PMP test 1 Flashcards
What is the formula to calculate the number of communication channels based on the size of the team in a project?
N * (N-1) / 2 = # comm channels where N is # of TMs
The majority of the project management software application, choose the ______ method to build the project schedule network diagram
Precedence Diagramming
As a project manager, you are performing scope management processes. What is the function of the WPS dictionary? 1. Use as a glossary to define the acronyms used in the project scope statement. 2. It is used for planning project resources. 3. Use as a glossary to define the acronyms used in the project WBS. 4. Describes the details of each component in the project WBS
- Describes the details of each component in the project WBS.
As a manager of a large project, you are performing the control procurements process. Which one of the following activities would you likely not be involved in? 1. Audits 2. Claims administration. 3. Inspection. 4. Negotiation.
Negotiation is used while performing the conduct procurement process. The other answer choices are per performed during the control procurement process.
As a project manager, you wish to use a document that shows the work assigned to each project team member. What’s the title of the document that you will use? 1. Responsibility assignment, Matrix (RAM) 2. Project resources, Matrix. (pRM) 3. Resource planning chart (RPC) 4. Project schedule.
A responsibility assignment Matrix (RAM) illustrates association between work packages and activities at team members. It makes it easy for team members to view all project activities for which particular person is assigned, and the level of the responsibility.
Your managing a project in a highly cost sensitive company. Therefore, you need to reduce the cost to the extent possible. Which one of the following categories of cost would you consider as the first option for cost reduction? 1. Variable and fix cost 2. Indirect and variable cost. 3. Indirect and direct cost. 4. Direct and variable cost.
Direct belong to project resources, which can be scaled down or reduced. Variable cost depends on the amount of work performed by the resources. Therefore, there is a higher opportunity to reduce it by reducing the scope and the amount of work required.
In an industrial project, the equipment installation can be started 15 days after the equipment foundation is completed. What type of dependency is this? 1. Start to finish with a 15 day lead. 2. Finish to start with a 15 day lag. 3. Finish to start with a 15 day lead. 4. Finish to finish with a 15 day.
Finished to start with a 15 day lag. The dependency between two activities is a finish to start type because the second activity can only start after the completion of the first one. There’s also a time of 15 days before the second activity can start.
Which two activities might a project manager be doing well acquiring resources for their project? 1. Comparing labor rates to what is allocated in the project budget 2. Creating the staffing management plan. 3. Planning and communication protocols for virtual team members. 4. Sending team members to the training needed for the project.
1 and 3 -Part of acquiring resources involves verifying at the cost of the selected team members will fit within the project budget. If virtual team members are an option, then special communication protocols will need to be put in place to minimize misunderstanding conflict. Creating the staff management plan would take place during the plan, resource management process, and sending team members to training with occurred during the development team process.
Your website development project is nearly away. The team under appears to be in the storming stage with several members, insisting that process occurs in certain way, and others are willing to participate after their views were over. You recognize that cooperation and collaboration were imperative for the team to achieve the sponsors goal of a working prototype within the next few weeks. What is the most helpful action for you to take? 1. Team of emotional intelligence. 2. Team meeting and facilitate the creation of a charter that includes ground rules. 3. Advise the sponsor that may be a delay in the prototype delivery. 4. Networking event so the team member can get to know each other better.
2 - this question is at the deliverable is due soon and the team conflict is putting that goal in jeopardy. Enrolling the team in training takes too long. It is never a good idea to inform the sponsor.
The cost baseline has developed during which process? 1. Develop schedule 2. Determine budget. 3. Estimate costs 4. Monitor and control project work.
The baseline project budget is developed and determine budget process, which is a planning process and project cost management
Which statement about the project critical path is true? 1. The critical path always has zero total flow and it shows the earliest possible time to complete the project. 2. The critical path can have zero, positive, or negative float. 3. Can only have one critical path. 4. The critical path consumes the biggest portion of the project budget compared to other paths
The critical path can have negative total float in the case that there is a constraint set on the project, finish date or positive float in the case where the project is ahead of schedule. Typically, however, the critical path has a 0 float.
You are assigned as a manager of a huge multi million dollar infrastructure project with the span of three years. You were working in the planning process group of your project and currently you are creating the project WBS. Due to lack of information you decide to create the WBS of the commissioning phase of the project, which is the last phase in more details later on when you have more information. This approach to creating the WB is also known as: 1. Agile planning. 2. Progressive planning. 3. Waterfall planning. 4. Rolling wave planning.
Rolling wave planning and planning your term items in greater detail than those that are farther often time
As a project manager, you were currently involved in a closed project or phase process. In this situation, which one of the following activities might possibly be unnecessary? 1. Finalizing all activities across the project management process groups. 2. Measuring the project scope against the project management plan. 3. Performing activities such as finalizing claims, updating procurement records to reflect final results, and archiving such information for future use. 4. If a project is terminated before completion, starting procedures to investigate and document the reasons for early termination.
3 - closing out contract involves administration activities, such as finalizing open claims, updating records to reflect the final results, and archiving such information for future use. Procurement clothes could be done at any stage of the project. It is not associated with the clothes, project or phase process.
Categorizing stakeholders can assist the project team and building valuable relationships with these stakeholders as the project progresses. All the following techniques are useful for this purpose except: 1. Stakeholder cube. 2. Stakeholder engagement assessment Matrix. 3. Salience model. 4. Power Interest grid.
Stakeholder cube, the salient model, and a power interest grid our stakeholder mapping and category techniques and are used in identify stakeholder process. Stakeholder engagement assessment Matrix allows the team to analyze the variance between what the existing and desired engagement levels of the stakeholders are and is used and plan stakeholder engagement.
Which of these is an output from the acquire resources process? 1. Organizational chart. 2. Project team assignments. 3 RAM 4. Staffing management plan.
2-After determining elements, such as a role in responsibilities, reviewing recruitment practices, and negotiation for staff, project team members are assigned to project activities as part of the acquire resources process
