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 output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:
In a construction project schedule, what is the logical relationship between the delivery of the concrete materials and the pouring of concrete?
Which type of elaboration allows a project management team to manage at a greater level of detail as the project evolves?
Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
Which type of estimating is used to improve the accuracy of an activity's duration?
Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
The process of identifying the stakeholders' information needs is completed during:
Which Process Group contains those processes performed to define a new project?
Which of the following strategic considerations often results in project authorization?
Which Perform Quality Control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Which process should be conducted from the project inception through completion?
Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?
What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
The risk management team of a software project has decided that due to the lack of adequate talent in the company, development of a specific part of the system is under high risk, so the team has decided to outsource it. This is an example of which risk response?
Which of the following reduces the probability of potential consequences of project risk events?
When large or complex projects are separated into distinct phases or subprojects, all of the Process Groups would normally be:
In the Develop Project Team process, which of the following is identified as a critical factor for a project's success?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the Verify Scope process?
Which of the following is an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:
Who provides the inputs for the original estimates of activity durations for tasks on the project plan?
A project team has completed the first iteration and the testing manager approved the test report, indicating that the acceptance criteria have been met. The manager of the business unit that will use the new product is asking for additional functionality before approving the rollout for their team.
What should the project manager do next?
An adaptive team's velocity dropped significantly in the last sprint due to the planned vacation of two team members. The project sponsor wants to know how many more sprints it would take to complete the remaining project. How should the project manager calculate the anticipated velocity for future sprints?
Which of the in an adaptive project environment, which action helps the project manager?
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?
Which kind of communication should the project manager use when creating reports for government bodies?
During what project management process does the project team begin identifying risks?
A few project team members are having issues understanding the requirements as described. Which action should be taken to resolve this issue?
In the business analysis aspect of a construction project, what is the purpose of the requirements validation process?
In an adaptive project environment, which action helps the project manager ensure that the team is comfortable with changes?
What process group establishes project scope: refines objectives, and defines the actions necessary to attain project objectives'?
Which subsidiary management plan.... during the project ilfe cycle?
Which Subsidiary management plan would a project manager create to manage Information dissemination during the project life cycle?
A project manager is working on the communications management plan. Which of these documents are inputs to consider?
Which procurement management process includes obtaining seller response, seller selection, and contract awarding?
Which three of the following interpersonal skills does a project manager rely on when developing the project management plan? (Choose three)
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 is calculating the current budget. The earned value (EV) of the project is lower than the actual cost (AC) of the project. How should the project manager report the status of the project?
A project manager is managing a small project that has a time constraint. What should the project manager do to ensure the delivery is on time?
A Scrum team has a product backlog and a sprint backlog. Which of the following is a correct statement related to these artifacts?
On a clinical trial project, the project manager is worried about maintaining control of the project. The project manager decides to use a requirements traceability matrix. What is the advantage of using this tool?
Two resources are performing a peer review of an artifact. What should be the outcome of the peer review?
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 team is in the process of merging a legacy system from an acquired company. In order to check the project status and manage the flow of work, they are using a scrum board for this project. What data should be included in this information radiator?
In a preliminary meeting for a project, team members decide to execute the project with methodology A finance team member wants to know how project cost will be determined at this early stage. How will the project team determine project cost?
Based on a previous project that has been completed, a project manager decides the best way to estimate costs is through historical data. What kind of estimating is this?
Which statement describes the relationship between Manage Quality process and Control process?
What should be the frequency for meetings when transitioning from Scrum to Kanban?
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 team identifies defects that will require a modification to a tool's functionality. What process should the project manager follow to obtain stakeholder buy-in?
A Project manager is failing to secure critical equipment on time, and this resulting in delays in the manufacturing of the final product. Which knowledge area is the project manager handling?
What tern describes an intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component?
A project manager is working with the project sponsor to identify the resources required for the project. They use a RACI chart to ensure that the team members know their roles and responsibilities. What are the four elements of a RACI chart?
Due to new market conditions a five-year project......need to be updated
Due to new market conditions a five-year project requires a full revision of project objectives. Which components to the stakeholder engagement plan need to be updated?
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?
The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:
Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?
In the basic communication model, which term refers to the method that is used to convey the message?
Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Determine Budget process?
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
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 index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to:
Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?
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?
The technique of subdividing project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work and deliverables are defined to the work package level is called:
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?
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
Using the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely duration is four months, the optimistic duration is two months, and the pessimistic duration is one year, how many months is the expected activity duration?
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?
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team 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 project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces, while in practice they:
The processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project has been undertaken to achieve are grouped within which Process Group?
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
A project team is brainstorming about the best methods and practices to adopt for an upcoming project. What is the project team trying to follow?
Which tool should a project manager use to calculate cost variance for a project?
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:
Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
The contract in which the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and then receives a fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives is called a:
Which Plan Schedule Management tool or technique may involve choosing strategic options to estimate and schedule the project?
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) if the planned value (PV) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $150, and the earned value (EV) is $50?
Which conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?
Which tool or technique of the Define Activities process allows for work to exist at various levels of detail depending on where it is in the project life cycle?
The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:
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?
Which type of project management office (PMO) supplies templates, best practices, and training to project teams?
Which earned value management (EVM) metric is a measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC) and is considered a critical EVM metric?
Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
Which process involves developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?
Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
When a backward pass is calculated from a schedule constraint that is later than the early finish date that has been calculated during a forward pass calculation, this causes which type of total float?
A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?
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 input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?
Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
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:
Which item is an output of Plan Quality Management and an input to Perform Quality Assurance?
Which basic quality tool is most useful when gathering attributes data in an inspection to identify defects?
Which process numerically analyzes the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives?
Which type of contract gives both the seller and the buyer flexibility to deviate from performance with financial incentives?
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?
Which tool or technique is effective in a project in which the deliverable is not a service or result?
Which process develops options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives?
Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
The process of estimating the type and quantity of material, human resources, equipment, or supplies required to perform each activity is known as:
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?
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 input to the Plan Risk Management process provides information on high-level risks?
A method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before actually building is known as:
Which type of dependency is established based on knowledge of best practices within a particular application area or some unusual aspect of the project in which a specific sequence is desired, even though there may be other acceptable sequences?
A large portion of a projects budget is typically expended on the processes in which Process Group?
Which process determines the risks that may affect the project and documents their characteristics?
Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process provides guidance on how stakeholders can best be involved in a project?
Which input provides suppliers with a clear set of goals, requirements, and outcomes?
Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
Which document defines how a project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
The project manager is working in the processes of Project Resource Management. Which process is the project manager developing if they are using parametric estimation?
During the planning phase, a project manager must create a work breakdown structure (WBS) to improve management of the project's components. What should be included in the WBS?
A project manager is formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables. What is an input to this process?
What is the discipline that focuses on the interdependences between projects to determine the optimal approach for managing them?
The project leam is brainstorming on approaches to deliver the upcoming product launch for which the project has been chartered. The project manager is laying out hybrid, adaptive, iterative methods. What is the team trying to address?
What communication methods would a project manager use for overall effective project communication?
What is the Project Schedule Management practice used to deliver incremental value to the customer'?
Which tool should a project manager use to calculate cost variance for a project?
In a demonstration meeting with a customer, the project team presented deliverables that were considered ready for customer use. The team based the results on a checklist of all the required criteria for the project.
Which of the following elements is the team using?
Due to organizational changes, a new product owner joins a project The product owner wants to review the process used to obtain team members, facilities, equipment, materials, supplies, and other resources necessary to complete project work.
What process should the project manager review with the product owner?
It you established a contingency reserve including time, money, and resources, how are you handling risk?
Which statement about identification and engagement of stakeholders during a project is correct?
With regard to a project manager's sphere of influence in a project, which of the following does the project manager influence most directly?
Responsible, accountable, consult and inform (RACI) is an example of which of the following?
Which of the following best correspond to the organizational process assets (OPAs) that affect the project?
A project is in progress and about to move to a different phase, according to the plan. This will be a good opportunity for the project manager to:
The project manager is explaining to others the essential business aspects of the project. To which skill category does this ability belong?
Which of the following are outputs of the Define Scope process in Project Scope Management?
In which organizational structure would the project manager have most authority?
Which task will a project manager undertake while conducting Project Resource Management?
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?
In which type of organization does the project manager have the maximum influence
An adaptive team is performing the kickoff meeting and planning the project management approach. After defining project events, one team member argues that the artifacts are missing. The project manager coaches the team to complete the planning.
Which two of the following items should be included in the planning? (Choose two)
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?
The project manager is working in an agile/adaptive environment. The project manager is considering different approaches for applying Project Integration Management in this environment. How can the project manager ensure that this will work for the project?
How should a project manager plan communication for a project which has uncertain requirements?
A project team conducts regular standup meetings to keep everyone updated on what each one of them is working on. What type of communication is this?
Which knowledge area includes the processes to identify, define, and unify the various project management processes?
A project manager has to share a status report with a new stakeholder and is trying to determine the level of detail to include in the report. Which document best details the information the project manager needs lo make this decision?
Which tools and techniques will a project manager use to develop a project charter?
In an adaptive or agile life cycle, how are the customer and sponsor involved in the project scope management activities?
Which project manager competency is displayed through the knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to specific domains of project, program, and portfolio management?
Which tasks should a project manager accomplish in order to manage project scope correctly?
At the beginning of an iteration, the team will work to determine how many of the highest-priority items on the backlog list can be delivered within the next iteration. Which of the following activities is done first?
A project manager is determining the amount of contingency needed for a project. Which analysis is the project manager using?
Which of the following technology platforms is most effective for sharing information when managing virtual project teams?
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?
A sponsor asks a project manager to provide a project's expected total costs based on its progress. What formula should the project manager use to determine this?
A project manager is monitoring and recording results of executing the quality management activities to assess performance and ensure the project outputs are complete, correct, and meet customer expectations. Which output is the project manager using?
Which of the following is an example of an internal factor that influences the outcome of the project?
What conflict resolution technique involves delaying the issue or letting others resolve it?
What is the project manager's responsibility in Project Integration Management?
A functional manager is delegating a key project to a project team without a project manager. Which communication method will be most effective?
Which is the best way for a project manager to ensure efficient and frequent communication with management and stakeholders in an agile/adaptive environment?
Which quality tool incorporates the upper and lower specification limits allowed within an agreement?
A project manager requesting industry groups and consultants to recommend project intervention is relying on:
The component of the risk management plan that documents how risk activities will be recorded is called:
A special type of bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables is called a:
The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is known as its risk:
Activity cost estimates and the project schedule are inputs to which Project Cost Management process?
For a stakeholder with low interest and high power, the project manager should:
The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:
Processes in the Initiating Process Group may be completed at the organizational level and be outside of the project's:
Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding project outcomes describes which classification model for stakeholder analysis?
When a project is undertaken to reduce defects in a product or service, the objective of the project is to create a/an:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost variance (CV) for Task 6?
Which Define Activities tool or technique is used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
A projects purpose or justification, measurable project objectives and related success criteria, a summary milestone schedule, and a summary budget are all components of which document?
Correlated and contextualized information on how closely the scope is being maintained relative to the scope baseline is contained within:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The free float for Activity E is how many days?
Which document in the project management plan can be updated in the Plan Procurement Management process?
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
Progressively elaborating high-level information into detailed plans is performed by the:
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?
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:
An element of the modern quality management approach used to achieve compatibility with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is known as:
Using parametric estimating, if an assigned resource is capable of producing 120 units per hour, how many hours are required to produce 12,000 units?
What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?
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:
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
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?
A graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships is known as a:
Job satisfaction, challenging work, and sufficient financial compensation are values related to which interpersonal skill?
Which schedule method allows the project team to place buffers on the project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties?
Projects that share common outcomes, collective capability, knowledge, or skills are often grouped into a:
Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?
Project deliverables that have been completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process are known as:
Which type of management focuses on ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation?
Which of the following project documents is an input to the Control Scope process?
The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the:
Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
A project has an EV of 100 workdays, an AC of 120 workdays, and a PV of 80 workdays. What should be the concern?
What is a deliverable-oriented, hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
In which process might a project manager use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
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?
A collection of projects managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives is referred to as a:
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?
The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
Which of the following investigates the likelihood that each specific risk will occur?
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:
Which schedule network analysis technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Which is the Define Scope technique used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?
Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and the cost of changes as project time advances?
The most commonly used type of precedence relationship in the precedence diagramming method (PDM) is:
Which of the seven basic quality tools is especially useful for gathering attributes data while performing inspections to identify defects?
The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?
Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
Projects can be divided into phases to provide better management control. Collectively, what are these phases known as?
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 type of analysis systemically gathers and analyzes qualitative and quantitative information to determine which interests should be taken into account throughout the project?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables is known as:
When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail using which type of estimating?
Which type of estimating can produce higher levels of accuracy, depending upon the sophistication and underlying data built into the model?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
If the most likely duration of an activity is five weeks, the best-case duration is two weeks, and the worst-case duration is 14 weeks, how many weeks is the expected duration of the activity?
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?
Which Knowledge Area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
Which tools or techniques will a project manager use for Develop Project Team?
Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?
What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?