Which of the following forecasting methods uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes?
Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?
The risk management team of a software project has decided that due to the lack of adequate talent in the company, development of a specific part of the system is under high risk, so the team has decided to outsource it. This is an example of which risk response?
Which standard has interrelationships to other project management disciplines such as program management and portfolio management?
Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The shortest non-critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
Which type of analysis systemically gathers and analyzes qualitative and quantitative information to determine which interests should be taken into account throughout the project?
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
Which process determines the risks that may affect the project and documents their characteristics?
Which document defines how a project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail using which type of estimating?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?
The organizational process assets that are of particular importance to Plan Communications are:
Payback period, return on investment, internal rate of return, discounted cash flow, and net present value are all examples of:
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:
Which component of the human resource management plan describes when and how project team members are acquired and how long they will be needed?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
Who, along with the project manager, is supposed to direct the performance of the planned project activities and manage the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within the project?
In a construction project schedule, what is the logical relationship between the delivery of the concrete materials and the pouring of concrete?
Which process identifies whether the needs of a project can best be met by acquiring products, services, or results outside of the organization?
Changes to formally controlled documentation, plans, etc. to reflect modified or additional ideas or content are known as:
Which process involves subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable portions?
Which Plan Schedule Management tool or technique may involve choosing strategic options to estimate and schedule the project?
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?
Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
Which of the following outputs from the Schedule Control process aids in the communication of SV, SPI or any performance status to stakeholders?
Which Process Group's purpose is to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes?
The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
When a control chart is used to monitor performance of a process, which of the following will be set by the project manager and the appropriate stakeholders to reflect the point(s) at which corrective action will be taken to prevent exceeding the specification limits?
Which Perform Quality Assurance tool or technique is used to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it, and develop preventative actions?
Change requests are an output from which Project Integration Management process?
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 of the following is a tool or technique used in the Determine Budget process?
As part of a mid-project evaluation, your project sponsor has asked you to provide a forecast of total project cost. You should calculate the forecast using which of the following methods?
Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?
The review of a sellers progress toward achieving the goals of scope and quality within cost and schedule compared to the contract is known as:
A tool and technique used during the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process is:
Analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of a project is known as:
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?
The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?
Who provides the inputs for the original estimates of activity durations for tasks on the project plan?
What quality control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished is known as:
In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
Which earned value management (EVM) metric is a measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC) and is considered a critical EVM metric?
Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?
Work performance information and cost forecasts are outputs of which Project Cost Management process?
An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
A risk response strategy in which the project team shifts the impact of a threat, together with ownership of the response, to a third party is called:
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
Which of the following processes audits the quality requirements and the results from quality control measures to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used?
Which Develop Schedule tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?
Which type of estimating can produce higher levels of accuracy, depending upon the sophistication and underlying data built into the model?
During which process does a project manager review all prior information to ensure that all project work is completed and that the project has met its objectives?
Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?
What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?
Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
Which type of dependency is contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work?
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Which document includes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints?
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?
The specific technique for identifying a problem, discovering the causes that lead to it, and developing preventive actions is:
In the Develop Project Team process, which of the following is identified as a critical factor for a project's success?
Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis is a tool or technique used in which process?
External organizations that have a special relationship with the enterprise and provide specialized expertise are called:
Sharing good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the organization and/or industry is an example of:
The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:
Which of the following tools and techniques are utilized in the Close Project or Phase process?
At the completion of a project, a report is prepared that details the outcome of the research conducted on a global trend during the project. Which item did this project create?
Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
Which of the following is a complete set of indexed contract documentation, including the closed contract?
The Create WBS process is in which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Progressively elaborating high-level information into detailed plans is performed by the:
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
Which of the following is a conflict resolution technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
The person assigned by the performing organization to be responsible for achieving the project objectives is the:
Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?
Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?
Which type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?
During which process would you obtain stakeholders’ formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?
A project has a current cost performance index (CPI) of 1.25. To date, US$10,000 have been spent on performing the project work. What is the earned value of the work completed to date?
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
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?
In the Initiating Process Group, at what point does the project become officially authorized?
Stakeholders can be identified in later stages of the project because the Identify Stakeholders process should be:
Which of the following project documents is an input to the Control Scope process?
The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
Which process involves developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?
The process of defining how the project scope will be validated and controlled is known as:
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
Which type of agreement is legal, contractual, and between two or more entities to form a partnership, joint venture, or some other arrangement as defined by the parties?
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 quality tool may prove useful in understanding and estimating the cost of quality in a process?
Which of the following are placed at selected points in the work breakdown structure (WBS) for performance measurement?
You are assigned to implement the project control plan. What should you do to ensure the plan is effective and current?
Which process is included in the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?
Projects that share common outcomes, collective capability, knowledge, or skills are often grouped into a:
Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?
The project scope statement and resource calendars are inputs to which Project Time Management process?
Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?
What is the probability of occurrence if the risk rating is 0.56 and the impact if the risk does occur is very high (0.80)?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
Which of the following is the process of identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables?
The output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
Which of the following is a means of reaching a group decision in which everyone agrees on a single course of action?
In which domain of project management would a Pareto chart provide useful information?
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?
Which of the following is developed from the project scope baseline and defines only that portion of the project scope that is to be included within a related contract?
Organizational process assets can be divided into which of the following two categories?
What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
Within project integration management, the statement of work (SOW) references which aspects of the project?
Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
The most commonly used type of precedence relationship in the precedence diagramming method (PDM) is:
Regression analysis, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), and trend analysis are examples of which tool or technique?
Impacts to other organizational areas, levels of service, and acceptance criteria are typical components of which document?
The run chart created during the Perform Quality Control process on a project is used to show the:
In which process might a project manager use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
Which of the following is a schematic display of the project’s schedule activities and the logical relationships among them?
Which type of project management office (PMO) supplies templates, best practices, and training to project teams?
Your project has an EV of 100 work-days, an AC of 120 work-days, and a PV of 80 work days. What should be your concern?
Which type of manager is assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives?
Which of the following is a tool and technique used in all processes within Project Integration Management?
Which of the following procurement processes results in the awarding of a procurement contract?
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?
The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product is known as:
Which of the following is an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Which of the following statements is true regarding project and product lifecycles?
Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?
Which type of management focuses on ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation?
The technique of subdividing project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work and deliverables are defined to the work package level is called:
While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery. What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
Which stakeholder communicates with higher levels of management to gather organizational support and promote project benefits?
Which of the following is a tool or technique for the Plan Procurements process?