Which of the following brings together a set of tools and techniques used to describe, organize, and monitor the work of project activities? A. Project managers B. Guide to the PMBOK C. Project management D. Stakeholders
Integrity in the project management field is accomplished through all of the following except: A. Training to learn how to manage relationships with others from different cultures B. Adhering to an ethical code C. Applying established project management processes D. Following the Project Management Professional Code of Professional Conduct
Change control system, configuration management, performance measurement, additional planning, and project management information system are tools and techniques of which process? A. Integrated Change Control B. Scope Change Control C. Schedule change control D. Cost change control
Your company manufactures small kitchen appliances. They are introducing a new product line of appliances in designer colors with distinctive features for kitchens in small spaces. These new products will be offered indefinitely starting with the spring catalog release. In order to determine the characteristics and features of the new product line, you will have to perform which of the following? A. Fast tracking B. Consulting with the stakeholders C. Planning the project life cycle D. Progressive elaboration
The Project Management Knowledge Areas: A. Include Initiation, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing B. Consist of nine different areas that bring together processes that have things in common C. Consist of five different processes that bring together phases of projects that have things in common D. Include Planning, Executing, and Controlling processes as these three processes are commonly interlinked
Which of the following is true regarding the Resource Planning process? A. Resource Planning involves the human resource aspect of planning only, and its output is staffing requirements. B. Resource Planning involves the human resource aspect of planning only, and its output is staffing requirements. C. Resource Planning encompasses all the physical resources needed for the project, and its output is staffing requirements. D. Resource Planning encompasses all the physical resources needed for the project, and its output is resource requirements.
What are the different kinds of project management tools you worked with?
You are the project manager working on a research project for a new drug treatment. Your preliminary project schedule runs past the due date for a federal grant application. The manager of the R&D department has agreed to release two resources to work on your project in order to meet the federal grant application date. This is an example of: A. Crashing B. Fast trucking C. Resource leveling D. Adjusting the resource calendar
You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States Government. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is because getting top secret clearances for contractors takes quite a bit of time and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director's hot new project. Which of the following type of project ending is this? A. Starvation B. Extinction C. Addition D. Integration
What are the outputs of the Team Development process? A. Performance improvements, input to performance appraisals B. Input to performance appraisals, reward and recognition systems C. Performance improvements, input to performance appraisals, performance reports D. Work results, input to performance appraisals, performance reports
During contract negotiations, your vendor tells you that the equipment originally bid in the RFP is no longer available. They say the best solution is to buy the new equipment they're offering, which is a higher price than the original equipment. You have concerns that the new equipment might not be compatible with existing equipment and try to discuss this with them. They remind you that this decision was already made during the last contract negotiation meeting so there's no need to continue to discuss it. This is an example of which of the following? A. Proposal B. Compromise C. Storming D. Fair accomplish
Which of the following is true? A. Discounted cash flow analysis is the least precise of the cash flow techniques as it does not consider the time value of money. B. NPV is the least precise of the cash flow analysis techniques as it assumes reinvestment at the discount rate. C. Payback period is the least precise of the cash flow analysis techniques as it does not consider the time value of money. D. IRR is the least precise of the cash flow analysis techniques because it assumes reinvestment at the cost of capital.
You are the project manager for a new website for the local zoo. You need to perform Qualitative Risk Analysis. When you've completed this process, you'll produce all of the following outputs except: A. Overall risk ranking for the project B. List of prioritized risks C. Inputs to other processes D. List of risks for additional analysis and management
You are a project manager for Dutch Harbor Consulting. Your latest project involved the upgrade of an organization’s operating system on 236 servers. You performed this project under contract. You are in the Closing process and know that product verification is for what purpose? A. To verify the goals of the project and assure the product of the project is complete B. To evaluate all the work of the project and compare results to project scope C. To verify all the work was completed correctly and satisfactorily D. To evaluate project goals and assure the product of the project meets the requirements
You are in the Planning process of your project, and your project sponsor has requested an accurate cost estimate in two weeks from today. You'll use which of the following techniques to provide her with the most accurate cost estimate? A. Bottom-up B. Analogous C. Top-down D. Earned value
