Realistic PMP Exam 1

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Q1-) Which of the following is NOT true for a project?
A-) Projects are constrained by limited resources
B-) Projects are planned, executed, and controlled
C-) Projects create a unique product or service
D-) Projects are ongoing and repetitive
Q2-) Which of the following documents include code of account identifier, description of work,
responsible organization, and list of schedule milestones?
A-) PERT/CPM Charts
B-) WBS
C-) WBS Dictionary
D-) Roles and Responsibilities Matrix
Q3-) All the following statements relating to the project management team and the project team are
correct EXCEPT:
A-) The project team is responsible for activities like planning, executing, and closing.
B-) The project management team can be called as the core, executive, or leadership team.
C-) The project management team is also a part of the project team.
D-) In a small project, the project management responsibilities can be shared by team members
instead of a project manager.
Q4-) You are a project manager trying to decide whether to buy or make a testing tool for your
project.
If you want to buy, the cost of the tool is $ 60,000, and the proceeding the procurement,
additional cost of integration of the tool in your company is $ 1,000. If you build it yourself, the
tool will be developed by eight engineers working for two months. The salary of each software
engineer is $ 4,000 per month. If you build it yourself, the other related various costs will be $
2,000.
Which option will you prefer?
A-) Buying the testing tool
B-) Building the testing tool
C-) Neither build nor buy testing tool
D-) Need more information on costs to take a further decision
Q5-) When referring to inputs for Develop Schedule process, responsibility (i.e., who will perform
the work), activity type (i.e., summary or detailed), and WBS classification are belonging to:
A-) Risks
B-) Account identifier
C-) Activity attributes
D-) Activity estimations
Q6-) In the context of a desirable model of communication between a sender and a receiver, all the
following statements are correct EXCEPT:
A-) Noise should be at minimum level.
B-) Receiver must reply the message after decoding the message.
C-) Receiver should acknowledge first and then agree with the message sent by the sender.
D-) Receiver should send a feedback message to the sender.
Q7-) You are the project manager of a hydroelectric power plant construction project. The
government has regulations that you suffice that the neighborhood is not adversely impacted
by your project plant. For your project, this regulation is considered as a/an:
A-) Assumption
B-) Ethical Practice
C-) Activity
D-) Constraint
Q8-) In estimating schedule activity costs, for example determining the unit cost rates, all the
following could be used EXCEPT:
A-) Gathering quotes
B-) Statistical relationship between historical data and other variables
C-) Standard rates with escalation factors (for contracts)
D-) Commercial databases or seller published price lists
Q9-) When you are performing the Monitor and Control Risks process for your project, you are
always on the alert for indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. These
indications can also be called as:
A-) Risk triggers
B-) Warning signs
C-) Risk symptoms
D-) All of the above
Q10-) Stakeholders, subject matter experts, consultants and professional and technical associations
are example of:
A-) Expert judgment
B-) Organizational process assets
C-) Enterprise environmental factors
D-) Risk monitoring and control
Q11-) You are the project manager of a specific type of hand cream manufacturing project. In
context of project, you need to do a statistical sampling, because of the problems of surveying
the entire population EXCEPT:
A-) Very expensive
B-) Provides inaccurate data
C-) Takes longer time
D-) Needs more resources
Q12-) All big projects go through Initiation, Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, and Closure
in your organization. Thus, a project life cycle:
A-) Defines the product life cycle
B-) Defines the project phases
C-) Contains more than one product life cycle
D-) Has deliverables that must be completed before the start date of next phase
Q13-) John is a project manager of a complicated project. When he started creating a work
breakdown structure for his project, he realized that it is too complex to complete work
breakdown structure on a single sheet. You, as a colleague of John, recommend using a work
breakdown structure numbering system to John to:
A-) Determine the complexity of the project
B-) Help in automating the WBS using appropriate software
C-) Provide a hierarchical structure for each WBS element
D-) Present risks of the project
Q14-) As a project manager, you watch your team every minute because your team is consisting of
incapable people avoiding responsibility and work. You believe in:
A-) Theory Y (McGregor Model)
B-) Theory X (McGregor Model)
C-) Herzbergs Theory
D-) Referent Power
Q15-) The most commonly used contract type is:
A-) Time and Material Contracts
B-) Cost plus fixed fee contracts
C-) Fixed price incentive fee contracts
D-) Firm fixed price contracts
Q16-) You are the project manager of the project which has the following diagram.
All units in diagram are in weeks. Your management asks whether the project can be completed
in 12 weeks. What is the project float?
A-) -4
B-) 1
C-) 0
D-) Information provided is not sufficient to calculate float.
Q17-) In order to document and monitor the resolution of issues, you are using and issue log as a
project manager. Issue log helps to:
A-) Escalate activities to project team
B-) Determine risks in the project
C-) Monitor who is responsible for resolving specific issues by a target date
D-) Determine schedule of the project
Q18-) Your colleague Lisa, a junior project manager, is about to complete her project. Her customer
requests an additional item to be delivered in the project. What would you recommend to Lisa?
A-) Deliver the additional requested item, because you will satisfy the customer
B-) Deliver the additional requested item, because customer might not accept the final product
C-) Explain the customer that requested additional item does not have a business sense
D-) Process the requirement through the integrated change control process
Q19-) You are trying to establish a cost performance baseline for your project in Determine Budget
Process. You can use the following tool and techniques EXCEPT:
A-) Cost aggregation
B-) Bottom-up estimating
C-) Expert judgment
D-) Historical relationships
Q20-) Ishikawa or fishbone diagrams are useful for identifying causes of risks. These diagrams are
also known as:
A-) Cause and effect diagrams
B-) System or process flow charts
C-) Simulation diagrams
D-) Influence diagrams
Q21-) You are currently in execution phase of your project. You will be doing all of the following
EXCEPT:
A-) Expending most of the project budget
B-) Implementing planned methods and standards with the team
C-) Reviewing all prior information from the previous phase closures.
D-) Managing risks and implementing risk response activities with the team
Q22-) Who is responsible for delivering the required levels of both quality and grade?
A-) All sponsors
B-) Project Sponsor
C-) Project Team
D-) Project Manager and Project Management Team
Q23-) Your project manager colleague David shared following information about his projects
stakeholders. On which statement David is NOT correct?
A-) My project has several stakeholders from varying levels of responsibility and authority.
B-) Operation manager Linda is always negative in meetings thus I will ignore her in order to
complete the project successfully.
C-) Key stakeholders of my project are operations management, project manager, project
team, customers and sponsor
D-) Business Managers requirements conflict with Operations Managers requirements and it
is difficult to manage these stakeholders expectations
Q24-) Which of the following techniques includes measuring, examining and validating whether
work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?
A-) Workshops
B-) Surveys
C-) Expert Judgment
D-) Inspection
Q25-) Two engineers of your project team disagree on the best method to implement software
developed on customer site. You ask these engineers to write down advantages and
disadvantages of their proposals and submit their recommendations. Which conflict resolution
technique have you used?
A-) Force/Direct
B-) Compromise/Reconcile
C-) Collaborate/Problem Solve
D-) Smooth/Accommodate
Q26-) Your Company is trying to buy an issue tracking system by sub-contracting. Based on your cost
estimations, issue tracking system should be $ 150.000. In order to get proposals from sellers,
you asked for bids and minimum price quoted for the software was $250.000. Reason of this
estimation variance might be all of the following EXCEPT:
A-) There have not been major changes in the cost of software development labor since last
year
B-) The procurement statement of work was ambiguous.
C-) The prospective sellers misunderstood the procurement statement of work.
D-) The procurement statement of work was not covering all information about requirements.
Q27-) You are managing a project which is behind schedule. Which of the following is best action in
this circumstance?
A-) Postpone the delivery dates of deliverables and report this to customer.
B-) Decrease scope to meet schedule
C-) Fast track or crash the project, and report the impact of this action to management
D-) Plan overtime for resources to meet deadline.
Q28-) In order to provide required information to project stakeholders on time, you have completed
Manage Communications process. Which of the following is NOT an output of Manage
Communications process:
A-) Feedback from stakeholders
B-) Stakeholder notifications
C-) Lessons learned documentation
D-) Change requests
Q29-) A colleague from your team has sent you a report that you must present in a bidder
conference. You receive the report just 1 hour ago from conference, and realize that there are
critical errors have deformed into the report. Best option is to:
A-) Cancel the meeting and organize a meeting later
B-) Proceed to meeting and tell the participants that report has some errors
C-) Proceed to meeting but let your colleague to present erroneous part
D-) Escalate the issue to your manager and ask your manager to cancel the meeting
Q30-) You are creating a performance measurement baseline (PMB) for your project. In this context,
all the following statements related to performance measurement baseline (PMB) are correct
EXCEPT:
A-) PMB is authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
B-) Sometimes PMB is referred as Total of Earned Value
C-) Spending plan can be used as a cost baseline to measure payments
D-) At a given moment, PMB provides the physical work that should have been accomplished
Q31-) You are a project manager in a bicycle manufacturing company. Rubber for brake mechanism
for your bicycles supplied by RuBrake Inc could not reach due to flood affected the
transportation routes. This was a risk you thought it could happen since it happens each year
on same season. So, as per your risk response plan, you started to use rubbers delivered one
year ago. However, this response brought another risk old rubbers have higher breaking risk
during implementation to the brake system. This new risk can also be called:
A-) Secondary risk
B-) Residual risk
C-) Contingency plan
D-) Unmanageble risks
Q32-) In your project, you are in the process of leading and performing the work defined in the
project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the projects
objectives. This is done during:
A-) Develop Project Management Plan
B-) Monitor and Control Project Work
C-) Direct and Manage Project Work
D-) Perform Integrated Change Control
Q33-) You are project manager in a factory manufacturing spare parts for automobiles. Project team
has discovered some defective parts and reasons for these defects can be used material type,
manufacturing machine, weakness of measurement system or other factors. Which option is
appropriate to find what caused the defect:
A-) Checksheet
B-) Flowchart
C-) Fishbone diagram
D-) Histogram
Q34-) You have been managing a subway line construction project with 5 stops. You have divided
the project into 5 phases, 1 stop for each phase, to ensure better management control. Which
of the following is a characteristic of a project phase?
A-) A project phase should not be divided into sub-phases even in complex projects, because it
will be difficult to manage.
B-) All deliverables in the project phase should correspond to the project management process.
C-) Formal phase completion necessarily includes authorization for the subsequent phase.
D-) A project phase a distinct focus that differs from any other phase.
Q35-) A plastic waste recycling project has been accomplished and helped the company in reducing
costs. This cost saving has been succeeded by adding a new step in recycling steps as a change
request during project. This new step is implemented as a/an:
A-) Value adding change
B-) Gold plating for satisfying customer
C-) Risk response
D-) Contingency or workaround plan
Q36-) All of the following are hygiene factors according to Herzbergs Theory EXCEPT:
A-) Salary
B-) Professional Growth
C-) Security
D-) Relationships at work
Q37-) You are managing a project which has a tight deadline and your deliverables should be ready
within 3 months. Procurement process will take time thus you decide to sign a contract with a
supplier your company has worked with before. You accept the following risk:
A-) Possibility of scope creep
B-) Capability of supplier in delivering the required material
C-) Collusion between supplier and your company
D-) Not having a legal contract
Q38-) You have performed the Develop Schedule process to determine schedules for your project
activities. Which of the following will you have as the output of this process?
A-) Schedule baseline, project schedule and project calenders
B-) Schedule management plan, schedule data and activity list
C-) Resource calendars, risk register and activity attributes
D-) Activity duration estimates, project scope statement and activity resource requirements
Q39-) You are expected to manage stakeholders expectations as a project manager. All of the
following are interpersonal skills that you should apply EXCEPT:
A-) Building trust
B-) Resolving conflict
C-) Risk taking
D-) Active listening
Q40-) In your project, in order to get approval of the state management, you have to pay a fee. You
should:
A-) Reject to pay the fee, because it is bribe and unethical
B-) Share this information with your management and convince them to pay the fee
C-) Instead of paying fee, tell the state officers that you can give gifts
D-) Pay the fee to proceed with the work.
Q41-) There has been several changes in your project and this affected your cost and schedule
estimates. This has invalidated the original estimating assumptions. What is the estimate at
completion (EAC) for your project based on following parameters?
BAC = $ 360,000
AC = $ 120,000
EV = $ 180,000
CPI = 1.2
ETC = $ 145,000
A-) $ 300.000
B-) $ 265.000
C-) $ 325.000
D-) $ 360.000
Q42-) In your project, you have been sub-contracting your software development work with fixed
price contracts to three different consultancy firms. In this context, all the following statements
relating to transferring of risk to a contractor are true EXCEPT:
A-) Risk transference often involves a risk premium
B-) Fixed price contract always transfers the risk to the seller.
C-) Contracts may be used for the transference of liability for specified risks to another party.
D-) Cost-plus contracts may transfer the cost risks to the buyer.
Q43-) Project integration management includes the processes and activities needed to identify,
define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management
activities. For successful project integration management, you definitely need(select the best
answer):
A-) A good communication management plan
B-) A good schedule management plan
C-) Positive stakeholders
D-) A projectized organizational stricter in your company
Q44-) The customer is not satisfied with the delivered product`s quality in a project. These failure
costs which can be found by customer are also called as.
A-) Quality cost
B-) Cost of conformance
C-) Change cost
D-) Cost of poor quality
Q45-) Portfolio managers are responsible of managing:
A-) Dependency of different projects
B-) Operational projects only
C-) Projects, programs and operations
D-) Functional work and projects
Q46-) As a project manager, you are trying to manage to deliver last deliverables of your project to
customer. Customer comes with a request which will result in major scope change. You should:
A-) Tell customer that this change is impossible at this time
B-) Deliver the required change
C-) Evaluate the impact of change and then share with customer
D-) Escalate issue to the senior management since customer will not accept the product
Q47-) In your project, you are in the plan human resource management process. All of the following
affect this process as part of enterprise environmental factors EXCEPT:
A-) Lessons learned documentation
B-) Organizational culture and structure
C-) Geographical dispersion of team members
D-) Marketplace conditions
Q48-) Your Company has entered into a joint venture with Service Company to develop a software
program. Which of the following should be cooperatively prepared by both the buyer and the
seller during teaming agreement process?
A-) Contract
B-) Contract, Procurement statement of work
C-) Request for proposal
D-) Human Resource Plan
Q49-) In your project, you are trying to identify and document relationships among the project
activities. This is done as part of which process?
A-) Define Activities
B-) Develop Schedule
C-) Estimate Activity Resources
D-) Sequence Activities
Q50-) During communication requirements analysis of your project you are trying to determine the
total number of communication channels in your project. Which of the following is correct
about number of communication channels?
A-) Directly proportional with the number of stakeholders
B-) Cannot be figured as a mathematical expression
C-) Inversely proportional with the number of stakeholders
D-) Exponentially proportional with the number of stakeholders.
Q51-) In your project, you used power/interest grid classification model in your stakeholder
analysis. Amanda is Operations Director in your customer and has a high level of authority but
shows low interest in your project as a stakeholder. So Amanda should be:
A-) Monitored
B-) Keep Informed
C-) Keep satisfied
D-) Managed Closely
Q52-) There are three projects that are possible to be executed in your company:
Project : Payback period= 6 years & NPV = $ 3,000,000
Project B: Payback period=4 years & NPV = $ 2,000,000
Project C: Payback period=2 years & NPV = $ 1,000,000
Based on Net Present Value (NPV) criterion, which project should be selected?
A-) Project A
B-) Project B
C-) Project C
D-) None of them, they all have equal value
Q53-) You are in the Identify Risks process in your project and trying to determine which risks may
affect the project and document characteristics of these risks. Who should be part of this
process?
A-) Project Manager and Relevant managers from customer
B-) Project Manager, project team members, subject matter experts and customer
C-) Project Manager and senior team members
D-) All relevant stakeholders
Q54-) A new feature that customer has requested during project execution has resulted in increased
cost and risk. Besides, this change also requires two more resources to be included in the team.
Which of the following you should rely on to manage changes that will happen during project?
A-) Change Control Board
B-) Perform Integrated Change Control
C-) Change Requests
D-) Changes on Project Plans
Q55-) When hiring a project manager which is the most important skill that should be looked for?
A-) Detail oriented
B-) Negotiation
C-) Communication
D-) Persuasiveness
Q56-) All of the following are Project Management Knowledge Area EXCEPT:
A-) Project Change Management
B-) Project Stakeholder Management
C-) Project Communications Management
D-) Project Human Resource Management
Q57-) You are trying to gather ideas related to project and product requirements. Which technique
is appropriate for this?
A-) Brainstorming
B-) Nominal Group Technique
C-) Affinity Diagram
D-) Multicriteria Decision Analysis
Q58-) You have implemented team development efforts such as training and team building activities
in order to meet your project objectives. You want to assess the project teams effectiveness.
All off the following are teams effectiveness indicators EXCEPT:
A-) Improvement in skills of team members
B-) Delivery of project deliverables before time
C-) Improvement in competencies of team members
D-) Reduced staff turnover rate
Q59-) All of the following are true for Fixed-price contracts EXCEPT:
A-) Total price is defined in the beginning for a defined product/service
B-) Change requests might be delivered with an increase in contract price
C-) Value of the contract can grow during project execution
D-) Buyers need to specify their product/service requirements precisely
Q60-) You are creating project schedule for your web site development project. Your first milestone
is Delivery of Screen Visual Designs. What should be the duration for this milestone?
A-) Total time spent for development of all screens visual designs
B-) Time spent for development of last screens visual design
C-) Milestone duration should be asked to developers who designed screens
D-) Zero
Q61-) Your colleague Wayne, a project manager, completed a mp3 player development project.
While he was telling his experiences from his project, he mentioned that they delivered
adjustable screen timeout duration feature, without a deviation from the plan, although the
customer did not require and was not in scope of the project. He added that customer was very
surprised and happy when they saw this additional feature at the end of the project. Which of
the following is correct about this story?
A-) Gold plating was done in the project
B-) Customer satisfaction increased with an additional feature which they did not expect
C-) Change request has been delivered successfully
D-) Unnecessary risk has been taken by adding a new feature to product.
Q62-) You are in a business trip abroad to meet with a potential vendor. During meetings, the
vendor paid your lunches and also planned a city tour in the weekend as it is usual in their
country. You must:
A-) Accept the lunch payments but refuse the city tour politely since it is unethical
B-) Refuse both lunch payments and city tour, because accepting them could be understood as
a personal gain
C-) Accept the payments and city tour as it is a local custom and promptly inform your manager
D-) Refuse both lunch payments and city tour, and warn customer that this attitude might
blacklist their company in your company.
Q63-) Your Company uses payback period as project selection criteria. Payback period is the:
A-) Number of years a company spends to make predefined profit
B-) Period of time required to regain the funds expended in an investment
C-) Duration of the project
D-) Total value of the project in terms of todays value
Q64-) You have documented all possible risks that can affect your project with appropriate risk
responses when they occur in your risk management plan. All other remaining risks are called
as:
A-) Risk Triggers
B-) Unmanageable Risks
C-) Residual Risks
D-) Accepted Risks
Q65-) Your Company is looking for hiring a new project manager. Which of the following is the most
important for project manager candidates?
A-) Expertise in sector
B-) Active listener
C-) Sales skills
D-) Integration skills
Q66-) All of the following are process improvement models EXCEPT:
A-) Malcolm Balridge
B-) Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)
C-) Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI)
D-) Herzberg Theory
Q67-) Your are working as a project manager in a company. You have the highest degree of
authority, you are working full-time for your project and you manage the budget of the project.
What is the organization structure in your company?
A-) Strong Matrix
B-) Projectized
C-) Functional
D-) Balanced Matrix
Q68-) You are a project manager in an telephone company. During a new product development
project, you use quality function deployment (QFD) technique to determine characteristics of
new product. As first step of QFD, you start by collecting customer needs, which is also called
as:
A-) Quality Function Startup
B-) Voice of the customer
C-) Joint-Venture Development
D-) Project initiation
Q69-) In your project, you establish clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project
team members. You believe that early commitment to clear guidelines will decrease
misunderstanding and increase productivity. These expectations and guidelines are also known
as:
A-) Ground rules
B-) Code of conduct
C-) Communication rules
D-) Team base rules
Q70-) You are in the process of determining whether to buy or make a software tool for your
project. Which of the following documents will guide you to handle make-or-buy decisions?
A-) Risk management plan
B-) Procurement document
C-) Procurement management plan
D-) Request for Proposal
Q71-) All of the following are constraints in Estimate Activity Durations process EXCEPT:
A-) Available skilled resources
B-) Contract terms
C-) Contract requirements
D-) Availability of information
Q72-) You are the project manager of a software project team consisting of 2 analysts, 4 software
developers and 3 test engineers. One new test engineer will join the team in two weeks. What
will be the number of communication channels after new test engineer joins the team?
A-) 55
B-) 50
C-) 45
D-) 36
Q73-) You place all of your most active project team members in the same meeting room to enhance
their ability to perform as a team. This is called as:
A-) Ground Rule
B-) Dream Team
C-) Virtual Team
D-) Colocation
Q74-) Your colleague Lara is a project manager of a software development project. While you were
talking to her, she said that her projects CPI is 0.82 and SPI is 1.21. What could have happened
in Laras project?
A-) Most experienced software developer resigned, which had not been anticipated earlier.
B-) Cost of software developers increased due to annual salary increase
C-) Project was behind schedule; Lara increased the team members to decrease the durations
D-) Project was ahead schedule; Lara released some team members to decrease budget
Q75-) You are carefully performing risk management for your project. But, there are still some risks
that may happen in the future. You can handle these risks if you:
A-) Plan Risk Responses
B-) Control Risks
C-) Identify Risks
D-) Plan Risk Management
Q76-) All of the following are part of Direct and Manage Project Work activities EXCEPT:
A-) Change control meetings
B-) Manage sellers and suppliers
C-) Manage stakeholders and their engagement
D-) Create project deliverables
Q77-) You have completed a car manufacturing project. Car is being tested for security quality
metrics. For which processes are quality metrics used?
A-) Perform Quality Assurance and Plan Quality
B-) Plan Quality and Control Quality
C-) Perform Quality Assurance and Control Quality
D-) Control Quality, Plan Quality and Perform Quality Assurance
Q78-) You are a project manager in PerfectPro company, which has a balanced matrix organizational
structure. In this context, all of the following are true, EXCEPT:
A-) You have a low to moderate level of authority
B-) You work full-time in a project
C-) Project resources availability is low to moderate
D-) You manage the project budget by yourself
Q79-) In your project, you decided to use expert judgment in on a specific topic. Expert judgment
can be provided from all of the following EXCEPT:
A-) Competitors
B-) Other units within the organization
C-) Industry groups
D-) Subject Matter Experts
Q80-) All of the following are tools and techniques that can be used in Identify Stakeholders process
EXCEPT:
A-) Expert Judgment
B-) Stakeholder Register
C-) Meetings
D-) Stakeholder Analysis
Q81-) All of the following are tools and techniques that can be used in Control Procurements process
EXCEPT:
A-) Claims administration
B-) Performance reporting
C-) Procurement audits
D-) Inspections and audits
Q82-) All the following statements regarding the creation of duration estimates are correct EXCEPT:
A-) Mathematical analyses like CPM, GERT, and PERT indicate the dates on which the activity
can be scheduled, given resource limits and other constraints.
B-) Duration compression techniques, including fast tracking and crashing, can help in
decreasing the project schedule
C-) The duration of the project is the sum of the duration of all the tasks in the project.
D-) WBS classification allows for useful activity ordering and sorting.
Q83-) Work performance reports are the physical or electronic representation of work performance
information compiled in project documents, intended to generate decisions, actions or
awareness. All of the following can be used as work performance reports EXCEPT:
A-) Control charts
B-) Status reports
C-) Memos
D-) Justifications
Q84-) The seller`s project is undertaken on contract and you are an employee of the seller. Since you
earlier worked with XYZ Factory, the buyer, you happen to be aware of the evaluation criteria
used in XYZ Factory to select sellers. You understand that this could be a potential conflict of
interest situation. How do you propose to act?
A-) Do nothing and continue to work as before
B-) Take appropriate person in XYZ Factory into confidence and discuss this issue with her
C-) Disclose the evaluation criteria to your (seller) organization and help their business growth
D-) Remove yourself from the project
Q85-) In your project, cost variance is -$25.000, and Earned Value is $75.000. What is your cost
performance index (CPI)?
A-) 1.5
B-) 1.33
C-) 0.25
D-) 0.75
Q86-) In your project, you have just conducted a risk data quality assessment to evaluate the degree
to which the data about risks is useful for risk management. What is your next step?
A-) Perform a structured review of project plans and assumptions, both at the total project and
detailed scope levels.
B-) Develop checklists to identify risks based on historical information and knowledge that has
been accumulated from previous similar projects.
C-) Conduct planning meetings to develop the risk management plan.
D-) Conduct interviews to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project activities.
Q87-) You have completed kick-off meeting of your project and team members meets each other
and learn about the project. Based on Tuckman ladder model, your team is in stage:
A-) Forming
B-) Storming
C-) Norming
D-) Meeting
Q88-) In your project, you want to use parent-to-child relationships in any decomposition hierarchy
that uses a systematic set of rules that define a nesting relationship. Which technique is
appropriate for your purpose?
A-) Interrelationship digraphs
B-) Affinity Diagrams
C-) Tree diagrams
D-) Matrix diagrams
Q89-) You are a project manager of a software development project. Your customer mentioned in
the contract that the development should be done with a specific programming language and
specific version of components. This is an example of:
A-) Constraint
B-) Risk
C-) Assumption
D-) Change request
Q90-) In order to define features of new cell phone that will be developed in a project your company
has compared his current cell phones features with the competitors products features. Then
the company identified best practices of current cell phone and ideas for improvement. Your
company used following method to make this decision:
A-) Prototypes
B-) Benchmarking
C-) Questionnaires and surveys
D-) Requirement documentation
Q91-) In your project, you are confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team
necessary to complete project activities. All of the following will be useful inputs to you EXCEPT:
A-) Human Resource Management Plan
B-) Enterprise environmental factors
C-) Organizational process assets
D-) Activity resource requirements
Q92-) Your Company will subcontract one of its software projects to a vendor. Project is critical for
your company and requirements are very demanding. Thus, you have determined the technical
criteria to evaluate the vendors. This is an example of:
A-) Project statement of work
B-) Source selection criteria
C-) Constraint
D-) Risk
Q93-) Following table shows tasks and their interdependencies in a project.
Task
Preceding Activity
Estimate in Weeks
Start
Start
Start
Start
End
End
What is the slack of task D?

A-) 13
B-) 5
C-) 0
D-) 4
Q94-) There are seven stakeholders in your project and one more team member will be joining in
two weeks. After new team member joins, the number of communication channels will
increase by:
A-) 7
B-) 9
C-) 11
D-) 13
Q95-) Your company has recently signed a contract with government to reconstruct houses
damaged by a flood. In this context, the governments role will impact your:
A-) Stakeholder management plan
B-) Project charter
C-) Communication management plan
D-) Project scope statement
Q96-) Your sponsor has asked you to use payback period as a selection criterion to select amongst 5
competing projects. All of the following statements related to payback period are correct
EXCEPT:
A-) Payback period is the number of years required to get back the initial investment in the
project.
B-) Payback period is a project selection criterion widely used in conjunction with NPV and IRR
to determine the most suitable project.
C-) The initial investment in the project will not impact the selection criteria when payback
period is used for project selection.
D-) Payback period takes the discount rate into account to determine the best possible option.
Q97-) In your project, you performed the quantitative risk analysis and the risk calculations show
that there is a risk of going over budget and behind schedule to levels which are above the
threshold limits determined for the project. Which of the following you should do to bring the
risk of overrunning stated project objectives to a level acceptable to your company?
A-) Crash the project
B-) Fast track the project
C-) Consider using contingency reserves
D-)Do additional risk response planning
Q98-) During project planning phase, which of the following steps come latest compared to others?
A-) Hold kick-off meeting
B-) Gain formal approval of the plan
C-) Develop Budget
D-) Develop Schedule
Q99-) You took a project of a resigning project manager in your company. After talking with the
team, you noticed that some features have been added to the deliverables although the
customer did not require, for satisfying customer. In this context:
A-) You are happy, because customer will be satisfied
B-) You are concerned, because the project team is gold-plating
C-) You are worried, because this will bring extra cost to project
D-) You are worried, because this will cause delays in project
Q100-) You monitor and measure project performance regularly to determine variances from the
plan. All of the following processes are belonging to monitoring and controlling process group
EXCEPT:
A-) Validate Scope
B-) Control Risks
C-) Control Quality
D-) Perform Quality Assurance
Q101-) You have the approved version of scope baseline for your project in your project
management plan. All of the following exist in scope baseline EXCEPT:
A-) Statement of work
B-) Scope statement
C-) WBS
D-) WBS Dictionary
Q102-) You are in plan human resource management process of your project. Your project is
including around 800 team members. You would like to use common themes that can shorten
the amount of time, cost and effort needed to create the plan human resource management
plan and improve planning efficiency. In this context, you will need a consultancy in the field of:
A-) Theory Y
B-) Organizational theory
C-) Motivation theory
D-) Human resource management theory
Q103-) You are managing a project with Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contract (CPFF). Following is the data of
of your project:
Cost of Employee Salaries: $200.000
Cost of Leasing Machines: $50.000
Cost of Other Items: $50.000
Fixed-Fee Ratio: 20%
What should be the final price of the contract?

A-) $160.000
B-) $240.000
C-) $300.000
D-) $360.000
Q104-) All of the following are elements of Project Management Plan which might be updated as
output of Control Schedule Process EXCEPT:
A-) Schedule Baseline
B-) Schedule Management Plan
C-) Risk Register
D-) Cost Baseline
Q105-) You are in the Identify Stakeholders Process of your project. All of the following are part
Enterprise Environmental Factors that can influence Identify Stakeholders Process EXCEPT:
A-) Stakeholder register templates
B-) Organizational culture and structure
C-) Governmental or industry standards
D-) Global, regional or local trends, and practices or habits.
Q106-) In your project, you will share confidential data of your company with the vendor. Which of
the following should you do?
A-) Sign non-disclosure agreement with vendor before you share the information
B-) Sign non-disclosure agreement with vendor after you share the information
C-) Threaten the vendor that if shared information is shared, contract will be canceled
D-) Take verbal promise from vendor on not to share the confidential information
Q107-) In your project, you are estimating the cost of project activities. You ask a team member the
durations for an activity and he provides the following:
Most Likely Duration: 7 days
Optimistic Duration: 5 days
Pessimistic Duration: 15 days
Using PERT analysis technique, what will be the duration of this activity?
A-) 7 days
B-) 8 days
C-) 9 days
D-) 12 days
Q108-) As the project manager in a construction company, you are aggregating the estimated costs
of project activities to establish an authorized cost baseline. This is done as part of:
A-) Control Costs
B-) Estimate Costs
C-) Determine Budget
D-) Estimate Activity Resources
Q109-) What is the best time for assigning a project manager to a project?
A-) Right after the contract award
B-) When project activities will be started by team members
C-) After activity estimates have been identified
D-) While project charter is being developed before planning starts.
Q110-) All of the following are true about Precision and Accuracy EXCEPT:
A-) Precision is a measure of exactness
B-) Accuracy is an assessment of correctness
C-) Precise measurements are always accurate, and accurate measurements are always precise
D-) Project management team should determine the appropriate levels of accuracy and
precision
Q111-) Your Company is a vacuum cleaner manufacturer. A new recently produced model of vacuum
cleaner has been sold a lot and current capacity of the manufacturing lines cannot reach the
demand of market. Your company decided to create new manufacturing lines in order to
produce more vacuum cleaners and assigned you as project manager for this project. Who is
the user for this project?
A-) Future users of vacuum cleaners which will be produced from new manufacturing lines
B-) Workers who will use new manufacturing lines
C-) Project Sponsor
D-) Project Team
Q112-) Your project has a very strict deadline and must be completed in 9 months. You have
knowledge about the work that needs to be done but project scope statement is not prepared
yet. Your management insists on you to proceed without having approved project scope
statement since time is passing. What would you do?
A-) Arrange a meeting with management and explain the consequences and problems that
might occur if you start without an approved scope statement
B-) Since time is ticking, start the work from clear parts, and in the meantime try to get
approval on scope statement
C-) Tell your management that you cannot work under these conditions.
D-) Write down this issue as a risk item
Q113-) You are in the acquire project team process in your project. Project management team may
need to negotiate staff assignments with all of the following EXCEPT:
A-) Functional Managers
B-) Project Sponsor
C-) Other project management teams in the organization
D-) External organizations, vendors, suppliers, contractors, etc.
Q114-) Your customer cannot explain the precise statement of work that needs to be done but
needs staff increase to deliver works on time. In this context, which of the following is the best
contract type?
A-) Cost Plus Incentive Fee Contract
B-) Cost-reimbursable Contract
C-) Fixed-Price Contract
D-) Time and Material Contract
Q115-) Activity list is a comprehensive list that includes all schedule activities required on the
project. Activity list is input to all of the following processes EXCEPT:
A-) Sequence Activities
B-) Estimate Activity Resources
C-) Develop Schedule
D-) Define Activities
Q116-) Stakeholder engagement throughout the life cycle of the project is critical to project success.
Your project is changing development techniques in your customer. As a result of this,
importance of a software developer who is expert on existing technology will decrease in the
organization after project completion. Because of this, he is always resisting on project and
changes on every platform. Engagement level of this developer is:
A-) Unaware
B-) Neutral
C-) Resistant
D-) Leading
Q117-) During meetings with customer, you have agreed that functional testing of your projects will
be executed by customers test engineers. In your project scope statement, you explicitly define
that functional testing is out of scope for this project. This is an example of:
A-) Constraint
B-) Project exclusion
C-) Assumption
D-) Acceptance Criteria
Q118-) Your Company uses Internal Rate of Return (IRR) as project selection criteria. Following are
possible projects for your organization. In this context, the best project for the company is:
A-) Project Duration: 9 months, IRR = 22%
B-) Project Duration: 5 months, IRR = 17%
C-) Project Duration: 7 months, IRR = 13%
D-) Project Duration:12 months, IRR = 9%
Q119-) In your project, in order to finish an activity of a developer, you add one more developer to
same activity. This is an example of:
A-) Risk Exploitation
B-) Risk Sharing
C-) Risk Enhancing
D-) Risk Accepting
Q120-) The Executing Process Group consists of those processes performed to complete the work
defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications. All of the following
are belonging to Executing Process Group EXCEPT:
A-) Perform Quality Assurance
B-) Acquire Project Team
C-) Conduct Requirements
D-) Validate Scope
Q121-) Your company is using ISO 9000 standards for quality. All of the following about quality is
correct EXECPT:
A-) Process analysis follows the steps outlined in the process improvement plan
B-) Objective of quality audit is to compare project deliverables against the product
requirements as defined in the WBS.
C-) Control quality is the process of monitoring and recording results of executing the quality
activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes.
D-) Quality management plan describes how the organization`s quality policies will be
implemented.
Q122-) You are managing a software project and you have reached the end of analysis phase. Next
phase of your project is software development phase. Which of the following should you do
FIRST?
A-) End of Analysis should be declared as kill point to formally end analysis phase.
B-) Start the software development phase.
C-) Define the scope that needs to be delivered in next phase
D-) Review analysis and check whether there is any additional work which was not in initial
scope
Q123-) Project deliverables are formally accepted during Validate Scope process. Which of the
following is an input for Validate Scope process?
A-) Accepted Deliverables
B-) Change Requests
C-) Verified deliverables
D-) Scope management plan
Q124-) In your project, you are in the process of confirming human resource availability and
obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities. All of the following are outputs of
this process EXCEPT:
A-) Project staff assignments
B-) Resource calenders
C-) Project Management Plan Updates
D-) Project Organization Charts
Q125-) Staffing Management Plan is component of Human Resource Management Plan and
describes how human resource requirements will be met. All of the following might be included
in Staffig Management Plan EXCEPT:
A-) Project organization charts
B-) Staff acquisition
C-) Resource calenders
D-) Training Needs
Q126-) In your project, identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce
the project deliverables is done as part of:
A-) Plan Schedule Management
B-) Define Activities
C-) Sequence Activities
D-) Develop Schedule
Q127-) In your project, during stakeholder analysis, you plan to group stakeholder based on their
level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes. Which
classification model is appropriate for your purpose?
A-) Salience model
B-) Influence/impact grid
C-) Power/interest grid
D-) Power/influence grid
Q128-) Your Company asks you to manage a project of its subsidiary unit in another country. You
quickly realize that workers in the subsidiary unit have poor work ethics as compared with that
of your parent company. In this context, which of the following will be the most appropriate
course of action?
A-) Ask your new team to emulate the work ethics of the teams of your parent concern
B-) Take steps to change the work culture of your new team.
C-) Regard your new team as lazy and impose sanctions.
D-) Treat it as cultural differences, and try to determine ways to improve productivity.
Q129-) Following four tasks are in the critical path of your project. All tasks are estimated to require
10 days of effort each and $10.000 cost per task.
At the end of day 25, Task A and B are complete; Task C is 20% complete, and $21.000 has
already been spent.

Notation Used:
What is the status of the project?

A-) Behind schedule, under budget
B-) Ahead of schedule, under budget
C-) Ahead of schedule, over budget
D-) Behind schedule, over budget
Q130-) In your project, you identified the fire risk at storage, which may cause you to lose some of
the materials needed for your project. During meetings, project team decided to acknowledge
the risk and sponsor recommended creation of a contingency reserve ( with %7 of the project
budget) which could be used in case of fire at storage. Which of the following strategies has
been used for this risk?
A-) Risk mitigation
B-) Risk acceptance
C-) Risk avoidance
D-) Risk transfer
Q131-) Your project involves development of avionic systems for a helicopter. For successful project
implementation, coordination of activities with other operational groups which are developing
other parts of helicopter and also dividing your project into several phases to ensure better
management control is crucial. For this purpose, you should (select the BEST answer):
A-) Create a very comprehensive project charter.
B-) Develop specific deliverables, which are approved by the sponsor.
C-) Break the project into several sub-projects.
D-) Use life cycle approach to manage the project.
Q132-) Quality is an important concept to determine project success in your company. In this
context, all the following are examples of cost of conformance that might be in your project
EXCEPT:
A-) Training
B-) Testing
C-) Inspections
D-) Rework
Q133-) As a project manager, you know that identifying stakeholders that could impact your project
is critical. In this context, which of the following is true?
A-) Stakeholder identification occurs during the Planning of the project
B-) Stakeholder identification occurs during the Execution of the project
C-) Stakeholder identification occurs during the Initiation of the project
D-) Stakeholder identification might occur during different project stages
Q134-) In your project, the process of developing a detailed description of the project and product is
referred to as:
A-) Define Scope
B-) Validate Scope
C-) Control Scope
D-) Collect Requirements
Q135-) You are trying to figure out the ways you can motivate your team members in a construction
project. HR manager of the company tells you that employees are motivated by economic
security, togetherness and group membership. Which of the following theory is referred by HR
manager?
A-) Theory Y
B-) Maslows Theory
C-) Herzbergs Theory
D-) Hygiene Factors
Q136-) During Conduct Procurements, all of the following could occur EXCEPT:
A-) The team will receive bids or proposals.
B-) The team will make changes and corrections to contract.
C-) The team will select sellers based on previously defined selection criteria.
D-) The team awards a contract with seller.
Q137-) In the Control Costs process, changes to project costs can result in change requests to:
A-) Cost baseline and/or other components of the project management plan
B-) Components of the project management plan
C-) Cost baseline
D-) Cost forecasts
Q138-) You are the project manager of a $12 million project. You have more than 100 stakeholders
in your project and you decide to classify stakeholders of your project. All of the following are
classification models used for stakeholder analysis EXCEPT:
A-) Power/interest grid
B-) Power/influence grid
C-) Organizational Level Model
D-) Salience Model
Q139-) Your Company has awarded a contract to a vendor. After some time, you realize that the
vendor representative is your old buddy from school. You inform this to your senior
management, but they insist that you continue to administer the contract. So, to avoid any
accusations of bias in this conflict of interest situation, you should:
A-) Refrain from administering the contract.
B-) Resign from the project.
C-) Document all the decisions taken by you on the activities performed by the vendor.
D-) Remind your senior management of conflict of interest.
Q140-) In your project, you use hierarchical representation of resources by category and type. This is
an example of:
A-) Project Chart
B-) Organization Chart
C-) Work Breakdown Structure
D-) Resource Breakdown Structure
Q141-) Project initiation consists of processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of
an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase. All of the following
is performed during initiation EXCEPT:
A-) Create Project Scope Statement
B-) Select Project Manager
C-) Stakeholder Identification
D-) Develop Project Charter
Q142-) Project scope statement includes the description of the project scope. Project scope
statement also includes:
A-) Scope Baseline
B-) Assumptions
C-) WBS
D-) WBS Dictionary
Q143-) All of the following are techniques used for resolving conflict EXCEPT:
A-) Withdraw
B-) Reconcile
C-) Supervising
D-) Collaboration
Q144-) You have recently taken over a project from another project manager who resigned from
your company. You realize that the projects SPI is 0.9 and CPI is 0.8. Senior management is not
aware of the project status. In this context, what should you do FIRST?
A-) Update the management about the status, and report them that project is behind schedule
and over budget.
B-) Tell your management that you cannot continue with this project.
C-) Ask for extra budget to crash the project.
D-) Fast-track the project.
Q145-) You know that making early scope definition is critical since the ability to influence cost is:
A-) Greatest at the middle of the project
B-) Greatest at the early stages of the project
C-) Greatest at the end of the project
D-) Changing due to environmental factors
Q146-) You are managing a software project. A junior software developer, David, in your project
informs you that his first screen development task will take 9 days, and this will exceed the
planned time for this activity which was 5 days. In order to check status of other developers,
you ask for status reports and forecasts. Which process group are you in?
A-) Initiating
B-) Monitoring and Controlling
C-) Executing
D-) Planning
Q147-) In your project, you are trying to determine the cause and degree of difference between the
baseline and actual performance. Which of the following techniques you should use?
A-) Reserve analysis
B-) Trend analysis
C-) Root cause analysis
D-) Variance analysis
Q148-) In your project, during an emergency situation, although the each team member proposed
different solutions, you as a project manager enforced your solution to be applied to overcome
the issue. The conflict resolution technique you used is.
A-) Avoid
B-) Smooth
C-) Collaborate
D-) Forcing
Q149-) You have been working on a project for the last six months. Your management lets you know
that you will receive an incentive of $ 5,000, if you complete the project one month ahead of
schedule. When closing the project ahead of schedule, your team informs you that the product
contains a minor flaw and may not fully satisfy the customer`s needs. However, rectification of
the minor flaw will require a lot of changes and take 2 more months. In this context, you will:
A-) Review the situation with your customer and sponsor
B-) Close out the project
C-) Rectify the flaw and then close out the project
D-) Close the project and then inform the sponsor about the flaw
Q150-) In your project, during estimate activity durations process, you realize that
if you assign a particular screen to only one developer, screen can be developed in 10 days.
If you assign a particular screen to two developers, screen can be developed in 7 days.
If you assign a particular screen to three developers, screen can be developed in 5 days.
This is an example of:

A-) Law of diminishing returns
B-) Parkinson Law
C-) Brooks Law
D-) Expert judgment
Q151-) There are several types of PMO structures in organizations, each varying in the degree of
control and influence they have on projects within the organization. All of the following are
types of PMO structures in organizations EXCEPT:
A-) Supportive
B-) Consulting
C-) Controlling
D-) Directive
Q152-) As a project manager, you are aware that when you are monitoring and controlling your
project, you must prevent scope creep. Scope creep is:
A-) Defects that customer found
B-) Accepted change requests
C-) Uncontrolled expansion to scope
D-) Controlled change requests
Q153-) Using appropriate interpersonal skills allow project managers to capitalize on the strengths
of all team members. All of the following are interpersonal skills that a project manager uses
EXCEPT:
A-) Leadership
B-) Influencing
C-) Socializing
D-) Effective decision making
Q154-) In your project, you are in the process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller and
awarding a contract. You can use all of the following tools and techniques in this process
EXCEPT:
A-) Bidder conference
B-) Expert judgment
C-) Advertising
D-) Make-or-buy analysis
Q155-) The following provides information on a particular task in your project:
Early Start (ES): 15 days
Late Start (LS): 22 days
Early Finish (EF): 43 days
Late Finish (LF): 50 days
In this context, which of the following is TRUE?

A-) The task is on the critical path
B-) The task is not on the critical path
C-) The project float is 5 days.
D-) The project might get behind schedule.
Q156-) You are a project manager and implementing a risk response plan for a risk occurred in your
project. In which Project Risk Management process is this action performed?
A-) Control Risks
B-) Identify Risks
C-) Plan Risk Responses
D-) Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Q157-) The performance measurement baseline (PMB) is an approved plan for the project work to
which the project execution is compared, and deviations are measured for management
control. PMB includes all of the following EXCEPT:
A-) Scope Baseline
B-) Schedule Baseline
C-) Risk Baseline
D-) Cost Baseline
Q158-) In order to assess the quality of your projects product, you plan testing after product
development in your project. You have to spend certain costs for testing. These costs are an
example of:
A-) Cost of Nonconformance
B-) Failure Costs
C-) Prevention Costs
D-) Appraisal Costs
Q159-) Which of the following describes the procurement item in sufficient detail to allow
prospective sellers to determine if they are capable of providing the products, services or
results?
A-) Project Statement of Work
B-) Procurement Statement of Work
C-) Project Scope Statement
D-) Scope Baseline
Q160-) You are managing a software project. Development of module activities cannot start before
design of modules finish in your project. This is an example of:
A-) Discretionary Dependency
B-) External Dependency
C-) Internal Dependency
D-) Mandatory Dependency
Q161-) Plan Risk Management is the process of defining how to conduct risk management activities
for a project. All of the following are done during Plan Risk Management EXCEPT:
A-) Plan Risk Responses
B-) Ensure that the degree, type and visibility of risk management are commensurate with both
the risks and the importance of the project
C-) Establish an agreed-upon basis for evaluating risk
D-) Provide sufficient resources and time for risk management activities
Q162-) Due to potential for change, the development of the project management plan is an iterative
activity and is progressively elaborated throughout the projects life cycle. Project management
plan is updated in all of the following process EXCEPT:
A-) Develop Project Management Plan
B-) Close Project or Phase
C-) Direct and Manage Project Work
D-) Monitor and Control Project Work
Q163-) (1)__________________ is a structured, independent process to determine if project
activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and procedures. And this is
done during (2)________________ process.
A-) (1) Process Analysis, (2) Perform Quality Assurance
B-) (1) Process Analysis, (2) Control Quality
C-) (1) Quality Audit, (2) Perform Quality Assurance
D-) (1) Quality Audit, (2) Control Quality
Q164-) When you are buyer, you should pay attention to all of the following in Control
Procurements process EXCEPT:
A-) Ensure that the sellers performance meets the procurement requirements.
B-) Monitoring payments to the seller.
C-) Reviewing and documenting how well the seller is performing based on contract.
D-) Performing regular procurement audits.
Q165-) You are working on a 8 month assignment to build a pedestrian bridge for $100,000. You
planned to spend $25,000 every 2 months. After 4 months, based on your analysis, you realize
that only $40,000 of the bridge is completed and $80.000 has been spent for this progress.
Based on this information, what is Estimate to Complete (ETC) for this project?
A-) $150.000
B-) $180.000
C-) $200.000
D-) $230,000
Q166-) You are in the Close Project process of your project. Which of the following you should do
LAST?
A-) Final product, service or result transition
B-) Releasing project resources
C-) Organizational process assets updates
D-) Accepting deliverables
Q167-) While preparing the schedule for the project activities of a software project, you decided to
use project parameters of a similar project completed in the past. You are creating statistical
relationships between the number of codes of a screen and its total development duration.
Which of the estimating tools do you use?
A-) Expert judgment
B-) Three-point Estimating
C-) Parametric estimating
D-) Analogous estimating
Q168-) You are working in an automobile factory and on an engine development project. Engines
parts can be manufactured by either upgrading current assembly lines or building a new
assembly line. You calculate opportunities and threats of both ways by taking probability of
occurrence of opportunities and threats into account and finally you want to decide which path
is most valuable. Which of the following is most appropriate for your purpose?
A-) Monte Carlo analysis
B-) Simulation
C-) Tornado Diagram
D-) Decision tree analysis
Q169-) In your project, you are in the process of determining, documenting, and managing
stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives. In which process are you in?
A-) Project Scope Statement
B-) Stakeholder Register
C-) Define Scope
D-) Collect Requirements
Q170-) You believe in giving SMART objectives to your team members as a project manager.
Letters of SMART stands for all of the following EXCEPT:
A-) Specific
B-) Measurable
C-) Achievable
D-) Trusted
Q171-) An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned
with the project management plan is called:
A-) Corrective action
B-) Preventive action
C-) Defect repair
D-) Risk escalation
Q172-) In your project, you compare the performance measurement baseline to actual schedule and
cost performance. This is an example of:
A-) Earned Value Performance
B-) Variance Analysis
C-) Trend Analysis
D-) Critical Path Method
Q173-) All of the following regarding Procurement Negotiations is true EXCEPT:
A-) Negotiations conclude with a contract document that can be executed only by the buyer
B-) Procurement negotiations clarify the structure, requirements and other terms of the
purchases
C-) Final contract language reflects all agreements reached
D-) The project manager may not be the lead negotiator on procurements
Q174-) As a project manager, you are required to produce project performance reports on a regular
basis, your project`s cost variance is $30.000, actual cost is $70.000 and planned value is
$80.000. Based on this information, what is SPI and CPI of your project?
A-) SPI=0.70; CPI=0.8
B-) SPI=0.8; CPI=0.70
C-) SPI=1.43; CPI=1.25
D-) SPI=1.25; CPI=1.43
Q175-) All of the following processes occur in Planning Process Group EXCEPT:
A-) Define Activities
B-) Acquire Project Team
C-) Estimate Costs
D-) Identify Risks
Q176-) You are in the Develop Schedule process of your project. You are evaluating scenarios in
order to predict their effect, positively or negatively, on project objectives. Which of the
techniques do you use?
A-) What-if Scenario Analysis
B-) Simulation
C-) Resource Optimization
D-) Variance Analysis
Q177-) You are a project manager of an automobile manufacturing project. In order to reduce the
risk of exceeding braking limit thresholds, you decided to outsource braking system of your
automobile project to a well-known braking system producer in the industry. This risk response
strategy is an example of:
A-) Avoid
B-) Mitigate
C-) Transfer
D-) Accept
Q178-) The performance data collected from various controlling processes, analyzed in context and
integrated based on relationship across areas. All of the following are examples of performance
information EXCEPT:
A-) Status of deliverables
B-) Implementation status for change requests
C-) Electronic dashboards
D-) Forecasted estimates to complete
Q179-) Your quality process did not meet the requirements of your customer, and based on your
agreement with your customer, you had to collect defect parts and deliver new ones. This is an
example of:
A-) Prevention Costs
B-) Appraisal Costs
C-) Failure costs
D-) Cost of Conformance
Q180-) In which process group scope of the project is established, objectives are refined, and course
of actions required to attain the objectives are defined?
A-) Executing Process Group
B-) Initiating Process Group
C-) Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
D-) Planning Process Group
Q181-) Your project has following data:
Budget at completion (BAC): $500.000
Cost Variance (CV): $30.000
Earned Value (EV): $150.000
Estimate to Complete (ETC): $300.000
What is to-complete performance index (TCPI) based on given data?
A-) 1.167
B-) 0.857
C-) 1
D-) 1.25
Q182-) You are a project manager. You have completed the project. While reviewing the costs, you
observed that most of the project`s budget was utilized for activities performed in processes
relating to one particular process group. This Process Group is:
A-) Planning Process Group
B-) Executing Process Group
C-) Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
D-) Closing Process Group
Q183-) Which of the following quality theorists brought 80/20 rule and fitness for use concepts to
quality management.
A-) Deming
B-) Juran
C-) Crosby
D-) Herzberg
Q184-) All of the following are types of contract EXCEPT:
A-) Fixed Price
B-) Cost Reimbursable
C-) Reciprocal
D-) Time and Material
Q185-) All of the following are strategies for positive risks or opportunities EXCEPT:
A-) Exploit
B-) Enhance
C-) Share
D-) Mitigate
Q186-) You are involved in manufacturing wiper rubbers for an automobile. You use control charts
as quality management tool. Optimum length of the wiper rubbers should be 40.00 cm and
allowable limits are 39.95cm and 40.05cm. Following table shows the measurements made
after the end of the process for the wiper rubbers produced.
Number of
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11
#12
Measurement
Length (cm)
40.01 40.03 39.98 39.97 39.99 39.96 39.96 39.99 39.98 40.00 40.00 40.04
What is the status of the process?

A-) Process is out of control
B-) Process is in control
C-) Number of measurements is not sufficient
D-) Control charts as a quality management tool is not appropriate for this process
Q187-) All of the following are organizational process assets that might be updated as an output of
Close Procurements Process EXCEPT:
A-) Procurement File
B-) Payment Schedules
C-) Deliverable Acceptance
D-) Lessons Learned Documentation
Q188-) You are working as a project manager in an airplane manufacturer company. Your company
decided to buy avionic systems of the airplane from a supplier through a cost-reimbursable
contract. You put a ceiling price to the contract in order to:
A-) Define highest price that your company will pay
B-) Elect incompetent suppliers
C-) Define the fixed profit of seller
D-) Push supplier to deliver avionic systems as soon as possible
Q189-) In your project, you described the project, service or results and which of the requirements
collected will be included in and excluded from the project scope. This should be done as part
of:
A-) Plan Scope Management
B-) Collect Requirements
C-) Define Scope
D-) Control Scope
Q190-) Which of the following is done during Monitoring and Control Process Group?
A-) Identifying the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by a
decision, activity, or outcome of the project
B-) Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to
ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used
C-) Improving competencies, team member interaction, and overall team environment to
enhance project performance
D-) Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Q191-) In Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM), ______________ is the most commonly used
and ______________ is very rarely used type of precedence relationship.
A-) Finish-to-start (FS), Start-to-start (SS)
B-) Finish-to-start (FS), Start-to-finish (SF)
C-) Finish-to-finish (FF), Start-to-finish (SF)
D-) Start-to-start (SS), Finish-to-finish (FF)
Q192-) You are working as a project manager in an international company. If skilled resource of s
specific topic resigns, the risk response plan developed is to plan a new resource from IT
department. If skilled resource from IT department cannot be supplied, you will request
resource from Regional Expertise Group of your company. Requesting resource from Regional
Expertise Group is an example of:
A-) Fallback Plan
B-) Secondary Risk
C-) Residual Risk
D-) Contingency Plan
Q193-) Which of the following knowledge areas include processes belonging to five Project
Management Process Groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, Closing?
A-) Procurement Management
B-) Stakeholder Management
C-) Integration Management
D-) Quality Management
Q194-) Cost estimates should be reviewed and refined during the course of the project. During
initiation phase you estimated costs in the range of -25% ro +75%. This is an example of:
A-) Precise estimate
B-) Budget estimate
C-) Definitive estimate
D-) Rough Order or Magnitude (ROM) estimate
Q195-) As a project manager, you consider that early commitment to clear guidelines decreases
misunderstandings and increases productivity. Therefore you define guidelines such as Way of
interruption during meetings, who is allowed to give information about the project to senior
management, how will be the communication between team members. This is an example
of:
A-) Project Ethics
B-) Code of Conduct
C-) Ground Rules
D-) Employee Motivation
Q196-) Mike is an analyst working in your project. When you asked him the estimation of the
analysis of the first screen, he mentioned you that if customer supports him promptly without a
delay, it would take 3 days, if customer cannot give information promptly and he struggles to
find relevant information, it would take 15 days. And Mike says that analysis of the first screen
will be finished in 7 days most likely. What is the standard deviation for the analysis of first
screen?
A-) 2 days
B-) 0.67 day
C-) 4 days
D-) 8 days
Q197-)
Based on the diagram above, what can be concluded about the tasks?
A-) Task B cannot start before Task B finishes and Task C cannot start before Task B finishes
B-) Task B cannot start before Task B finishes and Task C cannot finish before Task B finishes.
C-) Task B can start after Task A starts and Task C cannot finish before Task B finishes.
D-) Task B can start after Task A starts and Task C cannot start before Task B finishes
Q198-) Weak matrix organizations maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization,
and the role of the project manager is:
A-) Management with full authority
B-) Line management
C-) Expediter
D-) People management
Q199-) In your project, a team member suggested the addition of a functionality, which she thinks,
will improve customer satisfaction. Your approach would be to:
A-) Allow for the functionality, because satisfying the customer is your objective.
B-) Make changes to the project plan to accommodate the new requirement
C-) Ask the customer for additional funding to implement the requirement
D-) Disallow the new requirement, because it changes the project scope, and the customer did
not explicitly state this requirement.
Q200-) Based on Maslows hierarchy of needs pyramid, which of the following is at the top?
A-) Safety
B-) Social
C-) Esteem
D-) Self-actualization

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Project : Payback period= 6 years & NPV = $ 3,000,000

Project B: Payback period=4 years & NPV = $ 2,000,000

Project C: Payback period=2 years & NPV = $ 1,000,000

What is the slack of task D?

Cost of Employee Salaries: $200.000

Cost of Leasing Machines: $50.000

Cost of Other Items: $50.000

Fixed-Fee Ratio: 20%

What should be the final price of the contract?

Most Likely Duration: 7 days

Optimistic Duration: 5 days

Pessimistic Duration: 15 days

already been spent.

What is the status of the project?

This is an example of:

Early Start (ES): 15 days

Late Start (LS): 22 days

Early Finish (EF): 43 days

Late Finish (LF): 50 days

In this context, which of the following is TRUE?

What is the status of the process?

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