Missed Practice Test Question Flashcards
A requirement document is an input of _______________process?
Define Scope
The key benefit of _______________ process is that it will maintain or increase the efficiency and effectiveness of stakeholder engagement activities as the project evolves and envionrment changes.
Control Stakeholder Engagments
_______________ is always the lowest risk for the buyer if the scope of work is not well defined.
Cost Plus Incentive Fee
Project Scope is?
The work that must be done in order to deliver a prudct with the specified features and functions.
The product desription of a project can help to create procurement details. Which of the following best describes product description?
Defines the cotracted work, based on the requiremnts of the project customer.
Which one of the following comes first in the project plan?
Scope Statement
Quality Plan
WBS
Development Plan
In which type of organization the team building is likely to be most difficult?
Matrix
Administrative Closure is the process that ____________.
Closes all activities pertaining to a specific project.
Which of the following subsidary plan contains the quality objectives for the project?
Quality Baseline
Which of the following must be measured reguarly to identify variance from the plan?
Project Performance
Which risk response is most likely to involve contingency reserves?
Acceptance is when no change to the project is made for a risk. A contingency can be set aside to offset the impact of risk.
Which of the following is NOT an input of Identify Risks?
Project Charter
Stakeholder Register
Risk Management Plan
Actvity Cost Estimates
Project Charter
Which are the outputs of Initiation process?
Project charter and PM assigned
Constraints
Assumptions
All of the above
All of the above.
The Ishikawa diagram, Pareto chart, control charts, and statistical sampling are examples of:
Quality Control
Cost benefit analysis, scorecard modeling, payback periods and internal rate of return are examples of________________.
Enterprise benefits measurements methods when selecting a project.
Which of the following are characteristics of project phases?
Milestones
Deliverables
Activities
All of the above
All of the above.
You are managing a project that will implement a new Insurance software package. Two project team members have difficulty working together. They come to you, for help resolving the issues. You immediately set up a meeting that includes the functional manager. After the meeting you and the functional manager discuss the issues and agree on a solution. What type of organizational structure are you working in?
Balanced Matrix
You are in charge of developing a new product for an organization. Your quality metrics re based on the 80th percentile of each of the last three products developed. This is an example of?
Benchmarking – measuring your level of quality against a standard.
Allocating the value of the overall cost estimate to individual work items, in order to establish a cost baseline for measuring project performance is call?
Determine Budget
The activity that is most concerned with the current status of the project schedule is called?
Control Schedule
Project Scope is?
The features and functions that are to be included in a product or service.
The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions.
What are two closing procedures?
Contract close out and close project
Which of the following project document is best suited for tracking cost of resources?
Work Breakdown Structure
Which of the following activity is NOT performed as part of the Direct and Manage Project work process?
Monitor implementation of approved changes
Validate deliverables
Staff, train, and manage the project team
Manage risks and implement risk responses
Monitor implementation of approved changes
Which of the following is NOT used to document team member roles and responsibilites?
Text-oriented format
Functional Chart
Hierarchical type organizatinal chart
Matrix-baed Responsiblity Chart
Functional Chart is not listed in the PMBOK as a type of organizational chart.
Root Caus Analysis is related to______________.
Process Analysis
Which of the following is ensuring that all features and functions are included in a product or service?
Project Scope
Project Verification
Project Control
Product Scope
Project Verification ensures all features and functions are included in a product or service.
The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions included in the____________?
Project Scope
A Reserve Analysis involves
Incorporating time buffers into the activity duration estimates.
Which ensures that the project objectives are met by monitoring and meauring progress and taking corrective action when necessary.
Project Controls
Controlling Process
Control Logs
Project Chart
Controlling process - ensures that the project objectives are met.
Reserve Analysis technique is NOT used during?
Control Costs
Estimating Activity Duration
Determine Budget
Estimate Costs
Control Costs
What is the purpose of the WBS?
To ensure all work within a project is identified and defined within a common framework.
A Pareto diagram can be best described as:
Histogram
Control Chart
Scatter Chart
Cause and Effect Diagram
Histogram
Pareto diagram mainly helps the PM team to quantify and categories the defects/issues accounding to sources (engineering defect, setup problems,etc.)
Which of the following is NOT an output of the Control Schedule.
Schedule Updates
Revisions
Corrective Action
Lessons Learned
Revisions
What involves determing what quantities are to be used to perform project activities?
Resource Planning
Estimate Costs
Determine Budget
Control Cost
Resource Planning: planning, identifying documenting and assigning project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships to individuals or groups.
Which tools or techniques are NOT used in Sequence Activities?
Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM)
Expert Judgement
Network Templates
Expert Judgement
Which of the following is NOT an activity attribute:
Time when to perform the activity
Location where to perform the activity
Leads and Lags
Person responsible for the activity
Time when to perform the activity.
You are in charge of developing a new product for a bank. Your quality metrics are based on the 80th percentil of each of the last 3 products developed. This is an example of:
Statistical Sampling
Metrics
Benchmarking
Operational definitions
Metrics
You are the project manager and takes over a project that is currently in the execution phase. Where are you going to find best source of information on the costs associated with each level of expertise required for the project?
Project Quality Management Plan
Project Schedule Management Plan
Project Staffing Management Plan
Project Cost Management Plan
Project Staff Management Plan: Based on the PMBOK, this information would be available in staffing plans. The cost management plan would contain cost of scheduled activities.
According to PERT weighted average computatin, what is the probability of completing the project within plus-or-minus 3 standard deviations of the means?
68%
99.74%
95%
75%
99.74%
______________ coordinates people and other resources to carry out the plan.
WBS
Resource Planning
Resource Leveling
Executing Process
Executing Process
The main project scope management process include:
Change Order Control
Initation
Program Evaluation
Scope Statement
Initiation
What is not amount the tools and techniques of an Organizational Planning?
Staff Management Plan
Templates
Human Resource Practice
Organizational Theory
Staffing Management Plan
In which process “meeting” is not used as tools and techniques?
Identify Stakeholders
Plan Stakeholder Management
Manage Stakeholder Engagement
Control Stakeholder Engagement
Manage Stakeholder Engagement
Which of the following models of conflict resolutin allows a cooling off period, but seldom resolves the issues in the long term?
Problem Solving
Withdrawl
Forcing
Smoothing
Forcing
A project with a total funding of $70,000 was finished with a BAC value of $60,000. What term can best describe the difference of $10,000?
Cost Variance
Management Overhead
Management Contingency Reserve
Schedule Variance
Management Contingency Reserve
Difference between the cost baseline and funding requirement at Project completion is Management Contingency Reserve.
What are you likely to see as a project manager in a scheudle with must fix dates and little or no slack?
Lots of free float
Idle resources
Negative float
Positive float
Idle Resources
Inputs of Develop Project Team include all EXCEPT?
Project Staff
Reward and Recognition System
Resource Calendar
Project Plan
Reward and Recognition
Which of the following is NOT true for a Resource Leveling?
Project’s critical path may be altered
Reverse resource allocation scheduling
Resource based scheduling method
All of the above
All of the above
A project risk is characterized by 3 factors. What are they?
Risk event
Risk probability
Amount at stake
Risk event is the description of what may happen to _______ the project.
Manager
Harm
Schedule
Budget
Harm
