What document should be reviewed by a project manager before finalizing the project closure?
The customer's expectations for quality are shown on a control chart as the:
Which tools or techniques will the project manager use for developing the project team?
The seller tells you that your activities have resulted in an increase in their costs. You should:
What are three basic types of project phase-to-phase relationships?
During what process is the quality policy determined?
What tool and technique includes all costs incurred over the life of a product by investment in preventing nonconformance to requirements?
Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Which of the following would most likely increase the accuracy of estimating the project cost?
The use of group creativity techniques as a tool and technique is done in which of the following processes?
Job continuity would be an example of _____ in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
A contract management plan is a subsidiary of what other type of plan?
In which of the team development stages are the teams interdependent and work through issues smoothly and effectively?
Which tool or technique measures performance of the project as it moves from project initiation through project closure?
What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?
Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?
You are a project manager for Picture Shades, Inc. It manufactures window shades that have replicas of Renaissance-era paintings on the inside for hotel chains. Picture Shades is taking its product to the home market, and you're managing the new project. It will offer its products at retail stores as well as on its website. You're developing the project schedule for this under-taking and have determined the critical path.
Which of the following statements is true?
Which is not an example of formal communication?
In which of the following team development stages does the team meet and learn about the project and their formal roles and responsibilities?
What is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
Linear programming is an example of what type of project selection criteria?
What is Project Portfolio Management?
Constraints do not include:
What tool or technique of Estimate Activity Durations uses parameters such as duration, budget, size, weight, and complexity from a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measure for a future project?
Which tool or technique uses the 80/20 principle?
An input required to develop a preliminary project scope statement is:
You have accumulated project information throughout the project and need to distribute some important information you just received.
Which of the following is not an information distribution method?
You are negotiating with a seller. Time is of the essence but you have a limited budget, and the seller knows this.
What is your BEST negotiating strategy under these circumstances?
Which tool and technique uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate estimates?
All of the following statements are true regarding the RBS except for which one?
A project team member tells you that she went to her project manager with a good idea for a useful change to the project. Instead of giving her approval to make the change, the project manager asked her to write a report describing the benefits of the change.
What is the MOST appropriate advice for the situation?
You are assigned to implement the project control plan. What should you do to ensure the plan is effective and current?
The critical path in a schedule network is the path that:
As part of a mid-project evaluation, your project sponsor has asked you to provide a forecast of total project cost.
You should calculate the forecast using which of the following methods?
Earned value measurement is an example of:
According to Herzberg, which of the following is a motivational factor?
The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on the cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract. Each month the sponsor requires the project manager to submit CPI calculations and an analysis of the cost to complete. The project manager explains to the sponsor that extra profits should NOT be a worry on this project because:
Parametric Estimating is done as a part of which process:
The degree of risk shared between the buyer and seller is determined by the:
Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
The role of the _____ can be invaluable in problem solving.
A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, Activity B takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes 4 weeks and can start as soon as Activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before Activity G starts. Activity G requires 3 weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed.
Which activities have float available?
All of the following are tools and techniques of the Performance Reporting process except which one?
Company expenses such as auditing costs, supervision, office supplies, building rent and maintenance are elements of the:
You are a project manager for a documentary film company. In light of a recent regional tragedy, the company president wants to get a new documentary on the rescue efforts of the heroic rescue teams to air as soon as possible. She's looking to you to make this documentary the best that has ever been produced in the history of this company. She guarantees you free rein to use whatever resources you need to get this project done quickly. However, the best photographer in the company is currently working on another assignment.
Which of the following is true?
Which technique is utilized in the Schedule Control process?
What are assigned risk ratings based upon?
Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
The ability to achieve cost savings is inversely proportional to _____.
Within a matrix organization, dual reporting of team members is a risk for project success.
Who is responsible for managing this dual reporting relationship factor?
The most effective team motivator is:
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
The project charter:
During the initial stages of the project, what do activity attributes include?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
Planning activities such that predetermined resource availability pools are not exceeded is called:
You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country.
You have been invited to dinner with the prospective foreign business partners and their spouses upon your arrival.
You know that all of the following statements are generally true except for which one?
Which of the following correctly explains the term "progressive elaboration"?
The project management office is worried about the quality of the company's various projects. They want to know which projects are having problems and which ones are doing well.
If the PMO receives the following information, which project should they be the MOST concerned about?
Surveys have shown that the primary skill needed to be a project manager is communication skill. The typical project manager spends approximately ______ percent of his or her time communicating.
Which of the following statements is true regarding schedule variances?
You are a project manager of ABC organization. You are estimating the project in initiation phase.
What level of accuracy you can expect?
Based on the network diagram in the chart, the resource working on activity G is replaced with another resource with 50 percent of the productivity of the previous resource.
How long will this project take?
A contract change control system defines which of the following?
Management by objectives assumes that the team ____________.
A non-critical path activity is completed in half the time. Then, ___________.
The scope of a project can be expected to change if:
History has shown that project managers can be trained in a combination of ways.
Which method is usually preferred by most companies?
The Java development of a project is outsourced to India. The project schedule is starting to slip.
What is the LEAST likely cause of the slippage?
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling and Closing are called:
Your project team consists of 12 people in the same building you're located in, 4 people from the West Coast office, 2 people from the Kansas City office, and 6 people from the London office. Your office works different hours than all the other offices. Additionally, not all of the resources in your building are available at the same times during the day. Three of the 12 team members work swing shift hours. You use tools like web conferencing and email to distribute information to the team.
Which of the following is true?
Which of the following lists contain processes that are included within Project Procurement Management?
The project manager and project sponsor are discussing the project costs and whether it is better to have their own company do part of the project or hire another company to do the work. If they asked for your opinion, you might say it would be better to do the work yourself if:
What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?
You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to expand three miles of the north-to-south highway through your city by two lanes in each direction. You are in charge of the demolition phase of this project, and you report to the project manager in charge of this project. You have been hired on contract and will be released at the completion of the demolition phase.
What type of organizational structure does this represent?
Which of the following is an output of Define Scope?
The project manager decides to conduct a meeting with the team and management after a new risk has been identified. After the meeting, the decision is to allow the risk to occur.
This is an example of which type of risk response strategy?
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Going from Level 2 to Level 4 in the work breakdown structure will result in ___________.
Management reserves are normally defined as a % of the total budget. As a project progresses, the project manager wants the $ value of management reserve to _____, whereas the customer wants the management reserve to _____.
Which activity is an input to the select seller’s process?
What is included in a control chart?
Who is responsible for issuing the project charter?
You are in the middle of a major new facility construction project. The structural steel is in place and the heating conduits are going into place when a senior manager informs you that he is worried that the project will not meet the quality standards.
What should you do in this situation?
Which of the following MUST NOT performed in project initiation process?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
Lessons learned are most often based upon project historical records. Lessons learned can be used to:
Given the following estimates: Optimistic 3 days, Pessimistic 9 days, and most likely 6 days, what is the PERT weighted average?
The Delphi Method is well-suited for:
A project manager is assigned to a project which phase of the project?
A project manager is creating a risk response plan. However, every time a risk response is suggested, another risk is identified that is caused by the response.
Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?