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PMP Mock Exam (LI TE) - 20

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Below are the individual test questions, along with the correct response and reason.

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indicates an in-correct response.

1. The customer requests a change to the project that would increase the project risk. Which of the
following should you do rst?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Analyze the impacts of the change with the Your rst step is to assess the impact of the change with the team.
team Then you can determine possible options, after which you can meet
with management. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 96]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response: BLANK

Incorrect response: Talk to the customer about the impact of the change
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: Change the risk management plan

Incorrect response: Include the expected monetary value of the risk in the new cost estimate

2. Which of the following is not an effective inuencing technique?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Withdrawing from conicts Withdrawing from a conict may temporarily alleviate the conict, but
it cannot inuence the team members. The other choices are effective
team inuencing techniques. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 515]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Using exible interpersonal style

Incorrect response: Leading by example

Incorrect response: Clarifying how decisions will be made

3. The project manager of a long-term project to develop a new medical device waits until the later
phase deliverables are more clearly dened before adding those details to the WBS. This is an
example of:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Rolling wave planning Decomposition may not be possible for a deliverable or subproject that
will be accomplished far into the future. The project management team
usually waits until the deliverable or subproject is claried before
adding those details to the WBS. This technique is referred to as rolling
wave planning. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 152]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Poor planning

Incorrect response: Balanced planning

Incorrect response: Deferred planning


4. You are just starting on a project as project manager. The project sponsor asks you for weekly
status updates by email and monthly project status meetings to review the progress of the project.
These requirements are documented in the:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Communications management plan As part of communication planning, stakeholder communication


requirements are gathered and documented in the communications
management plan. This forms part of the project management plan.
[PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 296]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Communications Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Scope statement

Incorrect response: Project charter

Incorrect response: Organizational plan

5. During the execution of a project, the project manager discovers that the project's stakeholder
register is no longer accurate. What should the project manager do?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Review the stakeholder register and carry out The Identify Stakeholders process is an iterative process. During any
the Identify Stakeholders process. stage of the project, if the stakeholder register is found to be out of
date, it must be updated. The stakeholder register is not a part of any of
the project's baselines. Updating the stakeholder register does not
require issuing a change request. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 394]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Initiating

Your response:

Incorrect response: The project is in execution, the stakeholder register cannot be updated at this stage.

Incorrect response: A change request should be issued.

Incorrect response: The project is in execution, the Identify Stakeholders process cannot be carried out at this stage.

6. The Stakeholder Committee has been given a report that shows zero schedule variance.
However, the rst milestone in the project was missed, which will cause a delay in the project.
Which of the following was not reported correctly?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON


Critical path status The critical path is the sequence of schedule activities that determines
the duration of the project. A project can have zero or positive
schedule variance and yet still risk missing its deadline for completion.
For example, this could happen if some of the future non-critical tasks
have been completed ahead of schedule, but some of the tasks on the
critical path have been delayed. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Pages 176, 218]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Time Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Resource management plan

Incorrect response: Risk analysis

Incorrect response: Communications plan variance

7. For many procurement items, the procuring organization can either prepare its own cost
estimates or have a cost estimate prepared by an outside professional estimator. This estimate
serves as a:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Benchmark estimate This serves as a benchmark estimate. Signicant differences in


estimates can be an indication that either the procurement statement
of work was decient or the prospective sellers misunderstood or failed
to respond fully to the procurement statement of work. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 376]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Procurement Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: True estimate

Incorrect response: Expected-cost estimate

Incorrect response: Accurate estimate

8. Which of the following is not a Project Time Management process?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Source Activities The Project Time Management processes include Plan Schedule
Management, Dene Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity
Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule, and Control
Schedule. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 141]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Time Management


Process Group: Planning
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Your response:

Incorrect response: Estimate Activity Resources

Incorrect response: Dene Activities

Incorrect response: Sequence Activities

9. Clear criteria for rewards and a planned system for their use promotes and reinforces desired
behaviors in the project. Creating a plan with established times for rewards ensures that
recognition takes place and is not forgotten. This is usually part of the:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Stang Management Plan The plan for rewards and recognition is part of the Stang
Management plan. The recognition and rewards are developed as part
of the Develop Human Resources Plan process. [PMBOK 5th Edition,
Page 266]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Project Dashboard

Incorrect response: Company HR plan

Incorrect response: Communications Management Plan

10. Lucy has to brief her key project stakeholders on the recent approved changes to the project
scope. Which of the following project documents will provide essential inputs to Lucy for
preparing her presentation?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Change log The change control procedure and the issue management procedure
are organizational process assets. They do not document the details of
the recently approved project changes. Lucy can nd all the essential
inputs for her presentation in the project change log. [PMBOK 5th
edition, Page 407]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Closing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Change request form

Incorrect response: Change control procedures


CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: Issue management procedures

11. Analysis of project spending against project budget and calculation of the percentage complete
of tasks currently underway are examples of:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Performance reviews Performance reviews compare performance over time and funds
needed to complete the work in progress. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page
222]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Closing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Control Chart

Incorrect response: PERT analysis

Incorrect response: Expert judgment

12. _______________ is the authorized budget for the work scheduled to be completed on an
activity or WBS component up to a given point in time. The projected cost of all painting from a
January 3 start to a February 15 milestone is an example of this.

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Planned Value Planned Value is the budgeted cost of the work scheduled to be
completed on an activity or WBS component up to a given point in
time. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 218]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Earned Value

Incorrect response: Midpoint cost

Incorrect response: Interim cost

13. Which document denes how the project is to be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Project management plan The project management plan denes how the project is executed,
monitored, controlled, and closed. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 76]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Project scope

Incorrect response: Project charter

Incorrect response: Project management information system

14. You have found that you do not yet have an accurate estimate of the number and skill levels of
resources needed for the scheduled activity Build Racks for Data Center. You need this estimate for
presentation to your Human Resource department later in the week. You have decided to
decompose the Build Racks for Data Center activity into smaller components such as: Take
equipment out of box, review equipment for completeness, build frame, and install rails. Then you
plan to estimate the resources for each smaller component and combine those estimates into an
aggregate. This is an example of:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Bottom Up Estimating Breaking down the scheduled activity into smaller components and
then combining the estimates for each smaller activity is an example of
bottom-up estimating. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 164]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Time Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Aggregate Estimating

Incorrect response: Alternative Analysis

Incorrect response: Rolling Wave Estimating

15. Lucy is managing a complex design-and-build project. Stakeholder involvement and inuence
have been signicant since the inception of the project. Under such circumstances, the Control
Stakeholder Engagement process should be:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON


A continuous process Controlling stakeholder engagement is the responsibility of the project
manager. Project stakeholder engagement, especially in complex
projects, should be continuously controlled. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page
410]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Performed by a person external to the project

Incorrect response: A discrete process repeated at monthly intervals

Incorrect response: Performed by the project sponsor

16. Santa Rosa Valley Farms has a project to install new packing equipment in one of its California
farms. One month into the project, Santa Rosa Valley Farms conducts a review to determine how
well the installer selected for this project is meeting goals for scope, quality, cost, and schedule.
This is an example of ___________.

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

A procurement performance review A procurement performance review is a structured review of the seller's
progress in delivering project scope and quality within cost and on
schedule as compared to the contract. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 383]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Procurement Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Capacity planning

Incorrect response: A project review meeting

Incorrect response: Expert judgment

17. An asphalt company is demanding a code change to a software module your team is
implementing to generate Safety Data Sheets for them. The change will add only one week to the
critical path. As the project manager, what is your next step?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Issue a change request You need to issue a change request rst. Once the change request is
approved, the required action can be taken. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page
96]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Your response:

Incorrect response: Compress the schedule to make up the week lost

Incorrect response: Modify the scope of the project

Incorrect response: Advise the client of the change

18. Which of the following best describes an input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement
process?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Change log The change log is an input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement
process. The other choices are the tools and techniques of this
process. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 404]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Communication method

Incorrect response: Management skills

Incorrect response: Interpersonal skills

19. Lessons learned documentation focuses on identifying project successes and project failures
and includes recommendations to improve future performance on projects. Lessons learned are
compiled, formalized and stored:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Through the duration of the project The correct response is that lessons learned are compiled, formalized
and stored throughout the project's duration. Lessons learned are part
of the organizational process assets, which the project team members
may update throughout the project. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 27]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Framework


Process Group: Closing

Your response:

Incorrect response: At the end of the project

Incorrect response: At the start of the project.

Incorrect response: At the midway and at the end of the project.


20. You are a Project Manager for a computer security project and have gathered your team to
begin identifying risks for your current project. All of the following are methods that you can use to
gather information for this purpose except:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Risk Register The risk register is not an information gathering technique used for
identifying risks. It is a repository for information gathered during risk
identication. The other choices are valid information gathering
techniques. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 324]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Brainstorming

Incorrect response: Interviewing

Incorrect response: Delphi technique

21. Which one of the following tools and techniques is NOT part of the Develop Project Team
process?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Conict management Conict management is a tool and technique used in Human Resource
Management. However, it is associated with the Manage Project Team
process, not with the Develop Project Team process. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Pages 273, 279]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Co-location

Incorrect response: Recognition and Rewards

Incorrect response: Ground rules

22. Joanne is attempting to quantify possible outcomes for her project and the probability of
achieving specic project objectives. Which of the following techniques could she use?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON


Monte Carlo simulation Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis analyzes the effect of risk events and
assigns a numerical rating to those risks. It also presents a quantitative
approach to making decisions in the presence of uncertainty. This
process uses techniques such as Monte Carlo simulation and decision
tree analysis. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 340]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Quantication tabling

Incorrect response: Delphi technique

Incorrect response: Control Room method

23. The total cost incurred by investment in preventing nonconformance to requirements,


appraising the product or service for conformance to requirements and reworking failures to meet
requirements is called:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Cost of Quality (COQ) The total cost incurred by investment in preventing nonconformance
to requirements, appraising the product or service for conformance to
requirements and reworking failures to meet requirements is called
Cost of Quality (CoQ). Cost of Poor Quality refers to failure costs,
which may be categorized as internal or external. [PMBOK 5th Edition,
Page 229]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Quality Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Cost of Conformance (CoC)

Incorrect response: Embedded costs

Incorrect response: Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ)

24. You are the Project Manager for Fast Cars Inc. To dene product requirements in the Collect
Requirements process, you and your team members are using facilitated workshops. Which other
process also uses this technique?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Dene Scope Facilitated workshops are also used in the Dene Scope process as a
means of bringing key cross-functional stakeholders together. [PMBOK
5th Edition, Page 123]
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Develop Scope

Incorrect response: Develop Project Charter

Incorrect response: Create WBS

25. During the process of establishing the sequence of activities, the project management team
determines which dependencies are discretionary. These are fully documented since they can
create arbitrary oat values and can later limit scheduling options. Discretionary dependencies are
also referred to as:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Preferential logic Discretionary dependencies are sometimes referred to as preferred


logic, preferential logic or soft logic. They are typically based either on
knowledge of best practices within a specic application area or on
some unusual aspect of the project where a specic sequence is
required even though there are other acceptable sequences. [PMBOK
5th Edition, Page 158]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Time Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Hard logic

Incorrect response: Linked logic

Incorrect response: Referential logic

26. The manager of a project to deploy a new ERP system is working to determine what
information the stakeholders want, what format it should take, and how often they should be given
updates. This is called______________.

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Plan Communications Management Identifying the informational needs of the stakeholders and
determining a suitable means of meeting those needs are important
factors for project success. The Plan Communications Process
determines the information and communications needs of the
stakeholders, such as who needs what information, when they will
need it, how it will be supplied to them, and by whom. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 289]
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Communications Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Report Project Status

Incorrect response: Manage Stakeholder Engagement

Incorrect response: Control Communications

27. A project manager is using some information gathering techniques to identify risk. Which of
these is not an information gathering technique used in identifying risk?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Simulation Simulation is not a valid information gathering technique. The other


choices are valid information gathering techniques. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 324]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Interviewing

Incorrect response: Brainstorming

Incorrect response: Root cause analysis

28. A small project team has been assembled to develop a new retail store concept. The project
manager wants to document the project's organization and position descriptions. Which of the
following formats cannot be used in this case?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Various formats exist to document the roles and responsibilities of
team members. The three most common types of formats are
hierarchical, matrix, and text-oriented. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 261]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Matrix based chart

Incorrect response: Hierarchical chart


CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: Text oriented format

29. Variance thresholds for monitoring cost performance are typically expressed as
_______________ from the baseline plan.

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Percentage deviation Variance thresholds for monitoring cost performance are usually
expressed as percentage deviations from the baseline plan. [PMBOK
5th Edition, Page 199]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Positive deviation

Incorrect response: Average deviation

Incorrect response: Negative deviation

30. A project manager gives monthly status updates to the key stakeholders. After every status
update meeting, a copy of the presentation, the updated action tracker and the stakeholder
feedback must be:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Added to the project folder as an All of the choices are actions that can be performed next. However,
organizational process asset emailing the mentioned documents to the stakeholders and the project
sponsor depends on their needs and the communication management
plan requirements. Further, updating the project management
information system is conditional on the availability of the system.
Hence, these three actions may or may not be done. However, adding a
copy of these documents to the project folder is an absolute must for
the project manager. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 415]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Updated to the project management information system

Incorrect response: Emailed out to all of the participants of the meeting

Incorrect response: Emailed to the project sponsor


31. The State Board of Education is reviewing RFPs for deployment of its new HR system. An
outside consultant has been hired to provide an independent estimate of the same work. This will
be used as a_____________.

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Benchmark estimate For many procurement items, the procuring organization can either
prepare its own independent estimates or have an independent
estimate prepared as a check on proposed pricing. This independent
estimate is used as a benchmark estimate. Signicant differences from
these cost estimates can indicate that the procurement statement of
work (SOW) was not adequate or that the prospective seller either
misunderstood or failed to respond fully to the SOW. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 376]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Procurement Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Procurement verication

Incorrect response: Real estimate

Incorrect response: Internal audit

32. What strategy should a project manager follow during the early stage of a conict between two
of his team members?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Allow the team members to resolve their During the early stages of a conict between team members, it is best
conict to allow them to resolve it themselves. The team members are initially
responsible for their conict resolution. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 283]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Use a formal procedure to resolve the conict

Incorrect response: Address the two team-members in a team meeting and warn them.

Incorrect response: Use disciplinary action to resolve the conict

33. You are aware that cost and schedule risks are prevalent in your project. You want to compare
the planned project performance with its actual performance. What should you perform to provide
this information?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON


Variance and trend analysis Variance and trend analysis, a tool and technique of the Monitor and
Control Risks process, is used to evaluate the differentials between
planned and actual costs, schedules, and performance criteria. Several
statistical techniques, such as Earned Value (EV) technique, are used to
analyze these variances. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 222]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Reserve analysis

Incorrect response: Risk audit

Incorrect response: Risk reassessment

34. A software team tracing the root cause of an application failure can use this to help determine
the cause(s) of the failure:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Ishikawa diagram Cause-and-effect diagrams, also called Ishikawa diagrams, illustrate


how various factors might be linked to potential problems or effects.
[PMBOK 5th edition, Page 236]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Quality Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Rummler-Brache swimlane diagram

Incorrect response: Threading analysis

Incorrect response: Deming chart

35. Which of these is an example of a facilitated workshop technique to determine critical


characteristics for new product development?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a facilitated workshop technique
to determine critical characteristics for new products. It begins with
collecting customer needs, also known as Voice of the Customer
(VOC). [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 114]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: Total Quality Management (TQM)

Incorrect response: Pareto Analysis

Incorrect response: Internal Quality Deployment (IQD)

36. You are working on a mainframe upgrade, but the charter is constantly changing. Who has the
responsibility to determine if these changes are necessary?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Sponsor The project initiator or sponsor is responsible for authorizing and


issuing the charter and is responsible for determining if changes are
needed and the nature of subsequent updates. [PMBOK 5th edition,
Page 68]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Initiating

Your response:

Incorrect response: Project Manager

Incorrect response: Project Team

Incorrect response: Project Coordinator

37. You are a project manager who is in charge of a technical documentation project. The project
is 30% complete after 2 months and has cost $53,000. The budget for the project is $90,000 and is
scheduled to last 6 months.How is the project performing?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

The project is behind schedule and over CPI = EV/AC. CPI = (90,000*30%)/53,000 = 27,000/53,000 = 0.51 (i.e.,
budget. over budget). SPI = EV/PV. SPI = 27,000/(90,000*0.33) =
27,000/29,970 = 0.9 (i.e., behind schedule). [PMBOK 5th edition, Page
219]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: The project is ahead of schedule and over budget.

Incorrect response: The project is ahead of schedule and under budget

Incorrect response: The project is behind schedule and under budget.


38. A project manager found that unnecessary management time was being spent in a project. In
addition, the resources were being used ineffectively and there was decreased eciency in
performing the work. The likely problem is that:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Decomposition of the deliverables into smaller It is most likely that excessive decomposition was done. This typically
more manageable components has been done leads to non-productive management effort, inecient use of
excessively. resources, and decreased eciency in performing the work. The
project team needs to seek a balance between too little and too much
in the level of WBS planning detail. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 131]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: The team is likely to be an inexperienced one with the result that the project is running ineciently.

Incorrect response: The team is not working in a cohesive manner and requires some team-building activities to help
improve eciencies.

Incorrect response: The project is a tough one and hence the processes are inecient.

39. When your project rst started, you had 8 stakeholders. There have been changes made to the
project, and now there are 14 stakeholders. How many communication channels have been added
to the project?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

63 Communication channel formula is n*(n-1)/2, where n = number of


people involved on the project. With 8 team members, you had 28
channels. Now with 14 team members, you have 91 channels. Hence,
63 channels have been added. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 292]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Communications Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: 15

Incorrect response: 91

Incorrect response: 28

40. You are the project manager for a software engineering rm that creates customer tracking
software for call centers. You are scheduling an instructor lead training session for your team to
learn the newest features available for use in your development platform. Which statement best
describes the tool or technique you are implementing?
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Improving the skill set of your existing team Improving the skill set of your existing team members is usually
members accomplished through training, which is a tool in the Develop Project
Team process. If project team members are weak in specic skills,
those skills may be developed through formal or informal training.
[PMBOK 5th edition, Page 275]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Executing the stang management plan

Incorrect response: Identifying the skills required to complete product testing

Incorrect response: Conducting a team building activity

41. You are a member of a project team, and the project manager frequently uses e-mail to provide
you with details about how he feels your work on the project is progressing. What form of
communication does this best describe?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Informal written E-mail messages are normally considered informal written


communication. E-mail is a written form of communication. Another
example of informal written communication is memorandums.
[PMBOK 5th edition, Page 287]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Communications Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Formal verbal

Incorrect response: Informal verbal

Incorrect response: Formal written

42. You are the project manager for Gleeson Associates. You are working with Mary, a junior
project manager on a project. You are currently discussing performance measurement analysis
with her. You explain to her the different variables involved. You tell her that all of the following
statements about the cost variance are true except:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON


It is always a positive value. The cost variance can be a negative value, zero, or a positive value,
depending on the earned value and actual costs. A negative cost
variance indicates that the actual cost of the work was more than the
earned value of the amount of work completed. [PMBOK 5th edition,
Page 218]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: It is calculated by the following formula: Cost Variance = Earned Value - Actual Cost.

Incorrect response: It is used to determine whether or not the project is meeting the planned costs

Incorrect response: Its tendency is to decrease as the project is nearing the end.

43. You are a project manager who is in charge of an important project for your company. A
number of changes and corrective actions have been recommended. The company uses a change
control board to make decisions on its existing projects. Which of the following tools and
techniques is used to determine which change requests should be approved?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Expert judgment Expert judgment involves the stakeholders on a change control board
using past project experience to help them make decisions about
whether to approve or reject requested changes. [PMBOK 5th edition,
Page 98]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Inspection

Incorrect response: Project management information system

Incorrect response: Earned value technique

44. Which of the following is not a common name for one of the various types of procurement
documents?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Bidder conference Bidder conference is a tool and technique. The other choices are valid
procurement documents. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 368]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Procurement Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: Request for quotation

Incorrect response: Invitation for bid

Incorrect response: Tender notice

45. Which of the following is not a trust building action?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Value your personal interests Valuing personal interests is not of much help in building trust. The
other choices are valid trust building actions. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page
518]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Being receptive to innovation

Incorrect response: Engage in open and direct communications

Incorrect response: Keeping all stakeholders informed

46. Control charts exhibit all of the following characteristics except:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

It has specication limits set at plus/minus 3s. The control limits for a control chart are set at plus/minus 3 sigma.
However, the specication limits are based on the customer
requirements. [PMBOK 5th edition, 238]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Quality Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: The collected data shows whether the process is stable and predictable

Incorrect response: It is a specialized type of chart that plots a process variable over time

Incorrect response: It has control limits set at plus/minus 3s.

47. A project audit team discovered that a project did not have a risk register. Which risk
management process creates the risk register?
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Identify Risks The risk register is an output of the Identify Risks process. It contains a
list of identied risks and initial responses to those risks. [PMBOK 5th
edition, Page 319]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Perform Risk Assessment

Incorrect response: Plan Risk Responses

Incorrect response: Plan Risk Management

48. The Direct and Manage Project Work process requires implementation of approved changes
covering all of the following except:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Acceptance criteria Direct and Manage Project Work is the process of performing the work
dened in the project management plan to achieve the project's
objectives. This includes corrective action, preventive action and defect
repair. However, acceptance criteria are not part of this list. The
project's deliverables are evaluated against the acceptance criteria,
which do not usually change in the Direct and Manage Project Work
process. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 79]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Defect Repair

Incorrect response: Corrective Action

Incorrect response: Preventive action

49. For projects that have a product as a deliverable, product analysis can be highly effective.
Which of these tools is not a product analysis technique?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Systems breakdown Systems breakdown is an invalid technique and is not used for product
analysis. Valid techniques are product breakdown, systems analysis,
requirements analysis, systems engineering, value engineering, and
value analysis. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 122]
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Systems analysis

Incorrect response: Systems engineering

Incorrect response: Requirements analysis

50. Identify the incorrect statement about risk among the following:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Risk always has an adverse effect on the Risk need not always have an adverse effect on the project. It is an
project uncertain condition that has an effect on one of the project objectives.
This effect can be positive. For example, if limited design personnel are
available and they nish the designs ahead of schedule, this is a positive
risk that may result in potential cost savings. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page
310]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Unknown risks cannot be managed proactively.

Incorrect response: Risk is an uncertain event or condition

Incorrect response: Project risk is always in the future.

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