#PMP_QBANK_COLLECTION_Exam_1

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A project has a 60% chance of finishing on time and a 30% chance of finishing over budget. What is the
probability that the project will finish on time and within budget?

a) 12%

b) 18%

c) 42%

d) 48%
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A project had seven team members when three new team members joined the team. How many
additional communication channels will there be?

a) 21

b) 24

c) 42

d) 45
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The customer has asked for major changes that will incur significant costs. If the project is near
completion, the project manager should:

a) Ask the customer for a description of and reason for the change

b) Say no to the customer because the project is almost complete and there is less cost flexibility

c) Meet with the project sponsor and determine if the changes should be made

d) Meet with the project team to determine who can work overtime
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Due to the departure of the prior project manager, you are assigned to a project that is 40% complete.
You review the current issues logs and meeting minutes, and you determine that there are a few project
team members that have not been delivering work in a timely manner. The prior project manager had
not provided any feedback to their manager on their performance. One of your first actions might be:

a) Contact the team members, review their deliverables, and assess the reason for task delays

b) Discuss the issue in the weekly project status meeting and gain consensus of the entire team

c) Develop recommended corrective actions

d) Add four weeks to the project schedule as a contingency

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You are planning a project to update the facilities in a medical office. Cost and schedule are both
important in this project. What should be included in your schedule management plan to help control
the schedule?

a) Cost estimates for the work

b) Work breakdown structure

c) Activity duration estimates

d) Schedule control thresholds

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As the project manager for a business process improvement project for a strategic business process, you
have been given an estimate of $3 million to deliver a project within 12 months. The project is a key
strategic initiative this year. If the project is delivered, the organization will experience a 30% reduction
in process costs. In developing the budget, one action that should result from your review of the
estimate is likely to be:

a) Create a risk register of cost risks and planned responses

b) Aggregate the work package estimates to create a cost baseline

c) Submit a change request for additional resources

d) Perform a top-down estimating exercise

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A project manager new to project management has been given an unapproved project charter, and he
comes to you for advice. What should you tell him to do first?

a) Create a work breakdown structure

b) Start documenting the project constraints and assumptions

c) Find out who should approve the project charter and obtain approval

d) Begin obtaining resources for his team

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As the project manager on a project which is similar to one previously managed, you decide to utilize a
________ WBS in order to facilitate activity definition with the team.

a) Detailed

b) Template

c) Organizational

d) Planning
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You have taken over a project to update your corporate website. It is about 30% complete, and you
know there is a project management plan available. What should you do first?

a) Develop a WBS

b) Define the statement of work

c) Identify risks

d) Review work performance data

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A communication skill that project managers should develop to clarify and confirm understanding is:

a) Facilitation

b) Active listening

c) Presentation

d) Meeting management
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It seems that projects in your organization never fully close. You want to avoid this on your current
project. What could you do to close your current project?

a) Finalize all procurement payments and documents

b) Make sure the scope goes through the validation process

c) Conduct a quality and procurement audit

d) Provide step-by-step actions to ensure work has been completed

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You are on a project team for a grocery chain that is creating marketing materials for an upcoming
promotion to tie in with national heart health month. You have learned that your internal print
department is overwhelmed with work and will not be available to complete the point of sale
advertising materials. What should you do first?

a) Recommend that the company put off the heart health promotion until next year

b) Document the situation in the issue log and set up a meeting with the marketing department

c) Find an external printer and get them working on the marketing materials immediately

d) Ask your sponsor to help your project get a higher priority with the internal print department
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The project manager has reviewed the project charter, identified stakeholders, and begun development
of the project plan. He is looking at the existing risk templates, categories, and lessons learned. What
should he do next?

a) Perform a Monte Carlo simulation to determine an appropriate schedule

b) Tailor the definitions of probability and impact to his project

c) Develop a risk adjusted cost estimate based on past performance

d) Use the risk scoring guidelines to develop a high level assessment of overall risk
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Your project is nearing completion, and you have scheduled a deliverable review meeting with your
customer for next week. The objective of the meeting will be to verify that each project deliverable has
been completed satisfactorily and has been accepted by the customer. This is an example of the
________ process.

a) Management by objectives

b) Validate Scope

c) Control Scope

d) Configuration Management
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A meeting to answer all the potential sellers’ questions is called a:

a) Negotiated settlement

b) Procurement statement of work review

c) Bidder’s conference

d) Proposal evaluation meeting

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A salience model is a combination of which stakeholder characteristics?

a) Power, interest, and involvement

b) Influence, impact, and interest

c) Power, influence, and impact

d) Power, urgency, and legitimacy

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You are the contract administrator of an apartment complex construction project. Quality Construction,

Inc. is the builder that you’ve hired. You decide to conduct a structured review of the procurement
processes followed during the project. This is an example of:

a) A procurement performance review

b) A contract type

c) Inspections

d) Claims administration
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Portfolio, program, project, and organizational project management all differ in how each contributes to
achieving an organization’s strategic goals. Which one harmonizes project and program components to
realized specific benefits?

a) Project management

b) Portfolio management

c) Organizational project management

d) Program management
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You are the project manager starting a new project, and many of the stakeholders identified in the
charter are the customers or the senior executives of the current organization. After performing a
stakeholder analysis, you’ve identified that most of the stakeholders are categorized as “Monitor.”
However, the president of the customer company is categorized as “Manage Closely.” With this
information you should:

a) Regularly check in with the president to ensure that he is completing his tasks on time

b) Plan for a regular written status report for the president of the customer company and a weekly face-
to-face meeting with the rest of the project team

c) Include all the stakeholders in the weekly team meeting to make sure that all the stakeholders are
providing all the necessary information they need

d) Plan for a regular written status report for most of the stakeholders and a weekly face-to-face
meeting with the president of the customer company
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As project manager, you notice that a team member is not performing well because he is inexperienced
in the technology being utilized. What is your best solution?

a) Report the team member’s bad performance to his functional manager

b) Colocate the team member with someone more experienced with that technology

c) Discuss a reward mechanism with the team member to encourage him to work harder

d) Arrange for the team member to get training in the required technology
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Project Manager has received work performance data and project documents that indicate one of the
stakeholders has not signed off on a major deliverable. She discovers that the stakeholder is not
receiving information in a timely manner. What should she do next?

a) Review the issues log to determine if there are critical factors that were missed

b) Bring the team in for a face-to-face meeting to make sure everyone gets the information

c) Find a way to use the information management system more effectively

d) Use the expertise of an external consultant to review the business process

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The degree of acceptable variation around a project objective is called (a):

a) Risk exposure

b) Risk appetite

c) Risk acceptance

d) Risk threshold
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You have a complete WBS and activity list and are preparing to put the list in sequence for your project
to exhibit at a trade show. One of the work packages is to install the trade show booth. What will help
you define the flow of activities for this deliverable?

a) Schedule management plan

b) Scope baseline

c) Milestone list

d) Network diagram
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You have been assigned to an internal project to install a new inventory system and need to put
together a quality management plan. This project is similar to one you’ve worked on before, and the
customer has agreed to provide ten resources to help test the new inventory system. You decide to:

a) Build a new quality plan based specifically on the requirements of the new inventory system

b) Utilize the quality management plan from the last project, as is, since it was successful

c) Let the quality assurance manager put together a new quality management plan

d) Implement the prior plan, but keep only what’s relevant to the new inventory system project
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When in contract negotiations, you should stop negotiating when:

a) The relationship can be damaged

b) You have gotten everything your company needs

c) Both parties are in agreement

d) The contract is a firm fixed price

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You are a project manager in a fairly immature project environment and your customer has not
provided you with a charter. In order for you to create a project scope statement, you first should:

a) Stop work until the charter is received

b) Ask the sponsor to step in and talk to the customer

c) Send a team to the customer location to complete the scope statement

d) Obtain an informal written description from the customer

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You have just been notified that your customer has money problems and will not be able to pay for the
upcoming milestone deliverables. As project manager, you should:

a) Tell everyone to stop working

b) Release 90% of the project team

c) Reduce the scope and begin closure procedures

d) Shift these deliverables to the next phase to give the customer additional time to obtain funds
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A key stakeholder on your construction project has been spending time at the construction site,
interrupting the team’s efforts at trying to stay on schedule. As the project manager, you should:

a) Tell the team not to talk to the stakeholder and send him to you

b) Do nothing because the stakeholder can do whatever he wants

c) Talk to the stakeholder and communicate how his interest in seeing how the job is progressing is
actually hampering the team’s efforts

d) Talk to the stakeholder and tell him that he cannot come out to the construction site anymore
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Reserve analysis compares:

a) The effectiveness of the risk management process to the project objectives

b) Current project cost estimates with similar past project costs

c) Project performance to the planned schedule

d) The amount of contingency reserves remaining to the amount of risk remaining

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What is a potential problem if activity durations are estimated before team members are assigned?

a) The team may not operate according to ethical standard for fairness

b) The activity durations may change based on the competency of the team member

c) The project manager will need to influence the end user to accept a change in scope

d) Quality assurance activities may need to be revised to accommodate benchmarking

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Henry is the project manager for a business process improvement project for a strategic business
process that is highly important to revenue generation. The key stakeholders have requested a weekly
written report on the project. Henry suggests that a central website be created for all stakeholders and
key measures be posted to that website regularly. This is an example of:

a) Work performance data

b) Managing communications

c) A communications management plan

d) Information management systems

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You are the project manager for a business process Notes improvement project for a strategic business
process that is 50% complete. As a major milestone, a test was performed to determine if the new
process being developed may actually make the production user less productive, if implemented. One
way to analyze the results of this test is to perform:

a) A root cause analysis

b) A quality audit

c) A defect repair review

d) A Pareto diagram
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How do activities differ from milestones?

a) Activities are the lowest level in the WBS; milestones are high level with short durations

b) Activities have duration; milestones don’t because they represent a significant point in time

c) Activities can be used to highlight a significant point in the project; milestones are scheduling units

d) Activities have abbreviated descriptions; milestones must be well defined

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You are the project manager on a construction project that is 50% complete. At this point the CPI is 1.12
and the SPI is 1.05. Total earned value to date is $6,300,000 and the original budget was $12,600,000.
All of the following are true except:

a) Actual costs are $6,300,000

b) EAC could be $11,925,000

c) Actual costs are $5,625,000

d) EAC could be $11,250,000

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The act of collecting and distributing status reports, Notes progress measurements, and forecasts is part
of:

a) Communication technology

b) Communication methods

c) Information management systems

d) Performance reporting
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You are the project manager on a project in which Notes two of your key stakeholders have different
concerns and expectations on the objectives of the project. Your job is to:

a) Assess the situation to balance expectations of the key stakeholders

b) Prioritize the objectives and manage your customers’ expectations

c) Have the stakeholders prioritize their objectives and focus on the most common ones

d) Talk to senior management and determine which objectives best fit the overall business goals of the
organization
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The project manager identified the possible departure of a key team member who has a special
expertise that is needed for the project. If that team member is promoted, this would be considered a
risk:

a) Category

b) Event

c) Trigger

d) Quantification
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As a project manager on a construction project, you experienced an abnormal number of vendor issues
on your project. In order to prevent the situation from happening on future contracts, you ask for a:

a) Checklist analysis

b) Reserve analysis

c) Procurement audit

d) Risk audit
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A requirements traceability matrix is a table that links requirements to their origin and can be used to
control:

a) Communications

b) Stakeholders

c) Deliverables

d) Schedule
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Your virtual team has developed bad habits, such as Notes being late to meetings, multi-tasking during
meetings, and carrying on side discussions. What should the project manager do to reduce or prevent
such problems?

a) Conduct a training session on soft skills to build empathy and influence

b) Have a team building session to help members get to know each other better

c) Bring in the team for a face-to-face meeting and discuss behavior expectations

d) Have the team agree to ground rules with clear expectations for meetings
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You are a project manager newly assigned to a critical project for the organization. After reviewing the
project charter and evaluating the needs of the project, it is clear to you that XYZ would be a critical
resource on the project because of his product knowledge and customer relationship. As part of your
resource planning process, you _________ XYZ’s boss to allocate his time to the project.

a) Direct

b) Negotiate with

c) Compromise with

d) Demand of
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A subcontracting vendor completes work to the requirements specified within the statement of work
(SOW), but the project manager is not pleased with how the deliverable integrates with the corporate
database. In this case, the contract is considered to be:

a) Complete but not closed because formal acceptance has not been provided by the buyer

b) Complete because the contractor met the terms and conditions of the contract

c) Complete because the contractor is satisfied and work results followed the SOW

d) Incomplete because the specs are incorrect

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You are a project manager on a hotel construction project. The CEO and sponsor of the project retired
from the business and a new CEO has been named. One of the first things you should do as the project
manager is:

a) Introduce yourself to the new CEO and tell him or her how hardworking your team is

b) Schedule a meeting with the CEO to review the detailed project schedule and earned value analysis
that you finished last Friday

c) Determine the communication needs of the new CEO and modify the communications management
plan

d) Keep your head down and continue to perform your job

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Organizations take on projects because projects:

a) Are risky

b) Provide value

c) Increase revenue

d) Change behaviors
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Your project is nearing completion, and you have scheduled a deliverable review meeting with your
customer for next week as part of the Validate Scope process. The Validate Scope process includes:

a) Obtaining the stakeholders’ formal acceptance of the project’s deliverables

b) Organizing and defining the total scope of the project

c) Verifying the correctness of project deliverables

d) Assuring that all requested changes and recommended corrective actions are completed
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A member of your team brings ideas for enhancements to the scope of work to a team meeting. These
suggestions will add work to the project that is beyond the requirements of the project charter. As
project manager, you point out that only the work required for the project should be completed by the
team or the project could miss its goals. You are:

a) Acting as the change control board

b) Collecting requirements for future phases

c) Comparing scope to the project requirements

d) Ensuring the project delivers on the business needs

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As you begin your website redesign project, what enterprise environmental factors should you
consider?

a) Procedures used to detect and track bugs

b) Existing capacity of the website infrastructure

c) Allowed communication methods

d) Project files from previous projects

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One difference between project manager responsibility and PMO responsibility is that project
managers:

a) Focus on specific project objectives, while PMOs manage program changes

b) Optimize the use of shared resources, while PMOs manage assigned resources

c) Manage the overall risks and opportunities, while PMOs control a project’s scope, cost, and time

d) Manage the methodology and metrics used, while PMOs manage individual reporting requirements
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During the closing phase of a project, employees are concerned about their next assignment in which
type of organizational structure?

a) Project-oriented

b) Strong matrix

c) Balanced matrix

d) Functional
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When is it critical to have procedures for identifying and documenting actions taken during the project?

a) When the project deliverables satisfy the completion criteria

b) When a project is terminated before completion

c) When you have transferred the product service into ongoing operations

d) When archiving lessons learned and other project information