Certified Associate In Project Management (CAPM)
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Exam: CAPM
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Which project resource management process ensures the availability of physical resources assigned to a project?
A. Plan resource management
B. Estimate activity resources
C. Acquire resources
D. Control resources
Which of the following is an output of the develop team process?
A. Resource requirements
B. Project team assignments
C. Team performance assessments
D. Work performance reports
Which process defines how to perform risk management activities on a project?
A. Monitor Risks
B. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
C. Plan Risk Responses
D. Plan Risk Management
Which tools and techniques are used by the Manage Team process?
A. Leadership, project management information system, and project team assignments
B. Influencing, interpersonal and team skills, and change requests
C. Project management information system, conflict management, and interpersonal and team skills
D. Emotional intelligence, meetings, and recognition and rewards
All of the following are inputs to the Plan Scope Management process
EXCEPT
:
A. Requirements management plan
B. Project management plan
C. Project charter
D. Enterprise environmental factors
Which process involves communicating and working with stakeholders to satisfy their requirements and expectations?
A. Identify Stakeholders
B. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
C. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
D. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
Which Process Group is the Perform Quality Assurance process performed as part of?
A. Planning
B. Executing
C. Monitoring and Controlling
D. Closing
Stakeholder needs are established in the stakeholder engagement plan at the start of a project, and are updated to reflect changes in the stakeholder population. Identify a situation that does
NOT
trigger adjustments to the plan.
A. There are changes in the industry
B. Stakeholder engagement strategies need to be reviewed
C. Certain stakeholders are no longer crucial to the project's success
D. A phase of the project is finalized
What is used to reach a conclusion when multiple stakeholders are responsible for validating the project scope?
A. Decision making
B. Inspection
C. Benchmarking
D. Focus groups
Which Process Group contains the processes that are used to normalize variances?
A. Executing
B. Planning
C. Closing
D. Monitoring and Controlling
Which Process Group contains the activities used to record the effects of tailoring the processes to the project environment?
A. Closing
B. Planning
C. Executing
D. Monitoring and Controlling
When planning for Risk A, your risk strategy was originally to accept the risk. However, due to new government regulations, you can no longer accept the risk. After reviewing the situation, you have determined that the best course of action is to eliminate the threat. Which strategy should be applied in this situation for Risk A?
A. Avoid
B. Mitigate
C. Transfer
D. Escalate
Which Process Group contains the processes used to gain authorization to start a new project phase?
A. Executing
B. Planning
C. Initiating
D. Monitoring and Controlling
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
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 Knowledge Area contains the Define Activities process?
A. Project Scope Management
B. Project Schedule Management
C. Project Risk Management
D. Project Integration Management
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
Which process is the scope baseline an output of?
A. Plan Scope Management
B. Create WBS
C. Define Scope
D. Collect Requirements
You're working on a construction project which requires 800 square meters of tilling. The tiler works eight hours a day and manages to lay 40 square meters of tiles per day. Use parametric estimating to calculate how many hours the tiling would take to complete.
A. 100 hours
B. 160 hours
C. 20 hours
D. 5 hours
All of the following are key features of the PMO
EXCEPT
:
A. Providing reports on the progress of specific projects.
B. Establishing and managing budgets across multiple projects.
C. Coordinating and managing shared resources across multiple projects.
D. Mentoring and supporting the project manager.
Which of the following documents is helpful for establishing risk thresholds during the plan risk management process?
A. Risk report
B. Risk register
C. Issue log
D. Stakeholder register
Which of the following is an output of the Validate Scope process?
A. Scope baseline
B. Accepted deliverables
C. Work performance reports
D. Work performance data
Which statement
BEST
describes technical project management skills?
A. The ability to inspire and motivate the project team
B. The ability to create the project work breakdown structure (WBS)
C. The ability to write code on a software project
D. The ability to explain the business value of the project
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 document can be used to indicate when risk responses need to be adjusted?
A. Lessons learned
B. Work performance information
C. Change log
D. Issue log
Which input contains forecasting data that is used by the Monitor Risks process?
A. Work performance data
B. Work performance information
C. Work performance reports
D. Team performance assessments
A project manager is currently performing variance analysis as part of the Control Schedule process. At this stage of the project, the project manager has determined that the planned value is $182,000, the actual costs are $132,500, and the project has currently earned $165,000. What is the SPI at this stage of the project?
A. -$17,000
B. 1.25
C. $32,500
D. 0.91
Which items are inputs to the Plan Risk Management process?
A. Project management plan, organizational process assets, risk register
B. Risk register, stakeholder register, enterprise environmental factors
C. Project charter, work performance data, work performance reports
D. Project charter, project management plan, stakeholder register
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
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 document supplies the information required to plan proper methods of engaging the people or groups that may influence the project?
A. Stakeholder register
B. Bid documents
C. Communications management plan
D. Project charter
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 inputs are used by the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
A. The cost management plan, scope baseline, and organizational process assets
B. The project charter, scope baseline, and organizational process assets
C. The project management plan, risk register, and enterprise environmental factors
D. The schedule baseline, project charter, and stakeholder register
Which input is used by the Plan Scope Management process to determine the approach that will be used to plan and manage the project scope?
A. Project charter
B. Project scope statement
C. Project management plan
D. Requirements documentation
A project manager determined that it would take two days for an experienced programmer to test the code for an application. However, the experienced programmer has been scheduled to work on another project and is not able to test the code. As a result, a less experienced programmer will have to test the code and will take three days instead. What should you do when estimating activity durations?
A. Update the activity attributes for testing the code
B. Update the activity duration on the schedule
C. Submit a change request to change the activity duration
D. Advise the project sponsor of the situation
All of the following processes are part of the Project Scope Management Knowledge Area
EXCEPT
:
A. Create WBS
B. Define Scope
C. Define Activities
D. Collect Requirements
Which Process Group contains the processes required to align the purpose of the project with the expectations of the stakeholders?
A. Executing
B. Initiating
C. Monitoring and Controlling
D. Planning
Which process involves watching the overall project stakeholder relationships and adjusting strategies and plans for engaging stakeholders?
A. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
B. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
C. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
D. Identify Stakeholders
Which Process Group includes the Validate Scope process?
A. Monitoring and Controlling
B. Planning
C. Executing
D. Initiating
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)
What is
NOT
a feature of the project management office?
A. A central means to monitor all project schedules and budgets
B. A decentralized approach to managing multiple projects simultaneously
C. The ability to coordinate project quality control standards between project personnel and the project manager
D. Shared resources that can be used for many different projects
Which input to the Conduct Procurements process includes information on the quality levels required?
A. Source selection criteria
B. Seller proposals
C. Procurement statement of work
D. Make-or-buy decisions
Which statement regarding portfolio management is
TRUE
?
A. High level plans are used to track interdependencies and progress
B. Provides decision-making transparency
C. It is focused on the ongoing production of goods and services
D. Scope is progressively elaborated
What is the purpose of project integration management?
A. To customize a project's objectives to match the processes within the Process Management Process Groups
B. To generate an in-depth project management plan
C. To create an environment in which the ownership of a project is shared between cost analysts, risk management specialists, and project managers
D. To provide an approach for coordinating various processes and project management tasks within the Project Management Process Groups
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
A project manager depicts the resources used on a project in a hierarchical structure. The resources are represented by category and then by type. What has the project manager created?
A. WBS
B. RACI
C. RBS
D. OBS
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 source is used during the Acquire Project Team process to identify the number of people and skills required by the project?
A. Organizational process assets
B. Project staff assignments
C. Resource calendars
D. Human resource management plan
In what type of organizational structure is a project manager known as a project expeditor?
A. Weak matrix
B. Strong matrix
C. Projectized
D. Balanced matrix
Which item represents the inputs to the Plan Communications Management process?
A. The project management plan, team charter, and the stakeholder register
B. Organizational process assets, the project management plan, and the stakeholder register
C. Enterprise environment factors, organizational process assets, and issue log
D. Enterprise environmental factors, the project management plan, and team charter
You are in the process of identifying and documenting relationships related to the project activities that have been defined. How would you best characterize a dependency between project activities and non-project activities?
A. Mandatory
B. External
C. Internal
D. Discretionary
Which tools and techniques are used by the Plan Human Resource Management process?
A. Interpersonal skills, colocation, and networking
B. Organizational theory, expert judgment, and multi-criteria decision analysis
C. Networking, meetings, and activity resource requirements
D. Organization charts and position descriptions, networking, and organizational theory
Identify the trend in project procurement management that utilizes the building information model (BIM) to save time and money in construction projects, for example.
A. Advances in tools
B. Logistics and supply chain management
C. Technology and stakeholder relations
D. Trial engagements
Which trend in project quality management verifies that the project produces the intended product, and that the product is fit to be used?
A. Mutually beneficial partnership with suppliers
B. Management responsibility
C. Customer satisfaction
D. Continual improvement
Which item represents an input for the Define Activities process?
A. Resource calendars
B. Scope baseline
C. Activity list
D. Risk register
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