Certified Associate In Project Management (CAPM)
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Generally, one user or group has direct or indirect project management responsibilities across multiple projects. Which user or group matches this description?
A. Project management office
B. Project sponsor
C. User
D. Project management team
Which role does a project manager have a part to play in with respect to the industry?
A. Demonstrating the value of project management
B. Taking a part in configuration management training
C. Staying current with respect influences impacting the field of project management
D. Building relationship skills for the creation of formal networks of people
Which document includes significant events that have zero duration?
A. Project calendar
B. Risk register
C. Activity list
D. Milestone list
Which of the following are a result of the Close Project or Phase process? Choose 3.
A. Updates to the schedule
B. Transference of historical information to the lessons learned knowledge base
C. Documented reasons for prematurely closing a project in the project closure document
D. Updates to the final product or service
Which of the following is an output of the monitor communications process?
A. Organizational process assets
B. Work performance information
C. Project communications artifacts
D. The communications management plan
What is used during the Create WBS process to assign identification codes to the WBS components?
A. Decomposition
B. Context diagrams
C. Dependency determination and integration
D. Product analysis
Which tool or technique of Plan Risk Management is primarily used to assess the risk appetite of project stakeholders?
A. Expert judgment
B. Assessment of other risk parameters
C. Stakeholder analysis
D. Meetings
Which process within the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area is part of the Planning Process Group?
A. Develop Project Charter
B. Develop Project Management Plan
C. Perform Integrated Change Control
D. Direct and Manage Project Work
What is used during the Create WBS process to identify limitations that affect the project?
A. Work performance data
B. Project scope statement
C. Scope management plan
D. Project charter
Identify the tools and techniques used in the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process. Choose 3.
A. Stakeholder analysis
B. Meetings
C. Expert judgment
D. Data gathering
In terms of project stakeholder management processes, what is the purpose of frequent interaction with stakeholders throughout the project?
A. To keep track of adjustments to be implemented at the end of the project life cycle
B. To lower project costs
C. To develop project objectives
D. To outline how important the contributions of project team members are to the project's success
Which process is responsible for generating cost and schedule performance data?
A. Direct and Manage Project Work
B. Control Schedule
C. Monitor and Control Project Work
D. Control Costs
You are estimating a schedule activity and using a triangular distribution as there is insufficient historical information available. You have been given an optimistic estimate of 26 days, a pessimistic estimate of 52 days, and a most likely estimate of 33 days from a project team member. What is the estimated duration for this activity?
A. 37 days
B. 33 days
C. 36 days
D. 35 days
What is used when controlling project costs to identify the cost performance that must be achieved on remaining work if the project is to meet a financial goal set by management?
A. EAC
B. CPI
C. ETC
D. TCPI
What is the key benefit of the Manage Communications process?
A. It facilitates a smooth flow of information between project stakeholders
B. It helps increase support and minimizes resistance from stakeholders
C. It facilitates improved teamwork while decreasing staff turnover rates
D. It helps maintain effective stakeholder relationships as your project evolves and changes
Automated reporting on KPIs is part of which tools and techniques?
A. Force field analysis
B. Regression analysis
C. Change control tools
D. Project management information system
Which term is the expressed amount of acceptable variation for a project objective communicated to team members?
A. Risk transference
B. Risk exposure
C. Risk enhancement
D. Risk threshold
Which of the following are emerging trends in project resource management? Choose 3.
A. Strong top-down leadership
B. Optimal resource utilization
C. High emotional intelligence (EI)
D. Effective distributed teams
Which process is responsible for managing risks and performing the risk response activities?
A. Plan Risk Responses
B. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
C. Direct and Manage Project Work
D. Identify Risks
Which of these is a feature of adaptive environments in project schedule management?
A. The project manager must have expert knowledge of adaptive approaches
B. They require that the project manager's role be revised
C. They use longer cycles to complete work
D. The work cycles manifest as iterative scheduling
Which tool or technique of the Plan Procurement Management process involves gathering and organizing data about product requirements and evaluating them against available alternatives?
A. Bidder conferences
B. Audits
C. Make-or-buy analysis
D. Proposal evaluation
Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process would describe the communication technologies used between stakeholders?
A. Configuration management plan
B. Stakeholder Engagement Plan
C. Organizational process assets
D. Communications management plan
When planning procurement management, which contract type is used as an input when requirements are thoroughly defined and the scope is not expected to change?
A. Lump sum contract
B. Time and material (T&M) contract
C. Cost-reimbursable contract
D. Fixed-price contract
Which of the following are a tailoring consideration for project communications management? Choose 3.
A. The location of physical resources
B. The organization's knowledge resources
C. The language of team members
D. The available communications technology
Which input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process contains useful information from risk databases available to the industry?
A. Risk register
B. Risk management plan
C. Enterprise environmental factors
D. Organizational process assets
A project manager determines that he will need five programmers to test an application's code from Monday to Friday. However, the project manager will only need three programmers from Monday to Friday if one programmer works the weekend. What did the project manager use in this scenario?
A. Data analysis
B. Expert judgement
C. Bottom-up estimating
D. Parametric estimating
Which chart type is especially suitable for clarifying roles and responsibilities in cross-departmental projects?
A. Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)
B. RACI matrix
C. Role-responsibility-authority forms
D. Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Which document is used for making decision results from monitoring the execution of project activities?
A. Project calendars
B. Team performance assessments
C. Quality checklists
D. Work performance reports
Which statement describes an activity that the project manager may be involved in prior to a project’s initiation?
A. Collecting requirements for a new product
B. Being involved with follow-on activities after realizing business benefits
C. Assisting with business case development
D. Identifying key stakeholders
What is used during the Collect Requirements process to determine how to define and develop the project scope?
A. Project charter
B. Project scope statement
C. Requirements management plan
D. Scope management plan
Which is
NOT
a valid organization type?
A. Cross functional
B. Projectized
C. Matrix
D. Functional
What
BEST
describes portfolio management?
A. A specific unit that is established to help manage a series of centrally managed projects
B. A large project that has been divided into several small and easy to manage components
C. A centrally managed group of similar projects that achieve benefits not present when the projects are managed individually
D. A collection of projects or programs that as a group help meet strategic business objectives
Which Process Group contains the process responsible for managing the needs of project stakeholders?
A. Monitoring and Controlling
B. Initiating
C. Executing
D. Planning
Identify the inputs of the Identify Stakeholder process. Choose 3.
A. Project documents
B. Project charter
C. Organizational process assets
D. Bid documents
E. Milestone list
Which organizational structure provides little to no authority for the project manager?
A. Organic
B. Weak matrix
C. PMO
D. Virtual
Which process is focused on documenting the interests, involvement, interdependencies, influence, and potential impact on project success of the people, groups, or organizations involved with or affected by the project?
A. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
B. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
C. Identify Stakeholders
D. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
Which input to the Control Costs process is used as the basis for comparing actual cost performance to the planned project costs?
A. Project management plan
B. Organizational process assets
C. Project funding requirements
D. Work performance data
What is used during the Estimate Costs process to determine the impact of additional funds required for conformance versus nonconformance?
A. Control account
B. Contingency reserve
C. Management reserve
D. Cost of quality
Identify a quality improvement strategy used to establish continual improvement in project quality management.
A. Inspection
B. Quality audits
C. The plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle
D. Benchmarking
Which process involves obtaining seller responses?
A. Conduct Procurements
B. Control Resources
C. Control Procurements
D. Plan Procurement Management
Which process is responsible for decomposing work packages into tasks so that project work can be estimated?
A. Estimate Activity Durations
B. Develop Project Charter
C. Create WBS
D. Define Activities
Which output represents the raw observations and measurements identified during activities being performed to carry out the project work?
A. Work performance information
B. Resource calendar
C. Scope baseline
D. Work performance data
What is used during the Manage Quality process that starts with a central idea and records associated issues and causes while solving the problem?
A. Histograms
B. Scatter diagrams
C. Affinity diagrams
D. Design for X
What is an output of the Acquire Project Team process and is used to stipulate when people are allocated to the project team?
A. Resource calendars
B. Human resource management plan
C. Project staff assignments
D. Project management plan updates
Which output of the Plan Quality Management process details quality requirements that may need to be updated?
A. Checklists
B. Quality metrics
C. Quality management plan
D. Scope baseline
While managing project communications, what offers a way to express the analyzed and integrated work performance data in a clear and succinct way that stakeholders can understand?
A. Stakeholder register
B. Team performance assessments
C. Project reporting
D. Work performance information
Which of the following are part of the project cost baseline? Choose 3.
A. Contingency reserves
B. Control accounts
C. Schedule performance measurements
D. Work package cost estimates
E. Management reserves
Which tool or technique is used by the Monitor Risks process to identify new project risks?
A. Meetings
B. Stakeholder analysis
C. Reserve analysis
D. Audits
Which output of the Plan Quality Management process identifies how quality performance will be measured to ensure the deliverables meet the quality standards set for the project?
A. Quality management plan
B. Quality metrics
C. Checklists
D. Scope baseline
Enterprise environmental factors are used as inputs to the Develop Project Charter process. Which options are enterprise environmental factors? Choose 3.
A. Organization infrastructure
B. Lessons learned
C. Governmental standards
D. Marketplace conditions
Which skill set is excluded from the PMI Talent Triangle?
A. Leadership
B. Facilities management
C. Technical project management
D. Strategic and business management
Which output of the Monitor Risks process contains information about the effectiveness or risk response planning and the implementation of risk responses?
A. Project management plan updates
B. Organizational process assets updates
C. Project documents updates
D. Work performance information
Which input to the Control Scope process contains the information that actual results are compared to when determining if a change is required?
A. Project management plan
B. Requirements traceability matrix
C. Requirements documentation
D. Work performance data
Which tool or technique is used in the Define Scope process to describe the use, and identify the characteristics of what is going to be manufactured?
A. Prototypes
B. Decomposition
C. Context diagrams
D. Product analysis
Which tool or technique is used by the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process to prioritize project risks?
A. Risk probability and impact assessment
B. Probability and impact matrix
C. Risk categorization
D. Risk data quality assessment
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