1.200 New Pmp Questions and Answers

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a project?

Constrained by limited resources Planned, executed, and controlled Creates a unique product or service Ongoing and repetitive

In which document will you find the code of account identifier, description of work, responsible organization, and list of schedule milestones?

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WBS

WBS Dictionary PERT/CPM Charts Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

All the following statements relating to the project management team and the project team are accurate EXCEPT:

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The project management team is also called the core, executive, or leadership team.

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The project team is responsible for activities like planning, controlling, and closing.

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The project management team is a subset of the project team.

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4 For small projects, the project management responsibilities are shared by the entire team or administered solely by the project manager.

Question No :4 Selected Choice :

You are considering whether to buy or make a software product. If you want to buy, the cost is $ 80,000, and the cost of procuring and integrating the product in your company is $ 1,000. If you want to build it yourself, the product will require seven engineers working for three months. The salary of each software engineer is $ 4,000 per month. The other related miscellaneous costs budget allocated to the project is $ 2,000. Which option will you choose?

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Buy Build Neither build nor buy Need more information on suppliers to make a decision Question No :5 Selected Choice :

When referring to inputs for Develop Schedule process, responsibility (i.e., who will perform the work), activity type (i.e., summary or detailed), and WBS classification are :

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Constraints Activity attributes Resource pool description Activity duration estimates

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Question No :6 Selected Choice :

In the context of a desirable model of communication between a sender and a receiver, all the following statements are correct EXCEPT:

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Noise should be minimized.

Receiver must decode and reply to the message.

Receiver should acknowledge and agree with the message sent by the sender. Receiver should send a feedback message to the sender.

Question No :7 Selected Choice :

You are the project manager of a sewage treatment plant. The government has mandated that you ensure that the neighborhood is not adversely impacted by your project plant. For your project, this directive is regarded as a/an:

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Assumption Ethical practice Constraint Deliverable

Question No :8 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are estimating schedule activity costs by determining the unit cost rates, e.g., staff this context, which of the following cannot be used to determine resource cost rates?

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Statistical relationship between historical data and other variables

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Gathering quotes

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Standard rates with escalation factors (for contracts) Commercial databases or seller published price lists

Question No :9 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are performing the Monitor and Control Risks process. So, you are always on the that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. These indications can also be referred to as:

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Triggers Warning signs Risk symptoms Triggers, warning signs and risk symptoms

Question No :10 Selected Choice :

Stakeholders, including consultants, customers, sponsors, and professional and technical association sources of:

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Enterprise environmental factors Organizational process assets Expert judgment Risk monitoring and control

Question No :11 Selected Choice :

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You are the project manager responsible for developing a new type of soap. You decide to do a statistical sampling for this project. Statistical sampling surveys only a portion of the population of interest. If you had chosen to survey the entire population, which of the following is NOT a problem you would encounter?

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Inaccurate data Very expensive Longer time More resources

Question No :12 Selected Choice :

In your organization, all big technical projects go through Initiate, Analyze, Design, Implement, Test, and Closeout. In this context, a project life cycle:

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Defines the product life cycle Defines the project phases Contains several product life cycles

Has deliverables that must be completed before work starts on the next phase

Question No :13 Selected Choice :

When you started creating a work breakdown structure for your project, you realized that it was too complicated to be done on a single piece of paper. You then started using a work breakdown structure numbering system to:

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Determine the complexity of the project

Determine the level at which individual WBS elements are found Help in automating the WBS using appropriate software

Present justification for the project

Question No :14 Selected Choice :

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As a project manager, you advocate active participation of your team members; this is because you believe in:

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Theory Y (McGregor Model) Theory X (McGregor Model) Maslow`s hierarchy of needs Referent Power

Question No :15 Selected Choice :

Which of the following is the most widely used contract type?

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Cost plus incentive fee contracts Fixed price incentive fee contracts Cost plus award fee contracts Firm fixed price contracts

Question No :16 Selected Choice :

Please refer to the diagram given below (all units are in days):

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What is the project float if management wants to complete this project within 13 days?

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0 days - 3 days 2 days

Cannot be determined, because information given in the question is incomplete Previous

Next

Question No :17 Selected Choice :

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In your project, you use issue logs or action item logs to document and monitor resolution of issues. You focus on documentation and timely resolution of issues, because unresolved issues can:

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Be escalated to the project sponsor Be a major source of conflict Become undetermined risks in the project Have adverse effect on all project parameters

Question No :18 Selected Choice :

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Your project is nearing completion, when the customer requests you to include an additional feature in the project`s final product. The BEST course of action is to:

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Include the feature, as it will improve customer satisfaction

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Include the feature - otherwise the product will not be accepted by the customer

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Talk with the customer and explain that the new feature does not make business sense

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Take the requirement through the change control process

Question No :19 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are using cost aggregation, expert judgment, and historical relationships to establish a cost performance baseline. This is performed during:

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Control Costs Determine Budget Estimate Costs Create WBS

Question No :20 Selected Choice :

Graphical representations of situations showing causal influences, time ordering of events, and other relationships among variables and outcomes are also referred to as:

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Cause-and-effect diagrams System flow charts

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Influence diagrams Simulation diagrams

Question No :21 Selected Choice :

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You are a project manager in the executing stage of the project. In this context, which of the following statements is incorrect?

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Most of the project budget will be expended in project plan execution. The project manager and the team implement the planned methods and standards. The project manager will review all information from the current phase closures. The project manager and the team manage risks and implement risk response activities

Question No :22 Selected Choice :

Determining and delivering the required levels of quality for the project is the responsibility of:

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Project sponsor Project manager/project management team Project team All stakeholders in the project

Question No :23 Selected Choice :

As a project manager, you realize that managing project stakeholder expectations is an important priority. Which statement on project stakeholders is NOT correct?

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Negative stakeholders must be ignored if the project has to be successfully completed.

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Stakeholders have varying levels of responsibility and authority when participating on a project and these can change over the course of the project life cycle.

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Some key stakeholders include project manager, operations management, project team, customers, and sponsor.

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Stakeholder expectations may be difficult to manage, because stakeholders often have very different or conflicting objectives.

Question No :24 Selected Choice :

In your project, you need to verify whether deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria. For this purpose, which of the following would you rely on?

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Inspection Expert judgment Observations Focus groups

Question No :25 Selected Choice :

Two project team members disagree often on the best way to handle an issue. You ask them to look at the positives and negatives of their approaches and submit their recommendations, which could be a "middle path". Which of the following conflict resolution techniques have you used?

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Smoothing Compromising Confrontation

Withdrawal

Question No :26 Selected Choice :

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You had conducted an independent estimate to find out the cost of sub-contracting the manufacturing of 1,000,000 ball-bearings for your automobile company. You estimated the cost to be $ 500 per bearing. However, when you asked for bids and proposals from prospective sellers, the minimum price quoted was $ 750 per bearing. Which of the following cannot be a reason for the variance in the estimate?

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The procurement statement of work was not clear.

The prospective sellers misunderstood the procurement statement of work. The procurement statement of work was not sufficient.

There have not been major changes in the cost of material and labor since last year

Question No :27 Selected Choice :

As a project manager, you are responsible for meeting the project schedule deadlines. If there is some delay in the project schedule, you should (choose the most appropriate answer):

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Increase the timeline for the project.

Fast track or crash the project, and let the management know the impact of this action. Ask the resources to work overtime to meet the project deadlines. Change the project scope.

Question No :28 Selected Choice :

You have completed the Distribute Information process and are now in a position to make the required information available to the project stakeholders in a timely manner. Which of the

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following is NOT an output from Distribute Information process?

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Performance reports Project reports and presentations Stakeholder notifications Project records

Question No :29 Selected Choice :

One of your team members filed a critical report ten minutes before a bidder conference. You notice some serious errors have crept into the report. You should:

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Cancel the meeting and reschedule it at a later date

Go ahead with the meeting and tell the participants what is wrong with the report Go ahead with the meeting, but ask your team member to make the presentation Refer the team member`s report to management and ask them to cancel the meeting

Question No :30 Selected Choice :

You are creating a cost performance baseline for your project. In this context, which of the following statements related to cost performance baseline is incorrect?

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It is a time - phased budget.

To measure disbursements, a spending plan can be used as a cost-baseline. It is used to measure, monitor, and control overall cost performance. In the earned value management technique it is also known as cost measurement baseline

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Question No :31 Selected Choice :

You are the project manager in an automobile manufacturing company. Machine parts required in your manufacturing process supplied by a vendor did not reach in time because of heavy rains. You had anticipated this risk and planned for it in your risk response plan. So, as per your risk response plan, you started using unutilized machine parts supplied one year ago. However, this has subjected your project to a new risk - the machine parts which were not used for one year suffer from higher level of defects. This new risk can also be called:

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Unidentifiable risks Unmanageable risks Secondary risks Residual risks

uestion No :32 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are in the process of performing the work as defined in the project management plan to achieve the project`s objectives. This is done during:

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Direct and Manage Project Execution Develop Project Management Plan Monitor and Control Project Work Create Deliverables

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Question No :33 Selected Choice :

You are managing the tools/spare parts section for an aircraft manufacturing company. Your team members have discovered some defective tools/spare parts. The probable cause for these could be materials used, defective measurement systems, inaccurate tolerances in the machines, or other factors. To determine what caused the defect, you will:

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Use a control chart Draw an Ishikawa diagram Create a flowchart Draw a Pareto chart

Question No :34 Selected Choice :

You have been managing a project to construct an overpass on Interstate 10. You have divided the project into phases to provide better management control. Which of the following is a characteristic of a project phase?

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Formal phase completion necessarily includes authorization for the subsequent phase.

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A project phase can be closed with a decision not to initiate the subsequent phase.

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A project phase should not be divided into sub-phases even in complex projects, because it will be difficult to manage.

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All deliverables in the project phase should correspond to the project management process.

Question No :35 Selected Choice :

An environmental remediation project has succeeded in reducing costs. This is achieved by

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implementing a change request for new technology that was not available when the scope was originally defined. The technology change that is adopted is a/an:

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Value adding change

Error or omission in defining the scope of the project External event Contingency or workaround plan

Question No :36 Selected Choice :

According to Herzberg`s theory, all of the following are motivating factors EXCEPT:

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Recognition Responsibility Advancement in career Salary

Question No :37 Selected Choice :

In your new project, you have to provide a critical deliverable within five months and do not have time to go through the Conduct Procurements process. You decide to sign a contract with a supplier with whom your company has done some work in the past. The risk you are accepting in this situation is:

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The ability of the supplier to deliver the goods Collusion between the supplier and your team Lack of proper scope definition Lack of a legally binding agreement

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Question No :38 Selected Choice :

You are in the process of performing Develop Schedule process to determine planned start and finish dates for project activities. Which of the following inputs will be helpful in this process?

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Activity attributes, project scope statement, and activity list Activity list, activity attributes, and schedule data Project calendar, requested changes, and schedule data Work performance information, schedule baseline, and performance reports

Question No :39 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are using Report Performance process to organize and summarize the information gathered. Later, you present the results of the analysis as a comparison to the performance measurement baseline. Some common formats for performance reports that you could use are:

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S-curves, histograms, Pareto diagrams

S-curves, responsibility assignment matrices ,histograms Bar charts, S-curves, histograms Bar charts, control charts, histograms

Question No :40 Selected Choice :

You are managing a project in a foreign country, where you realize you will have to pay a fee

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to some government agencies to get your work done. You should:

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Pay the fee to the government agencies

Refuse to pay the fee, because they are bribes and hence unethical Make a case why fees should be paid to government agencies, and present it to your management Offer gifts to the government officials instead of fee to get their support

Question No :41 Selected Choice :

In your project, there have been several changes in the cost and schedule estimates, and the original estimating assumptions are no longer valid. Calculate the estimate at completion (EAC) for your project based on the following data? BAC = $ 300,000 AC = $ 100,000 EV = $ 150,000 CPI = 1.2 ETC = $ 120,000

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$ 250,000 $ 220,000 $ 280,000 $ 300,000 Previous

Question No :42 Selected Choice :

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In your project, you have been sub-contracting your IT development work to four consultancy firms. Which of the following statements about transferring risk to a contractor is not true?

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Risk transference nearly always involves payment of a risk premium. Fixed price contract always transfers the risk to the seller. Cost-plus contracts may transfer the cost risks to the buyer. Contracts may be used for the transference of liability for specified risks to another party.

Question No :43 Selected Choice :

Project integration management includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities. For successful project integration management, you definitely need(select the best answer):

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A strong matrix organizational structure in your company A good communication management plan Good project selection techniques Positive stakeholders who support the project

Question No :44 Selected Choice :

The customer was not satisfied with the finished product`s quality. The cost of poor quality can also be referred to as:

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Cost of conformance Failure cost Rework cost

Opportunity cost

Question No :45 Selected Choice :

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You are working as a portfolio manager. Which of the following are you responsible for managing?

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Project interdependencies Projects and programs Projects, programs, and operations Functional work and operations

uestion No :46 Selected Choice :

As a project manager, you are responsible for managing changes to the project scope. If, at the end of the project, a customer wants a major change in the scope of work, you should:

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Reject the change Make the required change Escalate the matter to senior management

Let the customer know about the impact of the change

Question No :47 Selected Choice :

In your project you are in the process of developing the human resource plan. Which of the following is not an enterprise environmental factor that would influence this process?

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Lessons learned documentation

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Existing human resources Personnel administration policies Marketplace conditions

Question No :48 Selected Choice :

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Your company has entered into a joint venture with another company, and you are in the process of finalizing a teaming agreement. In the teaming agreement, both the buyer and the seller collectively prepare:

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Source selection criteria Contract Procurement statement of work Contract, Procurement statement of work

Question No :49 Selected Choice :

In your project, you wish to identify and document the specific actions to be performed to produce the deliverables. This is done as part of:

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Define Activities Decomposition Define Scope Sequence Activities

Question No :50 Selected Choice :

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In your project, you have conducted a communication requirements analysis to determine the total number of possible communication channels in the project. While conducting the analysis, you learn that the number of communication channels:

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Increases in direct proportion to the number of people

Decreases in inverse proportion to the number of people Increases in exponential proportion when the number of people increases Depends on the type of project

Question No :51 Selected Choice :

As a project manager, achieving customer satisfaction is an important objective for you. Which of the following will help you in attaining your objective?

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Defining requirements

Providing more features than what the customer has asked for Identifying project related risks Providing project justification

Question No :52 Selected Choice :

There are three projects:

Project A has a payback period of 3 years and NPV of $ 300,000 Project B has a payback period of 2 years and NPV of $ 200,000 Project C has a payback period of 1 year and NPV of $ 100,000

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Which project should be selected if NPV criterion is used?

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Project A Project B Project C

Question No :53 Selected Choice :

You are in the Identify Risks process of your project where you determine which risks may affect the project and document their characteristics. Whom would you want to be a part of the Identify Risks process?

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The project manager, project team members, subject matter experts, and customers The risk management team, end users, and risk management experts All relevant stakeholders Positively impacted stakeholders

Question No :54 Selected Choice :

A change in your project schedule has resulted in increased cost and risk. It has also impacted your resource plan. To coordinate changes across the entire project, you will need to rely on which of the following:

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Change control system

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Perform Integrated Change Control Change requests Changes to project plan baselines

Question No :55 Selected Choice :

In a normal distribution, standard deviation refers to:

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Distance of measurement from the mean

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Distance of measurement from the most likely value

Distance of measurement from the middle most value A tool that is used in qualitative risk analysis

Question No :56 Selected Choice :

Which of the following is not a Project Management Knowledge Area?

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Project Integration Management Project Procurement Management Project Configuration Management Project Communications Management

Question No :57 Selected Choice :

You are the project manager of a software company. You need ideas for project and

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product requirements. Which of the following techniques will you use?

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Delphi technique Idea/mind mapping Nominal group technique Brainstorming

Question No :58 Selected Choice :

In your project, you invest a lot of time in team development to increase the team`s performance, which in turn increases the likelihood of meeting project objectives. Which of the following indicators will you NOT use to evaluate your team`s effectiveness?

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Improvement in skills of team members

Improvement in competencies and morale that help the team to perform better as a group Decrease in staff-attrition (i.e., fewer people leaving the project team) Delivery of project deliverables before time

Question No :59 Selected Choice :

Which of the following statements on time and material contracts is accurate?

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These types of contracts resemble cost-reimbursable type arrangements, because they are close ended. T&M contracts cannot grow in value like a cost-reimbursable contract. The full value of the agreement is defined at the time of contract award. Unit rates can be fixed by the buyer and seller when both parties agree on the values for specific resource categories.

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Question No :60 Selected Choice :

While creating a project schedule, what duration should a milestone have?

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Zero Duration equal to the phase duration

Duration equal to the time required for a particular task to be completed Duration of the complete project till the milestone date

Question No :61 Selected Choice :

In your project, you would like to conduct a lessons learned session to identify project successes and failures, as well as make recommendations to improve future project performance. This is done during:

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Project closure Project initiation Project life cycle Project execution and project closure

Question No :62 Selected Choice :

You recently went on an official trip to another country to discuss a business proposition with a potential vendor. The vendor took you out for lunch and offered you gifts, as it is customary in that country. You must:

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Tell the vendor that you cannot accept the gifts as per company policy

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Accept the gifts as it is a local custom and promptly inform your manager Return the gifts, because accepting them could be interpreted as a personal gain Accept the gifts, as they are not very expensive

Question No :63 Selected Choice :

In your company, payback period is primarily used as the decision criterion for project selection. Payback period is the:

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Number of years a company takes to get back the invested amount Discount rate on an investment that makes present value of all cash inflows equal to present value of all cash outflows Duration in which the project gets completed

Number of years a company takes to make profits equal to the amount invested

Question No :64 Selected Choice :

In your project, you have identified important risks and planned appropriate responses to the risks. Some risks - e.g. possibility of natural disasters impacting the project - have been documented and accepted in your risk management plan. What are the remaining risks called?

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Unidentifiable Risks Residual Risks Secondary Risks Accepted Risks

Question No :65 Selected Choice :

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In a recent job interview, you are asked to define the most important characteristic of a project manager. Which of the following will be the best answer?

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Subject matter expert Integrator Creative person Risk minimizer

Question No :66 Selected Choice :

You are the project manager in a company. You have to prepare a process improvement plan. Which of the following would you not consider for this purpose?

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3

4

Question No :67 Selected Choice :

You are responsible for managing a project in your company but you have least authority and have to constantly report to a functional manager. To which organizational structure does your company belong?

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Matrix

Quality metrics Targets for improved performance Process boundaries and process metrics Process configuration

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Functional Projectized Balanced

Question No :68 Selected Choice :

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You are a project manager in a manufacturing company. You are developing a new product. In this context, you are conducting requirements workshop for the stakeholders to determine the product`s critical characteristics. Which technique would you use for this purpose?

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Quality function deployment Joint application development Voice of the customer Juran`s improvement technique

Question No :69 Selected Choice :

In your project, you establish clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members. You believe that early commitment to clear guidelines will decrease misunderstanding and increase productivity. These expectations and guidelines are also known as:

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Team-building activities Ground rules Interpersonal skills Rules of conduct

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Question No :70 Selected Choice :

You are in the process of determining the types of contracts to be used, need for standardized procurement documents, and ways of managing multiple providers. You can get the guidance for doing these activities through:

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Project plan Procurement document Procurement management plan Proposals

Question No :71 Selected Choice :

In Estimate Activity Duration process, which of the following is not an assumption?

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Existing conditions Availability of information Length of the reporting periods Project scope

Question No :72 Selected Choice :

You are the project manager with seven team members. One more member will be joining the team after a week. What will be the number of communication channels once the new member joins your team?

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28

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21 18 36

Question No :73 Selected Choice :

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Your friend requests you to lend him your accounting package software CDROM to install the software in his computer. You should:

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Give him the software for free

Give him the software and charge some money for it Refuse to give him the software

Report the copyright violation to the copyright owner of the software package

Question No :74 Selected Choice :

In your construction project, the CPI is 0.85 and SPI is 1.25. What could be the possible reason?

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A critical resource went on sick leave for a long period of time, which had not been anticipated earlier.

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The cost of raw materials required for construction increased by 10%. - You had anticipated a cost increase of 12% in your project plans.

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In anticipation of delays, the project was crashed to decrease the duration. There was four days waiting time in the curing of concrete, and work could not be done during that time.

Question No :75 Selected Choice :

Even after carefully performing risk management for the project, you realize that

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possibility of new risks occurring in the future still exists. You will be able to handle such risks if you perform:

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Plan Risk Management Identify Risks Monitor and Control Risks Plan Risk Responses

Question No :76 Selected Choice :

Which of the following is not related to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?

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Manage sellers and suppliers Create project deliverables Implement the planned methods and standards Change control meetings

Question No :77 Selected Choice :

You have completed a NASA project for the launch of a weather forecasting satellite. The satellite is being tested for a specific quality metric. For which processes are quality metrics used?

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Perform Quality Assurance and Plan Quality Plan Quality and Perform Quality Control

Perform Quality Control, Plan Quality, and Perform Quality Assurance Perform Quality Assurance and Perform Quality Control

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Question No :78 Selected Choice :

You are a project manager in XYZ Company, which has a projectized organizational structure. In this context, which of the following statements is incorrect?

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Team members are often co-located.

There is a "home" for project team members after a project is completed. You have a great deal of authority and independence.

Organizational units (or departments) either report directly to you or provide support services to the various projects.

Question No :79 Selected Choice :

In projects, expert judgment will often be used throughout the project integration processes. Which of the following does not provide expert judgment?

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Professional and technical associations Competitors Consultants Other units within the organization

Question No :80 Selected Choice :

In your previous project, the project manager gave a lot of autonomy to the team members, which led to anarchy. The management style followed by the project manager was:

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Directing

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Laissez faire Delegating Democratic

Question No :81 Selected Choice :

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Which of the following tools is not used in Administer Procurements process?

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Payment systems Performance reporting Inspections and audits Procurement audits

Question No :82 Selected Choice :

All the following statements regarding the creation of duration estimates are correct EXCEPT:

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Mathematical analyses like CPM, GERT, and PERT indicate the dates on which the activity can be scheduled, given resource limits and other constraints.

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Duration compression techniques, including fast tracking and crashing, can help in decreasing the project schedule

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WBS classification allows for useful activity ordering and sorting. The duration of the project is the sum of the duration of all the tasks in the project.

Question No :83 Selected Choice :

Performance reports organize and summarize the information gathered and present the

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results of any analysis as a comparison with the performance measurement baseline. Which of the following is NOT a common format for performance reports?

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S-curves Control charts Tables Histograms

Question No :84 Selected Choice :

The seller`s project is undertaken on contract and you are an employee of the seller. Since you had worked earlier with ABC Bank, the buyer, you happen to be aware of the evaluation criteria used in ABC Bank to select sellers. You understand that this could be a potential conflict of interest situation. How do you propose to act?

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Do nothing and continue to work as before

Take appropriate person in ABC Bank into confidence and discuss this issue with her Disclose the evaluation criteria to your (seller) organization and help their business growth Remove yourself from the project

Question No :85 Selected Choice :

Calculate the to-complete performance index of your project, based on EAC, given that the actual cost of your project is $125,000, cost variance is $65,000, and the budget at completion is $250,000.

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.9 1.52 1.7

.3

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In your project, you have just conducted a risk data quality assessment to evaluate the degree to which the data about risks is useful for risk management. What is your next step?

1

Perform a structured review of project plans and assumptions, both at the total project and detailed scope levels.

2

Develop checklists to identify risks based on historical information and knowledge that has been accumulated from previous similar projects.

3 4

Conduct planning meetings to develop the risk management plan. Conduct interviews to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project activities.

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You are the project manager for a project, which is being managed under a contract. You receive a change request from the buyer involving a government regulation. What should you do FIRST?

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Talk with team members to understand implications of the change. Communicate the change to the management to get their inputs. Open up a change control.

Implement the change and communicate to the customer.

Question No :88 Selected Choice :

In your project, you would like to identify logical groupings based on natural relationships.

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Force field analysis Affinity diagrams Nominal group techniques Brainstorming

Your project sponsor has specified that you have to complete your project within 3 months with a funding limit of $ 250,000. This is an example of:

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Which one of the following techniques would you use?

Authoritative project management Constraint

Assumption

Laissez-faire management

Your company exhibited a car model in two international auto expos and obtained feedback from the global automobile industry, auto magazines, and others. The company decided to go ahead with the designing and manufacturing of the car, taking into consideration the feedback received. Which of the following methods did your company use to make this decision?

1 2 3 4

Observation technique Prototype Requirement documentation Requirement traceability matrix

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Question No :91 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are determining project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships. Which of the following is not an input to this process?

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Enterprise environmental factors Organizational process assets Activity resource requirements Project organization charts

Question No :92 Selected Choice :

In your project, your subcontracting requirements of the machining of high-value equipment are very demanding. Hence, you have determined the technical criteria to evaluate the sellers. This is an example of:

1 2 3 4

Objective evaluation criteria Source selection criteria Statement of work Work breakdown structure

Question No :93 Selected Choice :

Please refer to the table given below:

0

1

1

2

2

3

-1

4

Question No :94 Selected Choice :

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What is the slack of task 5?

You have eight people in your project, and one more person will be joining next week. Once the new person joins, the number of communication channels will increase by:

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0 8 12 20

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Question No :95 Selected Choice :

Your company has recently been awarded a contract by the government to reconstruct houses devastated by an earthquake. In this context, the government`s role will impact your:

1 2 3 4 Question No :96 Selected Choice :

Project scope baseline Business case and Business need Project charter Project management plan

Your sponsor has asked you to use payback period as a selection criterion to select amongst 5 competing projects. In this context, which of the following statements related to payback period is incorrect?

1

Payback period is the number of years required to get back the initial investment in the project.

2

Payback period takes the discount rate into account to determine the best possible option.

3

Payback period is a project selection criterion widely used in conjunction with NPV and IRR to determine the most suitable project.

4

The initial investment in the project will not impact the selection criteria when payback period is used for project selection.

Question No :97 Selected Choice :

In your project, the risk calculations show that there is a risk of overrunning the project scope and schedule targets to levels that are beyond the threshold limits determined in the project.

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To bring the level of risk to a level acceptable to your organization, you should:

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Consider using contingency reserves

Decrease the project scope and increase the project schedule Talk with your sponsor about canceling the project Do additional risk response planning

Question No :98 Selected Choice :

You are managing a small project with five team members working part-time. At the beginning of every week, you orally allocate work to all the team members. This is an example of:

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Work Authorization System

Improper Planning because team members do not know in advance what needs to be done at what time Project time management plan Project flexible time management plan

Question No :99 Selected Choice :

After joining as a stand-in project manager for an ongoing project, you are informed by the team that certain features are being added to the deliverable which were not asked for by the customer, to earn customer appreciation. In this situation:

1 2 3

You are concerned, because the project team is gold-plating You are happy, because the project will `exceed customer expectations` You are worried that this is going to increase the project size

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You are undecided about the increase in the quality metrics of the project

Question No :100 Selected Choice :

Project performance must be monitored and measured regularly to identify variances from the plan. W processes does not belong to the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?

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Verify Scope Monitor and Control Risks Report Performance Perform Quality Assurance

Question No :101 Selected Choice :

In your project, some of the benefits of a well-constructed scope statement are all the following EXCEPT: 1

Provides a documented basis for making future project decisions

2

Develops common understanding of project scope among stakeholders

3

Provides knowledge of project justification, deliverables, and objectives

4

Provides a basis for time and cost estimates

Question No :102 Selected Choice :

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You are the project manager of a high priority project, which will require more than 1,000 team members. During human resource planning, you would like to apply proven principles to shorten the time needed to create a human resource plan and make it effective. In this context, you will benefit if you consult an expert in the field of: 1

Networking and team formation

2

Human resource theory

3

Organizational theory

4

Project organization charts

uestion No :103 Selected Choice :

The following is the data for a CPIF project you are managing: Target cost is $ 100,000; Actual cost is $ 80,000 Target fee is $ 20,000; Maximum fee is $ 25,000; Sharing ratio is 60:40. What should be the final price of the contract? 1

$ 100,000

2

$ 108,000

3

$ 105,000

4. $

92,000

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Selected Choice :

Of the following documents, all of which are updated during Control Schedule process, which is NOT a part of the project management plan? 1

Schedule baseline

2

Cost baseline

3

Schedule management plan

4

Schedule data

Question No :105 Selected Choice :

You are the project manager in a pharmaceutical company. You are constantly involved in managing stakeholders` expectations to satisfy their needs and resolve issues. In this context, which of the following is not a relevant output? 1

Organization process assets updates

2

Change requests

3

Project management plan updates

4

Communications requirements analysis

Question No :106 Selected Choice :

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As part of your duties as a project manager, you make sensitive company data available to a vendor. In this context, which of the following precautions should you take? 1

Insist that the vendor signs a non-disclosure agreement after you release the sensitive information.

2

Make sure that the vendor receives all the sensitive information in time.

3

Ensure that the vendor signs non-disclosure agreement before you release the sensitive information.

4

Monitor the vendor in order to prevent her from sharing the information with her competitors.

Question No :107 Selected Choice :

As the project manager in a software company, you are determining the possible costs to complete project activities. This is done as part of: 1

Variance analysis

2

Estimate Costs

3

Determine Budget

4

Control Costs

Question No :108 Selected Choice :

You have created an Excel spreadsheet that shows cumulative cost at any particular point of time in the project duration. Your director wants to review the project costs and you decide to make a presentation. Cumulative costs plotted against time is shown in the slide as a: 1

S-curve

Histogram

3

Control chart

4

Pareto diagram

Question No :109 Selected Choice :

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Ideally, when should a project manager be assigned to a project? 1

As soon as a project is authorized

2

Soon after the scope statement is finalized

3

When the WBS is completed

4

At any time during the project life cycle, depending on requirements

Question No :110 Selected Choice :

Which of the following statements about "Quality" and "Grade" is incorrect? 1

Grade is a rank given to entities having the same functional use but different technical characteristics.

2

Low quality product may be of high grade.

3

Low grade product may be of high quality.

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It is a problem if the product is of high quality and low grade.

Question No :111 Selected Choice :

ABC company has recently launched a new model of their car in the market and the market response has been overwhelming. Sales have gone up to a level much higher than what the company anticipated. To cater to the increased market demand, the company plans to start a project to create a new assembly line for the cars. Who, according to you, is the user for this project? 1

Project manager and project management team

2

Person who may buy the car in the future

3

Project sponsor who provides funding

4

Assembly line worker who is going to work on the new assembly line being created

Question No :112 Selected Choice :

Your project is very critical for the company and must be completed within six months. The project charter has been signed, but the scope statement is not yet prepared. The management asks you to go ahead with the project without the scope statement being approved. What should you do? 1

Refuse to work on the project, because the management is not following standard project management practices.

2

To save time, you should start the project with inputs from the project charter.

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Meet the management and explain the problems you may face if you start a project without a scope statement.

4

Escalate the issue to the project sponsor and issue a risk memo.

Question No :113 Selected Choice :

Ten members were assigned in advance to your project. In this context, which of the following cannot be a reason for this pre-assignment? 1

Specific people were promised as part of a competitive proposal.

2

Suitable people volunteered to work on the project.

3

Staff assignments were defined in the project charter.

4

The project was dependent on the expertise of the pre-assigned persons

Question No :114 Selected Choice :

A contract which includes features of cost reimbursable and fixed price types of contract is a:

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Fixed price plus incentive fee contract Cost plus award fee contract Time and material contract Cost plus fixed fee contract

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Question No :115 Selected Choice :

Activity attributes extend the description of the activities in the activity list. Which of the following does not require activity attributes as input? 1

Sequence Activities

2

Define Activities

3

Estimate Activity Resources

4

Estimate Activity Durations

Question No :116 Selected Choice :

Identify Stakeholders is the process to identify all people or organizations impacted by the project and to document: 1

Stakeholder interests, involvement, and impact on project success

2

Their needs and address issues as they occur

3

Project status reports, progress measurements and forecasts

4

Stakeholder needs and define a communication approach

Question No :117 Selected Choice :

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You are a member of the committee which is appointed to oversee the awarding of an important contract in your company. In this context, which of the following cannot be treated as conflict of interest situations? 1

Your friend bids for the contract and you inform the committee and the project sponsor about it.

2

Your relative bids for the contract and you do not inform the project sponsor about it.

3

Your close friend bids for the contract and you refrain from participating in the contract awarding decision process without informing your sponsor.

4

Your friend bids for the contract and you make sure that the contract is awarded to him.

Question No :118 Selected Choice :

Your project is in the execution stage. NPV of your project is -$200,000 and IRR is 5%. CPI is 1.2 and SPI is 0.8. What is the recommended action? 1

Cancel the project since NPV is negative

2

Cancel the project since IRR is very low

3

Crash your project

4

Try to improve the NPV

Question No :119 Selected Choice :

Your company is a pioneer in the construction industry. The government recently floated a tender for setting up a new airport. Since you do not have all the requisite skills within the

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company, you enter into a joint venture with a leading airport construction company to bid jointly for the government contract. This is an example of: 1

Risk exploitation

2

Risk sharing

3

Risk enhancing

4

Risk mitigating

Question No :120 Selected Choice :

Project integration management includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process group. When a project is initiated, one of the processes taken up early on in the project initiation stage is: 1

Identify Stakeholders

2

Develop Scope Statement

3

Develop Human Resource Plan

4

Develop Project Management Plan

Question No :121 Selected Choice :

Your company has implemented ISO standards for quality. In this context, which of the following

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statements regarding quality is NOT accurate? 1

Objective of quality audit is to compare project deliverables against the product requirements as defined in the WBS.

2

Process analysis identifies the needed improvements from organizational and technical standpoint.

3

Perform Quality Control is the process of monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes.

4

Quality management plan describes how the project management team will implement the performing organization`s quality policy.

Question No :122 Selected Choice :

You have reached the end of the design phase of your project. You decide to call a "phase end review" for obtaining authorization to close the design phase and initiate the next phase (i.e., execution phase) of your project. Your manager disagrees with your suggestion. He wants a "kill point" to formally end the design phase of the project. In this context, you should: 1

Disagree with your manager because you know that phase end reviews should be used at the end of each phase of the project

2

Agree with your manager

3

Escalate this issue to the project sponsor

4

Take advice from a senior project manager about what should actually be done at the end of each phase of the project

Question No :123 Selected Choice :

During the Verify Scope process, you formalize acceptance of the project deliverables and keep the project focused on the business need for which it was undertaken. This should be

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done: 1

At the beginning of the project

2

At the end of the project

3

When required by the project sponsor

4

After getting validated deliverables from the quality control process

Question No :124 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are in the process of determining the project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships for your team members. Which of the following would you not define/create at the end of this process? 1

Project staff assignments

2

Roles and responsibilities

3

Project organization charts

4

Staffing management plan

Question No :125 Selected Choice :

The buyer wants to provide a single source contract, but your sponsor tells you that sole source contract would be better for the company. In this context, how do sole source contracts differ from single source contracts?

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Single source contracts are forms of non-competitive procurements, where as sole source contracts are forms of competitive procurements.

2

Single source contracts are forms of competitive procurements, where as sole source contracts are forms of non-competitive procurements

3

In single source contracts, you (buyer) contract a seller because he is your preferred seller, where as in sole source contracts, you (buyer) contract a seller because there are no other sellers for your required procurement item.

4

Unlike sole source contracts, single source contracts help an organization to save time because they do not involve procurement process before bids or proposals are received.

Question No :126 Selected Choice :

In your project, identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is done as part o

1 2 3 4

Define Activities Estimate Activity Durations Sequence Activities Develop Schedule

Question No :127 Selected Choice :

While identifying stakeholders, you plan to group the stakeholders based on their level of authority and involvement in the project. You can do this by using:

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Power/interest grid, Power/influence grid Influence/impact grid Salience model

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Question No :128 Selected Choice :

Your company asks you to manage a project of its subsidiary unit in another country. You quickly realize that workers in the subsidiary unit have poor work ethics as compared with that of your parent company. In this context, which of the following will be the most appropriate course of action? 1

Ask your new team to emulate the work ethics of the teams of your parent concern.

2

Take steps to change the work culture of your new team.

3

Regard your new team as lazy and impose sanctions.

4

Treat it as cultural differences, and try to determine ways to improve productivity.

uestion No :129 Selected Choice :

What is the status of the project?

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Behind schedule, under budget Ahead of schedule, under budget Ahead of schedule, over budget Behind schedule, over budget

1

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What is the status of the project?

In your project, you identified disaster situations (e.g. floods, earthquakes, etc.) as potential risks. The suggested that, at the project level, no steps could be taken to deal with such risks and recommended contingency reserve (with 5% of the project budget) which could be used in case of disaster situations of:

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Risk mitigation Risk acceptance Risk avoidance Bad policy decision

Question No :131 Selected Choice :

Your project involves creating a launch vehicle for NASA satellites. For successful project implementa coordinate activities with other NASA operational groups and also divide your project into several phas

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management control. To facilitate this, you should (select the BEST answer):

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Break the project into several sub-projects. Use life cycle approach to manage the project.

Develop specific deliverables, which are approved by the sponsor. Create a very comprehensive project charter.

Question No :132 Selected Choice :

In your pharmaceutical company, quality is an important criterion to determine project success. Which an example of cost of non-conformance?

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Training Rework Loss of reputation Warranty

Question No :133 Selected Choice :

As a project manager, you understand the importance of identifying and documenting project risks. In the following statements is true?

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Risk identification occurs during the Planning of the project Risk identification occurs during Monitoring and Controlling of the project Risk identification occurs during Execution of the project Risk identification occurs during different project stages depending on the type of the project

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Question No :134 Selected Choice :

In your project, the process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing ch baseline is referred to as:

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Verify Scope Control Scope Define Scope Collect Requirements

Question No :135 Selected Choice :

Motivating your team members is important for the success of the project. You understand from the HR employees are motivated by self-esteem, recognition, and self-actualization. To which theory is the HR

1 2 3 4

Theory Y Learning curve theory Herzberg`s theory Maslow`s theory

Question No :136 Selected Choice :

During the Close Procurements process, you should attend to all the following EXCEPT:

1 2

Perform a structured review of processes from plan purchases and acquisitions through contr

Perform procurement performance reviews to determine seller`s progress to deliver project sc within cost and on schedule, as compared to the contract.

4

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Identify successes and failures that warrant recognition to prepare or administer procurement future. Use procurement audits as a technique.

Question No :137 Selected Choice :

In the Control Schedule process, changes to project schedule can result in change requests to:

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Schedule baseline Components of project plan Activity attributes

Schedule baseline and/or components of project plan

Question No :138 Selected Choice :

You are the project manager of a $ 20 million project, and you are struggling to manage the needs of a So, you decide to classify the stakeholders, which will enable you to focus on the relationships necess success of the project. In this context, which of the following is not a factor that you should consider w stakeholders?

1 2 3 4

Stakeholders` interest in the project Hierarchy of the organization Stakeholders` involvement in the project Stakeholders` influence on the project

Question No :139 Selected Choice :

Your company has awarded a contract to a vendor. After some time, you realize that the vendor repre

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buddy from school. You inform this to your senior management, but they insist that you continue to ad So, to avoid any accusations of bias in this conflict of interest situation, you should:

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Document all the decisions taken by you on the activities performed by the vendor. Refrain from administering the contract. Resign from the project.

Remind your senior management of conflict of interest.

Question No :140 Selected Choice :

In your project, you use a hierarchical structure of resources by resource category and resource type t limited schedules. This hierarchical structure is also called as:

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Project hierarchy Organization hierarchy Resource breakdown structure Project breakdown structure

Question No :141 Selected Choice :

Project initiation consists of processes that facilitate the formal authorization to start a new project or a context, which of the following is not performed during project initiation?

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Create the project charter Divide large or complex projects into phases Involve customers and stakeholders Create project scope statement

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Question No :142 Selected Choice :

The project scope statement consists of the product scope description and project deliverables. It also

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Scope Baseline WBS Product acceptance criteria WBS dictionary

Question No :143 Selected Choice :

Which of the following is not a conflict resolution mode you can use to resolve conflicts in your project?

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Collaborating Smoothing Avoiding Directing

Question No :144 Selected Choice :

You have recently taken over a project from another project manager, who left the company. You reali behind schedule and over budget, but the senior management is unaware of this fact. In this context, w FIRST?

1 2

Do not continue to manage the project.

Update the management with the status of the project.

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Bring the project on schedule and then inform the management about the status of the projec Do crashing and fast-tracking of the project.

Question No :145 Selected Choice :

You note that the ability to influence the cost of a project is:

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Greatest at the early stages of the project Greatest at the middle of the project Greatest at the project closure stage Constant throughout the project

Question No :146 Selected Choice :

A project team member informs you that a particular task is taking much more time than what was bud surprised because you, as a project manager, had not anticipated this delay, and you ask for status re from all project team members. Which process group are you in?

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Initiating Executing Monitoring and Controlling Planning

Question No :147 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are now interested in determining the cause of variance relative to the scope base

1 2 3 4

Configuration management system Variance analysis Re-planning Earned value spreadsheets

Question No :148 Selected Choice :

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whether corrective action is required. You should use:

Frequent heated discussions with your colleague over an issue are creating a hostile environment. To you agree with your colleague`s point of view. The conflict resolution mode that you are using is:

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Problem solving Withdrawal Forcing Confrontation

Question No :149 Selected Choice :

You have been working on a project for the last six months. Your management lets you know that you incentive of $ 5,000, if you complete the project one month ahead of schedule. When closing the proje your team informs you that the product contains a minor flaw and may not fully satisfy the customer`s rectification of the minor flaw will require a lot of changes and take 2 more months. In this context, you

1 2 3

Close out the project.

Review the situation with your customer and sponsor. Rectify the flaw and then close out the project.

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Close the project and then inform the sponsor about the flaw.

Question No :150 Selected Choice :

In your project, if the benefit cost ratio is greater than 1, it means that

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The ratio of profits to cost is greater than 1. The ratio of revenue to cost is greater than 1.

You should select this project from all other competing alternatives. You should not select this project from all other competing alternatives.

Question No :151 Selected Choice :

You are working in the Project Management Office (PMO) of your organization. Your job responsibility

1 2 3 4

Manage the operational activities in the company

Manage human resource and risk management issues for individual projects

Provide support functions to project managers in the form of training, providing software, stan etc. Provide subject matter expertise in the functional areas of the project

Question No :152 Selected Choice :

As a project manager, you are aware that changes are bound to occur in the projects. During change you use the term project scope creep. What does the term refer to?

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Uncontrolled changes Controlled changes Manageable changes Unmanageable changes

Question No :153 Selected Choice :

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Your company has a projectized organization structure. As your project nears completion, you notice t members are more interested in trying to find new positions rather than properly discharging their dutie

1 2 3 4

Safety Social Psychological Self-esteem

Question No :154 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are documenting project purchasing decisions, specifying the approach, and ident In this context, which tool would you not use?

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Make-or-buy analysis Bidder conferences Expert judgment Contract types

Question No :155 Selected Choice :

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The following provides information on a particular task in your project: Early Start(ES): 25 days Late Start(LS): 30 days Early Finish(EF): 50 days Late Finish(LF): 55 days Based on this information, you can deduce that:

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The task is on the critical path. The project may get delayed. The project float is 5 days. The task is not on the critical path.

Question No :156 Selected Choice :

You are a project manager and have just discovered a risk in your project that requires an immediate During which Project Risk Management Process is this action performed?

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Plan Risk Management Identify Risks Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis Monitor and Control Risks

Question No :157 Selected Choice :

As a project manager, you use work authorization system to assign and allocate work to your team me context, the primary purpose of the work authorization system is to:

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Prevent team members from starting the work without your permission Prevent scope creep Prevent unnecessary changes to project scope

Clarify and initiate the work for each work package

Question No :158 Selected Choice :

Your project is facing attrition of project resources, and you would like to document processes carefull continuity. Certain costs have to be incurred for this purpose. These costs are known as:

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Costs of non-conformance Appraisal costs Failure costs Prevention costs

Question No :159 Selected Choice :

You are in the process of obtaining seller responses to select a seller. In this context, you conduct a b where your primary objective is to:

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Ensure that sellers have a clear understanding of the proposal Determine who would be qualified sellers for bidding Evaluate the interest level of sellers Use evaluation criteria to select sellers

Question No :160 Selected Choice :

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You are managing the construction project of an overpass. You would like to use the best practices in industry to help you in your project. Which of the following tools of Sequence Activities process are ba practices?

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Mandatory dependencies Discretionary dependencies Industry norms

Best Practice standards for ISO 9001 certification

Question No :161 Selected Choice :

In Plan Risk Management, you define how to conduct risk management activities for a project because planning enhances the probability of success for the subsequent risk management processes. In this c NOT do when you Plan Risk Management?

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Identify Risks

Establish an agreed-upon basis for evaluating risk

Ensure that the degree, type, and visibility of risk management are commensurate with both t importance of the project Provide sufficient resources and time for risk management activities

Question No :162 Selected Choice :

The project management plan is the most important planning document produced with inputs from sev members. In which of the following processes will the project management plan NOT be updated?

1 2

Monitor and Control Project Work Develop Project Charter

4

Perform Integrated Change Control Direct and Manage Project Execution

Question No :163 Selected Choice :

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In your project, you are doing a structured review to determine whether product activities comply with project policies. This is conducted as part of (a) ________________, and is performed during (b) ____

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(a) Quality audit (b) Quality Assurance (a) Quality audit (b) Quality Control (a) Process analysis (b) Quality Assurance (a) Process analysis (b) Quality Control

Question No :164 Selected Choice :

Which of the following should you (the buyer) pay attention to when you administer a contract?

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Ensure that contractual obligations are met.

Apply appropriate project management processes to the contractual relationship and integrate these processes to the overall management of the project. Monitor payments to the seller. Perform regular procurement audits.

Question No :165 Selected Choice :

You are working on a 12 month assignment to build a website with 4000 pages for $ 1,000,000. You a $ 250,000 every 3 months. After 6 months, you determine that only $ 400,000 of work is completed an

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$ 2,000,000 $ 1,500,000 $ 1,000,000 1,200,000

Question No :166 Selected Choice :

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800,000. What is the ETC?

Your project is complete and you are performing project closure activities. In this context, what should

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Creating final product, service, or result transition

Releasing project resources working on the project Updating organizational process assets Accepting deliverables

Question No :167 Selected Choice :

While preparing the schedule for the project activities, you find that there is very limited information on you wish to use the actual duration of a previous, similar activity as a basis for estimating future activit tool do you use?

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Three-point estimates Parametric estimating Quantitative estimating Analogous estimating

Question No :168 Selected Choice :

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You are a retail company which routinely buys goods from foreign countries. Since currency fluctuation you keep all other factors constant and try to find out how much your project will be impacted if the cur by 5%, 10%, 20% or 25%. This helps you determine appropriate risk response. This can also be effec

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Beta probability distributions Expected monetary value analysis Tornado diagram Simulation

Question No :169 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are defining and documenting stakeholders` needs to meet the project objectives. very important as the project`s success is directly influenced by the care taken during this process. In should be very diligent when you:

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Identify Stakeholders Collect Requirements Create Project Charter Create Project Management Plan

Question No :170 Selected Choice :

Your sponsor believes in "SMART" goals for evaluating the objectives or goals for your project. In this includes all the following keywords EXCEPT:

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Significant Measurable

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Relevant Attainable

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A documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequence project risks is called:

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Corrective action Preventive action Defect repair Risk mitigation

Question No :172 Selected Choice :

You are monitoring the technical performance of your website. Past data on the number of users and t you forecast how your website would perform if the number of users increases in the future. This is an

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Design of experiments Control chart Organizational process assets Trend analysis

Question No :173 Selected Choice :

Which of the following is not true about conducting procurement negotiations?

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The project manager should be the lead negotiator.

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Subjects covered may include responsibilities, authority to make changes, applicable terms, and governing law.

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For complex procurement items, contract negotiations can be an independent process with inputs and outputs of its own.

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Negotiations should clarify the structure, requirements, and other terms of the purchases.

Question No :174 Selected Choice :

As a project manager, you are required to produce project performance reports on a regular basis, you Completion is $750,000, planned value is $100,000, schedule variance is $30,000, and cost variance the percentage complete and estimate at completion in your project?

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18%, $ 500,000 17.33%, $ 461,538 17.8%, $ 437,500 18%, $ 437,500

Question No :175 Selected Choice :

Which of the following processes occurs in the Planning Process Group?

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Identify Risks Manage Stakeholders Expectations Acquire Project Team Identify Stakeholders

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In your project, you have found that a deviation from the schedule baseline has occurred. You want to and level of variance relative to the schedule baseline so that corrective action can be taken. Which of would you use for this purpose?

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Scheduling tool Performance reviews What-If Scenario analysis Variance analysis

Question No :177 Selected Choice :

When your company buys computers from Dell, you also pay extra for a three year warranty which en manufacturing defects will be taken care of by Dell. The risk response strategy used is:

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Exploit Avoid Mitigate Transfer

Question No :178 Selected Choice :

In your project, you are performing several actions to execute the project management plan and to com defined in the project scope statement. You will be involved in:

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Taking corrective or preventive action to control the project performance

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Settling or closing any contract agreement established for the project Creating a document that will formally authorize the project Collecting work performance information about the completion status of the deliverables and accomplished

Question No :179 Selected Choice :

Your quality process did not meet the four sigma requirements desired by your customer. So, some of rejected and there is a possibility that you would not receive repeat business from the customer. From the costs associated with the rejected products can also be categorized as:

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Cost of conformance Customer retention costs Failure costs Performance costs

Question No :180 Selected Choice :

In which Process Group will work defined be completed and all the specifications of your project be sa

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Planning Process Group Executing Process Group Monitoring and Controlling Process Group Closing Process Group

Question No :181 Selected Choice :

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For your project, find the to-complete performance index (TCPI) based on the given data: Budget at completion of the project = 700,000 Cost variance of the project = 25,000 Earned value of the project = 200,000 Estimate to Complete has now been revised to 425,000

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0.9 1.176 1.5 -1.5

Question No :182 Selected Choice :

You are a project manager. You have completed the project. While reviewing the costs, you observed project`s budget was utilized for activities performed in processes relating to one particular process gr Group is:

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Planning Process Group Executing Process Group Monitoring and Controlling Process Group Closing Process Group

Question No :183 Selected Choice :

In your project you had planned to have Tasks A, B & C completed already, however tasks A, B, C, an 0%, and 0% complete respectively. The value of each day of work is $100. Using the 0-100 Rule and below, calculate the SPI: Tasks A, B, C, and D have duration of 3, 5, 4, and 3 days respectively.

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0.25 1

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0.50 0.75

Question No :184 Selected Choice :

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Your project team had a meeting with the customer (during Verify Scope process) for getting formal ac project deliverables. This activity refers to which process group?

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Closing Executing Planning Monitoring and Controlling

Question No :185 Selected Choice :

According to McClelland`s theory, managers are not motivated by:

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Need for achievement Need for power Need for affiliation Need for recognition

Question No :186 Selected Choice :

Assuming that the critical path of your project has duration of ten days, which of the following cannot a timelines?

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If the project has one critical path, you are able to decrease the duration of the critical path by new tool.

If the project has one critical path, you have to increase the duration of the critical path by one

If the project has two critical paths, you are able to decrease the duration of one critical path b new tool.

If the project has two critical paths, you have to increase the duration of one critical path by on

Question No :187 Selected Choice :

Who should be in charge of the project during the Close Project process?

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Sponsor Project manager Customer Project closing functional expert

Question No :188 Selected Choice :

A risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented is referred to as:

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Secondary risk Residual risk Fallback Plan Accepted risk

Question No :189 Selected Choice :

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In your project, you use a hierarchical structure of resources by resource category and resource type t limited schedules. This hierarchical structure is also called as:

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Project hierarchy Organization hierarchy Resource breakdown structure Project breakdown structure

Question No :190 Selected Choice :

In your project, you wish to monitor the status of the project to update project progress and manage ch schedule baseline. Which of the following will you use for this purpose?

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Schedule network analysis Pareto diagram Performance reviews Dependency Determination

Question No :191 Selected Choice :

In your project, you want to examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with their root causes, as well as the effectiveness of the risk management process. The tool you should us

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Risk reassessment Variance Analysis Technical performance measurement Risk Audit

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You have joined as a project manager in ABC Company. In your new role, which one of the following t accomplish FIRST?

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Develop Human Resource Plan Develop Project Management Plan Direct and Manage Project Execution Identify Stakeholders

Question No :193 Selected Choice :

You are performing a make-or-buy analysis. In which of the following cases would you not prefer maki product/service in-house?

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The item under consideration is a capital item which can be used for other projects in the sam other words, there is an ongoing need for the item).

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Your organization is going through a slack period, and some resources, who can produce the underutilized.

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The item under consideration is a proprietary or business critical product which is a part of the the company.

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The item under consideration is not part of your core business, but your company has the skil product in-house, if required.

Question No :194 Selected Choice :

In your project, you have to complete building a prototype before testing can begin. This is an example

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Mandatory dependency Discretionary dependency

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External dependency Preferred logic

Question No :195 Selected Choice :

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You have fifteen members in your project team. You have called for a project status meeting without p have been too many sidebar conversations and arguments. As a result, you have achieved nothing su meeting. To achieve orderliness in the meeting next time, you should:

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Decrease the number of people in the meeting Publish a meeting agenda

Ensure that you control the channels of communication Give incentives to team members for conforming to desired meeting norms

Question No :196 Selected Choice :

In your project, your project architect met with an accident and will not be available for the next 3 mont planned for this in risk planning - what should you do NEXT?

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Create a Workaround Create a Fallback Plan Do additional risk response planning Create a new risk register for this risk

Question No :197 Selected Choice :

The project customer and project sponsor have requested for the addition of a new feature to your pro request is approved by the change control board. The change will result in delay of project by 2 month of $ 1 million. What should you do NEXT?

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Re-baseline the project scope, cost, and time

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Get approval from all your project team members

Try to prevent this change, since you think it is unnecessary Issue a change request

Question No :198 Selected Choice :

In the project network diagram shown below, which of the following tasks will have some float?

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A E F C Previous Next

Which of the following is not the responsibility of a PMP certificant? 1

Ensuring that there is no conflict of interest that can compromise the legitimate interests of a

client or customer 2

Ensuring that technical specifications are appropriately defined 3

Disseminating PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to other PMI members 4 Cooperating with PMI concerning ethics violation related to PMI and PMP Certification, and the collection of related information

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Which cost estimating technique costs the least and saves the most time? Parametric estimating

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Analogous estimating

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