1. Youre a project manager working on a software engineering project.

The
programmers have started building the software, and the testers have
started to create the test environment. Which process group includes these
activities?
A. Initiating
B. Planning
C. Executing
D. Closing
2. Which of the following is not a stakeholder?
A. The project manager who is responsible for building the project
B. A project team member who will work on the project
C. A customer who will use the fial product
D. A competitor whose company will lose business because of the product
3. A project manager runs into a problem with her projects contractors,
and she isnt sure if theyre abiding by the terms of the contract. Which
knowledge area is the BEST source of processes to help her deal with this
problem?
A. Cost Management
B. Risk Management
C. Procurement Management
D. Communications Management
4. Youre a project manager for a construction project. Youve just finished
creating a list of all of the people who will be directly affected by the
project. What process group are you in?
A. Initiating
B. Planning
C. Executing
D. Monitoring and Controlling
5. Youre a project manager working in a weak matrix organization. Which
of the following is NOT true?
A. Your team members report to functional managers.
B. You are not directly in charge of resources.
C. Functional managers make decisions that can affect your projects.
D. You have sole responsibility for the success or failure of the project.

6. Which of the following is NOT a project?

A. Repairing a car
B. Building a highway overpass
C. Running an IT support department
D. Filming a motion picture
7. A project manager is running a software project that is supposed to be
delivered in phases. She was planning on dividing the resources into two
separate teams to do the work for two phases at the same time,
but one of her senior developers suggested that she use an agile
methodology instead, and she agrees. Which of the following BEST describes
the relationship between her projects phases?
A. Sequential relationship
B. Iterative relationship
C. Constrained relationship
D. Overlapping relationship
8. Which of the following is NOT true about overlapping phases?
A. Each phase is typically done by a separate team.
B. Theres an increased risk of delays when a later phase cant start until an
earlier one ends.
C. Theres an increased risk to the project due to potential for rework.
D. Every phase must go through all fie process groups.
9. Youre the project manager for an industrial design project. Your team
members report to you, and youre responsible for creating the budget,
building the schedule, and assigning the tasks. When the project is
complete, you release the team so they can work on other projects for the
company. What kind of organization do you work in?
A. Functional
B. Weak matrix
C. Strong matrix
D. Projectized
10. Which process group contains the Develop Project Charter process and
the Identify Stakeholders process?
A. Initiating
B. Executing
C. Monitoring and Controlling
D. Closing
1. Answer: C
The Executing process group is the one where the team does all the work.
Youll get a good feel for the
process groups pretty quickly!
2. Answer: D
One of the hardest things that a project manager has to do on a project is fiure
out who all the
stakeholders are. The project manager, the team, the sponsor (or client), the
customers and people who will use the software, the senior managers at the
companytheyre all stakeholders. Competitors arent
stakeholders, because even though theyre affected by the project, they dont
actually have any direct influence over it.
3. Answer: C
The Procurement Management knowledge area deals with contracts,
contractors, buyers, and sellers. If youve got a question about a type of
contract or how to deal with contract problems, youre being asked about a
Procurement Management process.
4. Answer: A
People who will be directly affected by the project are stakeholders, and when
youre creating a list of
them youre performing the Identify Stakeholders process. Thats one of the
two processes in the Initiating process group.
5. Answer: D
In a weak matrix, project managers have very limited authority. They have to
share a lot of responsibility with functional managers, and those functional
managers have a lot of leeway to make decisions about how the team members
are managed. In an organization like that, the project manager isnt given a lot
of responsibility.

6. Answer: C
The work of an IT support department doesnt have an end dateits not
temporary. Thats why its not a project. Now, if that support team had to
work over the weekend to move the data center to a new location, then that
would be a project!

7. Answer: B
Agile development is a really good example of an iterative approach to project
phases. In an agile project, the team will typically break down the project into
phases, where they work on the current phase while planning out the next one.
8. Answer: B
If theres an increased risk of a project because one phase cant start until
another one ends, that means your project
phases arent overlapping. When youve got overlapping phases, that means
that you typically have multiple teams that start their phases independently of
one another. Also, take another look at answer C, because its an important
point about overlapping phases. When your phases have an overlapping
relationship, theres an increased risk of rework. This typically happens when
one
team delivers the results of their project, but made assumptions about what
another team is doing as part of their phase. When that other team delivers
their work, it turns out that the results that both teams produced arent quite
compatible with each other, and now both teams have to go back and rework
their designs. This happens a lot when your phases overlap, which is why
overlapping phases have an increased risk of rework.
9. Answer: D
In a projectized organization, the project manager has the power to assign
tasks, manage the budget, and release the team.
10. Answer: A
The first things that are created on a project are the charter (which you create
in the Develop Project Charter process) and the stakeholder register (which you
create in the Identify Stakeholders process). You do those things when youre
initiating the project.