1.200 New PMP Questions and Answers

MOHAMED NAZARUDDIN MOHAMED NAZARUDDIN MOHAMED
Which of the following is NOT a

characteristic of a project?
Constrained by limited resources

1
Planned, executed, and controlled

2
Creates a unique product or service

3
Ongoing and repetitive

4
In which document will you find the code of account

identifier, description of work, responsible organization,
and list of schedule milestones?
WBS
1
WBS Dictionary
2
PERT/CPM
3
Charts
Roles and
4
Responsibilities
Matrix
All the following statements relating to the project management team and the project team are
accurate EXCEPT:
1 The project management team is also called the core, executive, or leadership team.
2 The project team is responsible for activities like planning, controlling, and closing.
3 The project management team is a subset of the project team.

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?
Buy
1
Build
2
Neither build nor buy

3
Need more information on suppliers to make a decision

4
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 :
Constraints
1
Activity attributes
2
Resource pool description

3
Activity duration estimates

4
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:
Noise should be minimized.

1
Receiver must decode and reply to the message.

2
Receiver should acknowledge and agree with the message sent by the sender.
3
Receiver should send a feedback message to the sender.

4
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:
Assumption
1
Ethical practice
2
Constraint
3
Deliverable
4
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?
Statistical relationship between historical data and other variables

1
Gathering quotes
2
Standard rates with escalation factors (for contracts)

3
Commercial databases or seller published price lists

4
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:
Triggers
1
Warning signs
2
Risk symptoms
3
Triggers, warning signs and risk symptoms

4
Question No :10
Selected Choice :
Stakeholders, including consultants, customers, sponsors, and professional and technical association
sources of:
Enterprise environmental factors

1
Organizational process assets

2
Expert judgment
3
Risk monitoring and control

4
Question No :11
Selected Choice :
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?
Inaccurate data
1
Very expensive
2
Longer time
3
More resources
4
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:
Defines the product life cycle

1
Defines the project phases

2
Contains several product life cycles

3
Has deliverables that must be completed before work starts on the next phase
4
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:
Determine the complexity of the project

1
Determine the level at which individual WBS elements are found

2
Help in automating the WBS using appropriate software

3
Present justification for the project
4
Question No :14
Selected Choice :
As a project manager, you advocate active participation of your team members; this is
because you believe in:
Theory Y (McGregor Model)

1
Theory X (McGregor Model)

2
Maslow`s hierarchy of needs

3
Referent Power
4
Question No :15
Selected Choice :
Which of the following is the most widely used contract type?
Cost plus incentive fee contracts

1
Fixed price incentive fee contracts

2
Cost plus award fee contracts

3
Firm fixed price contracts

4
Question No :16
Selected Choice :
Please refer to the diagram given below (all units are in days):
What is the project float if management wants to complete this project within 13 days?
0 days
1
- 3 days
2
2 days
3
Cannot be determined, because information given in the question is incomplete

4
Previous Next Mark
Question No :17
Selected Choice :
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:
Be escalated to the project sponsor

1
Be a major source of conflict

2
Become undetermined risks in the project

3
Have adverse effect on all project parameters

4
Question No :18
Selected Choice :
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:
Include the feature, as it will improve customer satisfaction

1
Include the feature - otherwise the product will not be accepted by the
2
customer
Talk with the customer and explain that the new feature does not make
3
business sense
Take the requirement through the change control process

4
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:
Control Costs
1
Determine Budget
2
Estimate Costs
3
Create WBS
4
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:
Cause-and-effect diagrams
1
System flow charts

2
Influence diagrams
3
Simulation diagrams
4
Question No :21
Selected Choice :
You are a project manager in the executing stage of the project. In this context, which of the
following statements is incorrect?
Most of the project budget will be expended in project plan execution.

1
The project manager and the team implement the planned methods and standards.
2
The project manager will review all information from the current phase closures.
3
The project manager and the team manage risks and implement risk response
4
activities
Question No :22
Selected Choice :
Determining and delivering the required levels of quality for the project is the responsibility of:
Project sponsor
1
Project manager/project management team

2
Project team
3
All stakeholders in the project

4
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?
Negative stakeholders must be ignored if the project has to be successfully
1
completed.
Stakeholders have varying levels of responsibility and authority when participating on

2
a project and these can change over the course of the project life cycle.
Some key stakeholders include project manager, operations management, project

3
team, customers, and sponsor.
Stakeholder expectations may be difficult to manage, because stakeholders often

4
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?
Inspection
1
Expert judgment
2
Observations
3
Focus groups
4
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?
Smoothing
1
Compromising
2
Confrontation
3
Withdrawal
4
Question No :26
Selected Choice :
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?
The procurement statement of work was not clear.

1
The prospective sellers misunderstood the procurement statement of work.

2
The procurement statement of work was not sufficient.

3
There have not been major changes in the cost of material and labor since last year
4
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):
Increase the timeline for the project.

1
Fast track or crash the project, and let the management know the impact of this action.
2
Ask the resources to work overtime to meet the project deadlines.

3
Change the project scope.

4
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
following is NOT an output from Distribute Information process?
Performance reports
1
Project reports and presentations

2
Stakeholder notifications
3
Project records
4
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:
Cancel the meeting and reschedule it at a later date

1
Go ahead with the meeting and tell the participants what is wrong with the report
2
Go ahead with the meeting, but ask your team member to make the presentation
3
Refer the team member`s report to management and ask them to cancel the
4
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?
It is a time - phased budget.

1
To measure disbursements, a spending plan can be used as a cost-baseline.

2
It is used to measure, monitor, and control overall cost performance.

3
4 In the earned value management technique it is also known as cost measurement

baseline
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:
Unidentifiable risks
1
Unmanageable risks
2
Secondary risks
3
Residual risks
4
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:
Direct and Manage Project Execution

1
Develop Project Management Plan

2
Monitor and Control Project Work

3
Create Deliverables
4
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:
Use a control chart

1
Draw an Ishikawa diagram

2
Create a flowchart
3
Draw a Pareto chart

4
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?
Formal phase completion necessarily includes authorization for the subsequent

1
phase.
A project phase can be closed with a decision not to initiate the subsequent
2
phase.
A project phase should not be divided into sub-phases even in complex projects,
3
because it will be difficult to manage.
All deliverables in the project phase should correspond to the project management
4
process.
Question No :35
Selected Choice :
An environmental remediation project has succeeded in reducing costs. This is achieved by

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:
Value adding change

1
Error or omission in defining the scope of the project

2
External event
3
Contingency or workaround plan

4
Question No :36
Selected Choice :
According to Herzberg`s theory, all of the following are motivating factors EXCEPT:
Recognition
1
Responsibility
2
Advancement in career
3
Salary
4
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:
The ability of the supplier to deliver the goods

1
Collusion between the supplier and your team

2
Lack of proper scope definition

3
Lack of a legally binding agreement

4
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?
Activity attributes, project scope statement, and activity

1
list
Activity list, activity attributes, and schedule data

2
Project calendar, requested changes, and schedule data

3
Work performance information, schedule baseline, and

4
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:
S-curves, histograms, Pareto diagrams

1
S-curves, responsibility assignment matrices ,histograms

2
Bar charts, S-curves, histograms

3
Bar charts, control charts, histograms

4
Question No :40
Selected Choice :
You are managing a project in a foreign country, where you realize you will have to pay a fee
to some government agencies to get your work done. You should:
Pay the fee to the government agencies

1
Refuse to pay the fee, because they are bribes and hence unethical
2
Make a case why fees should be paid to government agencies, and present it to your
3
management
Offer gifts to the government officials instead of fee to get their support
4
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
$ 250,000
1
$ 220,000
2
$ 280,000
3
$ 300,000
4
Previous
Question No :42
Selected Choice :
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?
Risk transference nearly always involves payment of a risk premium.

1
Fixed price contract always transfers the risk to the seller.

2
Cost-plus contracts may transfer the cost risks to the buyer.

3
Contracts may be used for the transference of liability for specified risks to another party.
4
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):
A strong matrix organizational structure in your company

1
A good communication management plan

2
Good project selection techniques

3
Positive stakeholders who support the project

4
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:
Cost of conformance
1
Failure cost
2
Rework cost
3
Opportunity cost
4
Question No :45
Selected Choice :
You are working as a portfolio manager. Which of the following are you responsible for
managing?
Project interdependencies
1
Projects and programs

2
Projects, programs, and operations

3
Functional work and operations

4
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:
Reject the change

1
Make the required change

2
Escalate the matter to senior management

3
Let the customer know about the impact of the change

4
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?
Lessons learned documentation

1
Existing human resources
2
Personnel administration policies

3
Marketplace conditions
4
Question No :48
Selected Choice :
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:
Source selection criteria

1
Contract
2
Procurement statement of work

3
Contract, Procurement statement of work

4
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:
Define Activities
1
Decomposition
2
Define Scope
3
Sequence Activities
4
Question No :50
Selected Choice :
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:
Increases in direct proportion to the number of people

1
Decreases in inverse proportion to the number of people

2
Increases in exponential proportion when the number of people increases

3
Depends on the type of project

4
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?
Defining requirements
1
Providing more features than what the customer has asked for
2
Identifying project related risks

3
Providing project justification
4
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

Which project should be selected if NPV criterion is used?
Project A
1
Project B
2
Project C
3
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?
The project manager, project team members, subject matter experts, and customers
1
The risk management team, end users, and risk management experts
2
All relevant stakeholders

3
Positively impacted stakeholders

4
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:
Change control system

1
Perform Integrated Change Control
2
Change requests
3
Changes to project plan baselines

4
Question No :55
Selected Choice :
In a normal distribution, standard deviation refers to:
Distance of measurement from the mean

1
Distance of measurement from the most likely value

2
Distance of measurement from the middle most value

3
A tool that is used in qualitative risk analysis

4
Question No :56
Selected Choice :
Which of the following is not a Project Management Knowledge Area?
Project Integration Management

1
Project Procurement Management

2
Project Configuration Management

3
Project Communications Management

4
Question No :57
Selected Choice :
You are the project manager of a software company. You need ideas for project and
product requirements. Which of the following techniques will you use?
Delphi technique
1
Idea/mind mapping
2
Nominal group technique

3
Brainstorming
4
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?
Improvement in skills of team members

1
Improvement in competencies and morale that help the team to perform better as a
2
group
Decrease in staff-attrition (i.e., fewer people leaving the project team)

3
Delivery of project deliverables before time

4
Question No :59
Selected Choice :
Which of the following statements on time and material contracts is accurate?
These types of contracts resemble cost-reimbursable type arrangements, because they

1
are close ended.
T&M contracts cannot grow in value like a cost-reimbursable contract.

2
The full value of the agreement is defined at the time of contract award.
3
Unit rates can be fixed by the buyer and seller when both parties agree on the values for
4
specific resource categories.
Question No :60
Selected Choice :
While creating a project schedule, what duration should a milestone have?
Zero
1
Duration equal to the phase duration

2
Duration equal to the time required for a particular task to be completed

3
Duration of the complete project till the milestone date

4
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:
Project closure
1
Project initiation
2
Project life cycle

3
Project execution and project closure

4
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:
Tell the vendor that you cannot accept the gifts as per company policy
1
Accept the gifts as it is a local custom and promptly inform your manager
2
Return the gifts, because accepting them could be interpreted as a personal gain
3
Accept the gifts, as they are not very expensive

4
Question No :63
Selected Choice :
In your company, payback period is primarily used as the decision criterion for project
selection. Payback period is the:
Number of years a company takes to get back the invested amount

1
Discount rate on an investment that makes present value of all cash inflows equal to
2
present value of all cash outflows
Duration in which the project gets completed

3
Number of years a company takes to make profits equal to the amount invested
4
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?
Unidentifiable Risks
1
Residual Risks
2
Secondary Risks
3
Accepted Risks
4
Question No :65
Selected Choice :
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?
Subject matter expert

1
Integrator
2
Creative person
3
Risk minimizer
4
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?
Quality
1
metrics
Targets for
2
improved
performance
Process
3
boundaries
and process
metrics
4 Question No :67 Process

Selected Choice : configuration
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?
Matrix
1
Functional
2
Projectized
3
Balanced
4
Question No :68
Selected Choice :
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?
Quality function deployment

1
Joint application development

2
Voice of the customer

3
Juran`s improvement technique

4
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:
Team-building activities
1
Ground rules
2
Interpersonal skills
3
Rules of conduct
4
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:
Project plan
1
Procurement document
2
Procurement management plan

3
Proposals
4
Question No :71
Selected Choice :
In Estimate Activity Duration process, which of the following is not an assumption?
Existing conditions
1
Availability of information
2
Length of the reporting periods

3
Project scope
4
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?
28
1
21
2
18
3
36
4
Question No :73
Selected Choice :
Your friend requests you to lend him your accounting package software CDROM to install the
software in his computer. You should:
Give him the software for free

1
Give him the software and charge some money for it

2
Refuse to give him the software

3
Report the copyright violation to the copyright owner of the software package
4
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?
A critical resource went on sick leave for a long period of time, which had not been
1
anticipated earlier.
The cost of raw materials required for construction increased by 10%. - You had anticipated
2
a cost increase of 12% in your project plans.
In anticipation of delays, the project was crashed to decrease the duration.

3
There was four days waiting time in the curing of concrete, and work could not be done
4
during that time.
Question No :75
Selected Choice :
Even after carefully performing risk management for the project, you realize that
possibility of new risks occurring in the future still exists. You will be able to handle
such risks if you perform:
Plan Risk Management

1
Identify Risks
2
Monitor and Control Risks

3
Plan Risk Responses

4
Question No :76
Selected Choice :
Which of the following is not related to the Direct and Manage Project Execution process?
Manage sellers and suppliers

1
Create project deliverables

2
Implement the planned methods and standards

3
Change control meetings

4
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?
Perform Quality Assurance and Plan Quality

1
Plan Quality and Perform Quality Control

2
Perform Quality Control, Plan Quality, and Perform Quality Assurance

3
Perform Quality Assurance and Perform Quality Control

4
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?
Team members are often co-located.

1
There is a "home" for project team members after a project is completed.

2
You have a great deal of authority and independence.

3
Organizational units (or departments) either report directly to you or provide

4
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?
Professional and technical associations

1
Competitors
2
Consultants
3
Other units within the organization

4
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:
Directing
1
Laissez faire
2
Delegating
3
Democratic
4
Question No :81
Selected Choice :
Which of the following tools is not used in Administer Procurements process?
Payment systems
1
Performance reporting
2
Inspections and audits

3
Procurement audits
4
Question No :82
Selected Choice :
All the following statements regarding the creation of duration estimates are correct EXCEPT:
Mathematical analyses like CPM, GERT, and PERT indicate the dates on which the
1
activity can be scheduled, given resource limits and other constraints.
Duration compression techniques, including fast tracking and crashing, can help in
2
decreasing the project schedule
WBS classification allows for useful activity ordering and sorting.

3
The duration of the project is the sum of the duration of all the tasks in the project.
4
Question No :83
Selected Choice :
Performance reports organize and summarize the information gathered and present the
results of any analysis as a comparison with the performance measurement baseline.
Which of the following is NOT a common format for performance reports?
S-curves
1
Control charts
2
Tables
3
Histograms
4
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?
Do nothing and continue to work as before

1
Take appropriate person in ABC Bank into confidence and discuss this issue with her
2
Disclose the evaluation criteria to your (seller) organization and help their business
3
growth
Remove yourself from the project

4
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.
.9
1
1.52
2
1.7
3
.3
4
Question No :86
Selected Choice :
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?
Perform a structured review of project plans and assumptions, both at the total project and
1
detailed scope levels.
Develop checklists to identify risks based on historical information and knowledge that has
2
been accumulated from previous similar projects.
Conduct planning meetings to develop the risk management plan.

3
Conduct interviews to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project activities.
4
Question No :87
Selected Choice :
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?
Talk with team members to understand implications of the change.

1
Communicate the change to the management to get their inputs.

2
Open up a change control.

3
Implement the change and communicate to the customer.

4
Question No :88
Selected Choice :
In your project, you would like to identify logical groupings based on natural relationships.
Which one of the following techniques would you use?
Force field analysis

1
Affinity diagrams
2
Nominal group techniques

3
Brainstorming
4
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:
Authoritative project
1
management
Constraint
2
Assumption
3
Laissez-faire
4
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?
Observation
1
technique
Prototype
2
Requirement
3
documentation
Requirement
4
traceability
matrix
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?
Enterprise environmental factors

1

2
Activity resource requirements

3
Project organization charts

4
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:
Objective evaluation criteria

1
Source selection criteria

2
Statement of work
3
Work breakdown structure

4
Question No :93
Selected Choice :
Please refer to the table given below:

What is
the slack
of task 5?
0
1
1
2
2
3
-1
4
Question No :94
Selected Choice :
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:
0
1
8
2
12
3
20
4
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:
Project scope baseline

1
Business case and Business need

2
Project charter
3
Project management plan

4
Question No :96
Selected Choice :
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?
Payback period is the number of years required to get back the initial investment in
1
the project.
Payback period takes the discount rate into account to determine the best possible
2
option.
Payback period is a project selection criterion widely used in conjunction with NPV
3
and IRR to determine the most suitable project.
The initial investment in the project will not impact the selection criteria when
4
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.
To bring the level of risk to a level acceptable to your organization, you should:
Consider using contingency reserves

1
Decrease the project scope and increase the project schedule

2
Talk with your sponsor about canceling the project

3
Do additional risk response planning

4
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:
Work Authorization System

1
Improper Planning because team members do not know in advance what needs to be
2
done at what time
Project time management plan

3
Project flexible time management plan

4
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:
You are concerned, because the project team is gold-plating

1
You are happy, because the project will `exceed customer expectations`
2
You are worried that this is going to increase the project size
3
You are undecided about the increase in the quality metrics of the project
4
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?
Verify Scope
1

2
Report Performance
3
Perform Quality Assurance

4
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 :
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
Question No :104
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 :
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
2 Histogram
3 Control chart
4 Pareto diagram
Question No :109
Selected Choice :
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.

4 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.
3 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:
Fixed price plus incentive fee contract

1
Cost plus award fee contract

2
Time and material contract

3
Cost plus fixed fee contract

4
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 :
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
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
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
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?
1 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
Define Activities
1
Estimate Activity Durations

2
Sequence Activities
3
Develop Schedule
4
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:
Power/interest grid,
1
Power/influence grid
2
Influence/impact grid
3
Salience model
4
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?

What is the
status of the
project?
Behind schedule, under budget

1
Ahead of schedule, under budget

2
Ahead of schedule, over budget

3
Behind schedule, over budget

4
Question No :130
Selected Choice :
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:
Risk mitigation
1
Risk acceptance
2
Risk avoidance
3
Bad policy decision

4
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
management control. To facilitate this, you should (select the BEST answer):
Break the project into several sub-projects.

1
Use life cycle approach to manage the project.

2
Develop specific deliverables, which are approved by the sponsor.

3
Create a very comprehensive project charter.

4
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?
Training
1
Rework
2
Loss of reputation
3
Warranty
4
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?
Risk identification occurs during the Planning of the project

1
Risk identification occurs during Monitoring and Controlling of the project

2
Risk identification occurs during Execution of the project

3
Risk identification occurs during different project stages depending on the type of the project
4
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:
Verify Scope
1
Control Scope
2
Define Scope
3
Collect Requirements
4
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
Theory Y
1
Learning curve theory

2
Herzberg`s theory
3
Maslow`s theory
4
Question No :136
Selected Choice :
During the Close Procurements process, you should attend to all the following EXCEPT:
Perform a structured review of processes from plan purchases and acquisitions through contr
1
Perform procurement performance reviews to determine seller`s progress to deliver project sc
2
within cost and on schedule, as compared to the contract.
Identify successes and failures that warrant recognition to prepare or administer procurement
3
future.
Use procurement audits as a technique.

4
Question No :137
Selected Choice :
In the Control Schedule process, changes to project schedule can result in change requests to:
Schedule baseline
1
Components of project plan

2
Activity attributes
3
Schedule baseline and/or components of project plan

4
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?
Stakeholders` interest in the project

1
Hierarchy of the organization

2
Stakeholders` involvement in the project

3
Stakeholders` influence on the project

4
Question No :139
Selected Choice :
Your company has awarded a contract to a vendor. After some time, you realize that the vendor repre
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:
Document all the decisions taken by you on the activities performed by the vendor.
1
Refrain from administering the contract.

2
Resign from the project.

3
Remind your senior management of conflict of interest.

4
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:
Project hierarchy
1
Organization hierarchy
2
Resource breakdown structure

3
Project breakdown structure

4
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?
Create the project charter

1
Divide large or complex projects into phases

2
Involve customers and stakeholders

3
Create project scope statement
4
Question No :142
Selected Choice :
The project scope statement consists of the product scope description and project deliverables. It also
Scope Baseline
1
WBS
2
Product acceptance criteria

3
WBS dictionary
4
Question No :143
Selected Choice :
Which of the following is not a conflict resolution mode you can use to resolve conflicts in your project?
Collaborating
1
Smoothing
2
Avoiding
3
Directing
4
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?
Do not continue to manage the project.

1
Update the management with the status of the project.

2
Bring the project on schedule and then inform the management about the status of the projec
3
Do crashing and fast-tracking of the project.

4
Question No :145
Selected Choice :
You note that the ability to influence the cost of a project is:
Greatest at the early stages of the project

1
Greatest at the middle of the project

2
Greatest at the project closure stage

3
Constant throughout the project

4
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?
Initiating
1
Executing
2
Monitoring and Controlling

3
Planning
4
Question No :147
Selected Choice :
In your project, you are now interested in determining the cause of variance relative to the scope base
whether corrective action is required. You should use:
Configuration management system

1
Variance analysis
2
Re-planning
3
Earned value spreadsheets

4
Question No :148
Selected Choice :
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:
Problem solving
1
Withdrawal
2
Forcing
3
Confrontation
4
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
Close out the project.

1
Review the situation with your customer and sponsor.

2
Rectify the flaw and then close out the project.
3
Close the project and then inform the sponsor about the flaw.
4
Question No :150
Selected Choice :
In your project, if the benefit cost ratio is greater than 1, it means that
The ratio of profits to cost is greater than 1.

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

2
You should select this project from all other competing alternatives.
3
You should not select this project from all other competing alternatives.
4
Question No :151
Selected Choice :
You are working in the Project Management Office (PMO) of your organization. Your job responsibility
Manage the operational activities in the company

1
Manage human resource and risk management issues for individual projects
2
Provide support functions to project managers in the form of training, providing software, stan
3
etc.
Provide subject matter expertise in the functional areas of the project

4
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?
Uncontrolled changes
1
Controlled changes
2
Manageable changes
3
Unmanageable changes
4
Question No :153
Selected Choice :
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
Safety
1
Social
2
Psychological
3
Self-esteem
4
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?
Make-or-buy analysis
1
Bidder conferences
2
Expert judgment
3
Contract types
4
Question No :155
Selected Choice :
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:
The task is on the critical path.

1
The project may get delayed.

2
The project float is 5 days.

3
The task is not on the critical path.

4
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?
Plan Risk Management

1
Identify Risks
2
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3

4
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:
Prevent team members from starting the work without your permission
1
Prevent scope creep

2
Prevent unnecessary changes to project scope

3
Clarify and initiate the work for each work package

4
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:
Costs of non-conformance
1
Appraisal costs
2
Failure costs
3
Prevention costs
4
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:
Ensure that sellers have a clear understanding of the proposal

1
Determine who would be qualified sellers for bidding

2
Evaluate the interest level of sellers

3
Use evaluation criteria to select sellers

4
Question No :160
Selected Choice :
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?
Mandatory dependencies
1
Discretionary dependencies
2
Industry norms
3
Best Practice standards for ISO 9001 certification

4
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?
Identify Risks
1
Establish an agreed-upon basis for evaluating risk

2
Ensure that the degree, type, and visibility of risk management are commensurate with both t
3
importance of the project
Provide sufficient resources and time for risk management activities

4
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?
Monitor and Control Project Work

1
Develop Project Charter
2
Perform Integrated Change Control
3

4
Question No :163
Selected Choice :
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) ____
(a) Quality audit (b) Quality Assurance

1
(a) Quality audit (b) Quality Control

2
(a) Process analysis (b) Quality Assurance

3
(a) Process analysis (b) Quality Control

4
Question No :164
Selected Choice :
Which of the following should you (the buyer) pay attention to when you administer a contract?
Ensure that contractual obligations are met.

1
Apply appropriate project management processes to the contractual relationship and integrate
2
these processes to the overall management of the project.
Monitor payments to the seller.

3
Perform regular procurement audits.

4
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
800,000. What is the ETC?
$ 2,000,000
1
$ 1,500,000
2
$ 1,000,000
3
1,200,000
4
Question No :166
Selected Choice :
Your project is complete and you are performing project closure activities. In this context, what should
Creating final product, service, or result transition

1
Releasing project resources working on the project

2
Updating organizational process assets

3
Accepting deliverables
4
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?
Three-point estimates
1
Parametric estimating
2
Quantitative estimating
3
Analogous estimating
4
Question No :168
Selected Choice :
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
Beta probability distributions

1
Expected monetary value analysis

2
Tornado diagram
3
Simulation
4
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:
Identify Stakeholders
1
Collect Requirements
2
Create Project Charter

3
Create Project Management Plan

4
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:
Significant
1
Measurable
2
Relevant
3
Attainable
4
Question No :171
Selected Choice :
A documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequence
project risks is called:
Corrective action
1
Preventive action
2
Defect repair
3
Risk mitigation
4
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
Design of experiments
1
Control chart
2

3
Trend analysis
4
Question No :173
Selected Choice :
Which of the following is not true about conducting procurement negotiations?

1 The project manager should be the lead negotiator.
2 Subjects covered may include responsibilities, authority to make changes, applicable

terms, and governing law.
3 For complex procurement items, contract negotiations can be an independent process with
inputs and outputs of its own.
4 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?
18%, $ 500,000
1
17.33%, $ 461,538
2
17.8%, $ 437,500
3
18%, $ 437,500
4
Question No :175
Selected Choice :
Which of the following processes occurs in the Planning Process Group?
Identify Risks
1
Manage Stakeholders Expectations

2
Acquire Project Team

3
4
Question No :176
Selected Choice :
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?
Scheduling tool
1
Performance reviews
2
What-If Scenario analysis

3
Variance analysis
4
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:
Exploit
1
Avoid
2
Mitigate
3
Transfer
4
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:
Taking corrective or preventive action to control the project performance

1
Settling or closing any contract agreement established for the project
2
Creating a document that will formally authorize the project

3
Collecting work performance information about the completion status of the deliverables and
4
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:
Cost of conformance
1
Customer retention costs

2
Failure costs
3
Performance costs
4
Question No :180
Selected Choice :
In which Process Group will work defined be completed and all the specifications of your project be sa
Planning Process Group

1
Executing Process Group

2
Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

3
Closing Process Group

4
Question No :181
Selected Choice :
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
0.9
1
1.176
2
1.5
3
-1.5
4
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:
Planning Process Group

1
Executing Process Group

2
Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

3
Closing Process Group

4
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.
0.25
1
1
2
0.50
3
0.75
4
Question No :184
Selected Choice :
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?
Closing
1
Executing
2
Planning
3
Monitoring and Controlling

4
Question No :185
Selected Choice :
According to McClelland`s theory, managers are not motivated by:
Need for achievement

1
Need for power

2
Need for affiliation

3
Need for recognition

4
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?
If the project has one critical path, you are able to decrease the duration of the critical path by
1
new tool.
If the project has one critical path, you have to increase the duration of the critical path by one
2
If the project has two critical paths, you are able to decrease the duration of one critical path b
3
new tool.
If the project has two critical paths, you have to increase the duration of one critical path by on
4
Question No :187
Selected Choice :
Who should be in charge of the project during the Close Project process?
Sponsor
1
Project manager
2
Customer
3
Project closing functional expert

4
Question No :188
Selected Choice :
A risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented is referred to as:
Secondary risk
1
Residual risk
2
Fallback Plan
3
Accepted risk
4
Question No :189
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:
Project hierarchy
1
Organization hierarchy
2
Resource breakdown structure

3
Project breakdown structure

4
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?
Schedule network analysis

1
Pareto diagram
2
Performance reviews
3
Dependency Determination
4
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
Risk reassessment
1
Variance Analysis
2
Technical performance measurement

3
Risk Audit
4
Question No :192
Selected Choice :
You have joined as a project manager in ABC Company. In your new role, which one of the following t
accomplish FIRST?
Develop Human Resource Plan

1
Develop Project Management Plan

2

3
4
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?
The item under consideration is a capital item which can be used for other projects in the sam
1
other words, there is an ongoing need for the item).
Your organization is going through a slack period, and some resources, who can produce the
2
underutilized.
The item under consideration is a proprietary or business critical product which is a part of the
3
the company.
The item under consideration is not part of your core business, but your company has the skil
4
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
Mandatory dependency
1
Discretionary dependency
2
External dependency
3
Preferred logic
4
Question No :195
Selected Choice :
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:
Decrease the number of people in the meeting

1
Publish a meeting agenda

2
Ensure that you control the channels of communication

3
Give incentives to team members for conforming to desired meeting norms

4
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?
Create a Workaround
1
Create a Fallback Plan

2
Do additional risk response planning

3
Create a new risk register for this risk

4
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?
Re-baseline the project scope, cost, and time
1
Get approval from all your project team members

2
Try to prevent this change, since you think it is unnecessary

3
Issue a change request

4
Question No :198
Selected Choice :
In the project network diagram shown below, which of the following tasks will have some float?
A
1
E
2
F
3
C
4
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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
Question No :200
Selected Choice :
Which cost estimating technique costs the least and saves the most time?
Parametric estimating
1
Bottom-up estimating
2
Analogous estimating
3
Three-point estimates
4
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Which of the following is NOT a

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

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

You are considering whether to buy or make a software product.

Which option will you choose?

Neither build nor buy

Need more information on suppliers to make a decision

When referring to inputs for Develop Schedule process, responsibility (i.e.,

Resource pool description

Activity duration estimates

Noise should be minimized.

Receiver must decode and reply to the message.

Receiver should send a feedback message to the sender.

Statistical relationship between historical data and other variables

Standard rates with escalation factors (for contracts)

Commercial databases or seller published price lists

Triggers, warning signs and risk symptoms

Enterprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets

Risk monitoring and control

Defines the product life cycle

Defines the project phases

Contains several product life cycles

Determine the complexity of the project

Determine the level at which individual WBS elements are found

Help in automating the WBS using appropriate software

Theory Y (McGregor Model)

Theory X (McGregor Model)

Maslow`s hierarchy of needs

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

Cost plus incentive fee contracts

Fixed price incentive fee contracts

Cost plus award fee contracts

Firm fixed price contracts

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

Previous Next Mark

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

Include the feature, as it will improve customer satisfaction

Take the requirement through the change control process

Graphical representations of situations showing causal influences, time ordering of events,

System flow charts

Most of the project budget will be expended in project plan execution.

Project manager/project management team

All stakeholders in the project

As a project manager, you realize that managing project stakeholder expectations is an

Stakeholders have varying levels of responsibility and authority when participating on

Some key stakeholders include project manager, operations management, project

Stakeholder expectations may be difficult to manage, because stakeholders often

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.

Increase the timeline for the project.

Ask the resources to work overtime to meet the project deadlines.

Change the project scope.

Project reports and presentations