Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?
Which Process Group and Knowledge Area include the Sequence Activities process?
Which cost is associated with nonconformance?
Stakeholder satisfaction should be managed as a key project:
The methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress is known as:
What are the five Project Management Process Groups?
The Cost Management processes and their associated tools and techniques are usually selected during which of the following?
Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?
Which statement is true about the project management body of knowledge?
Inputs to Identifying Stakeholders include:
The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements describes management of which of the following?
Skills necessary for project management such as motivating to provide encouragement; listening actively; persuading a team to perform an action; and summarizing, recapping, and identifying next steps are known as:
The degree of uncertainty an entity is willing to take on in anticipation of a reward is known as its risk:
At which point of the project is the uncertainty the highest and the risk of failing the greatest?
Plan Communications Management develops an approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholders' needs and requirements and:
Which input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?
A projects purpose or justification, measurable project objectives and related success criteria, a summary milestone schedule, and a summary budget are all components of which document?
Which of the following is the primary output of the Identify Risks process?
A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response is called a:
Which project risk listed in the table below is most likely to occur?
Which activity is an input to the select sellers process?
What characteristic do project and operational work share in common?
The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
Which type of analysis is used as a general management technique within the Plan Procurements process?
The component of the human resource management plan that includes ways in which team members can obtain certifications that support their ability to benefit the project is known as:
For any given project, the project manager, in collaboration with the project team, is responsible for:
Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?
What is project management?
The chart below is an example of a:
Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group includes processes that:
The contract in which the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and then receives a fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives is called a:
Which tool or technique is used to manage change requests and the resulting decisions?
Which process involves monitoring the status of the project to update the project costs and managing changes to the cost baseline?
The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?
The purpose of the Project Communications Management Knowledge Area is to:
Which of the following outputs from the Schedule Control process aids in the communication of SV, SPI or any performance status to stakeholders?
When painting a bedroom, preparing the walls can be done while the paint is being chosen. This is an example of a:
Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
Using the following data, what is the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)?
EV= $500 PV= $750 AC= $1000 BAC= $1200
When does Monitor and Control Risks occur?
The three processes of Project Cost Management are:
The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500.What is the actual cost of the project?
An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:
Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?
Organizational process assets, a lessons-learned database, and historical information are all inputs to which process?
Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
As part of a mid-project evaluation, your project sponsor has asked you to provide a forecast of total project cost. You should calculate the forecast using which of the following methods?
Which technique is commonly used for the Quantitative Risk Analysis activity?
Which technique is utilized in the Control Schedule process?
A risk response strategy in which the project team shifts the impact of a threat, together with ownership of the response, to a third party is called:
Testing falls into which of the following categories of cost of quality?
Which technique is utilized in the Schedule Control process?
A project requires a component with well-understood specifications. Performance targets are established at the outset, and the final contract price is determined after completion of all work based on the seller's performance. The most appropriate agreement with the supplier is:
Work performance information and cost forecasts are outputs of which Project Cost Management process?
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique of which Project Cost Management process?
An input to the Create WBS process is a:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
Which of the following are inputs to Activity Definition?
A project manager is appointed full-time to a project and is given full-time administrative staff and full-time project team members. This situation describes which type of organizational structure?
The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
Which document includes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints?
In the Plan Procurement Management process, which source selection criteria analyzes if the seller's proposed technical methodologies, techniques, solutions, and services meet the procurement documents requirements?
In a project, total float measures the:
What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?
Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding project outcomes describes which classification model for stakeholder analysis?
Which tool or technique is required in order to determine the project budget?
Which of the following is an output of Define Scope?
Which type of analysis is used to develop the communications management plan?
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail using which type of estimating?
Tools and techniques used for Plan Communications include the communication:
"Tailoring" is defined as the:
An input of the Create WBS process is:
Which quality planning tools and techniques are used to visually identify logical groupings based on natural relationships?
The scope management plan and scope baseline are contained in:
Which process involves the creation of a document that provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to a project?
Organizational theory is a tool used in which Project Human Resource Management process?
One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:
Which tool or technique is used in the Plan Scope Management process?
Which of the following is a schematic display of the project’s schedule activities and the logical relationships among them?
What is the estimate at completion (EAC) if the budget at completion (BAC) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $50, and the earned value (EV) is $25?
A project manager has created an issue log to document issues communicated by project team members during weekly team meetings. This is an input of:
Which type of analysis would be used for the Plan Quality process?
A project manager managing a cross-cultural virtual project team across several time zones should be concerned about the impacts of which communication technology factor?
The group technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for prioritization is called the:
Variance and trend analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?
Who is responsible for reviewing change requests and approving or rejecting the change requests?
Which of the Perform Quality Assurance tools and techniques may enhance the creation of the work breakdown structure (WBS) to give structure to the decomposition of the scope?
Typical outcomes of a project include:
What is the tool and technique used to request seller responses?
An output of the Create WBS process is:
An input to the Manage Project Team process is:
The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:
Which process should be conducted from the project inception through completion?
In which process might you use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
Organizational planning impacts projects by means of project prioritization based on risk, funding, and an organizations:
Activities on the critical path have which type of float?
The precedence diagramming method (PDM) is also known as:
Which of the following is a means of reaching a group decision in which everyone agrees on a single course of action?
In which process might a project manager use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
Which of the following is an input to the Plan Risk Responses process?
What is the lowest level in the Work Breakdown Structure called?
To which process is work performance information an input?
What is one of the MAJOR outputs of activity sequencing?
Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?
Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?
The Project Human Resource Management process that involves confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is:
Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?
The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:
A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?
Which of the following choices is a contract closure tool or technique?
In a weak matrix, the project managers role is:
At the completion of a project, a report is prepared that details the outcome of the research conducted on a global trend during the project. Which item did this project create?
Which tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process can be conducted during the execution of the project to verify compliance with deliverables?
When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
Retreating from an actual or potential conflict or postponing the issue to be better prepared or to be resolved by others describes which of the five general techniques for managing conflict?
Which type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?
Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?
Which Knowledge Areas include processes from the Closing Process Group?
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Define Activities process?
Sharing good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the organization and/or industry is an example of:
In which Process Group are lessons learned documented?
What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
What type of reward can hurt team cohesiveness?
Types of internal failure costs include:
Lessons learned are created and project resources are released in which Process Group?
An input to Close Project or Phase is:
Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?