C.

Detailed resource estimates

Project Integration Management 2nd D. The business case for the project

6. A. project manager is assigned to a new, high

priority project. There are only few available
1. The project management plan is LEAST useful for
resources because other resources are already
which of the following?
committed to projects. The time available to complete
A. Guiding project execution the project is less than half the time needed, and the
project manager cannot convince management to
B. Documenting planning assumptions change the end date. The project manager should:

C. Facilitating communication among stakeholders A. Coordinate with team members the overtime
necessary to complete the work.
D. Developing the project charter
B. Provide the team with opportunities to produce
2. All of the following occur during the Close Process acceptable quality on the work that can be
or Phase process EXCEPT: accomplished.
A. Creating lessons learned. C. Look for any scope that can be cut from the project.
B. Formal acceptance. D. Use more experienced resources to complete the
work faster.
C. Performance reporting.
7. During the course of your project, you notice that
D. Performing cost benefit analysis.
most of the changes occurring on the project come
3. A person is writing a document identifying the from the research department. What should you do?
business need for a project and is including a
A. Assign a team member to work solely with the
description of the product to be created by the
research department.
project. She includes a list of stakeholders and pre-
assigned resources. What is the role of this person on B. Change your communications management plan, so
the project? only you are assigned to interact with the research
department.
A. The project manager for the project or a company
functional manager C. Ask the research department to assign one person
to be your liaison.
B. A member of the project management team
working at the direction of the project manager D. Talk to the research department to understand the
reasons for the changes.
C. The sponsor or the project manager
8. You are in the middle of project executing and you
D. A manager or executive in the organization who is
are running out of money due to unanticipated
higher in the corporate hierarchy than the project
changes. What is the BEST thing to do?
manager
A. Crash or fast track the project.
4. The need for …………… is one of the major driving
B. Reevaluate the risk analysis and consider the
forces for communication in a project.
contingency funding.
A. Optimization C. Ask for a change to the project budget.
D. Use resources that do not charge against the
B. Integrity
project.
C. Integration 9. After creating project charter, project manager
determine that the project team must create plans for
D. Differentiation each aspect of the project. These plans are called:
5. Which of the following is included in a project A. Project documents.
charter? B. Process plans.
A. A risk management strategy C. Knowledge area plans.
D. Project Management Plan.
B. Work package estimates
10. The project manager on a large software C. The sponsor
installation project is working with her team on a
critical set of activities. They are working late on D. The stakeholders
Saturday night. Circumstances create a situation
14. Which of the following BEST describes when a
wherein the project manager must decide to change
project baseline should be changed?
the schedule, pushing the end date of the project out
two weeks. What is the BEST action for the project A. When a major delay occurs
manager to take next as a result of her decision?
B. When an official change is made
A. Immediately document and capture the changes
and present them to the change control board the C. When a cost increase occurs
next time that board is available for contact.
D. Changes should never be made to the baseline
B. Look for free float to bring the project back on
schedule. 15. The carpeting subcontractor has, without prior
approval, installed carpet that is a slightly different
C. Implement configuration management in order to pattern from the pattern selected for the project. The
obtain senior management approval and then make difference in cost per square yard saves the buyer
the change. approximately US $10,000. Upon learning of the
change, the BEST course of action for the project
D. Review her detailed risk assessment development manager is to:
process to ensure that other unidentified risks are
included and a plan for mitigation is created. A. Demand that the original carpeting be installed.

11. A project manager has finished the project. He B. Meet with the customer to explain what happened
knows the project scope has been completed and is and celebrate the $10,000 windfall.
within cost and time objectives set by management.
Management, however, says that the project is a C. Document the change in the change control plan.
failure, because the original schedule was for 27
D. Determine the overall impact on the project.
weeks and the project was completed in 33 weeks. If
the project baseline was 33 weeks, the project is a 16. Your company just won a major new project. It
success because: will begin in three months and is valued at US
$2,000,000. You are the project manager for an
A. It only had six weeks of changes.
existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should do
B. It was completed within the schedule baseline. once you hear of the new project?

C. There were so few changes. A. Ask management how the new project will use
resources.
D. There was good communication control. B. Resource level your project.
12. The project is not going well and many changes C. Crash your project.
are being made. Which of the following should you do D. Ask management how the new project will affect
FIRST to gain control of the project? your project.
A. Review the project scope with the stakeholders. 17. All of the following are parts of an effective
change management plan EXCEPT:
B. Create a new change form A. Procedures.
C. Remind everyone of the change procedures. B. Standards for reports.
C. Meetings.
D. Ask the sponsor to review the project charter.
D. Lessons learned.
13. A. project is plagued by changes to the project 18. What is present value (PV)?
charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide
A. Value of assets that a company owns
if these changes are necessary?
B. Today's value of future cash flows
A. The project manager C. Future value of money on hand today
B. The project team D. Current value of today's assets adjusted for
inflation
19. Which of the following BEST describes the phrase, C. Lack of sponsor commitment
"influencing the factors that affect change?"
D. Poorly done initial cost benefit analysis
A Telling people that changes are not allowed
23. Who issues the project charter?
B Determining the sources of changes and fixing the
root causes A. Sponsor

C Adding more activities to the work breakdown B. Project manager

structure to accommodate risks
C. Project team
D Calculating the impact of changes to date on the
D. Stakeholders
project
24. The networking vendor has contacted the project
20. You have four projects from which to choose one.
manager to inform her that a recent earthquake will
Project A is being done over a six year period and has
impact the delivery of critical components. The
a net present value (NPV) of US$70,000. Project B is
project team meets to determine the impact on the
being done over a three year period and has an NPV
overall project and determines that staffing will not
of US $30,000. Project C is being done over a Eve year
be affected, but changes will need to be made in the
period and has an NPV of US $40,000. Project D is
areas of risk and cost management. What is the
being done over a one year period and has an NPV of
project team involved in here?
US $60,000. Which project would you choose?
A. Configuration management
A. Project A
B. Work authorization analysis
B. Project B
C. Status review meeting
C. Project C
D. Integrated change control
D. Project D
25. Project assumptions include:
21. Which of the following BEST describes the project
manager's role relating to changes? A. Events which we assume will happen, as opposed
to risks which may happen.
A. Serve the customer and do what the customer
wants. B. Things we think are true, but may not be true.
B. Monitor and track changes to ensure they benefit C. Things we consider as the foundation of why this
the project. project is needed.
C. Influence the factors that cause changes. D. Aspects of project constraints not validated in the
project scope statement.
D. Deny change requests whenever possible.
26. What is a project management information
22. You are managing a multi-million dollar project
system (PMIS)?
that is a joint venture between your company and
another organization. You have repeatedly tried to get A. A computerized status tracking system
the contract and the project charter finalized between
the two organizations, but there has been a great deal B. A manual status tracking system
of arguing over-language and details. The project's
scope has been expanding, costs have been C. A method to determine and archive how the
increasing, and the schedule has been regularly project is doing
lengthening. You learn very suddenly that the project
D. A method to gather, integrate, and disseminate
has been cancelled, because the other organization
what and how the project is doing
withdrew its share of the funding for the project.

What is the MOST likely reason this occurred?

A. Failure to understand the budgetary process

B. Inadequate scope management

27. You have been assigned to create a project charter 31. For which of the following actions could a project
for a project to implement an internal website in your manager incur a fine and be jailed?
company. This project is expected to use a software
platform new to your IT department. Stakeholders A Using people from outside the project manager's
identified to date have expressed conflicting opinions country to work on the project
about the website's basic functions. While confirming
B Failing to file the necessary permits in their own
its high priority, management is hesitant to commit
country
sufficient funds. You are meeting tomorrow with a
seller who seems most qualified to design and C Paying a bribe to a foreign official
implement the website. What should you do FIRST?
D Not using minority workers on the project
A. Create a high level work breakdown structure to
help you estimate costs. 32. A person who has been working as a project
expeditor for the past three years has just been
B. Put out a fixed price invitation for bid to best named as project manager for a construction project
control costs. in a neighboring state. The construction crew has
worked together for a number of years. One of the
C. Perform stakeholder analysis and a high level risk
project manager's responsibilities is to pursue all of
assessment of the project.
the historical risk information available, but he
D. Create a preliminary project schedule. doesn't have enough time to access all available
sources. The project manager would be served by
28. During project executing, the project manager relying LEAST on which of these sources?
determines that a change is needed to material
purchased for the project. The project manager calls a A Company knowledge base
meeting of the team to plan how to make the change.
B Published benchmarking reports
This is an example of:
C Work performance report
A. Management by objectives.
D Lessons learned databases
B. Lack of a change management plan.
33. Which of the following BEST shows that the
C. Good team relations.
customer considers the project completed and
D. Lack of a clear work breakdown structure. accepts the whole project?

29. Which of the following BEST describes when a A. The customer expressed satisfaction with the
project phase is generally concluded? project deliverables.

A. When the work is done B. Formal sign—off and formal acceptance was
received.
B. When the deliverables are accepted
C. The customer made the final payment.
C. When the work for the next phase is ready to start
D. No more project work is requested or scheduled.
D. When it is scheduled in the milestone schedule
34. The project has been going relatively well,
30. You have just completed the design phase for a although there have been some problems with
client's project and are about to enter the resource availability and the project scope has
implementation phase. All of the following need to be changed more than was expected. The project is now
done EXCEPT: completing one of its phases. Of all decisions the
sponsor must consider during an end—of—phase
A. Lessons learned. review meeting, the MOST difficult is:
B. Updating records. A. Authorizing scope change for the next phase.
C. Formal acceptance. B. Authorizing budget increases for the next phase
based on scope changes.
D. Completion of the product of the project.
C. Cancelling the project.

D. Decreasing scope to maintain the budget.

35. All of the following are purposes of the project C. Before the end of project executing.
charter EXCEPT:
D. During project closure.
A. It establishes the project.
40. The project manager has noticed there have been
B. It identifies the product acceptance criteria. a lot of changes on the project. This was not
considered to be a problem until one day he discovers
C. It gives the project manager authority. he cannot determine how many scope changes are
currently being reviewed. This problem indicates an
D. It documents business requirements.
error in which of the following?
36. The cost of choosing one project and giving up
A Change control system and project scope
another is called:
management plan
A. Fixed cost.
B Plan purchases and acquisitions and requirements
B. Sunk cost. gathering

C. Net present value (NPV). C Lack of a change control board and constrained
optimization
D. Opportunity cost.
D A poor change configuration system and benefit
37. A work authorization system can be used to: analysis

A. Manage who does each activity. 41. While the project is being completed,
management requests a change. What is the FIRST
B. Manage when and in what sequence work is done. thing the project manager should do?
C. Manage when each activity is done. A. Comply with the request if possible.
D. Manage who does each activity and when it is B. Obtain an understanding of the scope of the
done. change.
38. A. project team member tells you she went to her C. Tell the customer that a change will be coming.
project manager with a good idea for a useful change
to the project. Instead of giving her approval to make D. Ask the team to accept the change.
the change, the project manager asked her to write a
report describing the benefits of the change. What is 42. When it comes to changes, the project manager's
the MOST appropriate advice for the situation? attention is BEST focused on:

A. The project manager is being unreasonable and A. Making changes.

should do that kind of work herself.
B. Tracking and recording changes.
B. Remind the project manager that the cost benefit
C. Informing the sponsor of changes.
analysis for the project was done during project
planning. D. Preventing unnecessary changes.
C. A project manager must be able to weigh the 43. All of the following are outputs of the Monitor and
benefits of the change versus the costs and compare Control Project Work process EXCEPT:
them to other possible changes. The team member
should do what was asked. A. Rejected change requests.

D. The team member should do what was asked B. Recommended corrective actions.
because this sort of information must be given to the
project sponsor to make the change. C. Issue log updates.

39. Documents that serve as historical records for D. Recommended defect repair.
future projects are archived:

A. Throughout the project.

B. Before the end of project planning.

44. Project A has an internal rate of return (IRR) of 21 D. The customer thought of something new at a later
percent. Project B has an IRR of 7percent. Project C time.
has an IRR of 31 percent. Project D has an IRR of 19
percent. Which of these would be the BEST project? 48. You have accepted a position at a company where
you will manage a group of projects in a coordinated
A. Project A way. This organization specifically hired you to start a
project management office to help it develop a more
B. Project B structured approach to project management. What
should you do FIRST?
C. Project C
A. Study the history of the organization.
D. Project D
B. Get your job description changed to either project
45. A team member notifies the project manager after
management or project management office work, but
the fact that certain project deliverables have been
not both.
attained without performing all the associated work
packages in the WBS. What should the project C. Meet with key stakeholders to better understand
manager do FIRST? the organization and projects.
A. Immediately communicate the changes to all team D. Focus on communications with your boss and other
members and stakeholders review the team senior managers.
member's performance.
49. In order to decrease the risk on the project, the
B. Review work packages and deliverables to project manager decides during project executing to
determine impact, if any. Recommend changes to the change resources on a near-critical path activity. If she
project management plan. is unsure whether such a change must be formally
done on the project, she should look at the:
C. Change the project performance measurement
baselines and the WBS. A. Configuration management plan.
D. Change the reporting process to get information B. Change management plan.
sooner, then review the communications
management plan to see if it is still appropriate to the C. Integrated change control.
needs of the project.
D. Change control board.
46. All project work is completed on the project.
Which of the following remains to be done? 50. After a great deal of effort, the project team has
finally determined the specifications for a major scope
A. Validate Scope change to the project. In this case, what should the
project manager do FIRST?
B. Plan Risk Responses
A. Look for other changes.
C. Create a staffing management plan
B. Notify the stakeholders about the new scope.
D. Complete lessons learned
C. Gain sign—off on this change.
47. The project is over and team members have
moved on to other work. Sometime later, the D. Evaluate the risks associated with this change.
customer requests additional scope to be added.

Which of the following is the best explanation of why

this happened?

A. Formal acceptance from the customer was never

received.

B. Scope was removed from the original project.

C. Resources were needed on other projects sooner

than expected.