders based on their assessments of power, urgency, and legitimacy?
The features and functions that characterize a result, product, or service can refer to:
During the execution phase of a project a detect is found. The project manager takes responsibility and with the correct documentation, begins the task necessary to repair the defect. What process was applied?
The project manager is working with some functional managers and stakeholders on the resource management plan Which elements may be included in this plan?
The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Determine Budget process?
A project manager is launching an information system to provide a lessons learned database. This action is necessary for recipients to access content at their own discretion. Which communication method is described?
The project manager is explaining to others the essential business aspects of the project. To which skill category does this ability belong?
Which knowledge area includes the processes to identify, define, and unify the various project management processes?
A project manager held a meeting and listed all team members' ideas for improving the product on a white board. What data gathering technique did the project manager apply?
The project manager is using co-location and providing training to the project team. On which of the following Project Resource Management processes is the project manager working?
What does expert judgment provide as an input to the resource management plan?
Which of the following lists represents the outputs of the Monitor Communications process?
Which is an example of leveraging evolving trends and emerging practices in Project Integration Management?
In a functional organization, the director of an important stakeholder business group expressed concern to a line manager about the progress of the project. What should the line manager do next?
An important project stakeholder has low risk tolerance. Which type ot communication should a project manager use to provide this stakeholder with a difficult update?
Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
A project stakeholder is requesting changes to the project plan. Which process group addresses this?
Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?
Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
Which of the following is an output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?
Which of the following processes audits the quality requirements and the results from quality control measures to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used?
The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:
The procurement requirements for a project include working with several vendors. What should the project manager take into consideration during the Project Procurement Management processes?
In which of the Risk Management processes is the project charter used as an input?
At which stage of team development do members begin to work together, adjust work habits, and trust each other?
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Which of the following is an input to the Develop Project Charter process?
Under which type of contract does the seller receive reimbursement for all allowable costs for performing contract work, as well as a fixed-fee payment calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
Project deliverables that have been completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process are known as:
A project manager should communicate to stakeholders about resolved project issues by updating the:
Which of the Perform Quality Assurance tools and techniques may enhance the creation of the work breakdown structure (VVBS) to give structure to the decomposition of the scope?
Stakeholder communication requirements should be included as a component of:
The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is called risk:
One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:
Which statement is related to the project manager's sphere of influence at the organizational level?
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?
A new project manager wishes to recommend creating a project management office to senior management. Which statement would the project manager use to describe the Importance of creating the project management office?
A functional manager is delegating a key project to a project team without a project manager. Which communication method will be most effective?
Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?
Analytical techniques are a tool and technique of which process in Project Procurement Management?
Processes in the Initiating Process Group may be completed at the organizational level and be outside of the project's:
The component of the human resource management plan that includes ways in which team members can obtain certifications that support their ability to benefit the project is known as:
Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
Stakeholders can be identified in later stages of the project because the Identify Stakeholders process should be:
Organizational process assets, a lessons-learned database, and historical information are all inputs to which process?
Which enterprise environmental factors may influence Plan Schedule Management?
When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
Technical capability, past performance, and intellectual property rights are examples of:
A benefit of using virtual teams in the Acquire Project Team process is the reduction of the:
Activity cost estimates and the project schedule are inputs to which Project Cost Management process?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Power, urgency, and legitimacy are attributes of which stakeholder classification model?
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
Which process numerically analyzes the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives?
Which process determines the risks that may affect the project and documents their characteristics?
A temporary endeavor that creates a unique product or service is called a:
A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis is a tool or technique used in which process?
Which Process Group and Knowledge Area include the Sequence Activities process?
Organizational theory is a tool used in which Project Human Resource Management process?
Which of the following set of elements is part of an effective communications management plan?
While preparing the project management plan on a weekly basis, the project manager indicates the intention to provide an issues report to the staff via e-mail. In which part of the plan will this type of information be included?
The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Which input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?
Which stakeholder classification model groups stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project?
A project manager providing information to the right audience, in the right format, at the right time is an example of which type of communication?
Using values such as scope, cost, budget, and duration or measures of scale such as size, weight, and complexity from a previous similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measurement for a current project describes which type of estimating?
The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?
Which basic quality tool is most useful when gathering attributes data in an inspection to identify defects?
A project in which the scope, time, and cost of delivery are determined as early as possible is following a life cycle that is:
Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
A project manager managing a cross-cultural virtual project team across several time zones should be concerned about the impacts of which communication technology factor?
Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
A project manager is appointed full-time to a project and is given full-time administrative staff and full-time project team members. This situation describes which type of organizational structure?
Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?
The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:
Which tool or technique is effective in a project in which the deliverable is not a service or result?
Which tools or techniques are used in the Plan Schedule Management process?
Which process involves defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive plan?
Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?
Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?
What can increase the complexity of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
A project manager is analyzing a few network diagrams in order to determine the minimum duration of a project. Which diagram should the project manager reference?
Which of the following can a project manager use to represent dellned team member roles in a group of tasks?
Which tool should a project manager consider to deal with multiple sources of risk?
In which organizational structure would the project manager have most authority?
A project manager needs to demonstrate that the project meets quality standards and success criteria. For that reason, the project manager is defining the quality objectives of the project, the quality tools that will be used, and quality metrics for the project deliverables.
Which process is the project manager executing?
A company must implement sales software because it is opening a new branch in a foreign market. Although this software is used in every domestic branch, multiple changes are expected during the implementation because It is a foreign location.
Which type of life cycle would the project manager use in this case?
What conflict resolution technique involves delaying the issue or letting others resolve it?
Which of the following must be included in the risk register when the project manager completes the Identify Risks process?
A project is just beginning, and management creates a long list of potential stakeholders. Which statement about identifying and engaging stakeholders is correct?
A project manager is identifying the risks of a project. Which technique should the project manager use?
A project team is discussing an upcoming planned product launch of a highly visible technologically advanced artificial intelligence tool. The team is debating the aspect of iterative and hybrid approaches. Which aspect of tailoring would this best represent?
Match each dimension of the communications management plan to its corresponding focus.
It you established a contingency reserve including time, money, and resources, how are you handling risk?
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
A graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships is known as a:
Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?
Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
The methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress is known as:
A project team member agrees to change a project deliverable after a conversation with an external stakeholder. It is later discovered that the change has had an adverse effect on another deliverable. This could have been avoided if the project team had implemented:
Which document in the project management plan can be updated in the Plan Procurement Management process?
In which phase of team building activities do team members begin to work together and adjust their work habits and behavior to support the team?
A project requires a component with well-understood specifications. Performance targets are established at the outset, and the final contract price is determined after completion of all work based on the seller's performance. The most appropriate agreement with the supplier is:
Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
Which project document is updated in the Control Stakeholder Engagement process?
Which type of project management office (PMO) supplies templates, best practices, and training to project teams?
Which quality management and control tool is useful in visualizing parent-to-child relationships in any decomposition hierarchy that uses a systematic set of rules that define a nesting relationship?
Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?
Which input may influence quality assurance work and should be monitored within the context of a system for configuration management?
A large portion of a projects budget is typically expended on the processes in which Process Group?
Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
Which document describes the necessary information to determine if a project is worth the required investment?
Which Knowledge Area involves identifying the people, groups, or organizations that may be impacted by or impact a project?
When does the project team determine which dependencies are discretionary?
Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process provides guidance on how stakeholders can best be involved in a project?
Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?
Which input to the Plan Risk Management process provides information on high-level risks?
A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished is known as:
A technique used to determine the cause and degree of difference between baseline and actual performance is:
Which input provides suppliers with a clear set of goals, requirements, and outcomes?
Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?
The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) using the following data? BAC = $100,000 PV = $50,000 AC = $80,000 EV = $40,000
Which cost estimate technique includes contingencies to account for cost uncertainty?
Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Which of the following is a tool and technique for Estimate Activity Durations?
Which of the following is the primary output of the Identify Risks process?
A purchase order for a specified item to be delivered by a specified date for a specified price is the simplest form of what type of contract?
What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
Which type of risk diagram is useful for showing time ordering of events?
Which Perform Quality Control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Which of the following project documents is an input to the Control Scope process?
Which type of management focuses on ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation?
To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
In a construction project schedule, what is the logical relationship between the delivery of the concrete materials and the pouring of concrete?
Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
Which of the following is an input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Which of the following reduces the probability of potential consequences of project risk events?
Which of the following is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?
Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
The milestone list is an input to which process from the Planning Process Group?
Which can be used to determine whether a process is stable or has predictable performance?
Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?
Which of the following Process Groups covers all nine Project Management Knowledge Areas?
Which tool within the Perform Quality Control process identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Which of the following is a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a prespecified product, result, or service?
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline is:
A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
In which type of organizational structure are staff members grouped by specialty?
The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the: