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Questions 4

Which of the following techniques is described in the statement below?

"It is used to verify whether a particular work can best be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from outside sources."

Options:

A.

Contract type

B.

Expert judgment

C.

Make-or-Buy analysis

D.

Risk analysis

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Questions 5

You are the project manager for PassGuide Inc. Your project has a budget at completion of $950,000 and is 45 percent complete, though the project should be 50 percent complete. The project has spent $450,897 to reach the 45 percent complete milestone.

What is the project's cost performance index?

Options:

A.

0.84

B.

0.86

C.

0.98

D.

0.95

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Questions 6

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on a project where there is a limited amount of detailed information about the project or program. Which of the following estimation techniques will you use to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Three-point

B.

Bottom-up

C.

Analogous

D.

Parametric

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Questions 7

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to improve the competencies and interaction of team members to enhance project performance. Which of the following processes will help you to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Manage Project Team

B.

Acquire Project Team

C.

Develop Project Team

D.

Develop Human Resource Plan

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Questions 8

How many stages are there in the project life cycle?

Options:

A.

5

B.

6

C.

4

D.

3

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Questions 9

Sasha is the project manager of a large construction project. She is finalizing ground rules, training, and team-building activities for her project team members. In which of the following processes is she working on?

Options:

A.

Manage Project Team

B.

Develop Human Resource Plan

C.

Develop Project Team

D.

Acquire Project Team

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Questions 10

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It is a monetary calculation of the quality performance of an organization. It is the monetary figure used by project management personnel in the decision making process."

Options:

A.

Scope creep

B.

Cost of Quality

C.

Cost benefit analysis

D.

Integrated change control

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Questions 11

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are performing a task to generate a hierarchical list of resources related by function and resource type that is used to facilitate planning and controlling of project work. Which of the following components of project management will you use to accomplish the above task?

Options:

A.

PERT chart

B.

RBS

C.

Gantt chart

D.

WBS

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Questions 12

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It means that feedback regarding performance is provided to the person being evaluated from many sources, including superiors, peers, and subordinates."

Options:

A.

360-degree evaluations

B.

Goal review

C.

Team-led project reviews

D.

Organizational performance appraisals

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Questions 13

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. The company has recently opened a new department in its main building. You need information of all the vendors and hardware equipment being used in the different areas of the newly built department. Which of the following charts will you use to get the required information?

Options:

A.

PBS

B.

WBS

C.

OBS

D.

RBS

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Questions 14

Which of the following contract types is described in the statement below?

"This contract type provides no incentive for the contractor to control costs and hence is rarely utilized."

Options:

A.

Cost Plus Fixed Fee

B.

Cost Plus Award Fee

C.

Cost Plus Percentage of Cost

D.

Cost Plus Incentive Fee

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Questions 15

You are project manager of HHK project. Examine the network diagram given below: A vendor reports that he will be four days late on the materials you'll need in order to complete Activity E. Based on the project network diagram, how many days can Activity E be delayed?

Options:

A.

Five days

B.

Four days

C.

Six days

D.

Zero, it is on the critical path.

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Questions 16

Which of the following is a measure of progress achieved compared to progress planned on a project?

Options:

A.

Cost variance

B.

Schedule performance index

C.

Schedule variance

D.

Cost performance index

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Questions 17

You are the project manager of a large construction project. Part of the project involves the wiring of the electricity in the building your project is creating. You and the project team determine the electrical work is too dangerous to perform yourself so you hire an electrician to perform the work for the project. This is an example of what type of risk response?

Options:

A.

Mitigation

B.

Acceptance

C.

Transference

D.

Avoidance

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Questions 18

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on directing and managing the execution of your project. Which of the following is the most likely outcome as part of this phase of the project?

Options:

A.

Quality control measurements

B.

Quality metrics

C.

Deliverables

D.

Organizational process assets update

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Questions 19

Which of the following is the method used to convey a message?

Options:

A.

Sender

B.

Noise

C.

Receiver

D.

Medium

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Questions 20

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

The______ defines the period in which, during the development of the project scope statement, a clear and very thorough project scope statement narrative is documented.

Options:

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Questions 21

Your project spans the entire organization. You would like to assess the risk of the project but are worried that some of the managers involved in the project could affect the outcome of any risk identification meeting. Your worry is based on the fact that some employees would not want to publicly identify risk events that could make their supervisors look bad. You would like a method that would allow participants to anonymously identify risk events. What risk identification method could you use?

Options:

A.

SWOT analysis

B.

Isolated pilot groups

C.

Delphi technique

D.

Root cause analysis

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Questions 22

You, with your team, are performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives. In which of the following processes are you working on?

Options:

A.

Perform Quality Assurance

B.

Develop Project Team

C.

Manage Project Team

D.

Direct and Manage Project Execution

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Questions 23

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It contains a complete set of indexed contract documentation. It is prepared to be included with the final project files."

Options:

A.

Procurement file

B.

Project charter

C.

Stakeholder register

D.

Risk register

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Questions 24

You are the project manager of a project to create a network inside of a building. You need to hire an electrician to run network cable throughout the building. Based on your experience, you create an estimate for the work that you'll measure all of the bids against. This is an example of what type of procurement seller selection?

Options:

A.

Seller rating system

B.

Independent estimate

C.

Weighting system

D.

Screening system

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Questions 25

You are the project manager of the GYG Project. A new scope change is being considered for your project. You are concerned, however, that the scope change may add costs, risks, and adversely affect the project schedule. What project management process is responsible for evaluating the full effect of a proposed scope change on your project?

Options:

A.

Schedule change control

B.

Scope change control

C.

Change Control Board approval process

D.

Integrated change control

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Questions 26

Jenny is the project manager for her organization. Her project is not doing well on project schedule performance, and management wants her to predict how the project schedule and cost will end. Management has asked Jenny to report and forecast her project's performance based on the Judgmental methods. Which of the following judgmental methods will Jenny use to accomplish the task?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Scenario building

B.

Technology forecasting

C.

Autoregressive moving average

D.

Forecast by analogy

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Questions 27

Which of the following are the prime reasons behind the use of the Critical path method in a project?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

It categorizes the tasks that can be delayed for a while if resources need to be reallocated to catch up on missed tasks.

B.

It determines both the early start and the late start date for each activity in the schedule.

C.

It identifies the tasks that should be completed on time for the whole project to be completed on time.

D.

It is used to describe the maximum length of time needed to complete a project.

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Questions 28

You are in need of procuring several tons of pea gravel for a construction. You'll need the vendor to provide a bid for the pea gravel on a specific date and time and that's one of the requirements included in the procurement document package you are reviewing. Who creates the procurement document package?

Options:

A.

The project sponsor

B.

Both parties contribute

C.

The seller

D.

The buyer

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Questions 29

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______ (also called contractor conferences, vendor conferences, and pre-bid conferences) are meetings with prospective sellers prior to preparation of a bid or proposal.

Options:

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Questions 30

James works as the project manager for a software project. He and his team are on the Direct and Manage Project Execution process. All of the following are inputs of this process except for which one?

Options:

A.

Project charter

B.

Organizational process assets

C.

Enterprise environmental factors

D.

Approved environmental requests

E.

Project management plan

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Questions 31

Which of the following are inputs of the Acquire Project Team process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Resource calendars

B.

Organizational process assets

C.

Enterprise environmental factors

D.

Project management plan

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Questions 32

Holly is the project manager of a project in a functional environment. Jason, the functional manager, has just informed Holly a new requirement that he has approved for the project. Holly documents the change and updates the project scope. What document should Holly also update in light of this change?

Options:

A.

Project time estimate

B.

Project WBS

C.

Project cost estimate

D.

Project risk plan

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Questions 33

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It is a tool that defines a project and groups the project's discrete work elements in a way that helps organize and define the total work scope of the project."

Options:

A.

WBS

B.

RBS

C.

Gantt chart

D.

Critical path

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Questions 34

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Which of the following techniques will you use to determine whether particular work can best be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from the outside sources?

Options:

A.

Contract Types

B.

Make-or-Buy Analysis

C.

Procurement Negotiations

D.

Expert Judgment

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Questions 35

Mark works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. His project is in an emergency situation. For this reason, he has hired a trader who is about to join immediately. Which of the following types of contract is needed in such a situation?

Options:

A.

Incentive-based contract

B.

Letter contract

C.

Fixed fee contract

D.

Time and materials contract

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Questions 36

Mark is the project manager of the BFL project for his organization. He and the project team are creating a probability and impact matrix using RAG rating. There is some confusion and disagreement among the project team as to how a certain risk is important and priority for attention should be managed. Where can Mark determine the priority of a risk given its probability and impact?

Options:

A.

Risk management plan

B.

Risk response plan

C.

Project sponsor

D.

Look-up table

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Questions 37

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are performing steps to carry out and finish the project according to the measures drawn through the planning stage. Which of the following stages of the project are you working on?

Options:

A.

Monitoring and controlling

B.

Closing

C.

Initiation

D.

Execution

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Questions 38

Rick is the project manager for TTM project. He is in the process of procuring services from vendors. He makes a contract with a vendor in which he precisely specify the services to be procured, and any changes to the procurement specification will increase the costs to the buyer.

Which type of contract is this?

Options:

A.

Fixed Price Incentive Fee

B.

Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contract

C.

Firm Fixed Price

D.

Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment

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Questions 39

Jessica works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. She wants to discuss with the team members some of the project risks and issues that have occurred. Jessica has faxed the report to her project team for them to review. Based on the standard communications model, which component in this scenario is the decoder?

Options:

A.

Fax machine

B.

Team member

C.

Jessica

D.

Telephone wire

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Questions 40

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on several projects. Your projects vary in size and budget. You have to calculate the ratios of schedule and cost compared to plan, so that you can compare relative schedule and cost performance of each project. Which of the following components of EVM provide measures of schedule and cost performance that are not affected by the size of the project?

Options:

A.

BAC and EAC

B.

CPI and SPI

C.

CV and SV

D.

PV and EV

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Questions 41

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. A new project has been proposed to change all keyboards of every computer in your organization. There are 1,600 keyboards that will need to be removed and replaced with wireless keyboards. What document will you first need to start this project?

Options:

A.

Project risk statement

B.

Risk register

C.

Project charter

D.

Contract for new keyboards

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Questions 42

Mark works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He has to identify the internal and external stakeholders who will interact and influence the overall outcome of the project. Which of the following process groups will help him to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Initiating

B.

Planning

C.

Monitoring and Controlling

D.

Executing

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Questions 43

Which of the following are the tasks performed by the Work breakdown structure (WBS)?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

It separates the major project deliverables into smaller components to improve the accuracy of cost estimates.

B.

It defines assignable resources, such as personnel, from a functional point of view.

C.

It provides a mechanism for collecting and organizing actual costs.

D.

It provides a mechanism for performance measurement and control.

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Questions 44

You are a project manager for your organization. Your organization completes projects for other companies and your project has just ended. Although you were serving in a contractual relationship for your company what should you do with the project records for the project you've completed for another entity?

Options:

A.

The project information should be archived at your organization.

B.

The project information should be archived at your organization and at the client's organization.

C.

The project information should be destroyed.

D.

The project information should stay with the company you completed the project for.

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Questions 45

Alan works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He is working on the office renovation project. The office has 200 doors. All doors have to be glassed and painted. Before each door can be painted, the glasses must be fitted in them at least 12 hours before. Alan has arranged these tasks with a finish to start relationship between glassing and painting. What else should Alan do to account for the twelve hours of maintenance time?

Options:

A.

Alan must add twelve hours of lead time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

B.

Alan must schedule all 200 office doors to be glassed first and then schedule all 200 doors to be painted to ensure time for the maintenance.

C.

Alan must add twelve hours of lag time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

D.

Alan must add an intermediary task with duration of twelve hours.

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Questions 46

You are the program manager for your project. You are working with the project managers regarding the procurement processes for their projects. You have ruled out one particular contract type because it is considered too risky for the program. Which one of the following contract types is usually considered to be the most dangerous for the buyer?

Options:

A.

Cost plus incentive fee

B.

Time and materials

C.

Cost plus percentage of costs

D.

Fixed fee

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Questions 47

Which of the following components of EVA is described in the statement below?

"It is a measure of how much of the project value has been earned so far through completed work, that is, the budgeted cost of the work that has been performed through the project status date."

Options:

A.

PV

B.

AC

C.

SV

D.

EV

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Questions 48

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to include a budget contingency to accommodate the risk of incurring unidentifiable but normally occurring costs within the defined scope. Which of the following processes will help you to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Cost controlling

B.

Cost budgeting

C.

Cost baselining

D.

Cost estimation

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Questions 49

You are the project manager for your organization. Marcy, a project stakeholder, is demanding that you add some deliverables to your project scope for free. You explain to Marcy that it's too late in the project execution to consider adding these deliverables, as most of the software your project team is creating is nearly done. Marcy and you escalate the issue to management.

Management decides that you will add the deliverables to the project scope if Marcy pays a significant fee and allows you additional time to complete the project. What conflict resolution method has management offered?

Options:

A.

Issue management

B.

Compromising

C.

Forcing

D.

Confronting

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Questions 50

Which of the following are the types of casual/econometric forecasting methods?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

ARIMA

B.

Econometrics

C.

ARMA

D.

Scenario building

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Questions 51

Charlie has just completed the project according to the terms of the contract. She and the customer are completing a walk through of the project deliverables, and the customer is asking for changes to the deliverables before she'll accept the product. What project management process should manage the documented change request that may come from scope verification?

Options:

A.

Scope management

B.

Perform integrated change control

C.

Control Scope

D.

Control change control

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Questions 52

Which of the following techniques is described in the statement below?

"It evaluates the abstract early start and finish dates and late start and finish dates for all activities devoid of any resource limitations by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network."

Options:

A.

Resource utilization

B.

Critical path method

C.

Critical Chain method

D.

Resource leveling heuristic

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Questions 53

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

The______ defines the period in which, during the development of the project scope statement, a clear and very thorough project scope statement narrative is documented.

Options:

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Questions 54

Which of the following techniques is described in the statement below?

"It evaluates the abstract early start and finish dates and late start and finish dates for all activities devoid of any resource limitations by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network."

Options:

A.

Resource utilization

B.

Resource leveling heuristic

C.

Critical path method

D.

Critical Chain method

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Questions 55

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You report the project details directly to the vice president and the administrator of your organization. In which of the following types of organization structures are you working?

Options:

A.

Projectized

B.

Jury

C.

Matrix

D.

Functional

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Questions 56

You are the project manager for your organization. Marcy, a project stakeholder, is demanding that you add some deliverables to your project scope for free. You explain to Marcy that it's too late in the project execution to consider adding these deliverables, as most of the software your project team is creating is nearly done. Marcy and you escalate the issue to management. Management decides that you will add the deliverables to the project scope if Marcy pays a significant fee and allows you additional time to complete the project. What conflict resolution method has management offered?

Options:

A.

Confronting

B.

Issue management

C.

Compromising

D.

Forcing

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Questions 57

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Management has selected the team members for your team in advance. Which of the following techniques of the Acquire project team has been used in the above scenario?

Options:

A.

Pre-assignment

B.

Acquisition

C.

Virtual team

D.

Negotiation

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Questions 58

Jane works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. She is calculating the estimated activity durations for her project. She is using parameters such as duration, budget, size, weight, and complexity from a previous similar project as the basis for estimating the new project. Which of the following estimate activity duration techniques is she using in the project?

Options:

A.

Expert judgment

B.

Three-point

C.

Parametric

D.

Analogous

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Questions 59

Mark works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He and his team are working on a new project that involves developing a plan for a new building. You have started estimating the activity durations. You find some uncertainty about the estimates due to the nature of the project. This is your first project. Which of the following estimation techniques is the most likely method that Mark could use to ensure improvement in estimation?

Options:

A.

Three-point estimation

B.

Analogous estimation

C.

Hands-down estimation

D.

Top-down estimation

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Questions 60

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are using market risk, value at risk (VaR), historical simulation (HS), and extreme value theory (EVT) so as to analyze a portfolio and make forecasts of the likely losses that would be incurred for a variety of risks. Which of the following processes are you using to accomplish the task?

Options:

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Questions 61

Of the following, which best describes the elements in the work breakdown structure (WBS)?

Options:

A.

The elements are the description of the required work.

B.

They are deliverables.

C.

They analyze the risk.

D.

Elements are part of a weak matrix.

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Questions 62

In which of the following contract types, the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and receives a fixed fee payment which is calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs?

Options:

A.

Communications Management Plan, Execution Process group

B.

Communications Management Plan, Planning Process Group

C.

Project Management Plan, Planning Process Group

D.

Project Management Plan, Initiating Process Group

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Questions 63

You are in a project to create a Website. Your project team has met a few times and you're working with them to develop the project's WBS. Jan, a marketing expert, is in disagreement with Larry over how the Website should function. Gary and Gina are in disagreement over who'll take the lead on the design of the software for the Website. Mark, Mary, and Martha are all bickering about the photo management approach for the Website's pictures. What stage of team development is your project team currently in?

Options:

A.

Forming

B.

Storming

C.

Norming

D.

Performing

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Questions 64

In which of the following processes are the results of executing the quality activities recorded and monitored in order to assess performance and recommend necessary changes?

Options:

A.

Perform Quality Control

B.

Plan Quality

C.

Control Cost

D.

Perform Quality Assurance

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Questions 65

The figure given below demonstrates the communication model for a project. What role does the component D play in the communication model?

Options:

A.

Transporter

B.

Sender

C.

Medium

D.

Encoder

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Questions 66

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

_______emphasizes on bringing out the best in a team to make sure that self development, positive communication, leadership skills, and the skill to work together as a team to resolve problems are built within the team.

Options:

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Questions 67

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to calculate the probability of loss due to cost overrun. Which of the following terms describes the above metric?

Options:

A.

Residual risk

B.

Cost risk

C.

VAR

D.

Secondary risk

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Questions 68

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Which of the following stages of the process group, if not performed well by you, is unlikely that the project will be successful in meeting the business needs?

Options:

A.

Executing

B.

Planning and design

C.

Initiation

D.

Monitoring and controlling

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Questions 69

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to finalize all activities across all of the process groups to formally finish the project. Which of the following processes will help you to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Perform Quality Control

B.

Report Performance

C.

Close Project or Phase

D.

Close Procurements

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Questions 70

You are the project manager for your organization. Your project is doing fine on time and cost, but management wants to address the project performance for future accomplishment. Management has asked you to begin reporting and forecasting your project's health based on a moving average, extrapolation, trend estimation, and growth curve. What type of forecasting method is management asking you to use?

Options:

A.

Estimate at completion method

B.

Time series methods

C.

Causal/econometric methods

D.

Judgmental methods

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Questions 71

Which of the following are inputs of the Develop project team process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Project management plan

B.

Team performance assessment

C.

Project staff assignment

D.

Resource calendar

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Questions 72

Which of the following quality costs determines, assesses, or audits products or services to assure conformance to quality standards and performance requirements?

Options:

A.

Internal failure cost

B.

Prevention cost

C.

Appraisal cost

D.

External failure cost

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Questions 73

Which of the following processes is described in the statement below?

"It addresses the risks by their priorities, schedules the project management plan as required, and inserts resources and activities into the budget."

Options:

A.

Create the project risk register

B.

Create a risk governance approach

C.

Plan risk response

D.

Monitor and control project risks

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Questions 74

Which of the following techniques is used for estimating a variety of project parameters and measures of scale?

Options:

A.

Parametric estimating

B.

Analogous estimating

C.

Bottom-up estimating

D.

Activity duration estimating

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Questions 75

Mark works as a project manager for the SLQ Project. He is working with the project team and several key stakeholders to create a diagram that shows how various elements of a system interrelate and the mechanism of causation within the system. What diagramming technique will Mark use to achieve the above task?

Options:

A.

Predecessor and successor diagramming

B.

System or process flow chart

C.

Influence diagram

D.

Cause and effect diagram

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Questions 76

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on a project that has a budget of $805,000 and you have completed 45 percent of the project work. Due to some errors, however, you have actually spent $430,000 of the budget. Management wants to know the project's cost performance index. Which of the following values will you report?

Options:

A.

0.87

B.

0.80

C.

0.86

D.

0.84

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Questions 77

Your project uses a piece of equipment that if the temperature of the machine goes above 450 degree Fahrenheit the machine will overheat and have to be shut down for 48 hours. Should this machine overheat even once it will delay the project's end date. You work with your project to create a response that should the temperature of the machine reach 430, the machine will be paused for at least an hour to cool it down. The temperature of 430 is called what?

Options:

A.

Risk identification

B.

Risk response

C.

Risk event

D.

Risk trigger

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Questions 78

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on a project where there is a limited amount of detailed information about the project or program. Which of the following estimation techniques will you use to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Three-point

B.

Analogous

C.

Bottom-up

D.

Parametric

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Questions 79

Which of the following documents refers specifically to the input output mechanism that serves the purpose of providing a narrative description of the sum of the scope of the project?

Options:

A.

Project scope statement

B.

Project WBS

C.

Project WBS dictionary

D.

Project charter

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Questions 80

Nancy is the project manager of the JJJ Project. This project has recently been approved by the project customer as complete so Nancy must now finalize the administrative closure. Nancy needs to create the final project report to report the successes and failures in the project. Who should Nancy deliver this final project report to if she is participating in a projectized structure?

Options:

A.

Functional Management

B.

Project customer

C.

Project sponsor

D.

Whomever the communications management plan directs her to

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Questions 81

Which of the following conflict resolution techniques can bring the problem into the open and have the third person present?

Options:

A.

Compromise

B.

Collaboration

C.

Avoidance

D.

Accommodation

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Questions 82

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

A ______ is performed to identify successes and failures that warrant recognition in the preparation or administration of other procurement contracts on the project, or on other projects within the performing organization.

Options:

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Questions 83

You are the program manager for the HGQ Program in your organization. Your program has eight constituent projects including a small project which you've assigned to Beth a new project manager in your organization. Part of your assignment is to coach Beth on project management in your program. You are telling Beth about the five process groups of project management and how they map to the progression of the project. Which process group would you tell Beth is where she'll likely spend the bulk of the project time and the project budget?

Options:

A.

Executing

B.

Planning

C.

Monitoring and Controlling

D.

Procurement

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Questions 84

You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your company. You have completed qualitative and quantitative analysis of your identified project risks and you would now like to find an approach to increase project opportunities and to reduce threats within the project. What project management process would best help you?

Options:

A.

Monitor and control project risks

B.

Create a risk governance approach

C.

Create the project risk register

D.

Plan risk responses

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Questions 85

Don has hired Jerry, a contractor, to complete a portion of his project work. The contract used was a cost-plus contract. If Don was to perform a risk audit, who would carry the risk in this scenario?

Options:

A.

Jerry would because he is the hired contractor.

B.

Don would because he is the project manager.

C.

Don would because of the contract type.

D.

Jerry would because of the contract type.

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Questions 86

Which of the following is built by aggregating the costs of the individual work elements and then joining them at time intervals where meaningful actual cost information will be available?

Options:

A.

Cost baseline

B.

Cost estimation

C.

Cost controlling

D.

Cost budgeting

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Questions 87

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to figure out the cumulative costs needed to bring poor quality service or products up to the mark as defined by project management. Which of the following Plan Quality techniques will help you to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Cost of Quality

B.

Benchmarking

C.

Brainstorming

D.

Cost benefit analysis

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Questions 88

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______is the measure of chance that, due to unfavorable events, the planned or budgeted cost of events can be exceeded

Options:

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Questions 89

Which of the following process groups starts after the planning phase of a project is over?

Options:

A.

Monitoring and Controlling

B.

Initiation

C.

Testing

D.

Execution

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Questions 90

You are the project manager of a computer upgrade project. You and the vendor are in dispute over the deliverables the vendor was to provide and configure. What document can best describe how you and the vendor are to proceed if there is a claim against the vendor?

Options:

A.

Procurement management plan

B.

Enterprise environmental factors

C.

Contract

D.

Project cost management plan

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Questions 91

You are the project manager of the GHY Project for your functional organization. Another project manager that uses some of your project resources has asked that you allow the resources you both share to always be available for her project on every Thursday. The only conflict you have with this request that on Thursday mornings you have a regularly scheduled status meeting. You agree to the request and decide to move the status meeting to Tuesday morning going forward in your project.

What project plan must you update to reflect this change?

Options:

A.

Human Resources Management Plan

B.

Scope Management Plan

C.

Communications Management Plan

D.

Staffing Management Plan

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Questions 92

Which of the following is built by aggregating the costs of the individual work elements and then joining them at time intervals where meaningful actual cost information will be available?

Options:

A.

Cost baseline

B.

Cost estimation

C.

Cost controlling

D.

Cost budgeting

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Questions 93

Which of the following is a method of planning and managing projects that puts more emphasis on the resources required to execute project tasks?

Options:

A.

Critical Path Method (CPM)

B.

Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)

C.

Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)

D.

Linear scheduling method (LSM)

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Questions 94

Alan works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He is working on the office renovation project. The office has 200 doors. All doors have to be glassed and painted. Before each door can be painted, the glasses must be fitted in them at least 12 hours before. Alan has arranged these tasks with a finish to start relationship between glassing and painting. What else should Alan do to account for the twelve hours of maintenance time?

Options:

A.

Alan must schedule all 200 office doors to be glassed first and then schedule all 200 doors to be painted to ensure time for the maintenance.

B.

Alan must add twelve hours of lag time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

C.

Alan must add twelve hours of lead time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

D.

Alan must add an intermediary task with duration of twelve hours.

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Questions 95

Which of the following statements describes the critical path?

Options:

A.

It is the shortest path in the project network diagram.

B.

It cannot be crashed.

C.

It is always one path with the longest duration.

D.

It shows the project's earliest date for completion.

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Questions 96

Which of the following is the delay between tasks that have a dependency?

Options:

A.

Fixed time

B.

Lead time

C.

Mean time

D.

Lag time

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Questions 97

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Which of the following processes will you use to aggregate the probable costs of individual activities or work packages to set up an authorized cost baseline?

Options:

A.

Estimate costs

B.

Control costs

C.

Determine Budget

D.

Plan quality

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Questions 98

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You and your project team are identifying the project activities within the project. Which of the following are the tools and techniques that will be useful in defining the project activities?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Templates

B.

Decomposition

C.

Rolling wave plan

D.

Precedence diagramming method

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Questions 99

Which of the following techniques is used to acquire the required services from outside sources when the organization lacks the internal staff required to finish a project?

Options:

A.

Acquisition

B.

Virtual team

C.

Pre-assignment

D.

Negotiation

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Questions 100

Thomas is a key stakeholder in your project. Thomas has requested several changes to the project scope for the project you are managing. Upon review of the proposed changes, you have discovered that these new requirements are laden with risks and you recommend to the change control board that the changes be excluded from the project scope. The change control board agrees with you. What component of the change control system communicates the approval or denial of a proposed change request?

Options:

A.

Change log

B.

Scope change control system

C.

Integrated change control

D.

Configuration management system

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Questions 101

You are a Project Manager in your organization who is managing a considerably huge budget project to develop new software. Considering the varied nature of your stakeholder group, you would like to put together a plan as to what information the stakeholders need, and how to provide that information. What is the document that you would need, and as part of which process group would you achieve this?

Options:

A.

Project Management Plan, Planning Process Group

B.

Project Management Plan, Initiating Process Group

C.

Communications Management Plan, Execution Process group

D.

Communications Management Plan, Planning Process Group

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Questions 102

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______describes the utilization of formal econometric techniques to evaluate the aggregate risk in a financial portfolio

Options:

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Questions 103

A company is hiring project manager for its new project. Which of the following skills of a professional should it weigh most?

Options:

A.

Communication

B.

Influential

C.

Motivational

D.

Negotiating

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Questions 104

Which of the following is a key input to the processes within the project?

Options:

A.

Closing

B.

Code of Accounts

C.

Claim

D.

Contract

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Questions 105

Which of the following diagrams is described in the statement below?

"It allows comparison of the workload with detailed resource availabilities. It also enables roll-up of both resource assignments and availability data to a higher level."

Options:

A.

Roles and responsibility matrix

B.

RBS

C.

WBS

D.

RACI chart

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Questions 106

Which of the following tools of the Conduct procurements process is used to assign numerical weights to evaluate criteria and then multiply them by the weights of each criteria factor to come up with total scores for each vendor?

Options:

A.

Expert judgment

B.

Weighting system

C.

Bidder conference

D.

Procurement negotiation

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Questions 107

Marsha is the project manager of the NHQ Project. There's a risk that her project team has identified, which could cause the project to be late by more than a month. Marsha does not want this risk event to happen so she devises extra project activities to ensure that the risk event will not happen. The extra steps, however, will cost the project an additional $10,000. What type of risk response is this approach?

Options:

A.

Transference

B.

Mitigation

C.

Enhancing

D.

Exploiting

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Questions 108

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to achieve authorization for a project and define its objectives. In which of the following stages of a project are you working?

Options:

A.

Planning

B.

Closing

C.

Initiation

D.

Execution

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Questions 109

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______is the best method to achieve the final equitable settlement for all outstanding issues, claims, and disputes

Options:

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Questions 110

Which of the following documents refers specifically to the input output mechanism that serves the purpose of providing a narrative description of the sum of the scope of the project?

Options:

A.

Project charter

B.

Project scope statement

C.

Project WBS

D.

Project WBS dictionary

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Questions 111

Which of the following techniques is defined in the statement given below?

"It is a technique where a project team is placed in a single location where they can work in a face-to-face environment to enhance their ability to perform as a team."

Options:

A.

Recognition and rewards

B.

Team-building activities

C.

Training

D.

Co-location

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Questions 112

Which of the following are inputs of the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Organizational process assets

B.

Approved change requests

C.

Quality metrics

D.

Project management plan

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Questions 113

You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a software development project that is in progress. A sub-contracting company has been awarded a cost reimbursable contract to do the development work on this project, and the project has been completed. While trying to close this procurement, you discover that still there are some unresolved claims. However, the sub contract company does not accept that these claims are unresolved. Which of the following is the best method for reaching the final equitable settlement?

Options:

A.

Alternative dispute resolution

B.

Direct negotiation

C.

Litigation

D.

Mediation

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Questions 114

Which of the following processes is described in the statement below?

"It is the process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities."

Options:

A.

Sequence Activities

B.

Define Scope

C.

Create WBS

D.

Define Activities

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Questions 115

Which of the following models is used to determine, implement, monitor, control, and maintain Information Security Management System or ISMS?

Options:

A.

RACI model

B.

Continual Service Improvement Model

C.

Service Model

D.

PDCA model

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Questions 116

What is the smallest element in a WBS called?

Options:

A.

Deliverable

B.

Work package

C.

Resource

D.

Assignment

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Questions 117

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are in the project kickoff meeting. Which of the following documents are reviewed during the project kickoff meeting?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Project budget

B.

Project charter

C.

Project scope

D.

Project WBS

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Questions 118

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are determining the scope of a project. Which of the following stages should be completed while determining the scope of the project?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Identifying the project participants

B.

Comparing actual project performance against the project management plan

C.

Determining the information requirements for each participant

D.

Determining goals and objectives of the project

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Questions 119

Which of the following statements describes the critical path?

Options:

A.

It is the shortest path in the project network diagram.

B.

It cannot be crashed.

C.

It is always one path with the longest duration.

D.

It shows the project's earliest date for completion.

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Exam Code: GCPM
Exam Name: GIAC Certified Project Manager Certification Practice Test
Last Update: Sep 15, 2025
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