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?
Which item is an example of personnel assessment?
A risk response strategy in which the project team shifts the impact of a threat, together with ownership of the response, to a third party is called:
The organization's perceived balance between risk taking and risk avoidance is reflected in the risk:
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Which Knowledge Areas include processes from the Closing Process Group?
An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
The ways in which the roles and responsibilities, reporting relationships, and staffing management will be addressed and structured within a project is described in the:
The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
What is the estimate at completion (EAC) if the budget at completion (BAC) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $50, and the earned value (EV) is $25?
Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is used to document changes that occur during the project?
Typical outcomes of a project include:
Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?
Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
In a project, total float measures the:
The definition of when and how often the risk management processes will be performed throughout the project life cycle is included in which risk management plan component?
Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
In the Plan Stakeholder Management process, expert judgment is used to:
The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information become available is known as:
Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?
Which of the following is a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a prespecified product, result, or service?
Quality metrics are an output of which process?
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
When large or complex projects are separated into distinct phases or subprojects, all of the Process Groups would normally be:
Which of the following is an input to Develop Human Resource Plan?
Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
The progressive detailing of the project management plan is called:
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
Which of the following is an input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Which tool and technique is used in Conduct Procurements?
Which of the following Process Groups covers all nine Project Management Knowledge Areas?
Which process should be conducted from the project inception through completion?
What is the most accurate rough order of magnitude (ROM)?
The project scope statement and resource calendars are inputs to which Project Time Management process?
Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?
Which can be used to determine whether a process is stable or has predictable performance?
Which tool within the Perform Quality Control process identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?
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 of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
Which project document is updated in the Control Stakeholder Engagement process?
Outputs of the Control Communications process include:
The component of the risk management plan that documents how risk activities will be recorded is called:
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
Which items are components of a project management plan?
Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?
Which process involves the creation of a document that provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to a project?
A stakeholder expresses a need not known to the project manager. The project manager most likely missed a step in which stakeholder management process?
The scope management plan and scope baseline are contained in:
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?
The risk response strategy in which the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk is known as:
The methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress is known as:
Which Process Group includes the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
Which Perform Quality Assurance tool or technique is used to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it, and develop preventative actions?
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 Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
The purpose of the Project Communications Management Knowledge Area is to:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The free float for Activity H is how many days?
The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is called risk:
The three processes of Project Cost Management are:
Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
The diagram below is an example of a:
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?
Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?
Which of the following is an input to the Develop Project Charter process?
Which type of contract is a hybrid of both a cost-reimbursable and a fixed-price contract?
The correct equation for schedule variance (SV) is earned value:
Which of the following can be used as an input for Define Scope?
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?
Which process requires implementation of approved changes?
What is project management?
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
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:
An input of the Create WBS process is:
Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to:
After Define Activities and Sequence Activities, the next process is:
Which baselines make up the performance measurement baseline?
Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses the values of parameters from previous similar projects for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project?
Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Who, along with the project manager, is supposed to direct the performance of the planned project activities and manage the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within the project?
Cost baseline is an output of which of the following processes?
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
The product scope description is used to:
Which is a tool or technique used in Define Scope?
Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
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?
A measure of cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal and is expressed as the ratio of the cost needed for finishing the outstanding work to the remaining budget is known as the:
The project manager notes that stakeholders are aware of the project and potential impacts and are actively engaged in ensuring that the project is a success. The engagement level of the stakeholders should be classified as:
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
Which activity is an input to the Conduct Procurements process?
Which of the following processes are part of the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
The scope management plan is a subsidiary of which project document?
The Define Scope process is in which of the following Process Groups?
Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
As part of a mid-project evaluation, the project sponsor has asked for a forecast of the total project cost. What should be used to calculate the forecast?
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?