Which tool or technique of Plan Quality 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?
A measure of cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal and is expressed as the ratio of the cost needed for finishing the outstanding work to the remaining budget is known as the:
Plan Risk Management is the process of defining how to:
Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
If the most likely duration of an activity is five weeks, the best-case duration is two weeks, and the worst-case duration is 14 weeks, how many weeks is the expected duration of the activity?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
Assigned risk ratings are based upon:
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?
Portfolio Management is management of:
Which of the following statements correctly characterizes pull communication?
Most experienced project managers know that:
The scope management plan is a subsidiary of which project document?
Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?
Definitions of probability and impact, revised stakeholder tolerances, and tracking are components of which subsidiary plan?
Identifying major deliverables, deciding if adequate cost estimates can be developed, and identifying tangible components of each deliverable are all part of which of the following?
Which technique is used in Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Which type of analysis would be used for the Plan Quality process?
Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
An input to the Create WBS process is a:
When the business objectives of an organization change, project goals need to be:
While processes in the Planning Process Group seek to collect feedback and define project documents to guide project work, organizational procedures dictate when the project planning:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the schedulevariance (SV) for Task 8?
A project team member agrees to change a project deliverable after a conversation with an external stakeholder. It is later discovered that the change has had an adverse effect on another deliverable. This could have been avoided if the project team had implemented:
Which process is usually a rapid and cost-effective means of establishing priorities for Plan Risk Responses?
The scope management plan and scope baseline are contained in:
Which element does a project charter contain?
Technical capability, past performance, and intellectual property rights are examples of:
Success is measured by benefits realization for a:
The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is called risk:
At the start of a typical project life cycle, costs are:
A tool and technique used in the Develop Project Charter process is:
One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:
A stakeholder expresses a need not known to the project manager. The project manager most likely missed a step in which stakeholder management process?
Which Process Group includes the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?
Which tools or techniques are used during the Close Project or Phase process?
Tools and techniques used in Direct and Manage Project Work include:
The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
A projects purpose or justification, measurable project objectives and related success criteria, a summary milestone schedule, and a summary budget are all components of which document?
Which items are components of a project management plan?
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
Which Knowledge Areas include processes from the Closing Process Group?
The organization's perceived balance between risk taking and risk avoidance is reflected in the risk:
Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?
Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group includes processes that:
The ways in which the roles and responsibilities, reporting relationships, and staffing management will be addressed and structured within a project is described in the:
A temporary endeavor that creates a unique product or service is called a:
An output of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is:
Payback period, return on investment, internal rate of return, discounted cash flow, and net present value are all examples of:
Which process numerically analyzes the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives?
Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?
Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
Risk categorization is a tool or technique used in which process?
Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:
Scope, schedule, and cost parameters are integrated in the:
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Sensitivity analysis is typically displayed as a/an:
Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Which process involves defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive plan?
In the Plan Stakeholder Management process, expert judgment is used to:
Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
In Plan Risk Management, which of the management plans determines who will be available to share information on various risks and responses at different times and locations?
Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
Plan-do-check-act is also known as:
The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
Using the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely duration is four months, the optimistic duration is two months, and the pessimistic duration is one year, how many months is the expected activity duration?
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Which is one of the determining factors used to calculate CPI?
Resource calendars are included in the:
Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
The contract in which the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and then receives a fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives is called a:
Which of the following are three inputs to the risk register?
Risk exists the moment that a project is:
The total of the planned value (PV) is also known as:
In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
One of the objectives of a quality audit is to:
The project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces, while in practice they:
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
The completion of the project scope is measured against the:
The staffing management plan is part of the:
Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Define Activities process?
To please the customer, a project team member delivers a requirement which is uncontrolled. This is not part of the plan. This describes:
In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
Analogous cost estimating relies on which of the following techniques?
Which piece of information is part of the WBS Dictionary?
What is a tool to improve team performance?
Which provides the basic framework for managing a project?
Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
An input to the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process is the:
Which tool or technique is used in Close Procurements?
Based on the following metrics: EV= $20,000, AC= $22,000, and PV= $28,000, what is the project CV?
When addressing roles and responsibilities,which item ensures that the staff has the skills required to complete project activities?
Which of the following reduces the probability of potential consequences of project risk events?
Which is an output from Distribute Information?
As the project progresses, which of the following is routinely collected from the project activities?
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
Which tool and technique is used in Conduct Procurements?
Which of the following Project Communication Management processes uses performance reports as an input?
Which process should be conducted from the project inception through completion?
Which type of risk diagram is useful for showing time ordering of events?