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1. Which of these terms describes a critical path task?

A. Hammock

B. Zero float

C. Critical task

D. Mandatory task

2. Resource management concepts include several categories of resources. All of the following are a type of resource except for which one?

A. Shared resource

B. Remote and in-house

C. Dedicated resources

D. Benched resources

3. This tool is often used in the vendor selection process to pick a winning bidder.

A. Weighted scoring model

B. Bidder conference

C. RFQ

D. SOW

4. From the following list of options, select three of the five common stages of development that project teams progress through. Choose three.

A. Forming

B. Acquiring

C. Storming

D. Adjourning

E. Negotiating

F. Norming

G. Compromising

5. In this organizational structure, you report to the director of project management, and your team members report to their areas of responsibility (accounting, human resources, and IT). You will have complete control of the project team members’ time and assignments once the project is underway. Which type of organization does this describe?

A. Projectized

B. Functional

C. Hierarchical

D. Matrix

6. This describes how you will know the completed deliverables are satisfactory.

A. Acceptance criteria

B. KPIs

C. Metrics

D. EVM

7. Which of the following describes the responsibilities of the project sponsor?

A. Provides or obtains financial resources

B. Monitors the delivery of major milestones

C. Runs interference and removes roadblocks

D. Provides the project manager with authority to manage the project

E. All of the above

8. Project managers may spend up to 90 percent of their time doing which of the following?

A. Interacting with the project stakeholders

B. Interacting with the project sponsor

C. Interacting with the project team members

D. Communicating

9. This is a temporary way of resolving conflict and is considered a lose-lose technique. It emphasizes the areas of agreement over the areas of disagreement.

A. Smoothing

B. Forcing

C. Avoiding

D. Confronting

10. Which of these is not an example of a project selection method?

A. Cost-benefit analysis

B. Expert judgment

C. Top-down estimating

D. Scoring model

11. You’re the project manager on a project where the scope has expanded. The change has been approved by the change control board (CCB). What steps must you take to acknowledge the new scope? Choose two.

A. Update the project management plan.

B. Update the SOW.

C. Communicate the change to stakeholders and team members.

D. Submit a change request.

E. Log the request on the change request log.

12. Some team members on your team are driving each other crazy. They have different ways of organizing the tasks they are both assigned to, and the disparity in styles is causing them to bicker. Which of the following describes this situation?

A. This is a constraint that’s bringing about conflict on the team.

B. This should be escalated to the project sponsor.

C. This is a common cause of conflict.

D. This is a team formation stage that will pass as they get to know each other better.

13. Fishbone diagrams, Pareto diagrams, process diagrams, Gantt charts, and run charts are examples of which of the following?

A. Examples of various project management tools used to plan the work of the project

B. Examples of various project management tools used to monitor and control project work

C. Examples of various scope management tools to control the quality of deliverables

D. Examples of various scope management tools used to manage and control scope creep

14. Which of the following project documents created in the project Closing process group describes what went well and what didn’t go well on the project?

A. Project close report

B. Postmortem

C. Lessons learned

D. Post-project review

15. This document authorizes the project to begin.

A. Project request

B. Project concept document

C. Project charter

D. Project scope statement

16. Which of these can convey that you’ve achieved the completion of an interim key deliverable?

A. Completion criteria

B. Milestone

C. Gantt chart

D. Project sign-off document

17. All of the following are factors that influence communication methods except which one?

A. Language barriers

B. Technological barriers

C. Task completion

D. Cultural differences

E. Intraorganizational differences

F. A, B, D

G. All of the above

18. This person is responsible for removing obstacles so the team can perform their work, assisting the product owner in defining backlog items, and educating the team on Agile processes.

A. Project manager

B. Scrum master

C. Functional manager

D. Subject-matter expert

19. This project management methodology uses self-organized, self-directed teams; it uses an iterative approach; and it is highly interactive.

A. PRINCE2

B. PMI^®

C. Agile

D. Waterfall

20. This is often added to the project schedule to determine whether the work is correct.

A. Approval gate

B. Quality gate

C. Milestone gate

D. Governance gate

21. This is the final, approved version of the project schedule. All of the following are true regarding this term except for which of the following?

A. It will prevent future schedule risk.

B. It’s approved by the stakeholders, sponsor, and functional managers.

C. It’s used to monitor project progress throughout the remainder of the project.

D. This describes a schedule baseline.

22. A well-written change control process should include which of the following components? Choose two.

A. A description of the type of change requested

B. The amount of time the change will take to implement

C. The cost of the change

D. How to update the affected project planning documents

E. The stages at which changes are accepted

23. Which cost-estimating technique relies on estimating work packages and then rolling up these estimates to come up with a total cost estimate?

A. Top-down

B. Parametric

C. Bottom-up

D. Analogous

24. In project management, the process of taking high-level project requirements and breaking them down into the tasks that will generate the deliverables is called what?

A. Analyzing

B. Decomposing

C. Process flow diagram

D. Documenting

25. Who is responsible for assembling the project’s team members?

A. Project sponsor

B. Project stakeholders

C. Project customer

D. Project manager

26. All of the following represent a category of contract most commonly used in procurement except for which one?

A. Time-and-materials

B. Cost-reimbursable

C. Fixed-price

D. Requests for proposal

27. This is a deliverables-oriented hierarchy that defines the work of the project.

A. Scope document

B. Work breakdown structure

C. Scope management plan

D. Project plan

28. Your project sponsor has expressed their need to have real-time project information at their fingertips. Which of the following is the best way to meet this need?

A. By creating a project dashboard with scope, cost, and time elements

B. By updating the project status report on a daily basis

C. By sending an email every morning to the sponsor describing the current project status

D. By meeting face to face with the sponsor every day to update them on status

29. Your project sponsor told you that the due date for the project is a key to its success and there is no chance of the date changing. What is this known as?

A. A constraint

B. An influence

C. A deliverable

D. A management directive

30. Risk analysis includes all of the following except for which one?

A. Identifying risk

B. Determining a risk response plan

C. Determining an order-of-magnitude estimate for responses

D. Determining probability and impact and assigning a risk score

31. Which of the following are project management phases? Choose three.

A. Scheduling

B. Planning

C. Executing

D. Communicating

E. Documenting

F. Budgeting

G. Closing

32. When taking over an incomplete project, what item should be of most interest to the new project manager?

A. Project concept statement

B. Project charter

C. Project scope statement

D. Project plan

33. This chart or diagram is a type of histogram that rank-orders data by frequency over time.

A. Run chart

B. Scatter diagram

C. Fishbone diagram

D. Pareto chart

34. These performance measurements are defined when you create the project management plan and are monitored and tracked during the Monitoring and Controlling phase to determine whether the project is meeting its goals.

A. SPI

B. Balanced score card

C. CPI

D. KPI

35. What key meeting is held after the project charter is signed and/or at the beginning of the Executing process?

A. Project kickoff

B. Project review

C. Project overview

D. Project status meeting

36. What is the best way to prevent scope creep?

A. Make sure the requirements are thoroughly defined and documented.

B. Put a statement in the charter that no additions to the project will be allowed once it’s underway.

C. Alert the sponsor that you will not be taking any change requests after the project starts.

D. Inform stakeholders when they sign the project scope statement that no changes will be accepted after the scope statement is published.

37. Which of these statements describes an assumption?

A. Our senior web developer will be available to work on this project.

B. The electrical capacity at the site of the project event may not be adequate.

C. The project’s due date is June 27.

D. There’s a potential for the server administrator to receive a promotion during the course of this project.

38. Your subject-matter expert tells you that her most likely estimate to complete her task is 40 hours. The task starts on Thursday, January 20, at 8 a.m. The team works 8-hour days, and they do not work weekends. Which day will the task end?

A. January 24

B. January 25

C. January 27

D. January 26

39. You are working for an organization and just learned that another organization with more power and influence is taking over your organization at the first of the year. What does this describe?

A. Business merger

B. Business demerger

C. Business venture

D. Business acquisition

40. What are the two types of charts that you might utilize to display the project schedule? Choose two.

A. Run chart

B. Gantt chart

C. Milestone chart

D. CPM

E. Histogram

41. All of the following describe types of project endings except for which one?

A. Integration

B. Starvation

C. Addition

D. Extinction

E. Attrition

42. Demonstrating competency, respect, honesty, integrity, openness, and doing what you say you’ll do is an example of which of the following?

A. Team building

B. Managing team resources

C. Demonstrating leadership skills

D. Trust building

43. This is the approved, expected cost of the project.

A. Expenditure budget

B. Expenditure baseline

C. Cost budget

D. Cost baseline

44. “Install an Interactive Voice Response System that will increase customer response time by an average of 15 seconds and decrease the number of customer service interactions by 30 percent” is an example of which of the following elements of the project charter?

A. High-level requirements

B. Goals and objectives

C. Project description

D. Milestone

45. The network communication model is a visual depiction of what?

A. Lines of communication

B. Participant model

C. Communication model

D. Participant communication model

46. This estimating technique uses the most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic estimates to come up with an average cost or duration estimate.

A. Analogous estimate

B. Bottom-up estimate

C. Parametric estimate

D. Three-point estimate

47. In this type of organization, the project manager shares responsibility for team member assignments and performance evaluations with the functional manager.

A. Functional

B. Projectized

C. Hierarchical

D. Matrix

48. Which of the following is not true regarding cost estimating?

A. Cost estimates are provided by team members.

B. Cost estimate accuracy depends on the technique used to determine the estimate.

C. Cost estimates have a quality factor built into them.

D. Cost estimates are inputs to the project budget and used to determine the total project cost.

49. You’re the project manager for a small project that is in the Closing phase. You prepare closure documents and take them to the project sponsor for sign-off. The project sponsor says that the documents are not needed because the project is so small. What should you tell the sponsor?

A. You’re sorry to have bothered them and will close the project without sign-off.

B. The sponsor is the one who needs to sign off on the documents, showing that the project is officially closed.

C. You offer to have a stakeholder sign off in the sponsor’s place.

D. You offer to sign off on the documents yourself.

50. This meeting is held so that team members can answer three questions: what work they completed yesterday, what work they will complete today, and what obstacles stand in their way.

A. This describes a sprint planning meeting, which is part of the Agile methodology.

B. This describes a Scrum meeting, which is part of the Agile methodology.

C. This describes a daily standup, which is part of the waterfall methodology.

D. This describes a retrospective meeting, which is part of the PMI^® methodology.