Constraints do not include:
Company A is delivering a product in three parts. The contract allows for the parts to be delivered either one after the other or at the same time.
Which type of project phasing will allow for the most flexibility in delivering the full product when product requirements are subject to rapid change?
What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?
With triangular distribution, the low, likely and high values are 20, 30 and 40, respectively. The mean is _____.
When can pre-assignment of project team members occur?
What is a tool to improve team performance?
Which schedule development tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
All of the following are true regarding Communications Planning except for which one?
What is a cost of nonconformance?
The risk of accepting a lot of poor quality, in acceptance sampling, is referred to as:
The most common form of written project communication is
You are a project manager for Giraffe Enterprises. You've recently taken over for a project manager who lied about his PMI certification and was subsequently fired. Unfortunately, he did a poor job of scope definition.
Which of the following could happen if you don't correct this?
In which of the following is the cost of risk hidden by the contractor?
Sally is a project manager working on a project that will require a specially engineered machine. Only three manufacturers can make the machine to the specifications Sally needs. The price of this machine is particularly critical to this project. The budget is limited, and there's no chance of securing additional funds if the bids for the machine come in higher than budgeted.
She's developing the evaluation criteria for the bidders' responses and knows all of the following are true except for which one?
What is the lowest level in the WBS at which the cost and activity durations for the work can be reliably estimated and managed?
Within a matrix organization, dual reporting of team members is a risk for project success.
Who is responsible for managing this dual reporting relationship factor?
The sponsor has informed you that the resources for your project will be cut. The sponsor wants to know how long the project will take if only nine resources each month are committed to your project.
What is this activity called?
What is one of the advantages of a functional organization?
Make payment to seller is done in _______.
The project manager has performed schedule network analysis, compressed the schedule, and completed a Monte Carlo analysis.
What time management activity should be done NEXT?
How many knowledge areas are there according to PMBOK Guide?
Where are product requirements and characteristics documented?
Communication in both project and non-project-driven organizations should occur in __________ directions.
On what is project baseline development established?
The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on the cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract. Each month the sponsor requires the project manager to submit CPI calculations and an analysis of the cost to complete. The project manager explains to the sponsor that extra profits should NOT be a worry on this project because:
The estimated cost to complete (ETC) is _____.
A project manager has just been assigned to a new project and has been given the approved project charter. The FIRST thing the project manager must do is:
Which is a tool used in monitoring and controlling project work?
A computer tape which contains historical project information is called ____ tape.
The following reports are normally developed during the project closure phase?
All of the following statements are true regarding the RBS except for which one?
Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
You have assembled your thoughts into a message. As you pass this information to a second party, you are giving this person you’re:
Using the following data, what is the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)?
EV = $500
PV= $750
AC= $1000
BAC= $1200
Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Collect Requirements process?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Which one of the following is not an acquisition method?
Inspection is a tool and technique for which of the following processes?
Which is a tool or technique used in scope definition?
Which of the following must not performed in the project initiation process?
Which of the following can be used to track the requirements throughout the project life cycle?
Which of the following is an output of the Information Distribution Process?
Root Cause Analysis related to ________.
You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States government. Your mission-should you choose to accept it-is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is that finding contractors with top-secret clearances takes quite a bit of time, and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director's hot new project.
Which of the following type of project ending is this?
Which of the following is the LEAST effective way to influence the factors that create changes to the cost baseline?
You are working with XYZ organization. Your senior manager imposed new delivery date which is earlier than mentioned project deliverables date in scope statement.
To whom you are most accountable?
Project team members begin to address the project work and technical decisions. The project team is in which of the following stages of team development?
Which of the following is an input to Develop Human Resource Plan?
What is an objective of the Developing Project Team Process?
Which of the following is one of the key components of the basic communications model?
Which of the following describes the purpose of the quality control process?
You are the project manager for a new website for the local zoo. You need to perform Qualitative Risk Analysis.
When you've completed this process, you'll produce all of the following as part of the risk register update output except which one?
Which of the following methods is a project selection technique?
All of the following are tools and techniques of the Performance Reporting process except which one?
Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the planning process group?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships among schedule activities?
Which of the following is generally the MOST CORRECT use of a project network diagram?
Which tool and technique of quality planning involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?
Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?
While reviewing project performance, the project manager determines that the schedule variance is -500.
What is the BEST thing to do?
Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?
Parametric Estimating is done as a part of which process:
You are negotiating with a seller. Time is of the essence but you have a limited budget, and the seller knows this.
What is your BEST negotiating strategy under these circumstances?
During what process is the quality policy determined?
Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Which knowledge area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
In a control chart, the consecutive measurements are 11, 13, 09, 07, 08, 09, 09, 09, 08, and 12. For the entire process, the goal is 10 and the standard deviation is 1.
For this data set, it is correct to say that the process:
Which Activity Duration Estimating technique incorporates additional timing for contingency purposes?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
In which of the following types of contracts is it most important for the contractor to maintain control of cost, schedule and scope changes.
You are the project manager of a project. You have just completed the Collect Requirements and Define Scope.
What should you do next?
Stakeholder analysis identifies what information and relates it to the purpose of the project?
A line manager who is asked to wear two hats and function as a project manager at the same time is likely to exercise:
The most rapid Estimate Costs technique is ___________.
What is the name of the statistical method that helps identify which factors may influence specific variables of a product or process under development or in production?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?
You are a contract project manager working with the State of Bliss. Your latest project involves rewriting the Department of Revenue's income tax system. As project manager, you have taken all the appropriate actions regarding confidentiality of data. One of the key stakeholders is a huge movie buff, and she has the power to promote you into a better position at the conclusion of this project. She's reviewing some report data that just happens to include confidential information regarding one of her favorite movie superstars.
What is the most appropriate response?
In what type of contract is the seller reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and receives a predetermined fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives as set forth in the contract?
You are a project manager working on gathering requirements and establishing estimates for the project.
Which process group are you in?
In which tool and technique is it possible to find a correlation between dependent and independent variables?
What is Project Portfolio Management?
The purpose of configuration management is to:
Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only.
Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?
Continually measuring and monitoring the actual cost versus the budget is done to _____.
A team member is not performing well on the project because she is inexperienced in system development work. There is no one else available who is better qualified to do the work.
What is the BEST solution for the project manager?
What is one of the MAJOR outputs of activity sequencing?
The Delphi Method is well-suited for:
The management theory that all people can direct their own efforts is:
What is included in a control chart?
The basic elements of communication include:
Which process group defines the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve?
Parametric estimates are based on variables such as: