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Question # 4

You are the project manager for the GHB Organization. Management has asked that you review your recent SPI to determine why there was a schedule variance. They'd also like you to explain what approach you'll do to counteract the SPI going forward in the project. You complete the variance analysis and report to management that you'll be fast tracking a portion of your project work. What will be the management's concern with, when it comes to fast tracking the project?

A.

Added costs for the additional project labor

B.

Added risk

C.

Continued variances in the SPI

D.

Slippage in the project quality

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Question # 5

Nancy is the project manager of a project with 78 stakeholders. This is a high-profile project and she needs to express to her project team and to the management the importance of communication in this project. She would like to show the number of stakeholder communication channels in the project. Based on this information how many communication channels exist within this project?

A.

78

B.

156

C.

3,003

D.

6,084

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Question # 6

You are the project manager of the NNN Project. Stakeholders in the two-year project have requested to send status reports to them via email every week. You have agreed and are sending the reports on each Thursday. After six months of the project, the stakeholders are pleased with the project progress and they would like you to reduce the status reports to every two weeks. What process will examine the change to this project process and implement it in the project?

A.

Project change control process

B.

Perform integrated change control process

C.

Configuration management

D.

Communications management

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Question # 7

You are the project manager for your organization. Maagement has asked you for this current project. You use the critical chain method to create the project network diagram rather than the more traditional critical path method. What is the critical chain method?

A.

It examines only the non-critical path activities that are considered near critical, if the float is one day or less.

B.

It examines only the critical path activities to determine when the project completion date may be.

C.

It examines the availability of needed project resources to determine when activities may actually happen.

D.

It generates a Gantt chart that reflects the availability of project resources and considers working and non-working days for the project.

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Question # 8

Maurice is the project manager of the NHQ Project and his project team has just finished the project activities. The quality control team reports that the project deliverables are perfect. The only thing left to in the project is to verify scope. This process will be performed by the project stakeholders. Maurice is required to submit a final project report and report on the project performance. Maurice's project had a budget of $234,000 but the project spent $245,000. In the final report management wants to know the project's cost performance index (CPI). What value should Maurice report?

A.

-$11,000

B.

.96

C.

There is not enough information to know.

D.

1

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Question # 9

Mark works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is making relevant information available to the project stakeholders as required. According to Mark, which of the following are NOT the tools and techniques of the Distribute Information process?

A.

Communication requirements analysis

B.

Information distribution tool

C.

Communication method

D.

Communication technology

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Question # 10

You are the project manager of the HQQ Project. Your project is running late by ten percent of where you should be at this time. Management is concerned and they'd like to know what your schedule variance is. Considering that the project has a BAC of $567,899, you are thirty percent complete, and you have spent $179,450. What is the schedule variance for this project?

A.

-$45,789

B.

-$56,790

C.

There is not enough information to know.

D.

-$30,268

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Question # 11

You have been hired as a contract project manager for Tech Perfect Inc. The project has already been started. Sufficient details of the project have already been structured. You are working with your team for cost estimation of the project. Which of the following estimating techniques will you use for the highest degree of accuracy?

A.

Parametric modeling

B.

Analogous

C.

Top-down

D.

Bottom-up

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Question # 12

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. By referring to the figure given below, you along with your project team is calculating the latest completion of an activity.

What is the latest your project team can complete Activity I?

A.

Day 29

B.

Day 26

C.

Day 25

D.

Day 30

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Question # 13

Adrian is the project manager for her project. This new project needs to identify all the stakeholders that will be affected by the project's outcome. How stakeholders are usually identified?

A.

Stakeholders are usually identified through a stakeholder register.

B.

Stakeholders are identified by the project team, project sponsor, and management.

C.

Stakeholders are identified through the project customers.

D.

Stakeholders are usually identified by interviewing identified stakeholders and expanding the list until all potential stakeholders are included.

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Question # 14

Sam works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Which of the following processes will he use for selecting a scheduling method, scheduling tool, incorporating project specific data within that scheduling tool to develop a project specific schedule model, and generating project schedule?

A.

Constructability Analysis process

B.

Schedule Maintenance process

C.

Schedule Development process

D.

Perform Integrated Change Control process

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Question # 15

You are the project manager of the NHQ Project. This project has a Budget at Completion of $750,000 and is expected to take 18 months to complete. The project is supposed to be 75 percent complete, but due to some errors the project is only 60 percent complete. At this time the project has spent $465,500. Management has asked you to review the project work and report the project's SPI. What is the SPI for this project?

A.

0.97

B.

0.80

C.

$562,500

D.

-$112,500

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Question # 16

Ned is the project manager of the HYQ Project. In Ned's project, the management has requested that he enforce resource leveling so that the maximum amount of hours in the project per worker will not exceed 25 hours per week. Ned's pay is based on how quickly he can complete the project work. What must Ned do to accommodate the change in the resource allotment if he has to finish the project on time?

A.

Crash the project.

B.

Add more risk mitigation.

C.

Reduce the amount of labor.

D.

Reduce the project scope.

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Question # 17

Paula works as a project manager for her organization. She is working with the project team to define the activity attributes. Which of the following is NOT a valid activity attribute?

A.

Activity Name

B.

Activity ID

C.

Risk event

D.

WBS ID

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Question # 18

Harry works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is determining the budget of the project. According to the PMBOK, there are seven inputs to this process. Which one of the following is NOT an input to the determine budget process?

A.

Contract

B.

Reserve analysis

C.

Scope baseline

D.

Project schedule

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Question # 19

Donna's project has a budget at completion of $1,987,560 and she is currently 40 percent complete. Her project schedule called for her to be 45 percent complete but there have been some complications in the project. These complications have caused Donna to spend $125,000 more than what the work she has completed is worth. Based on this information what is the cost performance index (CPI) for Donna's project?

A.

86

B.

$920,024

C.

.90

D.

.86

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Question # 20

You're a project manager and you've completed your project schedule. The schedule will take 18 months to complete the project work. Throughout the schedule there are instances that the project work will require the project team members to work more than fifty hours per week. If you must adhere to a maximum of 45 hours of project work per team member, per week, what will likely happen to your project schedule as it stands right now?

A.

Nothing, the 45 hours limit is a guideline.

B.

The project will take longer to complete.

C.

The project will take less time to complete.

D.

The project will require more resources.

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Question # 21

Which of the following techniques is used to perform progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near future is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure?

A.

Imminent activity management

B.

Predecessor-only diagramming

C.

Rolling wave planning

D.

Decomposition

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Question # 22

You are the project manager of the GYG Project. A new scope change is being considered for your project. You are concerned, however, that the scope change may add costs, risks, and adversely affect the project schedule. What project management process is responsible for evaluating the full effect of a proposed scope change on your project?

A.

Scope change control

B.

Schedule change control

C.

Integrated change control

D.

Change Control Board approval process

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Question # 23

You work as a Project Manager for Dreams Unlimited Inc. You are looking for performance efficiencies of a project. The related key values are provided in the table below:

MeasurementsValues

BCWP (or EV)325

BCWS (or PV) 300

ACWP (or AC)410

What is the schedule variance (SV) of the project at the current point of time?

A.

+110

B.

-25

C.

-110

D.

+25

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Question # 24

What component of the change management system is responsible for evaluating, testing, and documenting changes created to the project scope?

A.

Scope Verification

B.

Configuration Management System

C.

Project Management Information System

D.

Integrated Change Control

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Question # 25

Fredrick works as a Project Manager for BlueWell Inc. A number of projects are running under his guidance. You, a team leader of a project, inform Fredrick about the performance indexes of your project. The schedule performance index (SPI) of your project is 1.325. What does this figure indicate?

A.

The schedule performance is better than expected.

B.

The schedule performance is right on target.

C.

The cost performance is better than expected.

D.

The schedule performance is below expectation.

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Question # 26

Sam is the project manager of the NQQ project. He and the project team have completed the stakeholder identification process for his project. What is the main output of the identify stakeholders process?

A.

Communications management plan

B.

Stakeholder register

C.

Requirements

D.

Stakeholder management strategy

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Question # 27

Which one of the following estimate types is a form of expert judgment?

A.

Parametric estimate

B.

Analogous estimate

C.

Bottom-up estimate

D.

Definitive estimate

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Question # 28

You work as a Project Manager for Dreams Unlimited Inc. You are looking for performance efficiencies of a project. The related key values are provided in the table below:

MeasurementsValues

BCWP (or EV)325

BCWS (or PV) 300

ACWP (or AC)410

What will be the cost performance index (CPI) of the project at the current point of time?

A.

0.923

B.

1.083

C.

1.261

D.

0.792

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Question # 29

You are the project manager of the BHG Project. You are creating a network diagram as shown in the figure:

Mary, a project team member, reports that an identified risk is likely to happen in the project that will affect the completion date of Activity D . She reports that the risk event will likely cause the duration of the activity to increase by six days. If this happens what is the earliest the project can complete?

A.

32 days

B.

29 days

C.

27 days

D.

26 days

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Question # 30

You have been assigned to a project that centers on a discipline you are only topically aware of. While you do have years of experience as a project manager, but you have never worked with the technology, as is in this project. During the define activities process, you rely on your project team and two consultants to coach you and identify the type of activities the project will include. Which tool and technique are you using in the define activities process in this scenario?

A.

Templates

B.

Rolling wave planning

C.

Decomposition

D.

Expert judgment

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Question # 31

Beth is the project manager for the NHQ project. This project deals with fiber optic cabling in her organizational campus. Tim is the electrical engineer for her company and is the only internal resource that can complete several of the project activities that deal with the fiber optic cables. Because Tim is a highly-skilled resource, he is already scheduled on several projects within the organization and is not available when Beth needs him to complete some of the project activities. This is an example of which term?

A.

Resource calendar conflict

B.

Matrix network

C.

Organizational process assets

D.

Activity resource requirements

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Question # 32

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Some of the activities in your project are not being completed on time. You review these activities with your project team discovered that the time estimates for the project are much more aggressive than what they are actually experiencing in the completion of the activities. You decide on to create a new schedule for the project. What project management process are you working with when you create a new target schedule?

A.

Estimate activity durations

B.

Estimate activity resources

C.

Control schedule

D.

Develop schedule

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Question # 33

Which of the following statements best describes an activity in a project?

A.

It is a defined set of functions a resource must complete for the project scope to be considered complete.

B.

It is the effort needed to complete a work package.

C.

It is the unit of resource utilization needed to complete a project deliverable.

D.

It is a listing of all project work that must be accomplished for the project scope to be considered complete.

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Question # 34

Which of the following documents captures and defines the work activities, deliverables, and a timeline that a vendor will execute against in performance of work for a customer?

A.

Project charter

B.

Scope of statement

C.

SOW

D.

WBS

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Question # 35

Management is concerned about your project. They want to know how the project is performing specifically the schedule performance index. What formula do you use to find the schedule performance index?

A.

PV/EV

B.

EV-AC

C.

EV-PV

D.

EV/PV

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Question # 36

Fred is the project manager of the NHA project. This project has a BAC of $2,456,900 and is sixty percent complete. Fred has crashed the project, which has driven the project costs to date to $1,525,140, but his project is five percent more complete than what was planned. What is the cost variance for this project that Fred needs to report to management?

A.

$122,845

B.

-$51,000

C.

-$85,000

D.

Zero

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Question # 37

George is the project manager of the NHQ Project and has a budget of $778,000. The project is scheduled to last for one year with an equal amount of work completed each quarter. The second quarter of the project has ended and George has spent $325,000 but has only finished forty percent of the project. Management needs a variance report for the project schedule. What value should George report in this instance?

A.

.96

B.

-$77,800

C.

$-34,500

D.

-$13,800

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Question # 38

Tom is the project manager of the GHQ Project for his organization. He is working on recovering the project schedule. As Tom examines his schedule he is especially aware of project activities with soft logic. What is soft logic?

A.

Soft logic describes activities that do not have particular resources assigned to them.

B.

Soft logic describes activities that can be completed in any order.

C.

Soft logic describes activities that can have lead time added to them.

D.

Soft logic describes activities that can be crashed because they are effort-driven.

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Question # 39

Mark is the project manager of the GHQ Project. He is happily reporting that his project has a schedule performance index of 2.12. Management, however, does not think this is good news. What is the most likely reason why management does not like an SPI of 2.12?

A.

It is not good news because a larger number means the schedule duration estimates were likely to be wrong to begin with.

B.

They likely do not understand the SPI formula.

C.

It is not good news, as the number should be closer to 100 than 0.

D.

It is good news, but Mark may have large cost variances to achieve this value.

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Question # 40

You are the project manager of the NHGQ project for your company. You must create and distribute performance reports every week to your key project stakeholders. What communication technique do you normally use to distribute reports?

A.

Push technique

B.

Many-to-many

C.

One-to-one

D.

Pull technique

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Question # 41

Your project is forty percent complete though it was scheduled to be fifty percent complete as of today. Management has asked that you report on the schedule variance for your project. If your project has a BAC of $650,000 and you've spent $385,000 to date, what is the schedule variance value?

A.

-$75,500

B.

-$390,000

C.

-$487,500

D.

-$65,000

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Question # 42

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. When activities are logically linked, they become the . __________

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Question # 43

Holly is the project manager of her project. She has chosen to crash the project due to time constraints that have been imposed on her project. When Holly crashes the project what project document must be updated to reflect this change to the approach?

A.

Develop schedule process

B.

Risk register

C.

Project risk management plan

D.

Activity attributes

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Question # 44

You are the project manager of a project that has a budget of $675,000 and you have completed 40 percent of the project work. Your project is supposed to be 60 percent complete but you are actually only 40 percent complete. Due to some errors, however, you have actually spent $335,000 of the budget. Management wants to know what the project's cost performance index (CPI) is. What value do you report?

A.

-$135,000

B.

.67

C.

.81

D.

-$65,000

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Question # 45

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Management has asked you not to communicate performance unless the CPI is less than 0.96 or the SPI dips below 0.98. What type of report would you create for management, if these instances develop in your project?

A.

Cost variance report

B.

Exceptions report

C.

Performance management report

D.

Schedule variance report

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Question # 46

John works as a Project Manager for Blue Well Inc. He is measuring cost efficiency of his project. The key values are provided in the table below:

What is the cost performance index (CPI) of the project at the current point of time?

A.

0.96

B.

1.082

C.

0.833

D.

1.0625

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Question # 47

You are the project manager of the NHQ Project. You have created the project network diagram as shown in the figure:

Based on the project network diagram, how much float is available for Activity H if Activity B is delayed by four days and Activity D is delayed by two days?

A.

One

B.

Five

C.

Four

D.

Zero

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Question # 48

You are the project manager of the NHQ project. This project deals with a new technology that your company has never used before. You have petitioned the management to hire a consultant to help you and the project team to create the WBS, the activity list, and complete the duration estimates. The management is concerned about the costs of the consultant, but agrees to your request because of the nature of this new work. The consultant can best be described as what type of resource for this project?

A.

Direct expense

B.

External requirement

C.

Temporary resource

D.

Expert judgment

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