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Pmp Lesson 9
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30 Questions

1. As you create the Activity List, which technique is

recommended for subdividing the project into smaller
components called activities?

a) Rolling Wave Planning b) Decomposition

c) Deconstruction d) Expert Judgment

2. The resource optimization technique during the Control

Schedule process allows a project manager to:

a) Provide monetary incentives to project b) Allow overtime so that team members get
team members to boost their motivated to work during nonworking
performance. hours.

c) Schedule activities considering both the d) chedule training sessions for the project
resource availability and the project time. team members to optimize their
performance.

3. A single point of failure (SPOF) is the part of a system that,

upon failure, stops the entire system from working or
makes the system useless. Which of the following events
can render a knowledge management system ine ective?

a) If project team is not motivated. b) Knowledge is shared using a mixture of

knowledge management tools and
techniques.
c) When project knowledge cannot be d) Project team is geographically distributed.
classi ed as explicit or tacit.

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4. Projects operating in agile environments where a high

degree of uncertainty exists and where the scope is not yet
fully de ned, may not bene t from detailed cost
calculations due to frequent changes. Instead, lightweight
estimation methods can be used to generate a fast, high-
level forecast of project labor costs, which can then be
easily adjusted as changes arise. Detailed estimates are:

a) Only developed if the project stakeholders b) Reserved for short-term planning horizons
allow the project manager to do so. in a just-in-time fashion.
c) Developed early during the project but are d) Never developed in an agile project.
never updated due to frequent changes.

5. Upon obtaining the project charter, the Project Manager of

a project starts acquiring the project team immediately. Is
this correct?

a) No. It is the responsibility of the project b) Yes. Acquisition of the project team is
sponsor to provide the team for execution. primarily an Initiating Process Group
activity.

c) Yes. The project manager needs to get the d) No. Acquisition of the project team is
team together as soon as the project primarily an Executing Process Group
starts. activity.

6. Large organizations typically manage a wide range of

projects; from small projects to large initiatives requiring
long-term commitments. Which of the following factors can
be used in scaling such projects:

a) Team size, geographical distribution, b) Team size, geographical distribution,

regulatory compliance,organizational regulatory compliance,organizational
complexity, technical complexity, and complexity and technical complexity.
funds availability.

c) Team size, geographical distribution, d) Team size, geographical distribution and

regulatory compliance andorganizational regulatory compliance.
complexity.

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7. If you are working on a project where there is no de nite

detailed scope, but there are similar projects in the past,
what is the correct Estimate Activity Durations tool to use?

a) Critical Path Estimation b) Analogous Estimating

c) Parametric Estimating d) Three Point Estimating

8. Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Develop

Team process?

a) Co-location b) Acquisition
c) In uence diagrams d) Organizational charts

9. Your project is midway through a delivery schedule. As the

project manager, you want to determine how much work
remains. Which is the most accurate way to determine the
remaining work the project team mustcarry out?

a) A Manual forecast b) Rolling wave method

c) Earned Value Technique d) Future analysis

10. Contingency Reserves are estimated costs to be used at the

discretion of the project manager to deal with:

a) Anticipated and certain events b) Unanticipated events

c) Scope creep d) Anticipated but not certain events

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11. Which of the following statements regarding Resource

Leveling and Resource Smoothing is correct:

a) Neither Resource Leveling nor Resource b) Resource Leveling can cause the projects’
Smoothing alters the project’s critical path. critical path to change, while Resource
Smoothing doesn’t alter the project’s
critical path.

c) Both Resource Leveling and Resource d) Resource Smoothing can cause the original
Smoothing can alter the project’s critical critical path to change, while Resource
path. Leveling doesn’t alter the project’s critical
path.

12. As part of the Develop Team process, the project manager

has planned for some Team Building activities. Team
Building Activities should take place throughout the project
lifecycle but will have greater bene t whenconducted:

a) Early in the project lifecycle b) In the middle of the project lifecycle

c) At the end of the project lifecycle d) On a need basis

13. Which of the following is Deming's method for continuous

improvement?

a) Check-Plan-Do-Act b) Plan-Act-Check-Do

c) Plan-Do-Check-Act d) Plan-Check-Do-Act

14. Con ict management is a tool and technique of which of

the following processes?

a) Identify Stakeholders b) Manage Team

c) Control Procurements d) Close Project or Phase

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15. You are a project manager working on a project to create

high-e ciency electric motors for a company introducing a
new electric golf cart. Your company’s president is keenly
interested in the project and requests a chart that shows
the number of defects by type ordered by their frequency
of occurrence. Which type of chart would BEST meet this
request?

a) Control chart b) Statistical sampling

c) tter diagram d) Histogram

16. A project manager wants to proactively monitor a

manufacturing process to determine whether the quality
level is within acceptable limits for that process. What tool
will help with this?

a) Ishikawa diagram b) Histogram

c) Control charts d) PERT chart

17. As project manager, you nd you are constantly dealing

with con ict among your team members. Everyone argues
over sharing available project resources, so you plan to use
a con ict resolution method to alleviate the tension among
team members. What con ict resolution method is not
recognized by the Project Management Institute?

a) Elaboration b) Withdrawal

c) Smoothing d) Forcing

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18. You are a project manager who is in charge of an important

project for your company. The project is 40 percent
complete after three months and has cost $350,000. The
budget for the project is $950,000 and is scheduled to last
eight months. How is the project performing?

a) The project is behind schedule and under b) The project is behind schedule and over
budget. budget.

c) The project is ahead of schedule and over d) The project is ahead of schedule and under
budget. budget.

19. Product scope is measured against the product

requirements, while project scope is measured against:

a) The project scope statement and its b) The project requirements and WBS
associated WBS and WBS dictionary

c) The acceptance criteria d) The WBS and WBS dictionary

20. A project manager has scheduled technical training for his

or her project team members to increase their skills. During
which of the following processes will the team member
receive this training?

a) Plan Resource Management b) Develop Team

c) Manage Quality d) Acquire Resources

21. You have been asked to create a graphic display of

schedule-related information, listing schedule activities on
the left side of the chart, dates on the top, and activity
durations as date-placed horizontal bars on the right side.
What is such a chart called?

a) PERT chart b) GERT chart

c) Gantt chart d) Hunt chart

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22. Chiqui is managing a website development project. He has

recently received feedback from one of the key project
stakeholders. The feedback is positive overall, but it
contains some recommendations. After analyzing the
recommendations, Chiqui accepts them, gets them
approved, and incorporates them into the project
management plan. The recommendations were then
implemented and the new ideas were found to be
successful. What needs to be done with this feedback now?

a) Discard it since it is no longer required b) Add it to the organizational process assets

c) Publish it on the corporate intranet d) Send it back to the stakeholder

23. Which of the following is not an example of soft skills?

a) Negotiation b) In uencing
c) Team skills d) Intelligence quotient

24. There are several communication methods used to share

and distribute information to stakeholders, team members,
and management. Which of the following communication
methods is used when you notify the public about
environmental e ects from your project after
implementation by posting reports on the project's
website?

a) Interactive communication b) Pull communication

c) Push communication d) Informal communication

25. Shawn is in the execution phase of his project. He is getting

unexpected requests from his stakeholders about the
project’s progress. Shawn can use all the following to
respond to their requests except:

a) Organizational process assets b) Work performance reports

c) Business case d) Communications management plan

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26. You are a consulting project manager and an investment bank

has a contract with you to run a large information technology
project that is expected to last 15 months. During the Direct
and Manage Project Work process, you discover that several
regulatory requirements were addressed in the project
management plan but missed from the scope statement.
Failure to meet these requirements could result in legal action
against the company. However, implementing the technology
to comply with these regulations could exceed the budget and
scope of the project and result in the cancellation of the
project. What should you do?

a) Do not do anything as these requirements b) Request additional funds to implement

are not a part of the scope baseline. these requirements.

c) This is a classic example of scope creep d) Submit a change request to incorporate

and such requirements must be ignored. the missed requirements in the project's
scope.

27. You are working on a project with all the team members
located in geographically di erent areas, and all
communication is by email and chat. It is sometimes hard
to infer the true meaning of these messages because you
cannot see facial expressions or hear tones of voice. This is
an example of:

a) Decoding b) Medium

c) Noise d) ncoding

28. If you are writing a proposal for additional funding, which

communication style should you choose?

a) Formal and upward b) Formal and horizontal

c) Informal and downward d) Informal and horizontal

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29. A project uses rounding of activity cost estimates data to

the nearest $100, uses sta hours as the unit of measure
for resources, and has a variance threshold of 10 percent
deviation from the baseline plan. These approaches are
typically documented in the:

a) Cost management plan b) WBS

c) Project charter d) Scope Statement

30. Communications management plans should include all of

the following except:

a) Reasons for information distribution b) Escalation process

c) Risk Register d) Stakeholder communication requirements

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Answer Key
1. b 9. a 17. a 25. c
2. c 10. d 18. d 26. d
3. a 11. b 19. a 27. c
4. c 12. a 20. b 28. a
5. d 13. c 21. c 29. a
6. b 14. b 22. b 30. c
7. b 15. d 23. d
8. a 16. c 24. b

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