Project Management Professional (PMP)
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Exam: PMP
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You have been assigned as the project manager for a project by a close friend who is a member of your organization's project management office (PMO). You have been asked to help complete the development of the project charter. Which of the following would provide the
MOST
influence in this development?
A. The project is being developed in a functional organization.
B. Documentation that contains lessons learned from a similar project that occurred four years ago is available.
C. The internal rate of return (IRR) for the project is calculated to be 25%.
D. Advice is being offered on technical details of the project by your friend in the PMO.
The initial round of project planning has completed and all the relevant stakeholders have approved the project management plan. During project execution, it comes to the project manager's attention that the contingency for one of the unplanned events may not be sufficient to reduce the impact of the event. What should the project manager do NEXT?
A. Inform the sponsor of the situation and let the sponsor decide on the appropriate course of action.
B. Update the risk response in the risk register to reflect the change that will be required for the contingency plan.
C. Perform reserve analysis and communicate the findings in a burndown chart.
D. Record the issue in the issue log to ensure that impact of the event is properly addressed.
You are managing a landscaping project for the city. The project's purpose is to decorate the park to commemorate the city's 200th anniversary. The official flower that will be used on the project was supposed to be in high demand at the time of the event. However, a supplier in the neighboring community has been contracted, so this is no longer a risk. Which option describes an action that can take place once a risk is retired?
A. A risk review is performed
B. A reserve analysis is performed
C. The risk's associated reserve is released
D. A change request to change the risk register is created
Donna, a project manager for a multi-million dollar organization, has determined that to complete the installation of a new fitness center at a local university she is going to have to outsource the work. After reviewing the procurement documents, she notices that there is no vendor list available. Which action should she do
NEXT
?
A. Create a request for information and publish it in the local newspaper.
B. Book a conference center and hold a bidder conference.
C. Submit a request for proposal.
D. Obtain expert judgment for the current situation.
Glen is managing a team of software designers. He receives an update on the status of the design plans from one of the lead designers via email. Based on the information provided in the update and the project schedule, Glen has determined some project objectives will exceed the risk thresholds set by the organization. What should Glen do
FIRST
?
A. Determine a course of action to prevent the objective from being missed.
B. Advise the project sponsor of the situation.
C. Accept that the project objectives will be missed.
D. Implement a solution to put the project back on schedule.
You have been contracted to oversee a project that is estimated to take 30 working days. The project is created to address the redesign of a recalled part and is budgeted for $75,000. You are halfway through the project, and it is one day behind schedule. The earned value of the project is $35,000. The cost variance of the project is -$2,500. Sponsors are providing three equal installments of $25,000 during the project duration. Funds have been spent proportionally throughout the project. Which option represents the actual cost of the project thus far?
A. $37,500
B. $25,000
C. $35,000
D. $75,000
Amy is leading a project that is several weeks into production. A flood has occurred near one of the storage facilities used to store materials for the project. The flood is preventing the workers from accessing the materials needed, and is threatening to delay the project finish date. Amy checks the risk response plan and determines that the flood was never identified as being a potential project risk. Therefore, a procedure to address the risk has not been documented. Which item should Amy use to address this issue?
A. Workaround
B. Management reserve
C. Alternatives generation
D. Contingency reserve
You have identified an issue with one of the processes being used to create the widgets that are required for one of the project deliverables. This is resulting in the widgets being produced with defective parts. What should you use to identify the cause of the issue, and the effect it may have on the project?
A. Ishikawa diagram
B. SWOT analysis
C. Kaizen
D. Scatter diagram
You are the project manager for a company that manufacturers automatic sliding doors. There has been a growing demand for replacement drive mechanisms for models that are less than a year old. You have created a chart to track the amount of warranty replacements for each month over the last two years. Which document has been prepared in this example?
A. A run chart to track the rising trend
B. A flow chart to track overall defects
C. A Pareto chart to track the rising trend
D. A control chart to track overall defects
Part of being a project manager includes having to continually look for process improvements. Which term represents the Japanese philosophy involving process improvements on a continual basis?
A. JEI
B. Muda
C. Kaizen
D. JIT
Your organization is having a problem keeping up with the current supply demands of their customers. To help increase manufacturing capacity, your organization has approved a project whose goal is to create a more efficient order fulfillment process. The original project manager has been moved to another project and you have inherited the project. Which action should you take
FIRST
?
A. Identify constraints on the project
B. Hold a brainstorming session to identify possible solutions for the goal of the project
C. Review the current project definition elements
D. Begin creating the work breakdown structure (WBS)
You need to select a vendor to create an application for your organizations accounting department. Which of the following statements are true about conducting procurements?
A. Simple procurements only require acceptance on the seller's part.
B. Large differences in cost estimates from the procuring organization and a professional estimator can indicate an ambiguous project charter.
C. All government contracts require advertising for the public.
D. Payments and pricing are one of the subjects that are covered during bidder conferences.
You are the project manager for your company. You have already attained formal acceptance and are completing the final process required to officially close the project. You are currently collecting and documenting the lessons learned. Which of the following is included in the lessons learned documentation?
A. Vendor-specific information
B. Business case
C. Assumptions log
D. Project management plan
Bill is leading a project team in the development and building of a new hotel. He has assembled his project team members for the project's kick-off meeting. The team members are highly experienced in developing and building hotels. Bill provides the team members with his background. Bill explains that he started out as a construction worker helping to build houses, malls, hotels, and business offices. He decided to go back to college to get a degree in business administration. He worked his way through various management levels and eventually became a project manager for a multi-national company. He also mentors other employees of the company who are training for project management positions, and regularly attends project management seminars. Which form of power will Bill
MOST
likely express during this project?
A. Coercive power
B. Expert power
C. Reward power
D. Referent power
You are a project manager for a large project-oriented organization. You are currently working on a project proposal and are considering potential stakeholders that may influence the project. Which stakeholders are the
MOST
critical at this point in the project?
A. End user representatives
B. Support function representatives
C. Team members
D. Managing stakeholders
You are the newly appointed the project manager for an internal project. The project charter and the project management plan have been formally approved. Which action should you perform
NEXT
?
A. Create the performance measurement baseline
B. Conduct a kickoff meeting
C. Begin executing project work
D. Begin developing the team
As project manager for your organization, you are responsible for the successful completion of the projects that your company initiates. You have attained formal acceptance of the current project that you are managing. You are currently documenting all of the positive and negative processes used during the life of the project, and the corresponding results. Which of the following
BEST
describes the task you are currently completing?
A. Completing the final project report
B. Archiving project information
C. Updating project records
D. Collecting lessons learned
Amy, working for an engineering firm, is leading a project with several engineers to make a number of prototypes for a customer. To make the prototypes, large quantities of adhesive is required. Amy received bids from several suppliers and chose one that has just developed a new bonding adhesive that works in conditions from +150 to -5 degrees Celsius, which is the main requirement. The contract has been awarded to the supplier, and a stipulation is in place that the supplier is responsible for any failures of the adhesive that occurs within the documented temperature range. The stipulation requires the seller to reimburse all costs associated with any damages incurred due to the adhesive. Norman, an engineer, discovers that the adhesive no longer works in conditions where the humidity is above 85%. Amy did not anticipate this risk and has no plan in place to address the issue. Which action should Amy take?
A. Contact her company lawyers and have them request payment for damages from the supplier
B. Refer to the risk register to see what options are available
C. Implement a response strategy to correct the issue
D. Submit a change request for a new adhesive and implement a workaround
You have recently completed receiving formal acceptance of the deliverables from the customer. As the project manager for your company, you have another project scheduled to begin shortly, and you would like to have this project closed before the beginning of the next project. You have collected the lessons learned, and completed the final project report. Which final task still needs to be completed before you can officially close this project?
A. Assign existing team members to tasks on the new project
B. Gather customer feedback
C. Archive project information
D. Document stakeholder input
While developing a new type of bearing that was meant to replace a recalled model, a major quality issue was discovered. During the Control Quality process, it was determined that the bearings were unbalanced due to machinery not being calibrated. Which graphical aid would have yielded this information?
A. Pareto chart
B. Scatter diagram
C. Run chart
D. Ishikawa diagram
You have identified the risks associated with a project that you are managing. You now need to perform a qualitative analysis on the risks. All of the following will help you with this,
EXCEPT
:
A. Organizational process assets
B. Risk register
C. Cost baseline
D. Risk management plan
You are managing a mission critical project for your organization. A seller has been sourced to provide a high load winch system. You will be leasing a winch that is rated at 1,000 pounds. The delivery date of the hoist system was supposed to be three days ago, and you are unable to contact the seller. You are considering terminating the contract early. In which process are you working?
A. Close Project or Phase
B. Control Procurements
C. Plan Procurement Management
D. Conduct Procurements
You are managing new staff members who are performing work to create a particular procurement item. On your personal schedule for the day, you have a meeting set up to meet with the new staff. You arrive in the meeting room to discover that no staff members have arrived. After waiting thirty minutes, you leave to attend another meeting. The next day, you meet with a couple of the staff members and ask why they did not show up to the meeting. They mention that they were not aware that they had to attend any meetings. Which document should have outlined the meeting requirement?
A. Project charter
B. Resource calendar
C. Business case
D. Procurement statement of work
Lewis is a project team member taking part in team building exercises with the project manager and other team members. Lewis is shy and typically keeps to himself unless prompted for his input. Lewis is struggling with the current communication activity. Lewis wishes that he could be more like Becky. Becky is very well liked and highly regarded by everyone else. While she is not part of the project management team, she is seen by others as a role model since she is able to get others to see her way on many issues. Which type of power does Becky possess?
A. Referent power
B. Expert power
C. Coercive power
D. Reward power
You have outsourced the plumbing work for a project designed to build a new state of the art office building. Several weeks into the project, you need to identify the metrics that will be assessed when determining how the contract is performing. Which is the
BEST
source of this information?
A. Procurement statement of work
B. Procurement management plan
C. Work performance reports
D. Procurement contract
Mark is a project team member currently working on a project task with medium priority. Lucy, the project manager, observes that Mark seems to be distracted and is falling behind on his work. Which action should Lucy take?
A. Let Mark continue with his task, but observe the situation closely.
B. Recommend Mark take the rest of the day off and have another team member continue with the task.
C. Tell Mark that he has to work extra time to make up for falling behind on the task.
D. Reprimand Mark and replace him with another project team member.
You are trying to identify and document high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints to pinpoint project limitations. You have interviewed key stakeholders that have expertise in this area and looked at the current environment. Which other activity should you perform to complete your task?
A. Examine your organizational structure and culture
B. Assess current government and industry standards
C. Access the corporate knowledge base
D. Review the high-level scope statement
You are engaged in the Control Quality process of a project designed to build the world's smallest car. The development of the car has been plagued with issues. The SPI of the project is currently 0.61 and there are no additional funds available in the budget. At this point in the project, the car has been fitted with secondary systems such as suspension and brakes, but the power train has yet to be installed. This delay has prevented any electrical systems from being installed. Which impact will this have on the quality tests related to this process?
A. Testing will need to be changed to reflect the work performance data
B. Crash the schedule and then perform the required quality assessments
C. Quality testing will be incomplete, and the data will be inconclusive
D. Fast-track the schedule and then perform the required quality assessments
Your project team is creating a new smartphone application. The project has a budget of $1,500 per week and has an estimated duration of seven weeks. The project is currently one week behind schedule, and $1,000 over budget. What is the planned value at the end of the sixth week?
A. $7,500
B. $10,500
C. $6,000
D. $9,000
You have been named the project manager very early in the project lifecycle and have been asked to take over the creation of the project charter. Which activity would you perform?
A. Perform a ROM estimate
B. Sign off on the project charter
C. Calculate the projects EV
D. Create a multi-criteria decision analysis
You have decided to sponsor an internal project for your organization whose goal is to provide greater flexibility when responding to service requests. The objective of the project is to create a new online application form that must be up and running by the end of the year. After the project charter has been created, which action should be performed next?
A. Create a business case
B. Gather processes, procedures, and historical data
C. Determine roles and responsibilities of the team
D. Select a project manager
The project management office for your organization uses net present value (NPV) to assess potential projects. At this time, there is only money to begin one project. Given the following results, which project should they choose?
Project A is estimated to take two years with an NPV of -$30,000
Project B is estimated to take one year with an NPV of -$10,000
Project C is estimated to take one year with an NPV of $10,000
Project D is estimated to take six years with an NPV of $50,000
A. A project estimated to take six years with an NPV of $50,000
B. A project estimated to take two years with an NPV of -$30,000
C. A project estimated to take one year with an NPV of -$10,000
D. A project estimated to take one year with an NPV of $10,000
You have just finished identifying risks that are associated with a project that you are managing. You now want to associate the risks with their root cause. Which method will
BEST
achieve this?
A. Delphi technique
B. Monte Carlo analysis
C. SWOT analysis
D. Ishikawa diagram
You are the project manager for a large manufacturing organization. You are currently managing a project designed to create a new line of fishing boats. Several weeks into the project, you are informed that John, the head of marketing, is concerned that the new boats will not provide any sales advantage over the current offerings. What is the
FIRST
thing you should do?
A. Update the stakeholder register with information about John's concerns.
B. Refer to the communication management plan to determine the escalation process for John's concerns.
C. Contact John to determine the basis of his concerns and what can be included in the project to meet his expectations.
D. Consult the stakeholder engagement plan to determine how to gain John's support for the project.
You are managing a project that has received bad publicity in the local news. This is due to the project being behind schedule, all personnel being devoted to production, and proper cleanup not being performed. There was an effort to bring the project back on schedule, but the public was more concerned with debris making a mess of community. The decision to move personnel from cleanup to production would have been made during which process?
A. Monitor and Control Project Work
B. Validate Scope
C. Direct and Manage Project Work
D. Perform Integrated Change Control
You are looking over the high-level risks for a potential project. One of the risks is the potential impact that significant changes to inflation rates would have on the return on investment of the project. Which source would
BEST
identify this risk?
A. Business case
B. Enterprise environmental factors
C. Project statement of work
D. Organizational process assets
You are the project manager and you have noticed that project efficiency and effectiveness levels have decreased. Which process is
MOST
closely associated with continuous process improvement?
A. Define Scope
B. Manage Quality
C. Define Activities
D. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
You are the project manager for an automotive manufacturing company. You need to confirm that the project you are undertaking aligns with the organization's business strategy. What is
BEST
used to accomplish this?
A. Stakeholder analysis
B. Design of experiments
C. Benefit analysis
D. Requirements documentation
You are a project manager in charge of putting together a one-day weekend concert for four musical acts in a small town. The concert is to take place on August 1. During planning, it was decided that the concert would take place in a field that was offered for free by a local farmer. This location was chosen with the assumption that there would be less than a 60% chance of rain in the weather forecast for the concert date. An alternate location at the town's community center was chosen if the chance of rain is 60% or higher and would be provided for free. Regardless of the location chosen, it will not affect the schedule. The actual vendor location used will have to be decided and approved by end of day July 28. Once the decision has been made and approved, what should you do NEXT?
A. Plan how to setup for the concert at the chosen venue location.
B. Implement a risk response plan to ensure availability of the alternate venue location.
C. Update the issue log to reflect the changed venue location.
D. Submit a change request to have the venue changed to the chosen location.
The project manager for the current project has received the pressure and temperature data for a process used to create one of the deliverables. He provides them to you. He also provides you with an approach to use for checking the quality requirements of the process and the status of the project. Before you can begin checking the quality of the process, what other piece of information do you require?
A. The risk register identifying the risk response strategy to be used if a quality check fails
B. The issue log identifying obstacles that can impede the quality study
C. The preferred communication methods for project stakeholders
D. The data standards for the given process
You are a project manager for a major golf club manufacturer. Your team is working on developing a new line of golf clubs for the upcoming season. It was planned that you will meet with the stakeholders after the first few production sets were ready and allow them to try the clubs. You are reviewing how effective this type of stakeholder meeting is. Why would this type of meeting take place?
A. To smooth out any issues that may exist with stakeholders
B. To aid in performance testing of the product
C. To further engage stakeholders in the project
D. To allow the stakeholders to audit the product
You have just finished prioritizing project risks based on the probability of occurrence and impact to the project. Which action should you do
NEXT
?
A. Perform a qualitative analysis
B. Perform a quantitative analysis
C. Perform a reserve analysis
D. Perform a brainstorming session
Your organization has been looking to increase the market share of its high-end smart phone products. You have an idea that may provide a solution to this problem. He tells you that you will need to write a business case before they will look at your idea any further. Which item will you need to include in your business case?
A. A framework that supports your organization's strategic goals
B. A document used for defining the initial intention of the project.
C. A progressive elaboration of the characteristics of the product.
D. A return on investment (ROI) study
You are currently involved in the Control Quality process of a design project. The project involves building a working model of a waterslide. At the end of the project, it is determined that the model meets all requirements. Which option is also a result of this process?
A. Quality metrics
B. Quality management plan
C. Quality control measurements
D. Continuous improvement procedures
You have planned out a project. The weekend has passed since the project kickoff meeting took place. It is now Monday morning and the team members are anxious to begin working on their tasks. What should you do
NEXT
?
A. Provide the team members with the meeting schedule.
B. Authorize the work to begin on the first work package.
C. Get the team members to accept their roles going forward.
D. Begin looking out for non-critical risks that increase in importance.
You are managing a project to create a drug that reduces the effects of arthritis. Four significant side effects have been identified with the current formula, so you have implemented a change to try to eliminate them. The change to the formula has reduced the number of side effects to two; however, it has introduced the risk of a new side effect that was not identified earlier. What type of risk is the new side effect?
A. Audit risk
B. Inherent risk
C. Residual risk
D. Secondary risk
You are the project manager overseeing the development of a new console video game and are currently involved in the Monitor and Control Project Work process. A working beta of the game is supposed to be available in the next two weeks to demo at an investors' conference. The project is a bit ahead of schedule. Too much information should not be disclosed at the conference. Which action can be taken to ensure that too much information is not released at the conference?
A. Obtain the latest performance data to verify the status of development
B. Minimize the scope for the release
C. Continue as scheduled and demo the product that is available
D. Initiate a change request to have extra resources temporarily removed from the project
Planning has been completed on the project you are managing and all team members have been provided with their assignments. A team member contacts you a month before a critical task is scheduled to be worked on. They tell you that their regular manager may need them to work on another important task that is scheduled for the same time period. You meet with the team member's manager and confirm the information is accurate. Which action should you carry out
NEXT
?
A. Meet with the team member's manager in two weeks time to confirm if the team member will be available
B. Assign another team member to the critical project task
C. Analyze the situation and determine the available options
D. Reschedule the critical project task to a date when the team member has no other possible commitments
Frank is a new project team member with some project experience in all areas of project management, but specializing in procurements. The project has received proposals from different vendors. Frank has been assigned the task to determine if the cost estimates of the procurement items provided by one of the qualified vendors are reasonable. Which action should he do
FIRST
?
A. Schedule a bidder conference to get proposals from other vendors.
B. Compare the cost estimates of the procurement items with independent cost estimates.
C. Obtain an independent cost estimate for the procurement items from a professional external estimator.
D. Determine an estimate for each of the procurement items.
Who is responsible for guiding the formalization and approval of the project?
A. Project sponsor
B. Performing organization
C. Project manager
D. Project team
You are managing the construction of a state-of-the-art hospital. As with any project, this one has had its share of problems. The customer would like to add a new wing to the hospital and designate it solely for the use of diagnostic medicine. Which action should occur if the change request is rejected?
A. A change control meeting is held to discuss the reasoning.
B. Documentation explaining the reasoning is returned to the requestor.
C. Explanation and documentation is sent to the project sponsor.
D. The change is channeled back to the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
You are currently defining the work that will be required to complete a product that will be produced by a project that you are managing. Which item are you currently working on?
A. Scope baseline
B. Scope validation
C. Product scope
D. Project scope
Janet is a project manager for a multinational corporation. She has chosen the people for the project team roles identified in the resource management plan for a project developing a new accounting program. The team members are geographically dispersed across multiple continents. The communications management plan identifies the integrated nature of the technologies, including video and teleconferencing to be used by the team members when communicating amongst each other. What is a benefit to this type of team?
A. Collocation of team members
B. Ability to make use of local human resource policies
C. Provides the project manager with complete authority over the project
D. Forming project teams with resources who work different shifts
You are in the process of creating the configuration management plan for the scope of a project that you are managing. Which item will you need to identify?
A. Which process is used to manage project changes
B. Which configuration items require version control
C. How configuration items will be verified
D. How the scope will be managed and controlled
You are creating the WBS for a project. Which indicator
BEST
shows that you have decomposed a work package to an appropriate level?
A. The work can be completed within a reporting period.
B. The work can be completed within four hours.
C. The cost can be estimated based on the activities that make up the work package.
D. The results of related work packages can be measured and verified to be within specification.
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